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Show DAILY revival of operationsARIZONA T AT TOMBSTONE, county in point of minerals min- 'of all kinds, Is easily the second Min-l- a a Ariiona, says in inf county CVchloe correspondent With a of present prospects it he the first in another year. That is, It has the wonderful Bisbee Warren district for copper, the big Doug-ta- fi Calumet and Artsona smelter at with a much larger one in there for the Copper Queen, the old Tombstone gold dishas it and trict which the Tombstone Consolidated Mines company has now practically rehabilitated to the producing is the Black point In addition there hills a few the in smelter, Diamond wonderful the Tombstone, from miles WOrid MADE III MUG . tll prob-Jbly.rr- con-itructi- on WHAT CECIL RHODE8 SAID ABOUT THE INDUSTRY. Utah Alone Has Added $250,000,000 to the Country's Wealth Since 1876. That excellent , the Salt Luke Mining Review, in its lam issue has such a comprehensive article on the subject of mining as compared witn Commonwealth gold mine that goes on other pursuits that it is herewith pubunceasingly turning out bricks, the lished in full. It says: new smelter at Benson, and numberlFinancial and mining pajiers are of them ess smaller enterprises, many having a great deal to say of late repromising much in another twelve garding the profits to be paid In minmonth. At Tombstone the big coming, and, almost without exception, pany is shipping regularly to El Paso. they agree as to the legltiinucy of the Its operations have hitherto been and the many avenues this pursuit mentioned and the enterprise Industry offers for safe and profitable la getting larger every day. The water investment and for the accuinulaiton level In the district has been lowered of great wealth and princely fortunes. to an extent that has encouraged are many who claim that more There amaiiw enterprises to take hold. The is lost in mining than there is money Copper Queen, it is understood, would made. It Is easy to make such an assoon abandon its Bisbee smelters, but but not so easy to substansertion, report comes now that the delay in the tiate such a statement by facts. It is completion of the Douglas plant will case that a great deal the undoubtedly delay the abandonment of the Bisbee of money is lost In mining ventures; plant It is really immaterial to Biswithout doubt, those suffering but, bee, as more miners will be employed from such losses would lose if they The when the smelters are removed. were engaged in any other occupation apectacular thing in mining during the or pursuit; for they are not moneyyear is the number of new and large and would go broke if they makers, corporations that have been launched were to find a mine productive of $10 In Cochise county, many of them by gold pieces. They are lacking in the It is gratifying to essentials Michigan capital. necessary in the makeup of know that two or three of them have a good mining man. Investor or specufound what they went after and others lator. In other words, their Judgment are proceeding, satisfactorily toward Is faulty, and they are as apt to inthe same end. There are now probably vest in a worthless mining proposition a doxen or fiften big enterprises under as they are to pick out a property of way in these parts, and numerous genuine merit and value. And yet they mailer ones. will condemn mining in all Its branches and make asses of themselves by con8YLVANITE 18 FOUND AT THUNDER MOUNTAIN Samples of ore Just brought into Boise, I (Du, from the Blackfoot group of mines on the headwaters of Big Creek and in the Thunder mountain region afford abundant evidence of the presence of sylvanlte up there, said George Thompson, who came down from the north a few days ago. The least result obtained by assay, said the visitor, told of a valuation of SSOO in gold and silver per ton, and when he left an analysis was being made. For three years work on the Blackfoot group has been going on under the direction of Frank I Thompson, who long ago succeeded in developing a ledge of $18 ore, but the tunnel was continued and at a distance of S00 feet he has Just encountered ore in which It is said sylvanlte occurs. The discovery has created not a little exdte-rocIn the north and results of the analysis are being eagerly awalnted v the Messrs Thompson and their nt 8EN8IBLE ADVICE ABOUT MINING PAPER8 TOien you see an advertisement offering a mining paper free or for a nominal sum Just make mind lat it up your I some advertising dodge by hich aome promotion company seeks boost Its own property. It costs "nay, and lots of it to publish a mining Journal, and they are not being nt free to anybody. When you get " of this description carefully look nd see if it has been entered as second n matter at the postofflee. If it not you may know that the has set Its seal of pprova on the publication as being fhe interests of some individual or mpany. When reading mining news want to read unprejudiced and post-departm- interested reports and this you the mining reals which have not been approved can-fro- m P"t0fflce orld Apartment Mining DEEP OIL IN COLORADO. Jilted Z't Oil company of Florence, pth of 2,275 ha. la'te ot H The oil has risen Ppe 40 lth,n a ,eW hundred Urtace It Is stated that h, fc 5W barrlB' day. can be pumped. lake superior copper. Period t,0tal Product!on of the Lake nM 10 h ver bis 0 I" Su-T- s estimated ton" of ,ron ore- - H ore a ton In the o,Rr . ." ground fVe Prflt ,OP mln,n la enormous wealth of lnWal can be estimated, WoAk5,5 on TUESDAY, EE1JRUAUY Mines and Mining Utah nd Adjoining States to SOME UTAH STATE JOURNAL, fr impel-- fer hundreds of opportunities for the making of similar investments. In speaking of mining and those who consider th.it It is the greatest of