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Show JIIiNES AND MINING The Little Heaver company started ta mill to grinding out gold bullion at Its mine In Ueater county on Monday morning. I The amount of business done on the Salt Lake mining stock cschango during tho month of April was n lit- j tie over ono million dollars, 2,212,'CS aharea of stock changing hands The long task of draining tho On- ' tarlo mlno at Park City la nrarlng tho end, and It It expected that It will be only a short time now until tho men are exploring tho 1.500 level, At tho annual meeting, held lant week at Ilutte, of the llwiton . Mon tana Consolidated Copper & Bllver Mining company stockholders, tho old board ot directors waa again chosen During the month of April tho ore and bullion settlements In the Halt ljko market, as reported by McCor-nick McCor-nick ft Co., amounted to 11.28000, which la about $17,000 moro than the record for March. A $10 token Issued by the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Mining company In IStlt waa Mild at auction In Ixindim last week and purchased for nn American at $2.17E. Thero It only ono other alml-lar alml-lar token extant. Wagons nro now being taken through tho snow right Into tho town ot Attn, according to the latest report re-port from that camp. Thu now la disappearing more rapidly tlils spring than for many aeaaont it. After moro than n jear of difficulties difficul-ties at tho mlno nnd mill of tho Consolidated Con-solidated Mercur company nt Mcr-cur, Mcr-cur, Utah, tho company I now pounding pound-ing nwny to splendid purpose During Dur-ing March tho output of gold bullion was alued at $77,000. Leading authorities assert that tho consumption of copper In this country haa Increased from IB.ooo.OOtl iKiundt per month latt October or November to 30,000,00 pounds. A normal monthly month-ly consumption In pronperout time It from 3C.000.00 to W.000,000. Tho senate committee on mines nnd mining has reported favorably the bill to endow schools of mines on department, of mining In state educational edu-cational Institutions. Tho bill II similar to tho ono reported favorably Ironi tho house mining committee. Orders were placet! last week for n car of lumber and mining timber In the Northwest by tho Seven Troughs Kcllpto Mining company. This la tho aecond atcp taken by thin Bcvcn Trouchs company for beginning the plan of driving a now ahaft to depths. A. series of big discoveries on tho Snow Squall claims, belonging to T. II. Williams and Krnnk Crumpackcr, baa auddenly turned tho attention of tho Soven Troughs district to Victor canyon, between llurnt canyon and Karrcll, at tho north end ot tho district dis-trict , Two feet of $50 oro hat been encountered. B. S. llosenstamm, w,ho la associated associat-ed In business with Adolpli Ijwla-aohn, Ijwla-aohn, says that In his opinion tho tltuo for low priced copper haa gono by. Tho Improvements that nro under un-der contemplation by Iho Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia and other railway systems can not but help Improto tho copper situation, situ-ation, ho sn), A lloston dispatch says tho reasons for tho recent break In Montgomery Hhothono stock It tho fact that development! devel-opment! of tho lat six montliH havo been disappointing and the roporta show that much ot tho oro la below commercial value: that tho mlno'a future will depend largely upon future fu-ture development. The production of coppor for April In tho Ilutto district la estimated In execaa of 2S,000,000 pounds, North Ilutlo'a sharu was 3,700,000 )ouudi, Uiitt Coalition produced from the Itarua mlno ulono 2,400,000 yna-conda'a yna-conda'a production It in excess ot 7,-000,000 7,-000,000 pounds, and lloston & Montana nearly 8,000,000 pounds, Tho nowa cornea from Ilutto that orders havo been Issued to nearly all shift bosses of Amalgamated, and pro. tumably to North Ilutte and Ilutto Coalition, to mlno lets flrst-clasa ore. In tome mines tho minora havo been taken off first class entirely. The piesumptlon la t that tho companies I find they can mnko money under present pres-ent economics on lower grado ore. A well known Utah mining operator, opera-tor, speaking ot tho conlldcnco he has In tho tuturo of Haw hide, Nevada, bays bo hot recently oxpeded $10,000 In cash In tho camp, both In tho acquisition ac-quisition and development ot properties proper-ties within the boundaries of the dla-trlct. dla-trlct. Tho now mining camp ot Hull Valley, Val-ley, In Bouthurn Utah, la thirty-five mllea from Acorua, on tho Ball Lako Itoute, apd about the samo dlstanco . from Ht, Cleorge. Tho oro bodies are I from three to four feet In thickness, and nssnys of $200 gold to tho ton aro not uncommon. Itesulta from tho tlrnt clean-up at tho Celtic mill at llolse are highly satisfactory to tho management. This clean-up waa mado on Monday of last week, nfter 75 tons of oro wero put through. A total of $320 In gold was secured, an avcraga of a little mora than $14 a ton .The latest discovery ot Importance In the Gold Circle district la the nnd In lease No. 20, on tho Oold Crown group, of fourteen Inches of oro which will average $1,200 to tho ton In gold and silver. This leaao promises prom-ises to becomo one of the big snow placet of the Oold Circle district. Another spectacular leasing proposition propo-sition at Goldfleld, the Little Florence, haa reached the end of Itn active life. Tho company waa In operation lets than 300 dayt, yet It hat paid out tho turn ot $130,000 In the shape of dividends, divi-dends, nnd $100,000 la now tied up In the treasury on account of litigation. |