Show MINES AND there are to men employed employ eil this winter in the dozen active mines in the bullion district in nevada and at hill top mining operations around juneau alaska aro are in good shape bigger companies are putting money into propositions there every day the government la Is planning to build 2501 boo worth of buildings at juneau during the coming year reports from ohio copper at bingham are to the effect that the month dt bf february has proven to be the most profitable in the history of the company in fact that 20 per cent increase will be shown in returns the ore bonti continues to improve what happens to be a copper strike of importance was recently made at the rico wellington mine anine at rico colo this Is the property which utah ah people took over last summer later the knight interests came in hild tor for control assumed the bond the little bonanza asphalt mine hear vernal utah Is putting out about aboaf pounds of asphalt dally daily the he present shipping la Is normal and will be kept up throughout the year it Is possible that another mine will be opened near tho the bonanza in the very near future the Katten harm brothers a short time ago drove a tunnel in their prop erty in the bullion nevada district late into eighteen inches of silver ore which assayed 2000 a ton this tunnel was in only seventy five feet the ore Is being sacked now the kroup group consists of three claims reports from are to tho the effect that tor for the last thirty or forty teet feet the north drift from the foot level of swansea has been looking much better at times the whole face being in ore the value of the ore la Is roughly estimated at 20 a ton but some places it la Is much higher last lasi week the tonopah mining company shipped tons the belmont company 2000 tons the mon alan tana tonopah tons the tonopah extension tons the west end tons ions and the mcnamara tons making the total production for the week tons the estimated value being J W kromer and richard hampton old time cripple creek mining men last week relocated the relief and silver top mines in the old relief district about twenty five anes anea northeasterly from lovelock nev in the humboldt range and in prospecting the ground have brought to light some excel excellent leni ore finding even picked samples of 1248 ore in a fourteen foot shaft Is not an every day occurrence in mining by any means but this was the recent experience of the president of the bullion mountain mining alining company la in bullion district lander county twenty six miles southeast of battle mountain nevada probably never before in the history of alta and the cottonwoods Cotton woods has fias such rich sulphide ore been taken out as was discovered in a strike made in the alta consolidated last week ore from the rich streak assayed ounces silver 20 cents gold and 07 per cent at present prices this runs between and a ton it this country was only in colorado or nevada or somewhere else it would simply be swarming with prospectors this is the way two prominent mining men expressed their opinion of some of the mining country down in deaver beaver county utah after having spent several days in in down around the granite and newton districts with the mine opened up to a depth of teet feet and estimating tops of ore blocked out which should net from 43 3 to as high as a ton and the branch railroad to be completed to the mine by may 1 when an output of not less than ions tons ot of ore a day will be made at af airs of the prince consolidated at nevada look very rosy right now manhattans Manhat tans klondyke the placer diggings which stretch along the main gulch from the lower end of the town to the edge of smoke valloy valley la Is now one of the most active and profitable portions pardons of the district and there is scarcely a block of ground for a distance of nearly five miles that is not under development and producing pay gravel that yields from rom 4 to 15 per yard with occasional blots that give even greater values those best acquainted with condl eions in nevada have long contended that the state presents as bright an outlook for the year as may bo be found i in any of the mining states new cardias have made their appearance during the past year but of far greater importance the older camps campa axe are making a larger production the hg amount of work being done la Is rapidly increasing and in all the outlook li A brighter brighten tei than it has been in a 10 long aa ame says the winnemucca star |