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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. Water Is delivered at De Lamar, Nev., by the pint or gallon. Leadvilles mines have produced two hundred and nine millions. The mining1 men of British Columbia have organized an association. The Montana mining and immigration convention opened at Helena last Tuesday. An English syndicate has purchased 253 lode claims in the Bare Hills southwest of Cripple Creek. The January yield of the Nova Scotia gold mines was 1436 ounces. The product for 1895 was 18,605 ounces. The gold output for Arizona for '95 was $4,260,000, an increase of $2,179,750 over 1894, and of $3,257,495 over 1893. The Comstock lode Is still producing assessments, the latest being 30 cents on Con. Cal. & Va. and Belcher. 25 cents on The Colorado Asphaltum company has suspended shipments, and there are reports that the company is in financial difficulty. The daily transactions on the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange at Denver have dwindled from over a million to less than 200,000 shares. The Alder Creek Gold Mining company at Placerville, Ida., claims to have 460,000 cubic yards of gravel that will average $4 per yard. A vein of very rich gold ore is said to have been opened up on the Golden Fleece claim, adjoining the Sheep Rock companys claims, near Beaver. The placer mines at Placerville, Ida., are expecting a large run of water and a prosperous season. The quartz mines in that vicinity will also be extensively developed. It is stated that Capt. De Lamar has decided to discontinue operations in Colorado, and will hereafter devote his entire attention to his Nevada and Utah mines. The Richardson Gold Mining company at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, is mining and milling its ore for $1.65 per ton. The ore averages between $3 and $4 per ton. The Government Is about to establish two postoffices in the Yukon country, one at Mitchell and the other at Circle City. The miners will then have a regular mail service. The Chicago Mineral and Mining Board, known locally as the Dude Exchange," is about to expire, according to a paper of that city, which charges that nothing but wildcat stocks have been sold. the property of the Butte and Boston company in Montana has been attached under a suit instituted by E. C. Perkins of Boston, the companys attorney, for $406,516, the amount of the All floating indebtedness. The Cripple Creek district is being extended into Fremont county, some 400 claims having been located near Boaz, which lies almost directly west of Victor, some six miles inside the Fremont county line. Many Western journals are giving space to a senseless yarn concerning a wonderful lake In Alaska, the bed of which is literally paved with gold dust. The "fake" emanated from a New York World romancer, and was exploded by the Alaska Mining Record. The Standard claims that an Ogc a $10 opal in a chick u nether oun(l the gem was cut, polished a set is not stated. Utah never yet been thoroughly poultry prospec jor minerals, but Montana fowls run high in free gold a sapphires. , L L- - Frank will erect a concentra- :his Sason on the San Jose mine, located in Egan canyon, White Pine ev s an old pon which operations have property, recently re,sumed, and is developed by a tunnel. Large deposits of platinum have been 1 i 1600-fo- ot MINING REVIEW. N 5 discovered at Fitfield, in New South Wales. One bed of platiniferous lead ore is a mile long and from 60 to 150 feet wide. The crude metal contains about 75 per cent of platinum, and sells on the field for $6 an ounce. Congressman Brewster of New York has introduced a bill to place a duty of 50 per cent ad valorem an silver bullion, or in bars and sweepings; also upon silver bars and ingots and articles and wares composed wholly or in part of silver, whether manufactured or partly manufactured. The Winnamuck mine at Bingham, which was recently sold to Messrs. Woodman, Sowers and Logan, after lying idle for several years, is now shipping 100 tons daily. An immense ore body was opened up in cutting the station for a winze, 200 feet in from the mouth of the tunnel. The annual meeting of the North Eureka company, held in this city Tuesday, resulted in the election of the following officers and directors: President, James A. Pollock; secretary, C. L. Preebles, Ogden; treasurer, Patrick Donnelly, Eureka; Dr. Samuel Brick, Ogden. The North Tintic is developed by a 120 foot shaft and shows a good feet in diameter, and alone weighs 164 tons, without doubt the heaviest fly wheel ever built. The total weight of the engine, exclusive of pumps and shaft work, is 600 tons. This plant was designed and built by the E. P. Allis company of Milwaukee. The Treasury department has issued an order prohibiting revenue cutters from carrying stranded Yukon miners from St. Michael. Many men have been saved from starvation and death by the Government vessels, and the Alaska Mining Record denounces the worth of ore, yet the mine has sold for $6000! The exchanges been just bureau of publicity should revise some of its figures. One result of the visit of Capt. De Lamar is the promotion of George H. Robinson, manager of the De Lamar properties in Utah and Nevada. Hereafter Mr. Robinson will be the personal representative of Capt. De Lamar, with absolute authority in the latters absence. While his position is one of increased