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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N y MINING REVIEW. and hab j. steam hoist in operation and Seymour, Boggs, McCarter and Higgs, ore to is the Steen mill of shipping Boise for treatment. The Checkmate is working thirteen men and is sacking ore for the second shipment to Salt Lake. The returns on the trial lot of thirteen tons proves this hard to find in any counmines equal cross-tunnis being driven try. The as fast as possible and will soon cut the ledge. This tunnel will be over 200 expires on June 1st. So Messrs. Flynn and Nichols have a month longer to work the mine after the present lessees quit. About 300 tons of ore have already been taken out, and about thirty men are at work. el NEVADA. feet. George Williams has leased 400 feet of the Lincoln mine, owned by Carter & Rhoads, and will sink a shaft at once 100 feet in depth. This mine has a very large ledge of base ore, which will be treated in the Bishoprick mill. Wylie & Williams are driving a tunnel on the Pinto to cut the shaft in the upper workings. The tunnel will be over 250 feet in length, the shaft has three feet of high-grad- e ore, but owing to strike water, they were forced to abandon it. This tunnel will make it possible to work this mine to a good old-time- advantage. The I. X. L., owned by Dorman & Frost brothers, have their incline down and at this depth were comthirty feet, pelled to abandon the incline, owing to the surface water coming in so rapidly. At 120 feet this mine shows over four feet of ore commonly called free milling ore, panning both gold and and at the bottom, 130 fret, the ore body is larger, but carries more In the lower shaft, 400 feet east of the incline, at a depth of twenty feet, there is over two feet of free sul-phure- ts, sul-phure- ts. ore. The I. X. L. ledge has five openings upon the ledge the incline is on and every one shows good ore near grass roots. Tonkin & Co. are developing the Silver Spray, supposed by many to be the east extension of the Checkmate. It is proving to be a producer, having e over two feet of very free ore at a depth of thirty feet. Charles Crane of Salt Lake is having a shaft sunk on the Bankers Alliance 300 feet deep. high-grad- Shoshone County. Coeur dAlene Sun: The Golden Circle people struck a bonanza pot again last Thursday, and for several days the nuggets of gold made the owners a very happy lot of men. On Friday Mr. Shanley brought down a miners pan full of quartz, literally covered and studded with gold. He took the quartz to his cabin and reduced it with a r. The pocket was not as prolific, however, as those struck last fall. The Circle is deserving a hand-morta- five-sta- Pioche Record: The Poorman mine is still improving. The ore chute has opened wider and carries ore rich in silver and heavy in lead, very similar in appearance to that taken from the Burke and Raymond and Ely mines in early days. De Lamar correspondence: The Magnolia tunnel is progressing finely, and It will be no surprise to the town to hear that the ledge of the old pioneer mine of the district had been struck, and if she proves as rich at depth as she was near the surface all the will say, I told you so. Silver State: Peter Organ, William Organ, Peter Woolcock, Nicholas Gill, James McCormack and Joseph Organ have bonded to W. H. Patterson and E. It. Dodge of Reno the cinnabar mines recently located near Mill City. The bond is for $40,000 and was filed with Recorder Hill yesterday. There are five locations and the ore is said to carry a high percentage of quicksilver. By the terms of the bond Messrs. Patterson and Dodge are to develop the claims and are to receive 90 per cent of the proceeds, 10 per cent to go to the persons who bonded them. mp mill. Work is steadily progressing on the Emma, in Golden Run. Some very nice ribbon rock is being obtained, much of which shows free gold. An ore dump has been made, and this contains from fifteen to twenty tons of quartz. When 100 tons are ready for shipment, the road will be finished to the mine and the quartz sent to some mill. One would think from the liberal amount of gold in the ribbon quartz that there must be some rich pockets in the hill. The showing is very encouraging. An $1800 gold brick was brought up from the Golden Winnie on Tuesday and placed in the bank. About twenty men have drawn a dividend from it, and the proceeds have gone into the community. Wood River. News-Mine- r: It looks quite like business at the Croesus mine now. The boiler and smoke-stac- k for the hoistworks been have ing placed, and a fire started up to harden the walls. The poles for the telephone line have been set up, and the wire will probably be of new strung next week. A half-mil- e road