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Show THE ARGUS. UTAH NUGGETS. Business is perceptibly improving other day. They are Will Flowers and Dick Kemp. The Mercur has now paid $700,000 in dividends. The neat sum of $37,500 was distributed among the stockholders of the Silver King Monday. An experimental run will be made Gold Dust people at the by Marion mill in a few das. Dividends of the Silver King amount to $1,050,000 to date with millions in ore yet in sight. at Eureka. The stock market has been rather diiH all week. Improvement in La Cigala is constant and marked, new mill at the Northern Light ia'giving satisfaction. Frank Dixon has made a rich find in San Juan county. The mining excursions are well patronized every Sunday. Mr. F. L. Chapin of Ogden has In the Creole eleven feet of good closed a deal for a half interest in the Leviathan mine at Willow Creek. pay dirt has been disclosed. The Winnamuck deal has been perThe Columbia will soon be added to fected at last and the property has the list of Utah's producers. ' Two new companies have been been turned over to the new owners. A meeting of the directors of the formed in the Beaver district. The test run on the Anchor, at Park I Vallejo, at Park City, was held Saturday night and James Kevin was City, was entirely satisfactory. elected superintendent. The Argonaut placers of Bingham Gold in surprising quantities has have been secured under bonds. been discovered in the Constellation The Buekeye has made a good mine at Park City. Is this about to showing in ore recently shipped. become a gold camp? Considerable gold is saved by crude It is thought that the regular diviprocesses in the State Line district. dend will be distributed among the The Beaver Lake Copper Co. has Geyser-Mario- n stockholders after the been incorporated with a capital of meeting next Thursday. $50,000. There is a marked improvement in A shipment of high grade ore was the Horn Silver mine. On the 600 made from the Ophir, at State Line, I a8 lie I I - 15 The Song of the Miner. My overalls are tattered. My old coat well outworn; My hat is torn and battered, shoes forlorn. My hob-na- il My stomachs lean and My throat is parched ORB AND BULLION RATES. The following list of transportation rates on ore, bullion and concentrates i from all important shipping points in Idaho and Utah to all western smel-- . ters is officially and absolutely correct, and is published for the convenience of ore shippers : , empty, and dry ; But to sit still don't tempt me, I'll up again and try. My pick handle is broken, My shovel needs a new helve, Nampa and Boise to Salt Lake Valuation not exceeding $30 per ton, (6 ; valuation over $30 Ill np again and delve. and not exceeding $100, $8.60. To Denver, under 40 per cent, lead and not exceeding $100 valuaGod's mountains have gold lining, tion, $10 ; over 40 per cent, lead $14. To Pueblo Tho silver has gone down ; same classification, $11.23 and $15.23. To Kansas In His streams bright and shining, City, same classification, $14 and $17. To Ill find my golden crown. Omaha, $13 and $17. Tho' fortunes Ive lost many,-I- t From Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue to Salt does not trouble me ; Lake Valuation not exceeding $50, $6 ; over $90 Greater, richer than any, and not exceeding $100, $8. To Denver, not exMy next strike sure will be. ceeding $100 valuation, $11. To Pueblo, $12.25. To Omaha, $13. To Kansas City, $14. Ill yet drive my own tandem. From Red Rock, Mont., (shipping point for And millionaire will be ; Salmon City) On ores not exceeding $100 valuGood old nil! despe random ation To Salt Lake, $8; to Denver, $8; to see? Is still my motto Pneblo, $8; to Omaha and Kansas City, $8. I'll golden nuggets gather,. CcBur d'Alene To Salt Lake, valuation not And then be governor ; exceeding $50, $10; not exceeding $65, $12; ex Or, if not, city father, ceeding'$65, $4. To Denver same rates. To Whichever I prefer. Pueblo, same classification, $11.25, $1&25, $15.25.. To Omaha and Kansas City, $12, $14 and $16. Come then, boys, join my singing, Park City On all ores not exceeding $100 in My opl imistie glee ; To Salt Lake $2; to Denver and valuation For you and I are bringing P neblo, $7 ; to Omaha and Kansas City, $8. The good time yet to be. F risco or Milford To Salt Lake, ore not News. Denver $100 in valuation, $3.50; concentrates, $4.50; to Denver, ore and concentrates, $12AG; GOLD MOUNTAIN NOTES. to Pueblo, $13.75; to Missouri River points, $14 JO. On ores not exceeding $100 valuation The Richfield Advocates mining Euseka To Salt Lake, $2.50; to J&NrniPnehlo, $8; shark expresses this opinion, of the to Missouri River piT?' rich country it is now booming : Gold Bingham ($100 valuaC2)4Cc fecit Mountain district is . no jxxx mans $1.25; to Denver and PudCflj.w M River, $11.50. If; v surface but Gold indications camp, by Rates on bullion FromCt Mountain district has no equal in $10 ; to Missouri River, $1$L 4'j I . include MFtSJMsar johargeiicJ ruQniQg hjgh Utah. Its large bodies of hot stuff (These ratesUtah inelnfSat comma samplers.) ton has been found in a good are far below, the Pueblo? at a Denver Lake To