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Show 'MINES AND MINING The well of the Ml. Ncbo Oil com' pany In the Junb field last wcort reached n depth of 1,015 feet, whoro li was la n candy shale. Tho Daly-Judge mine at "Park City, although operating Its mill only ontj eight-hour shift a day during 1908, shows n profit to Its owners. Tho nows comos from Tonopah that nt least half of the minors cmployod at tho Broken Hills mines were dig charged last week for high-grading. Tho Jcnnlo mlno nt Oold Springs lc to bo sent down 300 feet from the" present 175 lovel, nnd, drifting resorted re-sorted to In order to provo tho suspected sus-pected wealth ot tho property. A custom mill of ten-stamp capacity is being built nt Chnfoy, Nevada, and It Is understood another plant Is being be-ing contemplated, the mill to bo located locat-ed In tho Barber canyon section of the 'district. A now cnllcr for tho Salt Lake stock nnd mining oxchango has been engaged In tho person of George F. Wnsson, late caller of the Goldllold exchango and formerly with tho Colorado Colo-rado Springs exchange Tho burning gns well at Ontario, Ore., Is Just now attracting a great deal of attention. Tho well Is down to a dopth of 2,200 feet, und sovoral gas blowouts have been experienced tho present ono throwing n llamo hlghor than tho 84-foot rig. The contact disclosed recently on tho 8hoshono National bank at lthyo lite, Novada, has been explored' moro thoroughly, and all Indications go to rhow that tho top of a substantial ore body has, In fact, been cut. One nBsay returned J200 to tho ton. Tho Honoring Mining company, whoso proporty is located near Stockton, Stock-ton, Utah, Is no moro, tho properties of tho old organization having passed to the creditors to liquidate a dobt ot such mammoth proportions thnt tho company was unablo to meet It. Good reports are coming from Roso-Lud, Roso-Lud, Novada. In tho Dreamland property, prop-erty, owned by Utahns, somo very flno silver ore Is being extracted, It being roportcd tho men aro taking out rock ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 ounces sliver sli-ver per ton, with somo gold contents as woll, tho ore being from eight to .ten incnes in wiutu. A conferenco, potentially Important In view of oxtstlng conditions In tho kteol Industry, was hold In Now York on Februnry 17, between tho head of tho various subsidiary corporations in the United States Steel corporation, and Judgo K. II, Gary, chairman ot tho corporation's directorate, and W.. F. Corey, Its president. Tho Homcstake cleanup tot tho month of Jnnunry 1b complete, and true to cstlmnto, It Is tho biggest turn out yet recorded to tho credit of the company, saya the Bullfrog Mlner Retiring Manager S. Itoths-child Itoths-child brought 51C.000 worth of bullion bul-lion to town Thursday as the result of the Janunry run. A Novada 'mining property which was recently sold to eastern "tenderfoot," "tender-foot," tho sellers believing they had soaked" tho easterners In good snnpe, hns turned out to bo a bannnza. The proporty Is in Black canyon, Humboldt Hum-boldt mining district, nnd the Indications Indica-tions nro that tho now comers have uncovered a fortune. A Salt Lako man Is roportcd to' have secured a leaso on a proporty in Chafoy, Novada, on which was an old tunnel. Nothing had been found in tho tunnel, but ns he was engaged In lovellng It down ho cut the top ot a strong ore body. It Is said he has five feet of quartz which runs closo to $100 iu gold and silver. Tho Hooligan leaso at nawhldo, Nevada, Ne-vada, has opened for 100 feet what many regard the best defined vein In I no camp, mrteen reel from tno surface sur-face ore running as high as $400 a ton was encountered. Tho same lodge has been opened on tlio 100-foot 100-foot lovel, where it carries average values of $23 n ton across live feet. A new ore body, with tho new now feature of carrying strong gold values In nddltlon to silver) and lead, has been encountered in tho workings work-ings of tho Lyon Hill Consolidated Mining company at Ophlr. Assay returns re-turns from threo samples taken across tho throo-foot vein give results thnt are making tho owners feel llko millionaires. The shaft at the Bullock mine, which nt 188 feet depth cut what was believed to bo tho hanging wall of tho Asplnwnll vein, Is still In the vein nt 200 foot depth, It Is said, with tho ore richer than thnt first encountered. encoun-tered. An assay of tno ore from tho bottom ot tho Bhaft gave returns of 32 per cent lead, 33 ounces In silver nnd 80 conts In gold. The First National Copper cjnipnny hns Issued Its first nnnunl roport, covering cov-ering the year ending December 31, 1908. Tho report states that tho entire en-tire capital stock of tho Balaklala Consolidated Copper company Is now owned by First Nntlonnl. Tho former for-mer has $750,000 of first mortgage bonds outstanding, nnd owes iu addition addi-tion $72,034 In current nccounts. In sending tho tncllno shaft from tho 400-foot level to tho surfneo of tho Ludwlg mlno ot tho Nevada Douglas company nt Yorington, Novnda, the management for forty feet has been In rich carbonates, tho ore ranging from 15 to 20 per cent copper. This Is virgin territory. Tho now 100-stnmp mill of tho Gold-field Gold-field Consolidated company hna provod successful in Its operations, nnd there Ib declared to ha no question that tho announced policy of the directors to declnro In March an initial 30-cent (ltinrtorly. dividend, payable April 1, 'will bo carried out. |