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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN beginning to let a glimmer of light into last Sunday by the lesses on the Mornthe hidden storehouses of Binghams ing Glory. The assays of the ore show wagered with Manager Jessen that it copper belt, and much interest is mani- 200 ounces silver and a high percentage was not pay ore, showed values of $7.20, fest in its operations as tending to in lead, and there seems to be a conand there was plenty more on the dump demonstrate the correctness of the be- siderable body of it. Eureka Democrat: The great Sioux-Aja- x which Mr. Jensen stated would run lief generally held, that copper is liketunnel is being pushed rapidly from $12 up. ly to become an immensely important shifts and The Red Cloud peopre have aban- factor in summing up the products of ahead with three eight-hotwo machines abreast in the face, which doned their old works for the present this district. The present developments of the is now 600 feet under cover. The old porand moved their work to the point where their property joins that of the Crown Point consist of a crosscut tion of the tunnel is being enlarged and Overland, and have commenced a shaft which intersects the vein at 160 feet, a retimbered to conform to the new work, in less than 200 feet of the point where south drift 30 feet long and a north which is 7x8 feet in the clear. This will the ore has been discovered in the lat- drift that has been driven 100 feet. At be one of the most extensive, commodithe faces of the drifts the vein matter ous and perfect pieces of tunnel work ter property. shaft has sunk is practically barren, but the drifts in the State when completed. The Overland Col. W. F. Patrick of Colorado, one feet have exposed two distinct ore pipes through the vein which is twenty millowners of the South thick, and tests prove that it is all nearly their whole length, in each of of the principal work started assures mill ore. for upon that propanother This which some stoping has been done. Eureka, ing on Monday. men a erty with force of this promising camp. They are under a smooth, perfectly-define- d and solid hanging wall, and the The South Eureka lies east of the HerIn the East Mercur group, located a ore is all shipping grade, carrying 10 kimer and is considered valuable propmile east of the Mercur, it is reported to 23 per cent copper, 3 to 4 ounces sil- erty. A townsite boom is on at the new that a seven-fobody of ore has been ver and $3 gold. The lowest per cent developed, which carries $8 to $10. The of copper came from the stopes, the town of Diamond and corner lots are property is owned by the St. Louis Gold highest from the tunnel floor and a out of sight. winze in the south drift sunk seven or Mining company, which now contemThe mill. of a Summit County. eight feet now filled with surface waplates the erection strike is of considerable importance to ter. Where the crosscut encounPark Record: Notwithstanding the the district as it adds a large area to tered the vein it was nearly barren, talk indulged in last fall and the court the demonstrated extent of pay values. though both drifts went immediately proceedings instituted by Col. Shaugh-ness- y The strike was made at a depth of into ore. that to the south opening out against the Silver King Mining fifty feet, while on the surface the crop- to five feet and the north to between company on rights claimed through the two and three feet. These pipes make Dream and Ladies' Drum lodes, on pings showed but a trace. was somewhat The Sterling company a fine showing, and the Crown Point is which the gentleman holds a lease and an week the assay by surprised during beyond question a valuable mine. The bond, the promised shaft to prove up sil150 ounces of ore is largely a handsome blend of assertions has not showing the presence materialized, ver. This was secured at a depth of copper and iron pyrites, there being and present indicationsyetare to the ef196 feet. 30 about per cent of iron over silica, of fect that the proposed developments bond a have taken which Chicago parties latter there is 5 per cent. will die a natural death, and that the on the Elko, located near the Sunshine, The total of shipments from Bingham shaft will not go down. for $25,000. for the month of May is a surprise, as The Putnam Mining company closed there were various reasons for antici- down Sunday last on account of surSalt Lake County. pating that the figures would be con- face water, which was coming in at a siderably under those of April, whereas lively rate and greatly interfered with THE COTTONWOODS. there is an excess of nearly' 1600 tons. operations. It is only surface water, During the past two weeks operaare the May shipments: however, and will soon cease from tions have been resumed on a number OldFollowing & 900 Jordan Galena troubling. The incline has now left of properties in the Big and Little Cot- Old Telegraph 1,400 the vein and is following a course that 300 will facilitate tonwood districts, and more work will Spanish hoisting from a depth as 90 much as Northern Chief "be done than for several seasons past. possible. 