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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTA- UINTAH DISTRICT-PA- RK CITY. iirst shipment uf ore made by the Vallejo com- any netted about $60 per ton. Sample assays Iioved it to contain 21 per cent copper, $1.90 in gold, lS ounces in silver and 33 per cent iron, which makes it a very desirable grade of ore and it ought to produce very lively bidding on the part of the smelters. The latest newsirom the property is to the clTect that the high grade ore uncovered last week is holding its o.vn both in quantity and quality. The Vallejo is a good prospect and is undoubtedly going to develop into one cf the camps regular dividend payers. The metals it carries do not depend upon Bryans election and it can therefore be developed with every confiThe dence. Houston, who has been busy for the past two ore left at the month cleaning up the second-clas- s Cresce.it m'.ne when lie turned his lease over to Mr. Davis, completed the work yesterday and the ore is now being brought down tramway. This concludes all the leases in the old workings of the mine and no more will be let, at least not for the present. The strike of ore reposted in last weeks Record as having been made on the Lucky Bill group is still holding its own and growing better as depth is obtained. The indications are that the property is on the eve of proving up a splendid ore body and that stockholders will yet get back their money and a just reward for the faith they have maintained in its ultimate richness. Another gold excitement has broken out over recent discoveries near the summit on the Utah Central railroad and numerous locations are being made by the boys on the road and others who are on the inside of the find. Some very nice looking iron quartz has been uncovered and pay rock may be the result. This is the third time that gold bearing quartz has been found in that locality but to date nothing that would pay has been developed. Following are the ore shipments from the McIntosh Sampler for the present week: M. L. Silver King. Silver King concentrates Anchor first-cla- 76S,740 19S.240 143,400 72,440 450,000 ss Ontario Daly West MINING REVIEW. IN by the owners of our obligations for eastern and a carload of rich smelting ore, which has been accum. outside capital have denied us that privilege, in order ulating. was shipped, of an estimated value of fifty 0r sixty thousand dollars. While not authentic, we feel 0 enhance their claims against us. Here we have gold mines galore. A country so rich safe in placing the combined output of September at in placer deposits as Idaho is known to be, could not about $115,000. The mine is proving a wonderfully be without great numbers of gold bearing quartz valuable property, arid is looking exceptionally well eins. We have high grade gold quartz too; but most at every point. A complete electric light and power of the gold ore with us is low grade and base, the plant will be put in at once, A rich strike has been made in the Poorrnan.im base metals being iron, lead, copper and zinc. Arsenic from the lower tunnel. also abounds in many, if not all of our base ores, cross-cThe Atlanta placer claim, on Snake river, located by Outside capitalists do not invest money here alto- gether for their health, nor for the scenery; neither do Messrs. Shannon and Ross, which was bought about they base their charges upon cost of reduction and six weeks ago by Messrs. W. F. Mitchell, I. G. Hale outlay, as a rule. Hence, to mine base ores and deliver and C. C. Higgins, is running full time, day shifts, with them at the reduction works, will have cost, by the four men employed on the amalgamator, and three time the miner gets the gold bar in his hand, in the men and two teams working as strippers. They are neighborhood of $20 to the ton. If we ship it abroad, using an Acme amalgamator, a recently patented the' result is about the same. Properly reduced at machine, which works entirely satisfactorily The home, our gold ores would prove a source of im- - dirt goes about four dollars per yard. Mr. Mitchell, mense revenue to the state; but to do this would one of the owners of the claim, is the inventor of the necessitate the erection in our mining camps of 100- - machine, and is now in Utah setting up new machines, ton smelters, or cf immense concentrating plants, and Mr. Hale has direct charge of the work on Snake the securing of freight rates on the railroads that river. Mr. Higgins is editor of the Mercur Mercury, The Avalanche is informed that a company has been would leave the miner a profit on the shipment of his concentiates. But all of this would have to be pre- - incorporated under the laws of California, and now ceded by development work sufficient to demonstrate has control of the Gold Bug group of mines, in Silver n Cord gulch, belonging to Messrs. C. B. McKinnon and the presence of ore in our mines to feed smelters and concentrators, and as our mines are Ed Grant. Money is now in the bank for the use of mainly held by poor men who discovered them, their the company, and vigorous work is being prosecuted development is a slow process. Even that would be at the mines. The claims, recently discovered, and hastened, however, by the opening up of our