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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTA- 1 The La Cigale people expect to have to run the drift from the bottom of the shaft fifty feet further News of the Camps. The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp In Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of merit coming from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. UTAH. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspoudence Mining Hkyikw, Mercur, Oct. 21: depth of 560 feet has been reached by the Heda, and although they have ore, values are as yet too low to be profitable. The company are not discouraged however, but are still prosecuting the search with A vigor. The decision of Judge Ritchie and the Marion-Geys- er suit has pleased the people of Mercur, but a litttle disappointment is expressed that there was not a fuller decision of the apex question. It is still left in doubt nearly as much as before. The Brickyard is still engaged in the work of connecting the incline, through which it is purposed to bring the ore, with the other parts of the mine. The mill site has been decided on and it only needs the word to go ahead, for things to be lively at the property. Considerable development work is being done on the various claims in the district, but it is only a small portion of what remains to be done. Unless some people get a movement on themselves there will be some desirable property open for location January 1st, 1897. large force of men are at work on Lion Hill, grading the Northern Light mill site. Bunk houses etc. are in course of erection, and Mr. Gibson, who has charge of the boarding house at the Sunshine mine, is also in charge of that department at the Northern A Light. The Geyser will now' go ahead and complete their mill which has been hanging fire on account of the law' suit. The work of development has been going on just the same however, and the mine is in good shape to supply the mill. As soon as completed three shifts will be put at work and the mill run to its full capacity. Knauss of Ogden, has let a contract for 100 feet of shaft and tunnel work, on the Bear and Eva groups. These claims are the property of the North Mercur Gold Mining & Milling company, and w'e are assured that on the completion of the contract, another will be let, as the company proposes to see what there is in their claims before letting up. Their claims join the Gladstone, and are due north of the East Golden Gate. It is now an open secret that the East Golden Gate has reached the ore body, but the values obtained are kept still. So far assays heve been made every five feet, but now an assay is made every tw'o feet. It is understood that the property owners in the vicinity are putting up a part of the expenses of sinking the shaft. The drill has now reached a depth of a thouJ. MINING REVIEW. IN H. sand feet. George W. E. Dorsey reports a strike of cinnabar tn the Overland, in a drift that is being run along the vein. The steam hoist over the shaft of the Baby Elephant is now in operation, and the sinking of the 150-fo- ot shaft has been resumed. Work has been resumed on the Sage Hen group adjoining the Sacramento on the south, and held under bond by eastern parties. Frank Boyle will put on a daily stage line running between Mercur and Lion Hill, and will endeavor to make a round trip each day regardless of snow. before they strike the ore. The drift is now in sixty-fiv- e feet. Work is also being pushed on a new discovery about 200 feet from the shaft, where values of $3.60 per ton were obtained. There is talk of a resumption of work on the Old Fred, near the Sunshine, which early in the season was developed to where the ore was reached. Work was then suspended and the mine was allowed to lie idle, but it is now intended to commence work and block out the ore bodies, preparatory to the erection of a mill. A new strike made in the Geyser a few days since has opened up a body of ore assaying $15 per ton and twelve feet thick. The development work at the mine has been advanced so that the increased capacity of the mill will be fully supplied. Work is being pushed rapidly on the improvements and some of the additional tank material is now' on the ground. There is expectation of a dividend of five cents per share before the close of the year. The recent new strike in the Ruby incline, one of the properties of the Mercur company, is a very encouraging one, not only in the values contained in the ore, but because of the locality in which it wras made. drift of the inThe strike was made in the 240-focline, and the first samples gave values of $24 per ton. A crosscut was at once started to ascertain the extent of the new ore body, and it wras found that the average of values across the chute was $58.60. The ore is heavily impregnated w'ith cinnabar. ot Bullion-Bec- k Centennial-Eurek- a 9 Humbug .,10 Utah Ajax 5 South Swansea Sunbeam Buckeye Dragon Iron Mine I Total 72 WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT BINGHAM. In its review' of the weeks occurrences ix that normally active camp, the Bingham Bulletin com- plains of a light batch and an unusually quiet week, due, doubtless, to the depressing effects of low prices. The strike in the 300 level of the Winnamuck is reported to be opening up in fine shape. The Rogers mill is treating a 100 ton lot of the Northern Chief, which is said second dass-froto be doing finely. This week Dave Teachenor shipped a small lot of ore from the Republican below the Phoenix mine, which will run well in gold. It is the first shipment m from the property. . g McKellar has just completed one of his machines with increased capacity, and will set it down in Bingham if he can get dirt to wash under contract or on shares. gold-savin- Manager Wier of the new Henry M. outfit is in consultation with the owner, Mr. Newhouse, at Denver, and it is expexted that plans will be adopted tor the beginning of extensive operations in the near future. Lovendale Bros, and Mose Morris are getting down TINTIC DISTRICT. and a jag from their lease on the Greek-grouThe tailings dam at the Mammoth mill is being are hopeful of a fair return. Former batches of the raised four feet all around, thereby increasing the ore ran 30 ounces silver, $8 to $18 gold and about 30 setling capacity. per cent lead. The South Eureka shaft is now down 167 feet. A Jack Scott has taken a lease and bond for $40,000, contract for 100 feet more has been let. at which running twro years, on the old Hamlin tunnel, just be depth it is expected to cut the vein. low where the main canyon forks into Highland and It is believed that the Opex shaft which is now M. down 140 feet, is nearing the vein, as a mineralized Bear gulch. The Hamlin is owned by Col. shale is putting in appearance. The shaft is going Shanghnessy of Salt Lake, and has about 2,000 feet of tunnel already driven. Some splendid gold ore has down at a rate of five feet per day with tw'o shifts. it is Financial aid for the silver cause to the amount of been taken out, and there is little doubt but that $220, has been contributed by the employes of the situated on one of the favored spots of the Bingham Mammoth mill, and $200 by the Sioux men. gold belt. Mr. Scott will put a force of men to work tunnel The Godiva management, while grading out for the at once, and will run a drift from the main foundation for a blacksmith shop, uncoverd a new about 150 feet to the southwest where he expects to vein entirely distinct from the vein from which ore encounter the vein. was being taken. The new vein js believed to be The Niagara people have let a contract for 400 feet about twelve feet wide between well defined walls, of an incline shaft to be sunk from the lowest depth and contains a good lead ore. in the upper workings and to follow the ore down At a depth of 225 feet the shaft of the Homestake at untill the level of the long tunnel is reached. The Silver City is all in ore, the values in which run 50 reason for this is that diligent prospecting and the ounces silver and 30 per cent copper. intelligent expenditure of a large sum of money failed to find the ore in the tunnel where it would Superintendent Ed X. Kirby of the 3ullion-Bechave been had it not been interrupted by some fault has gone to California on mining business. between the tunnel level and the lowest point it was The Sunbeam at Silver City, the oldest location in worked to from the upper workings. The incline that camp, records one of the most important strikes will trace the ore and follow it down in any direction yet made in the district. The 250 level was started it may take, and when the tunnel is reached connefrom the shaft and when only three feet in an eightee- ction will be made with the vein. Opinions are as to whether the ore will be found to go to the n-inch vein of sulphide ore was encountered. This was drifted on and at eight feet had widened to twenty-- tunnel level, but the majority believe it does. inches. The 300 level was started about the six UINTAH DISTRICT PARK CITY. same time and when in only two feet struck the vein, The Ontario Mill made a recent shipment of 39 which at this point was twelve inches thick. Assays from the ore chute, which by these two levels is bars of bullion containing 23,965.82 fine ounces shown to extend at least fifty feet down the vein, give sliver. values of 250 ounces silver and 46 per cent copper. The engine at the Cumberland has been repaired Albert F. Holden has just completed of the property for the officers, and is very much en- and the mine is again in operation. thused over the present showing and the future posmil1 The brick arch in No. l dryer at the Marsac sibilities of the Sunbeam. wa neceburned out Sunday last and a ciose-dow- n A shipment of 140 tons of good ore was made by the South Swansea last week. ssary in order to make repairs. coCarload shipments were made during the week as A runway for the traveling crane has been follows; nstructed at the Marsac mill between the machine shops 20-to- n p, k, divi-ve- d |