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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW, last Tuesday. to see if the professors can tell seems to have been lege tlie haPPens to be in it. And for the about chiefly purpose this brought to suggest prompts an of speculating in the cheap Cripple that it is now Inexchange order to assay the Creek stocks. bark of a dog. reThe discovery of gold nuggets Is Tests are now being made on a cerof craws ducks marketed the tain class of the Ajax ores, carrying ported in some of Ohio farmer. an lead and silver alone, to determine Probably by were in that long whether they can be handled by the the grangers vicinity in cyanide or leaching process. the circulated and ducks yarn 'on bull market. the to order The Morgan Mining company. Park School State Superintendent Cutting City, has purchased a new doubleof Nevada has voluntarily undertaken drum hoist from Griffiths & Wedge, the task of collecting data concerning Zanesville, O. The plant will be placed Nevada mines, and, with the assistance upon the new shaft at once and the of the county assessors, will prepare property thus put in shape for heavy an accurate record of all the mines in production. the State. The Yellowstone National Park conchange was This re-openi- re-open- ed ng Capt. D.e Lamar has purchased a half interest Jin the Gold Belt pipe line that supplies the Camp Floyd district with water, for $40,000, and the proposed Independent Jine will not be built. The capacity of the system is 250,000 gallons daily. Mrs. A. M. Orcutt of Palmer, Mass., has gone prospecting in the vicinity of Pikes Peak. She is well informed has made some thirty locations and employs eight men to work the assessments. She has sold one claim for $4500. A Black Hills paper says that uranium has been discovered in the Golden Eagle lode, Carbonate camp. The ledge in which it is found is an extensive one, and the gangue has the on minerology! appearance of soapstone. by John F. McLaughlin. It is owned Prospecting for oil has been resumed In the vicinity of Green River, Utah. The search heretofore has not been conducted in a thorough and energetic manner, and it is the opinion of experts that boring will reveal the presence of oil in abundance. One of the most important projects undertaken by any mining company in the northwest is that of the Golden Scepter, at Bonito, Mont. It has demill and cided to erect a construct and equip an electric road five miles long, from the mine to the 100-sta- mp mill. reader of the Review asks for some information concerning the character and value of sylvanite. Sylvanite is composed of tellurium, 55.8 per cent; A gold, 28.5 per cent, and silver, 15.7 per cent. Antimony sometimes replaces part of the tellurium and lead some of the other metals. Denver parties are said to have located, near Green River, Utah, a ledge per cent manganese of iron. This product finds a ready market with iron manufacturers. The Illinois Steel company has closed a contract with Leadville parties for 10,000 tons of manganese ore. At the Montana mining and immigration convention, held at Helena last week, every county except one was represented. Valuable addresses were made on the mineral and other resources, of the State and an executive committee was appointed for raising funds to encourage immigration and the investment of capital. On the Denver Stock Exchange last Friday Blue Jay, a Cripple Creek stock, advanced from 6 to 29 on the report of a strike and- over half a million shares changed hands. The stock slumped back on the following day. Three brokers were unable to meet their obligations and were closed out. Theii liabilities aggregated $44,000. Samuel McIntyre has been temporarily restrained from disposing of a block of 20,000 shares of Ajax stock, the possession of which Mr. and Mrs. John T. Sullivan of Eureka seek to recover through the courts. It is alleged that the stock was placed in McIntyres hands as collateral for a loan of $400, and that the latter refused to surrender it. The Olympian, of Olympia, 'Washington, says that Mr. Finch of that place has discovered gold ill preemptible particles in the bark of a tree, and lias Kent the bark to the agricultural col that carries 68 - tains several bott imless holes," which are, according to geological authorities, dry geysers. Into one of these, known as Hells Back Door, 10,000 feet of line wdth a weight attached has been lowered without touching the bottom. The six claims in the West Mountain district known as the Nast and Benton group have been purchased by the Bingham Copper company. The property is near the Old Jordan and has been a good producer in the past, having paid $80,000 in dividends. Ore extraction has been confined to the level and it ground above the is believed that deeper development will disclose large bodies. A serious labor famine confronts the operators on the Rand and unless a solution of the problem is speedily reached the current year is likely to show a diminished output, instead of the great increase predicted. The Robinson company, the greatest producer in the district, has been forced to shut down its mill on account of the scarcity of labor. It is estimated that the leading companies will within two years require 25,000 to 30,000 men, and another 20,000 within another two years. A local mineralogist declares that San Juan county, Utah, produces the finest garnets in the world. They are rich in color and full of fire and some