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Show MINES AND MININO The well of the Mt. Nebo Oil company In the Juab field last weeg reached a depth of 1,015 feet, where ll was in a randy shale. mine at Park City, The although operating Its mill only ons eight-hou- r shift a day during 1908, shows a profit to Us owners. The news comes from Tonopah that at least half of the miners employed at the Broken Hills mines were discharged last week for The Jennie mine at Gold Springs is to be sent down 300 feet from tho present 175 level, apd; dHftlng resorted to In order to prove the suspected wealth of the property. A custom mill of capacity is being built at Chafey, Nevada, and It is understood another plant is being contemplated, the mill to be located In the Barber canyon section of the Saly-Judg- high-gradin- By HomnDCoixm - ten-stam- p district. 1 f-flN- A AX W j-- I ZZ mtSl fr I lunterB to the confess Vy" H'lH V' V-T-Ii J ' VtSLrfl : ! 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These may find some soluce In reading of the preparations which President Roosevelt Is making for himself and his party, of the weapons which will be carried, of the camp equipage and of the game that may be encountered. , The tents that are being provided for Mr. Roosevelt and his party are of green waterproof silk a material so light In texture that an entire Umt with its telescoping pole weighs only 13 ounces. It Is essential that Its color be green, this because of the fact that a rhinoceros, reckoned by big game hunters as the niOHl dangerous and vicious of. all wild animals, will charge a white tent the moment he sees it, no matter If the tent were surrounded by a whole caravan of attendants. One ran Imagine the rest leas slumber of a hunter who goes to sleep with the knowledge that he might have his life crushed out at any moment by the Infuriated charge of one of these vicious animals. Besides being of a color which will not Invite such attack, It Is also essential that the tent be Insect, proof. Africa is infested with many kinds of poisonous Insects, and while hunt-er- a can guard attalnst their bites by day, yet, without an abtent to sleep in o'nights the white man solutely Insect-proo- f who seeks big game In Africa is liable to he bitten by some of these numerous poisonous Insects, Hut the tents that are being prepared for Mr. llooaevelt are said to be proof against tint tiniest thing that crawls or flies. The pole that goes with the tent Is made of bicycle steel tubing. It Is of a telescopic pattern, weighs only three pounds and can be extended to a height of eight feet. Kncli tent will accommodate four persons. The hunters will sleep on pneumatic mattresses. These, when deflated, can be rolled up In a bundle no hrger than a blanket Very light Hudson bay blankets will be furnished with each mattress. A dealer is furnishing the arms and ammunition, but from another source It was learned that the president and his party will be eautoued with the .405 Winchester, a wcanon of extremely high power and very fiat trajectory. Some Idea of the extent of Its shocking power may be had from the statement that the Impact of Its bullet Is equivalent to the lifting of 1007 pounds one foot. The bullets are soft pointed, which means that they will "mushroom" on hitting. This is the kind Of bullet that makes only a small holo when entering the side of an animal, but "mushrooming" on Impart, cuts on its exit I hole sometimes as large a a roroanut. Dut the chief reliance for Jungle work Is likely to be the fouble barrel Kngllnli express rifle. This rifle ranges In weight s land and in low land. In the open country and In the brush. - - W : l -- - fir- r - ' ""iStJ i ?' " Sf' K V r pfg-?Hvfji S2Ur V. it fr?&SF fi' V g - (f ' to fWhkl Willi tf fil ' - jMS fS J' V; V V! . it J i jj KZ. - ' ,s., W'" p 7i,.2 aiHSi fj-- - " . " Ck '-' fi . QT tZ 4l jl C Si f'i '' ( the V-C- ll1 jl ll 1 - r IJ ' ; irTir GMS5S5I255LMBaiBSaJ 7,-J 1 m M&klndu district makes an Ideal shooting country. The game Is not perhnpa so plentiful as on the Athl Plains, which we shall see by and by, but here we have excellent natural cover, which enables one to practice to perfection tho ait of stalking, that most necessary of accomplishments for a successful hunter. "Tho open bush, relieved by lofty trees, provides a succeHslnr. of surprises to the hunter. Now a bush buck will Mart up and bound away; now we catch sight through tho foliage of the graceful horns of the stately water buck as ho crops the herbage all unconscious of Impending danger. In the open glades we shall probably Bee a herd of massive eland, or, perhaps, the oryx, with their almost tehra-llkmarkings and tapering horns. "The delicate looking mpala Is also sure to be seen hounding gracefully along, while the chance of coming on rhinoceros or Hon will lend extra excitement to our walk. In fact, our friends will be poor shots Indeed if they do not urcoiint for some of this selection. "We wish them luck, and, taking