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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- growing larger and richer with development. The Beck is a great mine. MINING REVIEW. N 9 eral other properties in its vicinity notably the York and Petro. The Bingham Copper company are shipping between 70 and 80 tons of ore from the Nast mine this week. The Nast is way up and improving every display is the splendid showing from the Willow Creek region. The ores from that district show that it is all and more than has heretofore been Utah County. claimed for it. The development has AMERICAN FORK DISTRICT. passed beyond the stage of production This district, a heavy producer of silof pocket specimens, and large masses ver and lead twenty years ago, will be day. of to start in, Markham mill is about splendid ore are being brought exthe scene of active operations during upThe ores. owners while on other The several have Northern again Light the present season. In the early days mine 150 tons of ore in the bins, hibits ready to forward to the exhas ore carrying much less than 100 ounces and will be operated to keep the mill change. in silver was thrown over the dump or 50 on tons of ore per dey. It Prominent among the receipts so far allowed to remain in the mine. While running now is In is a chunk from the Friday, or J. C. good shape for production. large bodies of high grade ore were Hill, mine, now being worked by Mr. found upon the surface, none of the Summit County. McKinley. This specimen weighs about properties were worked below the e pounds. It carries 20 per water level, owing to the heavy exPark City Record: Operations will be seventy-fivcent of lead and close to $100 per ton pense involved in pumping. These con- resumed at the Creole mine next week percentage ditions explain why the district is now with two shifts, and the shaft will be gold, while there is a large out a richer a promising one and why mining oper- sunk as rapidly as possible. Just who of iron. Since it was taken been made, there being now ators are turning their attention in this will be in charge of the work is not strike has one-half and feet of ore, much of direction. yet a settled question, Foreman Berry three to is which carry $300 per ton During the past week Mr. L. N. having resigned. There, will probably in gold. thought The ore carries some silver, Smith has secured a bond and lease, be no meeting of the directors until the as ounces per as twenty-eigmuch for himself and H. D. Smith, A. D. Bea- next stated date, which will be on ton being shown by some samples. man and others of St. Joseph, Mo., Friday, May 15th. Dr. Shores, one of Frank Officer, manager of the Mingo upon the Wild Dutchman group of the syndicate that recently purchased at Salt Lake, who was at Wilsmelter owned eight patented claims, by the the large block of treasury stock, was low Creek with the Union Pacific party, Caravel Gold and Silver Mining com- in the Park Wednesday looking after O. has of contracted for several carloads of The bond runs Cleveland, pany matters connected with the property. the for two years and the consideration is Friday ore, and shipments will be Ontario mill is now silent, but a The from this point just as soon as $30,000. The property has produced belarge force of mechanics are rapidly begun the roads There is now twenty tween $200,000 and $300,000, but has been putting it in shape to resume opera- tons of oresettle. on the dump. A hoist is to idle for twenty years, and has never tions. It is thought that the repairs been worked below the tunnel level. to be made will require about two be put on the property at once, and a There are many tons of carbonate ore weeks' time. large production will then be possible. upon the dump that was not considered Neal district is also represented by The big incline at the Morgan mine worth shipping when taken out. Assays is being exhibit. Mr. Howe has sent in straightened up and put in aanfine of this ore show from 12 to 67 per cent eighty-poun- d so that hoisting may be done piece of quartz from lead and 19 to 78 ounces silver. The shape the Hidden Treasure. The grade of ease. As soon as that with ore is not given, but it is manithis purchasers will give their personal at- work greater is completed sinking will again tention to the development of the prop- be resumed. good. That property produces The latest news from the festly Mr. as Smith with erty, superintendent, very rich ore, and the developfor the new hoist is to the much so far indicate that it will bements and eight men are now employed. A machinery effect that it is not yet completed. will a come few built one be of the famous mines of the years ago, good mill, The Silver King company is prepar- State. once. in at put operation to build a model new boardingMr. Smith has also taken a lease and ing Some interesting specimens containproperty. bond upon the Silver Bell, for himself house forfor that flourishing the foundation will be ing ruby silver have been sent from Grading and St. Joseph parties. The property commenced the Banner mine in Boise county. This this morning. consists of six patented claims and ore runs from $5000 to $6000, and the three mill sites, and the mine has been general average of the mine is very Uintah County. a rich producer. The purchasers progood. Vernal Express: The mining fever has pose to erect a mill. The Blue Jacket mine, in