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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. and material hauled in by wagons at NEWS CLEAN-ULeadville and the other works. The mining season in Alaska opens amount of money paid to the railroads sixThe weeks later than usual. was $1,760,937. There are 156 machine drills in The Kansas City company, by reason tion in the Bossland district B. operaC. of the extent of its operations, has been Five giants are now in operation on able to reduce ores from all the mining the Bohannon bar, in Lemhi county, P. camps at prices which have encouraged the development of low-gramines, and as such properties constitute a large proportion of the producers, its efforts in this direction have resulted in great good to the mining industry. It now has ore purchasing agencies at Leadville, Denver, Cripple Creek, Colo., Salt Lake City, El Paso, Tex., Argentine, Kan., and Spokane, Wash. The Salt Lake agent is Mr. J. E. Jackson, a gentleman of extended experience, wide acquaintance and great popularity, who has a supervisory jurisdiction over the entire northwest territory. de Ida. Capt J. M. Day, one of the pioneers in Utah mining, died at Galena, 111., on June 19 th. The output of Telluride, Colo., is 300 carloads of concentrates and crude ore per month. The supply of ore continues to be sufficient for all the demands of the local smelters, as all the camps are making a heavy output. This, in view of the fact that all of the plants are constantly increasing their facilities, speaks well for Salt Lake City as a smelting center. The base bullion output of the smelters for the week just ended was $81,208, divided as follows: Pennsylvania, $24,508; Germania, $30,300; Hanauer, $26,406. There was also shipped cya nides to the value of $2400; Ontario bullion, $12,000; Daly bullion, $16,067, making a total bullion output of $111,675, against $213,411 for the preceding week. Ore purchases were reported as follows: Bamberger & McMillan, $23,615; Germania, $30,700; Hanauer, $33,700; Commercial National bank, $29,706, a total of $117,715. Silver. On Thursday of last week silver advanced to 69c, the highest point reached since December, 1893. This advance was partly caused by speculative trading and quotations later declined to 68c. London dealers, who have made heavy contracts for future delivery, are said to be greatly alarmed by the advancing tendency of the market, and many are endeavoring to cover their contracts to forestall a further advance. Several mining operators in this region are holding back their product, in anticipation of higher prices. The fluctuations for the week were as follows: Thursday, 69c; Friday, 69c; Monday, 68c; Saturday, 69c; Tuesday, 68c; Wednesday, 68c. Record Prices. Highest (covering a period of ten years) $1.19o, August 19, 1890. Lowest, 58c, March 3 and 5, 1894. Lead. Lead advanced to $3 last Thursday and has remained at this point during the week. The market, however, is flat, with little encouragement for producers. Record Prices. Highest (covering a period of ten years) $5.25, in October and November, 1890. Lowest, $2.87, January 10, 1896. Java has been put on a gold basis by the Netherlands Government while it is really and naturally a silver country, silver being essential to the carrying on of trade there. The consequence has been a new kind of free coinage the Introduction of large amounts by of silver coins of full weight and fineness, but made by some enterprising outsiders on their own hook. This has run the Government to a paper issue for small notes. Verily the gold men have their troubles in the Orient ot ot plant Ninety coal miners were buried alive in the Twin Shaft, at Pittsburg, Pa, The mine last Sunday, by a cave-iwas squeezing" and the men were at work putting in timbers, when the roof fell in. There have been over a thousand loThe General Electric company has cations made in the Ophir district dur- been awarded the contract for supplying the past six months. the generators and wire for the ing The Northern Pacific Express com- Pioneer Power company at Ogden. It is pany will extend its service to such stated that the contract covers $160,000 worth of material. points in Alaska as need it. The Idaho World insists that the placer mines of Boise county have produced $300,000,000 worth of dust. D. B. Levan, owner of the Shamrock, in Willow Creek district, Ida,, will detunvelop the property with a 1200-fonel. A fine body of lead carbonate ore has been developed in the Frisco mine, at Bingham, owned by E. W. Genter and ot ORE AND BULLION. vein that caraska, shows a six-fories from $100 to $200 in gold. A 1600-foworking tunnel is being driven to tap the ledge at a depth of 350 feet. The owners of the Victoria copper mine, in Uintah county, propose to erect a smelter if it is ascertained that this mine and others in the vicinity can produce enough ore to supply such a others. There is no change in the strike situation at Leadville, and fears are entertained of labor troubles at other Colorado camps. Many