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Show AROUND THE MINES I'Mfly pounds of high-grade oro moved from u cache on the Sheepherd-op's Sheepherd-op's dream claim lu the I.orlng district of Nevada several days ago was recovered recov-ered Monday lu San Kranelsco by one of thu owners. The I'lanet Oil company, which owns u large acreage In Crescent, Knit valley val-ley and Iilttlu valley near Moab, and which Is backed by Halt Luke and Moab people, will shortly start drill-lug, drill-lug, It Is declared. Since the first of thu month tha Moiitaiia-lllngham Consolidated Mlu-jig Mlu-jig company nt Illngham has marketed fourteen enr of hlgh-grado copper ore. Much of this product Jirought over $1!(XH) u cur and some much higher. Applications by two cumpnnlcs, thu Keunehee Consolidated Mining company com-pany and the Carrie Sllver-I.eiid coin-puny, coin-puny, for the listing of stock on thu Salt Lake stock exchange, were up-proved up-proved last week by thu listing committee. com-mittee. An Inclined shaft tins beuu sunk " feet by thu West Divide Mining com puny, operating lu tho Went Divide district dis-trict of Nevada. The shaft la being sunk In the vein at the center ot thu grout) of four cluluis. owned by tho company. According to John II. Wootton. manager man-ager of the South Turk property lu American Fork canyon, the miners nro sacking ore which will curry from -." to .'10 per cent lead and 'J25 ounces In silver. This Is found lu hunches In a winze from the OaTeuii tunnel. The manager of the Tlntle Umpire Mining company reports that a force uf men are nt work breaking ground preparatory to Installing the gallows frame for the shaft to he sunk, mid-ivny mid-ivny between the I'aymaster shaft and the proposed xhaft of the I.chl Tlntle. A winze Mink from the Illacksmlth tunnel level nt the I'tuh Silver-Lead Mines company property lu Morgan comity, formerly the old Carbonate lllll, has encountered the old ore body from which It Is declared that $.KM).lXK worth of ore was mined In the early days. Directors of the Altu Consolidated Mining company havo decided to levy in iiMMoxstneut of two cents per shure. I'lio funds derived from this assess-j assess-j ment will be used to discharge certain I indebtedness of the company nnd to I lay lu a stock of supplies for operations opera-tions during this winter. i:ighty-threu o)l companies, with un I authorized capitalization of $S.',0lt),-700, $S.',0lt),-700, filed their articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state of Wyoming Wyom-ing during the first five months of this year, lu the same period for 101S, 1IIU companies wero Incorporated, with u capitalization of ?(ll.r0T.MH). Lumber for tin; new mess and bunk hoimes to be erected nt tho Kurcku-Croesus Kurcku-Croesus mines Is expected dally. Furniture Fur-niture nnd fittings purchased for these buildings are beginning to arrive. After Af-ter the completion of these buildings the compaii) will be In position to take euro of u large number of men. On account of unsatisfactory services, serv-ices, the whrlo crew of miners, muckers muck-ers nnd othei help nt tho Cardiff mine wus discharged recently, uccordlng to Information Issued by officials of the company. Humors to the effect that the miner nnd other help laid struck for $0 for eight hours had circulated. Acquisition by the Utah-California Oil rroductM company of four active and producing wells, secured by lease for a period of tent.v-flve yenrs, Is reported by (ieneral Manager W. D. ltawxon, who has Jut returned from un extended stny lit the company's property In Ventura county, Cnllfor-ulu. Cnllfor-ulu. Duiilii' llie past mouth thu people of Murjxvulc, Utah, have been on tip-too tip-too over n sensational strike In the old' Wedge mining claim, some six miles, us tho ''crow filet," southwesterly southwest-erly from Marysvale. Humors of five feet of gold ore, yielding from SoO.000 to $100,000 per ton. nnd up, lire plentiful. Silver hi London on August -7 reached reach-ed thu highest point It has been since 1SII7. the price being (II II-1 pence, which with exchange nt $1.-1, would bo equivalent to $l.i:H-f lu Amerlcnn money. This wus below the Amerlcnn quotation III Now York, which Is now the controlling factor lu the world metal market. T. O. ltrabazon, mining man, Is In town from Sulphur nnd Is telling of an Important silver strike made In the once 'famous ltosebud district by u Mr. Church, who has been prospecting In the camp for some time, says, thu Humboldt Star. The find was mado at tho northern end of thu enmp near thu Dreamland mine. Construction of an experimental plant nt Klko, Nov., for tho extraction of fuel oil from lowgrado shales ot Nevada, Is under construction by the Southern Pacific company, according to u statement mado by Van II. Manning, Man-ning, Washington, director of tho bureau bu-reau of mines. Thu plant would bo iiperated by federal experts, ho said. The outlook for the tungsten industry, indus-try, which Is of consider, olo Importance Impor-tance to mining men of thu west, has brightened with tho fnvornhlo report made recently by the house ways and .uuiiius -ciuiiuiUieft.nn. , tlua. tariff, bill . providing adequate protection. i.nlior conditions In Nevada nppar-enll nppar-enll havu alfected the mining activities activi-ties of thu most Important camps In tho state, A deadlock still exists In thu Kly nnd Tonopiih districts. At PonopaU recently 1200 miners voted solidly nt n mass meeting for u con-lliiuuuco con-lliiuuuco of tho strike. |
