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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE creation of so many exchanges has 

 opened the way for excessive speculation 

 in stocks. The actual investor must be 

 exceedingly cautious. 



GEORGETOWN, COLO., produced 3,009 

 ounces of gold; 1,030,795 ounces of silver; 

 305,727 pounds of lead, and 3,315 pounds 

 of copper in 1895. 



THE Northwest Mining Association 

 met in Spokane during February. Every 

 mining town in the Northwest was rep- 

 resented. 



GOLD-BEARING rock has been found on a 

 mesa about four miles east of Las Vegas, 

 New Mexico, but so far the assays have 

 been low. 



THE President has signed the bill open- 

 ing the government lands in West Creek 

 district, Colorado, for mineral develop- 

 ment. 



CLARENCE KING and party of Chicago 

 capitalists, who own the Old Dominion 

 mine in Washington, are inspecting it. 



ORE receipts at Deadwood, So. Dakota, 

 average 400 tons daily, with an average 

 value of $8,000 or $240,000 a month. 



THE "Great Falls Stucco Company" has 

 been organized to bring out the gypsum 

 deposits at Kibbey, Montana. 



THE Ochoco Gold Mining Company of 

 Chicago has been incorporated at Spring- 

 field, to mine gold in Oregon. 



THE Governor of Arizona claims that 

 State produced $10,000,000 in gold in 1895 

 against $4,000,000 in 1894. 



The Big Cottonwood Power Company 

 of Salt Lake City is putting in a 2,100 

 horse power electric plant. 



TEXAS has not less than 20,000,000 acres 

 of mineral land. The most abundant me- 

 tallic product is copper. 



THE projectors of the proposed smelter 

 to be built at Galena, Kansas, have incor- 

 porated their company. 



WATER ELEVATORS are becoming very 

 popular in Nebraska, New Mexico and 

 other Western States. 



SAND on the sea beaches of Oregon con- 

 tains gold, and wonderful stories are told 

 of their richness. 



THE total dividends paid by the Ontario 

 Silver Mining Company of Utah amount to 

 $13,190,000. 



ABOUT fifteen or twenty mining com- 

 panies are being organized every day 

 in Colorado. 



THE Cedar Vale (Kansas) Mining Com- 

 pany are mining for gold near Orlando, 

 Oklahoma. 



IT is predicted that before midsummer 

 Cripple Creek will have a population of 

 75,000. 



A DISCOVERY of opals has been made on 

 a tributary of the Big Camas Creek in 

 Idaho. 



THERE is more activity in lead and zinc 

 mining at Galena, Kansas, than ever be- 

 fore. 



THE People' s Party of Massachusetts has 

 declared for silver coinage at sixteen to 

 one. 



THE assay office at Boise, Idaho, re- 

 cently shipped $32,257.32 in gold in one 

 day. 



CINNABAR was lately found in paying 

 quantities near Great Falls, Montana. 



QUICKSILVER has been discovered a few 

 miles from Snohomish, Washington. 



THE great smelter at Spokane, Washing- 

 ton is to start up immediately. 



AN organized movement is on foot to 

 develop Montana's iron mines. 



CRIPPLE CREEK still continues to be the 

 principal feature in Colorado Mining. 



NEW Mexico is beginning to feel the ef- 

 fects of the mining activity. 



THE pay roll for labor alone at the Butte 

 camp is $800,000 per month. 



THE big shaft of the Anchoria-Leland 

 mine is being sunk rapidly. 



NEW rich strikes are being reported al- 

 most daily from Colorado. 



THE rush to the mining fields of Alaska 

 is just beginning. 



A NEW chlorination mill is proposed for 

 Cripple Creek. 



ST. Louis and Boston also list Colorado 

 mining stocks. 



MINE-SALTING is not so successful as it 

 used to be. 



PARTIES from Alaska tell of a gold-bot- 

 tomed lake. 



IRON MINES are being opened at Jeffer- 

 son, Texas. 



COAL is being mined at Enterprise, I. T. 



BUTTE has no mining exchange. 



