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Show MINES AND MINING Nino sots of leasers aro operating on tho Gold Crown vein at Gold Clrcl' Nevada, which crops for 2.G00 feet through tho company's possessions. Child, Colo & Co., tho Salt Lako i brokers, nro getting out a now map of tho Park City, Utah, district, which thoy declare will bo up to dato In ov cry particular. Thirty thousand minors employed In tho Pittsburg, Pa., district resumed work last week, In accordance with tho agreement reached at tho Toledo Joint conference. Salt Lako City hna nt last received n patent to Its nsphaltum mlno at Thistle, Utah. Tho mlno wna purchased pur-chased by tho last municipal administration adminis-tration for $0,000. Tho Shonnngo valley steel plant, operated at Nowcastlo, Pa., by tho Carncglo Stool company, resumed' operations Inst week with n full force. About 1,200 men nro affected. Tho presldont of tho University of Idaho Is looking for n grodimto who Is capable of holding tho chair of ns-Boclato ns-Boclato professor of mining and metallurgy, met-allurgy, at a salary of $1,800 a year. Tho Virgin City oil district Is situated sit-uated In tho southwestern corner of Utnh, near .tho eastern boundary of1 tho Basin ranges, Tho region Is drained by Virgin river nnd Ita tributaries. trib-utaries. Itoporta from Silver City, Idaho, concerning tho Potosl mlno nro very encouraging, tho Btntomcnt being mado that over 20,000 tons of oro nro In sight, and tho ledge is constantly Improving. Dovolopmcnt work Is being vigorously vigor-ously prosecuted ' in tho Common-wcnlth Common-wcnlth mlno, In tho mountnlns near Mllford. Tho shaft la now down COO feet nnd tho Indication aro bright for tho future of tho mlno. Tho shipment of gold from tho Unit-ed Unit-ed States to Europo has begun, much to tho satisfaction of tho mining men of tho west. When Uncle Sam can spare gold for Europo, better times nro In vlow for tho minora. Tho Niplsslng Mines company haB Issued Its annual report, covering tho period rom February 1, 1007, to Docombor Do-combor 11, 1907, which Bhowa a .total incomo for that period of $1,320,702, and net profile of $923,788. Among tho Improvcmonta that aro In contemplation for tho Ohio-Kentucky mines In Plocho, Novudn, la n Biuelter plant, which will bo constructed construct-ed at Bulllonvlllo, tho company having hav-ing plenty of ground and water for an ideal si to. Tho recent big strlko made by leas-ora leas-ora In tho Golden Treasure proporty nt Sovcn Troughs, Novndo, has been hailed with Joy by tho ownera, mostly Utah men, who expect to begin dovolopmcnt dovol-opmcnt on a largo scalo na soon na tho leases expires. Tho nows comca from Ely that at tho recent trial run of tho first section sec-tion of tho big Mcaill plant everything every-thing worked much better than had been expected. Tho plant Is to ho placed In regular commission during tho coming month. A Butto dispatch says: "Butto Coalition has opened ft largo body of copper glanco In tho Itarus mine on tho 1,700-foot level. It la from two to four feet wldo nnd 100 feet long and' 1. estlmntcd nt 1,000 feet high. Engl-ncers Engl-ncers estlmato that this body of oro will havo n gross valuo of nearly $30,000,000. ' Fully two hundred pooplo went from Ely to wltnesa tho concentrating of .tho first copper ores nt McGIll from tho big mines. Many had never seen oro tieated in this manner beforo, whllo many moro wont for tho purpose pur-pose of satisfying themselves as to tho complete success of tho latest ma-chlnory ma-chlnory In handling Iloblnson ores. Tho nows comes from Nowhouse, Utah, that conditions nro much im-proved im-proved nt tho mines. They aro adding add-ing to tho oro reserves nt tho mlno each month, nnd nro making headway in opening up now ground that is ox-pocted ox-pocted to ndd to tho wealth of tho property. A bar of gold bullion, worth nbout $1,000, was shipped from tho Whcelor mlno nt Yorlngton, Nevada, last week, tho bar being tho result of a two woks' run nt tho company'a Httlo mill, following a close-down for n month, owing to tho breaking of somo of tho machlnory. Ab ii result of n combination of circumstances, cir-cumstances, tho Lincoln Mining company, com-pany, oporatlng at Pearl, Idaho, has gono Into tho hnnd3 of rccolvors. Tho proporty Is ovldontly n good ono, but for ft year or so tho mauaRomont hns had Ufta of troublo through lack of electric power. Tho estimated total world production produc-tion of qulcksllvor for 1907 was 90,970 flasks, which was tho smallest amount reported for n. number of years, with tho exception of 1905. Of this amount tho United Stnte8 produced 20,500 flasko. which was 5,738 flasks less than in 190G. At Cuprlto, Boventeon miles from Goldfleld, natlvo sulphur from 85 to 90 por cent puro hus beon discovered in an enormous deposit within a mllo of tho railroad. Tho big Goldlleld chlo-rinntlon chlo-rinntlon mill will uso tho "stuff" In tho future, Instead of Importing refined sulphur from I.os Angeles. A mining boom such ns characterized character-ized tho Thuudor Mountain and Buffalo Buf-falo Hump districts Is on in the Pour Mile district In central Idaho, caused by tho roported discovery of n solid ledgo of oro fourteen feet wide, full of gold. Prospectors nro rushing Into tiiu district by the hundreds. Development work Is being dono In all quartors In tho mines In tho vicinity vicin-ity of Mllford, Utah, nil signs pointing to n great awakening In tho district. Whllo very Httlo shipping Is In progress pro-gress nt presont, It Is prodlctcd that socn tbs oro will bo flowing to'arl the ami tors at a Jlvelr rate, |