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Show MINKS AND Ml N INK Th past wi-ek s shipments of high Kiiuli ore from OohlDild aggrefstcil IT! tins rin (lolilen flunbentn company, op i mm r In the Custer Idaho section tin' piinliai'id a compressor, which lll In installed at onre Ihrx of Tlntlrs big mines posted lithluids last week, tbe Colorado and t i Hi rk tunnel paying to the stock hoidirit ilnnon encb. while tbe (Irand I ntral dlstrllnileil (to 000 (urge Wtngneld of MoldDeld, has rmltid a telegram train bis foremen fore-men at Ihc Three-Queens mine. Call-fiinli Call-fiinli salng that n single shot had It .m do n o 000 worth of ore V siatt mint of the prottls tit the Id niilra mine for 1906 has hecjn filed Willi the county assessor, showing tin proni to have been (787,531 19 as compared with (170,148 90 for 190G. The dlaiiitery of Important phosphate phos-phate deposits urer a cuneldenibl area In Miutheasleru Mnlm, couth-western couth-western Wyoming, and northeastern Utah has opened up a new Industry In the west A eanass of the leading copper producers pro-ducers reveals the fact Hint the demand de-mand Is running ahead of the tlsllile suppl) and that they are stronger In their belief Hint there nil! be no price concessions In the French dutch section ot Montntin, where the gold was (Irs I dlscoured and washed out In thai state, oxtenslve placer operntlons arc still In progress, and Is paying big money to the otwrntors A prominent California!!, who lifts drilled oil wells In lle states, declares de-clares tho Virgin Itlwr oil region tc ioses the greatest oil Indication he eer witnessed In any field from Cflll fornla to West Ylrglnln Uood reports ore still coming In from the Hnn IIIMn lixtenslon mine in tbe Io district, Netadu The dt rectors of the company met here a day or so ago and raised the price ot tivasury stock to 10 cents A good copiier mlno In the Lisbon allo), San Juan county, Utah, 1 to begin shipping nt once Up lo tho present time not a jxniml of orn has I een shipped, tho nmouut extracted (nbout 1,000 tons) being piled on the dump In well Informed copper circles It Is generally conceded that Amalgamate ed copper will tarn 138,000,000 this ytar on Its product of 2,000,000 pounds of copper on tho basis ot 2( cents metal, which would be a trlflo oor 18 per cent on the stock Thu California correspondent ot n Iloston financial agency wire that tho Ilatakata company now has 3S0 men at ork there, 175 on smeller construction construc-tion and 1C0 at tho mine Work at both places has been retarded owing to wiathir conditions Owing to Inability to arrive at a satisfactory sat-isfactory and an amicable settlement if tho wago controversy between the itrlkirs and tho conipnn), thn Amorl "an Smelling aud Iteflnlng company lias announced that tho plant at Murray Mur-ray will bo closed down Indefinitely Tho Hunker Hill & Sullhnn .Mining . Concentrating company, operating a silver-lead mine at Wardner, Idaho, has declared a dividend, No 11C, amoutlug to $180,000 This Is the com pany's regular mnnlhl) dividend and brings thu total amount of dividends paid since January 1 lo 1900,000, and the (otal to date, 8,7CC,000 A wonderful sir Ike has been mado In Willow Creek mine about Iho miles southwest of (Irtenwater Tho llrst discovery of Importance was In the Ilaltlc Tho shnrt had hi en sunk but eighteen feet when the miners penetrated pene-trated the Iron capping nml encountered encoun-tered n rich copper sulphldo running high In both gold and illtor Halt n (Won veins' nP copper ore, running from throe f.wt In width to nine fixtt wide have been uncovered 3ii a copper proposition In Mexico recent!) re-cent!) acquired by Nevada capitalists Average samples from those veins run Jl 02 per cent copiier. while picked samples nm trom 70 to S: per cent copper, with good vulues In gold The Toiiopah Mining company ot Nevada reports eratloua for thu )eai ended IVbnmr) 20. ns follows .' Total production, ll.GI'J.S'JS Ntt tiarnlngs, II 107.719 Total net, (1.186,830 Ve. duct for exploration, ulo, (11,923 Net Income $1,173,606 Add prollts, safe Tonopah & Ooldllidd railroad bonds, (J3.S60 Surplus for year, (1,1107,410 A thousand feet beneath the surface of the ground at Detroit. Mich , Is a oil I bud of salt four hundred feet thick Iho tapping of this great body of salt Is ono of Dotrnll's, compara ttvtly new Industries, but It Is now emplo)lng thousands of men who depend de-pend for their dally loll and dally wagos on Ibe manipulating of this salt A City of Mexico siclal saya that the United States Smelting company ha purchased the San I'edro and dlher mines In the state of Chihuahua from the Naira Mining company, for (C60OUOII gold llostim officials deny any Intention of purchasing the prop, erty Tbe Isrgest aud heaviest easting tver made In Utah was poured at tbe works of the Salt Lake Hnginserlng works last week. It consisted of a new flywheel for the wrecked 17S horsi power Corliss engine at the Hon erlne company s concentrating mjll at Stockton |