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Show y WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. THIS VICT(Jfc MINIS, BINGHAM CaNYON, UTaH. The Yietor is situated near the 011 Telegraph property ami oil the same belt. It is developed lv a shalt and incline lot) feet deep; from the bottom of which then is a drilt on the vein 40 feet, showing a ledge Ho feet wide. A great many very high assays have been obtained, but the vein averages about 11 ounces in silver and HO per cent. lead. The first class ore runs from Id to 20 ounces silver and 50 per cent. lead. Ten tons of fair ore is being extracted daily, and this week a shipment will be made to the smelter. Tin; croppings are prominent, and the vein has been traced several hundred leet on the surface. Early in the spring the owners will put up concentrating works near the mine. The Victor, lrom its present showing and location, is destined to prove a good property. It is owned by A. Fodlech and A. Giuwits. -- SILVER CROWN MINE, BINGHAM UTAH. ' CANYON, The first extension west of tin Telegraph is preparing to put up hoisting works, but still keeps up the regular daily shipment of 15 tons of ore per day. The Miners Dream, east of the Telegraph, is working 8 men and taking out a small quantity of ore. The upper tunnel is in HOO fret and the lower about fiOO, both following the vein, the latter being 00 feet wide. Tin lead mine is working 15 men and shipping almost 15 tons of ore per day, which nets about $18 per ton. Anew lodging bouse was finished last week, and work lias been com- inenced 'on the new hoisting works. The Yosemite is working 10 men and shipping 7 tons daily which gives 05 per cent, lead and 15 ounces silver. The Old Utah lias struck a large body of carbonate ore and is shipping fully 25 tons of ore per day. At the Queen mine, Black Gulch, the new hoisting works This claim is very poorly developed; a few open cuts on the surface being all the work done, yet considerable very good The deepest workings are hardly 25 ore has been extracted. feet deep. Several months since a shipment of nine tons was made to Sandy and sold for $52 per ton. This lot assayed $55 On Sunday, last, silver, $12 gold and IS per cent. load. another shipment of 10 tons was made, which is thought to be of much higher grade than the first lot, say from $S5 to 110 The ore is found in pockets, some of which arc quite ore. rich. The claim is situated near the Spanish and owned by J. Berrv BRIGHAM CANYON NOTES. & Co. are nearly completed. The new boarding bouse and shaft house of the Telegraph Mining Co.s mine, is rapidly approaching completion. The of the shaft is almost done, and will commence sink- enlarging n ing another hundred feet right a wav. Tin tunnel is in 00 leet the face in good working rock. A tunnel house and black- smith shop is being built at tin mouth of the tunnel. The necessary timber is being laid on the ground that active operations may In pushed all winter. Dora Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah. LAVA CREEK DISTRICT, IDAHO. This is anew district recentlv discovered on Lost River bv F. Winterholf and J. 15. Hood. Four locations have been n made, the Klkhorn and Park being the principal ones. The lies in a porphyry formation, one foot of which is very high The shaft is down IS grade, say 400 ounces per ton silver. vein. feet and shows a There is a natural wagon road leading up to the claim. The Park shows the same character of ore as the Elkhorn and has been traced over This is certainlv a pgood showingr at 400 feet on the surface. the grass roots and if Lava Creek can only keep up ils lick for a short time, the district will attract tin attention of v'-'' Elk-hor- well-develop- ed BAY HORSE DISTRICT, IDAHO. The shaft on tin Broadway is down 45 feet and there is three feet of ore in tin bottom. The vein lavs between' shale and porphyry walls and is of tin same character as Ramshorn ore. There is another shaft down tiftv feet, from which fifteen tons of on? were shipped to Salt Lake, and it averaged 250 ounces silver and 25 percent, lead. Tin vein is from one and Tin lower tunnel is in 1?5 feet and tapped the vein when in 100 feet. After running T5 feet there is no hanging wall in sight. The vein carries from 40 to SO per cent, lead and from is in 40 feet ami 25 to 75 ounces silver per ton. Tunnel No. shows considerable dark quart, which assays from 25 to $H0 in silver. Tunnel Xo. 2, which was started to cut the vein at angles,' is now in 05 feet, the face being in vein matter. right p It is owned hv J. L. Ellison. 1 Tlie Highland Boy. This claim is also in Bingham Canyon and is owned by James Campbell and others. There is a tunnel in nearly H00 feet, shoring ore the entire distance. There is an incline from the bottom of the tunnel which is down 100 feet. The vein is thought to 1m from 00 to 15 foot wide and averages $18 gold. V a half to four feet in this shaft. S. 1). to he fortv a ing P little face. The Broadway is owned by Edwards and William Scott. The Cost Bov is thought Tin sin ft is down on tin same lode as the Ramshorn. feet and a tunnel run in sixtv feet from tin face show- nx-fovein, which averages 150 ounces silver and verv The tunnel cuts the vein 1 2o feet below the surlead. This claim is owned by S. 1). Edwards and .J. 15. Hood. 7 ot Tins week work was suspended on the Empire mine, 1ark City. Coal is selling at $10.5 and it requires from 15 to 20 The management tons per day and seam at that price. deemed it advisable to close, down for a while, hut the whistle of the locomotive about the 15th of November will he the signal for resuming active operations. It is thought coal will he worth only $5 per ton then. hi the meantime, a good deal of necessary outside work will In done and the mine placed in better shape than ever for pushing developments right along. The management is evideiiliv profiting by the experience of the Ontario Company, whose last report shows that it required $50,000 to clear tin mine of water when it was flooded. |