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Show """'m)w'mmi. H MINES AND MTNTNGr H From all the present Indications, (ho loss nnd mining district of Humboldt H county, Nov., will bo tho sccno of thi M text wild excitement In thnt slate. H H Is stated thnt the Zllllg and John , o ron properties In Stntcllno district, H Utah, hato changed hniids, but who tho purchascrt nro nnd tho constdor.v M Hon nro not known. H Negotiations are under way In S.ilt Lake City through which n regular k M auto lino from Humboldt to tho lloso liinl mining district Is to ho cstnb- 1 M Mshcil without tlelay. V-aH The directors of tho Utah Mluo H company met last weelc and ported M the usual dividend of H cents n share, '' nnd, ns they did last month, nlso or- ik dered thu pamenl ot 2 ceuls as an H H Tho producing mines or the Coeur H d'Aluues will make a mineral yield H this year or something llko 120,000,000 H In gross vnluo, nnd will probably pay M between fF.,000,000 and $G,O0O,OOO In M All of tho large milling corporations M ot llutto nt noon November 10 posted WM notices nt their properties thnt, be- Hfl I ginning November 10, the wnges of all M j underground men would bo Increased M from t3.no to VC a dny. M Tho first oro shipment from tho Hull M frog district over tho now I .aft Vegas ssl rc Tonopah nillroad, recently com- H pleted In tho camp, hns Just been H mnde. It conslsttMl ot 42 tons of high tH grndo oro front tho Tramp Consolldnt- UaBBl cd on Ilonnnzn mountain. Hl A Httih copper district which ls 'H bound to bo hoard from ne soon ns tho! H main company operating there has' H completed tho Improvements now ben k Ing rushed, Is tho Copper Mountain! -H camp In tho l.ucln district, soven mllos Bouthcnnl of Tacoma stntlon. . Upon tho completion of tho branch l railroad from Callento to Plocho, an' H undertaking now well under way, H thcro will bo added to tho shippers of1 H oro to tho Salt Ijiko market tho I.ltt- H den group of properties, recently pur jH chased by Tony Jncobson ot Salt tako H J. P. Olymplus, tho experienced mln- al Ing innii and operator, returned last H week from n ten days' trip to Doavor county, Utah, where ho reports having H secured a group of eighteen clntnm 'aLI In Iho, Indian Peak rango, about two 'H miles from Indian Peak. Ho says It l la nn enormously mineralized tec- r H Tho Snowstorm copper mine, thrrc..gB miles east of Million, Idaho, has made TM fully a iroro of peoplo Indopondcntly " H rich within tho pntt two years. When H Iho (lreenough brothers becamo Inter sH csled In tho property nbout throo enrs ngn It was looked upon (ti a Joke H nnd Its shnioH wero changing hands 1 nt from one to live cents, j Tho Hoveuuo company -lornting In I.I Heaver county, Utah, wifl soon sond iH out n few carloads of J1I00 orojust to H tnnki' their sinteuhMils concerning tho , H values which tho proa contafu good. H At tho mouth of tho tunnel workings, I roin which tho rich shipments nro to M be niailo, (hero nro now over thirty H Ion of oro sacked that sample II iH per rent lead, IDS ounces silver and J $17 T.O In gold per H Tho Coeur d'Aleno dlslrlct of Idaho, viH U best known tie a leinl-sllver district, anil In fact ns such, It Is without a H peer In the mining world. Its lead H ore nro noted for their purity nml H freedom from objectionable sulphides H Us rHiourcoe, however, nro by no H means confluotl to lend nnd silver, but comprlMo an liiiMirtunt variety of ore- H Including copper deposits that Indicate H a rxsouicn of the rod metal equal of M IntlMirluiice with tho lead M Ono of Iho most interesting pursuit IH In America today I the search of H platinum. Heietoforo Us production M ha been limited ehlelly to llusrila nnd M tHHtie South .tiiierlcaii countries. Hits- H la, ftiruUliliiK M per cent ol tho H world' supply, but there nro many In- HJ dicatlons that quantltlea or It will In- sJsafl mined In the I'nlteil Slates In n few H year nt moet. Several American HH linn hate sent out their own protpec- KB tore to search for "Silver Is going to reach a price ot H 70 or better within two years, and It I going to hold thru price," said .Ll Oeorge W. Huberts, director of (ho B? 1'hIIihI Slate iiiliils, at Denver, In an ; Kvj Intertletv last week. "I believe (hat rjl hiiadrwU of sliver mines throughoui H the west which hnvo been shut down f fll fH- Hiore than ten year heoausQ of th M full In prlee will lie opening up ngaln M within a )ttr, simply becatiKe tho fl price of the metal will make It worth M The American Smelting & Heflnlng H oowpagy. which lias practical coiitrol H of the alitor market, has supplied nil H of the 5.0im.on ounces of silver al- v"iH ready lwught by the treasury oxcepi M a few thousand ounces The lreasur M will Inty nearly S.Otfo.ooo nmre ounce H An aaaay w had In Salt take last H L on a I'hittik of ore from the 'new - rtowkaUan atrtke that had no aiifpt H elea of ruby silver or other metallic H In Id and the returns tliowed 3 1 H (Hinoes gld and 1.21S oiiiich silver. H giving tho rock a valuation of over H fMM) per ton H |