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Show MINKS AND MINING A greater number of dividend payer aro to Ik- found In the mine of Tin tie district than In any other district of tho stale of I'tah A report from Klk City state that n crew or fort) men will be employed nl the lltmler mine during tho winter In uxtenslve development work. There has been found to exist In I'tnli possibly a great n variety of rommerclall) valuable minerals aa la to le found In any like area on the face of the earth A report ha been received of nn Im lortnut strike in the Dluejarket mine on Crooked eirek near tho Bnlmon river In the noulherly end of thu Duf falo Hump camp A tuunel I being driven on ttio vein III the llhuk Warrior mine In (ho lllnck Warrior district of Idaho, ns-itnv ns-itnv of thu ore encountered showing vntues of 5J SJ per ton Klre nt the Consolidated Mcrcur nine at Mercur, I'tnli, Inst week de-(ra)cd de-(ra)cd n number of building; but It Is not believed It will be necewHiry to close down un xut of the work lug. With the Increased output of tho mine of I'tnli lias arisen the need for Increased smelling fnclllllea and every smelter In the Bait Uiko vniley ha either Increased or Is Increasing It capacll), until todn the valley la a very ImiKirlniit smelling center. A moat striking feature of copper mining In thu lllughatn district In the last two or three year la tho compute com-pute success of oiperlmenta mndo In tho treatment b) concentration of tho vacated disseminated ore, In which small iKirtlcle of cupcr sulphide oo-cur oo-cur disseminating through altered ir-I'luri ir-I'luri Utah I putting on tho mnrket over n million and n half ton of coal per )enr This supply come principally from Kovlor. Kmery, Carbon mid (Irnnd eoiinllm, In the oal central IKirl of tho stale Three other coal Held of less lmirtnuco are tho Weber We-ber river, the Hatiwtu and tho Iron county fields Park City, which ha long held thu reputation of being ono of thu lending lend-ing sliver lead rntnpa In Ihla country, hold It own in tho ndvntioement of mining In Utah Thu ouJut for tho past )-ar amounted to upwarda of 1.000 000 tons Tho Bllvcr King, thu Daly-West. DalyJudgo nnd Mttlo Dell uro tho heaviest producers Professor V. V. Fielding, for thirty year chief consulting engineer and exiiert on tho stnff of Ihn Comstock tmvgnatcs, Mackay and Fair, ha been making an esamlnalton of tb CliloaHu-Nevada CliloaHu-Nevada company' properties In thn Dietrich district, eighteen mile out nt Virginia City, and has nothing but words of praise for that district. Tho Utah A llastcrn Coppor company, com-pany, oiorntlnB tho Dlxlo initios bo-low bo-low BL George. Utah, now 1ms It cop per smelter at Blum, n fuw mile from tho mine. In full oierntlon Prom tho treatment of about forty Ion of oro day approximately 7,000 iMiunds, or three nnd n half tons, of copper I being produced every twenty four hour Altn the once famous Utile Cottonwood Cotton-wood camp, has recently come ngaln Into prominence Thn production of lead, silver and gold from the old Km ma nnd hiagstaff prnpertle during tho '70 and early 'to amounted to millions After n wrlod of less activity ac-tivity recent developm-iit In this district dis-trict aru disclosing enormous oro bodies Utah ha Immense dtqioslta of rock gypsum within her border Tho most Important deposit occur In tho central cen-tral nnd southern tortious of tho state, In Juah county, east of N'ephl, In Sanpete San-pete nnd Bnvlcr counties near Ballna, In Mlllnrd county at While mountain, near Fillmore, and In Wnyuo county In south Washington Tho great Sierra Madro mountain north of Ogdcn seem to carr) ,Vt only many of tho raro metals such ns lungatatc, molybdenum and other audi metals, but It ha a ledgu of tho ruro stone, tho garnet, which Is used so extensively us a polisher for tho metal, met-al, and thu supply of which In the United Btatea Is not equal to tho demand de-mand As a result of meeting of the directors di-rectors of the Nevada Consolidated and Cumberland Dly Mining companies compa-nies In Now York, the latter part of last week, It has been agreed that tho Cumberland Kly company will have a half Intereat In the $0,000,000 reduction works to bo built by tho Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated company, nnd the Cumberland Dly company also secure n half ownership In thu Nevada Northern North-ern railroad, which wa built by the Nevada Consolidated company 'Ibis I considered a first step In the ultimata ulti-mata consolidation of these two prop-aril, prop-aril, twill or which are controlled by the Ouggenhelm. At present the main working of the Crackerjack mine, In the lluffulo Hump district of Idaho, are being car-rind car-rind on In oie that saa more than 1100 to the tan. and this 1 being stored ready to lie milled Just H aoon aa the new plant I completed, which will Iw III le than three week Joseph T Janklna, for mauy year mining editor of Uie Salt Uke Tribune Trib-une and for tho paal year editor of the mining department or the lntr-tnountaln lntr-tnountaln Uanublkan. baa ttndertat 111 roalgnnllon In onler to Join for with a big brokerage and promotion llrm In New York. I |