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Show MINES AND MININGE H Tho recently announced discovery of largo gold deposits In tho East Humboldt range, In Nevada, and of which Tiptop Is tho ccntor, Is attract-Ing attract-Ing a big crowd of prospectors and In- I.dnsers on ttio Diamond Queen com-pany's com-pany's proporty nt Dcatty, In tho Dull' frog district, nre marketing ore In Salt I.ako City that is runnlngrhlgh. B A carload sold a fow days ago carried (217 In gold por ton. 'H III 1007 alone the production of iron) ore in tho United States was 63,000.-000 63,000.-000 tons, or more than 1,200 pounds' for each man, woman nnd child of our 8,000,000 population. And tho produc- tlon is steadily Increasing. H Tho Initial discovery In tho lip Top district pr Nevada was mado Inst Au gust by Mrs. Donald McCarthy, for-morly for-morly n dancing teacher of Coloradb, who a year ngo turned to prospecting.. jt She, however, kept her And a close- lecret until nbout two months ago. isH Dr. L. A. Crandall, tho noted oil' expert, declines that around Junbi oil will bo encountered at tho Bhallow dopth of 360 feet In 400 to 660-barrcl quantities, whllo working to a depth of 2,000 foot no less than six oil-bear-Ing strata will be encountered. Word from Plocho brings tidings of n fino Btrlko of lead and silver oro on tho property of tho Nevada Plocho Mines company. At a depth of 400-feet 400-feet tho management has encountered seventeen feet of tho ore, nnd It Is ono-of ono-of tho real excitement breeders of the season there. Pleading guilty to tho charge of promoting fraudulent mining schemes by the use of tho malls, John O'Hnrp fl was sentenced In tho United Stntci fl district court at Denver to sorvo one day In tho county jntl and to pay b-fino b-fino of $600. Tho prosecuting nttor noy recommended n light sentence. Another splendid mining property In Denver county that has been en-Joying en-Joying a Illp Van Winkle sleep for bov-cral bov-cral ycarB will bo In nctlvo operation again before tho end of tho present month, according to tho Salt Lake Herald. It Is tho old Washington company's property In Loebcr gulch. Not before tho first of July will Ce United States Smelting, Roflnlng & Mining company rcsumo operations nt Its lead smelter in Utah. In tho mean- tlmo tho company Is oxpcndlng In tho neighborhood of $100,000 In In- stalling apparatus which will permit operations under tho decree of tho Utah courts. A most Important bit of news to 1 silver miners Is tho decision of tho CJormnn government to rcsumo tho-colnago tho-colnago of silver on a scalo that will call for 40,000,000 ounces of Oliver an- BJ nunlly for tho noxt flvo years. Tills will absorb 10 por cent or tho total amount of silver that comes upon tho opon markoL Tip Top, In the East Humboldt H rnngo, In Nevada, Is said to ho nn H Ideal "poor man's" camp, Just what H tho wcll-lnformod prospectors of tho west havo been looking for during tho last ten .years. Prospects show nt twonty to thirty feet depth paying H quantities or ore worth $160 to $20U por ton In gold. .M Probably tho most important strllto of tho winter In tho Deep Crcok conn-try conn-try has been mado in tho Clifton Cop-per Cop-per Dolt company's ground. A ilvo- fl foot ledgo has been opened up, tho mass averaging $16 in gold, 6.C9 per cent copper, 12.23 por cent bismuth. 1.69 per cent tin and .62 per cent nickel por ton. On Wcdonsday of last wcok tho-management tho-management of tho Utah Mines rc-eclved rc-eclved a check for $2,106.71, In pay- ment for tho last car or ore received" in the local market. Tho oro as- B9 sayed- 206 ounces silver and 47 per cent lead, calling for $120. 40, per ton. Thoro wcro 62:704 pounds dry weight' HI In tho conslKnmont. Bfl It Is stntcd In Doston that thero le no longer a' I.nwsonlan connection with Nevada-Utah. There are be-tween be-tween 12.000 and 13,000 stockholders la' this corporation, and tho leading lu Bfl tcrcsta belluvo that tho company Is AS. now prepared to stand on Its merits. It Is shipping from forty to sixty car loads of oro por month from its. I'locliQ properties. HJ When tho republic was founded, 'Hi thoro were, according to recent export estimates, approximately 2,000,000,-000,000 2,000,000,-000,000 tons of coal In tho territory-now territory-now forming tho United States, l'rac-tlcnlly l'rac-tlcnlly nono of this supply was use)' for over a quarter of n century; but (luring tho seventy-live yeam from MB :S20 to 1895 nearly 4,000,000,000,000-tons 4,000,000,000,000-tons wore mined. y . JHI Coal consumption Is Increasing nt' "jflj nn astonishing rnto. During tho , 9H rlod for which statistics havo been gathered, It has doubled during oach wp docado; of 1ato It has more than vf? doubled. In 1907 tho production was ilfa about 450,000,000 tons. At tho pro3- $$f ont rata of Increnso the production, In. Sstf. 1917 will bo 900,000,000 toiiB. JM Tho richest oro over seen in- th'e 'TyW IJullfrog district was Broken Into. last week nt a Icaso on tho Natlonnl Rank ST'd ground. Tho shaft at a depth of toe" foot bIiowb a three-foot vein of ore -IE'4 'I which Is spotted and' seamed' with 'ffir, free gold. Twenty-live thousand dol -IS,' lars Is a conservative estimate for ifvlf tho rlchor portion of tho vein.- Tho total production of Iron oro lc otL' tho United States up to 1800. was r1 Bonio 275,000,000 tonsr in. tho next. ton years, it wna nearly 200,000,000; and In tho bovoii yenrs trom 1901 to 1U07 1 H'y:. more, than 270,000,000.000 tons woro KsJ produced, or nearly as much as ttio total for tho llrst century of our his Ijy tory. Within .a fow dayu the Juab , Oil ,iU company will havo ono of tho finest wj drilling rigs that was ovor turned out , by the KoyutoiiQ company boring for- Hi oil within 1 .200 feet of tho railroad Ab station or Juab, on tho San Pedro Unit-in Unit-in Juub couuty. |