all industries, the backbone of the financial world, we deem it fitting to quote what Cecil Rhodes, one of the great mining magnates of the age, had to say on this subject before liis death. Mr. Rhodes said: "I speak advisedly, und say what every man who has investigated knows to be the truth, that less money is lost proportionately in mining than in any other business in the world, and larger fortunes are made in mining stocks than any business or any investment on earth. A good mining stock will pay the Investor more easily twenty, thirty, forty and 100 per cent annaul-tha- n municipal bonds, railroad bonds and stock or government bonds can possibly pay five tier cent. Money Invested in a good mining stock is safer than in a bank, than in mortgages, railroad securities, municipal or J, SuKand Trouser iwi O Z. C. M. I. nion "i ii.l associates did the pioneet ' work, is yielding as satisfactory an output as any mining district in Cal- -, ifonn.i. rpward of fifteen indeKiident companies are engaged in dredging for a disiance of seven miles ulong the Do you want good, reliable Muslin UNDERWEAR? j GOODS THAT WERE NOT BOUGHT FOR SPECIAL SALES. WE HAVE PLACED OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF DEPENDABLE MUSLIN UNDERWEAR AND EMBROIDERIES ON 8ALE AT PRICES WHICH WILL INTEREST EVERY LADY WHO SEES THEM. NOTICE THE WORKMANSHIP, QUALITY AND STYLE AND COMPARE WITH GOODS BOUGHT FOR SPECIAL SALES. 1 j PRICE OF LEAD GOING HIGHER. The advance made in the price of pig lead by the American Smelting and Refining company makes the price higher than it has been for over two years. The present price of 4.50 cents cents per pound compares with 4.07 per pound in January. 1903, and 4.00 1- -2 cents in New-hous- e, gold-beari- ng A Mens $16 Suits Feather river from Oroville. Then1 are now twenty-fou- r dredges in opera- tion in the district, and three in course government bonds. of const ruction. One of the three is The security of good mining stock for the toston and California company, Is the raw material of money Itself: and the itisdou Iron works is build- It is the stuff at whose feet governIng tin third. This is an increase of' ments, cities, bunks, railroads, mortfive machines since Inst September. gages, land corporations, and all forms Between Sal) and 400 men are employed of business kneel. In comiictioii iih the dredging." January, 1902. There have been three advances in pig lead within the past six months. On December 14 it was udvunced from 4.10 cents to 4.25 cents, on January 13 from 4.25 cents to 4.40 cents and on January 21 from 4.40 cents to 4.50 cents. The present price is over n quarter of a cent a iound more than the average Officers of price for the eyar 1903. the American Smelting and Refining company say the advances have been due to an Improvement in the demand. The policy of the company, it is stated, the threadbare stantly reiterating to is let the prices be governed by a is failure. that phrase mining If mining Is a failure why is it that the law of supply and demand. to every year sees great additions the army of men engaged in this fas- TELLURIUM ORE IN AUSTRALIA. Tellurium ore was first discovered In cinating industry? If It is a failure why is it that every year we have more Kalgoorlle, West Australia, in 1900, the mining kings than railroad million- ores of that district being especially aires? If mining is a failure why is rich In tellurldes. Then Transylvania, it that mining men are building pala- and it was next located in the Cripple tial residences In the great mining cen- Creek district, where it was located as ters of the west? If mining Is a fail- a constituent of the gold ores formure, why is it that men who, two or ing the metals called tellurldes, such three years ago, were going about with as calaverlte, nylcanfte, petsite, etc. great patches on the seat of their Tellurium has the lustre and color of pants, are now the best dressed men silver, and its value liee In its carrying on the streets and who have large so great a quantity of gold and silsums on deposit in our local banks? If ver. A sure test for proving its idenmining is a failure how do you account tity Is by whittling a few particles of for the rapid rise in the mining world the metal from the ore and putting of such men as Senator W. A. Clark, them in a dry test tube. Pour pure Senator Thomas Kearns, Samuel sulphuric acid in on the metal and heat Captain J. R. . DeLamar, and the tube in the flame of an alcohol scores of well known mining men who lump. If it Is tellurium the metal will are pointed out as money kings, but be dissolved at once and the liquid will who, a few years ago, were accounted turn a beautiful wine color. as poor men and who were engaged in various occupations that brought them WILL U.NWATER NEVADA MINES Aurora, once the famous Esmeralda a mere pittance? Page upon page might he written county mining camp, is awakening to prove that mining is not a failure. from a long period of innocuous desueArgument after argument might be tude, saye the Virginia Report. It is advanced to show that the industry is now proposed to unwater the great strictly legitimate, and the names, and mines of that district with a tunnel. successes of thousands of men might This undertaking is in the hands of be cited to show that no surer avenue Mr. Cain, the Bodie banker, and a exists for the making of money, would number of his associates. They are all be wasted upon the wavering ones, and practical men and should they carry could not strengthen the faith of those out the proposition there is no telling golden wealth will be who believe and know that mining is how much to railthe surface. The only than better brought better than banking, down the great that shut than thing and better far, by