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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N leus of MINING REVIEW. of the Geyser mine, covery of the largest urday yet uncovered It is foundanthirty to and all of average tl?e Qamps. UTAH. reports the dis- body of ore Satin that ground. forty feet thick, grade. Summit County. Tooele County. Correspondence Mining Review. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining1 Review. Mercur, Jan. 5- Ninety locations were filed with the recorder of Camp at Mercur on Floyd mining district lead one to January 1st. This would In force. out think that jumpers were little illegal In fact, there was very of claims owners locating done. The nagave it out that no workso ofthethat gentleture would be tolerated, fire in a a around men who prospect find a to one saloon and wait for some a little shy on trying good thing, werescheme of jumping. their blackmail of The owners of the Herschel group on mines have decided to erect a mill their property. The Sacramento expects its machinwhen ery about the 7th of this month, workof it will commence the long job propering out one of the largest gold ties in the world. n mining Will Griffiths, the the for Mercur in past man, has been in interest ten days looking after his He the Segregated Mining company. reports the property looking well. So far there has been but little workofdone, the but the assays at the bottom value. shaft show good F. J. Leonard and associates have started work on the Golden Seal group between the Brickyard and Hecla, J. C. Conklin and J. K. Gillespie have a force of men at work on the Omaha group. This property shows amount unusually well for the small of work which has been done. The Geyser mill continues to grind out about fifty tons of ore per day. The values must be good if the broad smiles you can seen on the faces of the owners can be relied on. F. P. Goddard of the R. G. Western came down from Salt Lake last week to look after his Alta group of five claims. He is highly pleased with his property. W. H. Lett was in the camp last week. Will thinks he will devote the balance of his working days to the mining business. Frank Harrigan was a recent caller in Mercur. n inH. B. Windsor, the office in surance man, has opened an inMercur, and is looking after his creasing business here. The addition to the Mercur hotel will be finished in a few days. That, with the new Boley house and Perry Ansons new hotel, will give Mercur first-clahotel accommodations. R. J. Morris is in Mercur looking for - well-know- 26-fo- ot well-know- ss a new Golden Gate. company are playing in their usual luck. They nave struck the cinnabar ore, just over the silver vein. Rather a new departure for Mercur. This will probably extheories. plode some old and well-wor- n on the La Cigale Development work is in progress. C. H. Scheu, the owner, has great confidence in the property, and expects soon to show up a bonanza. A more promising property has never been discovered in the neighborhood of Mercur than the Cedar Hill, owned by Col. E. A. Wall, and located in the foothills northwest of Mercur, near Rush valley. The Colonel has a twenty-five foot vein of ore which will aver$8. He may decide to build a mill age in the near future. Mercur Mercury: The Miners union have elected the following officers: President, Henry Montfort; Joseph Hanson; financial secretary, V. S. Bambaziand; recording secretary, J. C. Clayton. Gries and others have secured a bond on the Hal, Don and Flo, owned by G. A. Duncan, and located in the northern part of camp. A contract for a shaft to cost $500 was let Monday thereon. H. N. Benner, who now has charge The Marion Mining vice-preside- nt, Park City, Utah, Jan. 5. Park City has long been noted for its steady, onward march rather than for its booms and unexpected strikes of fabulous richness. The Ontario Silver Mining company employes at its mines 308 men, paying them $25,000 per month. About 25 per cent of the men employed are doing development work on the property. The Ontario mill, working exclusively on the Ontario ore, employes sixty-si- x men, with a monthly pay-ro- ll of $6000. At the Ontario drain tunnel fifty men are employed and receive about $4500 per month. The tunnel is now being pushed forward from the Ontario mine to the Daly mine, and when completed will drain those mines at great depth. The Daly Mining company employs. 209 men, paying them $17,000 per month. About the same percentage is here employed in development work as in the Ontario. The Marsac mill, owned by the Daly Mining company, and working exclusively on the Daly ore, employs an average of sixty-seve- n men, and has a ll pay-ro$6000. of monthly The Silver King Mining company employs 180 men, paying them the sum of $13,500 per month. Two-fiftof the men here employed are engaged in doing development work. This is the mine in the only dividend-payin- g at present, paying its stockholders camp0 per month. Nearly all of its stockholders are residents of Utah. The Anchor Mining company employs 103 men at the mine, paying of monthly to them $8000. One-thir- d the men employed at the mine are doing development work. The Anchor concentrator, owned by the Anchor Mining