responsibility, he will not be required to give his attention to details, as heretofore, these duties passing to Mr. H. A. Cohen, who becomes the active manager of the Golden Gate, in addition to the Jim Crow and Monitor, with headquarters in this city. State Mining Inspector C. S. Shoemaker of Montana says that in his annual report he will recommend the use of indicators showing the engineer at what station the chairs are in, for all mines below a certain depth and working more than a certain number of men. The only mine these indicators are in use at the present time is the Drum Lummon. He will also recommend the abolishment of all crossheads in mines working below 200 feet deep where the work is of a per- vein. "barbarous inhumanity" of such an order. Twenty years ago the famous Tillery seam of coal in South Wales suddenly came to an end and against a great fault, or dislocation of the strata. All efforts of miners and experts failed to follow it farther until a few days ago, when the lost end of the seam-consi- sting of 4 feet of coal in three layers was discovered, and the mine will again be lucrative. Van says Arman, of Arizona, has succeeded in organizing a placer mining company at Chicago with a capital stock of $2,000,000, for the purpose of Investment in a California mining enterprise, which to the organize makes a good stand-of- f tion in San Francisco of a A Chicago dispatch ex-Go- v. million-and-a-ha- lf California corporation to operate in the mines of Cripple Creek, Col. The African Review publishes a table of South African dividends for 1895. The Rand record for the year was 1,466,694 paid to 2,058,418, against 1894. The total of for shareholders South African dividends stands at 6,616,236, an increase of 3,061,660. The Rand dividends represented 25 per cent of the value of the years output a higher proportion than in any previous year. Some of the total of 6,616,236 was return of capital In cases where dividends had been declared on sales of property. A concession to prospect for gold on the Navajo Indian reservation has teen P. granted by Hoke Smith to J. H. Voor-hees, Senator Voorhees, a relative of mina privilege for which many ers have unsuccessfully applied. It is believed that there are rich deposits of gold in the Carrizo mountains. Voorhees is given a square mile in this range, in the extreme northeast corner of Arizona, near the Utah line. If he is not scalped by the Navajoes before he has been in the country ten days old explorers will be surprised. The largest Cornish pumping plant in the world is the huge Chapin pump of the Chapin Mining company at Iron Mountain, Mich. The pump is designed to pump 3000 gallons per minute, from a depth of 1500 feet. Some idea of the enormous proportions of this pump The may be found from its dimensions. vertical type and comengine is of the pound. and stands 54 feet from the floor The high pressure cylinder is 50 inches, and the low pressuse cylinder is 100 inches in diameter, and the stroke is 10 feet. The fly wheel is 40 A. sixteen-pag- e pamphlet descriptive of the Boise gold belt is now ready for distribution and will be issued monthly until the entire State is covered. All who are interested in the welfare of Idaho (especially in the development, etc., of the mining Industry), desiring a copy of these editions sent to himself or friends and notifying the secretary of the Idaho Mining Exchange, Boise City, Ida., of his address, by postal card, will be furnished as long as the numbers last. The Idaho Avalanche gently suggests to the Idaho Mining Exchange that the publication of exaggerated statements concerning the Boise gold belt will strengthen neither the standing of the exchange nor of the mines. The exchange put forth a statement that the Checkmate mine carried eight inches of $6000 ore and three feet that milled $100. The Avalanche points out that a tunnel run for a distance of ten feet on such a vein would produce $19,400 well-merit- ed manent nature, and advocates the passage of a law prohibiting the use of buckets for hoisting purposes in any mine shaft more than 200 feet in depth. The Austin Mining company, of which Mr. P. T. Farnsworth of this city is general manager, will erect a mill of 60 to 100 tons capacity on the property, located near Austin, Nev. It will be located at the mouth of the tunnel, which is now in 5000 feet, and will be driven 1500 feet further. The ground of the company is a perfect network of veins, about twenty having been cut thus far by the tunnel. All of these show pay ore, and will be developed when the tunnel is completed. The tunnel is one of the longest in the West, and will tap the main vein at a vertical depth from the surface of 700 feet and a depth of 1500 feet on the vein. The property produces a high grade silver ore, the values ranging from 20 to 3000 ounces. A gentleman who resides at Colorado Springs, and is thoroughly familiar with conditions in Colorado, informs the Mining Review' that a combination of untoward events has checked the Cripple Creek boom and given the district a black eye. The output has fallen off to half a million a month since the first of the year, whereas it was expected to be over a million. The Portland mine, paraded as one of the wonderful dividend-payer- s, has passed its March dividend, owing to an accident that closed the property dowm early in the year. 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