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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. Golden Gate will can make a better showing of partially-develope- d mines. employ a great many people when its n Tom Mercur is doing the best possiKearns is mill completed; the will more than double its ble at the Woodside. The shaft is beThe Review desires reliable correspond- company force when its second mill is com- ing sunk in blue quartzite. Kearns ence from every mining camp in Utah, pleted; the Sacramento will employ a says it is the hardest rock he has ever Idaho and Nevada, and will give publi- good force, and it is almost ready to encountered, and that the "Woodside is cation to any news items of merit coming start on its trial run; it is fair to pre- a dead hard game anyway," but he is sume that the Geyser will Increase Its going to stick to it awhile yet from a trustworthy source. Liberal Pounds. output; that the Rover will commence Silver Shipments. will be paid on subscriptions. to build when springtime comes, and AnchorKing 899,390 concentrates 320 670 now other that contemplated plants Daly-We- st concentrates 150 340 UTAH. We believe the arcoe tailings will be constructed. 43)610. estimate as to population is very con Jfeus of people byr July 1st. tl?e 5amps. 500-to- com-missio- ns servative. Sunshine Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Sun: Hudson & Stombel have just completed their contract for 100 feet of shaft on the Free Policy group, and the owners are so well pleased with the showing made that another contract will probably be let to the same parties. The Free Policy consists of a group of seven claims and is owned by Louis Bamberger, Louis Schweitzer, James Johnson, Mr. Fitz hugh and Ben Hoge. While Graham was excavating the foundation for his bakery on a lot purchased of the Red Cloud, he ran into a body of ore that goes $2 In gold. And now he can get his money back for the lot too quick if he wants it. Of course Graham only bought the surface; but it isnt everywhere that a man can run a bakery on top of a gold mine. The bakery is just next door to the Sun of Total 980 Park Record: Messrs. Bunce & 1,413 are pushing work on the old Barry Tidal Wave property on Rebellion hill, now owned by the Crescent company and upon which they have a lease. They are drifting upon the vein from the formerly belonged to the Cannon combottom of a forty-fopany. Mr. Qualey obtained an interest shaft, the same in the property and will sink for the four feet wide and carrying being fully a two-fopay ore he will surely find. The Old streak of ore that shows Grover joins the Golden Gate on the ounces in silver and 45 per cent eighty east. lead. Ore is being piled on the dump Presnell & Dodson have opened up a and a quite handsome rapidly shipment fine prospect southwest of the Sunwill be made In the near future. The shine, which shows good values. on the Crescent have been leasers very The Eagle has struck arsenical ore fortunate in bodies finding of strong This is encouraging for owners of prop ore during the past fall and presgood ertles northwest of Mercur. Several ent winter, and good money will be claim-ownehave been watching the made by them. Eagle work with considerable interest, Park City Patriot: West Dalys mill and now are feeling good. The first has been working successfully one shift intimation of arsenic was on Saturday a day every day this week. Satisfied afternoon. Late in the evening Mr. flee. Clark brought several samples of the There has been some talk of making with its results, Superintendent John ore to Maynes assay office, where in- a new mining district of the country Daly left for Salt Lake Wednesday terested parties called to view the pro- south of and including the mine and afternoon. The new shafthouse, which is being town of Sunshine to the Tintic line, duct from the new bonanza. Two shifts are steadily working try- and a meeting will probably be called constructed over the new shaft at the Morgan, is almost ready for the roof. ing to lower the water in the Hecla to that end in the near future. The weather for work of that kind has shaft. No development work can be arnew until the pump accomplished A steam hoist has been ordered for been remarkably favorable this winter rives, which will be in the next few the Electric Light group. up to the present time. With new days. Ore has been encountered in the shafthouse and new and improved maThe Geysers water troubles are over Utica that assays chinery, the Morgan will soon be in as high as $29. for the present. They started the mill Capt. J. B. Black and D. C. Smith condition to prosecute its work as thoagain Saturday. have bonded the Confederate group of roughly and as expeditiously as any E. P. Sears, the agent for the town-sit- six claims, owned by Joseph Bunker, property in the camp. reports ten lots sold last week. De Witt B. Lowe and J. T. Breckon, Representatives of the majority and Customers are coming In not only for the amount to be paid being $30,000. minority stockholders of the Bogan lots, but for mines and prospects, and The claims are located in the vicinity Mining company have had several conto examine the many incorporated