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Show MINKS A N I) MINING Itawhtde the new Neva la goll ramp has been eonnei I d with Ho outside world bv telegraph The (Iranhv Cnpier cnmpsnv In Canada, Is again operating in aim full rapacity, but the other houmln smelters are still closed down In 1-rember 1-rember nil Ihe iHtundry smelters wnu i shut down Wonder and Palrvlew, iKmmlng mining tnwtia a year ago are piar I tlrally deserted twlsy. A hundred or 'more, prarlliall) all the towns eon ulned started across the hills last jweek for Haw hide I The estimated production nf copper j In Jnimary waa 2,000.000 pounds In ex ceaa of the December roductlon, but I IB 000,000 iwunda behind January last 'year, and .10,000 000 pounds less than Ihe normal monthly output I One thousand miners employed by tho Crerar Clinch Coal company of j Chlrngu, went on strike nt Duquoln, HI , Inst week The trouble originated uvtr the prim of iwder which tho I operators have been selling to tho I miners I The Host on News Hureau Ogurta tho 1 production nf copper In thu I mil d I Slates, .Mexico and Canada for the month of January at C6.0O0.OO0 pounds, comparing with 8I.M&.MS Miunds In January, 100", and 9 IM.-liiO ikmiioIk in I January, lWhi llawhlde fever la fast eausliiK the depopulation nf the town of Kly, so tar us Idle men art concerned, every man who Is not working, and many who j me, determining In slse up lie' m w ramp fnr himself, (n set Just what I (hero la lu It i Ore shipments In pound for Ihe week ending IVbruary 16, from Park I Clly were aa follows Daly Judge, ".71 (KM), Silver King. S71.740, total, 740,740 pounds The total ahipnienls fnr the miinlh from (be Hllvsr King l were 1,162,040 pniinds A circular haa been Issued In which It la staled that Ihe mills will Im working full rapacity h June I, and I that Ihe Ulah CiHiper ramtuiny Is then avsmed a pusliiclloii nf 66.IHM),, i oou isiunds er annum nt a coat of 8 I c ma a pound. Including alt retinitis", I transportation and selling charges of I the refined output It Is planned tn have thu milling plant lit Maglll, Nevada, handling not leaa than 10 000 tons of ore a day before be-fore the end of tho year, nnd, Includ lng the crude ore from the Veteran mine nnd other sources, tho smelling works will bo reducing to bullion pus slhly 6,000 tons nt rnpier bearing product. pro-duct. That the rumored developments of tho Ulroux Consolidated Copper com-pan) com-pan) will bo carried out, their plans Including bonding additional concentrator concen-trator facilities, Installing a long pipe line fnr securing water for It, opening their townsllo project In tho arly .spring, Ji.the Uuut rvpor!a.Ironi liix, Novada, Tho climax nf the boom at llawhlde, llaw-hlde, Nevada, rama last Krlday with tho announcement (hat Ilaltoon and Grutt hilts are piactlcally a solid lusis nf frco milling gold ore The tnwnsllo Is located nn the two rlchist claims In the district, and lot owners have transformed their dwelling Into mining claims ' Clarenco IWdy, who has been rnak lng tests to verify Ills theory that Ihe sunken bed of Death valley contains sufflclent vslue In precious metals to mako It all a dredging proposition, has received returns of nn nnaljtls I made In Oakland, Col , resulting In (2 30 gold and hllvir per cubic yard and values In aluminum Tho first 2 000-ton unit of tho concentrating con-centrating mill at Maglll, Nevada, Is practically finished, and work Is being crowded un four more sections, all nf which will bo ready lo go Into commission commis-sion by tho tlmo the first 1,600-ton unit nf tho great smelter wurks Is toady In receive ore about thu end of June or early In July. Thomas I'. Keele), the millionaire Chicago ojx-rator, made final payment last week In the sum nf 160,000 fur the Mcdarry group nf twenty four lodu and one placer Iron claims In the Iron Hprlngs district, Iron count) Iho total sum paid fnr the properly was 1126,600 This undoubtedly means blast furnaces nnd mills for this district dis-trict At the meeting of the directors of the Nevada Utah Mines and Kmeltem corporation laid In Portland. Me, un the 13th, It waa voted by stockhuld era to take back 200 Oou shares of the stock Issued In an Individual who can not pay for them President I.enrnard says Important negotiations are now pending of great ultimate bvuillt to stockholders James F Hums, defendant In the , famous suit brought by James Doylo I and Involving a claim for stock In tho I Portland (Sold Mining oomimny, amounting to marly one million dol ' lars, liaa Died u motion In the dim let ourtJi't Council DIuITj Iowa, for a change, of venuo Hie IKiyle-Hurtia -nse has been twltw tried before a 1 Jury, lb" verdict lu the first trial having hav-ing l4lj)l f'" kle uild lu the second . and ijft trlul fur Hurn Heforo tho jury flSnls ivyh Wok Judgment by default de-fault r,o ovcrl?0,00 1hiif;iews comes from Maglll, No-vRda.uhat No-vRda.uhat tho great stretch of Btoel trestle on the road that connects the mlnoiJof Illy wlt the big milling and smelting worka nf the Nevada ConsolU I datedj and Cumberland Kly cumpaulea' has bwn finished and the double track laid, fh " ' A report has been received from tho Nevada Douglas mines at Yorlngton, Nev , that a large, new Imdy of sulphide sul-phide ore, averaging 7 lr cent con-lier con-lier has been encountered In tho 660-rui 660-rui level Ore la bt lng takon out on I thu 60o foot livel which nveragts 2( I pur cent capper |