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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- G MINING REVIEW. N I I NEWS CLEAN-U- P. will resume work on its mine near VoH-ne- r, Ida. About 3000 feet of development work has been done on a ten-foledge, and the average value of the product Is $10 per pound. The San Jose mine in Egan canyon, White Pine county, Nev., has been purchased by John Ileimrich, J. H. Hedges and H. W. Brown of this city. The property .is an old mine and has been a heavy producer of silver. The United States Supreme court has an opinion to the efjust handed down no dower interest in fect that there is an unpatented mining claim. This is a point upon wrhich there has recently been considerable local discussion. Presley Denny has resumed work on the December mine in Lincoln district. Twenty-fou- r tons of ore from the Dexter mine, located near Tuscarora, Nev., were sold in this city last week ot At DeLamar, New, miners are paid $3 and $3.50 per day. The California mines give employ- miners. Advices from London indicate a spurt in South African mining stocks. The DeLamar, Ida., mine was operated in April at a profit of $25,275. ment to 18,000 The Special Session mine, near Rico, Colo., has been sold to Pittsburg parties for $S0,0O0. earn from SO cents to per day working in the Georgia Good men $1.25 gold mines. The April gold yield of the Witwa-tersran- d, South Africa, district, was 174,518. ounces. The DeLamar mine at DeLamar, Nev., is producing at the rate of $18,000 per day, or $540,000 per month. The California State Mining Bureau has received a bronze medal awarded for its exhibit at the Worlds Fair. Specimens of horn silver, from the g sandstone of Silver Reef, to this city last week. were brought Mercur is now a full fledged city of offthe third class, the recently-electe- d icials having qualified last Saturday. Liens aggregating $1054 have been filed on the property of the Morning Star company, located at Silver City, silver-bearin- Ida. The Shaw Mountain Gold Mining company has filed articles of incorporation at Boise, with a capitalization of $150,000. son, although the trip has been one of considerable peril. Sunrise City, lofor $5C08. on the inlet, now claims to be The Victoria copper mine, commonly cated the metropolis of Western Alaska. called the Dyer mine, located in the No prospecting has yet been done this Carbonate mining district in Uintah but the creeks are lined with county, near the head of Brush creek, spring, new the stakes being stuck has been sold to William P. Campbell in thelocations, snow. Whisky Is scarce at $10 a of Chicago. Mr. J. H. Conrad, who, writh Hon. gallon. The Winnamuck mine at Bingham Thomas G. Merrill, recently established has flooded, to a depth of sixty himself in the mining and investment feet, been wTater finding entrance through business in this city, is said to have re- some the old workings that extend to the ceived $116,000 for his interest In the placer ground in the canyon. The Horr coal properties in Montana. management was ignorant of the exRich gold discoveries are reported tent of these workings, but they will in the Lilliotte district, British Colum- be bulkheaded as soon as the high wabia. It is believed that the mother ters in the canyon subside. Operations lode of that region has been found, and in the mine will be retarded about samples carrying $505 per ton have thirty days. been taken from an eight-fovein. From Mountainhome, Elmore county, d The miners Ida., comes word of another strikecom-in strike at DeLamar, Ida., was one of the the properties of the Golden King most peaceably conducted affairs of the pany. A four-fobody of ore, assay9.25 ounces silver, has $25 in and kind on record. Two hundred men were ing gold at a out for a month, and not a single act of been encountered on the 240 The shaft. of foot from the distance violence or disturbance of any sort ocGolden King company, which is a Utah curred. with headquarters in this An increasing percentage of copper incorporation, is erecting an electric power plant and silver in the ore of the Apollo city, n cyanide mill, and all acmine at Unga, Alaska, has caused the and owners to close their chlorination counts indicate it to be one of the most important undertakings in that section works, they determining in future to of Idaho. ship their sulphurets, and not attempt Sometimes the richest ore a mine the continuance of any process at the mine. produces goes over the dump with the which would have been the fate The Salt Lake Gilsonite company is waste, e some stuff at the Winnamaking some large shipments of gil- of at muck, Bingham, a few days ago, sonite from its mines at Pariette. The South Park Mining company, op- except for the alertness of SuperintendLogan. The incline cut through at ent erating the Bennett amalgamator two feet of what the men supGreen River, made its first clean-u- p to be barren matter, and last week, but the value of the product posed were the at point of they was not made public. it away when the superWhat is probably the largest vein of throwing stopped them. The ore coal in the world occurs at the strip- intendentto be rich in silver chlorides pings near Shenandoah, Pa, It Is fifty proved as runs and high as 400 ounces per ton. feet thick, and