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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS' CLEAN-U- P. Sunshine, in the Camp Floyd district, now has a postoffice and a hotel. The working: shaft of the Horn Silver is to be sunk to the 1700 level. There are eight diamond drills operating: in the Leadville district. Twenty more stamps have been added to the Camas No. 2 mill at Hailey. Over one hundred hydraulic giants are at work in the vicinity of Grants Pass, Or. The January gold yield of the Utica mine, Calaveras .county, Cal., was a little over $800,000. At Mullan, Idaho, the Hunter mine is again running, with about eighty men, making 200 now employed .there. A Bostonian paid $1025 for a seat in the old mining stock exchange at Colorado Springs. MINING REVIEW. N wealth in South Africa that they had best remain in Montana. There are no offerings there, save for the mechanics, and even in this line all places are filled. Mercur is now being pretty thoroughly advertised at Cripple Creek. The Rio Grande Western is distributing thousands of folders and posters and Broker Pollock has sent 2000 pamphlets descriptive of the Camp Floyd gold belt. A company composed of San Diego and Los Angeles parties, which owns 800 acres of placer claims in the Jaca-lito- s district, about ninety. miles south of San Diego, is making arrangements to commence work on a large scale next month. The Westralian gold output for 1895 was 232,591 ounces, valued at $4,397,390. The railway is now thirty-eigmiles from Coolgardie. The Government will spend $500,000 to provide water at different centers in the Coolgardie disht James Bingley, an old Montana pros- trict. pector, was frozen to death near old Blackfoot City. ,M. II. Beardsley, the Rio Grande Western hotel proprietor, has taken a flyer in Camp Floyd mines. During 1895 the Columbus and Ilhodes marshes, Esmeralda county, Nevada, produced 13,4S3,3SO pounds of borax. Bonanza Stratton of Cripple Creek expects to send to market one carload of ore that will sell for a million dol- lars. The Ephraim Enterprise says a number of .promising locations have been made in the mountains west of that town. The Tintic district produced 3,762,000 tons of ore and concentrates during 1895, according to the figures of the Union Pacific. Forty-eigcoal miners were killed in the Vulcan mine, near Newcastle, Colo., last Tuesday by an explosion of gas and coal dust. Cochiti, N. M., is to have a custom mill of forty or fifty stamps, using a new dry process that requires but a barrel of water to the ton of ore. A bill has been introduced in both houses of Congress extending the mineral land laws of the United States to all Indian reservations therein. Australian gold mines are now being worked to a depth of 3000 feet, at which depth the cost of shaft sinking is $50 per foot. Hoisting engines are in use with a capacity of 4000 feet. From $50,000 to $80,000 is the monthly gold yield of the Kennedy mine at Jackson, Amador county, Cal. The ore averages $15; the workings have attained a depth of 2000 feet. The Union Pacific will extend its Mammoth track to the Mammoth mill, a distance of half a mile. A branch will also be run to the Ajax mine. A Shea locomotive will be used. Andrew Scott and Lyman Carter, two miners working in the Utah mine at Mammoth, were seriously injured last Friday by the unexpected explosion of an old charge of dynamite. The President has signed the bill extending the operation of the mineral land laws to the northern half of the ht It is stated that as soon as the Gil- lespie syndicate reaches Bingham with its electric wires, the Dalton and Lark and the Bingham Copper company will operate their properties by electricity, which will result in a great saving in expenses. The famous Last Chance mine, in the Coeur dAlene district, Idaho, has been mortgaged for $400,000 and all the creditors of the company have been paid off. Receiver Clark will continue to manage the property until the mortgage indebtedness is paid. There are immense low-graveins in southern California, alonggold the Colorado river, which are receiving the attention of mining men, and some of the largest mining and milling projects ever undertaken on the American continent are under way. The Ogden Standard says there is a greater demand for teams, wagons, tools, etc., for prospecting outfits than was ever before known in that city, and that it is firmly believed by many that a better district than Camp Floyd lies within twenty miles of town. R. C. Lund of St. George. reports that Nat Wicks and others are sluicing the bars of the Colorado river about miles south of that town, and eighty claim to be taking out about $4 per day per man. The gold has been tested in this city and found to be .732 fine. There are also several dry washers at work and Mr. Lund reports having seen de i $8,725,-606,00- 0. mp de I y, 80-sta- mp 10-sta- mp one nugget that was worth $5.50. The Murdock brothers have been able gold and times are lively. Men working some claims at Soldiers Pass are paid $3 per day. and have just reported a singular exThe interesting case of the Butte perience that occurred to them a few days ago. They had put a shaft down thirty feet and put in a blast. Upon their return they found they had lost the bottom of their shaft, the blast having opened into a cave sixty feet in height, twenty-fiv- e feet wide and of unknown length. The organization of