Colorado placers have been forced to suspend operations on account of the scarcity of water, which is greater than for fifteen years. George Campbell, superintendent of the Independence mine at Cripple Creek, has been experting some properties in Elmore county, Ida, James E. Spurr, the Government geologist who examined the Camp Floyd district, is now studying the placer deposits of the upper Yukon. The Rosemont copper mine, in Arizona, has been sold to Lewisohn Bros, of New York. Good copper mines now sell as readily as gold mines. The Boston & Montana company is producing copper at a cost of less than 5 cents per pound, The cost to the Calumet & Hecla is 6 cents. Leasers on the Old Telegraph mine at Bingham have developed a large of 45 ore that carries body per cent lead, 14 ounces silver and $3 in gold. Two coal miners at mine No. 2 at Belt, Mont., were instantly killed and their bodies terribly mangled by an explosion of giant powder last Friday. Mercur has organized a fire department, and the buildings destroyed by the recent fire are to be rebuilt at once. n. Rigdon of Pearl, Ida., has struck it rich" in the Willow Creek district, her Womans Rights claim now showing a vein, from which assays running up into the hundreds have been obtained. A company has been organized at Denver to change the course of the Payette river in Boise county, Idaho, and work the gravel of the channel. An tunnel will be necessary and the estimated cost is $30,000. Colorado seems to be realizing her expectations of a great mining boom this year. Colorado has great resources and is a great advertiser. Other sections may be rich in resources, but they are novices in the art of advertising. The Denver Mining Industry has received a diploma and bronze medal, awarded it by the Worlds Columbian Exposition, for an excellent trade journal. The Mining Industry is a journal of great merit and has earned the laurels bestowed upon it According to the Park City Patriot, Simon McTigue, who has just left that camp on his thirtieth annual prospecting tour, has explored every mineral district from Patagonia to Cooks Inlet, and this year will confine his labors to southern Utah, Arizona and Nevada. Work has been resumed on the old Miller and Milkmaid mines, in American Fork canyon, both heavy producers twenty-fiv- e years ago. On the Milkmaid' a tunnel has been driven to the vein, which it cuts at a depth of 400 feet, draining the mine and affording an outlet for the ore. Californias gold production in 1895 was twenty-si- x times the value of its silver production for that year. Recognizing, however, that the silver question is not an Industrial but a financial problem, California favors the remonetization of sliver, says the Mining and Scientific Press. Mrs. 22-fo- ot 800-fo- ot 900-fo- ot A few fires do not keep a good camp down. Mrs. Irvine of Colo., has seThe Idaho Mining Journal says some cured an option Boulder, on the Morning Star of the placer miners in Boise Basin mine of Ward, and has pushed mathave made more money in the past six- ter through to Incorporation. the Mrs. Irty days than most Eastern men make vine will be president and a Boston lady in 365. The A. D. & M. company of Gibbons-vill- e, Ida., contemplates the construction of a tram from the Bull of the Woods mine to the mill, a distance of five miles. the secretary. They have secured offices in Denver, and will soon present the property for listing and stock for sale. It is a $5000 per month shipper. William Godbe has taken a ninety days option on the Queen of the Hills mine, in the new. State Line district, and will ascertain whether the ore can be treated by the cyanide process. There are 100 men in the district and 150 claims, have been located, fourteen of which are being developed. A post-offihas been established at State Line City. A Baker City, Or., man took a ball of amalgam to C. H. Sanders, a Salt Lake City assayer, a few days ago, to be reduced to bullion, and the retort showed it to contain nothing but copper. The Oregon man claimed that the copper must have been substituted for gold by a Baker City assayer, who tested the amalgam and made satis- Johannesburg, South Africa, yielded tons of ore in April, which yielded $2,455,350. A little over one-thiof the amount was extracted by the cyanide process. The miners of the State Line district burned United States Senator Brown in effigy on the night of June 23rd, on account of the Senators course at the St. Louis convention. The Tenares mine at Durango, Mexico, has been worked for 300 years, and the workings are only 700 feet deep. It has produced over twenty million dollars' worth of silver. The vein of the New York mine in Deer Creek district, Boise county, Ida., factory returns. was lost in the early sixties, and was Ore worth $3 per pound has been disnot recovered until last week. The ore covered in the Gold Hill mine at Quartz-buris free milling and of high grade. Boise county, Ida. The property The Garside mine, at Sum Dum, Al was sold last week, under an order of 334,606 rd ce g, |