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Show MINES AND MINING Tho production of flno silver In 190G amounted to 68,517,(00 ounces. , . ' B Tho -commercial valuo of tho lino 'H silver In 1!)0C averaged about 08 cents l-m per ounco nnd In 1907 about CG cents 'HJ per ounco. ' Whllo tho mill at tlio Monarch' B mine, at Atlanta, Idaho, has - bcon BJ complotcd, milling operations' will uK' BJ begin until April 1. BJ Ooldfluld mines and lenses paid out BJ $6,oi(,874.40 In dividends In tho year HJ of 1007. Or this sum 1,359,874.40. BJ must bo credited to parent c6mpanlco. BJ Montana leads tho states In tho pro-"" VH ductlon of silver during1 1907, with BJ 12,118,001) flno ounces, with Colorado BJ and Utah only a fow thousand ounc.cn BJ behind. BJ Tho Utah mines have paid over BJ $3,000,000 in dividends during the BJ past year, or $2,500,000 moro than, during tho year 1906. HJ Nevada mining men aro again dls- cussing the possibility of an extension. H of tho Nevada Northern railroad from. Ely to Gcldfleld, with branches to Ton- B op ah, Silver Peak and Montezuma. HJ Moro than 90 por cent of tho world's. ' B production .of coal Is mined In- coun- HJ tries lying north of tho equator, tho countries south of tho lino contrlbut-. lng less than 20,000,000 tons annually. B Attempts to devolop a practical tun- BJ ncl-borlng machlno are attracting HJ wldo attention. Threo companies' HJ havo already been orgnnlzod in Den- H vcr to exploit various ideas In thla H J Colorado led all of tho ntatea In BJ 1907 In tho production of gold, as It 'BJ did In 19l'u, tho amount, howover. bo- BJ lng reduced from nearly twenty-thrco BJ millions In 190G to nearly t'wenty-ono BJ millions In 1907. Tho production of blister copper In WyonUng In 190(3 from materials orlgi , 'mating In tho' stato was 106,177 pounds, as against over 2,500,000 pounds in 1905. Tho mlno production of tho stato for 1906 was but 24,006 pounds, In 190u tho United States produced. - 43.7 per .cent moro coal than Croat HJ Britain and 85 por cent moro than Germany. Exclusive of Great Britain, tho United States in 190G produced' HJ moro co'il than all tho other countries HJ In tho world combined. HJ Alaska produced 8,685,64G pounds of blister copper In 1900, an Incroaso of moro than 3,500,000 pounds over ttio , output for 1905. Tho mlno production HJ during tho year, although well In ad- ,HJ vanco of that in 1905, was much less than tho smeltor production. HJ Tho production of gold In tho HJ United StatCB foil oft $4,758,401 In 1097, as against 1900, whereas tho HI amount of silver produced was in- ' HJ creased by over ono million flno ounces. Alaska's gold production fell HJ off a llttlo moro than threo millions. Tho Silver King, Daly West, Daly- HJ Judgo, Onturlo, Daly and other mines HJ of Park City aro now closed down. HJ Ovor a thousand men aro affected by HJ this inovo of tho mlno operators, HJ mado necessary by reason of tho HJ practically prohibitive level reached by all tho principal metals contained HJ In Park City ore. HJ Tho Pittsburg Silver Peak company, HJ oporatlng at Blair, Nevada, has tun-nelcd tun-nelcd moro than a mile on its vein, in placos 15G feet wide, averaging $12 a -HJ ton, and Ivob 1,200 feet of backs on - HJ oro of which $3,000,000 -worth la blocked out. Last year tho company mado a fruitless offer of $400,000 Bpot cash for tho Sllvor Peak Valcalda. Utah stood fourth in ran, among Jfl tho coppot-produclng states 11900. HJ Blister copper to tho amount of GO,- HJ 329,119 pounds was produced, mainly HJ from threo Important districts Ding- IH hum, Tiutlo and. Frisco., This, output BJ was less by 3,670,881 pounds than, HJ that of 1905, which amounted to 64,- BJ 000,000 pounds. BJ Tho American Smoltlng 'and' lectin- .BJ lng company, It Is authoritatively an- BJ nounccd lu Helena, will .shortly closo BJ down several of Its, smelting plants BJ becauso of tho depression in tho lead BJ market. At tho East Helena plant ''BJ tho company reduced Its forco 100 BJ men, and a 10 pur cent reduction la BJ wnges was posted for tho 250 moa ' BJ who nro retained. HJ Tho world's production of coal In BJ 1906 amounted to nbout 1,106,478,707 BJ short tons, of which tho United Stntcu BJ produced 414,157,278 tons. Slnco BJ 1868, during a period of thlrty-nlno BJ years, tho percentage of tho world's BJ total coal produced by tho Unltod HJ States hua Increased from 14.. '12 to 37, BJ and this country now stands far in BJ tho lead of tho world's coal producers, HJ Figures compiled by tho board of BJ trado In Phoenix, Ariz., mako It evl- HJ dent thnt tho territory of Arizona hai HJ easily lod nil other districts of tha s jH world In tho production of copper dur- (HJ lng tho year 1907, Tho total valuo of f-HJ tho year's output Is estimated at $61,- 000,000. h Tho nows comes from Thundor ,M Mountain, Idaho, that a rich strlko Vim has bcea mado in. tho Poloduro claim of tho "H. Y." group. A llfty- M foot ledgo or oro that assays $8.50 por Rjf ton for tho full width of tho ledgo W3 has been traced a dlstanco of over .?' two miles. Ir Unolllclal figures placo tho total 1$ output of tho Gpldflold district for tho Jtf, I year Just closed at 10G.052 tons, with ft t?i 1 vnluntlon of $11,690,000. This repro-souts repro-souts only nbout olght months' actual work, the balanco of tho tlmo having been taken up with labor troubles that fl nnforced idleness. KP As n result of seven years of opora- ra& Hons tho Bingham Consolidated com- kf pany Is In debt somowhoro between W $1,200,000 and $1,600,000. No dlvl- ftfjg dends havo over been distributed and WM tho company has novor Issuod an au- HJ mini ropoit to rtookholders, saya HJ Walker's Copper Letter. . 'HJ HHH HJ . . .tfll- .U- jJHB |