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Show MINING MATTERS OF INTEREST. Points About the Great Western Industry in I'tah and Elsewhere. The Silver club at Hailey, Idaho, now numbers nearly 400 members, and is steadily growing. This is a fine showing for a club not over a mouth old. Another very rich mining discovery is reported re-ported to have been made at Needles, Cal. Several miners have gathered good fortunes with no bettjr methods of reduction than the mortar and pestle. Prof. O. C. Mortson has prepared a report of the coal output of the state of Montana for 1SJ11. He estimates from the best available avail-able statistics, that the production for last year was 582,000 short tous. The business has increased in the past three years about 14 per cent. The Rico-Aspen Consolidated Mining com-pauy, com-pauy, owning thuty-tive mines and 1,000,000 acres of land at Rico, Colorado, has made a rich silver glance strike. Several small miners have encountered similar deposits, and Rico is reported to be enjoying the greatest silver boom of any place in the state since the days of booming Leadville. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is a silver man. "Because silver is as ancient and honorable a metal as gold, and equally-well equally-well adapted for the moneyr use, and for the further reason that looking at the annual yield from the mines, the entire supply that can come to the mints will at no time be more than is needed to maintain at a steady level the prices of commodities among a constantly increasing population." W. H.James of the Omaha and (irant smelter, in Denver, has been studying the waste of ores by the old process, and has succeeded in inventing a new dust chamber, which will add about 1 per cent to the matter mat-ter now saved by the old process. It is built of perforated tiling. It is pronounced one of the most valuable discoveries of the age, and it is estimated will make a saving ot $100,000 a year. The 6tate of Nebraska will hold a grand silver anniversary celebration at Lincoln on the 26th last. Elaborate preparations are being made for z grand display. A fine silver sil-ver souvenir will lie given to the cityr bringing bring-ing in the finest float. J. C. Harpman will prepare the medal, and silver will be crowned on the great silver day of the land of corn. Nebraska people have an eye for value and beauty as is evidenced by selecting select-ing silver as the metal for a souvenir. The Martha Washington Placer Mining company has been organized at Oakland, Cal. The company consists entirely of females, and according to the articles, no man is permitted to take stock in the company. com-pany. The capital stock is $500,000, with $20,500 paid up, and is held by the following ladies: Mrs. S. G. Smythe, Mrs. J. E. Watson, Wat-son, Mrs. Mary H. Kennedy, Mrs. A. N. Griffiths, Mrs. . S. Morse and Mrs. J. K. Burrall. Considerable curiosity exists among the male miners as to whether or not female labor only will be employed. Ex-Governor B. F. White of Dillon, Montana, Mon-tana, recently returned from an extended eastern trip. He concludes that the commercial com-mercial transactions of Chicago and other eastern cities are on the increase at a rapid rate of fully 25 per cent per annum. He says; "The present supply of gold, the production pro-duction of which is falling off, will not be at all sufficient, and when this becomes apparent, ap-parent, the gold bugs will be forced, through absolute necessity, to recognize silver, but until this time comes, silver will be ignored. The east is prejudiced against silver, and the merchants will ask for one paper note in preference to a silver dollar. General A. McD. McCook and a staff of military officers accompanied by troop D of the second cavalry, has entered the Carrizo country in New Mexico ou a prospecting tour. General McCook constitutes one of the commission appointed to investigate and report as to whether minerals exist in the mountains controlled by the Navajo Indians. A company of Indians travels with the commission com-mission and acts as couriers. The messengers messen-gers as to make the distance from Fort Win-gate Win-gate to the camp, 135 miles distant, in twelve hours. Mining men are anxiously awaiting the report of the commissioners, rt is reported that a strong party of prospectors" is organizing at Fort Wingate and propose' invading the country if the commission re ports against opening it for settlement. h |