smelters Salt and top croppings ' vejn Missouri to $10. River, depth that only., good money can No truer word is spoken, - . ng poinUtGS.' m Uiis wee . per The tunnel in Dutch canyon, near gze Park, U in 500 feet and work is still , gejMnd improvement of the reach and the diorite and granite PU8 Mammoth is reported by General formations at Baldys foot have near Shipments of high grade ore from Manager Famesworth to be very the surface been so slid and pushed the. Northern Light are becoming fre- - marked and and otherwise disturbed that . gratifying. Snow is disappearing and the roads coming to the front. This week it to and from the mines are becoming divided up $5000 among its holders, making a total of $36,500, A new gold field has been dis- - and it is expected that the South miles southwest Swansea will follow in the next few covered twenty-fiv- e stock-passabl- e. - I of Tintic. days. The Brigham Bugler, speaking of !. The Utah Guano Co. will operate the island deposits in Salt Lake, be the Century mine in Park valley, says assays have proven that there is ginning soon. hill. They run as high came rich ore in the An accident in the Daly-WeI st 83 860 fatally to Dave Adams to t-9t- near malting is one of the best prospects m the this week. county. The famous old Deer Trail mine Salina Pres8 . Thomas Graham, an near Marysville has been sold to Cah-- old.time pro6pector, was in town last I fornia capitalists. gaturtay showing some specimens of The Wasatch Mining & Milling Co. float he had picked up near the head has been incorporated for work in the 0f galina creek. They were rich in old Lincoln district. free gold, and even a tenderfoot From the station on the 500 level in would 'pronounce them the proper the South Swansea another 50 feet stuff. Mr. Graham reported consid will be sunk at once. erable snow in the mountains, but Interest is centering in the Blue next month he will return and make effort to find the vein from whence mountains of San Juan owing to re-I the float had drifted. cent gold discoveries. ner : t is gratifying to A rich strike is reported in the Cum-- 1 learn that the miners of Uintah, Snake Creek and Blue Ledge mining districts, at their meeting held in Park City last Tuesday evening, endorsed the action of the miners of Tintic in opposition to the mining The Grizzly, at Bingham, is said to an(j are prepared to bear their bo turning out good milling iron; share of the expenseg 0f a contest. It I bearing $8 or $10 in gold. will now be in order to hear from Two men were injured in an acci- - Mercur and Bingham on the same dent at the Golden Gate mine the lines. I 1 nc I ljr Oregon Short Line Rkiirokd. geolo- As a young producer Swansea is gists can with difficulty figure out I ' the depth of the great ledges. Still a casual glance convinces anyone with a knowledge of minerals that gold and The fastest and shortest lino in connection with the. Union Pacific to all points East, running dining cars ana through Pullman Bleepers to Chicago and St. Louis without change. silver are there in inestimable quantities and paying values and for an unXI Ml developed region, Mr. Logan repeats, IN EFFECT MARCH 15th, 1897. it has no equal in all Utah. arrive and depart from Salt Lake City Of the Surprise mine he says that asTrains follows: DKPAKT. for 2000 feet along the surface the croppings on the Surprise lead show the veins width to range from 5 to an(1, ark uity .... .................. Local Exjpress, for San Francisco, 25 feet. Analytical tests made by Ogden, Cache Valley and interne- m Logan indicate various grades of ore Local impress, for Ogden and inter-going from $6 to $35,000 a ton in gold AUantic!!!!!; for Chic W,' and silver ; the average per ton, how- 7:00p.m. ever, exclusive of the very rich streaks, MintfTS'lntX 7:40 is $18 ; of this $12 is gold and $6 sil- - L?1,1 m and Express for Provo, Nephi, . f ver. This ratio IS found in all the Milford, Frisco and intermediate 8:00 p,m Surprise ore from $6 up to $35,000 ; iiu1 train"for,Garid 'Bachl of the bimetallic value is I gold and the other third silver. The From Chicago, Omaha, 8t. Louis, explanation IS that very little Silver IS KansaaCity, Denver, Park City m found in bromide or any other form From Hena. ButtoPortiand. n than as alloy with gold, and in this I 7:Up--character it thus comes invariably in the chemical proportion of one-ha3:30n: and igtannediata 9:45 a. a. The ore is all submissive to amalga- - From . Mercur, 1 in tic, Provo, Nephi, Manti and intermediate points..,. 6:30p.m. mation, concentration and cyanide From Terminus, Tooele and Garfield treatment, by a combination of which Beaeh 4:00 p.m. ot 0X11 ua daily except Sua- processes 90 per cent, of the values day'raiM ut txlxphomh nol 280. Daily except Sunday. can be saved at a total cost of only I . I b. -- I I two-thir- ds 3-1- I U. 1 the hand80 General and City Ticket unci, tn pm. margin of $15.50 on the average $18 rock. The Surprise. ore will be re- D. E. BURLEY. S. W. ECCLES. duced on the ground this summer. Genl Pass, and Ticket Gen'l 8260 8 Traffic-Manager- ' Subscribe for The Argus.' Agent. W. Vice-Pre- s, H. BANCROFT, ? and Gaal Supt. . - f |