our seats again as we hear the whlutle of tho train, we throw away books and papers, as we want to see all we can for the next hundred miles or so through the thick of the game country, and there Is no doubt tbatywe could see the like from the wluduws of no oth er railway carriage In the world. "The plains are also the habitat of the huge African rhinoceros, who hunts hla enemy by scent, and Is ex shortsighted, so tremely that on several occasions he has tried conclusions with the railway engine, much to his discomfiture. Giraffes, warthogs, beasts, cranes Jackals, hyenas and a host of other and bustards and other feathered varieties all help to swell the population of the animal kingdom. "The Hon, too, Is still In evidence, as we notice by the flocks of vultures soaring In t lie air In the distance ready to pick the bones of his latest kill." There Is no clotted season In Africa on lions, leopards and crocodiles, and of thcue the president and bis party limy shoot as many as they like. Hut, having declined the offer of a apodal permit, extended by the l!rliinh Colonial omco. the ordinary llceuso, which the president will take out on his arrival at Mombasa, will restrict him and each member of his party to the following: Two male elephants, two rhinoceroses, ten hippopotami, 21 antelope, Including two kudos; ton wild pigs, ten smaller cats, ten Jackals, two gembok, and one bongo; two sebras, two cheetahs, two aard wolves, two oryx, two serval, two earth hogs, two earth wolves, ten chovrotatns, two colubl or other fur monkeys, two marabou storks, two ostriches, two egrets and one e " ' You will find him when you least c ex-pe- t him. and most )ften A ' flRtVAi SURPRISED to many IfM ' horlfi, " " fe. ed : - - J I 1 JGZJ from 10 to 18 pounds, with of .677 of an Inch In diameter. While It Is not positively known that the president and his party will be equipped with these rifles, yet It is more than likely that they will be. rtnce of the big game hunters unmlmously agree that It Is the most i dependable of all weapons when at close quarters with big game. But even formidable double-barrelIs sometimes piece Inadequate to meet tM "udden exigencies of big game hunting In Africa. One of the most Indefatigable of all the big game hunters, and who had hunted Africa from one end to the other, recently gave H as his opinion that the rhinoceros Is by far the most ' dangerous animal that can be found In the dark continent. "In Equatorial Afri- ca." he said, "you will, find the rhl- noceros almosteverywhere.in the high ) ' t XViJ. ' WfriCm '' f'w IScWrf? 'Y I- - TA filS fl 'Tl tlh U " 11 V rVS?sSfS Cfeijwi WitSV A 0" SxtSyi ' A? J f V MBAciN , ' ' ' S-- l . ft ft h ( J' ' " , l dan- - vAjC 5i ' ' (J equatorial region. This bunting of big game has a fascination.' There Is the double N J MMwM 'I t'Vv?CV mW&MAVl'4'' 7A4?Mt 3 7 i Y$&$?. J Jw'hW fdL( fi W AgfaJt )ffrM"l' CmS A jI . 7 )$a'l hx& V'' ' Ti f j2SvM' VMiSl I JfeSfc ZferP000 V&ZL !ffl&hj 55,' '( Mw)M JW TT' iff iSS '1 WCTVwAK v f hff into huntfng and t0 Pursue, in Africa the big game fJ (ff& 4V on the other side. of the world some folks are overdue.'-One of these Is that restless spirit who D when rou do not want to see him. He Is a vicious and heavily armored beast, almost the exact color of the earth which you find out In that sunbaked region, and when stalking through his habitat, wholly unconscious of his presence, you suddenly hear his 'chug, chug!' then God help you If you are not provided with a rifle of lurge caliber and carrying steel bullets. "You will want some steel in your wavc-rooTE- R nerves, too, for the brute tiKiially weighs about 3,000 pounds, and his ruHh Is like that of a locomotive. Now, your rifle may be of the biggest caliber and your bullets of the hardest steel, but no matter now many you pump at him you could no more sVip his runh by this means than a popgun would stop a buttlfshlp. The heaviest of steel bullets could not reach a vital spot after going through that great bone snout, and It would require an extra heavy and extra hard one to cut throuzh It all. Your only chance Is to do a swift side step, and even then you have only three shots that will count -- the brnln, the neck and the heart shot. When he Is charging head on It Is Impoimlble to reach any one." The president's present plans contemplate a Journey to Alexandria by the North German Lloyd line and thence to Mombasa, the capital of Ilrlthih Kast Africa, probably by one of the vesnels of the German Ksst African lino. From Mombasa the party will travel by the Uganda railway to Lake Victoria Nyanta and, cross Ing that stretch of water by steamer, will seek the plateau of the I'ganda, and where abounds more game than can he found any where else in the world. Hut along the railway route from Mombasa to the lake plenty of game Is to be found. One who recently made the journey, thua describes It: "Some three or four travelers now leave the train and make their way to the dark bungalow, and by the