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Show MINES AND MINING The Mohawk mine, at Goldflold, Nevada, Ne-vada, has produced olght millions of dollars worth of oro slnco April. Manhattan, Nevada, closoly resembles re-sembles tho enmp of Hullfrog In that it is a great milling proposition. H. P. Mnddcn has bonded for $10,000 the group of sevon mining clalme owned by Morris Roberts nnd Anthony An-thony Jurlch nt Ely, Novnda. I An authority on mlnos, who is fam- I lllar with tho Sonora field, says that I the output of copper In Sonora, Mexl- I co, for 190C, amounted to 179,000,000 I pounds. Tbo big Grcenwator morgor, that . has been talked of for somo timo, hot. v ' been consummated. Tho now company com-pany will havo n capitalization of $25,-000,000, $25,-000,000, -vith 5,000,000 shares. j It Is Btntcd that In tho Keane j Wonder company's mlno in Death Val- j ley, $050,000 worth of oro has already beon blocked out, und tho frco milling will average better than $18. It Is now n certainty that a. combination combin-ation of Interests In tho Manhattan district will erect a great custom mill- , Ins plant this coming spring, or as Boon us weather conditions will allow. ' Oro thnt assays 175 ounces In all- 'aw vcr ond 16 per cent lead has been struck by Henry Wellnnd nnd Josoph Foster on their Victor clnlm nbout three-fourths of a mile east of Plocho, Novnda. January .1 wns a happy day for the Consolidated Mcrcur company und a portion of their employees, for two of tho battery of six loaHtcrs ut Morcur woro placed In commission aftor a close-down of several days. During the past year moro nnntial assessment work wns performed in tho Deep Creek district than boforo In any flvo years combined. This condition has been brought about by nssuranco that tho Western Pacific railroad will ' bo completed, to shipping polntu within with-in tho onrly months of tho prosent year. A good old-fashioned stampede Is on toward tho now copper nnd gold district known ns Ml.pnh, Ely and I surrounding Novnda points providing I the material for making this rush as plcturcsquo as Is usually tho caso in Novnda. Tho Mlzpah district Is lo- L cated six mllos osst of Spruco, north- bV' west of tho Dolly Vnrden section. E. P. Jennings, a mining engineer, I gives somo extremely Interesting fig- I ures In his report regarding tho prob- I ablo earnings of the Nevada Douglas. I Taking tho dally capacity at 1,000 tons I of. 34 per cent copper ore, after deducting de-ducting ftll oxpouso, tho'nnnual profit of tho company will bo '$2,7C0,000, or nfcro than 60 per cent of tho com-pity's com-pity's capitalization. By a voto of throo to one. tho mem- i bcrs of tho nutto Mill & Smolter- mon's union havo decided to mako a demand on tho management of the Doston & Montana smelter for an In- r crenso of 50 cents a day for all employes em-ployes who work on clinngo shifts In tho various departments. The mon nro at present, nnd havo boon for sovoml years, receiving $3 a day. Mines valued nt over $20,000,000 in ' the Hullfrog district of Nevada wore i awarded to E. A. Montgomory by Judge 8owcll of San Francisco, last i weok against tho claims of C. II. Flemmlng. who hnd sued for a half Jnteresl because of n dlsputo In the grub-stako agreomont It Is now stated stat-ed that tho properties will bo trans fored to Charles Schwab, tho steel king. "To thoso who havo BiippoBCd that tho Comstock leulo Is workod out. It may bo of interest to stato that tho , actunl production from tho Ophlr mlno alone, during tho past weok," says Superintendent Su-perintendent Franklin Leonard, Jr., in recently submlttod roport, "nmounted to Hovonty cars of ore, assaying as-saying $91 per ton; thlrty-Blx enrs na-saying na-saying $33 por ton; soventy-flvo cara I assaying $22 por ton, making a total I of 231 cars of high grade oro. Tho deposits of the Yerlngton district dis-trict uro classed as "contact motamor-phlo motamor-phlo oro deposits" by tho economic ! goologlstB, and may bo described as masses of ruotainorphoscd and miner- i allied llmestono resting upon an Intrusive Intru-sive granite, tho grnnlto having furnished fur-nished tho necessary heat and boated mlnoraltzod solutions required to 1 convert mo adjacent llmestono into a I masslvo garnotlforous rock impreg- I natcd with copper oro, I The richest shipment of oro ovor sont to market from any mining camp l on earth was a lot of fifty tons expressed ex-pressed from the Hayes and Monnotto 1 1 loaso on tho Mohawk nt Goldflold, laat -J woek. The consignment is valued nt L f ono million dolars. Six armed guards ' accompanied tho oro, which went to the Selby smelter near San Francisco. Express charges wero eight thousand dollars. Twenty sacks of tho shipment ship-ment woro filled with oro worth fifty fif-ty thousand dollars por ton. Word from tho east U to the effect that strong Pennsylvania mon of money bad decided upon building n railroad Into Manhattan, Novada, from Austin Aus-tin or Tonopah, tho points of easiest approach from a railroad builder's standpoint. On thfl oast sboro of tho Walker Lalfj, In Novada, nbout n mllo from Walkor Station, a groat coppor bolt has been exposod. Thoro aro places on this bdlt whoro tho average assay from fifty feet bax roturnod as high at 6 por cent. |