42 At the mouth of Little Cottonwood, the Tiewaukee Group cut in the Woodside mine The vein 20 scene of last year's Gold City" excite- Turngren some time ago, mention of which was 30 Northern Light are several developing Dalton & Lark ment, companies 2,460 made in these columns at the time, is their ground. The tunnel of the New Keystone 900 improving in appearance, so much so "State company has now been driven 175 Brooklyn 75 that Mr. Kearns and others connected 50 with the development of the property feet, and will be sent 135 feet further. Antelope 280 are satisfied The rock is now full of stringers and Golden Opportunity that good mineral will yet 500 Winamuck g seams of ore, and the Various be found, though it may.be necessary 450 properties and leases to sink the shaft somewhat deeper. management has greater confidence Miscellaneous 50 than ever of discovering a large vein The proposed new Peck concentrator found to rich ore the similar of quartz will be built in Park City, and work Total tons 7,457 in small seams near the surface. will begin early next week. This inThe Gold Dollar company continues formation is authentic. Juab County. work on the main tunnel, which has been driven in on the ledge a distance TINTIC DISTRICT. IDAHO. feet 400 is eleven vein The feet. of Tintic Miner: Shipments from the thick, composed of a free milling white district for the past week are reported Ada County. quartz that carries from $1.50 up. An as follows: From the Bullion-Beck streak of copper glance mine, 25 carloads ore; from the Bullion-Bec- k eighteen-inc- h Boise Statesman: H. S. Howe is in is also shown, from which shipments from the Hidden Treasure mine in the 10 carloads concentrates, Neal are being made to the smelters. In ad- from mill, district. He brings good reports Centennial-Eurek10 dition to these workings there is an- carloads theore; from the Gemini, from that place, and states that he is other tunnel 200 feet in length, and a 8 carloads ore; from the Eu- more than ever convinced that Neal shaft forty feet deep. This property is reka Hill mine, 13 carloads ore; is the best district in the State. As an located north of the New State. from the Mammoth mine, 8 carloads illustration of the character inof the The Dipper company, recently incor- ore; that from the Mammoth mill, 8 car- prospecting heretofore done an porated, is working a force of three or loads concentrates; Mr. tells Howe interesting from the Ajax, 10 district, four men, and has eighteen inches of carloads ore; from the a he and that ledge story 4 respecting carCarisa, nice ore. sons This located. his have recently ore: from the Sioux mill, 5 carEdwards and Dalton have recently loads workmen to from the Four ledgein has been known secured some very high gold assays loads 1concentrates; the district for several years, ing carload. from the Elk, and are engaged in Aces, some manner a reputation of in According to the schedule formerly but worthless active development. had attached to it. It in the Miner, the Eureka being Farther up Little Cottonwood can- announced some time ago to Fred out was pointed mine and mill and the Gemini yon work has been resumed on the Hill mine closed down on the 1st. In the Howe. He was pleased with its apPeruvian, a property that shows very meantime an the connections for the twen- pearance andof made something of was milling ore large bodies of the ground. There This ty new stamps at the mill are being examination and a small streak of a of streak hard quartz standing high made and some repair work is also unlatter will be followed further into the der above the surface that was easily in The both mines. the way period hill, in the expectation that it may n of the is indefinite, but traceable for more than 1000 feet. Inwiden, out. showed, however, that this In Big Cottonwood canyon prepara- Is is the general opinion that under no vestigation simply a hard streak in the ledge tions are being made to resume work circumstances will it last more than was which appears in places to be ten or the present month. Operations on the water-powplant of the Max-fiel- d during fifteen feet wide, perhaps wider. Fred mine, the purpose being to oper- at the Godiva will be suspended today carried a piece of rock back to camp ate the property by compressed air. also indefinitely. Assays from the last strike on the with him. His father ground it up Work has also been resumed op the 200 level of the Buckeye show 16.5 per and panned it, and was astonished at Phoenix, which has made a shipment cent lead, 6.1 ounces silver and 1.81 the results obtained. They at once conto the smelters. cluded that the lead was worthy of ounces gold, and there is a two-foWEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. vein of solid ore. Assays from the bot- further Investigation. They went over Bingham Bulletin: Awaiting timbers tom of the shaft show as high as 69.5 to it prepared to test the rock more and in deference to intrusive surface per cent lead, 94.8 ounces silver and .27 fully and to make a location if results idle is mine ounces gold, with a big ore body. The were satisfactory. Before digging two water, the Crown Point Just now, but is expected to resume in Buckeye is coming to the front as a feet they exposed ore that showed free a week or ten days. bonanza. gold in considerable quantities, and This property is one of the windows A strike of high grade ore was made panning of the ore at a number of A very ordinary piece of ore picked up off of the dump and which the reporter . ur ot good-lookin- a, low-gra- de high-grad- e. shut-dow- er ot - |