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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. cars last Friday. The cars rolled 2500 feet down the mountain. The Magolia gravel mine, at Oroville, The Rand mines last year produced was started up recently, after beCal., but $695 per man employed. closed for many years, and the reing There are seventy stamps dropping sult of the first days operations was at Leesburg, Lemhi county, Idaho. $11,000. The ten quartz mills in Elmore Alaskas mining boom shows signs county, Idaho, are assessed at $56,900. of early decay. Two of the thirty-eigThe old cyanide mill at Gibbonsville, saloons at Juneau have been Ida., is treating ore from the Hughs & forced to suspend business on account Hunt mine. of the depressed state of trade. The Golden Reward, at Deadwood, is A miner named Wall Davis, who, with increasing the capacity of its cyanide his partner, purchased a placer claim mill to 150 tons. near Randsburg, Cal., for $80, the next There are no less than twenty wing day kicked out of the sand a nugget dams on Rogue river, Or., between worth $614. It is better to be born Galice Creek and Gold Hill. lucky than rich. C. E. Loose and L. E. Riter have purNine coal miners were suffocated at 111., chased Clark City, the Park and Elmer Ray claims, last Saturday by the of the shaft. pioneer producers of the Tintic district. burning is located near the Four The Park The annual meeting of the NorthAces and Swansea, and the Elmer Ray west Mining association will be held at is NEWS CLEAN-U- P. ht at Spokane in October. Placer dirt carrying $1.50 per pound has been found near Gillett, Colo., according to the local press. Fraser & Chalmers are erecting a concentrating plant for the Carbon County company, near Laramie, Wyo. One of the leading companies operating at Bingham is investigating the Peck process, with a view to erecting a large plant. A miners union was organized at Hailey last Saturday. The Western Federation of Miners now includes six-ty-t- wo Silver City. A carload of ore from the Checkmate mine in Willow Creek district, Idaho, was marketed in the city last week. carThere were two lots, the first-claseven in of the neighborhood rying ounces of gold per ton. Important discoveries have been made by the use of a diamond drill in Summit county, Colo. A hole was bored 600 feet deep, and from near the bottom a core nearly eight inches long assayed 132 ounces in gold. James Wyatt, a miner employed in the Dora mine at Murray, Ida., exploded a shot that failed to do much ss unions. It is said to be the intention of the execution and then undertook to drill Yeliow Jacket (Ida.) company to add the hole deeper. He was killed by the 100 stamps to its plant next explosion that followed. 60-sta- mp season. The hoisting plant of the Paulin mine at Chalmers have just Butte was destroyed by fire last mill for the St Louis Sunday at a loss of $10,000. Seven men pleted a and Milling company, at Marys- were at work in the mine but all were Mining Fraser & 10-sta- com- mp ville. Mont. The Idaho mining exhibit will leave Boise for St. Paul on the 22nd. Secretary Hunter of the Mining Exchange will probably have charge of it. A shipment from the Frisco mine at Bingham, marketed last week, carried 42.8 ounces silver, 26 per cent lead and 80 cents in gold. 12-t- on The plans that have been prepared for the Golden Gate mill contemplate a plant of 400 tons capacity, equipped with reverbatory furnaces. The Tom Boy mine at Telluride, tram and Colo., is building a 2000-fohas increased the capacity of its mill to 200 tons. The Iron Mountain company, in Montana, will run a tunnel 5G00 feet, which will cut the vein at a depth of 1600 feet ot and cost $70,000. The famous Independence mine at Cripple Creek has resumed operations. A Peck concentrator is being erected on this property. Ore carrying two and a half ounces in gold has been encountered on the 200 level of the Ajax winze, 400 feet from the surface. The Lime Peak Mining & Milling company has been incorporated at Bath, Me., for the purpose of operating mines in Idaho. The Montana Ore Purchasing company smelter and concentrator at Butte are handling nearly 1000 tons of oie per day at present. The Badger mine located on Conner creek, Cache county, last week marketed fifteen tons of ore that carried $80 per ton in gold. The works of the Colorado Philadelphia Reduction company at Colorado City are now nearly completed. The capacity is 200 tons. Agents of the Leadville are trying to hire miners in the Utah camps to take the places of the strikers but thus far they have met with poor mine-owne- rs success. The Morning mine at Mullan, Ida., has been closed down, on account of the wrecking of its engine and five ore rescued through the bravery of Foreman Bulger and Engineer McGee. Seven men have been put to work on the Mill Creek placers, a few miles from this city, the discovery of which was noted last week. An attempt will be made to sink to bed-rocand if this is found to be impracticable the men will be set to sluicing. The Mining Review has received from the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical company, New York, a handsomely