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Show 6 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N does not exist in nature, which is equivalent to saying: that though hens it lay eggs under domestication, they never did so in a state of nature, and that in the infinite combinations in the laboratory of nature what man can accomplish with his crude methods actually neer occurs. There is to me but one tenable view, that when sulphides dissolve gold without precipitation the gold must occur as a sulphide or as a NEWS CLEAN-U- P. The New York Mining Exchange is in the hands of a receiver. A $30 nugget was taken out of the Colorado river at Chimehuevis, Ariz., last week. The Orpha May shaft, on Bull Hill, Cripple Creek, is in $620 gold ore at a depth of 400 feet. Axell Scoville, a miner, was killed by a cave in the Standard mine at Coeur dAlene last week. The largest stamp mill now in operation in South Dakota is the 200 stamps of the Homestake mine at Lead. It is reported that the Pearce family have sold their mine at Pearce, Ariz., for $275,000, of which $30,000 was paid them last week. A mill run on ore from the Imperial, on Cherry Creek, White Pine county, Nev., gave returns of 83 ounces silver, $38.40 gold and 17 per cent lead. The De Lamar mine at DeLamar, Ida., is still closed down, no action having been taken on the demands of the striking miners for higher wages. France is now looked upon as the best foreign market for American mines. Belgium, Austria and Russia have also caught the mining fever. mine has paid The Centennial-Eurek- a 114 dividends of 50 cents per share, making a grand total of $1,710,000, or $210,000 more than the capitalization. The Queen of Sheba mine, in the Deep Creek country, will probably be equipped with a Crawford mill during the present season. Yesterday the Mercur company distributed another $25,000 dividend among its stockholders, bringing the total up to $450,000. The dividend was 12Vfc cents per share. In Australia the miners and prospectors are roasting; up in Alaska they are freezing to death, while in Africa they are devoured by flies and bugs of all degrees of fierceness. The grand midsummer carnival, to be held in this city July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, will afford opportunity to Eastern people to visit the mining districts of complex chemical compound with sulphides, and that on the precipitation of these sulphides the sulphide, or the omplex compound, of gold also goes with them as such with the loss of some of the sulphur and the consequent deposition of a part of the gold in the native state. This is strengthened by the fact that the roasting of both kinds of ores (sulphides and oxides) sets all the gold free. The common theory of the mechanical entanglement of gold cannot explain the refractory nature of sulphide ores carrying gold. That there are many combinations of gold not usually admitted is beginning to be a general belief, for we have an aurate of baryta at Tintic, and many combinations not known a few years ago are now known to exist. Of the source of the mineralization of Mercur Mr. Spurr does not even attempt to guess, but imagines that it is in some way connected with the white porphyry, though remotely. I, on the other hand, find that the birdseye porphyry is heavily charged with the elements capable of forming the deposits and that there is ample room for the solutions to come from it, through it, and along the contact from all depths and flow along the bedding, producing what we know to exist in Mercur. In addition it comes nearer to the Golden Gate than the white porphyry main Utah at a slight cost. body does. Mr. Spurrs theory fails utWhat is supposed to be the extendistrito account the for sion of the Smuggler chute was recentgeneral terly bution of gold in low values through- ly discovered in the Mollie Gibson mine Aspen. Several shipments of 100 out Mercur where there is no porphyry. at ounce ore have been made. to of account for the leaching the vein where the cross breaks occur, which is general, for if the ores can be leached by solutions now they could have still easier occurred in the form of solutions at the beginning. I have always felt some uncertainty as to the part played by the white porphyry in the mineralization of Mercur, for generally there is at least a slight mineralization from all eruptive rocks. I should expect that in the vicinity of the white porphyry there would be a slight increase in the values due to it. Should it be proved that the white porphyry is earlier than the birdseye porphyry, as is possible, then the last doubt in my mind as to the mineralization would be dispelled, though some changes would have to be made to account for certain outlying mineral It fails Carpenter of the Pleasant Valley Coal company went down the road yesterday to distribute $35,000 among the employees at Scofield and Castle Gate, the result of their April earnings. The Victor section of the Cripple Creek district is enjoying the liveliest boom it has yet experienced, and it is said there is more money now being