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Show THE CITIZEN METAL MINING. remained stationary the past the exception of silver, (k with near the 72 cent mark, Ujj ig selling (demand for metals in the market steady with a bright future ahead, pividend paying stocks are soaring g , on the local stock exchange. Coalition has passed the ten jr mark and the Tintic Standard risen to a new level. A demand the cheaper stocks is being created m unusual purchase and all bids There is a de-j- d r (0r future mining. for Bingham Metals but very in sight for transfer. is the opinion generally that every which can show ore will make strides in stock price advances, of metals, it ith the present price a not take much ore to make mon-- , hence the rush for all such stocks. ls Sil-gin- s lit-stoc- k All of Bingham is practically pocketed and seamecl with large bodies of ore, principally copper, lead and silver. Park City has never produced so much ore as at present and the Silver King Coalition expects to make in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 this year. Eureka is developing new properties. Many of the older properties producing large tonnage, with the Tintic Standard leading in silver-leaores. Many prospectors are going out into the hills these days trying to locate new propei ties. It would not be surprising to see one or more new mining camps brought forward in the search for gold. d It ine ENGINEERING REPORT ON COLORADO RIVER. The Department of the Interior has just issued a comprehensive report on Colorado River as a result of engineering studies by the Geological Survey. The author is E. C. LaRue, hydraulic engineer, who has made a study of the river during the last fifteen years, in the course of which he has made boat trips aggregating nearly 2,000 miles along the river and its major tributaries, including the whole of the Grand Canyon. Less than half a century after the discovery of America by Columbus a Spanish expedition sailed up the Gulf of California and explored the lower reaches of Colorado river. It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century, however, that the river began to play an important part in the development of the West. After the Mexican war the lower 300 or 400 miles of the stream was explored in detail, and in 1869 Major John Wesley Powell traversed by boat the then wholly unknown canyons through which it flows 9 from Colorado to Nevada. Prior to on the lower the Civil war boats reaches of the river afforded means of transportation for a large region in the southwest that was then difficult of access. This navigation persisted railroads were until constructed through Arizona and southern California late in the ninetrans-continent- al teenth century. The basin of the Colorado, which affords the second latest concentration r of irrigable lands and sites in the United States, has for the climate most part an arid or semi-arland irrigation is therefore required for the production of profitable crops. Irrigation in the basin has been extended slowly but steadily until more than a third of the land irrigable from Colorado river is now receiving water. With the river as now regulated the present irrigation, consumes the entire low water flow, and in occasional dry years there is a water shortage. Further development of irrigation is therefore dependent on storage of flood waters and regulation of discharge. The power resources of the unColorado are as yet practically touched, but a heavy demand for electric energy in the southwest, which has resulted in the development and use fo power sites nearby, is now about to force a rapid development of all available power sites on the Colorado within reasonable transmission distance of the markets. As with irrigation, so with power, less than a third of tlie potential energy can be developed unless storage of flood waters and regulation of discharge are prowater-powe- d vided for. Colorado river at present is not only a source of water supply for hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Arizona and California, but a menace to these lands. In 1905 the river, as it had done intermittently in the past, EVANS A EARLY Funeral DIreetore 48 South 8tate 8troet Telephone Waeatoh 6616 ABSTRACTER Thomas Homer, ab-stract- er, moved from 620 Newhouse Building to 404 So. State Street, (ground floor) opposite City & County Building. FREE 5 Tube Radio Set FREE Send self-addresse- d, ed envelope m ( Utah Copper Ore Train leaving Bingham, one of Utah's historic mlr.lng camps. stamp- for full partic- ulars regarding this OFFER RADIOTEX CO. 296 Broadway New York, N. Y. |