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Show THE ARGUS. rates. 15 niNiNa outlook in Colorado. save. 0f men. The discoverer of La Fortuna nuggets are common I The mines of Colorado are booming, and the largest feund is worth $23. The following list of transportation was in the frenzy of delirium tremens rates on ore, bullion and concentrates and he afterward admitted that if he according to the Denver Mining But the product brings only $14.20 from all important shipping points in had been in his right mind he Record. Their gold production for an ounce, there being some silver in Idaho and Utah to all western smel- - wouldnt have been in that neighbor- - the past three months of 1897, as it. Here the gold is worth $19 an computed by the United States mint ounce. ters is officially and absolutely cor- - hood looking for gold. in Denver, amounted to $1,556,294.57, rect, and is published for the con- AN 0LD P0DUCE I as against $834,007 .86 for the corres- MINING MACHINERY, Etc. venience of ore shippers : the mine old Of the of Shoebridge a in 1896, gain ponding period Nampa and Boise to Salt not exceeding (so per ton, $6 ; valuation over $50 Silver City Star says i The old ongi- - gjcrhty-siper cent. This gain BLUE WELSH SILICA ShoebridKe mine ,than which occasioaed not; only by increased pro- name duction from new discoveries, but there is not a more tion, $10; over 40 per cent, lead $14. To Pueblo, COPPER SMELTING Kansas To in Tintic, was located September 6, from heavv shipments from old same classification, $11.25 and $15.25. City, same classification, $14 and $17. To .1870. Not long after its discovery the properties, made possible by the Omaha, $13 and $17. I cost of treating From Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue to Salt Shoebridge mine was sold to Ohio iso S; not ow R0, people, who organized the Shoebridge jow ores. It is a DOt 6X-TO Q(1 DOt OZC6idlQ $100) $0 I Ihe mine pro- fact that as value decreases permanent ceeding $100 valuation, $11. To Pueblo, $12.25. Mining Company. I duced large quantities of To Omaha, $13. To Kansas City, $14. tonnage increases in a geometric ratio, Trade Mark, Abernant. From Red Rock, Mont, (shipping: pomt for ore from 0f and its discovery thus in minine the is speculative Salmon City) On ores not exceeding $100 vain-I ation To Salt Lake, $8; to Denver, $8; to ne of the first acts of the company steadily becoming eliminated, and a was to build the Shoebridge mill, de- - commercial basis is asserting itself. Pueblo, $8; to Omaha and Kansas city, $8. Imported and for Sale by I signed to work theores from themine. The Kreat Homestake mine at Dead- I ceding $65, $tL To Denver ..me rate. To The plan, however, proved a failure wood, Dakota, ie a familiar example, A. T. CHUR, Sole Agent, .MM ciflcn.wia, l3.,w.i!5. I owing to the base nature of the ore, and the rapidly acquiring prominence To Omaha and hausas Citja $12) $14 and $16 19 Barclay St., New York. mill- - of the U on. not oicdine oo in which was a smelting and not a mineg 0f clear Creek county, Park Citr-Taluation-- To Salt Lake $2; to Denver and ing proposition. The old Shoebridge Qjiojado, is a further evidence. P La.?on ex-- mU1- - 88 U was famdiarly called, was Hence it can be safely stated that the .ua or I run many years, however, as a outlook for mining was nevei so good. ceeding $100 in valuation, $3.50; concentrates, I $4.50; to Denver, ore and concentrates, $12.50; custom mill and turned out many ft a wjth these conditions in mind 4008 of the precious metals. The mill and a knowledge of what you are do-I I was afterward bought by the Ely jng that you should make your future -- To Salt Lake, $2.50; to Denver and Pueblo, $8; to Missouri River points, $io. brothers and operated by them for I investments . Salt Lake, Bingham ($100 valuation)-- To 8eTeral now tom down IS It years. $1.25; to Denver and Pueblo, $9.50; to Micouri NEVADA MINING. and the millsits recently became the Hirer, $11.50. DIE I0I8E IIOI HD IQDGT11I HIU Bates on bullion-Fr- om Salt Lake to Denver, property 0f the Eureka Hill The Gold Creek News speaks of the Mining $10; to Missouri River, $10. Are building one and Ihe hoe bridge mine marvelous richness of the Van Duzer (These rates include switching