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Show MINES AND MINING H Prnlrlo fires in tho vicinity of Kim-ball, Kim-ball, S. D., last week, laid waeto thousands of acres of land and de-stroyed de-stroyed a number of school houses,', homes and barns. No fatalities' arc fl reported. A dispatch received at tho navy de-lartmcnt de-lartmcnt from Commander John Ilodd of tho cruiser -Tncoma, says that tlmt veseel ran aground whllo entering tho harbor of. Wlllcmstadt, island of Curacao. Qno of tho largest copper-producing Interests In this country tolls tho Boa-ton Boa-ton Financial Nows that consumers nro scrambling for Inko coppor at 13 cents nnd that tho market, is llablo to advanco any day. Forced to action by a committee. .if fifty prominent citizens, tho com--mon council of South Bond, Ind., has ordered all questionable rcaorU, In-eluding In-eluding gambling houses nnd alley saloons, Immediately dosed. Tho old workings of tho Shccts-Islr loaso on tho Combination at Goldflold has caved, tipping over tho gallows frnmo of tho vertical shaft and carry-Ing carry-Ing down half an aero of tho surface, which Is fissured In n dozen directions: A company has been formed, to bo. known as tho Boston-Sunshlno Gold Mining company, which will tako over tho noted old Sunshlno proporty of tho Morcur district of Utah. Tho proporty has been secured through n, receiver's sale. Gonoral Manager C. W. Clapp of tho Commonwealth mines, situated a fow miles south of Reno, Novada, la making arrangements for a $10,000, 000 smelter proposition to bo located near llcno. It will bo known as tho Western Smelter company. Tho Federal Ely stock Is now as. BOBBablc, tho stockholders having de-elded de-elded on that at tho annual meeting held last week. Out of 770,000 shares iBBiicd, C37.000 woro represented, nnd tho voto to mako tho stock assessable! was practically unanimous. Tho mineralization of tho Granite district of Nevada Is unique. Two parallel veins, or aurfaco cropplngs, ono of gold quartz and tho other oc sh sliver-lead, run .for more than thirty, miles north and south between Cher-ry Cher-ry creek and Hercules gap. Development work is bolng vigor-ously vigor-ously prosecuted In tho Wnbnsh prop-erty prop-erty at Park City. Tho vein is a strong ono nnd well donned. Tho values all aro rich, tho oro running from 100 to 400 ounces silver, 12 to 1C per cent lead and from 2 to 3 por cent coppor. Practically all tho machinery which, when set In placo,' will com poso tho now $80,000 converter plant of tho Yompa Smelting company at Btnghnm, bus been received at tho mine, nnd Is now waiting for tho build-ing build-ing to bo completed bo as to allow Installation. A Btampcdo is on to a new camp-near camp-near Austin, Novnda. Thcro la much excitement, especially among Tonopah v people, nnd tho valuation of property is soaring skyward. Tho oro carries bromides, chlorides nnd horn Bilvcr,. H and Is described aa being both very rich nnd strong. Thirty-fivo thousand members of tho United Mlno Workors of America, employed In districts Nos. 4, 21 and 25, comprising Missouri, Kansas, Ar-Kansas, Ar-Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, will go on strike on April 1, following a do-clBlon do-clBlon reached at a meeting of the di-vision di-vision of vlco presidents held last 'H week, Charles H. Moycr, president of tho Western Federation of Miners, in an Intcrvlow at San Diego, Ca! last week, said: "Every condition of tho mining Industry In Colorado, Idaho, Montana and other western states Is Improving rapidly and I look to seo things on a most prospcroua basis by HJ tho mlddlo of August." "Tho man who ships in oro carrying CO per cent lead, or 1,000 pounds per ton, which at $4 lead is worth $40 por HJ ton, gets, under existing conditions, HJ $22.80 per ton, whllo tho smelting HJ company gets $17.20. Yes, thoro la HJ iniublo In Utnh buwecn tho Bhlpper BJ nnd tho smelters," says Harry S. Jo- HJ Euph, secretary oC the Utah Mlno Own- HJ era' association. HJ In tho Salt Lako ofllccs of tho No-vada No-vada 11111b propo-ty of Falrvlow, No- HJ vada, may bo seev samples of oro that aro n sourco of Joy to tho avcrago mining man. Tho oro carries ' thou-sauda thou-sauda of ouncos silver per ton, tho "tlvo metal being plainly seen by tho naked eye. In addition to silver tno oro Iiub as much na thirty ounces jH of gold, 21 per cent coppor and somo- (H load values ulso. trj Tho richest property lu tho now v camp of Hull Valley, In Utah, appears MS to bo that owned by John Pulslphor kvj' and William Famsworth, both of 8t.i jnt George. Thoy located tho ground ,; about February 8 and havo a well- defined ledgo which carries high val- jf'Ai lien In gold. A pleco of gold wna Mtvi taken out of this mlno by tho owners. W which Ib n quarter of tin inch thick 1" nnd two by threo inches in size. , irjj A 100-foot tunnel hole of glnnt'powi -ife' dor In four drifts was Bet pit at tho fv? Utah Copper mlno, at Bingham,, ono- yJ'fj day last week, virtually tearing down --Jp n mountain, loosening over 1,000,000 tons of dirt and oro. Tho blast was "Sfjh lighted by electricity. Over a ton, of Jew powdor was used. taSjC Much prospecting Is bclug dono upi 'Kv Arscnlo gulch and all around tho now 3t? find ia Bull valley, Utah, Many pco- 'MSA! plo aro going in thcro, and arrango- JjSjS iiicnts nro being mado to start a store Ifll thoro nnd extend tho telephone lino afl to connect with tho Utah and Eastern. '1H Copper company's lino. 1 Orders havo been issued from HI PottsvUle, Pa., by tho Philadelphia &, Heading Coal and Iron company for ' 'H tho resumption of tho fifty-five coi Jlorlcs and washorlcs of tho company H on April 1, after having been closed) v tH for tho past two months. This will -'''B v7ert cbcut 25.000 men and boys. . K |