PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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will defend the suit for all parties con- 

 cerned. 



The state board of control is making 

 provision for extensive surveys in all of 

 the different irrigation districts of the state. 

 Applications for leases were filled for about 

 half a million acres of land. The state 

 constitution adopts a minimum sale price 

 of $10 an acre, which is above its market 

 value. As it leases at from five to ten 

 cents an acre it is altogether better to lease 

 than buy. There were about 275,000 acres 

 under the government grant of state lands 

 still to be selected. When the total is se- 

 lected and leased, the state will get an in- 

 come from it of about $20,000 a year. 



GENERAL MINING NEWS. 



Under the new law in Utah the cost of 

 incorporation papers is twenty-five cents 

 on each $1,000 of capital stock. 



The old mine at Barnack, Montana, is 

 being fitted up, and is to be started on 

 ores from the mines of the camp. 



A Utah mining man has invented the 

 Acme Gold Amalgamator which is being 

 tested at the Carrington bar o.n the Snake 

 river. 



Anaconda is to have ' a plant for the 

 manufacture of sulphuric acid from the 

 smelter smoke, for the present only for 

 the company's own use. 



The Salt Lake Tribune has recently 

 published a twenty-four page, 300,000 edi- 

 tion, devoted to a detailed write-up of the 

 prosperous Mercur camp. 



American mines are again attracting a 

 good deal of attention in London. Promi- 

 nent experts and South African miners are 

 coming to America this spring. 



Superintendent Treweek, of the Mercur 

 mine, says he is ready to increase the out- 

 put of the bonanza to 1,000 tons a day 

 any time the management provides for the 

 handling of it. 



There are at present eleven smelters 

 running in Colorado. All of them are 

 now receiving twice the amount of ore they 

 received last year, indicating that the out- 

 put is doubled. 



The big copper plant that has been 

 standing so long unfinished at Salt Lake 

 City, because of factional fights among its 



owners, is to be completed and put in 

 blast by June 1 to 15. 



While the DeLamar mine in the Mercur 

 district, Utah, does not give out figures 

 for publication, it is contended that it is 

 producing more gold than any other single 

 property in the country. 



While sinking a well for water at Cer- 

 rillos, New Mexico, oil was struck at a 

 depth of 110 feet. It was not in paying 

 quantities, but the work is to be prose- 

 cuted in the hope of making a rich strike. 



The Silverton Northern Railway is being 

 constructed between Silverton and Mineral 

 Point up the Animas valley, Colo. It will 

 furnish shipping facilities for twenty gold- 

 producing gulches, where there are many 

 mines already in operation. 



The Trail Creek district of Washing- 

 ton is coming to the front and will show a 

 very heavy output before the close of the 

 year. It is estimated that the average 

 will not be less than 400 tons a day of $40 

 a ton ore, or $16,000 a day. 



Placer mining will be prosecuted in all 

 of the states with great vigor the present 

 season. New finds are being made and 

 new methods of saving the gold, so that 

 the output promises to be a large factor in 

 the total gold production for the year. 



The Power Development Company in 

 the Kern river valley, California, is ex- 

 pected to practically dry the river bed in 

 seasons of low water, and many mining 

 locations have been made along the river- 

 bed with a view to placer washing at such 

 periods. It is known that there is plenty 

 of gold in there yet. 



The most valuable single carload ship- 

 ment of ore that has probably ever been 

 made has recently been shipped from the 

 Eureka Hill mine, Utah. Twelve and a 

 half tons were valued approximately at 

 $375,000, there being sufficient gold in it 

 to bring it up nearly to coin value. It was 

 the product of the mine for about three 

 months. 



The district surrounding Baker City, 

 Oregon, is becoming one of the important 

 gold fields of the West, and development 

 work is in progress there on a scale never 

 before known. Capacity of mill and min- 

 ing plants is being increased, new mills 

 are being erected, additional men are 



