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Show INTER-MOUNTA- MINING REVIEW. IN warehouse. The new arrangement is quite shaft that carries considerable copper and averages convenient in handling heavy castings. Platforms 2,000 ounces in silver. have also been constructed for the storage of cast The pay streak in the Burro has widened to three ings. eet, making it one of the richest mines in Utah. The find of mineral reported to have been made in Gold Haven people have just struck the Creole Snake Creek district last week turned out to be of no vein, which they have been sinking for, demonstrating cons.quence in spite. of the excitement created. The ;he fact that the farther they go down the richer it rock looked nice and was very promising but its pringets. Undoubtedly the Creole and Gold Havenxlaims . cipal contents was iron. i are bonanzas. Rasband returned Wednesday evening from ja.nes The geneaal opinion among miners is that the American Fork where he has been working a prosearth still holds her richest treasures in the district pect in which himself and brothers and John Diem for the man who is able to develop some of the many are interested.. He brought back some nice looking conspicious contacts and veins that form a great net-- , rock recently cut in the shaft being sunk on the propwork over the entire district for 30 miles from north erty Jnd tests of it will be made. The rock has very to south and ten miles from east to west. :Some of much the appearance of that being shipped as first the best undeveloped claims in the district can be It is to be hoped that class ore by the Live Yankee. which bought for a few hundred dollars, many-othe rock will at least show favorable results even if it would be a big investment for a small capitalist: be ore. notiprove'to shipping joes' . There is a good field with plenty of; room for prosVarcoe Messrs. John. and Fred Flindf.have leased pectors all along the Line north of th$ Utah Spur the Ontario No. 2 tailings dam, erected a jcozy buildifor ten miles. William Daugherty and Uncle Bill ng, put in an engine and other machinery patterned Walker are in that neighborhood and have made after their own ideas and will make the experiment of several good strikes, having obtained .600 ounces in working over the tailings deposited in the dam many silver in the Puzzle. years ago. If the mill runs average with the test samPretty lively prospecting is going on about seven ples taken Messrs. Varcoe and Flindt expect to do some better than making wages. They have erected miles due south of here and a good many claims are being recorded from there. We look for good reports a good building and their machinery, barring the ensoon. gine, is all new and well arranged, and if it proves successful in saving the values .will be run without Among the new arrivals are Messrs. Smith and Reser from Marysvale. They say they are well pleased interruption the entire winter. The ore in the Vallejo is steadily improving in with the outlook and are open for speculation. Messrs. Millet, Rice and others have consumated a quality arid holding its own in quantity; in fact the property, gives every indication of sustaining the deal with Judge Jones of Provo, on the Gold Hill favorable opinions formed of its value and of carryi- property, in which the Judge obtains, an interest and ng to a successful fruiton the hopes raised in the agrees to construct a 2,000 foot tunnel as the conActive work will be begun immediabosoms of its owners. Developments are now being sideration. pushed vigorously through the old tunnel, where ore tely. Iron County Record. is being extracted, and by means of the proposed long Recent reports from the new district bring news of tunnel to tap the vein at a point some 500 feet deeper an exceedingly rich strike in the Gold Haven, an exthan the present opening. in The new tunnel is now feet tension of the Creole. At a depth of forty-fiv- e odd feet is as and as fifty being' pushed possirapidly in the shaft a crosscut was run toward the ledge ble with means at hand. The ore now coming from which when reached proved to be over four feet wide the mine looks very fine and shows strong assays and and good quartz filled with gold. The assay figures its owners are entirely satisfied with the condition have not yet been furnished and it is probable that and the ongs to the Golden Star company of which Timothy Egan,of-SalLakeis president. The Breckinridge-minon which a 300-fotunnel s being, driven, hasore assaying $570 the values be- ng . gold. ... James Lang Jr.t has obtained a bond on . the. Sur- prise group for $3,000 running until December. t e nine-tent- . ' . . . . . . .m ' - 4 - ot hs . . ' i f .