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Show Around the Mining World. hat taken the place of ' lime rock. The j ground ia much softer and is full, of email cavities and is considerably broken, the! t iron is mineralized, and within ten days we j ! expect to hear that the long-sought-for bonanza bo-nanza has been found. Tintic Miner. j A Bingham BulMin scribe visited the Green Grove mine at the head of Cottonwood Cotton-wood gulch the first of this week and lound work moving steadily along: and the property prop-erty looking finely. The upper tunnel is in 250 feet, and about eighteen inches of first-class and four feet of second-class ore, two well defined todies, are exposed in the same. The strike of the vein on this property is east and west and it dips to the north. The operators have about ' sixty tons of good concentrating ore and twenty-five tons of first-class ore out ready to ship, which assays as-says one-half ounce silver to a unit iu lead. They are not talking out any ore at present, being engaged in running a tunnel below to tap the ore bodies visible in toe upper workings. work-ings. The Green Grove is certainly one of the most promising properties in Cottonwood Cotton-wood gulch. It is owned by Mrs. A. Klop-ensteiu, Klop-ensteiu, but is being operated under a lease and bond by Messrs. llersome. Sessions & Henry. other things and this piece of gold. In stirring about the fine dust, which is about six inches dep. he. stirred the block over several times. Finally he picked it up and was much surprised at its weight. He j rubbed It on hi overalls and was much surprised sur-prised at its glitter. He afterwards cut oil a piece and had it analyzed with the result above given. Of all the numerous and abundant relics that have been thus far iouud among the cliff dwellings this is the first and only specimen of mineral that we have yet heard of. It has evidently been melted in some kind of a rough pan possibly in the sand. Carrying out its circular shape, it would form a cake about six inches in di imeter. From its appearance" this would seem to have been its original frra. and has evidently been chipped off, as if it were a currency among the people. .It has been cut down to it present size "by rough and blunt instruments. UTAH'S WEALTH. "Working Mines and Undiscovered Mines That Rival Any on Earth. 'fho future appears rich in promise for Utah mines and miner. That is, so far as producers and new discoveries are concerned. con-cerned. The price of silver is another question, ques-tion, with a direct bearing, of course, upon ' the first proposition. There are a variety of causes for the golden promises of the Utah mines. The new mineral fields are probably In the main responsible, yet the old producers pro-ducers are showing up as steadily and reliably relia-bly as of yore, and there are no indications of any of them playing out. The discovery of good mines in the Deep Creek country, which includes the Fish springs, Spring creek. Willow springs and other districts, to - ay nothing of Big and Little Cottonwoods, new discoveries around Eureka, Park City, Bingham and other mining camps through- . out the territory, which 'give promise of pushing Utah ahead of the states which cluster around her In the mining industry and make her a producer in the precious metals that today has no equal anywhere. But If the new district form a prominent factor the old ones play a part fully as important, im-portant, if not more. The vast bodies of mineral at Park City, Eureka and in the Cottonwoods are showinir their possibilities, : especially the two former, after years of production. The statement is frequently made that the great camps of Colorado are playing out; . that the mines from whose depths fortunes have been dug do not respond with anything like their erstwhile plethoric vigor to the miner's pick. The unparalleled history of LiSadyillft haa lkaerl fntrt a mmn.. The relic throws no little light on the history his-tory of that enlightened, but extinct people, which once dwelt in the land south and west of us. They lived in a land underlaid with the richest of minerals. Tet, until the discovery dis-covery of this piece, it has been supposed that they had not the least knowledge in the world of any mineral. We must revise our belief to some extent. Good Keporta From I a Plata. Good reports continue to come in from the La Plata district. An expert who recently visited the district and took a look in the La Plata mine says there can be no doubt of its being a good mine. Pipes of lead ore are found