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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTA- TINTIC DISTRiCT. On monday the Mammoth mill started to utilize its full battery of sixty stamps and from mill this on is entitled to be rated a sixty-stam- p in fact. The delay in putting the full battery m harness was not for want of ore supply at the mine but the diffibuly in getting it to the MINING REVIEW IN five Dr. Witcher and asssociates have acquired 200 acres of placer ground in the mouth of the canyon, which is reported as carrying 85 cents in gold to the yard, the gravel being twenty feet deep in places, I n washiugthe dirt it will first be concentrated and then run through a Huntington mill, queer way to work flacers but one that has been adopted by these people. mit. mill by the slow process of wagon transportation. It was therefore deemed advisable to WYOMINQ. await the completion of the railroad, which now regularly dumps about 225 tons of preSpecimens of gold quartz have been brought into each bins the into mine ore Laramie from the new Grand Encampment district, capacious pared is day, and the process of handling the treasure with free gold glittering all over it. The district a of good from the subteranen caverns of the mine to being actively worked and gives promise attained. has been on when the future ledges depth the mint is systemized to a clockwork perfecThere are $25,000 worth of copper ore on the dump Eureka Democrat. tion of George Doanes copper mine at Battle Mountain, Another strike of 100 ounce ore was made which Mr, Doane is having hauled to Wolcott on the in the Sunbeam last Friday, this time on the Union Pacific for shipment to Argentine, Kansas. All ore carries $10 in gold per ton, but a reopposite side of the workings where the strike the copper in was made during the previous week, which indi- cently discovered streak in the mine shows $30 gold. cates a complete network of mineral. MamA contract has been mad between the Grant smelmoth Record. ter and the Good Fortune mine at Hartville for the The following are the carload shipments for delivery by the latter of 4000 tons of iron ore. The ore will be hauled by wagon from the mines to Badthe week : a distance Bullion-Bec- k 35 ger station on the Cheyennt & Northern, Centennial-Eurek- a 9 of fourteen miles. on a big ditch to be seventeen miles long in North Park, near Independ2 ence Mountain, that is being constructed to work a 1 large placer field in the Park. 5 William Lindgram ot the United States Geological p Survey has commenced an examination of the mineral S His attention will first be regions of the State. 7 diverted to an examination of the Silver Crown district near Cheyenne. He wjll give the gold and silver S4 resources an exaustive examination. 4 5 Gemini Swansea South Swansea Buckeye Humbug Sioux Mammoth Dragon Iron Mine Total About 250 men are employed The last lot of ore shipped to the Salt Lake market IDdHO. from the Galena mine netted $74.45 per ton, which is evidence of the high grade of the ore when the long The saw mill at H. H. Crane & Son up the North wagon haul is taken into consideration. Before the Fork, is running day and night, turning out lumber ore reaches the smelters from the Galena and Utah it for the big flume of the Bingham Placer company, has a wagon haul of seventy eight miles followed by and for the A. D. & M. company. The mill has a 153 miles of railroad. It is stated that both properof 24,000 feet per twenty-fou- r hours. ties have ore reserves that are too low grade to ship at capacity a protit under the existing lack of transportation The ditch of Pierce creek placers, owned by David facitities, but which would put them in the same class Bevan of Butte, has been enlarged, and the ground as the best of Tintics mines, if they were adjacent to will be opened up extensively next year. a railway. As it is the companies mine only the The A, D. & M. Gold Mining of Gibbonshighest grade of ore and are not particular about ville has received mint certificatescompany for $235,000 in gold extracting all of that, as they prefer to retain as much delivered since last Januarv. ore as possible for the time when the cost of transA Colorado man named Edmonds has bought the portation is less. Buster & Rose mine in Mineral Hill district, and A will erect a stamp mill at once. GOLD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. wagon is also to be built from Gibbonsville to the road William Cummings is taking out $40 gold ore from mine. a fifty foot shaft on the Ready Cash mine. John and Samuel Robinson of Pittsburg, stockA rich strike has been made in the Hazel Kirk, owned by William Jonas, ore running over $200 in holders in the Red Cloud mining company of Hailey, brought an action before Judge Beatty of the United gold per ton having been found. States district court at Boise, on Friday, asking for Superintendent Mendnue of the Breckinridge mine the payment of a debt of $70,000, either from the is a boarding house to accommodate Mail. To realize the magnitude and extent of the work being done on the big flume four miles and a quarter in length, being constructed for the Bingham Placer company, of which Chas. W. Watson is the manager the reader should take a walk over the ground