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Show MINES AND JINa The total output of precious motals ''t.'LI in Utah for tho year Is upwnrd ot $51,- '""H 000,000, with dividends running abova ' is.ooo. ; The metal production ot tho mini-it ' ot Utnh for 1907 exceed tho record mndo dtirlns 100C by $10,606,593, tho production this year reaching a total ot $51,0tG.3GG. - Tho net earnings of tho Tonopah Mining company of Philadelphia, whose property Is located at Tonopoh, Nevada, for the qunrtcr ondtng No-vemher No-vemher 30, nro stated to havo been $301,000. The old Tuscarora district, with its-record its-record output of $10,000,000, In now in lino for nctlvo development tho coming season, according to thoso who nro familiar with that soctloa ot Nevada. Three of tho largest mines in Park City aro to close dawn temporarily at least until metal conditions get better. Over 1,000 men will be thrown out ot employment as u result of the. shut-down, 'I ho lirgost. copper smoltors In tho-world, tho-world, cn.mlilc ot handling tho pro-duct pro-duct oi what In now believed to bo the most extensive copper doposlt In tho world, aro now In courso of crec-tldn crec-tldn In Whlto Pino county, 'Nevada. 'Considerable' surprlso (s 'occasioned in Utnli mining circles by, tho fact that the Uintah Treasuro Hill Mining company, owning tho old Uinuh Treasure, Hill and tho Crcolo propor-tics propor-tics in Purk City, has been closed down, temporarily at least. Tho cntlro 'output of borax in tho United States Is derived from San Bernardino, Inyo nnd Ventura coun-ties, coun-ties, California, and up tq and lnclud-ing lnclud-ing 1906 tho greater pari of It has como from San' Bornardlno' county Tho prcBcut depression In mining will havo tho direct offect of Intro-duclng Intro-duclng many Improvements and new economies In working! more partlcu-larly partlcu-larly In tho methods ot ore treatment, It is claimed by many ot tho wlso Tho total output of crude borax for tho year 1906 was 58,173 short tons, valued at $1,182,410, as against 46.-334 46.-334 short tons, valued at 91,019,154, in 1905, an incrcaso in 190C of 11,83a short tons in quantity and' of $163,256 In In cutting a ditch at the. Grimes Creek placors in Idaho last week, the men in charge ot the work dlscov-erod dlscov-erod a ledgo ot high grade .frco mill-Ing mill-Ing .ore. It assayed $108.36, .In gold and may prove a bonanza! Five claims havo been located ori tho ledge. Tho annual roport of the Quartette Mining company, operating at Search-light, Search-light, Nov., is just Issued. Gross re-celpts re-celpts were $342,425; operating costs, $248,018; not earnings, $94,407. These compare with net earnings ot $172,. 674 for 1905-6. Tho surplus ot $2G8,-417 $2G8,-417 is a decrease of $24,819 from tho preceding year. It is reported that two experts la tho employ ot tho Guggenhelms re-cently re-cently visited the old camp of Hunter, Nov., and looked ovor tho Vulcan prop-erty prop-erty with n view to buying It. 'itio Vulcan property adjoins that of tho old Hunter, and is accredited with having several million dollars worth ot oro blocked out, - Tho production of copper in tho United States In 1906 wus 917,805,(8U pounds. This represents the year's smelter production that Is, tho quan- tlty of flno coppor In tho blister co;- pur produced during the year and tho production of refined Lake copper. The production of 1905 was oxcoeded WM by 15,897,839 pounds. Tho Grimes Creek Plucer Mining , company, which owns 1,100 acres ot valuable placer ground on Grimes and 'H Muddy creeks In tho llolse basin, has expended nearly $50,000 on ditches und othor work preparatory to taking out gold during tho next year. It is estimated that 25 cents per cubic yard will be taken from tho ground. After having been silent twclvu years tho ten stamps in the mill nt tho old Robinson mine at ML Pisgah, Bingham county, Idaho, are again dropping on tho gold-bearing ore. Tho Robinson mlno, togethor with several othor groups of claims on ML Plsgnh, was Included In n giant merger re-cently re-cently consummated by Boston nnd Salt Lake people Ten of tho thirty hot mills of thu Shenago tin mills ut Newcastle, Pa., will resume operation's January C next, Ten additional, mills will ro- jH sumo shortly after, and It Is expected that tho entire plant will b6 running full foreo beforo the end ot January. jH Tho mill, said to ho tho largest tin 'jH plant in tho world, has been idlo rf since July 31, Fully a thousand men fjK nro nffected. ' It'sE , 'Two thousand one hundred tons of tP high grado Oro was Hent from tho jfljlff ground' of tho famous Llttlo Florenco WW leaso at Goldllold last week to tho mfH Globe spioltor at Denver, Tho entire lot Is worth upward of $500,000 nnd )vM has been under tho full glare ot clec-trie clec-trie lights and undor tho oyes of halt ''P a dozen guards ovor since tho man- yi'il igemunt of tho lease refused to Bhlp -ity. i.n account of tho bmolter charges. vf" it will ho necessary for Idaho pros. v1ii') pectors and mining men to comply 'nisi with tho old law regarding assess- IsfiS munt work for 1907 as tho bill pro- iSflij' vldlng for susponslon of assessment vSjjjJ work for 1907 passed tho sonato, but did not pass tho house, and Is not yet ESFx law. mM Tho dliqctars of, tho United States Smelting, Hutlnlng & Mining company declared a 'quarterly dlvidond on Do- 'H comber 28, on-tho common Block of 1 per cent, and 1 3-4 per cent on the. preferred. Tho dividend on tho com-inoii com-inoii stock three months ago was 1 3-4 per 'H |