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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, FlillUY, FEBRUARY 20, a Our Mines and Mining and Adjoining States 1JOl. 3 Store Window a Is Full of the Newest and UtaH Up-to-D- atc AT ngVELOPM ENT8 THUNDER epokesman-Revle- The ff.yl MOUNTAIN OF ENORMOUS PAYROLL OF COEUR D'ALENE MINES LEAD of Spokane w 25 miles north of Thuii-Mountain, Ida., ia the scene of cret-k- PRICE , E AS BEFORE J, ton-tidera- mining activity, according to Edwards and A. E. Garden, residents, who have CONTRACT OF 1903 RENEWED INformer Spokane DEFINITELY. from two years proa-pKtjurt returned rk there. Mr. Edwards was attorney here. Encouraging Condition of formerly a practicing Mining In ald: Idaho New Strikes In Black He is -The biggest showing in the camp Hills Mining Notes. Toin owned on the McCrea group, for which an offer of peka, Kan., The Suit I ..ike Trilium; i authorThey was recently refused. 600 ity fur the following: respectively ledges, Wve three The agreement of 1 !iu3 between the feet wide. They feet. 23 feet and eight lend and the Ameriiiu, producer ledge and wve crosscut the ore that ran over Smelting and Relining unfeet got four (Tom der which the of former has The balance received I'M, chiefly in gold. IS. Tests made at $3.50 per hundred for his product, has 3) feet averaged a perfect cyanid-- been renewed, and those figures us a is It goiae show that ore and the company expects to settling prire In the local market will continue to rule indefinitely. this summer. pat in a cyanide plant It was none other than O. W. WhitThe Werdendorf, owned by a comof ney, local manager for the American Hunt pany of which the struck has Smelting and Refining compnny, by Haho is president, foot tunnel. Eighteen whom thin information wna brought Itdge in its 1,200 work on from the general offices of the comdevelopment men are pushing or pany in New York yesterday, are fourteen the There jiat property. news within terrible worked the violence, crushing being fifteen properties the heavy snow has the hopes of those who have been recomp, unless caused a suspension of work since we lying on New York prices, less 1j tier cent. Immediately the compact of 1303 left. on are Government expired. The situation was exhausjly claims On west of creek. tively discussed by both sides, said miles two Big ceek, I located which last Whitney, before the renewal Manager fall, the Rambler, was to and In this the proacross cut the agreed an have open ire were most ably represented. ducers of seven are There stringers kdge. decomposed quarts in the ledge, runn- Without divulging the nature of the was not ing in width from three Inches to discussion, the producer who was his assured that I have present repretiro feet From these stringers mays showing fll In gold and 182 in sentatives and those representing the lead market concurred In what was (Over. are the conceived to be to the Interest of all. "Mr. Gardens properties indefinite renewal does not Combination group of live claims and An of the Ibex group of three claims, on Big necessarily imply a great period creek. On the Combination he is runn- time, however, ao that modification of ing a tunnel, which was in 40 feet the agreement and a change in the Is not Impossible the Then we left. The last twenty feet settling price cross-cuttithe ledge and the present year. rtre the projected copper van had not been reached. One as-n- jr Concerning of the ore encountered In the smelter that ia to be the most Imposcron-cshows seven ounces in gold, ing In the American's system of plants. 3 ounces in silver and 14 per cent Mr. Whitney says that while the delead. in partment of construction has fixed $28 Surface assays give pld and $1.15 in silver. The tunnel upon no date for the breaking of ups the ledge at a depth of about ground, It will be reared along the lines depicted by Daniel Guggenheim ia feet. Snow is about four in feet deep during his last visit. Meanwhile the We came out on snowshoes management continues to anticipate camp. to Grangeville and staged from there. the needs of the copper smelter, and The trip took ten days. contracts covering large tonnages are being added to Its belt as the copper BLACK HILL8 MINES producer develops. The contract for EVER GREATER THAN the output of Newhouse'a Cactus group has been clinched, thus affordNever In the history of the Black ing a very heavy tonnage, while the Hills was the outlook brighter for a management haa been assured by the prosperous year. The producing comowner of the southern proposition that panies are keeping up their lick, the active work on the concentrator will developing companies are especially begin immediately the line from Frisaggressive and new flotations are co to Newhouse