as the writer did yesterday. climb of the hill from Anderson creek some 3oo feet brought us to a place where about the last of the plowing and scraping is being done. Going up, the grade is but a quarter of an inch to the rod and is made for a flume four and a fourth feet on the bottom and three and a half feet on the sides and the stream will carry, it is said, 2,200 miners inches of water. There is a force of about thirty men at work on the grade which will probably be finished next Tuesday. There is still quite a lot of rock work and digging at places, but the main force of the men were hard at it under the foremanship of John Sauser. Goe. C. McFarland is the sureyor in charge of the grading. Nearly two miles of the bottom and sides of the flume have been laid, but it will require several weeks for the carpenters to finish their work. It will be beyond doubt the best piece of work of its kind in the country the fact that lumber is good and convenient being largely in its favor. It will have a pressure, and we understand a flume will be built and the bar where the Davis boys worked last spring will be worked oflf first, when 3,000 yards or more of dirt will be moved with the liberal use of water and dynamite. A side estimate of the work gives iMessrs. Penwell & Crone, the contractors, about $1,000 apiece for thelT profits of the great undertaking. Gibbonsville A 330-fo- ot bed-roc- k Miner. FISH SPRINGS DISTRICT. building miles above Walters ferry. From there to miles and Dewey (Boonville) is a distance of forty-fiv- e the road will run up Rabbit creek, and from the head of that creek cross the divide. Work on the entire line will be continued as long as the weather will per. MILL CREEK CANYON. Mr. Woods of Illonois has purchased a half interest in the lim Hill mine, adjoining the Keystone for $1,300. A Rev. J. L. Weaver and Judge Olden of Boise are operating placers at the junction of Powder and Snake miles below Huntington. The derivers, thirty-thre- e posits promise good returns, and & force of forty men is now employed on the construction of a ditch seven miles long to bring water from Powder river. The thirty-stam- mill of the Lucky Boy, in Custer p county is running on ore from the mine. The shaft is now 450 feet deep, and reports are to the eifect that some better ore was recently struck. Steen is dropping five stamps on ore from his mine on Jordan creek, six miles from Custer. D. M. A ten-stam- mill is running on ores from the Black p mine near Custer, owned by Myron Crafts. labor strike in the works of an eastern mining machinery firm has interfered with the erection of a mill on the Die Brothers gold mine on Jordan creek. A The mill will be put up next year. the proceeds of the mine or by apportioning the debt among the stockholders. Judge Beatty appointed Congressman Edgar Wilson as receiver of the property pending the proceedings. The complaint of the petitioners recites that the officers of the company refused to further propect the Red Cloud mines, and the strike and blockingout ore for extraction. have leased them to Lyttleton Price of Hailey. The contract for running the crosscut tunnel to THE STATE AT LARGE. cut the Banner group of mines on Florida mountain, The Superior mine near Half Way Canyon, in is in the hands of Harry Richards and John Davis, Cache County, is said to have about six feet of good and work will be pushed with all dispatch. shipping ore carrying gold, copper and iron. Mr. Four bars of bullion valued at $13,400 were shipped M. C. Smith of Salt Lake is interested in the property, and is about to form a company for its exploration. by the De Lamar company last week. H. C. Baker, who is managing the The official test of the Pelatin-Cleriprocess is properties of the Consolidated M. & M. Companys mines four miies now under way at De Lamar, under the personal east of. Brigham City, has a large force of men push- supervision of F. Clerici of Milan, Italy, one of the ing construction on the long tramway that will con- patentees. nect the mines with the railroad. The company has Colonel W. H. Dewey, the well known Owyhee ore that runs as high as $400 per ton. man, is at the capital. Col. Dewey is also Vernal Express: T. A. Walley and Hyrum Beck mining of the Owyhee railroad now in course of president arrived on the stage last night and on Monday will construction to the mines. He states from start a full force of men at work on the asphaltum that 160 men and aNampa number of teams are now large claims of the Utah Asphalum and Varnish company between Nampa and Snake river on the to do assessment work. It generally takes three or employed grade. The steel bridge across Snake river is being four weeks to do the work and puts about $3,000 in built in Pittsburg and will be shipped west in a few circulation in the valley. days. The crossing of Snake river is at a point about force that he intends to work this winter. A large body of free milling ore has been opened up in the 160-fotunnel out that taps the ledge at a depth of 100 feet, and it is proposed to build a mill in the spring. Meantime work will be pushed developing a. d ot CO LO bx 3 cl r--1 cu tt. u C 00 CL) O C U c ci C cn C) D () d u O h c f- -C d a-- 00 L I T3 du u I d d DO 1 i dO h6 (J Z O u v ocd UL v rs C4 'f) |