all through the lime. In Aspen there is a similar formation, and these pipes always al-ways lead to large ore bodies. The company, he said, are trying to keep things quiet, and when a biir ore body is discovered it is covered cov-ered up and mum is the word. Three shifts can Juan country Is heard of through the Colorado press occasionally. Creede and Cripple Creek sprung iuto the field full - armored and strong, but their elory was fleeting as the pageant of the stage. Men talked about them for a day. The great mines which dotted Carbonate hill, Freyer hill and Iowa gulch around the carbonate casDp are wearing out. Who can remember hck to the days w hen the fame and glory of the Morning Star, the Chrysolite, the Little Pittsburg and the other great mineral-lined mineral-lined mines of Leadville filled the mining world with the thrill of excitement and compare their present reflected glory with their former greatness without feeling the unconscious reflection that they are as a tale that has been told? BUT TOWARD LTAH, l;t the natural course of events, if nothing lse, the eyes of the men whose nights have been passed on the mountain side or in the helter of the mountain's brow are turned. The great camps of Park City and Eureka certainly are not destined to be the only firoducers of great magnitude of this terrl-ory. terrl-ory. Doep Creek, with its vast, unexplored regions, iU hills which rise in all directions indicate that great bodies of ore slumber beneath the ragged mountains awaiting the miner's pick to expose them to the light of day and build up a Mecca of the mining men. Big and Little Cottonwood hold the Allurements of good producers and promising promis-ing recent discoveries; Bingham is yet in its infancy. But there are hills in this territory where the miner's pick has scarcely made an indention. inden-tion. There are vales, guarded by the eternal eter-nal sentinels of the mountain tops, that in-rite in-rite the prospector to try for the hidden treasure beneath them. Thus, certainly, somewhere in this vast area of mountains and vales is a spot where rich minerals, richer than any heretofore discovered in Utah, await the cominv of the lucky prospector. prospec-tor. Some day in the future, when the pos-ibilltles pos-ibilltles of Utah as a mining country are known and appreciated, this spot will be found. It will astonish the Western world, and men will flock to it as they flocked to Ieadville, as they went to Creede, as they . hastened on to Cripple Creek. The dav will dawn for Utah when the mines, by 'their richness, will advertise themselves, when the fame and glory of this territory will lie known the continent across, and capital will depart from tha Eastern seaboard and come West without a stop between New York and Utah, and when that day comes Utah will step forward free and clear the greatest ore-producing ore-producing state in the Union. TAIIH IX BBIOHAM, are at work, and the stock is said to be worth 35 cents. The ore in the Sundown, one of the properties of the company, runs 60 per cent copper, and some native copper is being found. It is this company, it is said, who are making effort to secure a smelter at Ogden, and if they do, ore will be freighted down in great quantities. The Sunrise, another an-other La Plata property, has a hundred tons of ore1 on the dump. Mines and Miners, F. W. Schreiuer left today for the Salmon river district. George Ryan, a Tintlc miner, was in the city yesterday. Work will be resumed on the Diamond at Eureka this week. A force of men are at work on the Hard j Winter in Mammoth. The Utah and Emma mines at Fish Springs are producing some very rich ore. G. A. Henry, a uewspaper and mining man of the Clifton district, is in the city. Colonel C. B. Weeks backed his judgment and won 5000 shares of North lOahon on Corbett. J. M. Jackman is in from Tintic. He is one of the operators of the Hungarian mine at Mammoth. M. N. Buck left yesterday for Homans-ville, Homans-ville, In the Tintic district, where he is interested in-terested in a leaching plant. The shaft on the Tintic Gold and Silver Mining company's property is down 100 feet. It is expected that a large body of gold-bearing ore will be tapped soon. It is reported that the body of gold ore recently re-cently discovered in the Mammoth extends entirely across the base of the drift and averages fifteen ounces gold per ton. The enlargement of the shaft In the Cen-tral-Eureka at Eureka is neariy completed. The machinery for the new hoisting works is arriving, and teams are at work hauling it up to the