Show an exchange refers to mcgill nevada as the town which supports the big smelter of the nevada consolidated cons 0 ate d that has the appearance of a transposition of the truth I 1 location notices dated 1883 on antimony deposits in the vicinity of handsburg randsburg Rands burg bur california indicate that recent discoverers were a long way from being the first on the ground however there was no world war at that time to make the claims valuable the lure of the tungsten fields of colorado has practically cleaned out danvers Den vers hobo element A recent visit of a social worker to the favorite rendezvous of the genus in that city revealed the fact that where there were eighty of them a month ago the place is now deserted A caretaker explained that practically all had left to seek fame and fortune in boulder county figures of the business done on the salt lake stock mining exchange during march show that the volume of business for the one month was fifty per cent greater than that recorded during the entire year 1914 and almost one fourth as great as for all of 1915 the business for march shows shares sold valued at the figures for the entire year 1914 were shares bringing to the miner whose daily outlook is across the monotonous sand dunes or sagebrush which are too often associated the hiding places of minerals and also to him who is accustomed to the desolation of the peaks above timberline the following picture drawn byh by ih T irvine a shareholder of the scratch gravel mine sounds almost unreal the surroundings of the mine are most unusual the view from the dump has as a background helena and the smelter but the immediate foreground consists of potato patches irrigated toy by water pumped from the mine and sheep pastures on which about a thousand head are grazing haystacks are a prominent feature of the landscape which is almost a flat there is also a certain novelty in arriving at the mine in in a taxicab as we did after a twenty min ute drive from the leading hotel of capital city |