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Show MINES AND MINING ; ; Miners of the Tuscnror.i, O , field, , . ' rntlie mining district It la said that ,' - V lu.uuo men will be affected. ',' t The 'Pintle Hiandard Mining coin K ' '. pany. operating In Tln'lc district, lias levlc-d nn nsHcHsuienl of one hair a : ;' .' rent a sh ire nml will resume ilcich p- 1 ' c, meiit work. ''. -'' The February copper production . ; . and Impure totaled lu'J.Kiv.zs,' 'J pound. louie"tlc deliveries were , ! i f.lt.r. I s.!:s pounds, deliveries lor ex- J port. 4:i,lll.it9 pounds, making total t' deliveries of over I.'.,UUU,(HHI pounds. ' ' ' ' February progress In driving the f ; Snakii Creek drain liiiiuel nt Park 1- ,' ' lily was not tip lo the standard, for ' ' tho first time In tlie work some very , , - troublesome ground being encounter- ,., '' eel, necessitating timbering the bore. 1 Tho Information conies from nn Inside In-side source that the stripping operations opera-tions nt the Cblno Cnnier proiortj ID New Mexlci are so far ndvuticod Ihiil the steam shovel work Is being eased up a bit, a portion being used on stripping strip-ping only during Ihe daytime. It Is reported thnt operation- will bn resumed nt thn property of the I'tnh Wyoming Consolidated Oil com pany, which owns ground la. the Dig Horns basin, Wyoming. Tbn well to bn finished la now down. 1.435 feet In shale. Home oil and gna huvo been encountered. It la reported that thn Ohio Copper Cop-per company la now. being operated at a profit nf 120,000 a month, with aome n ntlia allowing even belter than that It Is said that Holme still hnlda Ihe control. The company com-pany s floating Indebtedness la placed by aome at ImiO.OOO. President Jnmes P. Graves, In hla annual report on the Commercial mine operated by the lllnghatn Mine) company, which also controla the Kngle and Hlun Hell at Tlntlc, announces an-nounces thnt the earnings fnr 1910 show a net profit of HC.90J, aa against $:,5,7"4 In l"t. The property nmr Salmon City, Idaho, Ida-ho, of the ltna Consolidated Mining and Milling company has been leased by C. II. Huffy and J. Nolan, the leas extending for term of seven yeara. Thn loafers are bound by the contract 10 have a ten ton concentrating plant In shape for operation by September of 1811. Not since Ihe National camp began producing gold ore whose value was based upon pounds Instead of tons bave tho Sagebrush atumpodere had thrill equal to that over the Adamsnn-Turner Adamsnn-Turner discovery of Humboldt county, Nevada. Ore haa been discovered whfefi shows from fW to ft.ntnj got to the ton. The International Smelting and nv flnlng company haa decided Immediately Immedi-ately to erect two lead furnaces at Ita Tooele county plant, tha capacity to be (00 tuna a day. This will require the expendlluro of I'.OO.OOO; It wilt add lno men to the present force, and the new plant will b erected and In commission In four or five months. A preliminary estimated obtained from the genernl superintendent of the Consolidated Mines company at (lolclflclcl. places the February production produc-tion of Hint company's mines at Ull,-117 Ull,-117 li dry tons, all treated In the company' com-pany' mill, the gross value of which waa f914,ouo. Oiieratlng costs were about 1200.000 and net profits approximately approx-imately 1714.000. Nearly 10. Out) claim have been filed for locations In the Han JutiD 011 field, I'tiili. during tho Inst few yeara. Development ho not, however, how-ever, kept pueo with Ihe filing nf tha claims, for alt hough a great ileal of drilling bus been done, most of It bus been unskillful und atringr of tools have been lost III many of Dm drill holes sunk. As a result, although twenty live wells hnvo been drilled, none are yet producing commercially. commercial-ly. The Fantacpiln mining district Id I'tnh Is si Hinted on Ine western slope of the Wasatch. Thu chief 010 deposits depos-its are bud silver, deposited In the limestone. Small bunches of copper were found In tha granite, whuro It bud been cut by a dlko of andeslto. Hold and silver were reported found lu tho granlto ul the fool of the mountain. moun-tain. Owing to tho proposed extension ot the (lllmoro Pittsburg rullroad down tho river from Sulmon, considerable consid-erable tiitnrcst Is being taken In the gold bearing properties In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Indian and Hlg creek, f In Idaho. Thn Old Ken! nek has a record of having produced, through i . amalgamation, ti.',:i,oo, during the ' years from 1KMJ o lhM. Of the sixty-two American mines .' 1 paying dividends t lit., yrnr, forty live ure clusBcd as gold ullv. r li ad ilno producers mil their disbursements tt tnied fi;7i;.o:in, us uguiiist it.sa;.- lai paid by forty three companies ' during thu auuiu porold In l'JIO. Sinc e n , Incorporation tho forty live companies meiiioiiud huvu divined umong hold- r era of their to k a total of l2.'i,U.'.2,- ' r.'j7. 1 ", A number of men wero Inld off last , . week ul tlm Star mine nt Cherry ;' Creek, Nov., where the developinenl work In progress will for somv time bo routined 10 linking the winze from thu 700 level and rulslug to tho surface sur-face to inaku a new working aluifl nearer the ore deposits which clip rapidly rap-idly to the' west . . . TI(it't:,!mJ Pul-l'! roppor mine, .slt liulecl on tho north sldo of tho Colo rado river In the llentley mining district, dis-trict, Mohave county, Arizona, about seventy miles east of Moupa, Nov, was ttrst discovered by an Indian. . . |