| Show I Hf 4 4 t K ras s Aa r t Mi HH tt taa SK t FAMOUS MINING STRIKES Dy THOMAS E STEWARD his A rr r r f The Chino Chano Copper Mines Manes tRi nI storIes lime Lase told of ot two E EnI i L great copper districts within the United States that Hint lint si filch centers around Untie Butte Mont and that In the upper peninsula of Michigan I 1 act achIn In It Its heyday day wa was the out outstanding standing source of ot the famous red metal The third great American group ot of copper opper mines wines though ly I y no means menns the only other copier COPI er center In thIs country Is the Arizona New Mexico group and ond among Its many mines In ha eluding the Miami Inspiration and Green the one with Ith the most picturesque history Is the llie Chino Clino I Is the Spanish word for tor Chinaman This famous ol oh 1 I mine was In use In th the days when Spain ln dominated the lie American Southwest and coi col per from the diggings a 8 hun tired or more years yeara old was carried on to tile the City of ot Mexico Metlo Me IJa gln and ond Hearst two great names In the history of ot mining the latter laller being the faller fall cr er of of Randolph Hearst added to their fortunes In lu the Chino mine district and ond It Is said that Thomas Thoma r Law Lawson on the speculator and s sensa lIonal advertiser od of ot stocks stoc drew from from the Chino district the material for one ot of his Ills most extravagant prose poems poem In praise of ot mining securities hear I to the pr present ent day mine may maybe maybe maybe be seen the old adobe fort tort which was built to protect laborers In the days from the frequent raids ot of Indians for tor It Is known that the Apaches did not easily yield to the Idea that the paleface was vms to dominate lis t 1 Is section of the world orld Chino with the Utah Copper corn com r rang s property holds the distinctIon of being a 0 mine In iii the ore Is Isso Isso so 0 accessible to the surface that more than 70 TO per cent of 01 Its deposits may maybe maybe be extracted pith Ith n a steam stearn shovel ho el and without the sinking of ot underground shafts hafts In this It Is comparable to the cast ast Iron ore district of ot northern Minnesota which has hns attracted the attention of ot the world due to the ease and cheapness with the steam shO cis rol rake raise e Its great wealth of or ore hen hen work on a large scale Ie was renewed ed at Chino toward the end ot of the first decide decade of ot this tills century It was that more than 4 tons of ot ore were f re available o In the property controlled ly ty I y the company This lias been reduced considerably by fifteen years of ot mining that hint have Included the prodigal period of ot the orld the orld I war nr but Its resources still leave It one of ot the considerable copper cop copper copper per mines on the I orth l American con continent linen t What a Yankee Showed the Boers ICK ICh HART an on American pros prospector prospector pros f O D of the lie most picturesque t type pI told the Poor government gO of ot the South African Transvaal Trans aol In ISSO that I the part of ot Its territory known as the Il was the richest gold goldfield field In the world This has lias since been pro proved ed perfectly true as 09 the world kno knows knos s but when Hart asked the gO government for as ns a n reward for his discovery ery people only laughed ot at him Hart lIart arrived ed In I 1 from froni his gold field In March So with Ith a small cart drawn n by a pair of ot mules mule On the cart he lie had the Star Stars Stara and Stripes and the ling lag of ot the Trans Transvaal In n It Ithe Ithe Ithe he had bag after big bag of ot rock rode and sand his gold ore lie He stood In the street aol ached cd ell i r eople cople to look 1001 on and nd panned the crushed rock rod and bind blad sand In the thin sight Ight of ot e eer er one hen lie he had bad finished wa washing the particles of ot gold were ere plainly visible 1 to an anyone one who ho would look vet ct no ho one seemed to toke take him seriously Hart lIart said I 1 is gold golI strike covered 10 co ered a n territory 0 mile miles long longan longan longan an 13 1 I 3 mlle miles s wide I oliS oli s laughed This was sins so laughable that It was as presently to be a center of ot a min minIng minIng Ing Industry r producing r as much gold ns os all nil the rel rest t of It tile the world put together records do not slow 10 what became ot of II Ht tt but a m nun min wl sil I o 0 got ot an nn In from him f t llie location ef cf r the rich gold c e formed a coal any a filch became me a n O concern conc rn two an nil ant anta Ia J a hull half years car later during luring the boom boora re re- re clod of ot 9 This company compan v sips IS bas based d on the rental of ot a 0 piece ot of ground for twenty ears cars at nt an nn annuli annual i rental of ot JI with free fre rent fl r rI I sIx months wl ire Ic I I e was conducting t I i respecting r i Whatever hate er the cause ef tf tie tI ll e a Ber war IDa may ha have hae ha e been It was a asa as ae asa a 11 result of that war that the control ot of this tills territory together tog ther s ith the rich South African fields la rued ed 11 un lOr cr control hO the u Il and Orae liver I I t State were v with Ith Uli Cipe pl In the lie Union of ot Africa And ItIs It ItIs itIs I Is also 1110 true that tint the thc huge resources re of that lound oun d from from South At rica during subsequent 3 years ears u r added tr tremendously l to lo the Ir r reserves rn s of ot wealth II enabled 1 I to 10 liol hol holl 1 1 on suc sue successfully dering ll tl e a Ion long ars i f t the the ord orld war lien lien hen It Is cc II that I ii land through tie lie l control of aruth 1 and Australia held heM t two 0 r f t the lie rid rice est gold districts III In It tie tle e world and nn 1 that the other rid riel est eat districts were sore II ere In the United States Stale It can Ic le that In this tills p t type pe of ot un the allied countries held a marke I ad vantage nd-vantage r red 0 11 1 tT Y K r Y |
