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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- eus of ,tye N quarters of the district comes intelligence of a cheerful character. 5amps. There are now five cyanide reduction plants in the Camp Floyd mining disThe Review desires reliable correspond- trict, with a capacity for the treatment ence from every 'mining camp In Utah, of between 700 and 800 tons of ore per of twenty-fou- r hours. It is safe Idaho and Nevada, and will give publi- day to predict that within a year the numcation to any news items of merit coming ber of mills will be doubled, and a corfrom a trustworthy source. Liberal comresponding increase of capacity be witon be nessed. will subscriptions. missions paid Sunshine Sun: Mr. J. B. Walden has secured a bond on seventeen claims UTAH. lying east of the property of the Camp Floyd Mining company at Five Mile Pass, and the work of developing them Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Mercur, Utah, March 11. J. W. Corey, the principal stockholder and manager of the Gladstone, is in Mercur. Mr. Corey reports the' Gladstone looking well. They are at present sinking a shaft' and are now down about 100 feet. Other workings On the property show the presence of a large amount feet. It has gone through the water and will hereafter have a better show to work. F. J. Leonard claims the Hecla to be one of the greatest properties in Mercur. The Seals are working steadily, with 232 no material change in-- the last few days. The Sacramento mill will start now , a few days. Unavoidable accidents have delayed them for some time. J. C.. Wilcox, proprietor of the Opera-hous- e and Opera House Sample room, was in Salt Lake the first, of the week. Mr. Wilcox is the kind of men we like to welcome to Mercur. Enterprising business men are what we mantj and he is one of this kind. The news that Capt. J. It. De Lamar contemplates building a mill of 1000 ton daily capacity on the Golden Gate was received in Mercur with pleasure. We hope work will socin be commenced. J. M. Davis was in Mercur last week. Jack, is undoubtedly on the sunny in T. T. .McNary, a from Hailey, Ida., has been in., Mercur for ;some time lookMr. over situation.. the ing McNary has several, friends in Montana and Idaho who - are waiting for his opinion .before placing capital in Mercur. He' assures us that his report will be iii favor of Mercur and that - . large transactions may be looked for in the near future. some, . ill-luc- k, ur rs - wh,Siei-'?-Ci7,nu,nsurae-wl- Lamb and Blackett Bros., after many have at last beeii years of awarded their hearts desire a gold mine. They have several claims each, and the following assay, taken from the Republican mine, owned by them, will give an estimate of the bonanza which they have struck, the vein only being will be energetically prosecuted. to the extent of about twenty-fIt is safe to say there will be 3000 developed ive feet: Gold, $5; lead, 24 per cent; men in Sunshine and vicinity in six copper, 30 per cent. The January, months from now, judging from the owned by the same parties, runs about rate of arrivals at present. the same. The Searchlight .people are pushing right on through the lime rock formaSummit County. tion they have run up against, and are Park City Record: The Bogan Silver prepared to sink 250 feet further to reach the ore body. Mining company expects to begin active operations Monday next.- Teams C. M. McEntire has sold the Black have been busy this week laying in Horse group in Rush valley to C. L. supplies of all kinds, and preparing for Dignowitz of San Antonio, Tex., for an active campaign. The first work will be to clear the shaft of water, and $8000.' A strike of $24 gold and silver ore tanking will be the order of the day. is 'reported in the Crown group on Lion Mr. Bogan expects to be ready and behill. gin sinking not later than' the middle The threatened litigation between of next week. The trouble recently encountered Captain De Lamar and the Brickyard company, over the Viking ground, has from water in the old Daly has been been averted by. a -- compromise and overcome, and work is progressing settlement out of court. The interests without interruption. Something like are. consolidated and the. Golden Gate 200 cars of ore per day is being raised workings will be extended to the from the old shaft, and all danger of a shortage of ore at the Marsac mill Brickyard ground. The Mercur Gold Dust company is is a thing of. the past. The Ontario drain tunnel is now 1800 sinking two shafts, one of which has reached a depth of 128 feet and the feet west of Ontario No. 3 shaft, and other thirty-fiv- e feet, they being lo- is being rushed as rapidly as possible. 