Show MINES AND MINING at the annual meeting of tho the horn silver company in salt lake city the number of directors was waa increased rom seven covon to nine at the annual meeting of the horn silver company in salt lake city tho the number of directors was increased from seven to nine during tile the recent mexican troubles lea the rumor was spread in the east cast that the real del monte properties of the united smelting smelling Sm elting refining company were in danger this Is known now to have been false the daly judge company of park city utah has just installed a now new table in the basement of the plants plant and this Is being utilized to see what saying saving might be expected from the treatment of the slimes the story of gold mining in alaska during the last twenty years has been largely the record of her rich placer fields field now it Is assured that additional and interesting chapters will be added to the splendid story by the activity of her lode miners A now new copper ledge has been uncovered on knights island alaska the island Is located in prince william sound and off cordova report states that a splendid showing has already been made and the property will bo be wor worked k ed willard scott and charles gott of valdez alaska recently returned fal 3 that camp bringing in samples of rich gold bearing ore they had found it in n a ledge eighteen inches thick along the he west side aldo of the alekel river and located five claims the boston news bureau has hag prepared figures showing that from the high point of 1910 to the recent low prices there has haa been a depreciation of in the market value of thirty four of prominent copper specialties the turkish minister of finance has ordered from schwerte Sch in Est westphalia phalia tons of nickel valued at five million marks it Is to be used in coining fifteen million francs worth of nickel money to replace the copper coinage which Is to be abolished throughout the turkish empire men employed on tho the copper river northwestern building into the interior of alaska located some gold in the gravel pit at mile post 14 6 and the ground was staked out for miles around the gold was brought up by tho the mammoth scoop of the steam shovel workings in the pit the tonopah atner alne says that at the monthly meeting of the directo of tho the tonopah belmont development company hold in philadelphia last monday the regular quarterly dividend of 15 cents per share was declared payable january 2 this valls alls v tor for the disbursement of there being shares issued oil has been discovered on the byak river a few ralles miles from cordova alaska tho the last named point Is the port of southwestern alaska where the new copper river northwestern railroad starts for the interior oil had previously been located at ka talla which Is on the coast to the east of cordova in tact fact oil seepages see pages are rep reported orfed on the coast tor lor miles in that region the unexpected increase in copper production during the month of october was due it has been said to the transferring of some of the accumulated metal of the summer months to tho the visible column and there are several eastern authorities who bellove believe the same thing will be seen in the figures to be released within the next few days for the month of november at dawson the wonderful camp on the yukon in yukon T the largest dredge in the world has been placed in commission it belongs to the canadian klondike company and Is one of its fleet now in the big river of the north engaged in digging gravel and sifting the golden treasure from the deposits of ages the construction was begun in august and the boat completed in november the cordova alaskan says that mining deal of considerable importance to cordova has just been consummated which means that the gold ledges of the mckinley lake district have attracted the attention of mining men from the states and will now be worked on an extensive scale the production of gold in alaska in 1909 amounted to which was larger titan than in any prior year with the exception of 1906 the excitement cit ement over mineral discoveries in the Indi caused many operators opera tora and miners to leave the faira fairbanks anks district and for that reason the total production of gold for alaska may be somewhat ome what smaller this year than it was in 1909 1900 the garfield smelting smelling Sm elting company is preparing to handle an increased tonnage from utah copper mines fires are to be kindled under the sixth verber atory furnace furnaca this week which will give the plant an additional capacity of tons ton s dally daily |