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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- that journal an extended account of a recent salt storm along the Union Pacific railway in Utah and western deposited twenty-seve- n Wyoming, which tons of salt at Almy, and covered telegraph poles, trees, buildings and fences with a thick coating. The correspondent sagely offers the theory that the salt was raised in vapor over and was carried by the Salt wind and deposited over the country. liaising salt by the vapor method may strike scientists as being rather odd, but the fact is that it was not salt, but alkali dust from the desert, that was carried over the counry by this storm, and these alkali storms are not of such infrequent occurence as to be deemed worthy of comment. The Gold Mining Exchange of San Francisco announced itself ready for business last week. Its mission is to promote the development and sale of mining properties, and to protect the the seller, from the buyer, as well as mine-ownThe is repromoter. to pay a listing fee of $20, pay quired for an expert examination, and shall enter into a bond, option or agreement to deliver such property to investors upon such terms as may have been agreed upon. The exchange will exact a commission, the rate of which has not been determined, for consummating a sale. A member of the exchange making the sale is to be given one-ha- lf of this commission and a nonmember one-thirIt may be that this will out some proshut organization moters, but it looks like an organization of promoters to promote promotion. The London Mining World thinks that the Rand will be producing per annum within five years time, and comments upon conditions in South. Africa as follows: At a time of depression like the present, it may be useful to recall what the Rand has done. Its mines have produced since 1887, when the first crushings took 8,800,000 ounces, valued at place, I-a- ke er d. $100,-000,0- 30,-800,0- The annual average 00 00. produc- tion for the last two years may be taken roughly at over 2,000,000 ounces, valued at nearly 8,000,000, but this is nothing to what will take place, if we are allowed to work in peace and under normal conditions, in the near future. Already, we may expect an increase of the stamping power by 2285 stamps, and this is not including the 100 stamps apiece which it is believed the Crown, Langlaagte, Jumpers, Robinson, Nourse and Rose Deeps will shortly erect, which will add 600 more. All these stamps are of the heavier pattern, capable of crushing four and one-ha- lf tons a day; in fact, all anticipations lead to the belief that in five or six years time 7000 to 8000 stamps should be crushing 1,000,000 tons a month, producing 400,000 to 500,000 ounces, or 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 ounces per annum, and having a value of tween 17,500,000 and 20,000,000 be- per A close observer remarked the other day that there are now more men at work in the mines and more money is being distributed among local stockholders, in the shape of dividends, than ever before in the history of Utah mining. These are facts, and this condition of the mining industry will bring prosperity to the whole State during the coming season. MINING REVIEW. N jsfeus of tl?e The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of merit coming from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. The Mining Review, published at Salt Lake, is becoming one of the best class journals published in the mining interests. It should receive a hearty support from all engaged in the mining industry. He Lamar (Ida.) Nugget. Evidence of the prosperity of Eureka is furnished by the enterprise of the Democrat, which now issues a semiweekly edition, and a very live edition, too. feet of low grade ore, but are going after the main body. The Sacramento cyanide process mill was started up during the week, making the fifth plant in operation in the district. Manager Bamberger of the Searchlight has decided to sink a main working shaft. Considerable development work will be done on claims in Skull valley that UTAH. show ore similar to that of Mercur, assaying as high as $10. A shaft 100 feet deep is to be sunk on the Golden Era, Tooele County. and the same company will also sink CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. on the Columbia group, in Little valley. The Skull valley company will Correspondence Mining Review. also develop its property and the IndeMercur, Feb. 23. The Sacramento pendence 100 feet mill was started up for the first time of work. has let a contract for last Friday. The owners will now The Clay Canyon company has let a commence receiving returns for their contract for 100 feet of shaft. work. The discovery of cinnabar ore in the The Badger continues to show good Free Coinage district, west of Grants-villvalues. This is only one of many propwas during. the week.im-If erties in the western foothills that the reportsreported are true, this is a most will become dividend-payer- s. portant discovery, demonstratingoverthea Travel on the Mercur railroad con- extent of the Camp Floyd belt tinues heavy, and on the train out Sun- vast area. day morning there