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Show MINES AND MINING Reports from the Inspiration property prop-erty of Arizona arc to the effect that the Bnsch shaft is down over 2C0 feet, and that It has been In 2.8 per cent copper ore for over 170 feet. Goldflcld, Tonopnh and other southern Novnda towns aro considerably consider-ably agitated over the quertlon of what place Is likely to bo chosen as termlnnl of the new railroad from Ely The price of radium Is now elgh million dollars per pound, a ceo r din. to an ordor given by n British com pany last weok for 7 Ms grams, tot which they have contracted to pa: $150,000. With a stringer of oro which assays as-says as high as $197 a ton, leasers on the Seven Troughs Knickerbocker company's ground, nenr Vernon, are in a fair way to open a paying proposition, prop-osition, according to lntest roports. The gold diggings in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Fairbanks, Alaska, will yield $12,000,000 durlnc the present year,' according to roi)rts received by n Seattle bank. This bank expects to hnndle about $0,500,000 of this Alas kan gold dust. j One hundred dollar silver, lead and' coppor ore Is being extracted from a prospect hole In tho Sliver Island training district of western Utah, recently re-cently acquired by Salt Lake men, who have secured a bond on a group of five claims. A coinpnny has been formed In Salt Lake City, its special purpose being the exploiting of a patent iron fence post und telegraph-telehone polo. Utah iron, smelted by tho Fink process, 13 to bo used in the construe-t.'on construe-t.'on of the now product. All records for copper production on tho American continent wero broken in May with an output of 1 10,-UiU.OOO 10,-UiU.OOO pounds, as compared with 101,755,000 pounds In April nnd 90,-880,300 90,-880,300 pounds In May last year, says the Boston News Bureau. Within less than a month and a half the Goldflcld Consolidated has sent out to the mints in gold bullion $777,-400, $777,-400, represented In bricks handled through John S. Cook & Co. The total Is the shipments for exactly forty-four forty-four days. This means a strict average aver-age for tho time of more than $17,GG0 a day. . iw feet of ore which 's said to run close to $200 a ton In gold have, been opened at a depth of only fifteen leet from the surface in the Jumbo inne In Hart, 'California, district. Hie strike was made in a 40-foot open cut driven to tho vein nt a po.nt some distance down the hill from the shaft. Hundreds of settlers, acting In concert, con-cert, have located every acre of tho Southern Pacific's undeveloped oil land In tho Collngn. Cal., field. Tho result of a suit now pending to test Ihe validity of tho railroad's deed to part of Its undeveloped holdings, will largely determine tho course of tho recent settlers. The third trlnl or the ruinous suit? of the St. Louis Mining company against the Montana Mining company, com-pany, an English corporation, luvolv-'v? luvolv-'v? title to nn exceptionally rich strip of mineral ground near Mnrysvllle,1 Mont., was begun nt Helena last 'uon ihe property is ostimated to bo worth $1,000,000. Last week there was shipped from Salt I-ake City to the property in Idaho of the Cannon Bnll company a llfty-horsopower hoist and a slxty-flvo-horsopower holler, which will be Installed In-stalled immediately. This company has the now mill practically ready for business, and in July active produc-n produc-n ut gold million w,ll no under way. Minos of the North Star district, utan, while working in a relatively small way, aro making a good showing. show-ing. The Moscow Is shipping at tho rate of three carloads a week, tho Red Warrior Ib maintaining . creditable credit-able production, tho Hub and tho Co-dar-Tallsninn are working In good oro nnd several prospects aro giving p. oniise of soon entering tho produc-.ng produc-.ng class. An open cut which taps the great strike at .Mount Ellen, Salisbury Wash district, at the .depth or 12 feet :lom the surface, has opened ore at t :at depth which pans tho almost unbelievable un-believable values of $100,000 a ton In gold, according to tho Tonopnh Sun. Tho recent landslide at Roosevelt proved a bloss ng In disguise for the mln'ng 11 nn or Caswell & Curran, the torrent uncovering for thorn tho very ','iolmd tiiey were expending much money to reach, vit being estimated Hint this freak or nature savod thorn $y'o,poo. So far as Ellendale, or Salsbury Wash, Is concerned, tho. disposition of tho more conservative mining men of Goldflcld is to await development bo-fore bo-fore rushing in witli money. Tho original owners aro doing nothing, und hnvo scarcely stuck a pick in tho ground. It Is announced that the ownorB of the control of tho Seven Troughs Klorenco lease have turnod over the control to tho Interests owning the new customs milling plant or the district, dis-trict, and that from now on there will be a vigorous prosecution of work on the lease. ' ' : 9 " 'i |