MINES AND MINING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3541, 1 July 1905, Page 4

MINES AND MINING.

In a total valuation ol our mineral statistics last year of $1,070,108,899 coal constituted $300,891,364, or nearly one-third. The sensation among mining men h the southwest is the discovery of rit, anthracite coal in Arizona in inexhaustible quantities. This means th development of vast mineral bed heretofore practically useless I\, lack of fuel. For two or three years Pacific coast miners have been hearing wonderiurtoric* of vast mineral wealth in llu .Siberian peninsula, extending into thSiberian sea and the Arctic ocean, u v 000 square miles. Word has just conu that it is to be thrown open to the. public next April. Wonderful stories are now told the Pacific coast by returning.prospectors from Candle Creek, A which they sry ! w<It is only ten • in it shove.u., ~ are dragged 20 miles oy in i who propose to winter there vo . cabins. A combination of the great copper mines of the United States similar in scope to the Morgan b lin--' 1 steel combine is no\y u. . s r; ership of the Rothschilds, whom Senator Clark is now visiting. Bo far the Calumet and Hecla, the greatest cop per company in the world, refuses U come in. Until quite recently southern California has been comparatively unknown, but a New England company now owning all previously unsold land north of the-twenty-eighth degree of latitude is pushing sales of land mostly for mining purposes. In the largest mines 3,000 Yaqui Indians are paid $41.00 a day. Copper and gold are abundant, and “wm-kim-r” a r ■■ ■ -"- 1r Sng all over the peninsula. In some parts are plateaus 4,500 feel h-*,-. walled in by mountains. Vast deposit* of almost pure sulphur are being opened up. There are turquoise mines and the largest turquoise found on the; American continent was found there.