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Show I!: NEW YORK'S HEW i uninyn 4 Specimens of Ore From the Neil Ne-il vada Fields Are on Ex- hibition. 1 RICH ROCK FROM j FAIRVIEW ASTONISHES ALL i ) New Exchange Occupies Build- ing at 40 Broad Street 5 in Metropolis, i j Social to Tho Tribune, 1 NEW YORK,. Juno 10. Without any tit- tempt to marl: the occasion -with any j cclobratlon, tho brokers of tho Wall ij Street Mining and Stock Exchango took il possession of tholr new trading quarters this week at 40 Broad strcoL Tho new quarters arc located on tho first floor ' abovo the spot where tho curb brokers dally mako their quotations, thus put-, put-, ting them In close touch with tho speculative specu-lative clement on tho curb. : Specimens From Nevada, j F. H. Lathrap, the secretary of the t Goldficld Mining Exchange, exhibited a j number of oro specimens from the various ' southern Nevada districts on tho floor of tho local exchange. Thoro was oro running run-ning from several hundred dollars a ton j up to $150,000. Another Interesting spccl-1 spccl-1 men was that from tho now camp of Falrvlow of silver-gold ore, which should i approximate $3000 to tho ton. From tho Goldlleld Florence wus a rock thickly spangled with gold. Specimens from the Jumbo and Rellly lease of tho Florence ; attracted considerable attention, Mr. Lathrap had sovcral bottles of gold dust which ho had panned at Manhattan and from tho Esmeralda placer property at Tulo canyon, west of Goldfleld. Lloyd Russell. Jr., who has been exhibiting ex-hibiting tho rich rock recently found on tho Antelopo Round Mountain company's property at Round Mountain, Nov., visited vis-ited tho exchange with his big specimen, i Tho rock, which weighs aobut sixty ,j pounds, represents a surfaco from twelve g to eight Inches wide and Is literally plas-t plas-t tared with gold. This specimen Is being i brought around to the big cities to show j what Is being dono In Nevada. I Big Strike at Alkali Springs, i Reports of an extraordinary strlko at i Alkali Springs, eighteen miles northwest " of Goldflold, have nearly depopulated tho latter town. It appears from authentic information that there is another Tono-v Tono-v pah at Goldflold's very door, for the ore is of silver and gold, runs high, appears ' In good strong ledges and covcrH a large district. Tho first discoveries wcro mado two weeks ago. Since, however, other finds havo been made within a radius of several miles. Tho district lies on a direct di-rect lino between Silver Peak and Goldflold, Gold-flold, and is flvo miles from tho Goldflold &. Tonopah railroad. Assays on samples went 33 ounces of sliver and throe ounces of gold. A towhsito has been laid out and named Phllllpsburg. after G. H. and G. A. Phillips, two of tho original dlscov-; dlscov-; erers. J. P. Loftus, one of tho most success-, success-, ful operators of' Nevada, has returned 1 from Fnlrview and expresses himself ns a thorough believer in tho now camp. 1 Mr. Loftus said: Construction to Be Pushed. "The branch of tho Clark road, known 5 ns tho Las Vegas & Tonopah, which Is c now being completed Into tho Bullfrog district, is to be at once pushed on for ; ICO miles further through Goldfield to Tonopah, Sonator Clark's brother, J. Ross Clark, who Is president of tho Las Vegas & Tonopah, nas made tho nn-, nn-, nounccment that he has received lnBtruc-.', lnBtruc-.', tlons from tho Senator to proceed at once "with tho final surveys and construction between Bullfrog and Tonopah." j Foreign. Copper Shipments, i ) 1 For the first ten months of the fiscal year to end Juno 30. tho exports of cop-$ cop-$ per from tho United States showed a de-i de-i creaso from tho corresponding period a year ago of 104,020,173 pounds, as compared j with an increase in Imports of approxl-matoly approxl-matoly 20,000,000 pounds over last year. " Netherlands, nominally the largest cus-i cus-i tomer for American copper, took 8,000,000 " pounds less durlng'Aprll than In the pre-vlous pre-vlous month, while the amount sent to i. Cninu was halved. Germany, on the other i hand, took 4,000,000 pounds more than In i March, n Early In November Is tho date set for ' tho blowing In of tho Oaxaca, Mexico, smelter, the operation of which Is ex-r ex-r pected. If not to revolutionize tho mln-Li mln-Li lng Industry in lower Mexico, at least to 5 impart a decided impetus to It and to bo L tho beginning of an era which will be ' characterized by a revolution In mineral industries of that part of tho republic. U The rapidity with which tho work Is now reported to be going on warrants tho ex-, ex-, pectatlon of It being finished by the dato .'i appointed |