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Show MINES AND MINING Tho Mohawk mine, at Goldflcld, Nevada, Ne-vada, has produced eight millions ot dollars worth of oro slnco April. Manhattan, Nevada, closely resembles re-sembles tho enmp of Bullfrog In that It Is a great milling proposition. H. P. Madden has bonded for $10,000 the group of seven mining claims owned by Morris Roberts and Anthony An-thony Jurlch at Ely, Nevada. An authority on mines, who Is familiar fam-iliar with the Sonoru field, says that tho output of copper In Sonera, Mexico, Mexi-co, for 190C, amounted to 179,000,000 pounds. Tho big Grccnwnter merger, that has been talked of for sdhio time, has been consummated. Tho new company com-pany will have a capitalization of $25,-000,000, $25,-000,000, with 5,000,00(1 shares. . It Is stated that In tho Keano Wondor company's mlno In Death Vol-loy, Vol-loy, $C50,000 worth of oro has nlicady been blocked out, and tho freo milling will average better than $18. It Is now a certainty that a combination combin-ation of Interests In tho Manhattan district will erect a great custom milling mill-ing plant this coming spring, or ns soon us weather conditions will allow. Oro that assays 175 ounces In silver sil-ver and 15 per cent lend has been struck by Henry Wollnnd and Joseph Fostor on their Victor claim about three-fourths ot a mile cast of Plochc, Novada. Janunry 3 was a happy day for tho Consolidated Mcrcur company and a portion of their employees, for two of tho battery of six roaBtcrs at Mercur wore placed In commission after a close-down of sovoral days. During tho past year moro annual assessment work was performed In tho Deep Creek district than bofore In any flvo years combined. This condition has been brought nbout by ossuranco that tho Western Pacific railroad will bo completed to shipping points with- In the early months of tho presont year. A good old-fashioned stampede Is on toward tho now copper und gold district known as Mizpah, Ely and surrounding Nevada points providing tho material for making this rush as picturesque as Is usually the case In Novnda. The Mizpah district Is located lo-cated six miles east of Spruce, northwest north-west of tho Dolly Varden section. E. P. Jennings, a mining engineer, gives so mo extremely Interesting figures fig-ures in his report regarding tho probable prob-able earnings of the Nevada Douglas. Taking the daily capacity at 1,000 tons of 3t& por cent copper oro, after deducting de-ducting all expense, tho annual profit of tho company will bo $2,700,000, or mora than 00 per cent of the company's com-pany's capitalization. By a vote of threo to one. tho members mem-bers ot the Butto Mill & Smolter-men's Smolter-men's union havo decided to mako a demand on tho management ot tho Boston & Montana smelter for an Increase In-crease of 50 cents n dny for all employes em-ployes who work on chnngo shifts In tho various departments. The men nre at present, nnd have been for soveral years, receiving $3 a day. Mines valued at over $20,000,000 In the Bullfrog district of Novnda wero awarded to E. A. Montgomery by Judgo Suwcll ot San Francisco, Inst week agnlnst the claims of C. B. Flemmlng, who had sued for a half interest hecauso of a dispute In tho grub-stnko agreement. It Is now stated stat-ed that tho properties will bo trans-fered trans-fered to Charles Schwab, the steel king. "To those who hnvo supposed that tho Comstock lodo Is worked out, It may bo of Intorest to state that tho actual production from thu Ophlr mlno nlone, during tho past week," says Superintendent Su-perintendent Franklin Leonard, Jr., in a recently submitted roport, "amounted to seventy cars of ore, assaying as-saying $94 por ton; thirty-six cars assaying as-saying $33 per ton; soventy-flvo cars assaying $22 per ton, making a total of 231 cars ot high grado oro. Tho deposits of tho Yerlngton district dis-trict nro classed as "contuct metamor-phlo metamor-phlo oro deposits" by tho economic geologists, and may bo described ns masses of metamorphosed und minor-ullzed minor-ullzed limestone resting upon nn Intru-slvo Intru-slvo granite, tho granite having furnished fur-nished tho necessary heat and heated mineralized solutions lequlrcd to convert tho adjacent limestone Into a massive gnrnotlforous rock Impregnated Impreg-nated with copper ore. Tho richest shipment of oro ever sont to market from any mining camp on earth wns a lot of fifty tons expressed ex-pressed from tho Hayes nnd Monnette leaso on tho Mohawk at Goldfleld, last week. Tho consignment Is valued at ono million dolars. Six armed guards accompanied tho ore, which went t the Solby smelter near San Francisco. Express charges were eight thousand dollam. Twenty sacks of the shipment ship-ment wero filled with ore worth fifty fif-ty thousand dollars per ton, Word from tho eaBt Ih to tho effect that strong Pennsylvania men ot monoy had decided upon building a railroad Into Manhattan, Nevada, from Austin Aus-tin or Tonopah, tho points ot easiest approach from a railroad builder's standpoint. On tho cast shore of the Walker Lako, In Nevada, about a mile from Walker Station, a grout copper belt has been exposed. There ure phices on this b-slt where the average assay from fifty feet bus returned ns high ns C per cent. |