gems of great size have been found. Mr. H. S. Sault of this city is the possessor of one that weighed nine carets in the rough and cut four carets. Stones of this size, however, are extremely rare. A Bluff City man has gathered a peck of these garnets, and they are worth $1.50 per caret for the smaller stones. The value increasing with the size. Garnets are also found in Skull valley. John F. Forbis and Capt. Thomas Couch have been appointed receivers of the Butte & Boston, Mining company by Judge Knowles, at Missoula. The application was based on two suits, one to foreclose a mortgage given to secure an issue of $1,000,000 bonds, and the other, brought by the Globe National bank of Boston, to recover $10,000. The petition in the latter case recites that the company is insolvent. The property will be sold, and one of the attorneys for the creditors expresses the opinion that nothing will be left for the stockholders. The indebtedness is $3,200,000. The Salt Lake & Pacific Railroad company, with a capital of $2,000,000 will build a road from Salt Lake City through the Deep Creek country, to Muncie, Nov., and the grading will be commenced within sixty days. The Utah & California company, with a will build from capital of $5,010,000, Los Both roads to Lake Angeles. Salt mineral rich will open up regions that will become tributary to Salt Lake. The only way of measuring the ore bodies of Mercur, says Col. Nick is by the acre; in any other country it is done by the foot. There will be some very important developments in the district the present year, and I expect to see eight or ten big to the list at an early producers added in saying day. I have no hesitation to was allowed I Mercur at that while will enter mines that in another1000year tons a be capable of putting out reason no is why there day, and theremore of the same magnishould not be in as mill is the wanted is tude. What 400-fo- ot Tre-wee- k, 7 close proximity with the mines as is possible to get it, for every cent that is saved in the handling of the ores of Mercur is a cent In favor of permanent and rapid growth. The Creole company at Park City, is preparing to do some extensive development work during the present season. A new steam hoist is to be purchased, and the shaft will be sunk 200 feet deeper, to cut the ledge at a vertical depth of 320 feet. This property lies near the Silver King, and is said to be upon the same ore zone. It has been a good shipper in the past and recent shipments have netted $300 per ton. An eight-fovein has been developed by a shaft 120 feet deep and 800 feet of drifts. A block of 50,000 shares of the treasury stock has just been sold to F. B. Cook & Co. of this city, and the proceeds will be used for development purposes. It is believed that intelligent exploration will place the Creole in the list of steady producers. Hon. C. D. McClure of Montana, In an Interview with a Butte reporter, paid this tribute to Utah mines and miners: The people of Utah are much more progressive than those I find In Montana. If a man has anything there he does not hesitate to tell it, also tells its price, and if anybody wants it, it is for sale. And thus matters are hustling along at a regular Cripple Creek rate without any of the Cripple Creek fake In it. In Bingham canyon there are discoveries made every day that are far richer, and, in my opinion, far better than those made in Montana with the same exertion and capital involved. I can freely say that Utah has charmed me and taught me a new lesson even at this age of my experience. I leave tomorrow night, and I am not sure when I will return to Montana. The inducements are so much greater in Utah than here that comparisons are odious. I will cultivate my new love before I return again. ot SALT LAKE NUGGETS. General Manager P. T. Farnsworth has returned from a trip to the mines of the Austin Mining company at Austin, Nev. Frank Wilson and N. P. Dooly of the April Fool mine, De Lamar, Nev., are in the city, having brought up another ore. shipment of high-grad- e Hon. G. W. E. Dorsey of the Rover company has returned from Nebraska, where the people are just now more deeply concerned in the Presidential scramble than in mining. Mr. John W. Young, general Western manager for Fraser & Chalmers, has returned from Montana, and confirms previous reports of mining activity throughout the Northwest. J. E. Jackson, agent of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining company, returned yesterday from Cripple Creek, where he secured a number of ore contracts. Mr. Dave Kennedy of Kingston, N. Y., proprietor of Kennedys medical discoveries, has arrived in Salt Lake and will spend some time in Utah. He is an owner of Centennial-Eurek- a and other Utah stocks. F. B. Cook of this city has received a letter from C. F. Seyler, who is well known to all Leadville men as a prominent operator in that camp, stating that he will leave New York for Utah within ten days, and that he will come prepared to invest heavily in Mercur property. J. R. Hickman, secretary of the Gold Queen Mining company, has returned from the mine, which is located in the Blue mountains. This property show's an Immense body of porphyritic, quartz, the full extent of which is not yet determined, although the workings, at a depth of 90 feet, show gold-beari- ng feet of ore. It is perfectly and will average $15, with seams of rich stuff running up into the 63x81 free-millin- g, . thousands. season. A mill will lx erected this |