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Show MINES AND MINING' Los Angeles again is agitating tho iH construction of a gigantic, inciting. plant to bo located In or near that City. 11 Another big oil company Is organ tz' , jH lug for tho purposo of operating In tho j3H Virgin river fluid. Tho corporation, rH has acquired 1,280 acres of land. Yerlngton, Novnrla, Is assuming Its 1 IH old-tlmo form onco more, and on many groups whero tho' sound of tho blast l' has not boon hoard for somo tlmo, op- m'LI orations nre again under way. Tho supreme court hold, In a do clslon rendered last week, that tho Nc- vadn mining laws and not tho United: 'H States laws apply in tho matter of modo of location and tlmo of assess 'H niont work. .H Whilo all of tho large mines arc .H practically closed down and mining ',H gonerally is at a standstill at ParU City, yet a number of tho smaller prop , ertlcs aro grinding away and som ( good looking prospects are being, A distinguishing fcaturo of tho Bos-ton Bos-ton Consolidated company's mill al iH Garfield, Utah, is that thero Is not ad-elevator ad-elevator in tho cntlro plant. Every 'H thing passes by gravitation through tho works. Tho dally capacity will run from 3,000 to 3,200 tons. At tho Banner mino at Silver City, Idaho, work is progressing satisfactor lly In tho mlno and on tho mill con-Btructlon. con-Btructlon. Tho transformer house' and 'H manager's residence aro completed. Tho machinery for tho mill is nearly all on tho .ground. H An effort Is being mado to havo a ':H government survoy ordered of tho Vlr- lf gin river oil fields In southern Utah. H Tho report of tho surveyor general of. Utah shows tho cost of tho proposed survey would bo $142,000, and tho area to bo surveyed; 2,750,000 acres, In Garfield, Iron, Kano and Washington t ' counties. "1 Control of tho Goldflcld Consolidated , Mining company has pasflod from Messrs. Nixon and Wlngflcld of Neva-Ja Neva-Ja to a Now York-Boston syndicato, headed by Hoyden, Stone & Company . and Barney Bamch & Company. This ' company has 3,500,000 shares of stock. par $10, and controls tho leading gold mines in the Goldflold district. gM Tho trostlo work connecting the No-vada No-vada Northern railway with' the con' 'iH contratlng. plant of tho allied Interests at McGIll, Nevada, Is closing up rap- 'H Idly. It is expected that within tho week it will bo concluded and the way left open for running of trains, from 'H tho mines of the Cumberland-Ely Cop-per Cop-per company and the Novada Consoll-dated. Consoll-dated. The Goldflcld Mine Owners' assocla-tlon assocla-tlon announces that it can uso 1,000 more men. Local miners will be glvon the preference, but if the requisite i number Is not obtainable, men will bo brought in from Utah. The Gom lease, .H which has boon employing Western Federation miners, has closed! down, and tho Florence Annex will, close. Both will start up with independent-miners. independent-miners. At ono timo a mint was located In M Tho Dalles, Oregon, by act of con gross; this was In tho. year 18G5, when ono million dollarB was appropriated. Rock was quarried from flvo miles up Mill creolc with which to construct tho building. A largo numbor or workmen wort' employed and tho building had reached tho second story fl when congress decided the mint was not needed, nnd no further appropWa-tlons appropWa-tlons wore mado. Crushing of tho oro in tho mill of tho Boston Consolidated company! at Garfield, Utah, is accomplished by 312 i NIsson Individual stamps, arranged, In Jl double rows longitudinally with tho H bin. These stamps are fed automjitl- Ak cally and crush to 28-mesh. , Pulp Is passed to tho classifiers,, wbbro It sop- H aratcs Into three' divisions,, passfng H thenco to the various, machines for tho ,H recovery of tho product,, which Include? 284 Wilfloy tables 25G Johnston ta-blcs ta-blcs and 312 Callow settling tanks. y A Boston dispatch says that thero , Is considerable dissatisfaction with viil tho management of tho Glroux Cousol-Idated Cousol-Idated company, which Is expected t (, crop out at tho annual mooting Feb. B 3. But with Josoplr L. Glroux in nbso-luto nbso-luto stock control It will be Impossible: to effect a change. Thero will bo a. largo concentrated -ownership present-ed present-ed at tho mooting, secured through solicitation of proxies, which will en-denvor en-denvor to ascertain something about "W! tho proporty. Tho company is under f"M stood to bo in debt. At tho annual meeting of thq Utah Coppor company at Jersey City, tho, fl retiring board of directors was re-elected, re-elected, and Charles Haydan and W. B, Thompson wore mado additional members of tho board. The proposl-tlon proposl-tlon to amend tho certificates of lncor- HH poration of tho company, Increasing tho capital stock from $0,000,000, to liTB $7,500,000, all to bo common stock, and 'KMi to authorize tho Issue or $1,500,009 ' llUtii convortlblo bondn to bo secured by iv second mortgngo bn nil tho oorapuny's 'fRJa properties, was adopted. ifV3? In tho Village Blacksmith property mfA at Silver City, Idaho, Vfork Is In pro-' '5& gross on tho upralso to connect tho. adit tunnel with tlid Trask Bhatt. ' Thcj , ffw vein Is fully thrco 'feet wide, ono foot; jifflR Iml of which shows freo gold all through SfwWMn't It. It is estimated that It will run over Hf tM; $100 vor ton. . . i wKffifr In order U protect minors from gaa (&1fk! und coal dust explosions tho govern- jrW y) ment Is going to boglfi experiments,. probably at Pittsburg. 'A' station la lwt to bo established,, consisting of an' dx-plosive dx-plosive gallery;! rescuo room, obsorva. 'tlL'r tlon room,, lamp-testing rooms, and ox-plosives ox-plosives labpratory, KffifL According to tho Boston Nows 11 u- 'BUM reau, an official pf tho. Novada-Consol lB Idatod Coppor. company says jsubscrlp- 'M tlons to the new $3,000,000. 6. per cenf "H bonds oxceen the amount that will bo Issued twlco ovor. Tho recent V,tah Copper company's bond lesuo baa. also iLfl been oversubscribed. |