Show AROUND THE MINES more afore than acres of 0 placer ground was staked on the tha valdez flats in alaska alas ka last week ono one prominent photographic supply firm states that it uses ounces of silver bullion monthly in its bustness business it is estimated that more than ounces aro are used annually 11 in this one industry between antl and pounds ot of copper sold for or export and domestic consumption during febra ary Is tho the estimate made for tho the boston news dureau bureau by ono one of tho the heava est participants in the transactions the earmarks eai marks of 0 another coeur dalene have been uncovered in a 1 wild and neglected section of montant enst east or of burke idaho values range front from 65 to in a streak upward of two feet wide at tho the surface f a c 1 tho the five compartment shaft of tho giroux consolidated mines company com piny near ely nevada has been completed to the 1400 toot foot level thero there is now a quarter ln arter of a mile of shafting shading from tho the surface down into the bowels of tile tho earth upon tho the numerous town sites surrounding porcupine out ont lake inke there dwell today probably 1500 people 00 in each settlement there la Is another 1000 working steadily in tho the mines and prospects of whitney and tisdale to townships ans ps As a result of tho the organization last december of the wyoming Oll mena niena association a dpn company has L lcou beau cou incorporated to construct 1 iio lines and lito rago tunica and market the product of tho the central INy wyoming omIng oil fields the total gold production of tho the valdez creek district up to 1910 Is approximately the most productive part of balaez creek proper Is in the lower two or three miles ot of its course and includes about ono one mile of tile tho li stream tream shipments from tintic tile tho past week amounted to carloads about the same as the previous week once more iron blossom led the van nv with ith forty six beating centennial eureka by four cirs cars colorado comes third with sixteen cars tho the news comes from valdez valde alaska that tho the gold hungry hordo horde Is fast filling this staid old town and the militant keen keence eydi stranger can call already count beads with tho the old ti almo nio feeling that the latter has but a slight advantage in number the announcement Is made by tho the management manag ment of tho the national mines miles company of the erection of a larger mill for the treatment of the large broken bodies and those larger ore reserves that are the possession of tho the owners of this great property says the miner despite the recent rich quartz strikes there remain a largo large number who he hold that district in alaska w will become an immense dredging field and it Is these who no ao a o making an effort to tle tie up every available aero acre of what Is deemed deeme d gravel the edmunds edmunda sc schloss lease on tho the mayflower has encountered tho the real high grade it was blasted into at noon hoisted as muck and later found distributed on the dump says the national nev miner miller the evid ence la 13 such as to promise another big producer in the national camp golconda nevada nineteen miles east of winnemucca and tile tho distributing point on tho the southern pacific and western pacific railroads for tile tho gold run mining district one of tile tho rich mineral belts of the state Is again on the move and much activity is shown there at the present time the old bingham consolidated smelter at Alid vale utah Is to be dismantled and disposed of this plant cost a million dollars and was coned down because of suits for damage filed by farmers in the valley who claimed that their crops were destroyed by the fumes from the smelt ers with a capitalization of and numbering among its stockholders workingmen at mcgloi AleGI II tho the DY IDY I illipah mining milling filling and smelting smelling Sm elting company is the latest concern to enter the local mining field articles of incorporation having been filed in tho the clerks off office tee says the E ely ly nev expositor the necessity of utah mining men taking an immediate and si sincere interest in the coming of congress con gresa to revise the tariff schedules was waa emphasized hy by john dern bern in an all interview with the salt lako lake tribune mr dern takes the stand lie ho does both its as a mining operator and as president of the american mining lining Al tigress congress co the savage man at cobalt ont which has been steadily producing ounces of sliver silver a month jumped to ounces last month and although this record may not bo be maintained during the year yet the th management ia gement confidently anticipates anticipate hat diat well over three quarters of a million ounces will bo be the result of this years operations it Is reported that operations will be resumed at the property of tho the utah uta bIVyon wyoming ing consolidated oil company which owns ground in the big horns basin wyoming tho the well to bo be finished Is n jv w down 1435 1 feet in shale some oil and gas have been encountered the information comes from an inside source that the stripping operations at the chino calno copper property prop eity in new mexico are so tar far advanced that the steam shovel work Is being eased up a bit a portion being used on stripping only during the daytime |