road stocks, was commercial the great amount of or camp industrial other any water flooded the mines. When that pursuit If mining is a failure, how can one work was abandoned there was ore in account for the fact that Utah mines, sight, and plenty of it, but the water since the year 1876, have produced forced the miners out With a tunnel $242,585,650 In the precious or baser draining the ledges there will be a metals? And, can anyone believe, that great deal of ore taken from this once In the production of this princely sum famous camp. that more money has been expended OGDEN MAN AT PARK CITY. and lost in mining operations than W. H. Walker was in town Monday has been made In the shape of net from Is his mining property, which last profits? If mining is a failure how in Weber canyon, six miles located is Park of it that the Silver King mine, from He says he has property Ogden. disbursements, dividend City, in its inwill him rich some day, bemake cent that fourteen per pays the Investor sides that plenty of the that demonstrating his Investment; terest upon of the same camp, pays good ore Is covered up In Weber count, twenty-thre- e per cent, that the Grand ty, awaiting only enterprise and capiper cent, and tal to uncover it. Mr. Walker was Central pays twenty-fiv- e that the Utah Consolidated is able to formerly engaged in farming over on pay $4 per share in dividends to its the Provo, and. has married daughters shareholders annually? Can any in- here in the Park, whom he Is visiting. Park Record. vestment eclipse this? From fourteen Investan on cent e to twenty-fivper DREDGING IN CALIFORNIA. ment Is a proposition that should apAn Orovllle paper says: The past peal to every person who is seeking for has when year beep very profitable at near good profits, and especially so all the securities gold dredging grounds of ly compared with industrial California. The Orovllle district of cent per bringing from two to si per 5,000 where W. P. Ham- about acres, of west the of annum; and the mines Daly-Wes- -- ARIZONA'8 GREAT DAM. Tlie official figuivs of the geological survey show an Interesting cofnpari-- 1 son of the dimensions of the big Tun- to dam of the Halt River valley, Arl- xona. with other great artificial reser- voir structures in the country. The Tonto dam Is to rise 250 feet above the channel of the stream. Its thickness at the base will be 188 feet, gradually tapering to a width of sixteen feet at the curb; the width of the tlatn amiss the canyon will be 800 feet. The givat Croton dam, which Is to supply New York with water, is 220 feet above the river channel and 1,800 feet across. It was necessary in this case to dig down 80 feet to Insure a good foundation. The Wuchusett dam, nenr Boston, is 129 feet above the river channel, 185 feet thick at the bnse and 850 feet wide. HUNT FOR ANTIMONY. American miners should look for antimony ores. Since the time when an American engineer bearded the Eng-Ils- h antimony trust in its den and forced them to buy all the American output there has been a liberal demand for new properties Hnd a good market for the ore. CLAIRES 2356-236- Washington Avs. 2 OGDEN, UTAH We Are Giving Away Six Glass Tumblsrs with in purchass this weak. tvsry two our crockary dol-I- depart-me- sr nt Wheelwright Bros., 2476 Washington Avo. Phono 147-- Z BOYS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING SALE ARIZONAS PRODUCTION. Arixona, Joining Utah on the south, made an excellent record in the matter of gold and silver production during the year 1902, as follows: Gold, $5,- 956,000; silver, $3,407,500. P UTNAMS GREAT MILLS FOR THUNDER MOUNTAIN. It Is stated that six stamp mills are on the road for mines in the Thunder mountain country in Idaho, and that they will be hauled to their destination and installed in the spring. ANNUAL SALE Ofsll Boys and Chi- Fight Will Bo Bitter. Those who will persist in closing their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troubles, if not ended serlier by fatal termination. Read what T. R. Beall of Beall, Miss., has to say: Last fall my wife had She every symptom of consumption. took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles Guaranteed by entirely cured her." Price 50c Jesse J. Driver, druggist. and 81. Trial bottles free. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Education of Ogden City for the property situated on the southwest corner of Grant avenue and Twenty-fift- h street. In said city. The said property being about one hundred and twenty-fiv- e (125) feet west, by one feet (122) hundred and thirty-tw- o corner from said the south, beginning subject to a right of way on the west of ten (10) feet In width, by one hunfeet in dred and thirty-tw- o (132) depth. All bids must be presented at the office of the clerk of the said Board, room No. 404, Ecdes Building, Ogden City, on or before 8 o'clock p. m on Friday, February 5th, 1904. Each bid must- be accompanied by a certified check for not less than one per cent of the amount of the bid. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Further particulars, if desired, can be obtained at the office of the - clerk. THOMAS D. DEE, President ldrens Clothing Is Now On Now Is your opportunity to clothe your boys good and warm and up-to-d- In ate styles, at prices that will make you think you have received a present from home Putnams Clothing House 2345 Washington Ave. BROWNING BROS. CO. . OODEN, UTAH Carry the Largest Line of Sporting Goods of Every Description of any House in the Country, and Sell at the Lowest Possible Prices 5end for Their Large 154 Page Catalog1 It is free. Satisfactory Tailoring at Satisfactory Prices. wv That la Hactly why wa do tha Tailoring Buiinm of Ogdon. 1 w 282 Twenty-- F lftH Stroat, Ogdon. Utah. iTIIUCr 8UII |