- ; ' , 1 m .. MARYSVALE DtSRlCT. ' The long tunnel on the. Clyde mine which is being developed by Isaac Jennings of Salt Lake, is now in 1,700 feet and is still being driven ahead. From : the upper workings rich silver ores, carrying a good percentage in lead; were extracted years ago. There is over of tunnel in the Deer Trail mine, says the piuterPioneer, and .85000 itons of ore vawaiting shipment. j A company of Payson men have bonded the from Francis. Haughey and Ed Foisey,- and will Rqt on a force to develop the property: Assays running $15 gold and 30. ounces silver- per . ton Faye . one-mil- e - No-Vou-Do- nt, - ' : been taken from this property. r In the i Lucy Morish, one of the Deseret gronp, a good vein was recently encountered containing values of $42 gold and 5 ounces silver: Judge W. W. Wallace,1 of Richfield, has" been engaged on the Bully Boy, Sunrise and Webster claims all summer, and promises important developments from the Webster in the near future. r"7 "i 1 o The Cascade mine, owned by De Witt and Durkee of Marysvale and S. R. Sherman of Provo, has a five foot ledge assaying 30 ounces silver, $3 in gold and 20 per cent lead. The property has two tunnels. OPHIR DISTRICT. The old Chicago mine in Dry Canyon is being opened up for producing by Dr. M. N. Buck and the Bowring Bros., of Salt Lake, whowilloperate it under lease. ' As i preliminary about 700 feet of tunnel' track are being laid, and it is believed that shipments. will be made within a very few weeks, as large ore . : bodies carrying 40 per cent lead and 25 ounces silver, ire saifl to be blocked out. In the past the Chicago was a big producer, and frequently shipped some very high grade silver ores. It is owned by Henry W. Park Record. non will be needed, as the report saysThat quuartz Lawrence and other Salt Lake parties. from any part of the ledge"where it has been cut, is STATE LINE DISTRICT. covered and specked with gold. Further' particulars .DEEP CREEK DISTRICT. No news of great strikes comes from State Line, of this latest strike will be eagerly looked foryet a prOpspector from that section a few days ago Correspondence Mining Review- Ibapah, October, 19. Considerable excitement is states that there are two or three good gold propertGOLD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. working the residents and miners of Clifton and ies there which people on the outside know nothing of for the reason that the owners believe in the The Butler-Bec- k mine, owned by Judge Wallace of other districts by the appearance here of Mr., merit of their claims and are not yet ready to place Sevier, has a shaft 150 feet deep and a drift 200 feet McVickey of the Standard Oil Company, accompanany figures on them. Gold ore of high grade and long. It is in a mountain of gold ore which assays ied by Mr. Green, who is bonding gold and copper here at good prices, considering the isola-- . resemidle. The is much ores but now fair from properties $10 is scarce not up, and is going prospecting quantity ble those of the famous Sevier mine in character and lion of the district. They have already secured the on in every quarter of the district. In his claim south of the Deer Lodge camp, on the values, and it is believed that a deal is now under Kinney and Carmen properties on which considerable development has been done, but the prices at Nevada line, Joe Delmue is reported to have cut in way by which a mill will be erected early in the comwhich the properties had been tied up is not known. his tunnel, a four foot vein of high grade silver ing year. bearing ore. The ledge was cut after running the D. B. Darger, manager of the Silver King, has just Every indication points to an active season to follow tunnel some sixty feet. The ledge on the surface is erected an amalgamation plant for the milling of his in the wake of the purchases made by the representatraceable for a distance of three miles and an old tives of the Standard Oil Company. All the district dump ores that assay $5 in gold. miner who has is capital for developjust returned from there ezpresses the A tunnel is being driven on the Blue Bird, requires to come to the front opinion that it will develop into one of the biggest ores they ment. Water for milling purposes usually has to be from their to contractors the get any pay silver and this can easily be done and proprerties known hereabouts for discover and take out in the tunnel without piped long distances, may Record. of water obtained if a few companies with Stoping. These terms seem hard in view of the fact plenty State Line mining prospects are steadily improving that no ore was in sight when the contract was taken, capital get a foothold. and At Clifton district the Gold Hill company has just prospectors are taking the advantage of the but to date the contractors have decidedly the best of pleasant Fall weather and are now pushing their it. Salt They had driven but a short distance when they had a survey completed by Col. Stevenson of developments as fast as they are able. Some of them encountered a vein of rich gold ore from which they Lake, for a pipe line twenty eight miles long, to conare Creek to a opening very rich prospects, making several took about 2,400 pounds. This brought them ovei vey the surplus water of Fifteen-Mil- e Suable additions to the list of saleable propositions. the mill. The $200, and was splendid wages for the time they had natural reservoir that stands above Lambert and Drake are in lOOand 150 feet resphct worked. Another vein was encountered later and company has five Crawford mills but water has ively. on their bonanzas on Mineral Hill, and every from assays obtained it is expected that the ore they been so scarce that in econominizing it has been fot shows. a decided improvement. are permitted to take out under the provisions of the used over and over again until it has become so thick be- - with.slimes.that it carries off some of the fine gold. The in their contract, will net them over $400. The Blue Bird Ophir people have struck . . . 100-fo- years.-r-Pioc- ot he . ' .. |