were over forty pasThe Eagle company has ordered from sengers, among them being Capt. Mc- Kansas City a twenty horse-powFarland and Lieut. Castle of Fort hoisting engine and thirty horse-powDouglas, W. V. Rice, Col. Woodrow boiler, and the machinery will be in and R. G. Legg, who came out to ex- operation by the middle of April. pert the Utica; Joseph Lippman, C. L. The great Sunshine vein is said to Gilson and wife, Frank Kimball, J. W. have been encountered in the Red Myers and Joseph McGregor of the Cloud, at a depth of 280 feet Should Utah Central. developments meet expectations a mill Miners in the Mercur mine claim they will be erected. are working in a twelve-fovein that contains free gold. Juab County. The Monte Cristo will let a contract TINTIC DISTRICT. for another hundred feet this week. The Eureka Democrat reports the disThe Mercur opera-hous- e was opened to the public Saturday night by the covery, in Homansville canyon, about Miners union ball. About 400 attended five miles east of Eureka, of ore that ounces in silver and and they all report a good time. assays forty-eigW. I. Higgins, who was in Salt Lake $3111.60 in gold. The vein is two feet last week, has returned to the camp. wide at a depth of eight feet and the He will soon start work on the Gold discovery is said to have been made Channel group, near the Mercur. by Martin Davis, a peddler. The vein The Golden Seal is still working in is in a granite formation. The discovthe black shale, and is down about 120 ery caused excitement and a stampede from Eureka and that region has been feet. Col. Wall reports the Brickyard look- covered with locations. Eureka Democrat: The heavy tim- ing well. bes for the battery extension at the S. F. Hunt and associates are workEureka Hill mill are being delivered ing the Zenobia group, in the west foot- from the cars and placed as fast as can hill country. Their prospects for a mine force of carpenters. are good. They have two veins. One be done by a large 100 stamps will require to The increase carries arsenical iron ores and the an addition of six amalgamating pans other a brown quartz that looks good. and six Frue vanners. The present Several parties are figuring on put- Comet crusher has a capacity of 900 in diamond drills. This would be tons and no further addition ting of crusha first-claway to prospect the Mer- ing power will be required to make this cur country. most comC. M. McEntire reports several sales plant one of the largest and combination milling plants in the of real estate and mining prospects the plete State. past week. A new and important strike of high-grad- e Artie Warren, Justice of the Peace in chloride ore has just been made Ophir, has several good properties. He on the 900 of the Gemini; its full exis working on the west side. tent has not yet been proven but is Prospectors in the foothills around known to be very large. The main g shaft is the Mercur mill are bringing in being sunk to the 1000 level Some show values and ore reserves there will be blocked samples. that are exceedingly encouraging. out. This latest development recalls G. C. Charlton, who is now in Mercur to mind the declaration of an eminent looking after investments, is well mineralogist who examined some of the known in Salt Lake. His many friends principal mines of the district some two will be glad to hear that he has almost vears ago. He said, I have here seen the largest bodies of oxydized ores at quit kicking. Jack Thompson was out last week great depth I have ever encountered, and I believe they are the deepest ever looking over his many interests. yet found. An important strike in the Norway Mercur Miner: The Badger group mine was made yesterday in the face of owned by Hughes and Carter and the west drift, 150 feet from the bottom bonded to P. J. Carny & Co. will un- of the working shaft. A small Ascave, about 2x4 feet in dimensions, was doubtedly become a gold bonanza. a taken from says ledge give broken into which is surrounded by a an average value of $18 per ton. The well mineralized iron and carbonate owners are excited and more than will- formation that from appearance should ing to take stock in payment for the yield well in gold, silver, lead and copper. A drift has also been run to the property. The Gold Point Mining company of south 1G5 feet and a winz sunk eighty Utah county are contemplating sink- feet from that point, showing a good ing a development shaft on their prop- vein all the way down. The shaft is a single compartment with manerty in the near future. Canof the General Manager Quealy way, well timbered from top to bottom non property is drawing plans for the and equipped with a Davis whim. erection of a $5000 hoisting plant. Nearly due east from the present workOld Fred people ing shaft, is what is known as the old Sunshine Sun: The are working two shifts right along, and Norway shaft which is down 100 feet. feet from the the indications are most encouraging, At a point sixty-fiv- e a been surface run fifty drift has but they wont give anything away just to the feet north have through quartzy mat- passed through forty yet. They e, er er ot ht ss good-lookin- 270-fo- ot 50-fo- Inter-Mounta- in amps. 7 ot |