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Show 6 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N NEWS CLEAN-U- and was formerly knowm as the P. Capt. Singheiser proposes to erect a n cyanide mill at Salmon City, 150-to- Ida. vein of coal has been discovered within four miles of Montpelier, Ida. Shoshone county, Ida., claims the rarest lead specimens known to mineralogists. An excursion party of 200 business men left Fort Worth for Cripple Creek last Tuesday. Ed R. Holden and associates will n build a chlorination mill at Colo. Victor, The Anaconda, Mont., company is credited with a production of 12,000,000 pounds of copper in March.. The Morning Star Mining company, Colfax, Cal., declared dividend No. 64, of $4 per share on the 30th ult . Stock in the De Lamar, Ida., company is quoted at London at 16 shillings per share. The par value is 1. The Ajax company last week paid off $21,000 of its indebtedness, and will soon be free from all liabilities. Oscar Hasselries fell 236 feet in the Black Jack mine at Silver City, Ida., last week, and was instantly killed. The rich mining camps of Mojave county, Ariz., are to be connected with Kingman by a system of electric roads. During the month of March the State of Colorado received $24,500 from the incorporation of new mining compaA four-fo- ot 200-to- Shoe-bridg- e. The Royal placer claim, located on Feather river, near Junction bar, Elmore county, has been listed for sale at the Idaho Mining Exchange for $25,000: The claim is 600 feet wide and 9000 feet long. It is reported that the syndicate of American and English capitalists who of the recently purchased Anaconda are now after the other for which they are willing to pay forty millions. Andrew Johnson, a miner in the Clifton district, placed five sticks of giant powder in an iron wheelbarrow over a fire for the purpose of thawing it out. The giant exploded, and Johnson lost his left eye and left hand, and pieces of the wheelbarrow were imone-four- th three-fourth- s, bedded in his leg. The Ajax tunnel at Mammoth is to be driven 4000 feet into the mountain to the Sioux Consolidated vein. It is to be equipped with a double track, and will facilitate the economical extraction of ores by the two mines. Chicago and New York capitalists are associated in the enterprise. Another lost mine has been found, this time in Garfield county, this State. Alonzo Stewart of Panguitch made the alleged discovery, and the workings are said to show a good vein of free milling gold ore. According to tradition, the mine was worked by Spaniards a century or so ago. Maj. A. V. Bohn of Leadville has recently secured control of a large number of claims in the southern part of nies. the Floyd district and proposes The steamer that left Seattle for to doCamp some deep prospecting. The Major Cooks Inlet, Alaska, last Monday cara firm believer in deep mining, and ried 235 passengers bound for the placer is was it largely through his efforts that fields. the Leadville ore bodies were shown It is claimed that the Geyser com- up. pany at Mercur is mining and milling A correspondent of the Idaho World, its ores at a cost not exceeding $1.75 writing from Plaoerville, declares that per ton. a custom mill, located on AlA pocket of ore discovered last week der creek, would in a short time stamp in the Rawhide mine, Tuolumne coun- out a carload of gold eagles. Whether ty, Cal., assays from $15,000 to $20,000 or not this is true, that region possesses a very extensive, free milling gold belt in gold per ton. has never received much attention Forty more stamps are to be added that from capital. to the mill of the Atlanta Gold and Silver Consolidated mines at Glen Davies, Secretary of the Interior Smith, in the case of a protest against the applica Elmore county, Ida. How long will it be, asks the Lon- tion for patent for placer claim at Ida., has decided in favor of don Echo, before the yellow man with the townsite. This placer, as located, white metal gets away with the white embraced about half of the town of man with the yellow metal? Gibbonsville, and was evidently only The Grants Pass (Or.) Mining Jour- located speculative purposes. This nal says: An $85,000 sale is nearly contest for was commenced in the Hailey completed for quartz and placer proper- land office three years ago. ties on Soldier creek to Salt Lake capiIn the Calumet and Hecla copper talists. mine are over seventy miles of drifts, A new mining country is being in which one can walk for days withopened up near the mouth of the out visiting all of the many Grande Ronde river, Wash. Rich dis- underground. There is a vein places coveries of silver and copper are re- has been worked for two miles which on its ported. and some at of trend, the shafts the The profit of the DeBeers diamond fifty-fift- h level has been reached, these mine last year was $11,222,840. The dia- levels being generally ten feet apart, monds sold for $15,530,790. The average or thick, as generally described. value of the diamonds mined was $6.12 It is stated that a St. Louis company a karat. will construct a plant in Colorado for The discovery of a whole mountain the production of aluminum, in which of asbestos is reported on Beach creek, Joseph N. Baxter of Denver is interfour miles from Mount Vernor, Or. The ested. The company proposes to use fiber is from half an