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Show MINES AND MINING Tho Bullfrog Pioneer company, of Rhyollte, Nevada, Is shipping ore from an eight-foot ledge that goes $200 to $300 to the ton without sorting. sort-ing. Tho building of the Lemhi smelter In Idaho has added great stimulus to mining in the district. The opening of spring will witness a large Influx of miners and prospectors. Tho Consolidated Mercur mlno Is producing a larger tonnage of oro than it did last year. The December output wns 2B.O00 tons, which is about normal under present conditions. Of eight wells put down to the "first sand" In the Virgin oil field, four are known to have oil In good quantity, and the others have light t bowings of oil and natural gas, according ac-cording to the Virgin Valley Enter prise. That tho Hero Nevada Mines company, com-pany, operating near Farrell, Seven Troughs district, will start production ns Boon as tho now custom mill at Ma-ztima Ma-ztima Is ready to receive ore developed devel-oped at the company's annual meeting field In Salt Lake City last weok. At no period In tho history of this camp has so much practical development develop-ment work been carried on as Is being be-ing done this winter, says the Silver City (Idaho) Nugget. Niimomis tunnels tun-nels are being driven to open veins at good depth, and the opportunity for Investment of capital wus never better. One of the Important events of tho week relative to tho operation of tho Prince Consolidated mlno was 1 cutting of a station on the 550-foot level and tho starting of a crosscut towards to-wards the rich fissures, says tho Plocho Record. Tho progress of this work will be watched with keen Interest. In-terest. Mrs. M. E. McCarty, a Rolso woman, has three claims In the Pearl district which she Is developing, tho oro vein bolng about llvo feet In width and tho assays averaging $15.04 per ton. Sho niso hns six other claims on Shaw mountain assaying $C per ton, tho oro body being 250 feet wide and a cyanide cya-nide proposition. Eight Inches ot oro carylng high values In gold and copper has Just been encountered In W. J. Wolsten-holme's Wolsten-holme's Rig Mitt property In the foothills foot-hills between Rig nnd Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyons, fourteen miles or bo southeasterly from Salt Lako City, somo of the richest streaks going J3.000 to the ton. Gas is still forcing water out between be-tween the casing at the Ontario well, nt Ontario, Oregon, and a small How of oil has been encountered 'that Is the oil arises with tho water and tho lluld Is visible. Tho drlllors aro Btlll sangulno of striking a gusher, and do not expect to bore moro than 2,700 feet to obtain the same. It is announced that the third shipment ship-ment of copper oro from tho Salt Lake-Calrforn'fi coin).any's' ipropoiity In Del Norte county, California, has Just been settled for. Tho oro Is shipped by water to the smelters at Tecoina, and the grade of the oro Is such that, nfter paying all transportation transpor-tation and smelting charges, the company com-pany gots' about $29 n ton. Tho Mlddleton Ore Reduction company, com-pany, of Mlddleton, Idaho, has recently recent-ly completed Its plant for tho testing and working of ores. This process is something new In this stnte but hns been In successful operation In California Cali-fornia for several years. Tho procesi employed Is by amalgamation, concentration, concen-tration, cynnldlng, clilorlnation nnd by tho Eureka oro reduction system. All kinds of base ores can be treated. In connection with the CoiiBolldntod Mines annual meeting nt Goldfleld on Jnnuary 12, the entire 100 stamps of tho now mill started nt full capacity, crushing ore at the rate of COO tons n dny. Tho gross vnluo of the ore will bo about $24,000 a day, or $720,000 a month. Tho dally production will bo greater than the 830 stamps of tho famous fa-mous Alaska Treadwell and tho Homo-Btead Homo-Btead combined. Tho Threo Links Gold Mining & Milling company, limited, owners ot the Buffalo group ot claims In tho Rlack Hornet district, In Idaho, havo recently purchased a flvo-stamp mill which Is to bo Installed 011 their property prop-erty so soon as tho weather will permit. per-mit. With no further mnterlal delay In receiving material and equipment construction work of tho Boston Sun-Bhlno Sun-Bhlno company's mill at Morcur should bo completed by tho first of February, according to Georgo H. Dem, man-agor man-agor of tho Consolidated Mercur company. com-pany. Tho total production of primary refilled re-filled lead, desilverized and soft, from domestic nnd forolgn ores In 1908 wns aproxlmntoly 391,000 Bhort tons, worth, nt tho nvornge price, $32,844,-000, $32,844,-000, ns compared to n production of 414,189 tons In 1907, nnd 404,740 tons In 190C. That nono of tho now smoking companies com-panies recently formed will ovor build a smelter using tho processes now In vogue In tho largo plants of tho country, coun-try, was tho prediction mado last week by Samuel Newhouso. Ho thinks tho Fink nrocess will revnin. tlonlzo Bmoltlng. Tho rocord of tho Cobalt sllvor camp rends llko a tale from "Arabian Nights." In four years the mines of that district, working down only 300 foot from tho surface, havo produced over $20,000,000 worth ot ore. or. to lo exact, $20,791,374, says tho Boston Bos-ton Nows Bureau. Roports received by tho statistician of tho United States geological suv vey from stato oniclals nnd others In touch with the coal mining Industry Indicate that the output of tho bituminous bi-tuminous coal mines of tho country In 1908 was betweon 320,000,000 and 230,000,000 short ton' |