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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- N MINING REVIEW have proposed to establish a in this city for the manufacture plant of cyanide of potassium. The Commissioner of the General times P. Capt. J. R. DeLamar is still at Paris. Cripple Creek claims the possession of a new boom. mills in opThere are seven eration at Jackson, Amador county, Land Office has ruled that it is not for the local land office, but for the courts to determine when the mineral lands of the Fort Crittenden reservation were thrown open to entry. Cal. Col. Ben Hite now has charge of the Many of the Leadville strikers have placer plant of the Good Hope comgone to Montana in search of employment. pany on the Colorado river. This comAll the mining stock exchanges are pany is the owner of a rich bar and is looking for better times after the elec- raising water by an immense current 40-sta- mp tion. The Lemhi, Ida., Republic, announces that Don Maguire is State Geologist of Utah. The ore output of the Coeur dAlene mines has been reduced on account of the low price of lead. There are about 100 working mines at Cripple Creek, and 25 are believed to be making profitable shipments. The Elmore mine, at Rocky Bar, Ida., has been closed down for the reason that there was no more ore in sight. It is claimed that the DeLamar, Nev., cyanide mill, using the Kendall process, is saving 97 per cent of the values. The De Beers diamond mine in South Africa paid $8, 000, 000 in dividends last year and will pay the same amount this year. The Omaha and Grant smelter at Omaha has been temporarily closed for the purpose of enlarging the fur- wheel. A ton of ore from the Blue Bird mine, $170. It carried over eight ounces gold and thirty-thre- e ounces silver The four-fovein averages $7S in gold and silver. The Blue Bird belongs to the Golden Star company. The Canadian Mining Review warns Eastern Canada against the wild-cstocks of British Columbia, and notes that, in spite of all warnings, the Toronto lambs will persist in being fleeced. Among other obstacles to placer mining in Oregon are scorpions. An employee at the Victory mine, near Glendale, was stung last week, and it is feared that he will die. The scorpion was five and one-ha- lf inches in length. The new State Line district is, according to all accounts, a genuine poor mans camp, as high grade ore is found on the surface, wThich yields a good profit, even with the present heavy transportation cost The Jay Hawk & Lone Pine Consolidated company, an English incorporation, has decided to transfer its field of operations from Beaverhead county, Mont., to the Hauraki district, New Zealand, which is quite a long jump. near Marysvale, sold for ot at which was not thought to be rich, and the gold of which was peculiarly light and flaky. Notwithstanding this, an examination of the tailings showed hardly a color left 27in the sand, and the cents to the cubic dirt worked paid yard. The Bimetallic smelter at Leadville has been closed down by the miners' strike. It is reported that the Utah Spur mine, one of the first locations in the State Line district, has been bonded by Otto Will and A. Murphy for $20,000. B. R. Towndrowr, formerly of Salt Lake, has purchased the Independence mine at Ketchum, Ida. The property shows a large body of silver lead ores. The new concentrator on the Last Chance at Bingham will be started up wdthin a few days. The Last Chance wTas a heavy producer in the early days. It is now owned by Michigan capitalists. mine is now proThe Bullion-Bec- k ducing horn silver ore of the value of $1 per pound. This is not sacked and shipped by itself, but is mixed with the ore of lower grade. There is said to be a considerable body of it. A press dispatch announces the discovery, in the old Faithful mine, near Bannock, Mont., of a gold vein of unknown width, which is richer than anyof thing yet discovered in the State emawhich The Montana. dispatch, nates from Butte, adds that old mining men declare that it is the richest body of gold ore ever known in the world. Whatever the merits of the discovery, there is no lack of enthusiasm in the dispatch. General Manager Farnsworth of the Horn Silver and Austin mining companies has returned from the mines of the Austin company, located at Austin, Nev. The great tunnel which this company is driving is now 5500 feet in the mountain and is going ahead at the rate of 200 feet per month. The company is drifting upon several of the ledges that have been cut, with satisfactory results. A rich ledge wras recently cut in the Union mine, one of the Austin companys group, but naces. Some high grade copper and silver ores have been discovered in the Black canyon of the Gunnison river, northeast of Montrose, Colo. The London Exploration company, in which the Rothschilds are interested, has purchased three gold claims near Eugene City, Or. Discoveries of ore carrying free gold The Trappers Pride group on Mount are reported in Lincoln county, Nev., a Baldy, Piute county, is said to show a fewF miles southwest of the new State free milling gold quartz ledge assay- Line district. Allen G. Campbell of this ing from $5 to $1300 per ton. city has made a number of locations. The