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Show MINES AND MINING The exIStenvt) of oil In Keiiador, In great quantities In, reported by Walter M. llrodle In the Knglneerlng nnd Mln-lug.Jotirnnl, Mln-lug.Jotirnnl, Active work on tlio Jnvnn copper mines, Contact, Nov., Is to he started at once und continued throughout the fall und winter. The Austin, Nov., district, bus been stirred by the discovery of u" large ledge of litgli-grudo oro lu the main working tunnel of the Aumln Nevada Consolidated. Tho Hyblu Mlnlifg company of Ne-vuiln Ne-vuiln has Ix-eli organized by Arthur Heull of Ploche for tho purpose of developing de-veloping thirteen mining claims III tho Comet district. -J Development work Is being douo at the Syndicate mine In the Snntuquln mining district In Utnh, which is promising prom-ising t-p open ono of the big mining fields of the west. Pn-piirutlons Hnvo neon practically completed by tlio Ooldfleld Development Develop-ment company for mining the l.GOO.lKJO tons of commercial oro blocked out on and nbovo tlio 1180-foot level of the Combination mine. Development work on tho Plnenut mine In the Cherry Creek Valley, Nov., Is being speeded, even though, tho strike on the .Nevndu Northern railroad rail-road bus handicapped operations to a considerable extent. Unless a change occurs during tho next week August will present n weak comparison with the months Immediately Immedi-ately preceding when sales averaged over JMl.OOO.OOO pounds, according to the lloston Nowh Hurcnui Tho Tonopnh ltelmont Development c puny reports tho earnings nt tho locul property for the month of July as ?:iil,r5l.J, those profits hnvliiR been miulo from tho reduction and treatment of 7880 tons of oro. The advance of recent months In tlio price of silver, which Is quoted nbout $1.12 an ounce, Is bringing about a rapid revival In the silver dlstrlclM of the Slocun and other llrltlsh Columbia divisions, says n Nelson, It. 0. report, During the current calendar yenr the stuck of copper held lu this country coun-try for the allies and belonging to them hits been reduced by shipments abroad from approximately 00.000,000 pounds, January 1, to 30,000,000 pounds, August Au-gust 1. Itcuewed activity In the mining Industry In-dustry Is reporteil from Jungo, Nov., which Is becoming a very busy outfitting outfit-ting point for this section of the country, coun-try, shunted ns It Is, nbout forty miles west of Wlntiemuccu, -Nov., on the, Western Pnclflc railway. Tho outlook, for the tungsten Industry, Indus-try, which Is of considerable Impor-Ttiiico Impor-Ttiiico to mining men of the west, has brightened with tho favorable report luado recently by the house ways ami mcuns commlttco on tho tariff bill providing adequate protection. Labor conditions In Nevada apparently appar-ently have affected the mining activities activi-ties of tho most Important camps In the state. A deadlock still exists In the Kly and Tonopnh districts. At Tonopnh recently U'OO miners voted solidly at a mass meeting for u continuance con-tinuance of the strike. A Salt Luke mining man who returned re-turned recently from n trip lu which lie visited, u number of mining properties prop-erties nen'r Mnrysviito was very favorably fav-orably Impressed with tho Deertmil mine, which Is nix miles from the foregoing fore-going town. On this property there Is u 100-ton cyanldo mill. To obviate possible retaliation by foreign governments should nil laud leasing legislation discriminating ugnlust aliens be enacted, the senate has adopted the Smoot amendment modifying the leasing bill to penult aliens to obtain leases to government lauds under restrictions. ' Iteports sent by operators of man-gnnesu man-gnnesu mines to tho United Stntes geological geo-logical survey, department of the Interior, In-terior, covering the first three months of 1011), show that tho shipments of mangiineso oro during that ujiurter were much smaller than during any other quarter since 1017. United States Imports of lead oro lir Juno totaled 1,08(1,453 pounds, valued val-ued at 57J.787, department of com-inercu com-inercu states. Mexico Nup)led 880,538 pounds, worth. $i:i,l-l!l, um Canada 700,805, worlh $31,0:18. Mexico sent us 4,001,-188 pounds of lead bullion, und buso bullion, valued at $110,755. A promising mineral find Is reported from the Arrowhead property In the Iteveillo district, according to the Tonopnh Ton-opnh Dnlly Times. At n depth of l!l feet In tho shaft workings u body of ore four feet wide has been exposed In the cross-cut, and assays average values of $253 a ton, principally In sliver. Miners of Virginia City, by a vote of l'.'O to 5'-', decided to go on u strike If their deiunnd for nn Increase of ?l a day Is not grunted by tho operators of tho Comstock mines. The strike, however, how-ever, will not bo called until officlul permission- Is granted by tho International Interna-tional Union of Mine nnd Smeltef Workers. Mining chronicles record the fact dint oe. carlomf of oro containing twenty-seven tons shipped from tho Isubelln ' mine, near Victor, Colo., Drought ?2l0,0n0.02, another car brought ?100,00t and nnother .fUM.WJ, TiTcrTnTinnrrcrtTJT7tilirttTrrr'Ttrnmrr Tho Alaska chapter of the American Mining congrecs has begun mi exten. slve membership, nimpalgii. The main object of thu drive, It is announced, In to work for establishment of n government gov-ernment pmvor plant In the Inlcrlnr, which N suhl to bo vital to idling in-tortrt in-tortrt i |