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Show INTER-MOUNTA- IN News of the Camps. Review' desires reliable correspondence from every tnin"' camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publi-cat- k Thw to any news Items of merit coming from a trustw orthy i0ur... Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. i MINING REVIEW. 5 Shipments of cars from the district for the week each other in many places, so that it is difficult to tell, in some instances, where the one ends and the ending October S, were as follow's : Bullion-Bec30 other begins. It is now believed that the gold lodes Centennial-Eureka- .. 10 of Bear gulch are the source from which Binghams 5 Humbug 13 placers originated. Ajax 3 Sioux level of Ruby silver has been found. in the 4 the Swansea Winnamuck, where a vein twenty inches thick Northern Spy 2 has been encountered. 1 Independent-Tesor- a n 1 Four Aces The Old Telegraph mine has ore that carries Show-er1 ounces gold and 207 ounces silver per ton. 7 Iron Mine. . Dragon The following are the shipments for September: Total 77 From Bingham station Hauled by Standish & Jimp- son Tons. ' 1100 Old Telegraph LITTLE COTTONWOOD DISTRICT. 25 Old Jordan & Galena The Dipper mine, at the mouth of Little Cotton109 Petro wood canyon, has a shaft dowrn thirty feet and a drift 27 Neptune e all ; 20 Frisco twenty-onfeet, in parts of which the vein is 100 Northern Chief. shown. Assays from the gangue showed values of 120 Tiawaukee $18 in gold, but the values in the vein proper run tram Leadmill station By ounces in gold. Confrom eleven to twenty-seve- n Dalton Lark 700 siderable work is being done in the vicinity of the 30 Keystone 60 Fortune Dipper, with the object of finding the course of the ISO Golden Opportunity vein from which the rich values that caused such 60 Congor excitement two years ago originated, but which Hauled by Tom Mavne eluded the ordinary methods of prospecting, as purFrom various mines 20u W. sued by the owners of the New' State. Trenching on By J.Strickley 116 . . Montezuma, ore and concentrates.. . ... the surface has been resorted to, the method that is By Dan Clays adopted so successfully in Cripple Creek, and just 47 Julia Dean now there is a belief that the course of the vein has By teams to Sandy (estimated) 40 Further developments will be been determined. 2934 Total tons watched with interest. k 300-fo- UTJH. titty-seve- CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. s Winder shaft is now in the vein and will be l. Manager pushed down until it reaches the is with the present app. j Quealey highly pleased pear nee of the property. At a depth of 445 feet the Wunder shaft cut through the lime capping and into the ore body. At this writing assays have not yet been obtained, so that nothing can be determined as to the value, but there is nothing objectionable in the assumption that li e foot-wal- i The striking of ore in this shaft is exceedingly good news and finding it at the depth of the permanency of the ore is stated confirmation vein. After careful surveys of the dip and strike of the vein in other working, it was calculated that if the vein was undisturbed the Wonder shaft would cut it at The actual depth was 445 feet a depth ot 445 feet. which speaks well for the continuity of the ein they are all right. GOLD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Very encouraging reports are coming in from the Gold Queen mine, owned by H. W. Ramlose and G. T. Bean, of Richfield. A tunnel has been driven lOOfeet, which opened up a good quartz ledge four feet thick WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRIC- T- BINGHAM. and assaying $5 gold and $2 silver per tun. The The total output of the Bingham mines for the same has owned the encountHandicap, gentlemen, by month of September shows a falling off of about 50 feet long. The ered the vein in a tunnel eighty-eigper cent as compared with previous months in 1896 ledge is five feet thick and is a quartz, when the tonnage ran about 6,000 tons per month. carrying free gold. Tor the benefit of those outside of Utah w'ho might ht fine-looki- ot ng TINTIC DISTRICT. Two men n one shift recently broke down fourteen tons of ore in the Humbug, which averaged over 400 ounces silver. The Humbugs performances are attracting a great deal of attention, and it is stated that its shipments will now amount to a car load each day of very high grade ore. assaying 21 5 ounces silver and 15 per cent, cupper has been struck in the east drift ot the 250 level in the Sunbeam, in virgin ground and remote from the old workings. Ore Bowers No. 2 lode, ow'ned by Fred Matthews, has been leased and bonded to George H. Robinson and associates for eighteen months. The new management already has a considerable working force on the property. The South Swansea, in Silver City, is giving better evidence of its worth every day. Its output for the eek ending October 