HINES AND MINING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3554, 1 August 1905, Page 4

HINES AND MINING.

In: a 'total valuatiota of our mineral statistics last year of $1,070,108,899 coal constituted $300,891,364, or nearly on.e-thirdL The smosation among'mining men in the southwest Ls the discovery of rich anthracite- coal in Arizona in inexhaustible quantities. This means the development of vast mineral beds heretofore practically useless for lack of fuel. For two or three years Pacific coast miners have been bearing wonderful stories of vast numeral wealth in the Siberian peninsula, .extending into the Siberian sea and th« Arctic ocean, 65,000 square miles. Word has just come that it is to be thrown open to tin l public next April. Winderful stories nr« now told on Vhe Pacific coast by returning prospaqtors from CnndU Grech, Urn lm, ~A dch they say is \bc worm >. tuu,!' >' it, ,*s only ten feet wide, am. men starn, '\T shoveling up rci; prravel. Log:u! .,, : k iragged >lO miles T\y tim miner.-, who $ r °I JOSe to winter there to build cabins. A combination of the great copper mines of the United .-im.im in scope ta the Morgan Julbou-.mllm steel com Ida K ’’ T "■*' 1 ' ,JJ ership of the xTothschiMs, Whom Senator Clark is u/JW visit mg. bo :mr the Caluntet and Hfccla, tl.; greatest copper company in the w.-rid, refuses to come in. , Until quite recently southern California has been coin, -aratirely, unknown, but a New England company mrr ■.-• v.d v all previously unsaid laud north of the twenty-ek-hth degnse of latitude is pnsliing sales of laud mi istly for mining purposes. In the fai gest mines 3,000 ViNiui Indians are l-md $41.00 a day. Copper ami gold are abundant, and “wt'rkings ar<. app car ing all over tin i* ' i ; ' ls;i *" * .’ ,ru ' parts are pialer.uv i<>; ’ * l ■' " walled in by inoun .Vs’’- ■ 1 '' * its of at" nsl ;>n: uif.nm -' L '• ■'■ - opened up. There ato turquoise* .uui mand the largest iurquoh’*- fomUd the American continent W BB 1 there.