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Show MINER AND MINING Over 15,000,000 pounds of ore was i hipped out of Park City during the month of September. Work In tho Oseeoln, Nevada, dls- i let Is going on without cessation nt i he various minim? properties, both I'lnr-er nnd quartz mining being active. With n force of fifty men opera-Mnn opera-Mnn have been resumed on tho Mldns Oalena Mining company prop-titles prop-titles at Oarllehl hay, reports a Standpoint, Idaho, paper. There aro two now mills In tho Atlantic district In Idaho, which wero Installed In mines whero millions In oro wnB blocked out before u wheel turned. These mines are now good producers. Tho Immense deposits of alum nnd ammonia near MnryHvnlo aro llnally to bo utilized. It being announced that a Salt Lake syndicate Is preparing prepar-ing to work the deposits on an extensive ex-tensive scale. Tho Olencoe Moling company of Park City has purchased tho old California Cal-ifornia mill property, which has been dismantled nnd moved over to tho Olencoe mine, where it Is to bo utilized util-ized In tho future. Tho mining operations In tho Soldier Sol-dier district In Idaho arc resuming on a lnrgor scale thon ever heretofore. New properties are being opened up nnd extensive development work hns Leon done this year. Tho South Iron Illossom Mining company, whoso property Is In tho Tlntlc district, has listed Its stock on tho Snlt IjiIio mining exchange. Tho company Is capitalized for 1,000,000 shares of tho par value of 10 cents each. Majestic mines, owning about SO per cent of tho $514,000 of bonds of the Mnjostlc Copper compnny, hns permitted the default of Interest on tho cntlro bond Issue. It has n right to do this under tho terms of tho mortgage. Up to September 30 thcro was shipped from tho Hlaclc Holo mlno of Chnfoy, Nevnda, to tho sampler nt Hitzen 1,200 tons of oro which- nvor-nged nvor-nged over $70 n ton. Thcro has been milled nt tho company mill In Chnfey ;t7C tons of oro which averaged $25 n ton, tho mill saving 88 per cent of the value. Within 200 feet of Its shaft, on tho 200-foot level, tho Harris loaso has cut tho fnmouB ledge or the Seven Vroughs Mining compnny. The ledgo Is sovon feet wldo nt tho point whero It has Just been opened, which- Is bomethlng moro than 400 feet north c.l tho Seven Troughs Mining com-tuny's com-tuny's Futrvlow shaft. Tho now plant of tho Graselll Chemical company designed to treat the zinc ores of tho Daly Judgo Mining Min-ing company at Park City. Is Hearing completion. Tho plant nt tho stnrt will handle from 75 to 100 tons of oro a dny, -and It Is so constructed that tho capacity may bo easily Increased In-creased from tlmo to tlmo. Domestic copper producorB havo been Informod. thnt about 0,000,000 pounds of electrolytic coppor of American manufneturo will bo required re-quired for tho electrification of 1,310 miles of rnllroad In Sweden. Tho conversion from steam to electricity has been decided upon, nnd work will -ho begun early noxt year. If tho prediction of Danlol Ouggen-helm Ouggen-helm that tho prlco of copper will soon go nnicji higher comes truo, tho coppor mines nt Mnckay, Idaho, will bo reopened. This would menn n pay roll of nbout $30,000 per month In Mnckay nnd will ho tho menns of milling mill-ing grcutly to tho Industrial activity of not only Mnckay, but nil southorn nnd central Idaho. In tho Ilcnvor Carbonato mlno nt Frisco n drift Is being run from tho bottqm of tho 700-foot shaft in low-grado low-grado oro which shows steady Improvement Im-provement In values, and It Is believed be-lieved that from 100 to 150 feot further fur-ther will tako It to tho shoot of high-grndo high-grndo oro from which largo production produc-tion wns mado In tho oarly days, down to tho-100-foot lovel. A receiver hns been appointed for tho Dominion Coppor company, operating oper-ating In Hrltlsh Columbia. Tiro np- 1 ointment wns mado upon tho application appli-cation of tho National Tnist company if Toronto, trusteo for tho company's cutstandlng $SOO,000 0 per cent bonds. Tho principal factor in bringing bring-ing nbout this receivership htm been tho prevailing prlco of tho coppor market. Thoro has been a matorlal Improvement Improve-ment In tho position of tho coppor market In tho last few months, and If signs do not mlstako tho near future fu-ture will bo brighter than tho periods immediately preceding tho flnanclnl Hurry Inst fall, says tho Mining World. A dispatch from nodding, Cnl., says tho Iron workers nro laboring day and night now rushing U Haluknlala converter to completion. Soventy-flvo mon havo been working nt tho smolt-or, smolt-or, nnd 100 will bo tho forco until tho blow-In ot tho smolter nny time within with-in thirty days. At tho Muldoon mines, says tho Halloy Times, n hydro electric powor plant Is building, also a mill, now bunk houses, nn assay ofllco, a tram-way tram-way between tho mines nnd tho mill, and other structures. About sixty men are employed, ut wages ranging from $1 to $7 a day. Word lb recolvcd from tiro Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona Gold & Copper company's mines In Arizona that tho tunnel started recently on tho Goldeu Onto voln Is following a streak of eight inches of oro that runs $130 n ton. Tho remainder of tho threo-foot ot eln matter Is good milling ore. |