Moon Anchor company of Colo- The veins are very wide, and much of rado has indefinitely suspended divi- the rock pans gold. dend payments, on account of too much The annual report of the Mollie Gibof water and not enough ore. son company states that it is believed A vein of fine copper ore has been the main ore body, that was cut off by strikes of this character are of freBunk-ervillon this property. The discovered fifteen miles south of a fault on the sixth level, will be found quent occurrence is now grading the site for a Nev. Two locations made upon not far below the eleventh level. company new the vein have been bonded for $15,000. again which wTill be of The ore shipments during the past thirty-stam- concentrator, p capacity at the start, but The Winnamuck mine at Bingham re- nineteenth months have yielded $60.93 the machinery will not be put in until strike on the 200 per ton. ports an important financial situation becomes more the five-folevel. A body of solid gais on scales Gravel being settled. large lena is exposed .averaging 50 per cent started mining A in French syndiup Spain. Hon. Edw'ard Boyce of Idaho, presilead. cate has taken hold of the old mines in dent of the Western Federation of MiThe August output of the Trade Dol- the Province of Leone, worked by the delivered an address at the Labor lar mine at Silver City, Idaho, was 0 Romans at the beginning of the Chris- ners, celebration at Saltair. His reworth of bullion and concentrates, tian era, and an English syndicate is Day marks were confined to describing the and the September output will reach exploiting some extensive deposits in conditon of the working classes and the $100,000. the Province of Granada. effects of legislation upon the werking-men- . In trying to find a missed shot in the of strikes, he declared, The Many Colorado mining stocks are Ontario last Saturday, Patrick OHara sold by the thousand, instead of at so has passed, day and labor must seek redress: accidentally exploded it. One eye was much per share, and a great many on at the balot-bocong The sewas he and otherwise are Denver less the list than test that was advertised to take place destroyed quoted at $5 per thousand. Of the twenty-tw- o riously injured. at this celebration did not come off, as The Golden Age mine at Boulder, listed mines, there is but one that but one team was entered. Edwrard prosCol., is producing ore worth $20 per reaches $1, and in the sixty listed Chamberlain and William Kelly of 13 cents. the is pects, highest quotation Park City gave an interesting exhibipound, but it is produced in very small e twenty-fivC. E. Hudson and J. R. Slater have tion by drilling 35 inches in a block quantities, only pounds 15 of in minutes. This estabhaving been found. on Shenana bond taken the Balance, granite a record. lishes State The worlds ret The Golden Star company, which has doah, Alberta, Josephine and Leontine 41 is ord inches. on near claims located the and realized assessa recently Flagstaff ment, will devote the proceeds to the Emma mines at Alta. The property has block of stone ever quarThe devlopment of its promising gold prop- been developed by a tunnel 257 feet, ried is largest probably the one just obtained which show's six inches of high grade at Fourmies, erty in the Marysvale district. a civil enBelgium, by ode. lead and silver The Mineral and Mining Board of gineer named Laflitte. This bloc! has The of as its in measures about 10,800 cubic feet, and metals well Chicago name, changed production precious as the scope of its operations. It is now British Columbia is increasing rapidly. its weight is over 7,000,000 pounds, or the Chicago Stock & Mining Board and The official returns show that in 1894 3500 tons. As it stands now in thrt miscellaneous securities are listed. the aggregate value of precious metals quarry, this pebble is worth abou: The Golden Eagle company proposes mined in the Province was $1,000,000. $15,000. After it has been cut up to erect a concentrator on its property Last year the value was $5,038,375, and represent a considerable largo sure to furnish work for in Humboldt county, Nev., this sea- this year the output will be greater, sum, and is stone-cutteabout for the nex: from son. The mine shows a good body of judging the three months ending forty was by ore that carries $20 in gold and 25 July 25, when the estimated value of three months. It quarried 20 band-sameans a wrorked of a ounces silver. smelted was and by $1,700,000. gold shipped horse power engine, and was broker, The Mining & Scientific Press states The big mining boat, which is de- from the rock by a charge of 11 that much of the product of the Green signed to save the gold of the bars in pounds ofsolid powder, which was allowed River soda well will go to the Mercur, the Snake and Clearwater rivers in to Into the crack made by the saw. Utah, cyanide works. There are no Idaho, has been in operation for a short It drop is stated that this block of stone cyanide works at Mercur or elsewhere time and proved a success so far. The now holds the record, so far as siz' in the West, although parties at various first experiment was made on a bar and are concerned, and wfe, ot $60,-00- rock-drillin- x. 1-c- ent rs w weight -- |