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Show MINES AND MINING Tho gold mines of tho United- States produced $91,560,000 worth of precious motul during 1908, according to tho .geological Burvey and tho bureau of mines. Control of Boston Consolidated to Utah Copper has practically been passed on tho baslB of one share of Utah for two and one-half Bhares of Boston Consolidated. Tho work ' of development of tho Eastern Prince mining property, In tho Pioche, Novnda, dlfltrlct, will bo started on tho first of the month on a lnrgor scalo than has ovor been at tomptod at this mine In tho past. Tho proposed $800,000,000 coppoi toomblnohas boon held up.i temporarily, at least, according to Wall street roports, ro-ports, until lawyers for Interests con-cornod con-cornod can figure out tho effect Mint tho Standard Oil decision, will havo upon tho merger. A quarterly dividend of $8 a sharo has been declared by the directors of tho Calumet & Hecla Mining company. com-pany. Tho rate 1b tho same ns that of three months ago, and brings the total dlvldotuls for tho year to 27, compared to 20 In 1908. With tho commencement of 1910 tho Utah iCoppor qompany will find dfiialf Jn a strong financial position, says tho Wall Street Journnl. Liabilities, boyond tho capital stock should not oxcoed $500,000, and the surplus should Uo well over tho $6,000,000 mark. Tho total gold product of tho United States for 1908 was 4,574,340 ounces, a not Incrcaso In value of $4,124,300. Colorado leads Vlth a productive valuo of $22,871,000; Alaska was second, with $19,858,800, and California was third, with $19,-329,700. $19,-329,700. Another fine Assure, carrying much red Iron, has boon cut by tho Indian Queen company's tunnel In Beaver county, Utah. The faco of tho tunnel, which Is In 7,900 feot, Is moro hfghly mlnorallzed than for a long tlmo be foro. Crosscuttlng No. 2 fissure has been started. News has been received that a strike of gold ore that excels oven that mado originally In tho famous Black Hole property has boon made on tho Fogarty Ieaso on the Chnfey Mines company's ground. This block Is situated some distance north ot tho main Black Holo workings. Flro damp, exploding with terrlflo force In tho Florence mine of tho Monongnhela & Ohio Coal company, nt Martin's Ferry, Ohio, fatally Injured In-jured sfx miners who woro walking In ndvanco of tho main forco, which at the time was going off shift. Gold was produced In tho Philippine Philip-pine Islands to tho amount of $78,000 In 1907, $200,000 In 1908, and to a much larger sum In 1909, according to tho Mining and Scientific Press." Dredging in particular is proving profitable. The dredges in operation are of the Now Zealand typo and ar email. Jacob Myers, a well-known mining man of Salt Lake City, has returned from Boston, whore ho has been on business connectod with tho Eaglo Bird Mining and Milling company of Bingham. While In tho east, Mr. Myers disposed of $25,000 worth of stock In his company at the rate of 65 cents per share. A Now York dispatch says that th Amorlcan Smelting and Refining company's com-pany's recont activity In the stock markot has been based no loss on tha good showing that the company la now making In earnings, than upon tho copper consolidation reports which Include American Smoltlng and Reilning company subsidiaries anions thoso companies to bo merged. Whatever doubt muy have existed in tho minds of geologists and mining exports concerning the castorn section' of tho Tlntlc district "making good" will bo removed, declares A. N. Hold-away, Hold-away, whon It Is understood that tho so-called, quartz In which tho Tlntlo Standard company has sunk tho last 35 feot of Its shaft la In reality Cam"-brlan Cam"-brlan quartzltc. Duluth capitalists havo recently mado Btrong bids for control of tho Leonora, In "Beaver county, but tho owners do not caro to part with It. Considerable high-grade silver oro was produced In the early days from near tho surfaco of tho oro zone, and tho big find in Red Warrior of courso greatly onchances tho chanco bf got- ting large results ,at dopth. Members of tho party pf eleven Boston Bos-ton capitalists who tho first of tho week vlsltod tho mlno of tho Boaver Carbonate company, accompanied by Manager Grant Snydor and Engineer M. M. Johnson, woro unablo to detect excuso or tho slightest foundation In fact for tho attack mado upon tho proporty recently by a Now York broker who Is evldontly now to tho "gamo," snys tho Salt Lake Horald. Tho famous old Crackorjack mlno at Buffalo Hump, Idaho, will bo a hlg and steady producer for tho first tlmo In Utf history within sixty days, by which tlmo Its new twenty-stamp mill will bo extracting tho bullion from about Btyty-tons of ore a day. . |