Show MINES AND MINING at tho the ann annual ual meeting of the norn horn silver company in salt lake city the number of directors was increased train seven to nine at tho the annual meeting of 0 the horn silver company in salt lake city the number of directors was increased from seven to nine during the recent mexican troubles tho the rumor was spread in the east that the real del monte properties of the united smelting smelling Sm elting refining company were in danger this Is known now to have been false the daly judge company of park city utah has just installed a lie new w table in the basement of the plant and this is being utilized to see what saving might be expected from the treatment of the slimes the story of gold mining in alaska during tho the last twenty years has been largely the record of at her rich placer fields now it is assured that additional and interesting chapters will bo be added to the splendid story by the activity of at her lode miners A new copper ledge has been uncovered on knights island alaska T tho he island Is located in prince william sound bound and oft off cordova report states that a splendid showing has already been made and the property will be worked willard scott and charles gott at 0 valdez alaska recently returned to that camp bringing in samples of rich gold bearing ore they had bad louna found in a ledge eighteen inches thick along the west side of 0 the alekel river and located five claims the boston news bureau has prepared figures showing that from the high point of 0 1910 to tile the recent low prices there has been a depreciation of in the market value of thirty four of prominent copper specialties the turkish minister of finance has ordered from schwerte Sch in westphalia Est phalla phalia tons of nickel valued at five million marks it la is to be used in coining fifteen million francs worth of nickel money to replace the copper coinage which Is to be abolished throughout the turkish empire men employed on the copper river northwestern building into the interior of alaska located some gold in the gravel pit at mile post and the ground was staked out for miles around the gold was brought up by the mammoth scoop of the steam shovel workings in the pit the tonopah miner says that at the monthly meeting of the directo of tha tho tonopah belmont development baab philadelphia last monday the reg war quarterly dividen benl ol of 1 cents cerha P was wan d declared payable january 2 this a alts tor for the disbursement of 0 there being shares issued oil has been discovered on the ayak river a few miles from cordova alaska the last named point is the port of southwestern alaska where the new copper river northwestern railroad starts for the interior oil had bad previously been located at ka talla which Is on the coast to the east of cordova in fact oil seepages see pages are reported on the coast tor for miles in that region the unexpected increase in copper production during the month of october was due it has been said to the transferring of some ot of the ii accumulated cu metal of the summer months to the visible column and there are several eastern authorities who believe the same same thing will be seen in the figures to be released within the next few days for the month of november at dawson the wonderful camp on the yukon in yukon T the largest dredge in the world has been placed in commission it belongs belong sto to the canadian klondike company any eind and is oil one e of its fleet now in the big river of the north engaged in digging gravel and sitting sifting the golden treasure from tile the deposits of ages the construction was begun in august and the boat coin completed plated in november the cordova alaskan says that mining deal of considerable importance to cordova has just been consummated wilch which means that the gold ledges of oe the bic mckenley Kinley take lake district have attracted the attention of mining men from the states and will now be worked on an extensive scale the production of gold in alaska in 1909 amounted to which was larger than in any prior year with the exception of 1906 the excitement e cit ement over mineral discoveries in the Indi caused many opera operators lori and miners to leave the k uh banks district and for that reason the total production of gold for alaska may be somewhat smaller this year than it was in 1909 the garfield smelting smelling Sm elting company la Is preparing to handle an increased tonnage from utah copper mines fires are to be ba kindled under the sixth verbe verber atory furnace this week which will w ill give the plant an additional capacity of tons dally daily during the past week manhattan has haa experienced considerable excitement on oil account of the finding of rich float east cast of that camp the discovery was waa made by omar marls and since the find many people have been out looking for the ledge where the float originated A nevada special to the sacramento union says that two boys have stolen hundreds ot of dollars worth ot of brass and other metal from the machinery of abandoned mints in nevada county was revealed with the arrest of stewart watson and edward rod roda |