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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- ffeus of tfye 5amps. 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. UTAH. Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Mercur, May 6. Manager P. J. . , . Qua-le- y of the Wonder reports the contract for the first 200 feet completed and has let a contract for the next 200 feet. Work on the Mercur Mammoth is progressing and the property looks well. Col. E. A. Wall has struck pay ore cropping out on one of the claims belonging to the Brickyard group. The Seals are now in the hanging wall. A strike is looked for daily. The Hecla is working against odds. It has had bad luck with the machinery, but the reward for nerve and staying qualities will soon be in sight, as undoubtedly this will be one of the sensations this spring. Mr. Jessen has five or six men at' work stripping the vein on the Gold Dust. He reports the mine looking well and says they will prosecute the work as fast as possible. Information was received in the camp that a big strike of high-grad- e ore had been made in Pole canyon. We hope this is true, as a great many locations have been made in that locality lately. Arkie Warren of Ophir was in camp the first of the week. Judge Warren says that work on almost all of the promising properties around Ophir has commenced and that in his opinion Ophir will rival Mercur this summer in prosperity. The Northern Light people have a .bonanza and will this season be classed with the bonanza owners of this dis- trict. Ward are still working the May Queen in the eastern foothills. Good values have been obtained. C. H. Scheu and associates are still working the La Cigale in the western foothills. This is a big property. The owners will soon erect a mill on the Clark & ground.. The Mercur Gold Production company of Omaha will start work in a few days on their property in the west foothill country. They own the Valley View and Edna May groups. The shaft on the old Townsite ground is gradually getting down to pay ore. Messrs. Ladd and Olsen are feeling good over the outlook. The weather continues bad, keeping would-b- e buyers out of camp. Several have been made in the last sales small week, but nothing of importance. Mercur Mercury: A telephone mes sage from Sunshine states that another the discovery of ore has been made incould Annie property, but particulars not be learned. Good developments are also reported on the Gold Point property, when, at a depth of eight or ten feet, a body of ore was encountered which assays $4.50 per ton. A number of the Golden Gate boys were laid off this week. The mine is well developed for extraction, and it is not considered good policy to pile the ore on the dump, to be handled a second time, when the mill is built. However, the work of prospecting new ground is still being pushed. Work on the Mattie 4 is progressing rapidly, and the result is a surprise to the owners. It now looks as though she would prove the best dividend payer in the camp. Mr. Terhune of the Golden Gate experimental plant has in his possession MINING REVIEW. N several gold buttons of about $10 value each, from the result of the last test. From what we can learn it appears that the experiment was a very satis- factory one. The double compartment shaft of the Gladstone is down 100 feet, from which will be run to cut the point a cross-cu- t vein. The Buckeye company has let a con- tract for a 100-fo- ot shaft on its proper- ty, located near the Badger. The Electric reports a strike that assays $S.30. A tunnel is to be driven to develop the ore bodies of the Ilerschel. The shaft on the Intrinsic, located near Fairfield, is to be sunk to a depth of 300 feet. The Mercur Gold Dust company is now sinking on the croppings of the vein, and samples taken from just below the surface give assays of $9, $10.40 and $11.20, a remarkably good showing. Two shafts are also being sunk to strike the vein at depth. These are 1000 feet apart, one having reached a depth of 145 feet and the other sixty feet. Juab County. TINTIC DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Mammoth, May 6. Ever been to No? Well you ought Mammoth? to run down some Saturday afternoon on the 5 oclock Rio Grande. When you reach town at about a quarter of 8 you 'will be taken up to the new hotel, where your eyes will be dazzled by electric lights, and after you have washed off the dust in a marble wash basin, just like the Knutsford, a very charming little woman in the biggest kind of sleeves will take you to dinner, apologizing all the way because you wont get a good dinner on account of the lateness of the hour. The big Mammoth and Sioux mills are just opposite the hotel and only a few minutes walk. Hunt up some one to take you through and go to the top first, where the ore is falling from the bins into the crunching jaws of the crusher, which allows nothing much larger than an egg to pass. From there it slides down to the battery, as the stamps are called. These pound the our up almost like ground coffee, after which enough water is added to make it into a thin mud. It is then fed on to the vanners, which are nothing but broad rubber belts, which, by means