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Show JdttNES AND MINING Sinking hns been resumed on the Alexnndor shaft at Pearl, Idaho. Tho Lucky Rldgo leasers nt Pearl, Idaho, havo struck somo good looli-Ing looli-Ing oro in their crosscut tunnel. Tho Dowcy leasers expect to strike their ledgo soon. Tho Nelllo Mining company at Horscshoo Bend has, a 'force of men at work cleaning ritit tho long tunnel, preparing for n. vigorous prosecution of development. Tho plant of tho Warren Reflnta? company, nt Warren, Po, owned ,hy C. W, and M. W. Jnmlcson, was Mffc-stroyed Mffc-stroyed by flro during a storm last. ' week. Loss,. $100,000. Judging. by the returns from' tha moro Important mining centers,, tho-production tho-production of coal in the United Spates during tho current year will. not cqunl that 'for 1007, At tho, present tlmo Florence, No- ' vada, has no custom mill. The best In tho lino of a gold extractor is an old arrastrc. Thus far during' tho' present month this produced $2,000. Preparations aro under way to be-gin be-gin sinking tho Easter shaft at Pear), Idaho, about July 1. It Is tho inten-tlon inten-tlon of tho management to sink to tho 300-foot lovel and then crosscut for tho )edgo. The salaries and incidental ex-' fl ponses of officials of tho American Smelting & Kenning company hrtvo bocn reduced $760,000, according, to Daniel Guggenheim, chairman nnd, president of tho, company. Tho old Itcd Cloud mlno at Halley, Idaho, with a rocord of having, pro-duccd pro-duccd ' over a million, dollars, is now In tho hands of a strong Bali Lako syndlcato and will bo opened in July, when a large forco of men will be., put to work.' Mllford Is all ngog with excitement ovor somo wonderfully rich strikes that havo been simultaneously' nlado In a number of mines In .tha Star, dls-trlct. dls-trlct. A strlko has beep mado pf joto that shows 70 per cent lead and 30 ounces silver.. Just nt present tho question of wages 1b causing somo ' traublo -nt somo of tho mines nt Halley, Idaho, and somo of tho properties arc closed on this account, but It Is 'expected that this matter will soon bo adjusted satisfactorily to all parties concerned. Slnco tho first of Juno' the develop-mcnts develop-mcnts In refined copper, from the standpoint of production nnd consump-tlon, consump-tlon, havo been entirely In favor ' of lowor prices, but tho speculative man-cuvcrlng man-cuvcrlng hns been strong -enough to nctually advanco tho domestic market. Within thirty days shipments of" oro will begin from tho Hercnleti 'mine, near Burloy, Idaho. A force' of fifteen men has been put to work on tho property, and tha forco will be In-creased In-creased to sovcnty-flvo as soon bh practical. This promises tp b'ecomo ono of tho richest properties' In tho A 100-ton concentrating mill la Just being completed on tho .MuUbDon prop-crty prop-crty at Halley, Idaho, tho machinery for which Is now In tho dopot nt Belle vuc, from which point' It will bo freighted as soon as tho roads will' permit. Thero. will also, ho installed a modern electrical plant of lCOi horso power. Tho Tamarack mlno holds' the dls-tinctlon dls-tinctlon of being the deepest mlno in tho world, and' Is. the "deep lovol" of tiro Michigan; copper .country. Thero nro fivo shafts on tho Tama-ruck Tama-ruck proporty, two .of' wlilcji. nro prnc-tlcally prnc-tlcally Idle. No. 3 shaft is about G300 feet dcop. Intercepting tho lode at a vertical depth of 4185 feet. " William IS, Galllgher, tho big mining operator who recently purchased con-trol con-trol of tho rtolldrico 'company at Tcnn- ' ho, and reorganized tho proposition' as tho Gem Consolidated, was in Salt Lako last week, buying machinery and' equipment for tho'ml'ncs. It is under' stood that Mr. Galllgher proposes to operate tho property on an extensive It Is said, that upon tho ranch whero tho now oil rig of thb Juab Oil com' pany is being erected, a, farmer onco drilled for watch When , lie had' gained a depth of about 300 feet, black, thick .material oozed out of tho hole, each tlmo tho drill was removed. Tho farmer gavo up drilling for water and had tho, holo plugged up. Somo pco-plo pco-plo nro of tho ' oplnloitrthat tho ma-torlal ma-torlal which bozo'fl'fnk of tho hole was LH . - H General Mnnnger Gillie of. the Amnl 'gamatcd Copper company properties has Issued :nn official tnrcmcnt con corning the fires In' tli6.A;tKconda and St. Lawrence mines', ' misleading statomentB "ioncofnlrig which were sent from Butfe. " Mr. GIlllo says that tho blnzoy which has been rngfng con' ?' tlnuously sines 1889, hi; no worso than , Wm It lias been several tlmljs Ijcforo and Wm that thero Is ilotliU)g;inrmlnB in the. situation. '. ', KilM . It. -looks now as though 1008 would ho tho banner year for tho old Mln- $-9 oral Hill mlulng district of which V''M Hnllcy, Idalm, js' the qdmm.orcial con- f9 ter. Old ' properties -that havo boon f&V Idlo for yoarsnro being worked and' JB new development Is apparent ont nil' 1 f. 'j-w sides. I'i&B About 8,O0) .jBcrea of, cpal land in If'fl Monterey county, California, about .200 ilffl miles from, .San Francisco, are about 1 vH to bo dovolopedUn an extensive mnn-tier, mnn-tier, Most of tho coal of this section fl Is llgnltic. iu charuqtor,, hut this tract Kfl is Bald to contain a 'vein' of seml-bltu I vH mlnaii's fuel. ,. ril According fa tho statistic? collected directly from .the prodi,cprs In tho jjl United States. Canada' and Mexico, nnd tho statistics. 6l irunry It. Morton jH Co. for tho remainder of tho world, "H ,lhe total prbdilctlon of copper In 1907 was 723,807 meti'lf. tojis. sgalnBt 71C ''IIJH C23 mot'rlc tons in 1000. 'lM |