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Show MINES AND MINING The prlre of lead took a climb last week and was up to $1 12'j Twelve cars of ore were shipped Irom I'locho during the ,ast week During the )ear lu7 the mines of Utah distributed dividends totaling In tlie nelghliorhoeid of 18 000 000 In spite of the slump In tin' prlco of lead Inst fall the net profits of tho llvo big mines In the Cocur dAlcncs amounted In 1D07 to 15,119 810 According to what seenm perfectly reliable Information, tin! output of tho llullfrog, Nevada, district for tho month of April was above 1150 000 Tho Sen en 1 roughs-Kindergarten compan'a new llttv ton milling plant I practically completed, and It Is announced an-nounced will be In good working order or-der before the close of the present week Tho mining camp of Phonollte. In Nevndi which Is receiving much attention at-tention these da) a as n result of tho recent discover) of rl-h ores In tho Paymaster mine. Is lennted about ten miles from Inll Some of tho richest ore In tho his tory of Novnda. n state known fifr Its rich mines, has recentl) been encountered en-countered In the Pa master mine nt Phonollte, Nevada Home of the oro In this property carries over 56U0U In gold to tho ton Tho decree of tho United Mate court In the smelter smoke suits seems to be tntlrol) satisfactory to tho Silt I.uko valley smelters Hereafter Here-after tho smelters will bo given n chanco to make settlement before tho farmers enn bring salt In a report submitted by Vlco l'rm Ident Harbour to the Ilalakalal i company, com-pany, It Is estimated thnt It will cost In tho neighborhood of $10 000 to complito tho work on tho smelting plant, but It will take two or thno months before It Is completed. Ore Is being socked for shipment from tho Initial strlko In tho Hull valley val-ley district of southern Utah that Is expected to startlo tho natives when It Is thrown upon tho market Homo of the most optimistic contend thnt this ore will assay 115.000 to tho ton Tho reports of two Cocur d'Alino mines for 1907 the Kedernl Mining & Smelting comptny and tiro llunkci Hill and Sullivan show n decrenso In net profits This decrensc was caused by tho heavy slump In lead and tho subsequent curtailment of production Tho Oraselll Chemical company's new line mill nt Park City Is doing splendid work on tho rlnc middling product from the Daly Judge com pany's mill, nnd Is meeting every expectation. ex-pectation. Tho plant has a capacity of 100 tons a day, there being plenty of material on hand for constant work. The biggest strike In (loldflold within tho past jear was mado on May 4, when at a dopth of 600 reel In tho mnln workings of tho Mohawk mlno of tho Consolidated Mines com pany, thirteen feet of oro running straight across, worth $G! a ton, and with nd hanging wall In sight, wni uncovered A dispatch received In Hcno from Kawhldc, Nevada, announces that tho richest strlko In tire world's history has been mado In tho Kcarns No 3 lease on tho Hawhldo queen, at a depth of 117 feet In u crosscut The oro Is said to bo more than half gold, nothing llko It over having been seen In Nevada It la reported that Hobert Iloll, stato mlno Inspector for Idano, In tends to retire from that position at tho closo of his present term of oirtco Tho DnKlnecrlng and Mining Journal gives Mr Hill n good deal of deserved de-served pralso In a recent Issue, and expresses tho hnpo thnt bo will con tlnuo In tho work. While tho camp of Hosebud, Na vada, Is not making much of n stir In tho mining world thceo dajs tho news comes from that camp that de-velopmint de-velopmint work Is being vigorously prosecuted on a number of tho properties, prop-erties, nnd that some sensational discoveries arc likely to bo an-nmimce! an-nmimce! most nny day It Is announced thnt P C Hagan, operating a lento on tho Mnzumn Hills Mining conipanv's ground nt Mamma, Nevada lost week dls chroged one entlro shift for high grading It Is ostlmnted that 1,000 potiads of oro averaging $30 per pound was stolen before dlsoovery was made of tho operations In 1007 there wero twent) four mln Ing compnnlea In Utah that regularly raid dividends to the stockholders Owing to n serlos of setbneks to which tho Industry has been subjected subject-ed tho mines will not pnj nearly o well this joar ns last, hut thoy aro Just as rich aa ever nnd tlmo will remedy present conditions A Iloston dispatch announces that there Is no longer an question that tho American Smelting nnd the American Hmeltera Securities com panics will not nnew their selling contract with tho United Metals com puny at the end of this month, nnd that tho entlro output will bo Handled by the American Smelters Hicurlt,loB company The Engineering and Mining Journal Jour-nal gravely announces that at tho present time there Is nn apparent tendency on tho part of miners who went to Nevada on tho outbreak of tho excitement at Tonopah and later, to return to California In search of mines Tho report for tho month of Vprll of T H Miller, In cnargo of tho Unit rd Btatcs assay nDlco at Hclcnn, shows an Increase In Montana receipts re-ceipts of $42,000 over tho correspond Ing month of Inst year Tho receipts for tho two years aro $130,075 and $88,259, rcspectlvcl" |