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Show aianaTM 4 m inaia ai leu lai ni emi n a all lasieiinnauiaoaiiaisiaai iMINHS AND MINING , The ll;.k,r. mine, in the HI i.-k- . hoi -e dlvtiii't ol Nevada. Inn I n T i ' .- ' iir.iias.-d by I In- Amalgamated Ne- "f ' viola lim company for fiO.uui). j y -. The engineers In chaige of the Ma- . son Vn'ley i- Her plans aro now do- I . sliming the um blast furnaces, iho ' " ' plans assuming very satisfactory j ' - , shape. ' ', . - Itiitnois has It thai Hie Interests be i hind the proposed merge.- Ii, Uio 1 .11 1 In '." ,',t Cottonwood or Altn mining district of ', ! , Utah are none other than llaydi n, ,, ' ' 1 Slime at Co . of Huston and New York. The contractors driving the Hnakn ' '. creek ilrninnge and operating tunnel ' Into Iho Park Ctly mountains, report I , that during the past month they have t . . t sent the bore nearly 30 fuet anead. , Khlpmenta of ore are being made to V,' si! ' the Tomlo county custom copper C .'' smelter of the International company ' by the Iron llloesom, the ore b 'lng f " . a very ellliiotis rock In demand for k. . copper ore reduction. X- One of tho most Important plisren of r ' work now b 'lng done by the United t, ! : Stales Smelling, Helming and Mining company la the trying out al Knnnet, , Cn!., of Ihu baghotiso system of filter- v , lug gases In copper ore smelting. A strenuous effort Is being made by a committee of stockhoblera of the National Na-tional P.xplorailnn company, headed by FrBnk P. Knlghl of lloalon, lo redeem (he proposition for eharemitdora from the depths of bankruptcy Into which the concern has been thrown lately. The churn drill operations on the territory In Arlxuna of the Inspiration company are reported to have demonstrated demon-strated the existence of Iho. ore deposit de-posit for 4 Ooii feet In length, or east and west, and for a width of l.StHi feet, plenty of untouched ground yet to he heard from. Kastern cnplliil hue been Interested In the llrlnsun coal mines, 14 miles Irom Idaho Falls, and machinery baa been purchased and Is now en route there, which when Installed will give a capacity of 100 Ions per day. The coal la said lo be of superior quality for rooking purposes. The Old Ham mine. In the Bkoltirn district of Idaho, was discovered and located In HtuZ, by Hani Hans, who was grubstaked by W. J. Turner, Hob Hums and the lloweth brotnors ot Mniinluluhtmic. They bonded tha properly to a Lincoln. Neb., company, which has developed It to Its proscnl atirgo. The mines of the world are now piodticlng at the rate of 1.800,000,000 pounds of copper annually, between five million and all million pounds dully. That thla amount can be ap-prualmalely ap-prualmalely doubled la tbe coming tea yeara la far and away beyond tha , realm of Possibility, says (leorge U Walker, the copper expert. That the management of the Sou lit Utah Mines and Hiueltera corporation expecta to bars the mill up to lta logi cal capacity by the time October panics pani-cs Into history Is Touched for by Superintendent Sup-erintendent K. II. l.undqulsl, who came up from the mine at Newhousa to confer with Samuel Newhtiuse at Hall IJike a few days ago. Henalor W. A. Clark says mere have been mines opened In recent years wboau sponsors claim that they can produce copper cheaper than la Butte. "It la easy to skim cream from milk," he aaya, "but when aoiue of these low-coat producers get deeper they will find that the copper coats them as muck aa It doea the Unite mines. A. F. Holdeu, president of tha United Hlatea Coal and Oil company, has Issued a statement, to tbe stockholders, stock-holders, lo the effect that the Island Creek Coal company baa been organized organ-ized for the purpose of absorbing tha Pulled B'aics Coal and Oil company, which latter organisation haa been one of the active and attractive propositions prop-ositions on the oaatern markets tor some time past. John Hern of Hull Lake City, who was elected president of the American mining congress, la one of the foremost fore-most mining men In the west and bla standing In Ihe mining regions of Utah and the Inteftuoiintatn country In general Is of the very best. He Is president of Ihe Consolidated Mer-cur Mer-cur Mines company of Utah and has been for many years an ardent worker In Ihe councils of the American mining min-ing congress. From figures on the world's coal t supply In u recent llrltlsh publication. L the bureau of manufactures of the department of commerce and labor 1 .i bus compiled statistics showing thai t the Hulled Stales, with IWO.IiW per- f ' sous employed III mining coal lu I 'J' US, $ 1 -, produced I'Jii.r.M.OUO tons of coal uiura '.')' than were piodm ed by VtiO l!ii4 per- ii . - soiih almllutly employed lu the United l''' Kingdom. ' : ' For the month of August It Is tin 'V', ' derstood that Ohio Copper mined its V ' i copper lit u cost of 27 ' cents a ton I ' f and nulled it u cm,! of :ViA cents, (' ... which would Indicate prollis or up- f proximately .:u.uuu un the 4.',,UU0 tons ! of ore trealed, i - The phosphate mines nt lllch conn- t 5 ' ty, I'tuh. are coinmeuiini- tlielr opera- J I j. lions again, after a abort shutdown. y ' thus funirshliig laltor tiir'iiiie a limn f V ber uf iiiiTh1 The phosphate beds of j '' V this section are very large. Tho veins run Irom eight to twenty-two feet In thickness. ; ll Is reported that twenty-six snexs of high-grade picture rock, valued at thousands of dollars, were recently stolen from the Seven Troughs Florence Flor-ence mine In the Seven Troughs district. dis-trict. Tbe theft Is charged to men employed at Ihe mine. |