MINED AND MINING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3558, 10 August 1905, Page 4

MINED AND MINING.

In a total valuation of our mineral statistics last year of $1,070,108,890 .coal constituted $300,39,1,364, or nearly one-third. The sensation among mining men in the southwest h; the discovery of riel, anthracic-.; coal in Arizona in inexhaustible quantities. This means the development of vast mineral bods heretofore pr,.m ically useless lot lack of fuel. . For two or three years Pacific coast miners have been hearing wonderful • ttortfil of vast mineral wealth in the SibeTlgn peninsula, extending into the SibjStian sea and the Arctic ocean, CB,OOO.'sqnare miles. Word has just come that it is to be thrown open to the ■public next April. Wonderful stories are now told on the Pacific coast by returning prospectors from Candle Creek, Alaska Which they say is I lie world’s worn; ll is only ten feet '.vide, and men slam, ill it shoveling up rich gravel. Logs are dragged 20 miles by the miners .who propose to winter there to build cabins. A combination of the great copper mines of the United States similar in scope to the Morgan billion-doll;'r steel combine is now under the leadership of the Both.v.clii ids, whom Senator Clark is now visit lug. So far the Calumet and Jieciii, ihe greatest copper company in the world, refuses to

come in. Until quite recently southern California has been comparatively unknown, but a New ili gland company now owning till previously unsold land north of the twenty-eighth degree of latitude is pushingsaies of land mostly lor raining purposes, in the largest mines 3,000 Yaqui Indians are paid $41.00 a day. Copper and gold are abundant, and “workings” are appearing all over tin- peninsula. In some parts are plateaus 4,500 feet hig'h, walled in by mountains. Vast deposits of almost, pure sulphur are being opened up. There are turquoise mines and the largest turquoise found on the American continent was found ithere.