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Show MINES AND MINING ! "H Tho closing of February marked H tho nddltlon of another dividend-pay- H Ing mine to Bullfrog's list tho Gold .H It is announced .from Boston that H tho nnnual meeting of tho Utah Con- H solldated company will bo held on H Tho treasury department 'last wcok H purchased 113,300 ouncos of silver for delivery nt Denver and San Francisco H at GG.GGG cents per flno .ounce. H Thoro nro persistent rumors of n H posslblo resumption of mining opera- H Hons nt tho Anaconda mine, and prob- H nbly nt tho North Butto and Butte Coalition mines at Butte. (H Perhaps no district has boon born H In Nevada during tho resurrection. H period of mining that has had such n. H hard fight to fame as Itawhldo. The camp is over a year old, and tlio boom H lias Just started. H Tho slxty-two-mllo transmission lino that Is to enrry electric, powor from tho Benver County Powor company's M plant to tho Cactus mines and mills rl of tho Nowhouso company, Is now H Hearing completion. H Tito mined of tho Boundary district S H of BrltlBh Columbia during tho year ' 1P07 produced 3G.G00.000 pounds ot copper nt a cost ranging from 101-4 cents nt tho Grnnby to 14 cents nt tho Dominion mines. About tho only argument ono hears ugnlnst tho uso of sliver now-a-days, J says Mining Sclcnco, (s that It Is J too heavy nnd clumsy for commou J use; that a pockotfull of silver pulls- J tho clothes out of place. Today sllvor Is selling nt nbout 13 cents per ounco less than It did a year ago, when trndo expansion required a M lnrgor supply of smnll coin and when tho moro Important buyors who ship to tho far cast wero In ncod of the J Advices from Iron county aro to tho H effect that a rcmnrknbly heavy fall ot show has occurred thoro and tho ro-suit ro-suit will bo that freighting from Lund Into tho Virgin Illvor oil coun-try coun-try .will bo retarded for porhaps twen-ty twen-ty Tho Graehl Mining nnd Milling company of Brlghum City has filed a certified copy of Its articles of Incor-poratlon Incor-poratlon in tho offlca of tho sccrotnry of stato. Tho company Is capitalized for $100,000, and owns nlno claims near Brlgham City. On account of tho labor troubles at Goldflcld, tho production of Us mines continues to bo nominal. Tho Com-blnatlon Com-blnatlon mill reduced during tho last week in February G00 tons and tho Klnkcad mill 175 tons of an aggro-goto aggro-goto valuo of nbout $31,000. At tho Yampa smelter, Bingham, an avcrngo of nbout COO tons of oro a dny Is now being reduced to bnso bul-lion, bul-lion, nnd this Is being shipped to tho-.refineries tho-.refineries nt Cromo, N. J., for refining.. k Gradually tho smelting works aro being brought up td their highest point of efficiency. New rollers and serpens aro being; installed In tho Shoshono mill, says-tho says-tho Dcntty Miner. Work In tho mlno d has not abated. Tho fact that tho oro In chuto has bcqn cntored on (ho COO-foot COO-foot lovol of, tho mlno, nnd tho oro-found oro-found to bo rlchor than In tho levels nbovo, places tho Shoshono on a par with, tho best mines In tho Btatc. Daniel Guggenheim, president of tho Amorlcnu Smelting & Ilellnlng company, says: "Copper, In my Judg-mont, Judg-mont, haBM taken tho place formerly hold by steel and. Iron as tho Indox or iM business conditions. Tho metal felt. tho reaction last year months In ad- fl vnnco of ateol nnd gcnoral mcrcan-tilo mcrcan-tilo enterprises. Indications point to fl a turn upward In tho tldo." fl Sarah E. Karrlck lias filed an action ngulnt W. B. MncShorry, in tho Third District court, to recover $3,000 and Interest from January 23, 190b, amounting. In all to $2,493.33, which sho paid to tho dofendant for 4,000 slinrcs of stock In tho Sierra Nevada. Exploration company. Ore buyers In tho Salt Lake valley m nro now prepared to tnko nil tho oro they can get, It la Bald, but oporators aro apparently li no hurry to resutnu production bo long as tho metal mar-ket mar-ket remains at Its present stage. And yet metals nro nut so low ns they wero four years ago. A mining corporation' capitalized nt $13,000, with shares nt ono cent each, has been organized In. Ogdcit, under tho namo of tho Bare. Metals Mining, 'H company. I,t is the purpose of tho jH company to develop Its property In the Weber mining district In. Webor H county at nn enrly date. f&m Tho enormous sales of copper for export, amounting In Fobrunry to $M5 considerably ovor 100,000,000 pounds -im bus cnlled forth statements to tho or-feet or-feet that the American consumor hnd mxl much to lonrn from his forolgn coin- ' potltoiu In tho matter of securing- - fjw low cost copper supplies. jfi Thus fnr In Fobrunry the United . 'iV Stntes Metals Selling company hae M iV sold 89,000,000 pounds of copper, the i 'i,, bulk of It to England mid Germany.. 'I Theso sulea havo cleaned up tho sup- VSl" jilus supplies of coppor hold by tha 3Rvk; concerns which soli through the Unit 9Vl ed Motals Selling company. mv A prominent and rellablo mining- N V"2fi'litj man, nftor a visit to nnwhldo, Nevada, says; "Nevor In my mining oxporl. 1 i(f onco havo I scon ns much frcn gold, '!IJ'1r' and gold that Is gold, ns tho. camp of Ituwhldo showed to me," Ho predicts- Pvti& that tho Itawhldo boom will eclipse iwl anything ovev seen In Nevada. JH Clurk Miller, lessee of tho Ophir ,H mlno, at Stntollno, "is Increasing bis, nM working forc?, tp on men aml'ls ox- "''B trading a -very fine quality of gold tvM and silver ore. Qwlng to the heavy J fair of snow and tho freezing up qt 'H thu water supply, shli'inents of ori from tho mlno is b doluyd. !, mt |