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Show K-LSTe DSOOVERY. fS nmi IN NEVRBfi lion, $70,000'; total, $110,000. ' Ores released by the Taylor & Bran-ton Bran-ton Sampling company today included nine from Tintic, tour from "Idaho, one from Colorado and two from California; total, sixteen. Releases from the Pioneer Pio-neer company included six from Stockton, Stock-ton, two from Nevada, three from Alta and one from Bingham; total, twelve. Grand total cars released were twenty-eight. twenty-eight. j AFTERNOON CALL. Ajax, 500 shares at Carisa, 1000 at 33c; 1000 at 334e. Lower Mammoth, 300 at 74c; l;00 at 73c: 500 at 72c. Nevada Hils, 1000 at $3.02 Vt- Ontario, 200 at $3.55; 130 at $3.50. Uncle Sam Consolidated, 500 at 40c; 500 at 39 c. - . . Beck Tunnel Consolidated, 1000 at 85c. Little Chief, 1000 at 13c; 500 at 12 He, seller sixty da vs. New York, 1000 at 30e, seller sixty days; 500 at 31c. ' Scottish Chief, 2000 at 7c; 1000 at 7ic; 1000 at 8c. A' discovery that is of the utmost importance to the prospectors and mine operators of the intermountain region is the phonolite formations, twelve miles northwest of lone sometimes called ' Midas camp, in Nevada. Here as a result of phonolitic conditions a new district called Phonolite has been inaugurated and a boom that may prove of surpassing dimensions as in- restigation progresses is in full swing. Frank Benedict, formerly a prominent promi-nent mining man of Cripple Creek, and later of Salt Lake City and Mercur, Utah, is credited with having made the discovery. Last month he drove the first stake in what is called the Silent Friend elaim, where a well defined ledge carrying two feet of $50 ore, and showing rusty gold, is exposed, on the surface. Two miles south of the Silent Friend a ledge has been opened up on two claims which, carries four to six inches of quartz that shows sylvanite and assayed at Manhattan $200 to $2000 per ton. Charles Benson, formerly of Cripple Creek, who carried many samples of this rock into Manhattan, explained the geological formations around Phonolite as follows: . "The vein intrusions occur in ande-site ande-site porphyry through which white phonolite dykes cat in -every direction. The vein matter shows a heavy fluorine stain, carries manganese and jasper quartz; and is in every sense identical with the ores of the Cripple Creek district, dis-trict, save that instead of being surrounded sur-rounded by granite, the country rock is of volcanic origin. With this exception therefore Nevada Neva-da now boasts in this new camp conditions condi-tions that are suggestive of enormous deposition in the yellow metal; but they are rarefer . found through the Sagebrush State, although many of its camps have been referred to as resem- MINING BRIEFS. II. W. Coffin of Duluth, Minn!, and owner of the Potosi zinc mine at Las Vegas, Nev., is in the city today, closing clos-ing up a big deal for mining property, and consulting with ore purchasers regarding re-garding the disposition of products of His various properties. Auditor Scovell of the United Stales Mining and Smelting' company, with headquarters in Boston, arrived this morning at the local- offices, and is, checking up the same, lie informs local representatives that everywhere the mining industry is increasing at enormous rate, and enlargements or the treatment facilities at all this company's com-pany's plants are under discussion. bling Cripple Creek. Precisely similar conditions as prevail pre-vail in this new Phonolite camp, however,, how-ever,, have been found at Black Horse, Nev., where the andesitic porphyry ij impregnated with fluorine quartz and intercepted by phonolitic dykes that are prominent features on the San Pedro and Mabel mines. It is also probable prob-able that these formations are in many of the older led;o oulcroppings over the central and eaateri parts of Nevada and the western part of Utah, that have been heretofore ignored by prospectors becauso they did not look as though any values were present. Many Mjahattanites are said to have secured footholds in the new Phonolite district. After securing needed supplies in Salt Lake Manager C. A. Short of the Jennie mine at Good springs last night started back to camp, intending to rush along to the smelters a goodly shipment of ore 'ere long. C. L. Dignowity, who has just visited the Ramsey, Nev., district, says it is going to be one of the greatest ore producers, pro-ducers, and that the new road into the camp from Reno costing $3500, is almost al-most completed. W. F. Snyder confirms the story of acquirement by himself and associates for the Nevada-Fairview company of the Condor group. For a distance of 800 feet along the outcrop, he says, the values range $16.50 to $130. Fred Bowler, the new Nevada magnate mag-nate who "struck it" at Johnnie during dur-ing the last year and came to Salt Lake two weeks ago with a large consignment consign-ment