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Show MINES AND MINING H Idaho's oro tonnngo for tho current HHHJ yenr will reach 1,500,000 gross tonB, HHHJ nnd tho valuo of tho product is ests- HHHJ mated at $20,000,000. In tho mineral production of An H trnlla, gold represents 94 per cent. HHHJ The East Coolgnrdlo field yields hi HHHJ per cent of tho commonwealth's gold- HHHJ Tho Thunder Mountain dlstiict ot H Idaho, of which llttlo has been heard BHa lor Home time, appears to hnvo coma HHHJ to life again, nnd Is sending out rr- HHj ports of rich strikes being made. HHHJ Nearly tho entire gold output ot HHHJ South Dakota comes from Iawrcnce HHHJ county, whero the Homcstnka mint-, H one of tho world's most profitable H low-grndo ore mines Is situated. H Driving five feet, four nnd one- H qunrter Inches of complete six-foot H tunnel In an hour and a half, is tho record made nt Douldcr, Colo., a, few dnys ngo by tho Karus til dicier. There wero 2.CS0 men employed in tho coal mines of Utnh during 1908, n decrenso of 9S over last year. The H average amount of coal produced tn ench man employed wns 735 tons. A total of 353,'305 pounds of explosives was used this year. Somo sensationally riclr gold oro from tho North Mountain Minim: com- ssH pnny, whoso property is located at H Cherry Creek, Nevada, was being ex-hibltcd ex-hibltcd In Salt Lake City last week. Tho samples shows tho presence ot aro nt tho rntc of $1,000 a ton. Mileage amounting to $1,150 will bo J paid to threo witnesses who enmc to J Boston from Valdez, Alaska, and Ta- J coma, Wash., to testify In the trial or Henry I). Reynolds of tho Reynolds Alaska Development compnny on chnrges of fraud. "Ono of the greatest needs In con-ncctlon con-ncctlon with our mining laws Is the establishing at the different mining camps, wilder coal or metal, of a class or school for the practical dem-onstrntlon dem-onstrntlon of first aid to tho Injured," pays Coal Mine Inspector Petit In his annual report to Governor Cutler ot Tho mines of Nevada produced In 1907 gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc to n total valuo or $17,591,480, according to n report by Charles G. Yale, Just Issued by tho United States geological survey ns part ot an ad-vanco ad-vanco chapter from "Mineral Rcsmirc-cs Rcsmirc-cs of tho United States, Calendar Year W. L. Hobbs und J. B. Hccnan ot Rlvorton, Wyo., havo leased from the Arapahoo Indians, living in tho Wind River reservation, 4,800 acres of land. -believed to be valuable for the mln-cral mln-cral deposits It contains. Tho lease provides that a royalty of 8 per cent be paid tho Indians on all oro taken. trom tho lands. Tho net profits of tho Homcstukn gold mine of South Dakota for the past twelve months ure $915,000,- no-cording no-cording to reports given forth by the largest shareholder in that property. For tlra current year this property has milled 1,487,000 tons or ore. Net pro- fits nro running at about 83 cents fcr HBl each ton of oro treated. BVJ Thero were 1,844,849 tons ot coal, valued nt $2,957,758, mined in the stnto of Utah this year. This is a JKV decrcaso of 122,802 tons, or G.2 per BBJ cent, over 1907. There wero 145,149 Jftj tons of coko produced, a decrease, of 190,497 over last year. Tho hydro- HBb carbons mined this year amounted to 17,740 tons, worth $532,200. Tho International-Consolidated Oil 'AVJ compnny has drilled nine wells in the flftj Spring Valley oil district In Wyo- JKV mlng, nnd aro to drill eleven moro HBi ns fast as tho work can be done. Tho HJ company's plpo lino is in operation, and oil Is being delivered to tho re- HBl finery at Spring Valley station at tho J into ot twenty-flvo barrels a day. SB When tho new oro rates from IBl mines nlong tho Tonopnh & Tide- BftJ v nter railroad to Needles go Into of- HBl feet on January 24th, they are expect- HBl ed to make vnhmblo many tons ol BBl low grado ore which are now lying HBl on the dumps und In addition they BJ will make profitable the operation of HJ many mines producing low grade ore HJ Tho quantity of copper given as the HH output of tho mines ot tho United BH States In 1907, baaed on reports col- BH lected by field agents of tho Geologl- BH cnl Survey from all mining companies HB In tho country which produced copper BH during tho year, was 847.154,015 BB pounds, n quantity 2.5 per cent less HJ than the product ot the smelters for BB tho same period HB For tho first time shirt- Its organl Bj zntlon tho American Smelting & He- 1BJS lining company Is confronted with Ml tho problem of competing with what SvC will bo a very formidable rival, says WWj tho Wall Street Journal, speaking or Wffl the advent to tho field of tho Cole- Mutt Rynn combination's $50,000,000 Inter- y&jfc national Smelting & Refining coin- ' jtjgf pnny. which Is building Its first great mSW', 1 Innt near Salt Lnko City. Jpjw Tho totnl production of gold and " f'M silver in the United States In 1307, according to figures published by the Hp.'s United Stntcs geologlcnl survey as il'Vii tho result of conference and adjust- 'JHv$ ment botwoou that bureau and tho IS'"' bureau of the mint, wub valued at 'w I SI 27.735,400. V In copper mining only n few Auk- It"-. trnltan properties nro making dlvl- jfitv1 demls. Tho high cost of fuel, scarcl- cTV ty of wator, and high rates lor mineral traffic mllltuto against a number ot copper mines thnt paid fairly well dur- if L Ing tho short stngo of high-priced cop- lC per In 1900-7. The now smolter, which has been HiM anticipated by -the I.emlil Sineltlnir K company, Is now In the process of iHI construction on lis property In th 'H Spring mountain mining district, la IK Idaho, It Is situated at the head of 'HB Birch creek and the I emhl river, on. the western tilde of file divide. Hb |