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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTA- NEWS CLEAN-U- MINING REVIEW. IN article from Florida which now supplies nearly the GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE entire consumption of the United States. RANGE. P. Deadwood the Mark Twain is extracting fifty Eldorado in Boulder county, Colorado, is being tons ore of per day. retarded in its development by people who are interesA vein of 5100 ore five feet wide has been found in ted in securing options, says the Denver Mining Record. the Rua, on Squaw creek, South Dakota. The water from the St. Lawrence mine in Butte, The leasers on the Garfield Grouse at Cripple Creek which, while the mine was a fire, was strongly impregnated with copper in soluton, precipitates much less are netting from 51,600- - to 1,800. per month. of the metal since the fire was extinguished. The Gold Coin at Victor produced twenty carloads The Anaconda company is building two vats of ore during the week ending October 24th. 10x100 feet each, for the Ledford precipitation process. Native silver has been discovered by Brown and The vats are arranged with doors at the sides through Caley, lessees of the Mayflower mine at Aspen. which the precipitated copper will be drawn. surA strike of gold quartz has been made near the The Rusty Gold Mining Company has been inface in the Pikes Peak placer at Cripple Creek. corporated at Gunnison, Colorado, with a capital of In the Tam OShanter at Aspen, Colorado, a small $1,250,000 to operate in the Gunnison gold belt. The company has twelve claims in two groups. vein of five ounces gold ore has been opened up. Preparatory to the final closing down of the great The Dacy at Deadwood, South Dakota, has a weekly output of 150 tons of an average value of $175 Drum Lummon, of Montana, the two mills of the company at Marysvale, comprising 1 10 stamps, have per ton. suspended operations, throwing fifty men out of Four leasers on the Morning Star Extension in work. Ward, Colorado, took out $28,000 in less than fourteen In Columbine Camp, Colorado, a vein eighteen months. inches wide and carrying 140 ounces silver to the ton The dump of the Mineral Rock in Victor, Colorado, has been discovered in the Dead Shot mine. The is estimated to contain 4,000 tons of ore of an average property is owned by George Bratton and Charles value of 540 per ton. Ungles. A two-fovein of ore assaying 530 to 550 in gold A blast recently put otT in the Gold Coin at Butte has been developed in the Lookout Mountain, Gran- revealed a whole face six feet across that is literally ite county, Montana. a mass of gold ore that will run into the thousands. H. V. Burner of San Franciscisco, has taken a bond The Gold Coin is owned by a close corporation of on mining properties near Sitka, belonging to Will- Ohio capitalists. iam Milmore, for 5l 5,000. Two amalgamating plates valued at $1,600 have The vein cut in the Alex. Scott mine in Butte last been stolen from the Spinney mill on Beaver creek week is eighteen inches thick and carries 33 per cent near Victor, Colorado. The plates were useless to a thief, and are supposed to have been taken to prevent copper and 120 ounces silver. the starting up of the mill. An average sample taken from a two and one half The Star Prospector of Cripple Creek has gone foot vein in the Dante at Cripple Creek, showed a dead, and the Cripple Creek Mail in its obituary notice value of $439. in gold per ton. says It deserved a better fate; but the fact must be Roland Williams, operating quartz mines at Mt. recognized that this camp will not support but one an will install electric Rueben, Oregon, power plant daily paper and even that in a halfhearted way. and erect a stamp mill this winter. The report of fhe Montana miniug comOne house in Grants Pass, Oregon, shipped over pany, ending June 30th, shows 37,180 tons raised and Placer mining is worked, of an average value of $8.84 per ton of which $15,000 in placer gold in October. silver. The bullion obtained growing extensively in that region. $7.44 was gold and ounces was $13,693 gold and 79,084 ounces silver, The Badger Boy mine in Clear Creek, Colorado, realized the being $328,533. money has stopped work on account of over production. The mine is 2,500 tons ahead of the mill. A new gold saving machine, making an experimenocean at Crescent The product of aluminum in the United States in tal run on the sands of the Pacific In 1895 it had increased City, saved, in a run of sixteen hours, $1 16.50 in gold 1894 was 550,000 pounds. and $69 in platinum and iridium. The machine has to 850,000 pounds, an increase of 55 per cent. a capacity of 300 tons per day and the expense of The recent discovery of high grade gold ore under running it is said to be but $12 per day. the Hotel Victor, Colorado, is improving with wok, The annual report of the Alaska Mexican Gold and two men took out fifteen tons in one week. Mining company, shows that sixty stamps crushed All the machinery for the new quartz mill of the 79,439 tons of ore at a cost of 45 cents per ton for all Black Butte mine in Oregon, is on the ground, and expenses. The average stamp duty during the period was 3.68 tons per twenty-fou- r hours and the total will be set up and under cover before Christmas. time lost in the year, including cleanups, was five days In the La Plata mint at Carbonate camp, South and sixteen hours. Dakota, a cross fissure has been found at a depth of The report on the mines of the South African 150 feet, which runs up to 2,500 ounces of silver per ton. Republic for the second quarter of this year, shows a total of 75,544 men employed in the mines and alluThe Parrot company at Butte has taken a lease anc vial diggings, of which 85 per cent are employed in bond on the old Hesperus mine for $400,000, and wil the Rand, 13 per cent of which are white and sink a double compartment shaft to a depth of 400 men. The total only tons mined and milled was 1,190,592, feet. and average duty of stamps per day was 4,196 tons. The total gold product was 622,090 crude ounces of H. W. Fowler, of Chicago, is to erect a 100-to- n pyritic furnace on the Cleopatra M. & M. companys which