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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- to the mill will not begin until some time next week, as the mill still has a fair supply on hand. This is the first season for some years that the bovs at the Ontario have escaped So far not a man has a long lay-of- f. been laid off and the boys say they do not look for a draft to be made, as the season is getting pretty well advanced. Following are the ore shipments from the Mackintosh sampler for the present W66k 250,400 Anchor concentrates 287,650 Silver King 36,590 Varcoe concentrates ore-hauli- ng a Total 574,640 Salt Lake County. WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Bulletin: The Winamuck Bingham n names on its payroll in sixty-sevehad March. Electric power for Binghams mines is what is wanted. There are nearly 150 tons in the Old Spanish bins, which will soon be hauled for shipment. The Live Pine, across from the Old Jordan, has a lot of ore out awaiting transportation. Assay returns from nineteen tons of this Julia Dean ore put on the market first-class, week are as follows: On three tons 500 ounces silver, $7.50 gold per ton; on sixteen tons second class, 115 ounces silver, $2 gold. The Garfield lode, on right of main canyon at. upper Bingham, is giving up some fine ore, heavy with lead and iron and a test shows 27 per cent copper. The claim is owned by James Tuckfield and George Beer, and is under lease to Simonsen & Scott, who have been working since last fall. They ran a crosscut about 300 feet to the vein, and are now sinking upon it. The pay streak varies from 6 to 16 inches, and the ore carries about 40 ounces of silver. ORE SHIPMENTS. Following are the shipments from Bingham for the month ending March 31st: From Bingham station Hauled by Standish & Jimpson 1700 Old Jordan & Galena 800 Old Telegraph 65 Niagara and Spanish 62 Neptune 140 Northern Chief 85 Montezuma 40 Tiawaukee 110 Vindicator 85 Pedro Hauled by J. Jimpson, Jr. 100 Storey 39 Julia Dean Hauled by Tom Mayne 25 Spanish 100 Nast 50 Giant Chief 50 Name not given Leadmill station (by tram) 3000 Dalton & Lark (approximate) k From Winamuck 50 Winamuck Miscellaneous, including Keystone, 200 from Leadmill station .6701 Total tons side-trac- MINING REVIEW. N 9 aging $30 per ton. Many of the claims silver a ton, while some of it yields as In the camp have considerable develhigh as 131 ounces of silver a ton. The opment work done on them, and the Camas is looking well. more work the better the showing. As a rule, the gold values have Increased at a rate of $1 per foot for depth atNEVADA. tained. This is a poor mans camp, so far as Pioche Record: A very fair coal proscost of mining is concerned, the forhas been discovered in the hills mation being granite, and wholly de- pect about miles westerly from the composed for a depth of twenty feet or head ofthree the lower Muddy valley. The more. Timber is abundant, and good wras formation recognized five years power for milling is in close proximity ago by several members of the railroad to the camp. corps of civil engineers, as favorable for the existence of coal. This was Kootenai County. when the Union Pacific company proline of survey across the Hope Examiner: One of the richest jected its to the California line. Since gold fields ever discovered is on Trestle county then members of the survey party have creek, about four miles west of Hope. the matter in mind, and the rekept Several men have been working there newed talk now of railroad construcfor about two months and a number tion of promising claims have been located. ors has caused them to send prospectOur forms were ready for the press stuffthere. So far a fairly good seam of has been found, which burns when word reached us that A1 Linds-lareadily in a blacksmiths forge, and a who has been down from his Treshas been put down some twenty? tle creek claims for a couple of days, shaft five feet on it. Coal discovered in that had pounded out a small quantity of locality would prove of value the ore from the Tamarack and found to Southern California, exceeding besides furnishthat it was very high in free gold. On ing fuel for general use thereabouts, going to Wanamakers store to ascer- wood being a scarce article, and for tain the facts in the case, we were the mining and reduction of mineral shown the gold that had been pounded deposits which are known to exist in out, and it is indeed very rich in the the form of gold and silver ledges, all yellow metal. From the colors in the of a grade, however, too low to justify pan we were able to see that the ore any effort to work them under existing would run several hundred dollars in conditions. gold. Several tons of this ore is on the dump and the company has a ledge MONTANA. eight feet wide. Miners are flocking to the new discovery by the dozen, and everyone believes that we have a secHelena is all over another rich ond Cripple Creek out here close to strike of copperagog on what apour town. The owners of the Tamarack pears to be the deposits same lead as the 96 have a thirty-foshaft and some tun- location. The