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Show iiuplfca of gold ore, said . to bo 'wortrV' nearly $2,000 to tho ton havo beou, .received at Liuby, Mont, from nifties near that place. The Yampa smelter of Bingham will be closed down Indefinitely on August 1, meaning the loss of work to 200 men and tho monthly payroll expenditure expen-diture of $20,000. . ; Production of tho Utnh Coppor company com-pany for Juno, nccordlng to advices from The enst, was about 8.3C0.000 pounds, or about 410,000 pounds less thnn Its May production. Tho proposed merger of the Hnw-hide Hnw-hide Coalition and. Hawhlde Queen companies has been passed upon favorably fa-vorably nnd agreed to by 13. W. King, who owns control( of tho Queen. Pnsslng of control of tho Jumbo Ex. tension Mining company from Thomas Loc.hnrt to 'a syndlcato of foreign and eastern capitalists," Is confirmed by a late dispatch from Ooldfleld. While but little is being said concerning con-cerning the coal mining Industry In Utah, that Industry Is rapidly taking Its place as one of tho most Important Impor-tant wealth producers of tho state. There Is n strong probability that Rawhide will como to the front as n gold producer on a largo scale, and that tho camp may ono day rival Gold-field Gold-field In the matter of bullion production. produc-tion. Tho mines of the Consolidated 'Fuel company at Hiawatha, twenty miles southwest of Price, Utah, nro now pro. daily, and it is planned by the company com-pany to Increnso this output to 2,000 tons a day within n short time. The coal fields in Carbon county, Utnh, are employing thousands of men and the wealth that Is turned out by these properties Is enormous. The Importance from an Industrial standpoint cannot bo overestimated. That .Tarlildgo Is yet entitled to con-Bldcrntion con-Bldcrntion ns a mining camp Is shown by the nuthoritatlve report that at UiIb time ono claim is being held down with guns, while within the Inst few days a gunplay was made over nnother property, although no shot was fired. On Fall creek, about two arid a half nilles from Placervillo, Idaho, tho Mollno Mining company Is operating oper-ating Its dredge. This dredge lias ono of tho best records of any In the basin for successful operation, having run on an averago of eight months each year for Lho past six seasons. Samples of gold-copper ore, running as high ns $75,000 a ton, have been tnken from a strlko made by Gcorgo Buckner In Decker canyon, Wasatch county, Utah, according to apparently trustworthy reports. Tho extent of neither tho main ore body nor tho rich streak Is known at this time. The grading for the now mill of tho Amalgamated Nevada Mining company's com-pany's property at Blackhorso. Nov., Is nlmost completed, and a force of carpenters has been sent to the property prop-erty to construct the various' buildings build-ings that aro needed. Actual construction construc-tion on the mill will bo commenced early in August. Tho government's action In increasing increas-ing tho price of coal lands In the Price, Utah, section has had the effect ef-fect of preventing tho wholesale seizing seiz-ing of tho lands by tho companies already al-ready in tho field, and hns tended to keep out tho small men, who cannot develop tho properties promptly. Tho price was increased from $10 to $f)0 iin.ftcre, up to $200 nnd-$300 an aero. Monazlto is a phosphate of corluhr, lanthanum and other rare mineral earths with a variable percentage ot silica and thorla. In color It ranges from greenish to yellow to brownish and has a specific gravity of f.5, At present tho bulk of tho, world's, supply sup-ply for the preparation ' of thoYltim nitrato used in tho manufacture of gas mantels Is imported from Brazil, but now Idaho is coming to tho front as a producer. ! While It will bo perhaps anothor month before the Tooelo plant qt tho Internntlonnl .Smelting company will bo turning out copper for tho market, tho lighting of flro by Governor Spry on Monday In the first of the live roverboratory furnaces was nn. Important Im-portant event, In that It marks tho bo-ginning bo-ginning of operations by what Is do-jtlned do-jtlned to bo ono of tho world's groat-jst groat-jst custom smelters. An odd Illustration of tho truism that wealth often knocks unheeded nt Dur very door Is afforded by a roinnrk-able roinnrk-able little gold mine near Valdoz, Alaska, which has fairly sot tho town by tho ears with Its phenomenal pro-Juctlon. pro-Juctlon. Right on tho beach of Val-loz Val-loz bay was the quartz outcrop of tho Cliff mlno, a spot walked over for years by prospectors and townspooplo. nd slnco May 1 of this year It has been yielding $1,000 a day, with a Lhreo-stamp mill, and In Juno n pocket was reached that yielded $13,000 In i slxteen-hour mill run. Tho Cliff mine wns found by an eccentric Val-Jezian Val-Jezian called "Rod" Ellis, and was financed locally. Tho equipment cost but $25,000, nnd It was all paid for tho first month. |