the Rand produced 554.159. ground at Ouray, Colorado. The plant is to cost about $50,000. Strange things occur in Alaska. Wm. Nelson is Charles Brown has opened up a forty-foledge of building a flume at Sheep creek. Yesterday he found low grade gold quartz near the Julian mine in Ber- it necessary to divert the waters of the creek into anners Bay, Alaska, and will prospect it with a long tun- other channel temporarily. The torrent swept down the mountain side carrying rocks, logs and stumps nel this winter. before it and endangering the sawmill at the mouth A of ledge quartz located at Sum Dum, of the creek. Oliver Fountain, who operates the mill, E. H. Alaska, by Cassels, shows an average assay value rushed up the hill in hot haste to stop the flood and for 400 feet, of $20 free milling ore. This is high save the mill. When the water was turned back into its natural course he started back toward the mill, grade for Alaska. following the channel, now dry, through which the In the Bushwhacker at Aspen, Colorado, the cleancreek had been seething, and had gone but a short ing up of an old incline in the deepest workings reledge of vealed a body of ore several feet thick, that carries distance when he discovered a fourteen-foo- t mineral been which had uncovered very pretty from 200 to 300 ounces in silver. by the and which he impromptu hydraulic plant, The recent discovery of phosphate deposits in located. Then in a somewhat different promptly frame of Maury county, Tennessee, are receiving much atten- mind he went back up the hill and asked Nelson if he tion and will be worked on an extensive scale. On couldnt turn the water down some other place and account of cheaper transportation facilities it is find another ledge. Fountain is better to be says it thought that the Tennessee product will displace the born lucky than to run a sawmill. Mining Record. At ot half-year- ly 51-4- ot ten-fo- ot 0 BOISE Professor William Lingren, of the United States Geological Survey, who has had charge of the work in Idaho during the past season, and who has just gone to Wyoming to examine and report on the Silver Crown district, recently gave the Boise States, man the following interesting information regarding the economic and general geology of the Boise range: With few exceptions the fissure veins carrying gold and silver have in this region a course ranging from E. W. to E. N. E. W. S. W. and a southerly dip ranging from 50 degrees to So degrees. While there are many mining districts scattered all along the Boise range, the principal belt of mineral deposits is that whicn, beginning at Willow Creek for forty miles in a northeast direction up towards Banner. Practically all of the veins in this belt have the direction and dip mentioned and are fissure veins of a simple or complex type, but the character of the ore varies considerably. Part of them are free milling gold ores while another part carry base ores with but little free gold and these two different types may occur in close juxtaposition; Towards the eastern end of the belt dry silver ores begin to appear. Placer gold is more or less abundantly found in the gulches crossing this belt. In the vicinity of Willow creek placers have been worked both in the modern gulches and in the gravels of the miocene lake beds surrounding the district. In the Church placer mine cinnabar, very rare elsewhere in Idaho, is found occur rfng with the gold. From Pearl to Horseshoe bend the mineral belt is practically continuous; the ores are predominantly base, carrying little free gold excepting in the zone above the water lever. A majority of the veins contain very rich ore in narrow streaks and will chiefly furnish shipping ore. A few, however, carry larger bodies of medium grade ore which might profitably be concentrated; concentrating works will probably eventually be built on the Payette river which will furnish water and cheap power. Expensive fuel and scarcity of lead ores, limestone and iron will always militate against the successful operation of smelting works in this vicinity. bend The direction of the Willow' belt is straight towards Quartzburg, but between Horseshoe bend and the Ebenezer mine in the Quartzburg district is a break of eight or ten miles in which few' deposits have thus far been found. It does not seem unlikely that future prospecting might develop something of value in that vicinity. Gold mines carrying sulphide ores are not always indicated by placer diggings; in the Neal district, for instance, the amount of placers are not at all commensurate with the values of the veins. From the Ebenzer mine the gold belt is practically continuous as far as Grimes Pass or Summit Flat and contains a series of very interesting and important deposits. Following this belt for nearly the whole distance is a series of dikes of granite porphyry and dionte which no doubt in some way are genetically connected with the veins. They do not invariably follow the veins, many of the latter being in granite, and sometimes large bodies of porphyry are found without containing any mineral deposits at all. The porphyry dikes are older than the veins, and ere injected as molten masses in rents and brakes in the granite. Too little work has been done in the mines T this district to establish any generalization in regards to the form and direction of the ore chutes. And yet this is a matter of the utmost importance for the chutes of gold ores are apt to be of irregular character and a local improvement in one level has often been enough to close down a good mine. The development work is rarely kept enough ahead of the extraction of the ore in sight. In the gold belt of California a frequently applicable rule is that the ore chute on the plane of the vein will pitch to the left of an observer standing on the apex and looking down in the direction of the dip. This rule deserves to be tested more extensively; it holds good for the ore chutes of at lerst some mines in the Idaho basin. ex-ten- decom-pose- creek-Horsesh- ds d oe ex-tensi- ve por-phpr- y Mining Abstracts. Genter, Abstractor of Titles, Complete abstracts of all mining property in Salt Lake and Tooele counties. 150 Main street. E. W. |