Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-18

In the Odin mine at Park City,
Utah, four-fsot vein has been en-
countered that goes IS per cent cop
per.
Ex-senator w. A. Clark of Mon
tana is examining some coal prop
critics in Colorado with view to
purchase.
Seven big producing mines of the
Coeut d'Alenes since January 1,
1907, have paid in dividends total
of 81, 597, 500.
Up to this time no camp in Ne
vada outside of Goldfield, with the
exception of Tonopah, has been
affected by the local labor war.
The mill at the Dewey mine in
Thunder mountain, Idaho, 10 to be
started at once and kept in opera
ton all summer. II will furnish
employment to forty-five men.
The National Copper bank of
New York expects to open business
May 1, with deposits of about $40, :
100000. Elaborate offices are now
being fitted up in the Trinity build
ing, II Broadway.
"A few years ago you could not
pull money into Nevada with a six
ten-horse team, but today you cen
not keep capital out with gatiing
gum" is the way prominent min
ing man expresses 1t.
A spoonful of ore taken from the
recent strike in the Ramsey Com
stock melted over a forge yields
buttons Of gold and copper that can
be hammered out on an anvil, bored
and worn as a watch charm.
Dividends of copper companies
for the first quarter this year are
record breaking, the total for
twenty-five concerns, have, since
their Incorporation, paid in divi-
dcnds the vast total of $34o, 73o, :
1873.
The town of Rosebud is enjoying
one of those characteristic Nevada
TOWNSHIP booms. An inside lot
that sold the first Of the year for
$50 now has passed hands at ST.
500, and so on down the line.
During the month of March be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 tons of
ore were treated at the milling
plant of the Newhouse Mines &
Shelters company, while $50 tons
of first class ore was sent direct to
the smeltcrs.
News has been received of ar
important gold strike in the Colder
Crest mine at Murray, Ida. Muir
ray is one of the pioneer camps Of
the Occur d'Alcncs and lies about
twelve miles north of Wallace, the
principal town of that district.
All men have been withdraw
from the underground workings II
the Homestake mine, at Lead, S
D., in consequence of the presencs
of carbon dioxide gas, caused b,
the fire which has been burning il
the mine for the past two weeks.
While it is not known just how
extensively the Standard Oil com
pany has invested its millions il
the gold fields of Nevada, that thi
great corporation has made severa
purchases and that considerable
money is now being spent in explo
ration work is an open secret al
through Nevada and Utah.
After weeks of preparation, tn
Ely mining and stock exchange
opened its doors on April 1. Tn
pit was fairly well crowded witt
members of the exchange and con
siderable business was transacted
Only local stocks were traded in
but negotiations are on foot to pos
Goldfield stock on this change.
Rosebud will not have troubl
over the wage scale for miners
Notwithstanding a few unreliabl
reports which have been sent out
the effect that the miners of thi
camp had made demands which tn
operators would not agree to, ther
is entire harmony between the OF
orators and the miners.
The annual report of the Uta
Consolidated Mining company f.
the year ended December 81, 1901
shows net profits for the year
2,S35,O O9, against 81, 1877, 3e5