company and working on Anchor ore, employs twenty-thre- e men, with a monthly pay-ro- ll of hs $37,-50- $1500. The Daly-We- st Mining company eme sixty-fivploys men, and has a monthof $6000. The force is used ly pay-ro- ll in development of the ore bodies and in extracting the ore. The Morgan Mining company emmen, and has a ploys twenty-fiv- e of $2000. This force monthly pay-ro- ll is employed in further development of the ore bodies and extracting ore. The Crescent Mining companys property is now worked only by leasers to a limited extent. About twenty to twenty-fiv- e men are employed on the property, and the pay-ro- ll amounts to from $1800 to $2000. The Alliance Mining company employs about twenty-fiv- e men, them about $2000 per month. paying This force is employed in development work. The Lucky Bill Mining company is employing about sixteen men in the development of its property, and pays them about $1400 per month. The Crown Point Mining company employs five men at present in the development of its property, and has a of about $450. monthly pay-ro- ll The Creole Mining company employs about five men, used for the development of its property, and has a monthof about $400. Some ore is ly pay-ro- ll out of this property. taken being No work is now being done on the Bogan Mining companys property. The Woodside Mining companys property is now being worked by a force of about fifteen men, about $1200 per month. This receiving force is used entirely in development work. At the Putnam Mining companys property Col. William M. Ferry is working a force of five or six men. Col. Ferry is working the property under a lease from the company. The Ontario, Daly, Silver King, AnAlliance and Morgan chor, Daly-Wes- t, mines are perfectly equipped so far as modern machinery is concerned. Park Record: The Silver Kings new is now completed, and the ore-hou- se 7 new addition just doubles the com- making it panys storage capacity, 500. 1000 im- Like all the tons instead of provements about that property, it is most substantial in every respect. The massive timbers to be used in the construction of the new hoist for the Morgan mine arrived from Puget sound on Tuesdays Union Pacific train. The dimensions of the two largest ones are 16x16 inches and fifty-si- x feet long. The others are of the same girth but not quite so long. acMining-claijumping was not as exwas tively indulged in this year as pected, especially in Uintah district. A few remote properties upon which the assessment work was not done were relocated, but no sensational collisions In Snake Creek a have developed. of relocations have been number large m made, but a majority of these were also by the original claimants. Fred Flindt returned from Mercur Thursday morning, whither he had been for eight or ten days looking after the interests of his mining property there. With John Bogan and William Brown, Mr. Flindt is owner of the Keystone group, embracing fourteen full claims which adjoins the sensational Sunshine property. Work on the Keystone group is being prosecuted with considerable vigor, and the prospects for its developing into a good mine are considered most flatterMr. Scarcely a day passes, ing. Flindt says, without some pay ore being uncovered in some of the numerous properties being developed in the great camp. The entire district seems to be honey-combe- d with rich deposits, and the year 1896 will undoubtedly give Mercur a foremost place among the great gold-produci- areas ng world. of the ORE SHIPMENTS. Following are the ore shipments from the Mackintosh sampler for the present week: Pounds. Silver King 652,900 Anchor concentrates 374,360 West concentrates 47,860 Daly first-claWest 75,400 Daly ss Total 1.150,520 Park City Patriot: The electric plant is one of the many late improvements added to the Silver King mine. The shaft-hous- e, dump, bunk-room- s, kitchen, office and dining-room- s are all lighted by electricity. A cluster of lights of power makes the dump as light by night as by day. The Anchor concentrator is now working a day shift only. It is expected that another shift will be put on in a week or two. Work is entirely suspended on the Alliance for the present. It is rumored, however, that work will be resumed soon after the Eastern stockholders hold a meeting at Salt Lake. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Silver King, the only dividend-payin- g mine in Park City, 6000-cand- 175-cand- le le will be held in the companys office Park City next Monday. at Juab County. TINTIC DISTRICT. There is no singe locality in this country where mining for the precious metals upon an extensive scale is carried on, that has been so devoid of all those speculative conditions that make mining a gamble and uncertainty, as Tintic mining district. From the first discovery of minerals in this great auriferous zone to the present time, there has never been the ripple of a boom that has not had behind it the intrinsic value of merit and stability. In other words, this district has not been an inflated paper balloon, but a monument of the precious metals. A history of the district would be a well-fille- d volume of financial successes; its vast mineral production would more than ransom a |