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Show MINING NOTES. IH Tho January nlvMsnd of tho Silver BkBJ ICIng bring tho total paid by tht B mine up in 3l.iRT.t00. 'It monthly JBE pay roll I about 117.000. iBVeV Great things are looked for for Ragle RuBB Valley district, Nevada, this yesr, tnd gssffil ono or mora big desls aro predicted for 9Vj9 the camp nt an rarly dsl. vUfisi Grand Junction would like to see a SEsW railroad built to the Gllsonlto beds In tBR I'tsh. which will likely bo extensively VKi worked after the reservation Is thrown RHsI open.' LfWafi Tho lien Harrison, In Heaver I.nko Kt9 district. Is opening up a body of high RsW grado ore tnd tho mine It expected tn UfM Ix-eome a good shipper within a few LyM months. uVjK Utah pumice stone Is coming Into iHEH larger use, and the Chicago company, LaVsC which has control of the deposit near Brsti Leamington, have mado arrangements BB for a larger output. BBB The leso and I oad on v-e Deer Trail BftB group will ba taken up and develop- Bfl rucnt of tho properly be begun on au extensive scslo. Only minor detail BBB remain to lie arranged. BBB A water-power electric plant will ba put Inst tho Camas No. 1, near llallcy, BftB Idaho, In thn early spring. Th plant Bl It already contracted for. Salt Lako BBb parlies owu the mine. BjBJ A largo amount of machinery for tho BBa Galena, at Fish Springs, Is atOaslssnd Bj will ha haulod out by th ore team BBa which arc enrouto from the mine to BBa tho railroad with a shipment BJ Tho Old Fred, adjolnlug the Sun- Bfl shine, has encountered a better class BVJ of ore recently than hu previously BH been found, which If extensive, will BH result In tho building of a mill. BH The Pan American company of Salt BH Lake City Is negotiating for the pur- HB clissa ot two more big gold tailing HB dumps down In Mexico, and If success- HB fill, two mora cyanide plant will b BH HB Ogden parlies hara Incorporated th HJ Farmtngton Mining, Prospecting and HjJ Development company, consolidating HJ a iiuiulier ot claims In Firmlogloit HJ it. nlng district, nnd will begin dersl HJ opmeut work soon. HJ II. A. M. Frolscth, of Sslt Lake, who Bfl Is getting out the first ststo msp of Hb Utah, ha received the proofs of the Hi msp, and It will be out the end of this Hi month. This will bs a raining and Bfl sectional msp. Bfl Mining men assert lhal it Is a wast BJ ot tlmo toproapeetormlnsforgraplilt Bfl lu Utsh, a It abound In larg quant). Bfl ties In tha east, and bring only from 1 to 3 cents a pound Isld down In Nw Bfl York, which I Irs thnti the freight IB would be on this commodity If rained Bfl and shipped from Utah. ByJ Csuails's total mineral production Bfl for the year 1D7 la IW.500.Ooo, an In- M rrrasa of 133 per contlu ten years, tha Bfl ppxluctlon In I8M having been 810, Bfl Ono. Tho Increase of mineral produc- BB lion In tho t'nlted States for tha same Bfl decade was 40 per cent. The annual Bfl production per capita In tho United HJ Stairs Is 9 i against IISO In Cauada. H Tho owners of the Van Dater plaeof B claims, at Tuscarora, Nevada, havo B everything In readiness for beginning Bfl operations a soon tho spring thsws fl will pcrinltot working. The workings Bfl will bo prosecuted with Improved ma- HI chlnery and more systematically than Bfl last year, tad a corresponding Increase BJ Iu the output Is confidently predicted fl for Iho coining season. flj Tests recently mado at the Mercur H mill of oro from Woodland Park, Colo , pfl gura values of (4 per Ion. The oro lj yielded readily to cyanldo IrestmtnL H If reports are criterion, o great futuro H is before that country. A formation H has been traced for several miles which H occasionally breaks out In grcaldyki-s. H Tests have been made uf these dyke H at various times, but with discouraging flfl results. Iteccntly a tuunol wss driven H into ono for 100 feet Tests showed H that It had an avorago value of t$ to H tho ton. Shafts have been sunk toil H feet and In somo Instances values have H Increased to 110 per ton. Tho ore Is """ "H similar In many respects to Mercurarc. H W. V. Ylngst. a member of the first H Utsh parly to go to Klondike, has ar- BJ rived safely and says tho country has H surpassed his expectations ltegard- H Ing tha food supply, he says thero Is a IJ scarcity and scms Buffering will re- IJ suit, but there will 1h no starvation H Not much mining will bo done, not BJ alone on account of tho scarcity of BJ food, but on account of a lack of light Q Candles aro worth II. M) each, and not M of much service anyway. Fully a MJ thlnl of tho gold mined will be lost for lack of light The sun shines only a little mora than three hour a day. jfl Itatables aro 81 a pound, and gold Is jD stacked around Ilka cordwood. ft? Tho report Is current that gold lo t tho value of 813 per ton has been dls covered In n mineral paint mine near Salt I.slio City, and tho gold I casl'y separated. Tha claim upon which tho discovery Is mado Is reported to hnva been Jumped. Dispatches from Orand Fncampment tell of the rush nmnug claim-Jumpers tn 3 thoso desirous of ru-locntlng tin r c lima. An vyo-wituess to tho scotiu says that thero wero a number of exciting ex-citing snow-shoe ran und iiat tho sight wus one long to bo reuieiubcroJ. |