has been completed. being made. The general tone on the streets, In hotels where GOLDFIELD TOWNSITE8. capitalists tay and In the clubs Is one of good Two new townsltes have been surtimes ahead. During the week Just veyed in the Goldfield district in Ked three companies have made Nevada during the past week. One Is Public their intention of Installing at the base of Columbia mountain, and mining machinery for developments, is called Btlmler, In honor of Harry vral new strikes have been reported Stlmler.' one of the pioneers of the disfrom both the producing and the de- trict The other is four miles northvelopment companies and several of east of the Goldfield townsite and Is tlle older companies that are engaged called Diamondfleld, In honor of on additions to their plants are hur-tfn- g Jack" Davis, who owns a them along. All this tends to number of valuable claims in the virtrongthen the beliefs of the optlmls-fteall- y cinity. "Dlamondfield Jack was thrice Inclined and to indicate a sentenced to be hung for the alleged of Black Hills mining. murder of two sheepmen In Idaho. ImProbably one of the most Import- The sentence was commuted to ant strikes of the week was that made prisonment for life,' and after spending to the Pluma mine. The Fluma nearly seven years In the peniten(round Is at Lead City and almost surrtiary he was pardoned by Governor ounded by Homestake On Hunt the testimony on which he was holdings. to level ore was broken Into convicted being Impossible of belief, to the header being run toward the while afterwards others confessed to Tin fr0m which assays as high as $44 the crime of which he was convicted. 0r ton were returned. Such strlng-o- f Jack came to Goldfield four months ore are not uncommon In the ago and Is now well on the road to a omestake belt but of course the mass big fortune. He has many promising tow grade. The Pluma company Is claims and has two groups, bonded Wring to put its mill In operation for $50,000 to James P. Harvey of Sporly in the summer, as soon as the kane, who Is one of the shrewdest 'ranMe annex Is completed. mining men in the business.. Teln matter has been found on the foot level of the WYOMING SPECIMENS. Columbus mine, the corss-cThe Grand Encampment district Is being driven to open veins disclosed on the 200-foto be well repreesnted at the St. Louis ! No assays have been made yet exposition. Several tons of ore have the rock haa the appearance of been sent to Cheyenne for Grand Entegular belt stuff, and undoubted- - campments special booth, and it need Pay material. The vein cut on the not be said that It will compare favora 247 feet wide, at a distance of ably with anything to be exhibited eet from the Homestake-Colualong that line. From the boundary. several specimens will be sent, JJ? ,Mayln M High as $1,100 per the largest single chunk weighing over W " bln mIned and acked 700 pounds. The specimen Is chalco-- 1 at th e Penobscot for shipment to the pyrlte with postings of bomite and is Th BtPe,k ,B Mveral Inches a pretty and attractive piece of ore. ' nd Is preparing a five tons have been The Doane-Ramblout already. The will occupy a which exhibit mill cyanide premium n,nn,k n 1,16 ,ow grade material Is a space of 12x20 feet A number of H shipments of mammoth chunks of copper glance and to iia 0,16 ape (Ga to the smelters several fine specimens of black oxide dal -Mining World. will form part of the exhibit in 00 22S-fo- ot - ot ng ut 500-fo- ot -- ut ot Ferrls-Hag-gar- nrty er ty Tin W.illii.e I ,i'i,, Si'iikane Hex iW ivinl !,'i. i nf the lli.it p.ipcr the fiilloxx ini;: lliii iiiK the luimhcr of men xx lio are ri'.g.iip'il in ilexvloping pros perl throughout the t'oeiir D'Alene at ir.n- -u rather low tlgure the total niiiuiier of employee of the mines of t is 2.100, xvhieh means a the payroll of at least $200,000 a month. The liunilier of men is soniexxhnt less than a year ago. due to the fart that several properties xvhieh xxere then xvorking large forces tire t the present time practically shut doxvn or operating on a limited scale. The great producing properties are xvnrk-in- g as many miners as can 1m used to the best advantage, xvhieh in nearly every instance i somewhat more than last year. Last February the Frisco hud in its employ about lliO men, the Gold Hunter between 60 and TO and the t'oeur d'Alene Development company about 30. There are probably 10 men now working about the Frisco, while twice that number are doing development work at the Hunter. The mines of the Coeur d'Alene Development company, in Government gulch, are closed down. In its four mines and mills the Federal Mining & Smelting company employs neurly half the men In the district, the number of Its employees being over 900. