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Show 8T INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW feet. Undoubtedly the Eagle is a good property. This strike proves that the vein underlies all the ground beThe Review desires reliable correspond- tween the Golden Gate and the divide ence from every mining camp in Utah, north. Col. E. A. Wall reports the Brickyard Idaho and Nevada, and will give publi- looking well and going the usthrough cation to any news items of merit coming ual formation over the gold vein. The from a trustworthy source. Liberal works are on the Arab claim, one of the Brickyard group which is not in will be paid on subscriptions. the disputed ground. UTAH. C. H. Scheu on Saturday examined 156 ffeus of tye 5amps. com-missio- ns the ledge running northwest and southeast on the lower foothills northwest of Summit County. Mercur. lie reports the ledge 21,000 feet Correspondence Mining Review. in length and showing values the en1. This camp has tire distance. It reaches north from Park City, Feb. as the usual last week. We Lewiston to Ophir canyons. This is not gone along to are not given startling the mining the only place in the foothills where world with big finds of endless values are good. AVe could mention at and all that sort of thing, but least twenty properties there which g as a steady, sober show encouragement enough to justify reliable. called be we may community work being done. The diamond drill so long talked of President Bruback of the Gold Belt for the Anchor company has arrived AVater company is criticised for orderand will soon be in operation. This ing the water shut off from the Geydrill was made to order by Fraser & ser and refusing to furnish water to Chalmers, and is as good as can be the Sacramento. The Geyser and Sacmade. It cost about $4000 in Chicago. ramento have made arrangements for The core is one and a half inches ca-in all the water they want from the Ilecla machine has a diameter, and the shaft. The people of Mercur patronize 4000 feet. It is the in- the water company pacity of about and they do the not like to have the well, tention of the company to start 1600 enterprises of the drill on horizontal work from the crippled in this way. level in the shaft and prospect for the camp T. A. AATickersham was in camp last ore bodies supposed to lie east and week. He says they have struck pay south of the shaft. The results of this ore in the Red Cloud. The Red Cloud by boys deserve credit work will be watched with interest atfor the work they mining men, as it will be the first dis- have done. AArick makes the statetempt at diamond drilling in this out- ment that by actual count of the hangtrict and no one can tell what the ing walls outsiders have assured him come will be. times, he has Rumor says the Crescent company he has had at different e in all, and through twenty-onwill soon start up, with Dick Campbell passed the one is above the preslast hopes as foreman. This could not be verified ent strike. idle today. This property has been The owners of the Aralley Ariew group since the slump in price of silver, are well pleased with their property. except as worked by leasers, whose have a fine ledge of black quartz contracts can be terminated at the Theyfine and looking ore. No work to speak pleasure of the company. W. S. Sharp, Dr. Gregor and asso- of has been done, but in their prospect they are getting fair values. ciates, who have been working in Deer work The Monte Cristo has just let a convalley for some years, are seemingly feet more work in the about to be rewarded. They have run tract for fifty a tunnel about 900 feet long, and late tunnel. It looks well at present and this afternoon ran into a very prom- this fifty feetore.will undoubtedly put of quartz which carries them in pay ising body The Golden Seal has let a contract o ounces silver and considertwenty-twfor another 100 feet in the shaft. This able lead. The construction of the Morgan hoist- will be one of the large mines of Camp the con- Floyd before spring. ing works goes on rapidly, and on soon. tractor hopes to have the roof People of Mercur are much pleased differwith of the present outlook. The Golden the The rumored settlement AlGate and the Mercur expect to build ences between the Silver King and foundais without liance companies large mills. These, with the pay strikes no in other mines, which assure us mills tion, as the former say they have compromise to offer and will consider in all parts of the camp, will in a very none. The King people are not saying short time make of Mercur the largest much for the public just now, but no mining camp in the country. The Sacramento will start the mill in doubt they will talk when the time comes. a few days. They would have started The stockholders of the Bogan com- by this time but for the water trouble. and However, this will cause but a slight pany have had several meetings facconsidered propositions from the delay. tions for compromise, but so far no Sunshine Sun: A. L. Simondi was in reached. settlement has been town last Monday to perfect arrangeThe Comstock is said to be ready for ments for a deal on a group of twelve active work again. Nearly all the claims west of Sunshine, comprising stockholders, it is understood, paid the the Gray Pony, Jim Crow Nos. 1 and last assessment of 7 cents per share. 