so near the surface that Trail Creek correspondence Canadian It is simply quarried like stone. No fewer than 7,145,000 tons of coal were Mining Review: A. W. McCune, prinextracted from it last year by the cipal owner of the Nickel Plate, has from Salt Lake and rePhiladelphia and Reading Coal and just arrived ports himself as being much pleased Iron company. the general appearance of the Since its start last January the water with mine. About 300 tons of the highest jacket furnace erected by Fraser & grade ore in- the district lies on. the Chalmers at Nelson, B. C., has smelt- dump, awaiting shipment. Water is ed between 8000 and 9000 tons of Silver troublesome at present in the ore. A recent days work was very and the King pumps are taxed to their 340 charges run through, a total of shaft, utmost to handle it. Mr. McCune an300,000 pounds of ore, 34,000 pounds lime nounced his intention a rock, 34,000 pounds slag, and 51,000 coke larger pump and hoist ofas installing soon as it 150 tons ore and 60 tons fluxes and can be here. gotten fuel. The Supreme court of Idaho has deSamuel Newhouse of Colorado and cided that the following description of a other representatives of the lode location was insufficient to meet syndicate that took an op- the requirements of the Revised Stattion on the Sevier mine last year, are utes the United States: Being sitdown at the property. There is a bal- uatedofand located on the north side of ance of $51,000 falling due on the 15th, Willow lf mile from creek, about which, it is believed, will be paid. A the Hurt the direction being new mill, of 150 to 200 tons capacity, is southwest. mines, The adjoining claims are to be erected, no matter what the fate the Gem of the Woods claim on the of the option. north, and the Kid claim on the south, Salida, Colo., reports the discovery, and the Greyhound on the east. Lonear Mt. Shavano, of a body of silver cation notices must designate either ore, which stands up between two natural objects or permanent monuformations, one of granite and one of ments, and locators should remember porphyry, and is fully 200 feet across this requirement. and 300 feet high. A mining man deThe Sheep Rock Mining and Milling clares it. to be the biggest thing of the control of which recently the kind he had ever seen or heard company,into the hands of the Indian passed of, and the discoverers propose to opCreek company, has been reorganized erate it as a quarry. the election of the following officers by The Paupers Dream company, in and directors: Simon. Bamberger, pres- . ot recently-terminate- The South Central and Cripple Creek Consolidated Gold Mining company will erect a mill upon its property at Silver City, Ida. During last week mining and stock Anexchanges were organized at LosRoss-langeles, Cal., Presscott, Ariz., and d, B. C. A Montana, has tested what is known as the Alsing pulverizer, with satisfactory results. It is described as a very simple apparatus, consisting of an iron cylinder, partly filled with iron balls, the cylinder revolving. A cylinder six feet in diameter and ten feet in length is said to have a capacity of 125 tons evhours. ery twenty-fou- r The Alaska Mining Record publishes a large number of information wanted notices, inserted by anxious relatives of adventurous young men who have been swallowed up In the hyperborean wilderness and never heard of again. In the last issue was one from Mrs. Ready of this city, mother of W. H. Ready, the news of whose death was received last week. About a thousand persons have reached Cooks Inlet, Alaska, this sea- ot 150-lev- 100-to- very important deposit of cinna- bar and mercurial bearing alluvial has been discovered near Johannesburg, South Africa. Thirty teams, loaded with machinery and supplies for placer mining near Jacksons Hole, left Idaho Falls one day last week. A company has been organized at Ogden for the purpose of loaning money on mining properties, to be used in development wrork. The Union Mining and Milling company has purchased an air compressor from Fraser & Chalmers, for its Cariboo, Ida., property. It is thought that Cripple Creek will not showr as great an increase in production this year as other districts in the State of Colorado. The litigation between the Fairview and the Tough Nut at Bingham has been compromised and the two properties have been consolidated. Since the first of the year twenty prominent mines near Telluride, Colo., have been sold, the amounts paid for them aggregating nearly $1,000,000. The postmaster at Cripple Creek is no longer annoyed by an accumulated mail. He has been removed for burning four wagon-load- s of unassorted letters and papers. Twenty inches of two-oungold ore has been developed in the Extra Session at Bingham, owned by Messrs. Dern, Airis and Bush. This showing is made at a depth of 100 feet. The Yukon company is preparing toTransportation out Its contract carry to transport the mails from Juneau to the Yukon region. A number of gasoline launches will be used in this ce service. There seems to be one point of resemblance between Boise and the celestial city, for the streets of both are paved with gold. Two men have gone to sluicing dirt near Main street, at the Idaho metropolis. The Muscovite Mica Mining company high-grad- - Anglo-Americ- an one-ha- el, |