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Show MINES AND MINING I There Is etiough ore In sight In tha mines In tho Seven Dovlls to keep n 1, 000-ton smelter lit constant opera- Tho minors In tho Ycrlngton. Nov., camp hnvo notllled tho operating com-panics com-panics thnt they hnve no Intention ot asking ror a raise In tho wage, sched-ule. sched-ule. They claim to be happy und con tented us they are. It may ho noted thnt moro than DC per cent ot the world's production ot coal Is mined In countries lying-north lying-north of tho equator, the countries south of tlio Hue contributing losa llian i!0,000,ooo tons ntitniaily. The Hickurd Kly, or lCly, Nevada, Is operating a churn drill at a depth ot SCO feet. The slum from the drill hole Indicates a good showing of copper oro In tho bottom. Tho hole will bfl driven to u depth of 1,000 feet. Considerable development work It-being It-being done at this tlmo In tbo Cumoni. and Olympln mines, located southeast of Hurley, fourteen miles from Albion,, Idaho, The compnuy has several car-loads car-loads of ore on the dump thut assays-lir0 assays-lir0 to the ton In gold. Orders hnve been given ror the clos-lug clos-lug down of the Honerino mine tit Stockton, just ns soon as tbo present supply ot coal Is exhausted. A direct-ors' direct-ors' meeting wilt bo held October !!1st, at which a decision will bu reached re-gardlug re-gardlug future operations. On the Kly mining' stock exchange on the L'tith, during a cnll of exactly -seventeen minutes, 11,000 shares ot stock wcro sold ot the nggrcgato value of ):i.00.1.LT. Tho Helling wns brisk and snappy from tho stmt, continuing bo to tho end of tho call. Tho Nutlonnl Development company 1b fathering nn oil company that will undertake tho development ot about 1,600 acres or land in tbo Vlrgen City flold. It Is announced that u first-class drilling rig will bo Innded In tho Held at tbo oarllcst possible moment. Ualakalala copper stock has been under selling pressure all tho way down to $10 from $1C, tho selling orlg-Inntlng orlg-Inntlng largely from Now York. Some of the largest stockholders lmvo let i go, thqugh thu Gttggonhelms claim to have their 7C0,000 shares Intact. More salt was, produced In tho Unit-cd Unit-cd Stntea In 1900 than In any previous year, and I lie value ot tho product was greater than In any year since 1890. ' Tho quantity was :i,944,l:!3 short tons, or 28,172,:;80 barrels, valued at $6,-6S8.350, $6,-6S8.350, a gain or :108,87G tons, or 2,- , 206,588 barrels, over the production In The world's production ot copper in 1902 was G42.29.1 long tons, of which 294,423 tons, or G4.3 per cent, was con-tributed con-tributed by tho United States. Com-pared Com-pared with the previous year tho world's output showed un Increase, notwithstanding lower prices for the metal, ot .11,014 tons, or about G per Coal has been mined nt moro thnn a dozen places along tho Yukon, and at so mo of these places tho mining has been prolltablo; but no oxtenslvu -development of tho coal flcldB In tho 'M Interior bus been undertaken nnd no work wns blng done on tho coal claims ot this region during tho past cummer. It Is stated that on tho 100-foot level ot tho Old Peacock mine In the, Sovon Dovlls district in Idnho, tho oro body ' has widened out until there la now more than million dollars In sight. Tho oro Is more than 1C0 feet wldo and will nverago eight por cent cop-per, cop-per, In addition to the gold und silver values It carries. What Is considered an Important phase In tho copper situation Is the fuct thnt China Is again in tho mar-ket mar-ket for a largo volumo ot copper, de-liveries de-liveries to extend over tho next twelvo mouths. Already European ugents for tho Mandarins back of tho currency buying movement havo secured somo hundreds of tons for shipment to Shanghnl. After a full invostlgntiou of mlno conditions nnd nttcr going ovor tho ground nt thu mine, nnd, finally, after having completed exhaustive tests on thu ores, Engineer Ernest Oayford. of the General Engineering company hns given his stamp of approval to tho methods employed nt the Jennie Cold Mining company's properties In tho treatment ot tho mine's product. A Geneva nowspaper states thnt Professor Joly litis completed u geo-logical geo-logical examination, ot tho specimens of tho strata collected In the borings jH for tbo Blmplon tunnel. He found rich traces of radium, Indicating larger deposits than nny hitherto dls- JHr: covered In Europe. Ho believes that Mf tho presence of thoso deposits caused Mt the abnormal heat experienced In. Swti building tho tunnel. $tA Moro thnn 50 per cent of tho total production or coal In tho United Wm Stntea from 1814 to tho closo of 1900, Wfi or 11,540,000,000 tons, was mined In t Poimsylviinin. Tho nnthraclto produc- I&& Hon In that state amounted to 1,854.- Iffis 900,009 tons, nnd the bituminous out- $ty put wus 1,(190.920,082 tons. UtlnolR t4 ranks second, with n total production sfyjr of 0UI.051.1C;! tons, and Ohio third, jafcr, with 4GO,C20,U3D tons. iffi A strike, which affects only thu Daly kfiit West, Ontnrlo and Daly Mining com- Wil,. Iianlea ot Pnrk City, was declared last nu week, :i00 minors going out, , Tlio 'Jjr cnuso ot tho strike, us stutod by thu H Miners' union olllcluls, Is unjust iHb- gfJS crlmluatlon against tho members of flu tho union, flH Tho promise for n billllant future H for tho Nevada Wonder, ot Wonder. Bfl Novnda, Is Increased by tho ivcont showings on the adjoining Hidden Treauure, where, nt a depth of I'M feet, a 40-foot ledge carrying values all the way ucross bus recently been uncovered. |