charges at Company. quartz mills, Utah common points, including produced a large quantity of native placers of Nevada and remarks that samplers.) stamps weighing either 200 or 500 pounds each, DenTOr Pnebl Wi coPPer ore, being pure metallic cop- - it seems incredible that after all the to crush guaranteed screen a through per. Specimens 3ent to the Centen- - mad search for gold in the past half 100 to 125 pounds of ore per hour. Can be packed nial exposition in 1876 captured the century that ground should still be on horses into the most I valuable to inaccessible localities. in will that $200 found several For Arizona developments. gold yield prizes. years The gold discoveries in Arizona the Shoebridge enjoyed the distinc- - the cubic yard. Yet this is the fact Price for i Stamp Mill, $ioo. and an two or three months tion of being the deepest mine in the at Gold Creek, output equally during the past Price for a Stamp Mill, $180. have been phenomenal. Yuma is a district, the shaft being down then to as good has been made at Van Duzer Mill and Mining Machinery and Castings of busy scene of enterprise and excite-- the remarkable depth of 300 feet, on the Gold Creek mineral belt 16 furevery description notice. Bhort on nished believe this ment. Ore in the vicinity runs from Like other early producers of the Sil- miles west. No one can All work guaranteed at Chicago or Denver prices $1000 to $3000 per ton. A half- - ver City end of the district it was re- - unless he sees the gold or has evi-with freight added. million dollars is the offer just made garded as played out and aban- - dence equally as strong. It is mostly JAMES BAXTER & CO., for the Gleason mine. Immense de- - doned in 1878. It was relocated as coarse and pieces of quartz are stil posits are reported where the dirt all the Bonanza in 1879, and to prove the sticking to it. But there is much fine BOISE, IDAHO. to made was no of t that play-ouis dollar worth a a the attempt gold pound, fallacy through theory North of Yuma there is as much ex- - produced over $5000 profit in sinking eitement as in the days of the Cali- - a new shaft 125 feet. Recorder C. H. fornia fever. South of Yuma pros- - Blanchard bought the mine for Mrs. peering is more recent. In the C. B. Houghton in 1882, and the Hustlers Rest mine the shovels property was taken and incorporated literally sparkle with gold, and the under a lease and bond by the Shoe- Adopted to ait Heads from estivalue of samples pounded up was Mining Company, 3 Feet to 2000 Feet mated variously at from $500 to $3000 April 1, 1896, together with two adja- cent locations owned by Mrs. C. H. Our experience of 33 YEARS per ton. building Water wheels enThe Tombstone Prospector says Blanchard. The latter company took ables us to suit every requirement of Water Power Plants. that most of the rich finds in Arizona up the bond the first of the present We guarantee satisfaction. are discovered by accident. Speaking month and now has a clear title to the Bend for a Pamphlet of either Wheel and writs of the discovery of the Lost French- - property. Extensive development is tall particulars. man in Yuma county by Eichel- - now in progress and the mine gives James Loffel & Go. berger, a party of prospectors camped promise of equaling or excelling its one night on the very ground where past record, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO . U.S.L thestrike was made. The members of the party console themselves by the observation that nobody but an infernal fool would think of looking for gold in such an unlikely locality. But it is in such localities that all the great strikes in Arizona have been made, and almost without exception they have been accidents. The late discovery, the Pearce mine, has been tramped over by prospectors since Co., lept 8, white men first came into the country, 121 Main St., and La Fortuna lay on the old Sonora road traveled for years by thousands ORB AND BULLION Ten-doll- 1 1 ar I Lake-Valua- tion 1 I x I I I ..I I steadily-decreasin- g Lake-Valoa- tion I gde I I well-know- n Fire Brick high-grad- e 1 I On MWoM-To1- 1 fr I $100 Stuop (QilL SkoMnotiWlaUM - HI! 1 I two-stam- I I p Sl'lLitum10 50-me- I bridge-Bonanz- a 6,000 WHEELS NOW RUNNING. Pelton Waterwheel San Francis |