silver whose promising character have ben frequently men mines, giving employment and means to owners of tioned in these columns are opening up in excellent The ledge is shape with every foot of development. gold mines. The Birthday group of mines at Willow. Creek was now open for a length of 140 feet, showing a contin-soluous ore chute and a regularity which is highly pleas this week to Minnesota parties for $12,000. Two sales of mines in Boise Basin are on the tapis, ing. During the past week the drift has been pushed feet of shifts, opening twenty-fiv- e which, if. made, will start work that will result in good by three eight-hoto the locality and to the purchasers, but I am not at new ground. The face shows nearly three feet of ore, all good milling value, with rich streaks on the foot liberty to say more at present. ten days surveys of the old werks and hanging walls. Ore cars and track are now Within of the Gambrinus mine, in B.ise county, have been en route from San Francisco, and rich developments made that .seeem to point to the early rehabiliment of may be looked for in the near future, The mines around Silver City raised $749.25 last that property. Years ago, the Gambrinus was a famous producer. Its ores, which were free, near the week and forwarded it to the national Democratic surface, paid from $90 to $250 per ton, and I always headquarters to aid in Bryans election. The list is as thought it was closed down more from incompetency follows: than exhaustion. Its ores haue changed to base, but Black Jack $342 00 203 50 1 believe are still good for profitable returns for reduc- - Trade Dollar and Blaine ' J? tion. Many1 other mines in the basin are similarly PornVJn 14 7) Boonville conditioned, principally because of the cowardice of pown 47 50 local capital. When our own people begin to make Ball. 124 00 . . . investments in our mines, others, encouraged by their Total $749 25 T, J. Sutton. example, will do likewise. ut . ; 100-to- d ur the-las- t ' Total.... 2,632,820 -- ...... IDAHO. Idaho Avalanche. Boise City, Idaho, uct. 4, 1S96. ELMORE COUNTY, kv. The Checkmate mine, in the new Willow Creek As the chances for Bryans election increase, silver talk is becoming more and more frequent on our mining district, near Boise, owned by Salt Lake rail- streets. Almost every day mention is made of en- road men, shipped fifty tons of high grade gold ore in couraging. prospects in that metal having been ob- September. A force of thirty men is employed. tained, either in seme abandoned mine or in one lately NEVADA. Correspond nee Mining Tc The Mardis quartz mill, which has been idk for so long a time is about to start up, which will give new life to the camp. The Mardis district is one of the most promising camps in the state today and will be the state. placed among the greatest There are plenty of quartz lodes which carry from $5 to $350 a ton in gold. The district w'ould have been a dividend-paytoday, had it not been fortbe financial wrangle which occurred about a year ago. while Thomas Charles was superintendent. The pany has sent a new man in his place and it is hoped he will straighten things out. . discovered. Should Mr. Bryan be elected with a silver congress at his back, an army of prospectors will take the field in Idaho, as soon as the snow' goes off in the spring, and the discoveries and developments of next season will astound many people in, as well as out, of Idaho.- The wealth of our hills will become proverbial. Prospectors will cease to be regarded as bums trying to , beat somebody out' of a winters grub. Mining will assume the dignity of a legitimate and profitable business. Success will inspire faith in our resources. Dependence upon eastern and outside capital will cease to harass our local solons, and Idaho will speedily become one of the World's greatest producers of the precious metals. We cannot work our ailver mines, of which we have enough to furnish an ample money supply for local uses, and to supply all of our needy and idle laborers with wages that would i iiccurage them to work simply because laws enacted - gold-producers- -in W. J. Woodward, and Ross Dodge were up from their camp on the Salmon river the first of the week and brought along some fine specimens of quartz, er com-whi- . plainly showed free gold. O. P. Blose and Harry. Wall have got some gold the head of Keystone gulch which they say quartz ch Can steele clme in from Tuscarora Tuesiiay, ?"? TProVing ,w? pr0gre,sses- has been busy inspecting the bonanzas of this district, The Yellow mme with which he seems much ,eased- - Duri ,lis sta, t bugs.-thaof the ,n Merest the the m.ners day gold he visitedamong the mines, the Black Wager, which would scatter and lose their votes for Brya- n-1 has considerable devei0pment work done on of A tunnel 200 feet long taps the ledge at a tepth .140 feet. Plenty of ore that will run from $io to $7$ mviiFP rmiMTv a ton is in sight. He also examined the Manhattan September has proven a banner month for the and Pittsburg mines. These mines are to supply Trade Dollar mine, the output being two carloads of p mill, The average run of ore from these who concentrates and fifteen bars of bullion. Besides this, mines is from $15 to $108 in gold Mr Steele, 'S it- - . ten-stam- I ( |