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Show MINES AND MINING- M The Mohawk mine, at Ooldfleld, No- j vada, has produced eight millions of tgtEfl dollars worth of oro since April. H9H Manhattan, Nevada closely re- HgtiH sembles tho camp of llullfiug In thst HB It Is a great milling proposition gsgsQ II P Madden has iKindwl for 110,000 flBI tho group of seven mining claims MHu owned by Morris Huberts and An Wfiffj thony Juried nt HI), Nevada. EmuQ An authority on mines, who Is fam- 9gtUlG lllar with tho Konurn field says that HEQ the output of copper In Honors, Mexl- issRcV co, for I90C, amounted to 179.000,004 HHu pounds tgtifll The big tlreenwnter merger, that tagtiH has been talkml of for somo lime, has Igsgfl been consummated The new com- IsgtaiBV pnny will have n capitalisation of IK,- gfl9R 000,000, with G.000,000 shares, IDflE It la stated that In tho Keane mMH Wonder company's mine In Death Val- hLgS loy, 1050.000 worth of oro has already IKgfl been blocked out, nnd tho free milling HgsE will average better than 118. isgsiB It la now n certainty that a combln Igcgfl ntlon nf Interests in tho Manhattan flgsB district will ereel a great custom mill IH Ing plant this coming spiing, or ns sgsgsi soon ns weather conditions will allow J Ore that assajs l?t ounce In all- H vcr nnd 15 per cent lend tins been H stnick by llvnrj W'ulland mid Joseph H Foster on their Yldiir claim about H three fourths nf n mile vast of Ploche, Nevada Jnnuur) 3 wns n happy day for tho H Consolidated Mcrmr company and n jH portion of their cmplojevs, for (wo of H tho battery of six roasters at Morcur H woro placed In commission nftor a close-down of several days, During the past year moro annual H assessment work was performed In tho H Deep Creek district thnn beforo In any H flvo years combined This condition H has been brought nbout by ruwurnnco H that thn Western Paclflo railroad will H bo completed to shipping points with- H In tho early months of tho prosent H year H A good old fashioned stampedo Is H on toward the new nipper nnd gold H district known ns Mlipah, lily and H surrounding Nevada paints providing H tho material for making this rush as H Picturesque ns Is usually the en so In H Nevada The Mlspah district Is lo- B cated six mllos east of Hpnico, north- ! west of tho Dolly Vnrdon section. Hl 11 P Jennings, n mining engineer, H gives soma extremely Interesting fig- H ures In his report regarding tho prob- M able earnings of tho Novnda Douglas. M Taking tho dally capacity at 1,000 tons BKV of 3V4 per cent copper oro, after do. H ... I.-.. .. -, -ir--i i mill i niwnsi'."'n. Bmtsm of tho company will bu K,7CO,000, or V vPfll mora than SO per cent of tho com- BH psny's capitalisation. H Dy a volo of thren to on, tho mem- H bcrs of tho llutto Mill & Hmoltcr- M men's union havu derided to mnko a BVJ demand ou tho management of tho U lloston & Montana smelter for an In- H creaso of SO rents n day for all cm- BJ ployes who work on chsngo shifts In HH tho various departments. Tho men BH nro at present, nnd havo been for BH soverol jeara, receiving 3 a day. BH Mines valued at over $20,000,000 In, the Ilnllfrog district of Nevada were H awarded to IX A. Monlgomory by M Judge Son ell of San Francisco, last H week against the claims nf C. II BB Flcmmlng, who had sued for a halt BB Interest berauso of a dlsputo In tho BB gnib-atako agreement. 11 is now stat- BB id that tho properties will bo trans- BB fered to Charles Schwab, the BB steel king, BB "To thoso who havo supposed (hat BJ the Comstock lode la winked out. It B may bo of Interest to stnto that tbo BJ actual production from tho Ophlr mlno H alone, during tho past week," says Su- H perlnlendcnt Franklin Ixonard, Jr., "-I In recently submitted report, BJ 'amounted to suventy cam of oro, as- Bfl saying till per ton; thlrly-slx ours as fll saying 33 wr ton, seventy-five cars BJ assaying !3 per ton, malting a total fll of i.tl cars of high grnuo ore. BJ The deposits of the Yetlngton ills M trlct are classed as "contact metnmor BJ phln ore deposits" by the economic M geologists and inny bo desorlbed as BJ mnssos of metiimnrphoseel nnd miner- jflj nllxeil limestone resting upon an Intro , BJ slve granite, tho granite having fur- fll ulshed the necessary heat nml heated HJ mineralised solution! required to HJ convert the adjacent limestone Itlto n mnsslvo garnellfnroUH lock Impreg j 9J tinted with copper ore. ON The rlcliBst shipment of or ever t wi sent to market from any milling camp Mj on earth wna a lot ot fifty tons ex pressed from the Hayes and Monnetto iH lease on the Mohawlc at tloldfleld, Ihsi fjflj week The consignment Is valued in one million dolars Six armed guards M accompanied the ore, which went to Mb tho Sclby smelter near Ban Frnnolsoo "iSJ Hxpress charges were eight thousand MS dollni-s Twenty Racks of the ship ftf ment were filled with ore worth tlf (lij ty thousand dollars per ton JM Word from the east la to the fleet ' that strong Pennsylvania men of money had decided upon building a railroad Into Manhattan, Nevada, from Austin Aus-tin or Tonnpnh, tho polntB of easiest approach from a railroad builder's standpoint. On tho east shore of the Walker Lake, In Nevada, about a mllo from Walker Station, a great oopper belt has been exposed. There aro places on this belt where the averugt nssay from fifty feet has r 'urtied aa high as C per cent |