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Show AROUND THE 1MB Oinrtfi'iii. at the Pocahontas mine lu i In- 'owfonndhmd district, just s.i-,i:!i ni' New foundland station on I s Sinn 1 i -i-i i 1 'acitii- railroad near the .Nevada line, are most encouraging. The Anierh-nn Mining Congress has started a drive fur membership, and iho voluntary association of those interested in-terested either directly or indirectly in the mining of the precious metals is d?sired. News comes of the sale by Otis Johnson John-son of thirty-five undeveloped mining claims in the Muldoon section, in Idaho, Ida-ho, to the Liberty Mining and Lumber Lum-ber company for 10,000. Two mill silos are included in the transfer. ; I'ireetors of the Eagle & Blue Hell ; Mining company has declared the j twenty-first dividend of 10 cents per : .-hare. This dividend of iS'J,.j14.G0, ! brings the total amount of dividends paid by this company to ?1,3.'1!1,71!). Considerable excitement was created ! in Grand Junction and Delieque, Colo., when it was reported that the Sterling i oil company, a Texas corporation, had encountered an oil sand in its well two : and one-hnlf mile west of DeBecpie i in the Crand valley. i The -National Products company, a j Baltimore organization, has filed ar- j tides of incorporation with the see- i-etary of state at Salt Lake. This : company, which is capitalized at "iiiO.OtXi. is at present drilling a well for oil near Kaysviile, Utah. J Application for permission to lease t 2"GO acres of land situated upon the j Bloomington dome in Washington I county, three miles south of St. fieorge. j Utah, has been filed, the applicants I living proof that sufficient funds for development work were available. j The Churchill Oil, Mines, Leasing and Development company has filed ' articles of incorporation with the couu- j ty clerk at I'rovo. Utah. The company is capitalized at ?l,0O0,O00, divided into ! -diares of a par value of SI each. The j principal place of business is Spring- i ville. 1 Adjustment of the wage advance j with which the company men employed I n Illinois mines are dissatisfied, and which has resulted in strikes of these workers at twenty mines throughout the state, is expected at a meeting of iperators and union officials at Chi- ! i Earnings of American Smelting & Refining company, which recovered i from a net balance equal to only 4 j cents a share on the common in first six months of l!llft to .f'2.12 a share in the last half, continue to show im-! im-! U'ovement, according to the Boston j News Bureau. i AH mines in the Bingham district j have posted a notice to the effect that iin increase of twenty-five cents per j sli i f t will be given mine, mill and smel- i ter employees. This increase, effective j ' n April 3, makes the Bingham wage scale equal to that paid in the other i metal camps of the state. The need of making the vast shale I deposits of Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, j Idaho, Colorado and other states pro- i duclive was never made more nppar- : i-nt than by the summary of statistics j if crude petroleum production for Jan- l nary and February compiled by the ! railed States geological survey. Nevada mining men plan to promote I iho interests of the silver industry. I'apers of incorporation have been iiled, according to advices from Bono, at Carson City by Frank Chester Kingsland of Cohllield and Ilornsilvor ind formerly for many years connected con-nected wilh the New York Sun and 'he AVail Street Journal. Puring (he past three months underground under-ground developments in the Virginia Louise mine at I'ioche, New, have demonstrated dem-onstrated the immensity of the ore todies opened up. and hereafter the management does not anticipate any -erious difficulty in marketing the in-Teased in-Teased tonmiL'o of shipping ore ar-anged ar-anged for with the Salt Lake smelter. After vexatious delays, the new vo-;atili7.aiioir vo-;atili7.aiioir plant of the I'ope-Shenon Mining company, situated at the mine , leaf Salmon, Idaho, is almost ready ! 'or operation. The crushing plant, by i preliminary ruii. was proven to be n perfect condition for operation, and j he smelting phmt will be ready to login work the first of May, it is hou'n. i The United Verde Extension Mining 'ompany has been converting coppor uio cash rapidlv of late, according to he Boston News Bureau. On the first i( the current month it had over ".- I lOil.ooo pounds of unsold metal on ', land and at the close of last week it ' lad sob all but (.000.000 pounds of ; . i I The M idwesr Refilling company is ex- 1 Derimen: ing with a new process of nuking bright stocks from Wyoming 'rude oils and experiments thus far :lve every indication of real success, icconling to the Wyoming Slate Tri-mno. Tri-mno. It is said that the famed crudes j of Pennsylvania cannot produce a bet- ! er oil than is possible to be had from ; he Wyoming oil. An electric power line is being I milt from Carson City to the Nevada j Protective and ltegan-Itoberis proper- J The undivided profits of the En-'b's Copper company, owners of the big copper properties at Englemine. Cab. J taring I'.ilfl. aggregated si lo.T'JT. I The mine production of copper in j Idaho decreased from 7,S-7.."'T4 j pounds, valued at Sl2.lS0.fUN. in 1017, ; to ;..V5:! sss pounds, valued at Sl.tU.".- ! 7n. in U0S. a decrease of nearly 17 , i 't cent in quantity and more than '.' t I ."'r c -e:,; :r alue. |