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Show MINES AND MINING l!icelleiit eopiM-r prospects are bo Ing opened In the lackey basin seo, 9 I'm of the m Hal district. III southern I tua. V The site for a smeller and cnnra- I - tr.ving mill, to treat the ores of V 4 neighboring camps, has been secured l'- ' at Wlniii'niucca. NevailA. ; 1 "Pnisy" t'lurk. millionaire mining ' ' man of Moiitunii. has undertaken th ( , , rejurcnation of the old t'ortcz dis- .-. j . tnet, in Kureka county, Nev. f ; Iilreclnta of the tlolillleld I'onsoll- V t dated Mines company, at their meet. t' ' Ing held In t'hlcngo, ismied the nun- T. : I lar dividend ul .10 cents a share, i, ' amounting tn f l,fH;:,,tifiii. , .' lt.iilslaii.i. Nevada, I'tah and Wyo if '' mliis produced sulphur In 11"S ' ' '. amounting to ni;0.4H long tons, val- ' tied at Id.t'.i'.K.SIfi. the greater portion l.'-'l of which came from loulslans. Arrangement are being made to ' reorgiinlre the Panhandle Hmeltlng Helming rnmpnny and reaunio op- ( rations at lonaray. Idaho, within sisty days. The capacity of the plant Is to lie doubled. J) 'i he t'tnh l-aalng company, which , , Is operating a lease on the United Htates Mining company's old Tele- t . graph mine In Hlnghum, Is shipping ' ore at the rate of sixteen and eighteen carloads tt month. The first shipment of ore from lb lower workings of th Utile Hell mine at I'ark t'lty la on the wwy to the smelter and th work la In progress which will result In the production of considerable tonnage regularly. There has been a marked change In the mining Industry In the northern north-ern part of Idaho during the past few months. Properties which hav been lying Idle for over a year have taken an an appearance of unusual activity. The second strike hua been made In the Atlanta group. In tlolillleld, In which am hlng like VJiio.uuo had been expended by owners and leaser without result, until a body of pay ore waa encountered a few week ago In one of Ihn leaaea. "You hoar people aay that the Utah tVtpper romittiny la making a big hoi In Ita proiierly at Hlughum, but let me tell you that hardly a speck of Ita tremendous mpiier ore tonnage ha been touched tip to dale," said a prominent prom-inent lllngliam clttien last week. William A. Ksrtsh. well known mining min-ing engineer. Is making a thorough examination ex-amination of tho properly of the Kly IVntrul 'oper company. In the Inter-eat Inter-eat of the campaign of development which Is being Inaugurated. Th company com-pany ha been financed, It la aald, for strong opcratksna. After exposing flv feet of rich . eopper ore. Ih new hnft on tha Koaiis-WiMider property, at Tonopao.. .-I .-I Nevada, has again broken Into free milling gold quarts, th eopper sulphides sul-phides having been entirely displaced by th same character of quarts oa which the shaft waa started. Hhurtage of lead In tha ores avail-able avail-able for th new smelter of the Lodl Mines company, which la operating the fumotia Illinois mines, forty flv miles weal of lining, Nev., has do layd th blowing In of tha rurnaoe, I according u advlcea troth camp. Th plant wa ready for business July 1. A strike has been made In ht property of th Mineral Mountain Mining company In the Canyon ("reek district, about live miles from John Biding, Montana. Assays show It per cent copper, 6 ounces silver and u cents In gold. This Is far ahova ihe llmto uvernge, and I causing no IIIUu fxeltemeni. Tho Uim Hill Consolidated company com-pany of Ophlr received th settlements lest week for a car of ore, the car consisting of three different lota Of a lower grade, there being several thousand tons available, the assuy rot urns were 11.31 sjold and 30 ounce allver. The second lot assayed $1.1H gohl and l'H ounces sliver, while this third was valued al $1)6.74 per ton. Several weeks ago the management of the Utah Mine Coalition ootniiiy of lllg Cottonwood drove the tunnel Into a very goto! allowing of shipping grade ore, and this was otieucd fur six set along tho atrlko of same. A lime horse was then encountered, but ou being penetrated the ore cume In oguin si longer than ever, sud Ih luiinel now is progressing on u full face of shipping grudu. Illiiti Cloud gulch, four Milieu west of Hi. lens, Mont., Is tho scene of an old-fashlout-d gold stamitetle, as the consetiueiice of a strike made by Klak mill Potter, Helena residents. They ctuitetideil Ihut tho eurly iluy placer miners worked a fulso bottom and g.'iiiilno bedrock was never reached, und sunk a shaft twenty-nva feot lower, with Uie reault thut gravel C.' wu iigalii encountered. Mining ex- .' peris decline the strike means 11,000 I. OWI for Ihn discoverers. v ; Wo b urn from a 24-pugo booklet, ro L ' cently prlnled by th Park ulty lleo p V ord for ihu Commercial Club, that Ihu f greatest qiuirlx euuip hi tho west hua f produced more than tliio.uuo.uuu. u.w lV' ; there hasn't been IS tents ixpuudea ,)'", In advertising Its wealth. jUl- ., Itecent development on a group of . claims north of lltd Unite. Nevnd", Pt has exposed a rcmnrkuhlc bodv t I h copper pyrlte ore. A noted engineer f; ' alio came direct from Hun Kranelco I J lo examine It declared It lo b.i U n y, , finest surface showing he hail ever seen. j Discovery of a ledge which la be. lleved to be tint source of the phc gold on Silver cret-k. In northern Nevada, Ne-vada, Is reportvl. The d. tcuvery wa made near the apex of tho mottnt"tn between Silver creek - nd Van Uusua creek. |