2200 The big snpw-storof the present cated feet apart. The main shaft week has passed through one ore stratum repaired the roads and put things and the other is now in the same in good shape, for several weeks to mineralized vein, wThich shows very come. Full weight can now be hauled both ways. fair values. A genuine gold excitment is promised for Park City as soon as the. snow Is Juab County. gone sufficiently to allow riding over TINTIC DISTRICT. the hills. The find promises to develop Tintic Miner: Shipments from the into something important. The Anchor concentrator put on a district for the past week are reported as follows: From the Bullion-Bec- k mine night shift again Monday night, and concentrates are being turned out at 30 carloads ore, from the Bullion-Bec- k mill 15 carloads concentrates, from, the the old rate of speed, as the shipments Centennial-Eurek- a 6 carloads ore, from for the present week, plainly show. 8 the Eureka Hill mill carloads ore, Following are the ore shipments from from the Mammoth mill 14 carloads the Mackintosh sampler for the pres concentrates, from the. Ajax 6 carloads ent week: 863,100 ore, from the Swansea 4 carloads ore, Silver King 440,580 from the North Star 2 carloads ore, Anchor concentrates 1 concentrates. West aces 311,890 carload ore, from Waly from the four first-cla20 West ore. 273,980 mine iron Daly carloads the'.Dragon The Four Aces shipped a carload of Total first grade ore this week and we be....1,889,450 Park City Patriot: The new ten lieve this only a forerunner of a long horse-power line of shipments. The proposition of engine ordered some time back the for Cumberland has arrived the erection of a new steam hoist on the property is being considered and it and will be put in place as soon as is regarded as certain that the company possible. The Cumberland managewill make the improvement. We un- ment, following the good example of derstand that the interests of the out- the Silver King, the monarch of the side owners which were held under a camp, has inaugurated the eight-holease have been purchased and the system, and put three shifts to work: the stuff. Other mines wont property is now owned solely by the Thats lose a dollar Aces Four by that plan if they do Mining company. We look likewise. for a brilliant record to be made this summer. Prof. Marcus E. Jones is in town inSalt Lake County. vestigating the Swansea mine, with WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. the view of its preparation for the new hoist. B. J. Ste Bingham Bulletin: Men are at work digging the trench phens is work doing development for the water pipe to be laid from Sil-- ; on the Alls opposite Rogver City to the Swansea mine, and it erss mill. He Well, intends running the will not be many days ere the new long tunnel ahead to tap another vein, whistle at the mine will be heard in which ore near the surface produced the land. As this is largely a Rio that went 37 cent per copper. This is Grande Western property, it is to be the old Hickman and suphoped that Superintendent Hatfield will posed to be on the property, mother copper vein have a chime whistle at the mine. of The tunnel has Bingham. M. J. Wheeler has cut one already Eureka Democrat: vein 20 feet wide, in decom-ixse- d one-ha- lf in South interest a the bought granite shot through with native Swansea mine at Silver City from and copper pyrites. We underThomas Croxall. consideration not copper stand Croxall and Wheeler right parties can get a lease on made public. this property. have been working the property conThe or more, and some Bulletin reporter this week saw jointly, for the past year ore found in small kidneys in the have done a large amount of underThey also Juila S. tunnel at the head of Carr ground development work. 300 over tons of Fork proper, which assays over 2000 marketed something ore during that time that netted them ounces' silver and 62 per cent lead. something over $20 per ton. The mine As the owners are too poor to work was recently equipp.ed with a new the claim, it being necessary to sink, ss Mercur Miner: At no time within the history of the district have developments been more extensive or satisfactory .than during the past seven days. At the great producers of the camp the tonnage of the output has exceeded that of any former period since the inception of work. The capacity of the mills at this juncture is not equal to the daily production of the bonanzas, and further expansion of reduction facilities will be witnessed in the near future. The inadequacy of milling advantages may be ascribed as the reason for there being no marked additional increase to the working forces of leading mines, although quite a number of miners have found emon the outployment with claim-owneside, who are awakening to the importance of opening up their prospects. The recorders office continues to do a wholesale business. Claims to the of 176 wfrre placed on record during the week. The ' weather in the main been and the staking or Claims propitious, has gone on with increased celerity. The notaries and- aSsayers nave been fully occupied. A great njany small sales of partial interests claims are reported, and some trans- bnffnitude are also of record, the transfers of the South ieJ.er and Germ 0- properties to com- standing, who give on. ?- 9mmon.cing operations properties at an early day in a the known .b .in of the mines, in fact, from .all as-tv.N?n- line with the rest of the promising gold mining districts of Utah. One year ago four gentlemen, S. M. Read, F. W. . well known mining . MT. NEBO DISTRICT, Nephi Times: Mt. Nebo district is in m side of easy street for the Annie is a man ord. . . great property. whim and is looked upon as a .good property and one that will make a rec- - of ore and no doubt the Gladstone will be a payer in a short time. The Hecla shaft is down 7 MINING REVIEW. cp . . : , |