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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 8 February 1906, Page 4

K. • ■ps sensed ion among mining men in ■.‘southwest is the discovery of rich H&radte coal in Arizona in inexBiStioie quantities. This means the Bekpment of vast ..mineral beds Hetofore practically useless for Hk of fuel. Bjortwo or three years Pacific coast Biers have been hearing wonderful Bries of vast mineral wealth in the Bbrjan pur.insula, attending into the Berian sea a: - i the Arctic ocean, 68,. B,square iiuk.. Word has just come Bt it is to be thrown open to th» Hbllc next April. ■STondvrful stories are now told on E Pacific coast by returning prosHptors from Candle Creek, Alaska, Keh they say is the world’s wonder. B|a only ten feis wide,-anil men stand Bit shoveling up rich gravel. Log* B dragged 20 miles TSy the miners Bo propose to winter there to build Bis*. Bt- combination of the great copper Kw of the United Slates similar to thq Morgan billion-dollar Hfcl combine is now under the ieadEhlp of the Rothschilds, whom SenaK Clark is now visiting. So far the and Ilecla, the greatest copBr company in the world, refuses to Bne in. ■yatil quite recently southern Calirpia h-;s been comparatively unjjjwn, but a New England company pw owning all previously unsold land K th of the twenty-eighth degree of titud* is pushing sales of land mostly IT mining purposes. In the largest that 8,000 Yaqui Indians are paid COO & day. Copper and gold are ptndant, and "workings" are appearK ver the peninsula. In some tr(s are plateau* 4,500 feet high, lllld in by mountains. Vast deposI of klmost\pure aulphur are being up. There are turquoise mines id the largest turquoise found on io American continent was found we *4