of its discovery nel work, and it has been improving and purchase isstory thus romantically told with depth, but the find is much richer by the Herald: On Friday Gen. Vernon, than they ever anticipated. who is one of the best known mining men about town returned from New York, and to brace himself up with Shoshone County. fresh Montana air, took a stroll around Coeur dAlene Sun: Smith W. Dar- on the mountain sides back of town. ling, who a few years ago discovered In the rounds he ran across G. W. the Barton lode on upper Prichard an old Helena miner, who had creek, four miles east of Murray, comes just been sinking a shaft. It showed to the front with another carbonate some little ore which carried a copper y, . ot Cul-liso- n, discovery in the same neighborhood. It was made two weeks ago, about 1200 feet south of the Barton. An eighteen-inc- h vein of fine carbonate ore was struck, samples of which were brought to the Sun office and placed in the show window, where they excited general interest. There can no longer be any doubt as to the existence of a carbonate belt in the upper canyon, and there is room for a big camp there. Ada County. stain. hole? What will you take for that asked the General. dont know what it is worth, replied Mr. Cullison. Ill give you $200 for it, said the General. All right, said Mr. Cullison. And they went down to the hotel together, where Mr. Cullison got his $200, and Gen. Vernon received his deed. The General at once began developing the I ledge, and this afternoon the vein is six feet wide of solid ore, and the foot wall has not yet been reached. Indications the vein is from fifteen to Boise Statesman: Another big strike are that e twenty-fivfeet wide. The character has been made in the Black Hornet. of ore is the rich looking carbonate of Foreman Scott says a new ore body iron. It assays $17 in copper carrying was encountered in an upraise in the and probably 25 per cent in copsouth drift. It is from four to eight gold feet w'ide and averages $30 a ton. Six- per. The mine has been named the Mount Vernon. It is on the famous '96 ty per cent of the value is D. B. Levan has bought W. A. Rig-do- vein, east of Rodney street, and indiit is a larger mine. . interest in the Dyna- cations are that Vernon is to be congratulated on mite mine at Willow creek. He for- Gen.new his d possession, and if Helena had Interest. The more merly owned a such rustlers she would be betconsideration was $4000. The Dynamite has a ledge of the average width ter off. of twro and a half feet that averages $20 a ton. A Butte dispatch says an excited Mr. Levan is working the Shamrock, and enthusiastic crowd of two or three another Willow creek property. The hundred people saw big Tom Tallon Shamrock has a three and a half foot sink a 374-inc- h hole in a granite rock ledge, assays from which go as high in fifteen minutes and walk away with as 240 ounces of silver and $80 gold a the worlds championship at the Inter-vill- e ton. The average value of the ledge is pavilion in Butte last Saturday afabout $50 a ton. Mike Burns, his opponent, ternoon. a down hole, and In so put Wood River. doing had the satisfaction of beating previous Montana records, and held Boise Statesman: H. K. Thurber, all championship for just a little more owner of the Camas No. 2 and the Red the minutes. The rock used is in the than fifteen Elephant mines near Hailey, same one used by Joe Freethey was the Mr. Thurber was laughed at city. Campbell in their championwhen he took hold of the Red Elephant. and John in July, 1893. At that time match He was Informed on all sides that ship 35 drilled and Campbell Freethey everything had beenhisworked out and 35 this record and stood until Satmoney away. he was throwing Tallon pounded his steel at the urday. Nevertheless, he prosecuted developblows of rate per minute for the sixty ment work vigorously, and as a result time of allotted, fifteen minutes, space has discovered a new oreorebody of great averages 60 and did not miss a stroke. More than size and richness. The 60 ounces of $6000 changed hands on the result. to 70 per cent lead and free-millin- g. ns IDAHO. Idaho County. Correspondence Mining Review'. Grangeville, Ida., April 5, 1896. Within the borders of Idaho county there are five organized mining districts, that show a great many quartz veins, with more or less development work done on them. In many cases large bodies of low-gragold ore have been exposed and blocked out by shafts and drifts. In three of these districts there has been considerable money taken from quartz mines, and the same are still producing, with continual Inde crease. In the Florence district, particularly, much work has been done in the past eight months. Since the discovery two years ago that Florence contained gold in paying in the quartz, some of the quantities prospectors have kept up the development work on their claims by rocking out the decomposed vein custom matter. Last year a p mill was brought into the camp, and the past winter has crushed over 200 tons of quartz that had a value aver- two-stam- two-thir- ds one-thir- 35-in- ch 3-- 16 5-- 16, |