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Show MINES AND MINING Dcop Crcok bismuth is attracting tho attention of somo of tho western purchasers of raro ores. "In 1911 sovoral now prospects up Big Cottonwood will bo shipping mines," is tho prediction in Salt Lako. Jarlooso, tho now camp about fit-tcon fit-tcon miles southwest of Mllford, Utah, Is receiving considerable attention thoso days. Bradshaw district, located' in tho low hills northeast of Mllford, Utah, is attracting attention of Beaver county mining men this fall. It looks as if tho skies aro somewhat some-what clearing when sovoral of tho Utah mining companies havo lately boon rescinding assessments. According to reports from Gold Springs district, thoro is moro activity activ-ity thero Uinn in a long time, and moro substantial work Is being done! Tho now power line, tho wlro norvo which Is to bring now llfo to Wonder, Novada, district, and causo tho whole camp to move, will soon bo com plotod. Unless unforscen circumstances Intervene, In-tervene, the now mill of tho Amalgamated Amalga-mated Novada Mines company at Willow Wil-low Patch will bo put In operation on November 5. Thoro Is n smoke-consumlng plnnt nt tho American Smelting & Refining company's plant ,nt Murray, Utah, which Is proving to bo efficient in ovory particular. Tho property of tho Cochise Gold Mining & Milling company nt Cochise, Co-chise, Arlzonn, which was discovered last December, hns over $300,000 of oro nvernglng $8 to tho ton in sight. Twin Fnlls nnd Elko, tho ono on tho north, tho other on tho south, nro running n race to soo which will got tho first good road Into Jarbldgo and capturo tho business of this growing camp. Tho gold receipts of tho United, States assay offlco in Seattle for October Oc-tober amounted to $1,731, 4G9, approximately approx-imately tho samo as last year, according accord-ing to tho report of tho nssayor issued is-sued Thursday. Tho mines in tho Salmon river country in Idaho aro attracting considerable con-siderable attention this fall. All tho district lacks Is transportation facilities, facil-ities, and thfs difficulty will undoubtedly undoubt-edly bo overcomo In time. Tho Wostorn Pumping company, which will supply wntcr for several of tho Star district properties, expects to Install Its pump and begin sending Its water up tho 1,700-foot Incllno about tho tenth of tho month. With tho Horn Silver with n big now concentrator, South Utah booming, boom-ing, Red Warrior, Cedar Talisman, Lady Bryan, Moscow and a fow others 3hlpplng, Beaver county, Utah, Is rap-Idly rap-Idly forging Into the front ranks, Tho owners of sovoral of tho old mlnos nnd n number of tho best prospective pros-pective mines In Silver Canyon and Silver Mountain districts in Whito Pino county, Nevada, aro making arrangements ar-rangements to begin shipments to tho Salt Lntoo valley smelters. Present operations on tho Radiator Hill property, a part of which Is located lo-cated within tho town limits of Nntlonnl, Nn-tlonnl, Novndn, nro being wntchod with great intorcst., Oro has recently been encountered which gives assays of $30 a ton in gold and silver. With ono big carload of high-grado sacked on tho dump ready for shipment ship-ment to tho Salt Lake smelters, nnd threo moro carloads broken down ready for sncking, tho Elkton Mining & Milling company, operating in the Chief mining district in Novada, Is in a flourishing condition. Eastern roports nro to tho effect that tho American Smelting & Refining Refin-ing compnny has secured tho contract for selling tho coppor produced by tho Tonnes3co Copper company, which means a loss to tho United Metals Selling compnny of approximately 11,000,000 pounds of tho motal per annum. an-num. A novol feature of hoisting that will ho introduced in tho now shaft of tho Giroux Consolidated will bo a tall ropo In addition to tho main hoisting cable. This ropo is fastened to tho bottom of each cage, being continuous and passing from ono hoisting compartment compart-ment to tho other at tho bottom of tho shaft. By this method tho hoisting ropo is continually counterbalanced by tho tnll rope, thereby snvlng tho power of hoisting tho cnble. Tho old Sliver Moon proporty, in tho Texns district, Idnho, Is undergoing a revival of prosperity. Tho Silver Moon was discovered In 1882, upon an outcrop that assayed 0G0 ounces in silver. At tho bottom of a 25-foot shaft sunk on this outcrop It nssnyed 3,000 ounces. Tho proporty has produced pro-duced 80,000 ounces. While oro shipments from leases and outside properties in tho Goldfleld district havo been of comparatively small volumo during tho past fow months, n development work Is boing carried on of a character better calculated cal-culated to produco rosults than much of tho work during tho early porlod of development. |