look of their Impediments they are evidently sportsmen bent on big game shooting. And they have chosen their stopping place well, for here commences the vast sweep of country stretching up to the forests of Klkuyu, than which, perhaps, there Is no place In the a sportsman. This world more calculated to delight the hca a . four-foote- chlm-panxe- He will be forbidden to shoot giraffes, wild asses, eland, moun- tain tebra, female or young elephants, vultures of any species, storks, wbaleheaded storks, crowned cranes, okapi, female buffalo, female or young ostriches and Spoke's trageta saddle-bille- phus female. Lake A new caller for the Salt stock and mining exchange has been engaged In the person of George K. Wasson, late caller of the Goldfield exchange and formerly with the Colorado Springs exchange. The burning gas well at Ontario, Ore., Is Just now attracting a great deal of attention. The well is down to a depth of 2.200 feet, and several ?as blowouts have been experienced the present one throwing a flame rig. higher than the The contact disclosed recently on the Shoshone National bank at Rhyo-llte- , Nevada, has been explored more thoroughly, and all indications go to thow that the top or a substantial ore body has, in fact, been cut. One assay returued S200 to the ton. The Honering Mining company, whose property is located near Stockton, Utah, is no more, the properties of the old organization having passed to the creditors to liquidate a debt of such mammoth proportions that the company was unable to meet It Good reports are coming from Rose-LuNevada. In the Dreamland property, owned by Utahns, some very fine silver ore is being extracted, It being reported the men are taking out rock ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 ounces silver per ton, with some gold contents as well, the ore being from eight to ten Inches in width. A conference, potentially important In view of existing conditions In the steel industry, was held in New York on February 17, between the head of the various subsidiary corporations in the United States Steel corporation, and Judge E. IL Gary, chairman of the corporation's directorate, and W. F. Corey, its president. The Home&take cleanup lor th month of January is complete, and true to estimate, It is the biggest turn out yet recorded to the credit of the company, says the Bullfrog Miner. Retiring Manager 8. Rothschild brought 116,000 worth of bullion to town Thursday as the result of the January run. A Nevada mining property which was recently sold to eastern "tender-feet,- " the sellers believing they bad 'soaked" the easterners in good snape, has turned out td be a bananza. The property Is in Black canyon, Humboldt mining district, and the indications are that the new comers have uncovered a fortune. A Salt Lake man Is reported to have secured a lcaso on a property in Chafey, Nevada, on which was an old tunnel. Nothing had been found in the tunnel, but as he was engaged in leveling It down he cut the top of a strong ore body. It is said he has five feet of quarts which runs close to 1100 in gold and silver. The Hooligan lease at Rawhide, Nevada, has opened for 100 foot what many regard the best defined vein in the camp. Fifteen feet from the sur--, face ore runnlntr as hlsh as tlOO a ton was encountered. The same ledge has been opened on the 100-folevel, where It carries average values of SZ3 a ton across five feet. A new ore body, with tho new new feature of carrying strong gold values In addition to silver) and lead, has been encountered In the workings of the Lyon Hill Consolidated Mining company at Ophir. Assay returns from three samples taken across the three-foo- t vein give results that are making the owners feel like millionaires. The shaft at the Ilullock mine, which at 18S feet depth cut what was believed to be the hanging wall of the Asplnwall vein, Is still in the vein at 200 feet depth, It Is said, with the ore richer than that first encountered. An assay of tne ore from the bottom of the shaft gave returns of 32 per cent lead, 33 ounces In silver and 80 cents in gold. The First National Copper company g has Issued Its first annual report, the year ending December 31, 1908. Tho report states that tho entire capital stock or the Ralaklala, Consolidated Copper company Is now owned by First National. The former has $750,000 of first mortgage bonds outstanding, and owes tn addition $72,034 In current accounts. In sending the Incline shaft from t the level to the surface of the Ludwlg mine of the Nevada Douglas company at Yerington, Nevada, the management for forty feet has been In rich carbonates, the ore ranging from 15 to 20 per cent copper. This la virgin territory. mill of the Gold-fiel- d The new Consolidated company has proved successful In Its operations, and then is declared to bo no question that the announced policy of the director to declare In March au initial 30 cent! Quarterly dividend, payable April 1, will be carried out. 84-fo- d, ot cov-trjn- 400-foo- |