Show SUBSIDIARY COINAGE Director of the Mint Sees No Good Reason for Curtailment of I A Washington dispatch in the New York Commercial contains the following follow-ing of Interest to the metal producers George E Roberts director of the Mint In his annual report recommends that the Mint at New Orleans be abol ished He says that the capacity of the Mints at San Francisco and Philadelphia anc phia and of the new Mint about to be opened at Denver Is sufficient The number of pieces of money coined last year bus never been exceeded in the history of the country but the aggregate ag-gregate value of the coinage declined from 136310751 in the Ilscal year 1901 to 504G2nC7S In the last fiscal year The coinage of lfiOOOOO silver dollars per month now required by law will soon come to an end by reason of the exhaustion of the stock of bullion The gold coinage Is now entering almost al-most entirely Into storage The dhec tot says that the coinage of the entire annual deposits Is unnecessary The treasury now holds about 500000000 of coined gold which IH I probably more than to come will be called for In a generation Under the legal limitations no more subsidiary silver can be Issued although al-though the demand on account of the growth of population and business Is Increasing The director sees no good reason for limiting the stock of subsidiary sub-sidiary silver The Geminis Changes Discussing changes now taking place in the lowest workings of the Gemini Ge-mini o Tintlc Superintendent Chrys tal Bald on the eve of his departure for camp that not only had 4 1 values in gold and 5 per cent copper made their appearance but that the percentage of lead showed a perceptible increase From the same slope on the IfiOOfoot level he Is taking ore that exceeds 100 ounces slher per Ion Concentrator for Thunder C II Marcus a mining man of Thunder Thun-der mountain who Is spending the winter win-ter in Spokane says the eastern owners of the Wordenhoff group on South Creek are now planning to put In a concentrator on their property to trqnt tho ores of the camp till a smelter Installed The presumption the owners arc working on Is that the ores will turn to base ores with depth and that the stamp mills then will he unable to treat the ores A stamp mill has already been ordered or-dered for the property and will be In nlalled In the early spring There Is probably more work being done on the Vordcnhoft group than on any other on South Creek A long tunnel hart been started lo cut the ledges at depth and much ore should be token out when It Is completed rplrt are a great many men employed em-ployed In Thunder mountain Rainbow mountain I and on Profile creek The latter camp Is I attracting considerable attention from the mining men anO several big deals are now pending Spokane Chronicle Mining Notes Dry concentration has begun another trial at the May Day of Tlntlc The Annie Lauries shareholders are achedulod to moft In Chicago tchluled mtft tomorrow The days receipts nt the Taylor t Bnmlon sampler consisted of six carloads of ore from Nevada Clarence B Allen manager of the Cen tennial Eurekti is down making another Inventory ol its riches Manager Samuel M l Toy of the Samp son left for that Bliiuhum compunyt mines again yesterday morning comlln Superintendent Raddatz oC the Honorific notlllcd the management during the af ternoon that the long tunnel Is now may ing with two hrudlnss from which to drive at tho rate of twcntjnvc feet lbS lb-S S Smith of Ogden has returned after af-ter making an examination of the Mulr brook group ut Stockton In behalf of Eastern Interests Tho producers of Tonopah Nov np ponrod at the American furnaooa YfA tcrday with u consignment of hlKlisnide OTf that six earn wee required to handle Tony Jacobson mauagir i > f ihe iolum IIIIK of Alta came down from that proposition propo-sition yeetenly and la looking to un onrly conuccllon with the main oro bodies uncovered 1 above t 1 M Johnson superintendent of the Cactus 1m rvliiriirtl from lhat southern bonanza where the cnmpnlmi bus nettled down to the steady blocking out of oro preliminary to Us xmlpmynt with reduction re-duction plants I The shaft on the New York Bonanza Is now penetrating the hanging will of iho main 1dse said Manager H O Wilson jfstTdny and by the 10th of the month will haw reached the Moot level from I which crosEcuttlnc will begin |