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Show Plumas Eureka, Bodie Consolidated, $1,677,-57$2,696,295; Sierra Buttes, $1,559,933. There are others. Unincorporated mines are the Utica of Calabiggest yielders, one, thewith a steady veras, being credited month. $500,000 per output of of Alaska have long fields The gold 1888 their production been known. In or was $850,000, slightly less than that of Arizona. In six years it had increased to something over a million a last few year, but it is only within oftheextraordimonths that the reports Yukon valnary rich washings in the to such an ley have excited cupidity of extent that hundreds are willing to risk all the dangers of a wild region and an Arctic climate. Under a recent ruling of the Treathe duty of sury Department, cent a of per pound upon, imported lead ores is applied to thetogross the weight of the ore, instead of This as heretofore. contents lead only, will shut out the is it claimed, ruling, silver ores of British Colombia, and encourage the establishment of smelters across the northern border, in the same manner that similar conditions built up large reduction plants in Mexico. An interesting suit, involving the liahas been filed bility of stock brokers, in Denver. It is an outgrowth of the recent Blue Jay disaster, in which several brokers were squeezed in attemptstock. A man ing to corner a wild-cnamed Schradsky sold a certain number of shares, through the brokerage firm of F. H. Pettingell & Co., for $1831.25. The brokers who purchased this stock were unable to make their ofsettlements, and Pettingell & Co. refered to return it to Schradsky. He fused to accept it, and now sues Pettingell & Co. for the amount they were to have received for it. Nebraska capitalists are building, at Lewiston, Ida., a placer mining boat, with which they propose to work the Snake river bars. It will be 89 feet beam, and will draw long, with but twenty inches when loaded. It will mabe equipped with a 125 horse-powscrew and a rine boiler and propeller 1500 of gajlons raising pump capable of water 100 feet per minute will be-. used to furnish water for a giant. Anether pump will furnish 3000 gallons per minute for sluicing. The river bars are known to contain rich gravel, but no successful method of working them has ever been devised. The erection of large reduction works, designed to handle the zinc ores of the and other Park Anchor, Daly-WeKennedy, MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N 6 $2,734,000; 2; gold-seeke- rs three-fourt- hs low-grad- e, at ment, English capitalists whose interest has been aroused by reports that have been received from mining experts who were sent to investigate the alleged important discoveries of the These Englishmen, Mercur district. according to the correspondent, contemplate the acquisition of the greater portion of the Camp Floyd district, should Capt. De Lamar verify the accounts already received. Fraser & Chalmers are erecting a p mill for the St. Louis Mining and Milling company at Marysville, Mont. The plant will be equipped with Frue vanners and an adjustible Comet crusher. The same firm is putting in a similar plant for Henry Elling at Virginia City. Mining and irrigation men are deeply interested in the tests of the Anderson double water column pump, for which preparations are about completed on Capitol hill. A Salt Lake syndicate, headed by Mr. Don Porter, proprietor of the Templeton hotel, are so thoroughly convinced of the merits of the invention that they have expended $2500 on the experimental plant. This plant consists of a double column of eight-inc- h pipe, extending from the bottom of City Creek canyon to the top of Capitol hill, a length of 300 feet, with a lift of about 200 feet. A steam plant and a tank have also been erected at the top. The promoters are not . st . City mines, is in contemplation. Mr. T. R. Jones of this city is connected with the enterprise, and associated with him are capitalists who have smelting interests at Swansea, England. A gentleman in position to grain the best information states that the matter of a site is now being considered, and that the intention is to erect a plant of not less than 200 tons capacity. It cannot be learned whether a smelting or chemical process will be used. There are many properties at the Park showing large bodies of ore of fair value that the owners have not been able to profitably operate, owing to the difficulty encountered in handling the zinc contents. A cheap process for these ores would result in the opening up of more mines, grreatly increased production by those now operated, and the employment of several hundred more men. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press last week sent to his paper a column account of the new and wonderful gold district of Mer-cu- r, in the new State of Utah, which, according to information given him by people in New York, exceeds in richness the gold fields of South Africa. He states that the belief prevails In New 'York that a rush for the Camp Floyd district will set in as soon as the snow goes off. But the most interesting statement in his article is one to the effect that Capt. De Lamar has sailed for England in order to meet, by appoint The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of merit coming; from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. ten-stam- prepared at this time to give a description of the invention, further than to say that it is a new application of an old principle in hydraulics, and that it will raise water from any depth with h the power, required by any now used. If the invention acpumps complishes what is expected of it by the Inventor and his backers, all the mine pumps now in operation will be thrown away and replaced by the Anderson double column, and many irrigation enterprises wijl be made possible. It is claimed that a smaller plant has been successfully operated. one-fift- 21-fo- ot er fleus of tl?e 5amps. Narural Gas Row. A diminished pressure in the gas mains Tuesday evening gave rise to the report that the natural gas wells north of the city had become exhausted. The circulation of this report seems to have been encouraged, if not originated, by the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas and Electric Light company, which is under a ten years to contract receive the product of the Natural Gas company at the wells and distribute it among consumers, a contract the electric light company is said to be more than anxious to repudiate. While the distributing company does not believe the gas fields are exhausted, it declares that many of the wells have ceased flowing altogether, and the A Natural Gas company has not provided new wells fast enough to meet the increasing demand. The latter company, on the other hand, claims a much greater flow than necessary to meet all UTAH. Juab County. Correspondence Mining Review. Eureka, April 15. Eureka is unquestionably one of Utahs best and greatest camps. Notwithstanding all that has been written and said about her, expressions are still inadequate to de- -. scribe her greatness. Tuesday last a heavy snow storm set far into Wednesday, the necessitating stopping of work on in, which lasted some of. the small claims Eureka-Hill- ,. The Centennial-Eurek- a, and other big Keystone, Bullion-Bec- k mines are pegging along right merrily, still producing ore, still furnishing employment for hundreds of men, and still paying handsome dividends to the owners. Manager John Beck, Secretary W. J. Beattie and Director and Mrs. H. B. came up Clawson of the Bullion-Bec-k on Tuesday morning, bringing the monthly payroll. A quiet trip of inwas made through the mine spection above-nameand Mr. Beck the. by seen when said the mine was looking better than ever before, and that the diamond drill had more than satisfactorily performed its work, inasmuch that it has driven 200 feet in less than two weeks. About the first of the month a strike that promises to devlop well was made in the Governor, owned by Mr. Beck, but under lease to Messrs. E. X. Kirby and Jarman. The Governor adjoins the North Star and Spy mines, near the head of Dragon Hollow. That the strike is a good one is evidenced from d, the fact that a one-fo- ot vein carrying from $70 to $80 gold and silver and 20 to 40 per cent copper, wras discovered. The strike was made in one of the old workings, and silence has been kept, for fear it should prove to be but a pocket or the ending of the old vein. A small force is working all the time. The Mayday company, recently incorporated, with Mr. J. A. Hunt as president and manager, have a most promising property. It is situated near the Utah on the north, and the Godiva on the south. The owners of this niine are most sanguine as to its outcome, and development work will be hastened as quickly as possible. Col. Sowles is having surveys made for patent on his cairn on Godiva mountain, adjoining the Godiva. The owners of this mine will soon be at work, sinking a double compartment shaft from the tunnel level, and it will be pushed with all possible dispatch. Milling ore will be taken for shipments from the lower working through their incline. As a matter of fact, property on Godiva mountain is now assuming some proportions, and several transfers up there have been made lately, among them being the bonding of the Sioux, Medea, West Medea, Jason, Plutus and James G. Blaine lodes to Mr. Robinson by J. B. Christensen. The gasoline engine recently put in by the Four Aces people is reported as giving much satisfaction. BRYANT Tintic Miner: Shipments from the dis70-fo- ot requirements. It has six good wells, with pressures ranging from 150 to 200 pounds, and two of these wells alone will furnish the apicunt now consumed. Furthermore, it is claimed by the natural gas people that on the very day it was alleged the supply became exhausted they actually delivered to the electric light company 348,000 feet ,the trict for the past week are reported as usual daily amount, and the meters follows: From the Bullion-Bec- k mine, 25 carshow it. Sifted down, the question be- loads ore; from the Bullion-Bec- k mill, comes one of veracity between the two 10 carloads concentrates; from the Centen5 carloads ore; from companies. That the gas wells are nial-Eureka, the Mammoth mine, 3 carloads ore; exhausted is improbable; it is much from the Mammoth mill, 3 carloads more likely that some sort of jobbery concentrates and 3 bars from has been set afoot. The reports have .the Sioux mill, 6 carloads bullion; concentrates not affected the price of the stock, and and one bar bullion, weighing 150 pounds, said to be the largest bar of the assessment is now being paid. bullion ever shipped from Tintic; from |