The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-01-09
MINES AND MINING.

ed s3,OOO,OOO in gold and $4,000, 900 in sill
yer.
The Reville says that Frank M. Ish
has bonded the Kanrohat mines in JEFF
ferson canyon for Colorado mining
men.
Charles Brossemer of Bullion, Elko
county, states that the Raine copper
mine at Bullion has been bonded to
Senator Clark Of Montana and that
extensive operations will be commenced
on the property next spring.
The usual number of claim jumpers
were promptly on hand at midnight
of Tuesday, and the usual number of
hills, to remain undisturbed until jan
uary /, 1903, in accordance with the
time honored custom of many of our
hard-luck miners. Such is life in far
West mining camp.-Tuscoraro Times
Review.
The mines known as the b. F. Will
son property, located in Iron canyon,
near the old camp of Galena, Lander
count, have been sold to ex-senator
Pettigrew of South Dakota for $4,000.
The first payment of $4,000 has been
made and the remainder Of the pur-
chase price is to be made up of four
equal installments, sixty days apart.
1t is said that the mine itself will
furnish ore enough from what is in
sight to make the PAYMENTS.
Engineer Sholl informs the Elko In
dependent that he has located the kies-
elguhr deposit near Carlin and that it
would be worked during the summer
Kieselguhr is used in making dynamite
and the Carlin deposit is said to give
Holland, Sweden or India. Mr. Sholl
has a contract with the California pow
der manufacturers for the product and
is confident that it will prove paying
proposition.
Arizona has sufficient population and
property value to become the forty
sixth State of the Union. Eastern Con-
gressmen point to Nevada as an ex-
ample of arrested development, and
maintain that the same thing may
! happen to Arizona. This is unfair to
/ both of those mining commonwealths.
Nevada is attracting renewed attention
and as her mineral resources are de-
veloped will increase in population. Ar
than it has today--Minng and Scienti-
fic Press.
News comes from Tonopah district
that efforts are being made to organize
a stock exchange at Butler City, at
can be listed and dealt in, and the
| promoters have sent TO San Francisco
for copy of the constitution. bylaws
and rules of the San Francisco Stock
and Exchange Board to aid them in
| forming the proposed institution. In
the early days of the Comstock there
were several stock exchanges in Vir-
ginia City. which had brief existence,
and the Tonopah people are evidently
making a similar attempt to keep spec
ulation in the mines at home. and one
which is not likely to be successful
The Colorado Nevada Mining Com
pany, headed by Cripple Creek gentle
men, yesterday bought eighty acres of
the Conroy ranch, in the Wedekind
mining district, and have commenced
sinking a shaft about four hundred
feet from the shaft sunk by j. c. Bell
on the Lone Star claim, which is now
in litigation. The Colorado people are
sinking just southwest of the Bell
shaft. The company intends to sink
to the depth of one hundred and fifty
feet and lnen crosscut for the ledge if
it is not cut in sinking. Machinery will
be put up as soon as it is demanded. !
The company has applications for three
leases from mining corporations and
will consummate them soon.-Reno Ga
zette.
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