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Show MINES AND MINING At tho nnnual mooting of tho Horn Sllvor company In Salt Lake City tho number of directors was lncreasod from bovoii to nine. At tho annual meeting of tho Horn Sllvor company In Salt Lake City tho number of directors was increased frdm seven to nlno. During tho recent Mexican troubles tho rumor was spread In tho cast that tho Heal del Monto properties of tho United Smelting & Itcllnlng company wero in dnngcr. This Is known now to havo been false. Tho Daly-Judgo company of Park City, Utah, has Just Installed a new tablo in tho bnsemcnt of tho plant and this is being utilized to sco what saving might bo expected from tho treatment of tho slimes. Tho story of gold mining in Alaska during tho last twenty years has been largely tho record of her rich placer floldtf. Now It is assured that additional addi-tional and Interesting chapters will bo added to tho splendid story by tho : activity of hor lode miners. ! A. now copper lodge has been; uncovered uncov-ered on Knight's- Island, Alaska, Tho 'Island la located In Ptlnco Wllllmm sound and. off Cordova. Report status that a splendid showing; hns already boon- made,, nnd thn property will be worked.. Wlllnrd. Scott and' ChnrJea G"ott,. of i Valdez, Alaska, recently njturned iy that camp, bringing in samples of rich-gold rich-gold benring ore. Thtty had found It in n ledgu eighteen Inches thick, along, tho west sldo of tho Tlskol rlvor and located flvo claims. Tho Boston News Bursaui lias pro-pared pro-pared figures showing tliat from tho high point of lftlO to tht recent loir prlcos. thoro. has boon a depreciation) of $222,473,848 In tho marltot value oC thirty-four of Boston's prominent coif por specialties. Tho Turkish minister of (tnanco has: ordered from Schwerto, in Hstphalla,. 928 tons of nickel, valued ntt flvo million mil-lion marks. It Is to'bo used fn coining flftcon million francs' worth of nickel money to replacn tha copper coinage, which Is to bo ubollshcd throughout tho Turkish empire. Men employed1 on tho Cbpptnr Illver & Northwestern Uulldlng into tho Im terlor of Alaska,, located some gold In tho gravel pit it mllo post IAS and tho ground was staked out for. rnllcs around. Tho gold was broughttup by tho mammoth scoop of tho steam, shovel workings In) tho pit. Tho Tonopah Miner says Mint at tho monthly mooting of thoMlirectow of tho Tonopah-Bclniont Development company, hold In Philadelphia laBt Monday, tho regular quarterly dividend divi-dend of 15 cents por shara was declared, de-clared, payable Jnnuary 2. Tiuls i.alls for tho dlsbusomont of $225,000,, Uicro being 1,500,000 shares Issued. Oil has been, disfavored on. the Kyak river a few mile3 from Cordova, Alaska. Tho last named polhti Is tho port of southwestern Alaska whoro tho now Copper River & Nortlxwcstorn railroad starts for tho Interior. OIL had previously been located at IOu-talla, IOu-talla, which' Is on tho coast tw tho east of Cordova,. In fact oil seepages are roportod on the coast tor rallies In. that region. Tho unexpected Increase- In copper production during the month of October Oc-tober was due, It has ben. said, to tho transferring of Bomo of tho accumulated accu-mulated motal of tho summer months to tho visible column, and there arc sevoral eastern, authorities who believe be-lieve tho samo thing will bo seen In tho figures to bo released wlthtn tho next few days for tho month of November. No-vember. At Dawson? tho wonderful camp on tho Yukon In t Yukon T., tho largest dredgo In tho world has been placed in commission. It belongs to tho Canadian Ca-nadian Klondike company, and Is ono of Its Hoot now In tho big rlvor of tho north engaged In digging gravol and Blftlng tho golden trensuro from tho doposlts of ages. Tho construction was begun in August and tho boat completed In November. IV The Cordova AJa'stmn s8jys. that . mining deal of considerable Importance to Cordova has Just beon consummated, consum-mated, which means that tho gold .ledges f)lm the McKlnloy lake district v havo attracted tho attention of mining imonjfrom the states and will now be worked on an extensive scale. Tho production of gold In Alaska In 1909 amounted to $20,403,000, which was larger than in any prior year with tho exception of 190G. Tho excitement ex-citement over mineral discoveries In tho Indltarod cauBod many operators and minors to loavo tho Fairbanks district, and for that reason tho total production of gold for Alaska may bo Bomowhat smaller this year than It was In 1909. "Tho Garilold Smelting company In proparlng to handlo an Increased ton-nago ton-nago from Utah Copper mines. Flros aro to bo kindled under tho sixth ro-verboratory ro-verboratory fumaco this week, which will give tho plant an additional capa-( capa-( city of 300 tons dally, f -'- |