mine's airy perch. Oscar Zipf, 8. D. N. Bennett and T. Egan have returned from Joseph, where they -had been ta examine ihe Golden Star. They are highly pleased over the outlook of the orbit with the monetary appellation. New machinery will be added to the DaU ton milL The addition will be a perfection concentrator, which from sample tests made, treats the ore and tailings very successfully. In shaft No. 2 In this mine, it is believed that a large deposit of rich ore will be found when it is sunk to a greater depth. A committee has been appointed by the Deseret Mining company to Investigate the Ai Intarvtaw with Mining Bacorder Barney Bar-ney Qnina on the Camp. Mr. Barney Quinn, the mining recorder of Bingham, was in Salt Lake yesterday. To a Tikes reporter he said: "Considering the low price of silver, we have the best mining camp In the territory. The Brooklyn Is still making it regular shipments, taking out some nice grade ore. Sampson is paying handsomely and tho Telegraph is working thirty-rlvo men, sinking a shaft and taking out ore. South Galena is working about 110 men. The new mill Is all but completod and will have increased facilities for treating the ore in model perfection. The Highland, under the able supervision of C. W. Connor, has made a new strike in a new drift of 150 feet in length the latter part of last week. The ore is of nice grade and the mine is working bout twenty-Aye men. The Last Chance is working its usual force of men with good results. The Pedro made a strike week or two ago of an immense body of ore but has kept it rather quiet. Tosemlte No 2 is doing wa.wui. .ii.vbji.c3 j . VIC IDUUttlUll a UU bU ascertain the one best suited to their various characters of ore. It is the intention immediately im-mediately on the conclusion of their investigation inves-tigation to erect a mill with a capacity of not less that fifty tons daily. Anthony Godbe reports that the Bulllon-ville Bulllon-ville works will be about ready for the reduction re-duction of ores and tailings by the end of this month. The works are remodeled and simplified, and as arranged can handle large quantities of ore and at small cost. Toe starting np of the plant is looked for with great interest. Pioche, Xn:, Record. Messrs. Riter, Wheeler and Pazman are doing some extensive prospecting on the Paxrnan claim, just north of the Colorado Chief. A whim has been erected and the shaft sunk to the depth of 130 feet. Mr. Wheeler states that the indications are No. 1, and he confidently expects a second Keystone Key-stone of the property. Tintic Miner. Work progresses finely in the upper workings work-ings of the Mohawk Consolidated, and some fine looking ore is being taken out, says the Bulletin. J. A. Van Pelt, the owner, let a contract this week for extending the lower tunnel 200 feet further in. He is going after the mlTmr&l hndls lnpatj.4 hy frnf V1mh.ll well. The general outlook of the camp is prosperous, With the coming year, when the presidential election is over we expect a i ' bljr boom. Mo mine is entirely Idle except ing the Queen, which closed about two weeks ago, and prospecting Is going on in very direction. Cottonwood gulch is sending send-ing ont favorable report of new strikes. Markheni gulnh is still working and some leases on the Iloagley mine have made ship-menu ship-menu last week of ore that exceeded lu0 per ton by considerable, showing conclusively conclu-sively that Bingham is not a low grade camp by any means. This is a good price for ore, considering the price of liver. There is some talk of another mill being built north of Markham gulch. The people have such faith in Bingham that Bishop Hcanlan has determined to build a church there, which will be commenced this j week. The Butterfleld Canyon Mining company, com-pany, of which George W. Keel is superintendent superin-tendent and mauager, is running an 8000-foot 8000-foot tunnel with Burlay drills, making about 24 feet a day. That will open up a big country, there being about fifty claims In a group. The machinery and plant are the finest in the territory, the power-house is new, furnishing fur-nishing incandescent lights; a sawmill is at-tachad, at-tachad, air compressors, ate. The water is taken from a distance of three miles. There j is a wonderful fall aud can work machinery ! bv steam or water. last week, with will and determination, and we hope to see him expose them soon. The incline shaft on the Eda lode, located at the head of Cottonwood gulch is now down about 8'JO feet and the vein being followed looks more encouraging than