of very rich ore, will return to camp tonight. In the last four months, he said, he has shipped 320 tons of ore worth $2000 per ton. Manager R. J. Jarvis of the Rainbow company, operating at Alta, announces that thero is exposed in the workings of these mines a ten - to twelve-foot body of ore carrying heavily in molybdenum, molyb-denum, one of the .rarest metals and very valuable. Col. H. G. Heffron of Salt Lake, consulting con-sulting engineer for C. P. Posey's various vari-ous Nevada enterprises, announces to Goldfield mining operators that there is a new district discovered, a day's drive southeast of Ash Meadows in that State, which he believes will bear investigation. in-vestigation. In the Charlestown range there, he say, there is a good showing of copper ore of high grade, and it is promising territory. NEW CAMP IN NEVADA. Latest information relative to the establishment of a new camp in Nevada called Cripple . Creek shows that this name is applied to a territory heretofore hereto-fore known as Eastgate rather than to new discoveries. The owners of claims in the region at first known by the latter lat-ter appellation became dissatisfied, it appears, at dilatory methods of the townsite company and moved two miles away and established Cripple Creek town. The latter 's boomers consider that Cripple Creek name will attract more attention than ever would the name of Eastgate, and reports are to the effect that most of the claim owners own-ers will hereafter describe their holdings hold-ings as being in the Cripple Creek camp. Leaders in this movement are Patrick, Pat-rick, Elliott & Camp, who now own what is called the Eastgate claims, upon which work is going ahead under favorable indicatious. Other claims that are prominent as likely to come into production early are those of Eric Morrison, who is working six men, and has two shafts of fifty feet depth, showing good values. val-ues. On the Merger group, adjoining the townsite of Cripple Creek, and where the biggest strike has been made, the ore shows much free gold and assays hih. It is owned by two new candidates candi-dates for the bonanza king class in Nevada named John Lamer and W. H. Fechyew. " COFFER STRIKE CONFIRMED. A strike of a twelve-foot breast of ore in the property of the Nevada Douglas Dou-glas Copper company, at Yerington, Nev., which was reported last week, is confirmed by President J. D. Wood and Secretary W. C. Orem, who came in yesterday yes-terday from the camp. The ore carries about 12 per cent copper cop-per and Mr. Orem declares it is the biggest big-gest showing he ever saw in a copper mine. The shaft has gone down forty feet in this ore on an incline, and an adit tunnel is being started to cut the ore body 500 f eet Delow the surface. Twenty men are employed at the mine, and the force is being increased as rapidly as the miners, who are scarce in that section, can be obtained. A contract has been placed for an electric plant which will cost $50,000 when completed. RESOURCES OF UTAH. Things accomplished in the old camp of Mercur recently show that Utah mining mi-ning districts are in the class that must continuously develop new things, only needing development work judiciously applied by men know their business. Among the properties at Mercur that are coming up under the shrewd experienced experi-enced operators that have had the business busi-ness acumen to take hold is tho old Shakespeare group, owned by Tim Mo-riarty, Mo-riarty, L. E. Cramer, and Alf Anderson. Here a big strike has been made on an extensive vein exposed for considerable distance, and which shows values ranging rang-ing from $7.20 to $144 gold per ton. All the indications suggest to the fortunate for-tunate owners that they have one of the most valuable properties in the State with further development, and the latter lat-ter may be paid for by the mine itself. The Shakespeare is located one mile south of the Manning mill, and is just "over the hill" from Mercur townsite. This strike is regarded as the biggest big-gest in point of significance for the district, that has ever been made thereabout, there-about, and is believed to be in reality a continuation of the vein system extending ex-tending through the old Mercur mine, but this theory has some discounting features which are supported by a part of the community and which element considers the Shakespeare's gold deposition depo-sition to be part of an entirely new zone of which nothing comparatively is yet known. ORE AND BULLION. SITver, after remaining at and above the 6S-cent mark for a week, this morning morn-ing receded to 674 cents, the cause ascribed as-cribed being that no further amounts will be demanded by the Government for several weeks. Copper was again quoted at $18.98 and lead at $5.75. The settlements for ores locally marketed mar-keted yesterday, as reported by McCor-nick McCor-nick k Co., aggregated $ 10,000 for bul- |