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Show Death Valley Gives Upjts Wealth Riches of n. Region Strewn With Dead Respond to the Efforts of H. A. Cohen. With the story of ono moro triumph In the arena of mineral wealth, llartwlg A. Cohen has just passed through the State with the sequestering: of Capi. J, R. De LaMur, who Is now in New York, his destination. Tho latest undertaking of which the captain has availed himself on the recommendation of Mr. Cohen, is in the Funeral range overlooking Death valley, Nov., and that from the newly acquired ledges In that sopulchral region whero Ho the bones of not a ,few who perished In the search for gold, he will dig another fortune is now, said Mr. .Cohen, .Co-hen, nulto well assured. Already he has opened up approximately 100,000 tons of rock, which affords an average much above the rule of tho diggings, and with the equipment witli which It la to be surrounded sur-rounded at once. Nevada will have added another to Its big list of bonanzas. The milling ores of the property are associated associ-ated with not a little of very high grade, while It Is said that a very largo tonnage will maintain a valuation of 525 gold per ton. , , Meanwhile the smelter at tho captain s Bully Hill mines in Shasta county. Calls Cal-ls adding steadily to tho distinguished minor's Income, while tho search for other bonanzas goes on us has It In the past. On his return from the East, Mr. Cohen will tarry several days In this State, where his figure was a prominent one for many vears. He Is at present Interested In the holdings of the Utah Copper com-panv com-panv at Bingham, and wns among tho first to recognize the resources of which the copper-bearing porphyries of that remarkable re-markable camp wero capable. |