ever. About two feet and a half of good milling ora was encountered iu the face of the ir clin last Saturday, and the operators feel very much elated over it, believing that it will develop into a fine body of first-class ore in a short time. One of the most promising prospects near Frisco is owned by P. Martin and is called the Broadway. It is located In Lober's can-you. can-you. A tunnel has been run into the mountain moun-tain not more than twenty feet in length, out of which there has been extracted six or eight tons of ore running 100 to 300 ounces silver and a big percentage in lead. Martin has purchased the Copper Prince, in this canyon, from Morrison brothers. Tha great gold strike In the Mammoth mine is in a formation never encountered in that property before. The gold is contained in a perfectly white spar, called heavy spar, or barita. No gold is visible and it appears perfectly worthless. When crushed and panned it does not show a trace of gold, but when tested by fire its richness is revealed. Tho stockholders of the comnapy are to be congratulated on the rich firwl ..-.... Tha Henry Mountaias. C H. Hallett of Denver,- who had been prospecting since last March in the Henry mountains, passed through Grand Junction last week. The -Yews says of him: He had with him a very large collection of specimens speci-mens of ore from prospects which ba has located lo-cated and also some placer gold. Almost all of Mr. Hallett' s satapiea were very rich, com bearing silver, soma copper and some gold. He has located a large number of ' prospects aud will soon return to develop them. He says, however, that there will have to be a railroad down the Grand before any great headway, can be made. This he considers a very feasible uudertaaing, and one that would be highly protttabie. Mr. Hallett conducted his prospecting alone and in his own interest. What lie hat found ts his own, and it must be admitted that he ha some valuable mineral specimens. speci-mens. The gentleman showed a nugget of pure copper in almost the form ot a cube, and nearly the bulk of a hen's egg. He says he found a vein twenty. two inches wide which Is a deposit of these nuggets, and he has no Idea of the amount of copper in the 'vain. But one specimen that Mr. Hallet carries ia valuable, both oa account of the mineral and as a relic. It is a piece of gold abont 2$ inchea long, 1 inches wide aud 1 inch thick. It ia 913 grains line, and the "block Contains $341 in gold. He found it in a small room of the cliff . dwellers' habitations. There was a series se-ries of three rooms. The iront room was rather large, the second was a little smaller and ihe third quite small, as is used as a pantry or store root. This room contained aome, twenty-lira pieces of pottary and i ( rt - -. .r.if.y J oumal. A. P. Mayberry has made two shipments of lirst-class ore from his lease on the lower workings of the Old Dixon since taking the lease about a month ago. He has out quite a large shipment of second-class. The ore body being worked improves daily, both in quantity and quality. The incline recently started from the surface, just below the mouth of Freeman gulch, is now connected with the incline being sunk from the tunnel level, from which the ore is being taken. The theory entertained by many of the miners of Tiatic that the great Dragon iron mine east of Silver City Is the mother of the various veins in the porphyry and that it caps a great mine. is, it seems, about to be verified. L. . Riter, who came in the other evening, informs the Mining Journal that next Saturday he will ship to this city a full carload from a deposit of silver ore recently developed 4n the iron mine. The shipment will consist of two lots, the high-grade aver-aging aver-aging 8sl ounces silver and a high percentage percent-age of bismuth and lead, and the second-class second-class carrying about 100 ounces silver and the same per cent of bismuth aud lead. He thinks that there are immense bodies of silver sil-ver ore there, and expects to develop them in a short time. Everything is lookln? very favorable at the Red Hose mine. Five weeks ago Will Groesbeck, manager of the Red Rose company, com-pany, took Prof. Kimball up to the mine to inspect it with his mineral indicator. Work was being done in the shaft at the time, but the professor put the men in the drift and said that the ore body was nerth of the shaft, also that before reaching the ore they would cut through a deposit of iron. Since then the drift has been run fifty feet farther, and now the formation la changing and iron ore |