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Show INTER-MOUNTA- NEVdbA. Coray Brothers of Ogden who secured the contract for the big reservoir and ditch at the Island Mountain n men, forty-fiv- e placers, have forwarded forty-sevehorses and two carloads of wagons, scrapers and plows, to commence work with. In addition to this teams are on their way from Mountforce thirty-fiv- e ain Home, Idaho, to engage in the work. The contractors announce wages as follows: Laborers, $1.75; rock men, $2.; man and team, $4. per day, and board per week. Supplies for the new mill of the North Mountain mines at Cherry Creek are being hauled by team from the railroad, and will all be delivered before winter. It is reported that George Swanson, Fred Brann and E. J. Ruby have sold their interest in the Ninety Four placer mine near Dayton, for Si, 000 each, and the Grand Oro company which has bought them out will do extensive work on the entire group. Prospectors report the discovery of a ledge of gold bearing quartz at Roberts ranch, near Verdi, that assavs $100 to the ton. Others have gone out and the entire mountain is being located. The Dexter mine at Tuscarora now has a shipment of $6,000 in cyanides on the way to Salt Lake. The monthly net output is now placed at $18,000, and in transit from the mine to Elko six armed guards accompany the bullion wagon. The Golden Eagle near Tuscaroroa sent a carload of gold ore, to the Salt Lake market last week, which This gave returns of 2 ounces of gold per ton. at $4.50 property is 200 miles nearer to the San Francisco manager Charies H. Wilbur prefers to ship to Salt Lake, as the company is composed of Salt Lake men. Salt Lake also gets the benefit of the supplies used at the mine. The directors of the company have decided to sink the main shaft another 105 feet which will give a total depth of 300 feet, and will furnish but additional stoping ground. The Silver Stal of Winnemucca has raised and forwarded to chairman Jones, $1,350. for use in the Bryan campaign. INCORPORATIONS. Century Gold Mining Company. Capital, $150,000. 150.000 shares. Delaney Wilson, president; Samuel Stillman, Thomas B. Busby, secretary; William R. Bowden, treasurer. The property of the company in the Century, Century No. 2, Laura, Lizzie. Marian, June Bug, Fraction, Gold Star and Gold Star No. 2 mining claims in Box Elder county. in vice-preside- nt; Coinage Mining and Milling Company. Capital $125,000, in 500,000 shares. D. H. Wenger, presiFree dent; L. P. R. S. Hamilton, Robinson, treasurer; J. E. Darma;, secretary. The company owns the Free Coinage, First East Extension of the Free Coinage, First West and Second West Extensions of the Free Coinage, in the Little Cottonwood mining vice-preside- nt; district. Japan Mining and Milling Company. Capital $20,-0in 20,000 shares, incorporators are Shand Smith, John Higson, W. F. Shelton and Charles Auer. The company is organized to buy, sell and operate mining 0, properties. Undine 0 Mining Company. Capital, $150,000, in shares. S. S. Jones, president; S. H. Allen, S. J, Jones, secretary and treasurer. The company owns the Wind Ridge, Jo Dandy and Christian lodes in Silver citv, Tintic district. 150,-00- vice-preside- nt; THE DIAMOND DRILL IN MIN I MG. By E. 1. Jennings. C. E. M. E. The Diamond drill has been used so long and so successfully in developing the extent and value of or.e deposits of all kinds that very little new can be on the subject, It has been used for many years the Lake Superior country and the discovery of many fine mines are due to the drill. Also many of our western camps have been benefited by its use. put possibby its latest and best work has been done demonstrating the permanence of the gold reefs in uth Africa. Its testimony there has increased the value of those deposits immensely. The placing of a few drill holes in a new camp will otten give a better idea of its value than many months nc We spent in sinking shallow prospect holes. ?n all call to mind expensive plants, erected on the rength of surface indications, that have been total sss to their owners, either on account of a change aracter, quality or amount of ore. A 500 foot h ,e would have saved all this. tin? CR a working is given for sixty days; the option k so limited that not much of a shaft can be 1R 115 -- : i MINING REVIEW IN sunk in that time, but a drill hole can be put down and all the information required is obtained quickly and at small cost. In case an ore deposit pinches or is faulted, a well located drill hole will often find it at a tenth of the cost of sinking and drifting. There are some camps where water cannot be obtained, and at such places the Diamond Drill cannot be utilized. Sufficient water to operate the drill can be hauled by one team a distance of five or six miles, an additional distance would add somewhat to the cost. Some formations are not particularly favorable for drill work, but this canbeover-comeb- y using casing pipe, that adds a small amount to the cost. Where the formation will not furnish a solid case it is possible to save the borings and get an accurate assay of every foot of ground drilled. Whenever a deep hole is required and an accurate record of the ground passed through is desired the Diamond drill is the proper tool to use. 7 PERSONALS. e Charles Frederick Fulton, an Nevada miner, died at Eureka on the 17th inst. Joseph Lakin, of the Sacramento at Mercur, has