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Show MINES AND MINING ltawhldo, tho new Novada gold camp, has been connected with tho outsldo world by telegraph, Tho Granny Copper company, In Canada, Is again operating to almost full capacity, but tho other boundry smelters are still closed down. In December De-cember all the boundry smelters wero shut down. Wonder nnd Fnlrvlow, booming mining towns a year ago, aro practically prac-tically desortcd today. A hundred or more, practically all tho towns contained, con-tained, started across tho hills last week for ltawhldo. Tho estimated production of copper In January was 2,000,000 pounds In excess ex-cess of tho December production, but 18,000,000 pounds behind January last year, and 30,000,000 pounds less than the normal monthly output. Ono thousnnd miners employed by tho Crcrar Clinch Coal company of Chicago, went on strlko at Duquoln, 111., last week. Tho trouble originated over tho prlco of powder which tho operators havo been selling to tho miners. Tho Doston News Durcau figures tho production of copper in tho United States, Mexico and Canada for tho month of January at 65,000,000 pounds, comparing with 84.93G.143 pounds in January, 1907, and 97,29G,400 pounds In January, 1900. ltawhldo foyer Is fast causing tho depopulation of tho town of Ely, so far ns Idlo men nro concerned, every man who Is not working, and many who are, determining to size up tho now enmp for himself, to ecc Just what thcro Is to it. Ore shipments In pounds for tho week ending February 1G, from Park Ctly, wero as follows: Daly-Judge, 374,000; Silver King. 372,740; total, 740,740 pounds. Tho total shipments for the month from tho Silver King wero 1,352,040 pounds. A circular has been Issued In which It Is stated that tho mills will bo working full capacity by Juno 1, nnd that tho Utah Copper company Is then assured a production of 55,000,-000 55,000,-000 pounds per annum at a cost of 8 cents a pound, Including nil refining, transportation nnd Belling charges of tho refined output. It Is planned to have the milling plnnt at Maglll, Nevada, handling not less than 10,000 tons of ore a day before be-fore tho end of tho year, and, Including Includ-ing tho crudo oro from tho Veteran mlno and other sources, tho Bmcltlng works will bo reducing to bullion possibly pos-sibly 5,000 tons of copper-bearing product. pro-duct. That the rumored developments ot tho Glroux Consolidated Copper company com-pany will bo carried out, their plans including building additional concentrator concen-trator facilities, Installing a long plpo lino for securing water for lt, opening their townslto project in tho early spring, is tho latest reports from Ely, Novada. Tho climax of tho boom at naw-hide, naw-hide, Nevada, camo last Friday with , tho announcement that Balloon and Grutt hills oro practically n solid mass of free milling gold oro. Tho townslto is located on tho two richest claims In tho district, and lot owners havo transformed their dwolllngs Into mining claims. Clarcnco Eddy, who hns been making mak-ing tests to verify IiIb theory that tho sunken bed of Death valley contains sufficient vnluo in precious motals to mako it all a dredging proposition, has received returns ot an analysis made in Oakland, Cal., resulting In -$2.30 gold and silver per cubic yard nnd values in aluminum. Tho first 2,000-ton unit of tho concentrating con-centrating mill at Maglll, Novada, Is practically finished, and work Is being crowded on four more sections, all of which will bo ready to go Into commission commis-sion by tho tlmo tho first 1,500-ton unit of tho great Bmolter works Ib ready to recolvo oro, about tho end ot Juno or curly In July. Thomas F. Keeloy, the mlllloualro Chicago operator, mado final payment last week In tho sum of $50,000 for the McGnrry group of twenty-four lodo and ono placer iron claims In tho Iron Springs district, Iron county. Tho total sum paid for tho property was $225,500. This undoubtedly means blast furnnces and mills for this district. dis-trict. At tho meeting of tho directors of tho Novndo-Utah Minos nnd SmclterB corporation held In Portland, Mo., on tho 13th, it was voted by stockholders stockhold-ers to tako back 200,000 shares of tho stock Issued to an individual who cannot can-not pay for them. President Lcnrnard says important negotiations nro now pending of great ultimate benefit to stockholders. James F. Durns, defendant in the famous suit brought by James Doylo and involving a claim for stock In tho Portland Gold Mining company, amounting to nearly ono million dollars, dol-lars, has filed n motion In tho district court at Council Dluffa, Iowa, for iv change of venue. The Doylo-Durns caso has been twlco tried before n Jury, the verdict in tho first trial having hav-ing been for Doylo und In tho second and Inst trlnl for Hums. Dcforo tho Jury trials Doylo took Judgment by do-fault do-fault for ovor $780,000. Tho-nows comes from Mnglll, Novada, No-vada, that tho great stretch of steel trcstlo on tho road that connects tho minus ot Ely with tho big milling nud smelting works of tho Nevada Consolidated Consoli-dated and Cumberland-Ely companies' has been finished ami tho doublo track laid. A report has been received from tho Novada-Douglas mines nt Yorlngton, Nov., that n largo, now body of sulphide sul-phide ore, averaging 7 ,per cent copper, cop-per, has boon encountered In tho 550-foot 550-foot level, Oro Is being taken out on tho 500-foot level which averages 26 per cent capper. |