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Show H JUNES AND MINING Hl During the months of January and H February the production or copper H hag been low, owing to tho soore H weather nncl shortngo of coal. B ttverythinc; new points In tho dlrec H tlon of ono of tho greatest copper H tnlnlng hooms tho country cor saw 1 In tho Yorington, Novcda, district. Tlin Mlclilgtiu crowd thnt now con H trols the Sheba property nt Mill City, H Nov., Is rapidly rouudliivs thnt propo- R i-lllon Into shape Tor hcny produc- H tlon and earnings. H Moio thin J2,U00,0O0 has been spent H by tho big mining companies of the H Knhlnsou mining district of Nevada Hj during tbij last tweivo months foi H extension purposes. H A number of Important mining deals H uro pending nt Hnlley, ld.iho, which, B when ootiMimmntcd, w ill put n num H her or tho older minus of this district again on tho active list. H Ono-flttli of the world's production H of topper, or 300,000.000 pounds nn H nually, Is tho estimated capacity ot H Calumet & Hecla within tho next row H j ears under Its present policy ot H progress and expansion. H Tho most Important asset of the H Calumet & Hecla Is tho old Calumet H conglomerate, so called, which has H returned In tho thirty-six years of H its succcssrul mineral ncthlty 110,- H 000,000 in prollts to tho company. H Tho prediction Is mndo by an en- H Ihuslast from Wonder, Nevada, that H within tho next sixty dn)s ono or tho H biggest booms In tho history ot No- H vnda will mho plnco In this camp and H run tho population well beyond the H 2,000 mark. H In what Is known ns tho 001 tiortb H crosscut on tho COO foot level of the H Cactus bo n ant a of tho NowhoiiM H Mines company, machlno drills arc H ploughing tholr way through on H which tho dally sutnplo usus show H to bo averaging 21 G per cent copper B Prominent stockholders of tho bis B cult Mining company, of Cherry Crcok. HHJ Nevada, conllrm tho reported utrlkc H or splendid proportions upon tho SCO- H foot level of this mine, nud thnt each H foot thnt Is gained by tho management H upon this deep Ion el Is sending the H workings Into liner qunllty ot re H sources. B Tho Daly-West mine, nt Fark City, B Utah, ut tho present tlmo lifts its mill Hi Ing ores nil tho way from 1,000 to 1,- HHl CC0 fcot through a perpendicular shaft HHi puts It through tho mill arid then HHf drops tho product down tho mlno agalu HBf and send it out through tho Ontario HBl 000-foot tunnel to tho loading station HB at tho old Ontario mill. HHi Thomas W. Law mm has started out HH on an advertising campaign to boom HHi Novada-Utah stock. IIo Is publishing HHJ u four-column nd to nnuounco thnt he HHJ has his engineers Investigating tho HHJ property, but In tho meantime will H iHJtnu utu iiuin.u; nt tuo ninrKot on HHj tho supposition thnt engineer's reports HHj will bear out his expectations. M At a. meeting or tho Novndn Con- M lulldated, held in Portland, Mnlno, tho HHJ shareholders voted to ratify tho sale HHj of a ouo-half Interest In tho Navnda HHJ Northern railroad to tho Cuinbcrland- HHJ Kly Copper company. This action was HH merely formal and followed tho Issu- HHj nnca of now stock by tho Cumber- HHJ land-Ely somo tlmo since. HHJ D. W. Kills has sold tho llonanza HHJ group of nlno claims south of thb HHJ dcrcnu property and udjolnlng tho HHJ Velvet group, nenr Ely, to Francis HHJ Shcrrard aud Christian Hcrmonson, H Lly Investors, for $20,000 cash. Tho B Velvet group, adjoining tho llonanza HH group, was recently told by tho Pho- HH by brothers for $30,000. HH Out of tlio numorous meetings hold HH at Colorado Springs to consider ways HH mid means for beginning tho work on HH tho deep ulnago tunnel nt Crlpplo HH Creek has comu nt last a doflnlto do- HH clslon to proceed vvlUi the money now HH nvallabla and truBt to tho Itbornllty of HH bcncllclarlcs who havo not yot ontorod HH tho list, to plank down tho romulndor HH nt tho proper time. HH Tho Idaho Consolldntod Mining HH company has roached a dopth ot 1C0 HH feet In tho shaft bolng driven In tho HH Relief claim, near Ilollovuo, and ox- HH pect to go IS fcot further. A largo HH Bhlpmont ot tho latest model macliln- HH ery is now cu routo nnd a largu forco HH of men will probably bo put to work H In tho near futuro. HH A well known mining ongluocr HH says: "Tho only limit to mining no- HH tlvlty In tho west Is tlio Inability to HH get materials for construction, coal H for power, and laNr for tho initios H nnd mlllB. There is no other cloud H on tbo horizon that nnybody actually H at work can boo. Wo dig tbo money HH out of tho ground thoro, so that wo HH don't havo to ask for now money, ox- H eept for prumotlon." HH Two loads of Wonder district ore, HH oonslgnud to tho Solby smaltlng works H Rt Vallojo, Cat., wore sent out on tho H 2lBt ot this month by tho Vulturo Mln- H lie company. Fully 200 pcnplo choor- HH d as tho shipment btnrtod on Its way. HH Tho oro will run from $00 to $000 H A I M Tho lied Elophant. lit llalloy, Idaho, HH Is producing steadily. At million the HH Ophtr, Jay Gould and llulllon mlnos, H which havo been Idlo for years, wlU H 'io again opcuej In tho spring, nud It H Is confidently predicted thnt that camp will soon equal her oldtlnio nro- H ductlou. |