stock mining companies at Cripple Creek is beyond all comprehension, so far as dollars are to be counted. the last week in January thereDuring were organized mining companies there capitalized at the enormous sum of $167,800,000, and the small companies with less than half Colville Indian reservation, Washinga million not reckoned in the sum ton, and hundreds of propectors are total. This weeks kept up for fifty-tw- o rushing into the new gold-field- s. would make the capitalization Superintendent Babcock of the Golden Scepter Mining company proposes The new owners of the Winamuck at to erect a mill at Henry Bingham will be shipping high-grad- e Creek, Montana. It is under consider- ore next month. A station is being ation to build an electric railway from cut at a point in the tunnel, from which the mine to the mill. a will be sunk on the vein. The The Exploration Company of London, oldwinze mill belonging to S. B. Milner has through which many American mines been purchased and will be moved have been placed, has made the an- across the gulch to the Winamuck nouncement that it has no intention of property. Crushers of the capacity of promoting sales of any more such 200 tons per day will be added and the properties at present. will then be in shape to handle plant C. W. Callahan, a the low-gramining engineer product of the mine. from South Africa, has been visiting a suburb of Johannesburg, Viendorp, Butte, Mont., and gives this advice: I was 120 people killed and demolished, am going to Australia and thence to 400 the by explosion of twenty South Africa. I would like to say tonsinjured, of on the 20th inst. The dynamite to anyone anxious to prospect for explosive was loaded on freight cars, I 100-sta- which were standing on a switch, arid the cause of the. explosion will never be known. The effects were appalling, human bodies, as well as houses, being blown into fragments. The dispatches state that the iron axles of the trucks upon which the dynamite was loaded were driven into the hard ground to a depth of twenty feet. Viendorp was inhabited by the poorer classes of whites, Malays, Kaffirs and Chinamen. The Alaska Mining Record says: It will be a near stand-of- f ' between the Yukon and Cooks Inlet this spring as to wiiich receives the largest rush. The Yukon is an old stand-band a country of known wealth in yellow nuggets; Cooks Inlet is a new field, with its wealth in placer ground yet undetermined. The inlet is more easy of access than the Yukon and living is cheaper and the working season longer, hence cheaper gravel can be worked at the same profits. The Dalton and Lark Gold, Silver and Lead Mining and Milling company has been incorporated, with a capital of $2,500,000, and no new company ever started out with more valuable holdings. The property consists of the Dalton and Lark and Lead company consolidated properties, mills, tramway, etc., and the company will rank among the strongest In the State. It is announced that the new' organi-tio- n will inaugurate its career this week by declaring a dividend. The Ophir Northern Light company w'ill increase the force at the mine and develop the property on an extensive scale. They have the Camp Floyd gold vein, in addition to a silver ledge that has produced heavily in the past, and an immense body of gold ore is showrn. Recent assays from the lowrer level of the silver vein show values of $70 in gold and silver, and there are many thousand tons of good concentrating ore on the dump. A large reduction plant will be erected as soon as the best process has been determined. At the North Pole Mining company, Cracker district. Baker county, Or., Superintendent Recknagel proposes to erect an mill. A. Geiser, own- er of the Bonanza mine at Clifford, Or., forty miles from Baker City, Is buying ten stamps to add to his ten stamps now in operation. This mill Is turning out 500 ounces gold per month. At the Red Boy mine, Clifford, Taber & Godfrey propose to put in a mill. At the Ajax, Superintendent Hartsell has added ten stamps. The district is turning out consider- and Boston Mining company .vs. the Lexington company, on trial at Butte, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, The vein apexing on the Lexington ground dipped to the south, under the Butte and Boston ground, w'hile the vein apexing on the Butte and Boston was almost vertical, and wTas intersected by the Lexington vein, but without breaking the continuity of the former. The Lexington company extracted ores from that portion of the Butte and Boston vein lying below' the point of intersection, and a verdict for $125,000 was rendered against it. The new Mining Stock Exchange at New York City was formally opened last Wednesday. A delegation of over 100 Western mining men were present and the ceremonies wrere opened with prayer. Among the speakers was Judge Colborn of this city. Utah stocks have been listed upon this exchange and the following were called the first day: Ajax, Alliance, Anchor, Bullion-Beck, Centennial-Eurek- a Daly-Wes- t, , Daly, Golden East Gate, Eureka Hill, Gey- ser, Horn Silver, Mammoth, Mercur, Marion, Ontario, Silver King and Sunshine. Utah stocks have been called daily upon the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, they having been listed several w'eeks ago through the efforts of Broker James A. Pollock while in New' York. The Omaha correspondent of the Mining and Scientific Press sends to J |