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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



MINES AND MINING. 



WYOMING. 



The Surprise Copper company has com- 

 pleted over. 100 feet of its 500-foot tunnel 

 on its copper property at Hazenville. The 

 wall rock has been reached. Copper float 

 is being found at the present time. The 

 work is being prosecuted day and night. 



Wyoming is certainly coming to the 

 front as a mineral state. The Copper Top 

 mine is one of the claims purchased by 

 the Charter Oak Company, and it is 

 claimed that recently gold was panned 

 from rock taken out of Copper Top that 

 would run up to $700 per ton. While the 

 gold and copper fields in the upper part of 

 the Saratoga valley, known as the Grand 

 encampment, are creating wonderful ex- 

 citement among the citizens of Cheyenne 

 and vicinity. In speaking of the state an 

 Eastern man writes as follows: 



"Easterners are becoming deeeply in- 

 terested in Wyoming. Every day they 

 read of your gold, copper and iron camps, 

 irrigated lands, etc., and many like my- 

 self have determined to visit Wyoming 

 and endeavor to get a proper estimate of 

 your resources. Being as you are the 

 neighbor to Colorado, one of the best gold 

 states, it does not seem at all strange that 

 you should develop ?ome rich mines: I 

 am now aware, by personal investigation, 

 that you have some promising oil lands and 

 unsurpassed soda lakes. I have seen 

 samples of ore, also, that indicate that 

 Wyoming will soon be numbered with the 

 great producers of gold and copper."- 

 Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader. 



St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 18. Forty 

 persons were killed and 18 injured by an 

 explosion of gas in one of the mines of the 

 Donetzor company in the Tagenrog dis- 

 trict, on the north shore of the Sea of 

 Azov. 



An accident recently occurred in the 

 Trade Dollar mine at Silver City, Idaho, 

 which it is claimed is the most peculiar 



mine accident ever known. In a three 

 compartment chute, one side was for 

 waste, one for ore and the middle one was 

 the manway. The waste chute was empty 

 and the ore chute was blocked. When 

 the shift boss succeeded in loosening 

 the ore, the concussion of the air blew 

 out the center plate of the ore chute and 

 blew in the center plate of the waste chute. 



Every vessel in the English fleet at 

 Exquimault, B. C., was ordered to go to 

 China the 20th of January, and prepara- 

 tions were at once made for the voyage. 



Six wells having good streams of petrol- 

 eum are now flowing in the oil district of 

 Fresno county, California, and more wells 

 are being bored. Several car loads of the 

 crude oil are shipped daily. 



In Yuma county, Arizona, opposite San 

 Diego county, on the Colorado river, the 

 Gold Extraction company shows $68 per 

 ton value based on 51 samples of ore. The 

 product is valued at $1,017 per day. 



Two mines in the Virginia Dale dis- 

 trict, took out $300 in two weeks with a 

 dry washer. 



Those who have been to the gold fields 

 of Bolivia, S. A. say that it is no country 

 for a poor man to go with the expectation 

 of making anything at mining. Food is 

 cheap and plentiful, but very expensive 

 and heavy machinery is necessary to carry 

 on the placer mining. 



051 from the oil fields of Summerland, 

 Santa Barbara county, Cal.,can be shipped 

 from there to San Francisco by water for 

 14 cents per barrel, while the freight by 

 railroad is 51 cents per barrel'. 



There was a wedding recently in Mis- 

 souri the groom of which was 100 years old 

 and the bride 77. It is such youthful un- 

 ions that threaten the supremacy of the 

 race and emphasize the contention that we 

 allow our boys and girls too much freedom. 

 Ex. 



