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Show m id no A te3t well has been started In tho Goshen Hole country, near Torrlugton, by tho Centennial Petroleum company. Promise for oil Is considered good, ns tho Prince mine centimes to pro-duco pro-duco carload after enrlood of the black ore each day, until the work of the property seems more like n huge manufacturing plant thou like a mine. Large quantities of ore oru exposed ct the Clleimllen mine, In the Park City district, which with proper milling mill-ing facilities can he handled profitably mid should make this mine u heavy producer. Thu I.tisk-IMgomont Drilling syndicate, syndi-cate, formed ninong tho business- men nf Ltisk, Is moving a national rig onto the west half of section IT-MIO-lt), In tho Mute- Creek district, and will also drill In the Cottonwood section. A black oil well was recently completed com-pleted In the Hale dome, near Ther-tnopolls, Ther-tnopolls, at ii depth of 118." foot. It Is bought to be good for nbout fifty barrels bar-rels a day. The oil Is similar to thnt of the Warm Springs field. The old reliable ore factory known thousand dollars Is the estimated ore reserve In the now famous Tnimpnh Divide mine-In tho Divide district. Three hundred and thirty thousand tons of ore having an nverngo value of $!7.r0 a ton Is held In reserve, according ac-cording to the report Just Issued by the company, and which Is most comprehensive com-prehensive In extent. Mule Creek Is milking n number of strong friends nud thero Is a growing feeling of confidence In the district. A new wagon rood Is being hullt to facilitate the transfer of material between be-tween the district mid Lnncu Creek. Ihe Ohio took In u new rig u few days ngo and Is extendlng'lts operations In the field. A conference was held In New York recently looking to Uin nninti-.minttmi recently mowing to tlie iiinolgiiniotloii of tho .Mason Volley Mines company, the milestone .Milling & .Smelting Co., olid the Nevada-Douglas Consolidated Copper company, with the Intter's sub-sldlary, sub-sldlary, Copper Holt railroad. These comprise the principal big mines, mill, smeller nnd railroad of the Yerlngton or .Mason valley district, Nevada. With about forty men on the pay roll developments- nt the Daly mine In Pork City lire being pushed nhead with some good results, according to Col. n .A. Wall. Some ore Is being token out In the present work nnd considerable new ore Is being opened up. It Is expected tha before long shipments will be resumed at thu property. Uock Creek Is steadily ptrlilng to thu front and giving signs of making tho best of the newer Wyoming fields, uccordlng to tho Wyoming State Tribune. Trib-une. Inasmuch ns It Is practically a one or two-company district, with tho Ohio Oil company largely controlling what has so for developed as the productive pro-ductive nrea, tho public bos token small nodes of Its advance. The gas of Hidden Dome Is to bo pIluM Into llnslii nnd (Ireyhull nud distributed to prlvnto consumers, ns well ns used for fuel nt the (Ireyhull refinery, according to word received from llosln. Tho Ohio company wells In the Hidden Djiiis atructuro-appear good for on almost unlimited supply of gos for ninny years, nud n pipe lino Ih p-ojected by the company to provide pro-vide ii market for It, llelutlvo to conditions at the Zunia Mining & Milling company property nt Tlntle, President P. .1. Fennell. In a statement to stockholders which lias Just been Issued says: "You can seo us per the report of our secretory that we hove expended SlC.HLVili In your properly since commencing operations May 1, 11)10. Previous to that from the organization of the company wo spoilt 'j,-17i;.l l. making n totol ex-pendlture ex-pendlture of ?7MlSI,fiil. Thu (ilenrock fill company Is reported re-ported to he planning u deep drilling In tho Pilot llutte si el Ion, refusing to accept the verdict of shallow drilling. The company geologist thinks he bos (Uncovered thnt the first well of tho .'ompony wok drilled In a sideline mid io have advised that It Is worth going to u deeper sand to be reached nt about IHMK) feet. Ono of the famous producers of tho Tlntle district, the Daglo & lllue Hell, thus far this year bos distributed ?ll,-(157.HO ?ll,-(157.HO In dividends, bringing tho totol omount of dividends paid since February Febru-ary 1, 1013, to $1,'J0.-,7I7.10, or about 11.35 for each of the 8TM,H0 shores Issued out of 11 total of 1,000,000. and leuvlng 100,85i remaining In the treus-Interest treus-Interest In Klrby Creek section of Wyoming, In the vicinity of llosln, bus been revived by tho striking of a strong flow of gns In a (hilling in tho Murphy dome about -00 feet nhovo tho point at which the nil solids were expected. Thu district was abandoned utter n first flash of excitement more than 11 year ago, hut the gus strike has renewed faith in tho district and rigs nro being taken In for u freslt irt-tempt irt-tempt for oil, Tho gas wus encountered encoun-tered nt about 1.T00 feet depth. During the first half of 1010 mining min-ing In Idaho, ns In other western mining min-ing states, wos less active, according to C. N, Gerry of tho United States geological survey, deportment of tho Interior, Conditions In the drift which Is he-Ing he-Ing driven from the Cardiff mine Into tho Kennebec property , ore eneounig-"fiigj" eneounig-"fiigj" according to official Information. Whllo no ore bus been encountered In this drift, which Is following u llmc-quortzlte contact, copper stains ure coining Into the fact and Indications Indica-tions uf mineralization Increasing. |