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Mining notes from across the West and a patent medicine ad
The column surveys mining activity from Joachimth al Bohemia to Pony Montana including a seven mile drainage tunnel, a 120 mile Wyoming to Utah pipeline project, and a million dollar sale of Clipper Boss Tweed mines. It mentions a Wardner Idaho dividend, new ore finds in Arizona and Nevada, a Consolidated California and Virginia shipment to a smelter, and ore value reports near Wedekind City. The page includes a patent medicine declaration from F J Cheney & Co and endorsements for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Kemp's Balsam with local druggists selling Halls pills and Kodol Dyspepsia Care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joachimathal
Bohemia
Wyoming
Salt Lake City
Utah
Washoe County
Steamboat Springs
Tonopah
Nye County
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company
Wardner
Idaho
Stockton Hill
Arizona
W.E. Dean
Pittsburg
Dean
Battle Mountain Central Nevadan
California
Virginia
Virginia City
Nev
Salt Lake Tribune
Gulling, Branley & Co
Wedekind City
Reno Journal