framed fac simile of the diploma awarded it by the "Worlds Columbian Commission for an exhibit of cyanide of potassium for mining purposes. Within thirty days the capacity of the Sunshine cyanide mill, in the Camp Floyd district, will be increased from fifty to 150 tons capacity, and that of the Sacramento mill from fifty to 100 tons. This will increase the combined daily capacity of all the mills in the district to 550 tons. The Denver Stock Exchange has reduced commissions on all stocks selling under $5 per thousand to 25 cents per A great many Colorado thousand. stocks are selling at a small fraction of a cent per share, and the Denver rates were driving business to Colorado Springs. The deepest gold mine in the world is the No. 180 at Bendigo, Australia. The shaft is down 2640 feet, from the bottom of which a diamond drill has been sent down 710 feet further, making a total depth of 3350 feet. Extremely rich ore is reported at the bottom k, overlooked has admitted that its profits were $167,000. The Mary Gold Mining, Milling & Tunnel company of Carriboo, Ida., has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. The capital (stock of the company is $250,000. Those composing the company are Ellen C. Thomas,. Mary T. Thomas, 'William M. Thomas, Blanche Thomas and John S. Thomas. lot of ore from the Big Four mine, in Uintah county, carrying 50 per cent copper, was purchased by J. E. Jackson for the Consolidated Kansas City smelter last week. The Big Four is an undeveloped property, located 150 miles from the railroad, and the ore is found in the form of a t4g blanket deposit on the surface. A new mineral locator is now offered to gullible miners in Colorado. It is described as a scientific composition, whatever that may be. It will unpatrons, for there are doubtedly find claim-ownewho reject the still many advice of a mining expert, but who are willing to stake their all upon a mysterious determination by the rod wizard. The Golden Eagle mine, in Central district, Humboldt county, Nev., is making regular shipments of good ore. A carload marketed in this city this week carried $56 in gold, silver and lead and five tons are produced daily in development work. The mine is owned by Salt Lake parties, C. H. Wilbur being the manager, and is located near the Ophir Consolidated, wrhich is also owned by local people. A final decree has been issued by the Ninth District United States court in the injunction case of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan company against members of the Miners unions at Gem, Wardner, Mullan and Burke, Ida. The dein hundred several fendants, number, are perpetually enjoined from interfering with the companys property and ordered to pay costs, amounting to A twelve-to- n rs $1020. The Pleasant Valley Coal company is expending about $12,000 in increasing its facilities for handling its product at Castle Gate. These improvements include additional loading tracks, a new loading chute, new elevator and conveyor, and bins for storing slack for the coke ovens. Superintendent Sharp reports an average volume of business. The company is now marketing about 2000 tons of coal per month on the Pacific coast. The report of the Calumet and Hecla company for the fiscal year ending June 30th shows that 42,776 tons of refined copper was produced against 31,233 tons the previous year. Five dividends of $5 each were paid. The present openings guarantee a production at last years rate for ten years. The Red Jacket shaft has reached a vertical depth of 4900 feet, and the company does not propose to sink it any deeper. The temperature at this depth is 87.6 Fahr. There seems warrant for the belief that Madagascar will provide the worlds next great gold field. Since the French conquest the country has begun to be prospected, and the results have been very encouraging. No ledges have been discovered yet, but there is scarcely a district of the island which has not yielded alluvial gold in paying of the hole. quantities, and finds of big nuggets A dispatch from Helena, Mont., an- have been made, but if the French can nounces the sale of the Diamond Hill help it nobody but Frenchmen will be gold mine to a Scotch syndicate for allowed to share these riches. $2,000,000. The property is one of the The Atlantic Mining & Milling comtwo greatest gold mines in Montana. tunThe new owners will spend a quarter pany, which is driving a 2000-fonel at to cut the Dalton & Bingham of a million at once on a new mill. The and Richmond Lark, Brooklyn veins, sale was made through N. F. Cleary of last week encountered good ore 750 feet New York. in from the mouth of the tunnel. The The State Board of Equalization is ore carries $22 in gold, and a sample checking up the work of the county as- exhibited by Manager Grant shows free sessors with reference to the returns of gold quartz on one side and on net profits from the operation of mines. the other, a rare combination.galena AtThe It is claimed that some dividend-payin- g lantic property is located between the companies have not been assessed at Dalton & Lark and the Lead Mill, and all. One company that was omitted or the tunnel will be driven ahead to cut ot |