expended upon development work than E. L. ever before. Capt. DeLamar, having purchased one of the richest mines and a controlling interest in the Camp Floyd waterworks, has now taken in the electric project and will supply the district with light and power. Mexico has commenced to manufacture her own mining machinery and supplies, with the result that such articles can now be purchased for much less than the prices paid for imported products a few years ago. The Pleasant Valley Coal company has just completed the erection of twenty more coke ovens to its origibodies. nal coke plant at Castle Gate, increasing the number of ovens to 104 and the total output of coke to ninety tons. Advices from London indicate that The Trail Creek, B. C., News wishes a large amount of English capital will the widest publicity given to the statement are over 1000 unemthere that seek investment during the present men in Rossland and Trail and season, and much of it will undoubt- ployed one going there seeking work that any edly find its way to the American should invariably buy a return ticket. mines. The English banks are paying The April Fool mine at DeLamar, 1 but per cent per annum on time Nev., seems to be all that has been for it in point of richness. Two deposits, and such an abundance of claimed lots of ore were in this city cheap money should encourage the during the week. marketed One lot of ten tons flotation of good mining enterprises. averaged 39 ounces in gold and fourteen tons carried 14 ounces. The latter came from the Swifter, one of the group that has recently been opened up. The new mill will soon be in operation. Several Idaho mills have been obliged to close down on account of the bad roads. The Vestal Con. company last week, fired two charges of giant powder of 300 pounds each in breaking down an gravel bank at Murray, Ida. Henry Murphy declares that the Congress mine, in Arizona, is the biggest A regold mine in the United States. cent strike on the 800 level shows a four-fobody of ore that carries $400 ton. per The boom in Comstock shares continues, as the result of the recent, strikes on the Brunswick lode. These strikes have given rise to expectations of an output as great as that of the Comstock lode, which has yielded 80-fo- ot ot $500,-000,00- 0. The new plant of the Portland company, at Cripple Creek, is now completed. The hoisting engines are of 600 horse-powand will raise a load of seven tons at a speed of 1000 feet per minute. The company has resumed the payment of dividends. Hamilton Smith, the noted English expert, is on his way to Montana to make another examination of the Anaconda mine. It is claimed that the syner dicate that recently purchased 200,000 shares of the stock of this company is trying to secure 300,000 more. Salt Lake parties have recently purchased large tracts of placer ground along Clear Creek, in Piute county, and are now constructing a ditch for a hydraulic plant. The gravel is said to be rich and the gold coarse. Much of it is found with small pieces of quartz adhering. A San Francisco dispatch states that Judge Hibbard has reduced the amount of damages assessed against the company in the suit brought by M. W. Fox and others. His first decision gave a judgment for $210,197 for excessive milling charges, and $739,618 for damages by fraud. This latter sum has been reduced to $417,638. In the trespass suits of the Bullion-Bec- k company vs. the Eureka Hill and Eureka Hill vs. the Bullion-Becthe jury awarded the Bullion-Bec- k $11,236 for ores extracted by the Eureka Hill and found for the latter company in the sum of $1374 for ores extracted from its ground by the Bullion-BecThe Gold Belt Water company, which supplies water to the Camp Floyd district, has made a uniform rate of of a cent per gallon for milling purposes. Under this rate the cost of water is about 20 cents per ton of ore treated. The income of the Gold Belt company is about $200 per day. d of the Golden Reward Mining companys properties at Deadwood, S. D., have been sold to persons closely connected with the Illinois Central railroad for $500,000. The sale of the entire property for one and a half million dollars was about to be closed when the President's Venezuelan mesNor-cro- ss k, k. one-thi- rd One-thir- sage come out. The late spring storms have seriously retarded mining work in the Cottonwoods and in American Fork. F. Rehr-ma- n of the Phoenix mine in Big Cottonwood states he has had three wagon loads of groceries and mining supplies laid up at Argenta since April 8th, and cannot yet move them. The recent rains here have deposited fresh snows in the mountains. Operations are to be resumed at the Ophir mine, Rocky Bar, Ida. Standard Oil people spent several thousand dollars on this property and then sold It to a New York company for $200,000. The workings are 300 feet deep and a mill has been erected. The vein is from two to seven feet wide and mills from $20 to $100 in gold. The Mining Review has received a copy of the prospectus of the Mercur Gold Production company. This company is composed chiefly of Omaha capi- 20-sta- mp |