inch to two inches a new process of treating clays by in length. electricity for the extraction of alumiG. S. Holmes has purchased the Maud num, which was discovered and patmine at Bingham. The vein, at the bot- ented by Mr. H. D. F. Schwan of Kantom of an eighty-foincline, carries sas City. Some 6000 acres of clay land $22 in gold, and the property is to be have been secured near Greenland, in Douglas county. developed by a tunnel. The Idaho immigration convention, The Newton mining district, at Beaver, is producing more litigation for held at Boise last week, resulted in the its size than any other in the State. organization of the Idaho Immigration There are three sets of claimants to association. A fund of $10,000 will be one of the rich properties. raised, and used in the promotion of Idaho can provide homes A farmer of Polk county, Kan., in immigration. a for million more people, and if her blasting for lead, uncovered a four-foof climate, of soil vein of plumbago, used as a lubricant salubrity and wealth in mineralsfertility were matters and for lead pencils. The mineral is of general knowledge abroad, she of good quality, and the find is valu- would need no immigration associaable. tions. Richard L. Colburn and associates The New York Financial Record have bonded the Bonanza mine, near gives the details expedition Silver City, the consideration to be recently fitted outof a secret the Gold Alaska by $20,000. The Bonanza is an old producer, Syndicate company for operation in 100-sta- mp Gib-bonsvil- ot ot le, the Cooks Inlet country. The company owns 320 acres, claimed to carry $1 to $100 per yard, and expects to acquire something like twenty square miles of equally rich ground. The expedition is well equipped with supplies and machinery, including ten hydraulic giants, etc., and eighty experienced olacer miners were taken along. Mr. H. Tutin, in charge of the Salt Lake office of Fraser & Chalmers, will start next Saturday for southern California, where he will spend a few week in rest and recuperation. G. F. Hallady claims to have discovered an eight-fovein of borax somewhere within the boundary lines of Utah, but declines to reveal the exact locality until he has perfected his location. The mining of borax is an Important industry in Nevadaquite and California, but this is the first discovery made in Utah. A twenty-to- n lot of ore from the saw-mill- s, ot Ophir Consolidated mine, located in Central district, Humboldt county, Nev., was placed on the market this $30 per week, the shipment ton in gold, silver andcarrying lead. This shipment was made simply to ascertain the average values, and as it is a good milling ore, a concentrating plant will probably be erected after some further development work has been done. The property is owned by C. H. Wilbur, Dr. Pfoutz, Dr. McLean, H. H. Rowe and S. A. Day, all of this city. A bill is before Congress providing that when a contest arises in to the character of land claimedregard to be mineral, it shall be heard in the county court instead of before the register and receiver, and also that when land is proven to be within a mineral belt, it shall be presumed to be mineral land. It is also provided that the annual period within which work on claims commences shall begin well-defin- ed at 12 oclock (noon) January 1st, in- stead of December 31st at midnight. This is to prevent in a measure the jumping of claims, which is frequently accomplished under cover of darkness. Mr. G. D. Haven, general manager of the Cane Springs Mining company, has returned from England, his trip having been made for the purpose of enlisting London capital in a pipe line project. While he is not yet prepared to announce the complete success of his mission, he states that there is little doubt that the pipe will be laid. The property is located in the Clifton district, Deep Creek country, and the pipe line '"ill convey water from Little Rocky creek, a distance of twenty miles. The company owns twenty-thrfc- e claims, which show large bodies of gold ore, and five Crawford mills have been erected on the property, but a lack of water prevents their operation. The Deep Creek railroad will run within five or six miles of this property. Mr. Haven believes that as soon as the various wrar scares have subsided, English capital will seek investment in American mines. Mining Incorporations. Black Dragon Mining company Capital $40,000, divided into 800 shares; presand ident, L. L. Terry; H. treasurer, James Brown; secretary, E. D. Woodruff. The company owns the Black Dragon Consolidated mining claim in the Tintic district. Eureka Wolf Tone Mining company Capital $30,000, divided into 30,000 shares. The company owns a group of four claims adjoining the Keystone and vice-preside- nt at Eureka. Bullion-Bec- k Capitol Gold and Silver Mining company (Provo) Capital $100,000, divided into 100,000 shares. President, R. E. Hunter; George Nichols; B. J. Bennett; treasurer, secretary, Martin Ambrose. The company owns five claims in American Fork canyon. Golden Opportunity Mining Company Capital, $1,000,000, divided into 1,000,000 shares. President, H. G. Heffron; Percy S. Sowers; secretary and treasurer, W. C. Hall. The company owns the Yosemite group lo-of claims and the Yosemite mill site, cated in the West Mountain mining district. vice-preside- nt, vice-preside- nt, |