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Show I "JMN KS AND MIN!NG The Copper Apex Is the latest of tho Clt) I'ark properties to be added to the list of shipper The geological survey reports the copper tintnnt of Idaho for I W0. t tj.m.oilt pounds, nhout equal to the output nf Alaska. I The Indeiiendence mine. near Kelchnm. Idaho, have Ihh-ii gathered In h) eastern capitalists who imnnlso to put It on a paying basis. A seat on the Salt !akc mining atock exchange sold last week for J,-100. J,-100. Two )er ago aenle could be nought for from tW to I7t Secretary Jamea Wilson of the department de-partment nf agriculture and a party of federal officials saw the smelter of the Washoe- company In Anaconda last week The) will visit ferest reserves re-serves and Irrigation project In Montana. Mon-tana. Work on the Iowa Cnpier company' proiHTty at I'aili Clt) I again In full swing and good progress la luting nade. Shipping ore I being tnkeji ml right along and stored for n shipment ship-ment which will lie made In the near 'unite John W Smith, who brought the flint hd of freight mcr hauled from Kellnn til llalley. Idaho, has returned in llalby after ait absence of It vear. dnrlng hlch time be boa lieen In maNV different mining camps. nl as far north as Alaska. The sine Industry of Utah la un the Increase. The new mitts of the metal In limner county, long one of the principal source of this metal In the stale. hae sd letl greatly In the avnll-,ible avnll-,ible tonuugi . the only drawback being be-ing lack of proper smelting facilities. The United Metal Selling compnny Is reported to hnve sold several million, pounds of rleitiidytlc copper l 21 cents, pari nf whlih Is for export. It Is rlalmed Hist there will be no rhnugfl from n IS rent n inimd rnlo for elec trnlyllc within the next three months. The Cnndenough mine. In Hear Creel., In Idaho, slmn the 1st of June has bad a nve-atamp milt running steadily on a very high grade id nre The mill Is boated about a quarter of a mllo Irom the mine and at present pres-ent has tn lw handled wllh Mck animal, ani-mal, requiring 28 hoiee to do the wotk At present the Itamsey ComstiHk mine at ltnimcy, Nevada, Is more In the limelight than any other property, because of the very rich strike oil thu thltd level, where Hit urn shoot on the hanging wall side Is uncovered that Is predating specimen ore, enutiiliilng rlih sulphide, together wllh free gold and telturldv. Fire which Iihk been smouldering In the depth of the Minnie llealy mine nt Unite tilled the working of tho West Colusa 'mine, one of the tdg copper propertlea of thu Amalgamated Copper eotnpun), wllh gas tn the extent ex-tent that It became daugirone to cr-rull cr-rull miner tu work Operations were susiiended teruiorni!ly. The firm nf J. I'. Morgan & Co Is now heavily Interested In Amirlcsu HineltliiK A close nmllntluu between the Morgans and the (luggi uhelms b existed for some time In the Alasks Milling and Itullrcxul Development com puny, hut this I tho first time the Morgnn (Inn has lieriime Intcri'slrd In the Amerlinu stuellels There Is n rush nil for the llevellle district, In Ncwolii Aiitiuuobllu and rigs were on the gn all the dny long and the tush has liiirdl) starteil. The location of the strike I given as IK teen tulles In the oust of the old He relllo mill, nnd the highest assa)s l tallied from tho rock recently dlscoi ered, goes from ll.tUU tn 2,U0u. Home Imturtaiit deielopments liau been made In thu Carrie Leonard mint In the Kelt hum dlitrtit, nf Iduhn A vein 31 feet, Ihtrl, has been in countered There Is a streak all it way along this new strike fioui H inches In two feet thlik that rims Iron 272 tn &8S ouiicus to (he Ion In sllti and from li to 21 ht cent lend A dispatch from Hiindpolut. Idam say (leorgo Huaton has tiled uu ai lachmcut ngulust the I'unliiiiiille Hun ' lug lompntiy of l'ouderay for IDI om He fiis this amount Is duo him f money ndwinreil tindei Rgreenn to while ho was president of the com puny The proierly I molted Is tow pons! of too inns nf land with flu' mining claims. The lloslon Consolidated has Issih n tomplele report to stiHkholdcrs, git Ing details as to property, tiro rcscrvi and values ami pro;icctlti! prollt-l'resldent prollt-l'resldent New house gites the actual lonnagti of sulphide ore blocked out is 741,740 ton, with an average assay value of 2 8 per cent copper, while vs tlmated tonungu not dvclncd aggri. gate 3&,U00 tons additional. In the preliminary statement Just received from the United HtaUs gto logical survey giving thu production of speller for the past enr. t'tuh stands well up In tho list .Missouri is first with a production of UO.UIH Ions; Colorado Is second wllh an out put of .12,1(0 tons; New Jersey Is third wllh 11,200 ton to lis credit. Wlscnn sin comes fourth wllh 11,057 totii Kansas Is fifth with 3,902 tons, an I Utah is sixth wllh 2,119 tons A deal Is pending for thu sale of t ' Croesus mine at llalley, Idaho foi about half a million dollars It I Ing negotiated by John Condon who holds a bond on the proiwrty Tin deal has been delayed by accldim but It Is likely to bu closed III a f w day. leading copper producers say thai large consumer cannot continue to ib buslnos without coming Into t'n metal mnrkit. They say that 22cmt copper Is aafu until September and they fear a buyers' statnpedo, as Ins consumers aro booked with ordeit, for six months ahead I |