the Seven A. F. Holden and A. G. Campbell are again broken out in Vernal, and the Devils district, contributes a beautiful working ten men on the Live Yankee, symptoms are becoming alarming. Wil- specimen of peacock copper ore. The upon which they took a bond and lease liam McCaslin, John Pope and others specimen thirty pounds, and last year. They shipped a large amount returned Sunday evening with samples was takenweighs a from solid body of ore of ore last fall and development work of ore which assayed $38 and $50 to the four feet thick. It carries 60 per cent has been prosecuted during the winter. ton in gold, and they claim they have of copper. Ore shipments will be resumed as soon of the ore in sight and promise as the snow goes off. The Live Yankee plenty the plenty to say in regard to and the Silver Bell are located upon the theirExpress rich discoveries in a couple of Placer Machinery. same vein. weeks. The party went back Tuesday Caldwell Record: About 55,000 pounds The Kalamazoo, owned by Messrs. with provisions, tools, powder, etc., calof mining machinery for the company Jones, Hopkins and Rhodes, will be culating to do considerable work before This a represented weeks. in few propby E. H. Lewis is in the started up return. The exact location of Caldwell they yards awaiting transporta-tio- n erty is located near the old Miller mine, their find could not be learned, but it is to the that produced $3,000,000 in the early somewhere in Brown's Park on the Snake river.company's placer mines on The machinery includes days. Green side of river. We other hope boiler, pump, and other necesEd. Hines is the Recorder of the have struck it rich this time, as engine, sities for mining on a large scale. The American Fork district and L. N. they some of the party deserve a reward for heaviest piece, the boiler, Smith is deputy recorder. weighs about their indefatigable energy toward de- 23.000 pounds, which can be reduced to resources Uinmineral of the veloping 18.000 pounds Lake by separating, and will Salt County. tah county. be loaded on Freighter Corbetts waWEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. gons in a few days. The engine is of is said Bulletin: Bingham Bingham the latest design for this class of work, State Line District to have an immense cyanide proposithe pump is a twelve-inc- h sucCorrespondence Ploche Record: Ex- while tion, the ore being of much better citement All this machinery will be placed is high over the dis- tion. grade than the average at Mercur. If covery of a running on the of free barge constructed at Fromans showing gold the process used at Mercur does not in the Rockygood Mountain claim, owned ferry last winter, and will operate on exactly fit this case, perhaps some of by the Rice brothers. Twto of the boys the bar at the mouth of Sucker creek. the other ones will. A cyanide process are now' at wrork and have already Sam Harkopf turned out three gold-save- rs has just been erected at the. DeLamar found gold in paying quantities. Exof Mr. Lewis's design at his mine in Idaho, which, while more in- perienced miners have visited this prop- shop last week, so it appears that if tricate than the Mercur plan, is more erty and report a true fissure vein of capital and nerve will solve the queseconomical and effective, saving a ore. tion, old Snake river will soon have to higher per cent of values. Mr. Ed Freud enthal, who is working give up some of her elusive treasure. With the exception of a few finishing the is getting out some excellent touches the new Winamuck mill is ore. Spur, He has gone down about seventy Shoshone County. feet. ready, to start up, and it is the inten- feet and cross-cperhaps tion to put it in motion today if possi- The Ophir is being worked thirty and shows A singular strike was made in the ble. By Sunday or Monday it will be much good ore. They expect to make a Yosemite mine on Wednesday evening. in complete running order. In its pres- good shipment in a few days. west In the tunnel the night shift enent capacity it will treat from 50 to 60 three-focountered a ledge of galena tons daily, but with the addition of IDAHO. of ore, pieces perfectly pure galena beconcentrators, it can at any time be out. What it will run we ing taken Increased to 125 tons' capacity. The ore Exhibit. as not have yet learned, but it seems Mining Exchange bin was being filled yesterday, and to a of be high grade in silver. While Boise Statesman: As soon as the all there are thousands of tons of second-clas- s ores of Ophir mountain have the condition, so that carried in and about the old mine await- roads get into better of galena, the strike of a transportation will notwillbe beso difficult, three-fo- specs ing treatment vein of the stuff in a purely furnished The Phoenix has just shipped an- the Mining Exchange is phenomenal. Further exmine other lot of several carloads, the re- a large number of ore exhibits that will gold is of course necessary to Already there ploitation sult of development work and moved attract much attention. determine the extent of the ledge and to clear the ore bins. The mine is in are a number of fine specimens on exits value. If only a chamber, rich gold hibition that would immediately Intershape to make a great output whenever rock may be expected In the the ore market offers sufficient encour- est any mining man. 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