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Show MINUS AND MINING j At the annual meeting of tin- llrrro Hlver coni;in In t ail Luke ( Ily the number of tllrectora win. Inereaaod fiom aevi-n lo nine. I Al the annual meeting of Ihe Horn I Silver couipany In Salt Lake t uy lh i niimlH r of illrectora wna Increased , from a.-vi-ii lo nine. During the recent Mexican trouble! the riniior waa apreail In the eaat that ' the Itc.il del Moiito proiierttca of the l ulled Smelting Kenning company I were l .langi r. Thla la known now , to bnv... been fnlae. The Daly Judge company of Park t'lty, l iah, haa Junt '.nalalled a new table In Ihe basement of the plant, and this la being utilized to aeo what laving might be expected from tho tieatment of the sllmea. Tho atory of gold mining In Alnaka during Ihe last twenty years baa been lamely the record of her rich placer Helda. Now It la insured that additional addi-tional and Interealltig chaplera will be added to tho splendid atory by the activity of her lode minora. A now copimt ledge haa been uncovered uncov-ered on Knlght'a Island. Alaska. Tho Islnnd la located In Prince William mind and off Cordova. Iteport atalei that a aplendld allowing haa already been made, and the properly will be worked. Wlllard Scott and Charlea (lott, of Viihloi, Alaska, recently returned to Hint enmp, bringing In aamplea of rich gold bearing oro. They had found It In a ledgo eighteen liichea thick along tho weal aide of tho Tiekel river and located Avo clnlma. Tho llosion Newa Huroau hna pro-pared pro-pared tlgurea showing that from tho high point of lUin to tho recent low prleea there baa been a depreciation of s:2.4T3.tS In the market value of thirty-four of lloaion'a prominent copper cop-per aKH-lultlea. TlnS Turklah minister of nnnne haa ordered from Sehworle, In Kstphalln, : tona of nickel, valued at nvo million mil-lion murka. It la to bo used In coining nrteen million franca' worth of nickel money to replace Ihe copper cnlnaco, which la to be nhollahed throughout Ihe Turkish empire. Men employed on the Copper Itlver & -Northwestern building lino Ihe In- tcrlor of Alaska, locnied some gold ' In tho gravel pit lit mile isist MA and I tho ground wna staked out for mllea j around. The gold wna brought up by tin- mammoth scoop of the ateam shovel woiklnga In the pit. Tho Tonoi ah Miner save that at tho moodily meeting of Ihe dlrecio.-of dlrecio.-of the Tonupah llelmonl Development ! company, held In l lilladilphla laat I Mondav. the regular quarterly dlvl- deud of 15 rente per ahure v. do-elured, do-elured, payable January 2. Thlavialla for tho dlabuscmctu of i:.i.OOO, pero being l,:no.0uO sbarva laamtl. ) Oil haa been dlarovored on tho Kyak river a few mllea from Cordova, Ale.ska. Tho laat named point la tho port of aniilhwealern Alaska, where the new Copper lllver Ic Norlhwcatern railroad alarta for the Interior. Oil I hud previously been located at Ka-talla. Ka-talla. which Is on tho coast tu Iho enat ' of Cordova, In fact oil loopagee are reported ou the coast lor mllea In that region. Tho unexpected Increoao In copwr production during Ihe month of Oc tuber wna due. II haa been aald, to tho tranaliirrlug of aomo of tho accumulated accu-mulated metal of the eummer montha to tho vlalhlo column, and thero are cvcrul euatern nulhorltlea who bo-Hove bo-Hove the inin thing will bo aeen in Iho ngurea to bo rolenaed within the next few duya for the month of No-Tember. No-Tember. At Dawaon, tho wonderful camp on the Yukon In Yukon T., tho lurgoet dredge In tho world haa been placed In commlaslon. It belongs to Ihe Canadian Ca-nadian Klondike company, and la ono of Ita Beet now in the big river of the north engaged In digging gravel and aiding tho golden treasure from tho deposits of ngea. The construction wua begun In August and tho boat completed In November. The Cordova Alnskan aaya that a mining deul of considerable Importance lo Cordova hus Just been consummated, consum-mated, which moans that the gold ledges of Ihe McKlnley lako district have attracted tho attention of mining men from Ihe atatea and will now be worked on un exieuslvo scale. Tho production of gold In Alaska In I9ii amounted to :!0.4U,ooo, which waa larger than In any prior year with the exception of l'JOtt. Tho excitement ex-citement over mlnoral dlecovvrlra In Iho Imlllarod caused many opirutoi and minora to leave tho Fairbanks district, and for that reason the total production of gold for Alaska may be somewhat smaller thla year than it waa in 19'J. The darlleld Smelting rompuny li preparing In handle an Increased ton- nago from I'tnh Copper mines I nn I are to be klnilled under Ihe a .: n-i n-i verberntory fnrnaco this week, wiiion. will n tho plant an additional capacity capa-city otV.OO tona dally. During tho past week Munhallim haa experienced conaldernble excltu-ment excltu-ment on account of Hie flndlng of rich float eaet of that camp. The dlscov-i dlscov-i ery waa mado by Omar Maria, and since Ihe find many people have been out looking for tbo ledge where the flout originated. A Nevada special to the Bacranionto I'nlon says: That two boys have slob en hundred! of dollars' worth of brass and other metal from Iho machinery of abandoned mlnvi In Xcv.vla county waa revealed wlt.l Iho arrest of Bio-wart Bio-wart Watson and Edward ohiroda. I -t:- -r' '".i. .... - |