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Show k JVIipipg Depa"itixieitrr TTTBTT WTWTWTW TTH MADE MILLIONS IN MINES. Unite, Montunn, I.mrti In Wmtlh at Her Operatori. Tho wealth of mining men Jins been favorite topic for tho eastern press for ninny yenr, nnd tho lnvlslmcsa of tho so-enllcd bonanza kings has formed tho text for ninny n dlsserta .Ion upon the evils of sudden wealth, nys tho Denver Republic.. There Is no lack of rich men nmong tho mining en in in of tho west, nnd for ninny years' It.hns been a question who Is entitled to bend the list. Iu tho tlnys of tho Comstoelc supremacy tho mining millionaires wero centered nbout Virginia City ninl San Francisco, Fran-cisco, nml thero wns no doubt of tho Rtnmllnt,' of tho Comstoelc magnates. John W. Mnckpy nlouo of tho celebrated cele-brated trio still survives nnd whllo ho has lost nothing since mining bc-enmo bc-enmo secondary with hlin, his accretions accre-tions of lato years lmvd been derived from other sources of income, nnd of tho great minors of tho day theru nro several who tower far above lilm In point of possessions derived from mines nlone. Maekcy Is still n great miner, nnd owns properties In Colorado, Colora-do, Nevada, Cnllfornln, Oregon nnd Montnnii, but his other Interests nro no much larger that his mines cut but llttlo figure In his nmiunl balance sheet. Colorado has Its Bhnro of million-aires, million-aires, nnd several men who nro very likely to bo nblo to drnw checks for seven figures within n reasonable time, but nono of our local miners probably exceed ?r,000,000 In the nc-tunl nc-tunl vnluo of property nud nssets, which compared to tho wealth of onio of the prominent mining men of tho west Is n compnrntlvcly munll mini, so thnt nono of our big miners hnvo ns yet attained the roynl rank. The big mliiers of to-dny nro mostly nbout Butte, Montana, which lirts attained at-tained n rnnk, ns u producer second to no camp In the country. Mnrcils Daly nnd J. It. Ilngglii, who together control con-trol the great Annfiniln copper mine, and W. A. Clark of llutto stand so fur above nil others that comparisons nre odious. Closely following them, however, how-ever, Is Cnptnln l)e Ln Mnr. Besides his holdings In Anncimdn J. 11. ling-gin ling-gin owns mines In several of tho ililu-' Ine stntes, nil of u hleli lire productive and make a very substantial addition to his wealth inch jvnr. Marcus Daly has not spread out quite so much as his associates, though he nlso has numerous outside holdings, and is continually picking up mining snaps. But his Anneoniln stock, which has n mnrket price of nearly $10,000,000, ills railroads, his smelters nnd various minor enterprlBcs all combine to make him ono of the busiest men In America. Amer-ica. Mr. Clark has not only his copper mines, mills and smelters nt Butte, but owns tho Mnyllowcr gold mine lu Montana, several other properties In different imrts of the west, tho Orent United Verde copper mlno nt Jerome, Arizona, and one of tint largest much-es much-es lu southern Cnllfornln. All of these nro productive, but It is tho Jerome copper mlno upon which ho plus his faith, nnd when ho was Inst In Denver Den-ver ho expressed the Intention of mnk-Ing mnk-Ing It the greatest eoiqier mlno in the world. He 1ms nlrendy refused nil offer of-fer of ?30,00O,000, nnd it is worth much more than thnt now, according to the dividends paid. Thero nro nq grcnter mines owned by n slngla Individual Indi-vidual lu the world. Mr. Clark does not caro for partners nnd prefers to manage, ns ho 1ms erected his 6wn enterprises. Cnptnln Do Ln Mnr has, up to the present time, confined his operations In tho main to the Nevada property and tho Golden (late mlno and mill nt Mereur, Utah. Either one of these properties should satisfy ordinary ambition, am-bition, but their owner has recently ncqulrcd largo holdings lu the Buffalo Hump district of Idaho, which bo will develop lu tho same systematic manner man-ner that has proved so successful with his other enterprises. .Marcus Daly, nt the market price of his property, all of which Is produc-tlve. produc-tlve. Is worth not less than ?20,O00,0OO, besides what lie has tucked nwny In government bonds nnd other gilt-edged gilt-edged securities. Ho not long ago ro fused to sell his Anaconda stock on tho basis of $:i(),000,000 cash, f&r )he stock Is now selling on the London market nt 10 per cent, and moro nbove par. Ills wealth Is all securely Invest, ed and If ho wero to attempt to realize real-ize at onco It Is doubtful If ho could clenn up more than $10,000,000. But thero Is no Immediate necessity for his realizing, mid nt tho rate