Show MINES HINES AND MINING i the united states smelling smelting Sm elting corn colet 4 puny fumy Is now producing copper from its ita own properties at vie rate of t pounds per annum with a primitive stationed in fit the backyard of 0 tilt hid homo in the ho dist district flet thomas wat wab king hins father of tile the district Is treating and pounds of oro ore a 0 adny from which lie ho 40 and 60 in gold streaks of at tale talc panning gold freely havo como come into the shaft of tile the troughs humboldt colip company any ut at tha depth of 85 foot feet at tho the depth of foot another crosscut cross cut will be run and front from present indications a good body of ore should bo be encountered tho the well of tho the mt it nebo 0 oil ll 11 coal corn pany tit in the juab vil oil field ling nt at tattled tho the depth of 1580 foot with war work continuing in favorable forma tion hon tho the artesian well which la Is being sunk tor for tho state in dog valley tile ho drilling rig of the juab oil company being used tit in tho the work la Is down feet latest report from troughs Is that a six days run of alio huntington mill recently installed on the ift T lease yielded ounces of amalgam two thirds of which would bo be metal about equally divided in weight between gold and silver silve r this moana that the cleanup wa woud hild ho be worth ut least 2000 A district two and a halt miles wide 1 by six miles long which Is virtual virtually lil one vast deposits deposit of copper has been discovered near kamloops Kam loops 13 0 about miles east cast of vancouver vi and miles north of tho the boundary ine tho the disco are claiming 1 lt to bo be the greatest copper discovery in tho the world preparations arg are bang anadel to blow in tile tho smelter atLo at loehl ruhl idaho within the next sixty days tho he mines of that region ila have y c be been 0 a pit piling 1 ng up tip their ores in dumps and bins in anticipation of the opening of the ille smelter so that there Is no doubton doubt of there being sufficient tonnage at hand to assure assur oa a long run I 1 tho the vulcan shipbuilding works of stettin germany affiliated with th tho krupp steel works placed an order in tile tho domestic market last week for A large tonnage of electrolytic coppa to be shipped in february four fou other orders from german copper coppe r consumers and factor are reported by local copper producers the coal industry in tho the united states has grown with amazing rapidity since 1890 when this country wrested the supremacy from th dufils ed kingdom its coal output has in creased so that at present we aro are producing upward of tons long more each year thau tho the united kingdom our nearest competitor the gold discovery made a few months ago by charles Is dovel in a way which gives promise of adding an important se cetton to the pioche belt at the depth of feet mr rives has exposed a well defined quartz ledge twenty and twenty live five feet wide which yields for its en tire fire width gold values of 7 imd 8 a ton the william B thompson interests largely centered in ely have decided upon building a railroad front from ely to goldgleid goldfield according to the boston news bureau and a surveying party will immediately enter the held to im prove upon the present survey the new road willbe miles in length and will cost between and tho the copper alver railroad jointly owned by J P morgan co and the has been competed compte ted from cordova alaska to a point above abercromble abercrombie rapids on tho the copper river a distance of about fifty tour four miles tho the road will aid in the early development of the great mth o ing region of the upper copper and abid Ch chilina chitina itina rivers I 1 As the result of a decision by judge hunt of helena the farmers lose their case against the anaconda amel ter and the smelter will not be compelled to close down the case has cost more than halt half a million dollars since fince the farmers decided their crops were being destroyed by the fumes from the smelter and brought suit sult to put it out of business thomas thomaa mcfarlane McF arIane a mining man of at san bernardino cal claims he has haa tit it last made the long expected discoe cry of a diamond aulne in that county ills find Is on the high mountains which fringe death valley at a pot point at where inhere he can look upon mt alt whitney probably iru bably the highest mount mountain aln in the country and down to the lowest point on in the continent the pit of deith death valley alley according to a report which seems to 0 be well based senator guggenheim Gugg as maile made the statement that should there here be any legislation in colorado which affected his company adversely he 10 would shut down all the smelters shelters sm elters in n tho the state says the mining science of t denver the combination fraction mine controlled sont rolled by george wingfield and senator george S nixon lias taken ver over the mill of the nevada goldfield reduction deduction company on a long lease ind and will use the mill for the radul tion ion and sampling of all ores taken from rom the mine |