of a shaking side motion, separate the lighter part, which contains but few values, from the heavier part, which contains the most of the metals. This last is called the concentrates, which is dried and shipped to the smelters. The other portion is worked over so as to extract all the values possible and is then thrown over the dump. First it is put over copper plates, coated with quicksilver. This takes out the gold in the shape of an amalgam, and it is then passed on to the pans or large vats, where it is boiled, having first the addition of some blue vitriol, sulphuric acid and salt. After reaching a heat of 160 degrees, quicksilver is added. From the pans it is run into the settlers. Here the heaviest portion the amalgam formed by the quicksilver and the silver, is drawn off. This Is strained and the quicksilver, by its own weight, is nearly all drawn off, the balance going off in the retort. Having finished the inspection of the mills, take a stroll up to the upper town, of a mile away. This is the old town and consists of a large group of unpainted shacks, with a few large store buildings, together with the buildings of the Mammoth mine. No streets, houses built anywhere and anyhow, in typical mining town fashion. Take a birds eye view of the great Mammoth and the Ajax, alongside of it; climb up to the Emerald and the Grand Central and one or two others in the immediate vicinity, and it is time to be going. An inspection of the mines and a trip two miles or so over to the Silver three-quarte- rs City region, where are located the Swansea, South Swansea, Four Aoes and other properties, which are at present attracting a great deal of attention, must be left until another time. A noticeable thing about Mammoth is that the town seems to be behind the country. There seems to be no regular livery stable, any store keeping much of an assortment of dry goods or furnishings, no clothing store or restaurant. As there are in and about the town twelve hundred people, and as there are three millions of dollars above ground in improvements about the mines and mills, it seems strange that such a promising point should be so poorly provided. As you stand in the town facing down into the valley, you see as far astf the eye can reach the pipe line stretching across the valley. This line is eighteen miles long and cost $150,000, and supples the town with an abundance of good water and fire protection. Mammoth, however, is too great and interesting a camp and region not to warrant another visit and a better Tintic Miner: Shipments from the district for the past week are reported as follows: From the Bullion-Bec- k mine, 25 carloads ore; from the Bullion-Bec- k mill, 10 carloads concentrates; 10 carfrom the Centennial-Eurekloads ore; from the Eureka Hill mill, 10 carloads concentrates; from the Mammoth mine, 10 carloads ore; from the Mammoth mill, 4 carloads concentrates; from the Sioux mine, 4 carloads ore; from the Sioux mill, 9 carloads concentrates and 4 bars base bullion; from the Ajax, 8 carloads ore; from the Spy, 1 carload ore; from the Swansea, 2 carloads ore; from the North Star, 3 carloads ore; from the Dragon Iron mine, 2 carloads daily. another trespass It is rumored thatBullion-Beck and between the suit on the tapis. Eureka Hill companies is L. M. Armstrong, who is in charge of the work in the North Tintic Consolidated, was a pleasant caller at the Miner office Monday. Mr. Armstrong is most enthusiastic over the ore which was recently struck in that property. He states that they have now four men at work sinking a winze on the a, vein, and that he is informed by Mercur operators that the ore is identical with that of the great producer in the gold camp. Mr. Armstrong says his company will continue the vigorous development of the property. Eureka Democrat: Development work at the Godiva is being vigorously pushed ahead. The winze from the tunnel level is now down 150 feet. The vein widens and the ore appreciates in value both in silver and gold as greater depth Is attained. An ore bin with chute connections, having a capacity of about 200 tons, is being built. The survey is completed, and work will begin at once upon the wagon road up the mountains side to where the permanent hoisting machinery will be located and the main working shaft started. On Friday evening of last week W. F. Patrick of Denver and J. E. Frankol of New York arrived in the city, and the following day perfected negotiations with J. H. McChrystal whereby the former gentlemen were to develop the South Eureka property to the extent of $20,000 within eighteen months from the date of agreement, they to have a lease running five years and pay a royalty of 20 per cent on all ore extracted during the remaining two years of the lease. The South Eureka south of the lies Centennial-Eurek- a, and is considered very valuable ground. The North Star is showing up some immense bodies of milling ore, and the owners are considering the matter of putting up a combination mill for the treatment of their output. Regular shipments are being made of their high-grad- e product. The large ore body opened Bullion-Bec- k on the 700 level of the recently is reported as a perfect bonanza and |