which his wealth Is nccuinulntlng-ho will soon bo on (be parlor lloor of Easy street. Captain De Ln Mar recently declined to tnko less than $1,500,000 for his Nevada mine; has tho largest cynnldo mill In tho world nt Mereur, Utah, and enjoys life nt Paris, while his money comes In nt tho rate of from $1,000,000 to ?LOO0,000 per year. IIq Is regarded us worth $1(5,000,000. W. A. Clark and J. B. Hoggin divide t)io honors of leading tho growing procession pro-cession of wealthy miners. No ono knows what Mr. Ilnggln Is worth, for In business matters his right and left hniuls aro not on Intimate terms. IIo puts away his money In solid securities, securi-ties, nbout which no ono knows anything any-thing about but himself nnd his broth-ers. broth-ers. Tho vnluo nnd production of his mining property nro tolerably well known, however, nnd those who place his wealth at $70,000,000 to $S0,0O0,-000 $S0,0O0,-000 are not far wrong. Mr Clark, on tho other hand, conceals nothing regarding re-garding his holdings. Ho has set himself him-self ii high standard ami hus tho energy en-ergy nnd nblllty to pursue his patch to success. A I'ow years moro and ho will bo libit to range himself nlong-sldo nlong-sldo of nny of the lending financial mngnntoB of tho country, his present holdings already amounting to $75,-000,01X1 $75,-000,01X1 mid his assets Immediately available being not far from $20,000-000. $20,000-000. GREAT DEMAND FOB COPPER. Nltuntloii Urine to Notloe l'tiitllillltlti of I'rntprcti In Wvittrii Colornitu. Ono of tbo most remnrknblo advances ad-vances In mining stocks ever recordtAI In this country occurred a fow tlnys ngo, when tho vnluo of the copper mines of tho Lako Superior rt-glon In-creased In-creased In value moie thsu $7,000,000 In forty-eight hours. Copper Is In heavier demand Id-day than it lins been for soveral years. It bold a week ago for 13 cents a pound, tho highest price slnco lHSii, when it was sold for 17 cents a pound. Dealers In tho" metal bcllovo It will ndvnnco nnothcr cent -within tho noxt fow weeks, desplto tho fact that the seasou ofjtbo greatest demand Is closed for iholjear. t Vlro manufacturers say that tho put-lools put-lools for business uoxt year is that all provlaus figures - will bo cast dn. tbo Bhado, An advnneo of l cent a pound StBHTtlTtJTBtettStOVf makes a difference of $170 per mllo In tho cost of trolley wire nnd a proportionately pro-portionately greater' cost- for electric " light wire. . . Tho Immediate result ot, this advance ad-vance In price was an nlmonnal nctivl- v ty in tho market for coprW stocks. The copper Industry has received ' grout stimulation during tho past fow , weeks, nnd n quick oilvoiico lu tho price of bor copper Is looked for. Tbo. 1 supply t)f copper liors In tho market Is being constantly diminished, while tbo demand, Is Increasing rapidly; Thu reports' re-ports' rrom London Tor the 'early part of October gave the vlsblo supply ot merchant copper at O.tioo tous. Tho lost reports are ta tho eJteet that this was redticetl fully ten per cent during tho past month. The Mppr produced having been entirely absorbed for current cur-rent use, nnd .the reserve Mraifir 'upon to tho extent of hore tinn COO tons, copper brines which have been nbnii- , . tloncd ns loo poor nud expensive to wo'k hnvo been opened during the post fow months nnd nre now paylntf-n fnlr profit, nml the Industry Is to:day tho most popular brunch of mining. AM' ARIZONA MINE'. "' ' DoiiTcr Meir'tntofixlTj InTa'ClHliu- In'tli""'" " Ilrn.rt. s t r A party of Denver capitalists, head- . ed by Dennis Hulllvnn and (iconic" Dodge, will leavd td-nlglit over -tlto Santa Fo road for soutliern Nevada, where n valuable gold mine has been opened through the. ability of nsDon-ver nsDon-ver prospector. The' prpspectcr, lins spent n year or more In the region, nnd samples of nre. which hnstnt tt this city convinced his backets that ho knew a good thing.' Larger sitinpliis confirmed tho Inipressl.ui," mtd ' tho prospector ilnnlly secured several properties prop-erties of desert' irilners 'Who cllulil Tnot summon the cash necessary tot deep mining. Tho region has been, looked over by mining expert nt" dlfferentr times, but thejr report were iot,en-cotirnglng, iot,en-cotirnglng, ns the railroad Is. twenty or twenty-tlve miles nwny, and 'tbo country Is exceedingly dreary and dry.' tho Denver men nro of the opinion that they Jmvtt struct:, n great fort'duej but nte'saylng nothing. ,u 1 i At tho edge tif the now lio'nnnza lnnl Is the turquoise belt, which was ills-covered ills-covered by Clcorge Simmons, n, prospector pros-pector who spent twenty years .looking .look-ing for a rich inlne,-nnd filial! found . what he was nfter. Strumous wan re- ' wntly In Denver- op Ids way Homo H from London, England, where ho iob- R nobbed with the nobility nud placed n' peck of .magnificent Rtones on the- - fl European market. The' mine which , he has found Is pronounced' the rfeli-' est turquoise deposit on the vontlfieiif. J The deposits wero worked by ancient Inhabitants of the desert, who filled . tip tho workings when they departed frdln the couutry. , t If tho party has tlnfo It will' pay n , visit to the turquoise 'lidhe and tho' ' Kcntlcmeu will slinUe,haitlH with the . turquoise klug, Rocky Mouutulu . News. v ') ; i LrndtllUV I.rnicri. ' The greatest people on enrth nrcTtha lenders, says the Leatlvlle Miner, To them the great mining camp of Le.nd-vlilo Le.nd-vlilo owes much, particularly In 'tho V past fow years. Their great pluck In '' (lulling- mines Is being, deuiryislrntcil ' every day. Tho ll'ssces on 'tho Kanny Itnwlings spent upwards of $10,000 to opeu up the ore bodies, having worKod , .. constantly for twenty-live mpriths. They did not hnvo any water to"con-tend to"con-tend with of nnj' consequence orthelr expense would linvts- been .greater.'-Shipments .greater.'-Shipments for tlte 'months of October and November have paid tho lucky lessoes out, nud from now on' they Will have clean velvet. They arii uow -paying (ho owners n loy'ully or ja pet-cent, pet-cent, straight, and tin -hry-iltles to th'o company jiiiimmt to $1!Ti,0u0 per month.'' The November shipments, ntJiiuutcd.-to fc 1,010 torts, and considerable, upraLsfcig nml dilftlnl; was done: Tho largo ' ' bodies of copper-Iron snlfihtdes nro dally opening up mid the workings nro now In shape for n heavier proiUietlpn ' of sulphides, Ju December.' Had j( not, beeil for the Pluck of tJn.se Jeswi-s tills '" mine wuiul not have been discovered. I Much credit is duo them 'and to their I Judgment in seeming the services! of 'I one pf, Brcece ldJI's most Miccvasfiil '- miners, John 1. Walsh, who. directed . I tho work. These lesW0S lire' ilnforliln- 1 a'o In thnt they did not have a tltlo bond and longer lease, ns they desorvp - to own the mine. If Icft'do-tlid riftiqk " brokers of Colorndo.f'prlugstho )ulu'o . I never would have been foupd, ,',; ,T. , .1 - ; ' .,' v -'I''t.v Working on. Ilia rllaattck! ' ' ' , ' ' J Work on tho Basslek fnlne" of Custer ' ' county Is progressing rnpldly, nnd thd nctlvo work of iinwntcring tbo prop- . erty will soon be cniiimenceU, t!i3 niatiageuient Imvlng. bi'cu jingniwd for -''' tho past fqwtvcelis' In put titijr. tho t , buildings In shape nud limiting thu . necessary repairs of l'lncl'lifery, ' etc. ' ' ' I'rellmlunry luvest'gat'o-iH. -mad .!." ', tho condition of tho proWty.ariJ very ' ' ' encouraging, -nlid It Is ucllcrctUjiat thq- " mlno can be putMn rcbii'dltldii to be- ti- , como as pioductlvo ns over ut comparatively compar-atively siuall expense. ..,. In noting tho success of, conpeutrn- B Hon with ArgentiinMunintn ores, s- ij pen district, thu Colorndn Springs (ja-' zetto snys: "Home curiosity hns'lietn "e I uroused that tho 'concentrating plant' 'fl should have iiimle titibli n'gopd hIiowt - mI lug last mouth :,ylni!, It wfirked for ., . , such a shoit time during ,thu thlty " ' I days. It has been soli' that Jt was ' ' I worked for about hair -a month, but, ' I ns a matter of fact, It whs less thun I , ouothlril. Iu thU time concentrates S having n net valno ir over 5ilt700 at''. "' I tho smelter wero turned out,' in pri. '1 vlous months tho mill hus turned nut t' ' r about $10,000 or $17000 wo) tl r' fm ' centrotes In tho, full niimth, leav'.f. " the $0,000 or ?7.o0o net to go In thv treasury. Tho work done for tiq ono- c ' Jhlrd or last montlwwas nt tile tho of . nearly $'!5,000 per mouth ,ai cAntto- ' , " quently would, under ordinary condl. " '" tlpns, leave from $20,000 to $23,000 tie,c I r profit ror tho treasury. The grca't Im- ' ' provement Is due to tho gnlu In tho i "grntlo or tho oro treated which, as will ' bo seen by tbo llgures compared, was very material." . , . ' 'i . ' - M The Helipad strike, near .Jdrtllo ' ' Springs, is proving to bo givnturjhuu Jind been expected.' The iiiAiioger reports re-ports that ten inulms or tire oro will ' ' tun $100 pur ton. Thoio In nw (wo ' f.iot lying alongside; of It that will bo, , considered ns, second cliiss ore. Tho Dlrlljc Is of gront "Importnncc, Mr' it "' proves thu existence, of a, blgjiody ofr pro whjeh was found Ju the upnur lav, . I els, hut wns drifted on tho present ' B lessees from the bottom of'ths slinft' I wth a result pf a strike as noticed.; I |