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan works more men In its mine and concentrator than any other one property, with 425 names on its payroll. Of the Federal company's properties the Standard employs the largest number of men, 330. t In the mines above Wallace the wages paid are a minimum of $3.50 per day to everyone working underTlmbermen receive $4 per ground. day. In the mines of Wardner the miners are all paid $3.50 per day. while the muckers receive $3. The following is the number of miners employed in each property that works as many as 20 men: Bunker Hill A Sullivan 425, Standard 830, Last Chance 225, Morning 260, Mammoth 215, 189, Hecla 125, Hercules 120, Gold Hunter, Monarch and Snowstorm 20 each. Considering the number of men employed upon all CARPENTERS TOOLS ii : ii have the Largest and Most Complete Line in the City.. See Them We lii-t- rii Tlger-Poorm- an Z. G.M. I. 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SECOND SOUTH ST. R. F. NE5LEN, I Fish, Meats, t Game... General Agent, SALT. LAKE CITY- - THE RIGHT PLACE TO GET THE RIGHT KIND AT THE RIGHT PRICE8. : : FredTITkellar The Overland Route 2478 Wash. km other properties at 150, the grand total is 2,100. On account of the present scarcity of water the Morning is working with a reduced force. PATRONS Or ' THE Union Pacific Ralroad are assured ingenuity has been adopted to protect them agalnat Hons of dol accident Mil- lars have been spent by the THE. BISMUTH IN NEVADA. XLMnaL letter from Alex Betties, who hus been most energetic in demonstrating that the bonanza was to' be found without the boundarlea of Tonopah, reports a discovery of ores containing bismuth, silver and gold, twenty-flfiv- e miles distant from Sodavllle In most For all kinds of Bakery Goode, sensational Indeed, a percentages. Staple and Fancy Groceries picked sample from the find reveals 2234 Jefferson Avenue. as much as 48 per cent bismuth, with 74 ounces silver and $9 gold, or a valJ. C. SCHWARTZ, Prop. uation of $1,250 per ton, while an average of the rock In two shafts afforded SCHWARTZ BROS. 10 per cent bismuth, 7 ounces silver and 80 cents gold per ton. The group across which the ledge strikes for 900 feet has been tied up by Mr. Betties, who holds it according to hla letter, at $100,000. He la quite enthusiastic over the discovery, arid with Thomas J. J. Schwartz Proprietors. 3 will proceed at once with most - F. A. Schwartz 2313 Wash. Ave. 4 Mr. Niland vigorous development Is also well known in this city. Salt Lake Tribune. Home Bakery A that all human JUfldsUflAwU Railroad Company In the y k I mporovement This of Its equip H Hnwlllv&i) ment Union and Grocery. line ed for Is renown trains f! Pacific their and on time, and the general superiority its fast arrival of Its service. Union Faoiflo I RUNS trains dally to the East the fastest trains arriving many hours Three ahead of all competltora Full Information cheerfully nished on application to G. H. COR8E. Bakery and Restaurant. fur- Ni-la- ' NORTHWESTERN IDAHO. Some fine samples of ore were received yesterday at the mining bureau from the Topeka claims and Hercules group In the Elk district. The Topeka Is situated twelve miles southeast of Elk county, three and one-ha- lf miles from the American Eagle mine, and Is owned by Len Keon and G. L. L. Bnas-ket- t. The group consists of four claims, upon which there has been considerable work done In the way of crosscut tunnel. A forty-fiv- e foot shaft has also been sunk and the property opened for 8,000 feet showing a ten foot ledge, carrying god values. The Hercules adjoins the Topeka on the north and has been opened by numerous crosscuts and a tunnel $50 feet which gives a depth of 250 feet Assays show from $9 to $156 and as high as $600 to the ton. The ore Is free milling. This property is owned by original locators Ralph Middle-to- n, W. F. Johnson and Ed Conley. Lewiston Tribune. ABOUT CRIPPLE CREEK. A Cripple Creek dispatch says: Drainage of the Cripple Creek mines Is being steadily and surely accomplished by the El Paso tunneL the fall recorded in the Elkton and Mary el ranging dose to three feet a week, while proportionate gaina are estimated at other properties where no Mc-Kln- regular measurements are taken. TIflE Reading Classes The greatest pleasure lies In good books. Enjoyment comes from reading them. You read with the greatest enjoyment when you read with greatest eaie. Our perfect-fittin- g glasses suit your eyes, enrich your mind and deal gently with your pocket book. Examination free. Satisfaction SAVED TRAVELING g, When purchasing your tickets to Eastern points you should bear in' mind that the new route of the Overland Limited is over the guaranteed. c. P. UTTER , Optician 303 Ecclee Building, 1. 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