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Show mmammmmmmmmBmmmmmtammmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MINES ANDM1nTnQ Excellent copper prospects are being be-ing opened In tho Lackey basin section sec-tion of tho La Sal district, In southern Utah. Tho site for a smelter and concentrating concen-trating mill, to treat tho ores of neighboring camps, has been secured at Wlnnemucca, Nevada. "Patsy" Clark, millionaire mining man of Montana, has undertaken tho rejuvenation of tljo old Cortex district, dis-trict, In Euroka county, Nov. Directors or tho (loldtlcld Consolidated Consoli-dated Mines company, at tholr meeting meet-ing held in Chicago, posted tho regular regu-lar dividend or 30 cents a share, amounting to ?1,0('B,000. Louisiana, Novada, Utah and Wyoming Wyo-ming produced sulphur in 1!)08 amounting to 309,441 long tons, valued val-ued at ?G,GG8,215, tho greater portion of .which came from Louisiana. Arrangements are being mado to reorganize tho Panhandle Smelting & Refining company and resume operations op-erations at Ponaorny, Idaho, within sixty days. The capacity ot tho plant is to be doubled. xho Utah Leasing company, which is operating a lease on the United States Mining company's old Telegraph Tele-graph mlno In Dinghnm, is shipping ore nt tho rate or sixteen and elghtoen carloads n month. Tho first shipment or ore from tho lower workings of tho Little Tioll mine at Park City is on tho way to the 3melter and tho work In in progress which will result In tho production of considerable tonnage regularly. There has been a. marked chango In the mining Industry in the north-3rn north-3rn part or Idaho during the past fow months. Properties which have been lying Idle for over n year have taken on an appearance or unusual activity. Tho second strike has been made. In tho Atlanta group, In Goldllold, In which something like $200,000 had been cxpended.by owners .and leasers without result, until a .body o"r pay b'ro was encountered a Tow weeks ago in ono or tho leases. , "You hear people say that' tho Utah Copper company Is making ablg nolo (n Its proporty at Bingham," but lot me tell you (hat hardly a speck of its tremendous copper oro tonnago has been touched up to date," said a prominent prom-inent Bingham citizen last .week William A. Farlsh, well known mining min-ing engineer, is making a thorough examination ex-amination of tho property or the Ely Central Copper company, in tho interest inter-est or tho campaign or development which Is being inaugurated. Tho company com-pany has been financed, it Is Bald, ror strong operations. Aftor exposing live rcct or rich copper oro, tho now shntt on tho leane-Wonder property at Tonopah, Nevada, has again broken Into treo milling gold quartz, tho copper sulphides sul-phides having been entirely displaced by tho samo charactor or quartz on which tho shart was started. Shortago or lead in the ores available avail-able ror the new smelter ot tho Lodl Mines company, which Is operating the famous Illinois mines, forty-fivo miles west of Lunlng, Nev., has de layed the blowing in of tho rurnacos, according to advices from camp. Tho plant was ready for business July 1. A strike has been mado In tho proporty of tho Mineral Mountain Mining company in tho Canyon Creek district, about llvo miles from Johns Siding, Montana. Assays show 21) per cent copper, 5 ounces silver and 80 centB In gold. ThlB Is far abovo tho Butte averago, and is causing no little excitement. Tho Lion Hill Consolidated company com-pany or Ophlr received tlio settlements last week ror a car or oro, the car consisting or three different lots. Of a lower grade, there being several thousand tons available, tho assay roturns wore $1.33 gold and 30 ounces silver. Tho second lot assayed $1.1)0 gold and 100 ounces silver, while tho third was valued at 5G5.74 per ton. Several weeks ago the management of the Utah MJnes Coalition company of Big Cottonwood drovo the tunnel into a vory good showing or shipping grade oro, nnd this was opened ror six sets along, tho strlko of samo. A llmo horse was then encountered, but on being penetrated tho oro came In again stronger than over, and the tunnel now Is progressing on a full faco of shipping grade. Bluo Cloud gulch, Tour miles west of Helena, Mont., Is tho scene or an old-fashlonod gold stampede, as the consequence of a strike mado by Fisk and Potter, Helena residents. Thoy contended that tho early-day placor miners worked a falso bottom and gonuino bedrock was never reached, and sunk a shaft twenty-live feet lowor, with the result that gravel was again encountered. Mining ox-ports ox-ports declare tho strlko means $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 for the discoverers. Wo learn from a 24-pago booklet, recently re-cently printed by the Park city Record Rec-ord for tho Commercial Club, that tho greatest quartz camp in tho weBt has produced more than $100,000,000, and there hasn't been IB tontB expended In advertising its wealth. |
