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Show MINING Record. that time. prosperous From two during of her indus- Winter Quarters coal mines in Decem- tries—and they are, it is true, her ones—mining and _ stockber was the heaviest for any one leading erowing, she has produced in round month since December, 1892. A new gilsonite find is reported in numbers during 1896 $49,000,000. Carbon County. The vein is thirty- With a population of 200,000 souls— children — that and three feet thick and experts claim it to men, women means a production per capita of be worth 121 cents per pound. $249. There is no question about the At the head of Fish creek, in the Of the Gold Mountain district, Will Dodge correctness of these figures. $49,000,000 the mines produced $37,and others’ are working on ground 000,000, and the stock interests $11,which is turning out splendidly. 000,000. | | W.L. Mangum, who was injured The mineral output of the State in the Bullion-Beck mine at Eureka was divided up as follows: Copper, last March, obtained a _ verdict for 224,000,000 pounds, value $22,400,$4,750 in the trial. He sued for $20,000. | The deepest shaft in Mercur is that of the Wonder, which has passed the 600-ft. mark. An air compressor to operate machine drills is now being installed. A change is reported in the formation at the face in the Sioux-Ajax tunnel at Tintic, which is regarded as an indication of the near presence 0°: an ore body. W. T. Griswold, of the United States Geological Survey, who has been in charge of the topographical work of the Tintic survey, bas suspended operations for the winter, but ‘will resume in the spring. It is reported that the smelter at Mount Nebo is completed and is now in experimental operation. There seems to be a mystery about this smelter, as no one is able to say what its capacity is or who is behind the enterprise. | During 1896 the Mercur mine handled 63,480 tons of dry ore and paid dividends amounting to $225,000. The cost of extracting the ore was $1.92 per ton and the milling cost 86 cents per ton. Sixty-three thonsand, four hundred and eighty tons of ore were handled. It is the intention of the management of the Daisy on the Mereur west dip, to shortly incorporate the property and place some of the treasury stock on the market development fund. investment to raise a opportunity to This will give the public an get in on the ground floor of a good thing. 000; silver, 16,500,000 ounces, value, $10,625,000 ; lead, 22,500,000 pounds, value, $675,000; gold, $4,500,000. Of the live stock product, cattle yielded $8,500,000; sheep and wool $2,500,000; horses and swine, $100,000. | MI EFRCUR is BOOMING And offers a splendid field for investment. _ Reliable information about any mining preposition in the district. Correspondence solicited. WARD STEVENSON, MERCUR. $100 Stamp Mill_[liners ATTENTION! and -Prospectors <---> New Camp in Colorado. THE BOISE IRON AND REDUCTION WORKS Mining Investor.] A new mining boom is on in ChafThe new camp is fee county, Colo’ known as Badger and is located Are building one and two-stamp quartz mills, stamps weighing either in| 200 the extreme eastern end of the county, on Badger creek in Gribble Park, and is northeast of Salida, which is its nearest railroad station, twenty-five miles bp road. Sixty claims are being developed in the district, and on one of the north slopes now covered with snow float was found recently which assayed twenty ounces in gold. The altitude of Badger is 9500 feet, the climate is fine and free from deep snows. ‘Timber and water are abundant. There are about one hundred men at work prospecting and developThe formation of the district is to all appearance a continuation 506 pounds each, Mill chinery every and Mining Ma- description fur- and Castings much of promise in Bankers EB. S._DEAN and Brokers, $1,000,000, Special nished on short notice. Ali work guaranteed at (‘hicago or Denver prices ‘with freight added. — that the extension of the Centennial: Kureka vein has been encountered. It was the search for this extension that first brought the Grand Central into existence, cd NE JAMES BAXTER. & CO., BOISE, IDAHO. of |ASSOCIATION Incorporated Fall Paid. We Collect and Remit. f/uere. FRANCIS G. LUKE, Gen’! Manager, 118 anp 119 Commurcran No. Capital Raet Double 9, which Friction. : - Saur LAKE of Ore 400 feet per minute. + Bheapet Plat + Mlark eaCrore ron hod Crry. Cc. HoH. SANDERS, AND SS a ts ry PRR Vans " ys an I ; . fi UJ +4 Cascade We Adapted to all Heads from 3 Feetto 2000 Feet Analytical — + Ghemist and Assayer 21 W. Second South St., TDs GASO' INE ENGINES ¢ 35° "Groat sconomy in Salt Lake City. Lock Box 952. Telephone 296. | Our experience of 38 YEARS building Water Wheels en- fag ables us to suit every require- & ment of Water Power Plants. faga We guarantee satisfaction. Send for 2 Pamphlet of either Wheel and write Salt. Lake City. fuel. Mill and mining machinery of every 'description. Joseph W. Wilson, agent of the Great Western Manufacturing Co., 227 South Will sink 500 feet, raise 1200 pounds ATTORNEYS AT Law, ‘Sixth East St. BLOCK. S| the Dickson, Ellis & Ellis, Bldg., ia DEBTS MISCELLANEOUS. 512 to 515 Progress Lp Yi \pRorect ag =" ae | tral mine at Tintic has gladdened the hearts of stockholders who have expended $115,000 in’ searching for the main ore body. The strike is 1,000 feet below the outcrop of the vein, and aecording to reports, the ore valuation is $200 per ton. Ed Loose and Lafayette Holbrook, of Provo, are heavy owners in the property. The latest report from the Grand Central mine in Tintic is to the effect that a body of rich ore, twenty feet thick, has been encountered at a distance of 496 feet from the shaft on the 700 level. This is entirely distinct from the strike of two months ago on the 200 level, and leads to the belief YK COFPIPANY, combination The recent strike in the Grand Cen- ULL Tr new camp, which will from now on demand no small amount of attention from inventors and prospectors. THE G THE MERCHANTS’ of began operation on December 1, 1896, The complications attending the with $500,000 in the pool, closed Jantreatment of some of the taley ores of uary 2, 1897, with a net profit to its Mereur suggest the query: Why has clients of 45 per cent for 30 days, <A the Pelatin-Cleriei process not been at number of Salt Lake and Utah peoleast experimented with. The process ple were made happy. . Write or call The E. S. Dean was especially designed for the treat- for information. ment of taley ores, and where it has Company, Nos. 216-217 Atlas block, been tested, it has met with marked Salt Lake City, Utah. success. & 9 that.of Cripple Creek, being granite, porphyry and quartzite. There is undoubtedly GE /// CM) Price for 1 Stamp Mill, $100. Price for 2 Stamp Mill, $180. ing, and newcomers are arriving every | day. or guaranteed to crush through a 50-mesh ‘screen 100 to 125 pounds of ore per hour. Can be packed on horses into the most inaccessible localities. We —Yyyyjyp ae at very aa wasn’t eh try MISCELLANEOUS. Etc. TO According to the Helena Independent last year was not a bad one for Montana, even if the rest of the coun- The Gemini mine at Eureka has added a night shift to its ferce, for the first time sinee the slump of 793.’ The output of the Scofield and MACHINERY, GFNOHdA TIL Montana’s 13 ‘sSury 9244 4—021 UTAH. ARGUS. ‘HINO 7% ISGMC9 THE full particulars. — D ames Leffel& Co. . SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, U.S.A. [ig | |
