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Show i AROUND THE MIKES j l Interest Hi- mining men in southern Nevada is quite closely centered upon borax, gypsum ami fuller's earth, according ac-cording to latest reports fnun that section. All recent development ai the Doughboy mine near M.-u-kay indicates lliat the (leposil being opened up in this property will probably prnve to lie one of ibe largest ever exploited in central Idaho. .lilies V. I'.iirnil. president of the Consolidated Spanish Belt Silver Mining Min-ing company, arrived in Tonopnh recently re-cently for the purpose of inspecting the latest developments tit the mine and arranging for the construction of the new mill. The winze being sunk on the fifth level of the Virginia Louise mine at l'ioche, Nevada, litis now reached a depth of Ihirty-tive feet below the level, with no sign of going through the ore or any diminution of the values val-ues contained. Announcement by the board of directors di-rectors of the American Smelting & Refining company, that it was proposed pro-posed to recommend an investigation of the affairs of tiie company by former for-mer President Taft, has caused considerable con-siderable interest in financial circles. With earnings a Tier reserves of but $OS,000 for January and February, passing of the United' States Smelling common dividend requires no extended extend-ed explanation, says the Boston News Bureau. The preferred dividend alone for a single quarter calls for $420,000. Driving a crosscut tunnel has been started in the Sunshine Silver Mining company's property. The property of this company, situated in the Clark Mountain district, near Cima, Cal., up ,to the time Ibe tunnel was started, had been developed by the sinking of a shaft. The arrival in camp of New York capitalists lots greatly increased the excitement in Silverhorn, Nevada. These parties have acquired valuable additional interests in the district, and while no statements have as yet been made, it is apparent that the recent developments have made a deep impression. im-pression. Since drilling was resumed at the test well of the Big Six Oil company, at Moab. Utah, last week, the bit is penetrating at the rate of four to five feet each day. The well is now down 1020 feet. The stratum now being be-ing bored is salmon colored shale and Is far harder than the Katbab limestone lime-stone overlying the shale. While the mining of ore has been suspended by Anaconda, the smeller at Anaconda. Mont., will operate about a week longer and the refinery at Great Fulls, Mont., will run for about a month. Wire workers at Great Falls will be able to continue working for about three months with orders on hand and possibly longer. When the annual meeting of the American Smelting & Refining company com-pany opened at Jersey City, N. J., April 0, for the election of a new hoard of directors, such a large crowd of stockholders appeared ' that the regular meeting place was too small to accommodate them, and adjournment adjourn-ment was taken to St. Peter's hall. The San Juan basin, in northwestern northwest-ern New Mexico and the adjacent part of Colorado, contains a large amount of coal of good quality. At several places where shipping facilities facili-ties are available, such as Durango, Colo., anil Gallup, N. M.. this coal has been mined for many years, and the number and thickness of the beds are well known. The Pitlman act will not be repealed, re-pealed, is the gist of the message brought by Senator Key I'ittman on his return from Washington to Nevada. Ne-vada. Since arriving 'home the senator sen-ator had been besieged by mining men who inquired for the cause of the anti-silver propaganda recently started start-ed in some of the leading magazines and financial journals. Thirty applications for permits to prospect for oil on government land in Grand county, Utah, near Westwater, were filed April 0 in the Salt Lake land office by residents of Ogden anil Spanish Fork. The land involved is some distance from other prospective oil sections of the southern part of the state and the applications came as a surprise to the land office officials. Good headway is being made with the raise which is being driven out at the Tintic Drain Tunnel properly. This raise, being driven near the face of the tunnel, is now up it distance of fiiM) feet, all of this work having been performed per-formed since the first of the year with hut one shift. Indications that tin1 five years of steady development work carried on at a great expense by the Silver King ( 'on-solitlated 'on-solitlated Mining company in driving the Spiro tunnel a distance of nearly three miles will be justified, have just been encountered. Rich ore. assaying in value over Spin per ton. has been struck in an uprise from the Spiro tunnel. The committee organized to investigate investi-gate tiie affairs of the American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining company means business. busi-ness. It will at once seek to determine the validity of charges of mismanagement mismanage-ment made by former Vice President and Director Karl Filers. Throe of the Tintic mines, the K.'igle & Blue Bel, tiie Victoria and the Tintic Tin-tic Standard which have been shipping quite heavily to the American Smelting and Refining company's plant at Garfield, Gar-field, have been affected by the closing of that smelter, and will reduce their forces. |