The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01

northern part of Wyoming, in the Wind
 River section. is the coming boom of the Rocky Mountain region, says the Western Mining Journal of Salt Lake City. At present 1t is closed in by the Shoshone Indian Reservation. but experienced pros pectors who have dared to venture in there say it is rich region for gold quartz and placer diggings. The Indians will not allow any one to prospect or mine upon their territory, knowing full well it's value as mineral section.
 There are 2246 mines in Colorado being actively worked and producing ore. There
 were 3O56 mining companies Incorporated between 1893 and 1897.
 The report now comes from the famous placerS of East Siberia, that a valuable
 gold nugget was found in these diggings or the 10th of last January weighing seventy-four and one-half pounds. avoir- dupois, and the largest ever found. At
 this weight the nugget would be 11s2 ounces, and at S20 an ounce would make the nugget worth s23,s40 These placers san company.
 The fanious Tom Boy mine at Telluride.
 Colo, is again being worked
 United nj raSt States assasar assay office fs at " HeI
 1881 to the end of 1897 the Butte
 Gold, $11 ,14s ,O75 "A; silver. sl4S ss3. .234 2s; copper, $225, ,055, ,467 02; total, s3S5 ,0S6777 05
 Some one who has given the matter con-
 siderable attentive detail figures that 1t last year cost 90 cents to produce a dollar of gold in California, and that the same amount produced In Alabama cost SS O
 aha in @ Cost bu s 30 to produce a dollar. and In Montana 40
 cents. These figures are never authentic
 and rarely trustworthy. It has been as- stunned by those who have given the mat | ter considerable attention in every age, and in every nation and community, that dollar This rule probably holds good in all localities, except the Klondike, where
 each dollar produced Rr9ea6x oss cost o S and the slower suicide of thousands more. Mining and Scientific Press.
 The London Daily Mails correspondent
 sation with a veteran Siberian gold dig
 ger of great wealth from Tomsk, the chief center of gold-producing district. very like Klondike. He predicts a great future for gold mining in Siberia, as the sur face has so far only been scratched. Towns are springing up like mushrooms and the population increasing by leaps
 and bounds. The Government stipulates that all gold gathered be. assayed at its ceeds goes to the crown. Otherwise every one, including foreigners, has absolute
 freedom to work his claim as it pleases him. Up to the present only primitive
 methods have been employed by the ma jority of prospectors, but now, thanks to the energetic action of the Russian Gov begun.
 Opinions differ in Butte as to the effect Of the war on the price of copper. Sev- eral prominent mining men, like MT Wethey, believe the price will decline, while others just as firmly maintain that
 it will advance, inasmuch as the metal
 will be used for war purposes. During the past month 5000 tons more copper were
 produced in the United States than in
 the preceding month, and the price has advanced d.-Western Mining World
 The Cripple Creek Colo, mines have
 turned out total of s34.5O0O 900 of gold since 1890.
 Mrs. Mitchell.'' says the Western Min ing World, .the copper queen of Utah.
 is temporarily in the city" She is in- teresteo in some excellent copper propo- sitions at Bingham. A lady of rare at in mineralogy and kindred sciences. and Is giving a great deal of thought to the economical treatment of low grade ores by chemical processes