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Show MINES AND MINING During tho months of January and February the production ot eoppor has been low, owing to tho sovoro weather and shortage ot coal. Everything new points In tho direction direc-tion of one of the greatest copper mining booms tho country ever saw In tho Ycrlngton, Nevada, district. The Michigan crowd that now controls con-trols tho Sheba property at Mill City. Nor., Is rapidly rounding Hint proposition propo-sition Into shape for heavy production produc-tion and earnings. More than $2,000,000 has been spent by the big mining companies ot the Robinson mining district of Ncvndn during tho last twelvo months for extension purposes. A number of Important mining deals are pending at Halloy, Idaho, which, whou consummated, will put a number num-ber of tho older mines ot this district again on tho nctivo list, One-fifth of tho world's production of copper, or 300,000,000 pounds annually, an-nually, Is the estimated capacity ol Calumet & Hocla within tho next few years under Its present policy ol progress and expansion. Tho most Important asset of tho Cnlumot & Hecla Is tho old Calumet conglomerate, so called, which hus roturned In tho thirty-six years of Its successful mineral netlvlty $110,-000,000 $110,-000,000 in profits to the company. Tho prediction Is mado by nn enthusiast en-thusiast from Wonder, Nevada, that within tho next sixty days one of tho biggest booms in tho history ot Nevada Ne-vada will take place In this camp and run tho population woll beyond tho 2,000 mark. In what Is known as the G01 north crosscut on the 000-foot level of the Cactus bonanza of tho Newhoust Mines company, machlno drills are ploughing their way through ore which the dally samplo assays show to bo averaging 21.G per cent copper Prominent stockholders of tho UIs cult Mining company, of Cherry Creek, Nevada, confirm tho reported strlkt of splendid proportions upon the SCO-foot SCO-foot level of this mine, and that each foot thut Is gained by tho management upon this deep level Is sending .the workings Into liner quality or re sources. The Daiy-West mine, it Park City, Utah, at the present time lifts Its milling mill-ing ores all tho way from 1,000 to 1,-G50 1,-G50 feet through a perpendicular shaft, puts it through the mill and then drops the product down the mine again and send It out through the Ontario 000-foot tunnel to tho loading station at the old Ontario mill. Thomas W. Lawson has started out on an advertising campaign to boom Nevada-Utah stock. Ho Is publishing a four-column ad to announce that he has his engineers Investigating the proporty, but In the meantime will uuuiu urn .u,..j in me market on tho supposition that engineer's reports will bear out his expectations. At. a meeting of the Nevada Consolidated, Con-solidated, licit! In Portland, Maine, tho shareholders voted to ratify tho sale st u ono-lialf Interest In the Nevada Northern railroad to tho Cumberland-Ely Cumberland-Ely Copper company. This- uctlon was merely formal and followed the Issu-nnco Issu-nnco of now stock by the Cumberland-Ely somo time since. I). W. 101 1 1 h has sold tho Bonanza group of nlno claims south of tilt. Gorean proporty and adjoining tho Velvet group, near Ely, to Francis Sherrard and Christian Hormenson, Kly Investors, Tor $20,000 cash. The Velvet group, adjoining the Bonanza group, was recently cold by tho Pho-by Pho-by brothers for $30,000. Out ot the numerous meetings held nt Colorado Springs to consider ways and menus for beginning tho work on tho deep draitiago tunnel at Cripple Creek has cdmo at last a definite decision de-cision to proceed with the money now uvnllablo and trust to tho llborality of bonellclaries who liavo not yet entered the list, to plank down tho remainder nt tho proper time. Tho Idaho Consolidated Mining company luis reached n depth of 1C0 feet In tho shaft being driven In tho Relief claim, near Dellevue, nnd expect ex-pect to go 15 feet furthor. A largo shipment of the latest model machinery machin-ery Is now en routo nnd a largo forco of men will probably bo put to work In tho near future. A well known mining engineer says: "Tho only limit to mining netlvlty, ne-tlvlty, In the west Ih the Inability to get matorlals for construction, coal for power, and labor for tho mines and mills. Thero Is no oilier cloud on tho horizon that anybody actually at work can soo. Wo dig tho money out of tho ground there, so that wo don't have to ask for now monoy, except ex-cept for promotion." Two loads of Wondor district ore, consigned to tho Selby smelting works at Valiojo, Cal., wore sent out on tho 21st of this month by the Vulturo Mining Min-ing company. Fully 200 people choor-od choor-od uh tho Blilpinont sturtcd on' Its way, Tho ore will run from $100 to $G00 a ton. The Red Klophant, at Halley, Idaho, Is producing steadily. At Bullion the Ophlr, Jny Gould and Bullion mines, which have been Idle for years, wll,' bu again opened In tho spring, and it Is confidently predicted that that camp will soon equal her old-time production. |
