The copper era., 1903-07-02
SORTED AND SAMPLED.

! There is now a rush to Grandpa dis trict. near Tonopa, where outcrop- pings assay SID to the ton. ! \ discovery has been made al Rabbit Springs. south Of Tonopa, which as says so gold. some samples 20 a- high as 5000.
 The vein in the Desert King at ] Wedekind, Nevada. carries seven feet Of ore averaging Sl23 gold and s35 silver to the ton.
 Last year the creeks in the klondike produced over sl2,O0O. GOO in gold. ] This year the output will be SIj. GOO. . OOO and may 20 higher. Do not pass a company by that i- offering shares at few cents to secure development funds. Nine-tenth- Of the great dividend pay CTS started that way.
 In the early development of the Le Roi mine, St. Paul gentleman had his check written for 5000 10 pay for one-ffth interest in the property. ] but his friends persuaded him not tU ' take it. 4 short time after that it ] sold in London for 3J, 900, GOO.
 The famous Ontario at Park City. Utah. which has produced over $33,- ] Oo0. .Oo0, and paid nearly half that amount in dividends was discovered l by Rector Steinn in 1872. Two months later it was sold to the late Senator Hearst, who made a mine of il. Capt. J. R. Delamar. the mining millionaire. made his first start in ] life d. d captain of q small craft on the Amazon river. From the Delamar mine in Nevada he realized over SIS, = OOO GOO in bullion one half of which was profit. He is worth $20, ,OOO,O OO0.
 Control of the Wall-Deiamar group at Bingham has passed into the hands of the Neill-Penrose syndicate. The 1 plans of the syndicate include the erection of 5OO-tOu conccntrator, which will be increased to d 3O00-ton daily capacity. and shelter at Lake e ! Valley.
 The government will erect at Hos pet, India d dam far greater than the Assouan dam of the Nile, in Egypt. The dam will be mile long with an area of lj0 square miles, and will i'm pound 2O0, 0J0, ,0)J feet of water, or five times as much as the structure at AssOuam.
 Few people familiar with the extent which the production of gold has at taiued in the United States during the past decade To tell the mining man who has not kept tab on it, that it had more than doubled, would, in all prob ability, elicit a Reclamation. Yet such is the case.
 The dividend of SlO share recently declared by the Calumet X Hccla com pany, making the fourth of the fiscal year ending April 20, 1903, and makes d total of S25 share in dividends for the year, amounting to $2, 800, ,O00. In cluding this latter amount the com pany has paid SS2, ,S50,0 GOO in dividends. 
 Advices from Dead wood, $. D., state that the second wall of the Colum bus vein has been reached, the width be- ing 247 feet. With the exception Of the Homcstakc, of which this is a con tinuation, this is the largest ore body uncovered in the Black Hills. 1t av- erages S5 per ton.
 For the first time in fifteen years all the mines on the Cometock will be running by the Fourth of July. By that time the lower levels of the Con- solidatcd California and Virginia will be unwatcred. Electric hOists have been installed in most of the old mines and favorable showing, are reported in the Utah. Occidental, Poto,i, ChOl- lar and NCNicaD