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Show MINES AND MINING . H Tho price of lend took a climb last week nnd was up to $ 1.12 " Twelvo cars of oro were shipped I nun Plocho during tho ,mst week. During the year 1007 tho mines of Utah distributed dividends totaling in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. In spite or tho slump In tlte prlco of lead last fall, tho net profits of tho llvo big mines In the Cocur d'Alcncs amounted In 1007 to $5,119,8:10. According to what Hccnm perfectly rellnblo information, the output or tho Ditllfrog, Nevada; district for tho month of April was above $150,000. Tho Seven Troughs-Kindergarten compnuy's new lltty-lon milling plant hi practically completed, and It Is nn-iiounced nn-iiounced will be In good working or-dor or-dor before the close of tho present Tho mining ciimp of Phonollto, In Nevada, which Is receiving much nt-tentlon nt-tentlon these days ns a result of tho recent discovery of rich orgs In tho Paymaster mine, Is locnted nbout ten miles from Home or tho richest oro In tho his-tory his-tory of Nevndu, a tnto. known for Its rich mines, has recently been en-countered en-countered In thu Paymaster mine, nt Phonollto, Nevada. Some of tho oro In this property carries over $55,000 in gold to tho The decree of the United Stntcs court In tlm smelter smoko suits KceniB to lie entirely satisfactory to tho Salt Lake valley smelters. Hero-after Hero-after tho Binelters will, be given ft chanco to miiko. Bettlcment berorotho farmers can bring' suit. In ft report submitted by Vlco Prra-Ident Prra-Ident Harbour to tho Hulakalnln com-pnny, com-pnny, tt Is estimated that It will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 to complete the work on tho Binoltlng plant, but It will tu'ko two or three months before It Is completed. Oro Is being sacked for shipment from the Inltlnl strike In the Dull val-ley val-ley district or southern Utah that Is expected to startle tho natives when It Is thrown upon tho market. Some of the most optimistic contend that this ore will HBsay $25,000 to thu ton. The reports of two Coo'ur. d.'Aleno mines for. 10(17 tl)p Federal Mining & Smelting company and tho llunker Hill nnd Sullivan show n decrease In not profits. This decrease' was causod hy tho heavy -slump In lead and tlio subsequent curtailment, of production. Tho (Irasolll Cliomlpal- cqinpany'B now zinc mill nt Park City Is doing splendid work om the lnc middling product from tins Daly Judgo com-pany's com-pany's mill, nnd Is mcotliig cvory ex-pectntlon. ex-pectntlon. Tho plant hnB a capacity of 100 tons n day, there being plenty nt material on hand f6r constant Tho blggcut strike' In Ooldllcld within tho past year was made on May 4, when at n, depth qf 000 feet In tho main worjilngs or Ihq Mohawk mlno of tlio Consolidated Mines com-pany, com-pany, thirteen feet of ore running straight across, worth $02 u ton, and with no hnnglng wall In sight, wat A dispatch received In Kcno from Uawhlde, Nevada, announcos that the richest strlko In tho world's history has been mado In tho Kcarns No. S leaso on tho Rawhide Queen, at a depth of 117 feot In a crorss-cut. Tlio oro Is said to bo moro than hnU gold, nothing llko It ever having been Been in'Novndn. 1 It is reported tha.t Hobort Hell, state mlno lnsiector' for ldano," In-tends In-tends to rctl'ro from that poBltlon t tho closo of his present term of oulce. Tho Engineering nnd Mining Jonrnat gives. Mr. Dell a good deal pf do-sorved do-sorved praise In a, recent IfiBue, and oxproBses tho hope that ho will con-tluuo con-tluuo In tho work. Wlillb the nmp of Hosebud, Ne-vada.'ls Ne-vada.'ls not making much of w stlc in tho mining world these days, the nows comes from that camp that dc-velopmcnt dc-velopmcnt work Is being vigorously prosecuted on a .number ot the prop-ortlcs, prop-ortlcs, and that 'solue sensntlonnl dlscoverU-H nro likely to bo nn-nnuncQd, nn-nnuncQd, most any day. It Is announced that P. q. llagnn, oporntlng .a lease on tho Maxima Hills Minlug ..compnuy's ground nt Mnzuma, Nevada, last week dls- fM rhra'gcd one entire sliltt fdr high 'grading. It Is estimated that 1,000 pounds or oro averaging '.$l!0 .per pqund wgs .titolon before discovery was mado'of'tiio operatlcns. In' 1007 thero were twenty-tour mln-Ing mln-Ing con'ipuules in - Utah tout rc.gularly 91 paid dividends o tho stocUholdora. Owing to a' series of setbacks to ?yLl wiilch"the Industry Iuib been subject- B ed. the mines will not pay nearly, so tfl well tl)ls year ns laBt, but they, nro 2wB Just as 'rich its evor, nnd tlmo will reiuedy present 'conditions. X lUnlon dispatch nn'uorincea thai v"B thure fi no lo.nger nn. qtiestlon thai. tho,. American Smqltlng"' nnd. the -American Smeltors S.e'curltloa ,y comj qH M'ajiles will not. ronou' jthclr' Boiling i? jB .coptract with tho United Metals'com- ' lil puny at the end of thts month, and i'-L that tho entire output will be unndlcd I ,H by the American Smelters Securities ii'il company. - - Vil Tho F.nglueurlng and kilning" JoW (tlil .trnl gravely, 'aniipuij;e,8V hat at tho present tlmo there Is nn apparent V 'MM tendency on the part of mlni:ra( who (r wont' to Novndu on tho outbic'ak, of C'il thu excitement nt Tonopah, and later, ?;iLl to return to California In BL'arc!i,,or i'IH mines, flkil The report ror tho month of April Hil of T. I). Miliar, lu emirge or tho Unit-ed Unit-ed States assay olllto at lplcog jH sl;ows nq''lncrcasU,ln 'Montana', re-colpts re-colpts nt $12,000 over fho, correspond-Ing correspond-Ing month of" InBt year. rio' receipts for the two years axe $130,075- -and', TSy.CGD, rcspectlvel" |