returned from a visit to his old home in Maine. old-tim- Captain Henry Stern, the eminent mining expert and auditor, is back in Salt Lake from New York. Roy Mayne, the Reviews correspondent at Mercur, was in Salt Lake on mining business during the week. W. R. Busenbark, of the East Golden Gate, has returuedto Utah after an absence of several weeks in the east. H. B. Mitchell, government engineer on the Fort Hall Indian reservation, died at Ross Fork, Idaho, on October 27th. The advantages of the drill are so obvious to any James A. Yeatmai; of the mining machinery firm of mining man that I am surprised that it is not more Edward P. Allis Co., has gone into Colorado on maextensively used in Utah. chinery business. . SHOW THE VISITORS AROUND. (CoinmimicaU'd.) John G. Bechtol of the Walker House is returned to Salt Lake from an inspection of the Snake Rive It has been remarked that while in the summer sea- placers near Lewiss Ferry, Idaho. son Salt Lake has its share of the tourist travel, very few of them ever visit the mines, mills or smelters. James W. Searles has returned from an extended This should not be. We have visitors who come to eastern visit, and after a short stay in Salt Lake will our City to see all its beauties and hear of our great leave for Arizona where he is engaged in mining. mineral wealth; who see and hear of the men who have made fortunes trom our mines, and go away under the impression that all a man has to do is to go into our mountains, look around a few days, make a location and his fortune is made. They little dream of the hardships a prospector endures, of the hope that springs eternal in his breast, that one day his perserverance will be rewarded. Some do find a mine, the majority succumb to the privations they encounter, pass away and a new corps take their places. But when one of them does find a good prospect in most cases he is not able, in his hand to mouth existence, to properly develop it. He is forced to go to the men with money to do the work and is always willing' to give up most ot his interests to someone who will work it for him. Few understand or realize the vast amount of money expended in working and developing our mines; a less number, the immense capital required before the ore from a mine is turned into bullion; even then a vast capital is required to convert it into coin or separate the metals. Our people should insist on our visitors visiting our mines and various reduction works. If they did we would not hear so much about our mining kings that is untrue. One day or two at the most would show to them the method of mining and reduction. At Park City they could easily visit one Of the great mines, learn that it takes great ability to ...anage one of them; seethe dangers that the miner faces from day after day; see great hoisting plants, pumps and machinery that have cost millions of dollars; deep shafts, great tunnels and drifts that have cost thousand upon thousands of dollars. Timbers to support the ground and timber the various tunnels, shafts, drifts and raises, the cost of timber alone being almost beyond belief. They could visit one of the various mills; see the ore that comes from the mines; watch it from the time it enters the mill until' it leaves it deprived of all its precious metals, and wonder that the brain of man has evolved such wonderful methods of wringing from mother earth our gold and silver. Visit other camps easily reached. Bingham, Mercur, Eureka, Mammoth and see the various forms in which mother nature has deposited the various precious metals. Close to our City are great smelting plants, which would awfully repay any one in the useful iniormation they would obtain during a few hours visit. This would applv to many of our own residents, none of whom should ever go away on a visit who could not explain to their friends, from actual observation, the workings of a mine, mill or smelter. Ephraim Garns, of Lake Shore, is in Denver at present, purchasing machinery and pipe for an oil well which he will sink at Green River, Utah, to a depth of 2,000 feet. topographer of the United States Geological Survey, haj arrived in this city, and will shortly commence work on the topographical departW. T. Griswald, a ment of the survey of Tintic. Joseph Diederich, the well known millwright has returned from the Blue Mountains, in San Juan country, where he has been erecting the mill of the Gold Queen Mining company. P. A. H. Franklin, well known here from his con- nection with many important mining enterprises, and now' manager of the Hope mine at Basin, Montana, wras in Salt Lake for a few days last wreek and this. Tibbetts, formerly with one of the South African Exploration companies, is on his way to Arizona to inspect mining properties in the interest c of the syndicate. He will also examine mines on the Mother Lode in California for the same company. Taylor Brownlee, w'ell known in this city, died at Altman, Colorado, on the 2ist, inst, just after he had made an important strike in some mining property he was developing. He was well and favorably known among mining men and was at one time associated with Tabor in that gentlemans mining ventures. His brother Clay Brownlee, resides in Salt Lako. Mr. J. H. Anglo-Pacifi- Ex-Senat- or GO TO HARRIS & WILSON For Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. Companies only represented. 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