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Show MINING NOTES. ! H In thii mines of Ilutto, 0,513 men are ' M now employed. Tho Confidence mlno, nt Reaver, U M reported sold at a good figure. fl Tho cyanide plant near Sliver City, M Nov., has suspended operations for the Kncournglng reports continue to , iH come from tho Stateltno district.' Tho , 3 latest strlko reported Is In tho Cond- ! jH dence mine. (', M Tho machinery for tho Sea Swan mine, near Stiver City, Is on the ground and tho lumber Is being hauled for tho , M hoist building. On tho mining exchange Wednesday. M 60,000 shares of stock sold for 810,510.- H 87, or an average of a little more than ' M SO cents a share M About thirty freight outfits left tho ' jH Dyermlno, near Vernal, tho latter part H of tho week, with oro that will be I H shipped to Chicago. H Tho project of building a smolter to M work tho low grado galena ores of M Humboldt county, Nevada, is bolng M seriously considered. M The old year passed out with lead M quoted at 83.70 per hundred pounds, H just 20 cents In excess ot tho flguro ' H at which It closed a year ago. H Tho Ontario, at Park City, Is now H working about fifty men. There wero . H no less than 330 working when tho ' H order to closo down was posted. H The Roso Valloy llorax company ln- H corporatcd a few days ago. Tho borax H mlno and works aro In Harvey county, H Oregon, but tho headquarters aro In H Reno. 1 H Representatives of an eastern syndl- I H cato are examining tho great iron ' H mountain In the vicinity of Iron City, H In the Pinto iron district, with a view H to Investing. H Tuscarora, with her steady develop- ( H ment, promises to astonish some ot tho H boom towns next summer. Mora H promising developments are being H made In that vicinity than In any other H portion of tho state of Nevada. y H A well known bank president of Salt f H Lako City, looking up tho record of J H 18.08, declares that In revlewlng.lt ho 1 H had been astonished to And that from I ,H Iloston alone there had passed through j H his house over 880,000 In payment for iissH Utah mining stock.' r H Colonel T. II. Lovo and II. R. Van "I'pB Meter, prominent mining men of Col- Bl orado Springs, recently paid a visit to fsfl Lovelock, Nov., to look Into tho merit HH of that district. They represent a 'H strong syndicate of New York and H Colorado capitalists. H An exhaustive examination has fust H bcon completed of tho copper prospects H that have been drawing tho attention H of mining men to Miner's Mountain, H eighty-five miles southeast of Richfield. H A series of assays mado from samples H from prospoets show an averago ot H 10 per cent copper. H Park City people nro rojotclng over "" -".-" H the news that tho Daly-West will H probably resume work by March 1. H That Its oro bodies, that arc among the H largest ever developed In the west, will H greatly inrcase tho output ot the camp, H and the bullion product of the stato H this year Is assured, H Tho Century company, In Parle val- H ley, llox Kldcr county, promises to H make a record during tho present H year as a dividend-payer, ns Its prop- H crty is showing up In splendid shape, "H with fine bodies of high-grade milling H oro blocked out and lu sight, while the H affairs of the association are now In a H prosperous nnd satisfactory condition. H The action which was commenced by H W. A. Clark, now owner of the Ophlr H 11111, to recover from Allen O. Camp- H bell, former owner, the amount of a H dividend distributed, while the stock H was In escrow, Is raising a nleo ques- H tlon on which tho lawyers differ, and H the result of the suit will bo awaited M with a great deal ot Interest, H Characteristic of 1808 In electrical K progress Is the successful transmission H of long-dlstanco high voltage. A Utah H company tor mining purposes trans- H mlts 40,000 volts thirty-five miles; a H southern California company Is about H ready to transmit high voltago eloctrla WM power eighty miles. Five or six years H ago the transmission of 10,000 volts H thirty miles was considered the pos- CJH slble limit. VM George W. Odell, ono ot tho old- H timers of Ilutto, has just completed a H dredge costing about 80,000 which he jH will placo In operation on his placer rH claims on the Grand river, In southern s iB Utah, early In the sprlug. The dredgo KH will havo a capacity of about 300 or 400 H yards of dirt per day, and If as success- JM ful as Its promoters bollevo It will be. Vl a larger one will bo constructed next iH year. Mr. Odell Is confident that ho will mako some money during tho sea- j(sH Excellent progress has bcon mado H during tho tall and winter In th,s do- H velopment ot tho King Solomon mine, ' H In the mountains a few miles north of H Ogdcn, and sevoral lurge bodies of good H smelting oro havo been uncovered In . H this property, some of the mineral , H carrying values ot B0 per cent lead, ! thirty to forty ounces silver and 81 to ill 83 lu gold to the ton, while some of Vl tho oro is gold bearing and will leach , H very well, besides which, in one por- H tlon of tbe property, encouraging cop- :H per values have beeu disclosed, ! H |