has been made, and a bunk house and boarding house will both be erected The improvement of the roads and the disappearance of snow in the mining districts continue to be shown in The the increased ore shipments. transactions for the week just ended were $172,000, against $137,853 for the previous week. Silicious ores continue to be in great demand by the valley smelters, being scarcer than lead ores. law has gone into The eight-hou- r operation at the smelters, resulting in an increased expense to the plants, which will place them at still further disadvantage with the outside competition. An illustration of the keenness of this competition was recently shown, when the Arkansas Valley smelter, at Leadville, purchased a lot of Centen-nial-Eureore at a price which left but $4.50 for treatment. One thousand tons of the Copper Plant ore, the product of the Copperopolis mine, was sold during the week to the Pennsylvania smelter for $6 per ton. There are still several thousand tons to be disposed' of. The base bullion output of the smelt8, ers for the week just ended was ka $73,-93- against $71,308 for the preceding There were also shipped cyanides to the value of $13,450 and miscellaneous bullion shipments, $2000, making a total bullion output of $89,388, against $S5,700 the preceding week. The base bullion output of the Salt Lake smelters was as follows: Penn sylvania, $29,688; Germania, $33,000; Hanauer, $11,250. MONTANA. Ore purchases were reported as follows: Bamberger & McMillan, $28,190; exciteWorld: Considerable Germania, $65,200; McComick & Co., Mining 0; ment has been caused by the finding of $50,850; Commercial National bank, National Bank of the Republic, placer gold on the island about one mile south of the Northern Pacific de- $7000. pot at Livingston. Here an old timer named Newton Bailey staked out sevSilver. eral placer claims, and is now working Silver closes one point lower than a them. The entire surrounding country is being prospected and colors are week ago, but the market continues found all over. Everything indicates a steady, with good demand and light gold excitement such as will astonish supply. On May 26th It reached 31 the people of Livingston. pence bid, the highest point at London The Easton mill at Virginia City is since the repeal of the Sherman purnow running regularly, crushing thirty chasing act. Following were the fluctons of ore per day, and keeping a force tuations during the week: Thursday, of twenty-fiv- e men employed. The mill 68; Friday, 68; Monday, 68; Tuesis also undergoing repairs, w'hich when day, 68; Wednesday, 68 cents. completed will permit of a more reguRecord Prices. lar and economical treatment of ores from the mines. Highest (covering a period of ten The coke ovens and mines at Horr years) $1.19c, August 19, 1890. Lowest, 58 c, March 3 and 5, 1894. are giving employment to 201 men, and reports from there say that more could Lead. find work. A valuable vein of coal has been unLead remained at $3 throughout the covered in Carbon county near the week. Butcher oil fields. It is said that the Record Prices. coal possesses fine coking qualities. A rich gold strike is reported on the Highest (covering a period of ten west side of Rock Crook, nearly oppo- years) $5.25, in October and November, site the new town of Quigley. It is said 1890. to equal that of the Golden Scepter. Lowest, $2.87, January 10, 1896. The Big Hole basin district will have a stamp mill. Anaconda men will put C3 TJ are It in, and they guaranteed, during CO the first year, 400 tons of ore by Emil CO 1 O Zorn, for which $12 per ton will be o CO charged for treatment. sr a CD o COLUHBIA. BRITISH p m VJ I co Rossland Miner: Excitement at Ross-lan- d o is at fever heat and there are hun0 09 8 dreds coming into the camp every day. Mi 5 The sensation of the week was the sale P CO 5 of the great War Eagle mine to D. C. c CO Corbin, representing an Eastern syndi3 cate, for $1,000,000. 53 2 Z now The railroad P being constructed 3 a O P to Rossland will be completed the 28th clo o m m O and then several of the mines which P CO co on ore the have large quantities of Q Ni smelto 3 the will begin shipments dump & aa ters. The snow on the mountains has redelayed prospectors, but it is now m ported to be fast disappearing and & men of in soon be hundreds there will o O the hills. 5 3 wild A has simply gone mining X Spokane and it is no trouble to organize a com3 H defor sufficient stock float and pany 0 o velopment work on any property that ST gives a reasonable promise of being a shortly. The lease of M. Flynn and Ralph Nichols on the Jay Gould mine, at Bullion, expires on the 1st of July. But the lease of the Messrs. mine. sub-lesse- es, rs ORE AND BULLION. wreek. $20,-76- r r H w - an |