9, brought $5,951.20, net. Superintendent Ed Stewart, of the Ajax mine, lias Ieen prospecting the 100 level of that valuable property for some time past, and just lately lias had the Pleasure of seeing his judgment confirmed by an important strike. The extension of the Jevel lias taken the workings outside of what was supposed to be the limits of the ore zone, but last Saturday ore was discovered of a very high grade. Assays showed the Ftesence of sixty-thre- e ounces gold and ninety-tw- o ounces silver, per ton; the new' vein being a copper-I'tiine- d quartz, measuring, at last accounts, eighteen inches ia thickness. The Humbug mine sent its initial shipment ol ore l"the smelters last week. Th? lot consisted of n tons, which averaged ISO ounces silver and enough lead and gold to bring the market value up to 112.50 per ton. There are some very rich black in the Humbug, and assays have been obtained wowing 4,000 ounces silver The six-lee- sul-Phur- ets think that the decline is due to exhaustion of the ore bodies, the information is here furnished that nothing of tlie kind exists. There was probably never a time in the history of Bingham when its mines were capable of producing on as large a scale as now. The trouble lies wholly in the price of silver and lead that has now fallen so low that many mines cannot be worked on any margin, and those that could pay expenses of extraction at present prices prefer to leave their ore in the ground to placing it on the present market. T he majority of the mines are low grade in both silver and lead, the percentage being so low in some instances that the ditTerence ol 5 cents per hundred pounds on lead or 2 cents per ounce on silver decides the question as to whether the property can be operated at all. Two carloads of ore taken out of the Old Telegraph by O'Shanghnessy & Becrman, lessees, netted over $1100, after paying royalty and all expenses. J. K. Gibson lias taken a lease on the carbonates in the upper workings of the old Winnamuck. Heaston is concentrating the second class ore of the Julia Dean through jigs at the mouth of Mark-ha- n A. I.. gulch. properly located on the hill above the old Mayflower, has been leased to T he Winnebago mine, a gold William Eckman and partners. Twenty years ago the Mayflower was a constant shipper of high grade gold ore, but was closed down when a horse was struck that gave the impression that the mine was exhausted. The opening up ot the Winnebago gives assurance of immediate returns to the fortunate Jesses, and is a resumption of work in a locality where gold is known to exist in rich quantities and which has only been surface prospected. Ore tilled with freegofd was recently taken uut ot the Little Joker mine at the head of Bear gulch, which In this part of is being leased by Ike Hazlegrove, Bingham the placers and the lodes' have run into WYOMING. Johnston lias made a report on the new gold fields on Grand Encampment creek Carbon county, in which he says that there is every reason to believe that the camp will become a big producer of gold. J. A. The veins are very well defined and are believed to be gold bearing over a wide range of country. The tract that has been prospected is about three by' six miles in extent, but there are no shafts to a greater depth than ten feet, so that none of the work is conclusive. The Golden Eagle, which is rich in free gold, is down s of the locations only about eight feet, and have not lired a blast. The surface rock assays from $2.40 to $72 per ton in gold. nine-tenth- NEVAbfl. ledge two feet thick, carrying free gold of a value of $50 per ton, has been found at the head of Eldorado canyon, by Dorsey and Newman. It is believed to be an extension of the vein of the famous Zern mine. A The Grand Oro Gravel mine, near Dayton, yielded nearly $3,000 in the month of September, in the work of opening it up for operations on a larger scale. The gravel in the vicinity is very rich, and as high as $6 per day are being taken out by one man with a rocker. new gold strike is reported near the Pandora mine, in Jumbo district, north of Reno. The old Centennial placer mine, near Carson, is attracting the attention of capitalists by reason of a new and valuable bar that has been found running is now being into the main channel. A cross-cu- t driven through formation to reach the channel at its deepest part, where the gravel is believed be be exceedingly rich. At a depth of 6,760 lecl, the big tunnel of the Austin Mining company, at Austin, recently broke into some subteranean reservoirs, the flow from which for a time threatened serious damage to the enterprise and danger to the workmen, but nothing serious resulted, although, for a time, the immense outlet was nearly filled with the flow. The Austin tunnel was commenced about one year ago, being run at right angles to the formation of the country, its objective point being to intercept, on its dip, the A |