2, Golden AVell, Primrose, Julia D., This mine has been called a fake, Mist, Cornucopia, Yellow Devil, Arirgin-iu- s and it is hoped the company will soon and Gold Bug lodes, owned by show that it is not. Green, AArard, Tiball and Caldwell. He J. C. Weeter, David Keith, Tom wrill be followed by a party of Eastern Kearns and some other Park City peo- capitalists, who will buy the property ple are said to be after some of the if everything is satisactory, wThen a good things of Mercur. be organized for the deThe Daly company is making the an- company will of the property. Adjoining at the Marsac mill. A velopment nual clean-u- p C. AV. Miles has a group claims these of the rather serious break-dow- n claims w'hich he is doing some occurred at the Marsac to- of six on. work day. The damage is reported to be This week assays obtained from samvery small. in from Skull valFifty-tw- o bars of silver bullion were ples of rockasbrought as $206 per ton. much yielded shipped by the Ontario company today. leyThe Annie mine is now' in the swrim. Value, not obtained. A good body of ore running to $11 has Ore shipments this week: Pounds. been struck in the tunnel. ore-bodi- es wealth-producin- air-compres- Silver King Anchor concentrates Total sor 826,500 335,370 low-lyin- Bamberger, J. G. Jacobs, Joseph Morris and associates. Prospect holes wrere sunk on each claim and samples of ore taken out and sent to McAricker, Officer and Hanauer for assay. The returns, w'hich w'ere most uniform, showed gold values ranging from $12 to $4S per ton. No sooner had this information leaked out than a second outfit of mining speculators from Salt Lake appeared on the scene and took in the situation. More engineers were brought out from Salt Lake and a new survey made. The second outfit claimed the wTork of the Bamberger crow'd didnt comply with the lawr, and consequently they made new locations lapping and overlapping the first and set up their own stakes and notices. They also dug prospect holes and took out somples of ore. Their assays run all the way from up to $60, so reported. The new camp, if it may be called a camp, is located upon a dike or blowf-othat has not yet been prospected more than superficially, and the real value of the strike cannot be determined as yet. One thing is certain, however, that if the strike is as valuable as its locators W'ould have believed, there will be a small w'ar over the relocations made g and will lead to blood$10 ut claim-jumpin- shed. A number of local men among w'hom are AY. B. Kennedy, Gid AArilson, Will Bailey and Dick Evans, have visited the new' camp and made locations of claims in the vicinity. TINTIC DISTRICT. Eureka Democrat: The Tetro is now in about 170 feet w'ith their east crosscut, and a number of quartz-stringeand promising ledge matter encountered since our last report. The manager of the property gives it as his opinion that they w'ill cut the main ledge in about fifty feet. The ground will then be systematically exploited and active mining begun. addition Grading for the forty-stam- p to the battery has begun at the Eureka Hill mill, and the company expects to make concentrates and bullion to the music of 100 stamps before the close of next month. The large bodies of milling ore already blocked out in the mine are sufficient to keep the stamps employed for an indefinite period. Late assay returns from a body of ore struck in the Buckhorn mine, adthe North Tintic Consolidated joining group, give 137 ounces in silver and $53 in gold. L. M. Armstrong of Salt Lake is one of the principal owners. Tintic Miner: Shipments from the district for the past wreek are reported as follows: From the Bullion-Bec- k mine 35 carloads ore, from the Bullion-Bec- k mill 10 carloads concentrates, from the 8 carloads ore, from the rs Centen-nial-Eure- Juab County. FIELD. Nephi Times: Furner valley, w'hich Tooele County. has been attracting so much attention the past three weeks, is situated just CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. tw'elve miles west of Nephi, and until Review.l Correspondence Mining 2. The Eagle has the first of the year no one has ever ..Mercur, Utah, Feb. just struck the gold vein at a depth of suspicioned the location of having any 1,161,930 thing valuable in a mineral way about Some time in December last a lone sheepherder, passing through the valley, picked up a bit of float that in a roundabout way finally lodged in the officials in hands of the Bullion-Bec- k Salt Lake. On the day before New Years an engineering outfit came down from Salt Lake, and taking horses, rode g across the marshy fiats and range of hills, and soon struck the now famous little valley. Here no time Was lost, and within two days lines had been run, claims staked out and a profile and plat of the country prepared in the rough for filing. The fourth day thereafter location notices to about thirty claims wrere filed for record in the County Recorders office. All the claims w'ere in the names of S. it. A NEAr GOLD ka Eureka Hill mill 8 carlo-adconcentrates, from the Mammoth mine 5 carloads ore, from the Mammoth mills 8 carloads concentrates, from the Ajax 7 carloads ore, from the Sioux mill 7 carloads concentrates, from the North Star 2 carloads ore, from the Dragon Iron mine 2 carloads daily. One carload s i |