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Show MUG IN NEVADA SHOWING INCREASE F. M. Manson Expresses Optimistic View Regarding Regard-ing Industry. Mining' activity throughout Nevada continues to increase, according to F M. Manson, general manager of the Utah Ore Sampling company, who hae returned to Salt Lake after a trip through the principal mining districts of that state. Despite the tow market price of silver, the properties producing that metal continue con-tinue to operate at capacity, the managements man-agements storing It until better market prices prevail. In discussing the mining situation throughout the state Mr. Man-son Man-son said yesterday: There is more mining activity in Nevada at present than T have seen in years. Operators take a decidedly optimistic view of the metal market and are expecting higher prices for silver. New districts are being opened up and one hears of new strikes In nearly all of the camps throughout the Htate. The recent discovery of gold In a number of new district.1; has given an impetus to the industry that heretofore here-tofore "was apparently in no need of any stimulus. Mining men attribute the greater activity to the decided Increase in proepectlng that has been going on for some time past. Tonopah continues to produce- a heavy tonnage of ore and the operators oper-ators In that district are decidedly optimistic regarding the Immediate future. More money is going into that camp and a number of properties proper-ties are being developed that sooner or later will be heard from. The same condition prevails in Gold field. New companies are being organized, and, as greater depth discloses ore bodies of considerable magnitude, one hears the more conservative operators oper-ators predicting that the camp Is still in Its Infancy. I am told that both the Big and the Little Cottonwood districts here In Utah are sending out more ore at present than at an;.' time In the past few years. At the last analysis, that Is the true measure of any camp the amount of shipping ore that It continues to produce. |