of the East Golden Gate. same ferences this week. A revised and properties, with a view of buying stock. parties have also bonded The the Katie amended proposition was, by request, Mercur hotels are full to overflow- May group of four sent the minority side yesterday by ing. Visitors are advised to look for Sunshine, for $10,000. claims, near the the majority, which it is believed will a room immediately upon their arrival The Old be Fred company, owning accepted, and that an amicable arin town, or night may catch them with claims dethe will be arrived at this afhas adjoining Sunshine, rangement no place to stay. cided to erect a ternoon and machinthe mill, C. H. Tate of St. Louis is now in by which 'work will be speedily will be ordered next ery month. in that property. resumed Mercur sinking a shaft on property A of reore arsenical discovery is about a mile east of the Bonanza in the Rover, tending to show group. He is now down about fifty ported Juab County. ore. feet. He is working now through the the existence of high-grad- e TINTIC DISTRICT. black shale. C. H. Scheu has returned to Mercur, Eureka Democrat: The important Summit County. after a visit of several days in Salt Correspondence Mining news of the week in local mining cirReview. Lake. Mr. Scheu and parties have is the sale of the Sullivan group, cles Park City, Feb. 9. Col. Ferry is taken up the bond on the Hillside, and with a small force on the in- consisting of the Sullivan, Mount Hope, will start to work at once with an in- working in the Putnam group. The show- Paradise and Sixshooter claims, owned creased force of men. Mr. Scheu will clinefor good ore is very flattering. The by J. C. Sullivan, W. R. Wallace, J. also resume work on the La Cigale and ing Bamberger and Dr. Whitney. The reLillian Russell claims in the west foot incline is being run down on the foot-wal- l, puted purchaser is the Grand Central and the vein, which is about five hills. whose property this The owners of the Gold Flake have feet thick, carries some lumps of very Mining company, The ore. The Putnam will yet come ground adjoins. consideration is just let a contract for 100 feet. Their good not made to is but the front. public, supposed to be work to date amounts to an incline 100 y somewhat quarter-centurabove the Work at the Lucky Bill is continued, feet and a shaft fifty feet. They have mark. J. C. Sullivan has bought the the original black shale and will sink and the management claim a promis- balance of interests in the Victoria, ing outlook. in the old shoft. Sharp & Gregor are much encou- adjoining the Eagle. This is also an by the weeks development in important transfer. These, together Mercur Mercury: The first hundred raged their Deer Valley claims. They have with the incorporation of the Peru, lyfeet of work on the Seal was completed a h streak of very ing just north of town, and the Four on Thursday of last week, and the to Aces at Silver, may be taken as the said rock, be carbonate of iron. company at once let the contract for The rumor as to the Crescent start- vanguard of Tintics boom. another hundred feet. It is the ambi- ing seems to have A new mill will soon be erected by been all gossip, as tion of the management to build the is Con. company adjoinnothing being done by that company the Sioux-Uta- h next mill in the district. at present. and ing exactly duplicating their presThe silver ledge of this camp does The usual ent amount of The mill smokestack has work seems to plant. not carry lead, and we do not suppose have been been sent at the Ontario just accomplished a pound was produced by the district. and skyward another twenty Daly. The industrious effort of the feet, making it now 100 feet, and A little was found in the Red Cloud it is papers aiming to assist Mr. said to be the highest stack in the shaft, above the Sunshine, and now a Chambers in the management of these State. vein or deposit of it has been encounhas had no The Grand Central drift run from the effect. tered in the Fairfield group just above properties A great deal of workapparent 300 is being done station is now in 500 feet and getthe Red Cloud, and the peculiar part of are numer of small i. ?n it is that it lays fifty or seventy-fiv- e ting very close to the ore zone. A staIn this camp. In most cases properties tion is being cut on the ownthe feet above the gold vein, while hereto- ers level. are without means exTheir shaft is a for adequate fore the gold vein has been supposed tensive development, and nearly all of with manway, and is set from top to to be the cap sheaf. It is galena, carthem would outside capital, bottom with 8x10 timbers, making it rying a small amount of both silver and most of welcome them can make such a one of the best in this or any other and gold. of ore and showing indications of min- mining section. is It predicted by many that the eral as would warrant a generous outTintic Miner: Shipments from the camp will have a population of 5000 of lay capital. No camp in the State district for the past week are reported Correspondence Mining Review. Mercur, Feb. 9. P. J. Qualey has started work on the old Grover, which rs ot ot e, ten-inc- good-looki- ng 300-fo- double-compartme- nt, ot |