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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- how big it was those who know wont tell. Those who have been guessing at cost twice the sum. The Gold Queen company is now receiving: bids on a tramway for the transportation its weight and1500value have brought the former up to pounds and the latter of the ore from the mine to the mill. to This make it about $300,000. The Geyser mine, at Silver Cliff., seven times as wouldand valuable as large Colo., is producing: very rich ore from the ever found. Acbiggest gold nugget level. the cording to an exchange, the heaviest The dynamite monopoly in the Transever discovered was found near vaal imposes a tax of $2,405,000 per an- nugget the village of Moliagel, Victoria, Ausnum upon the mine owners. tralia, in February, 1869. Two proshas about Hill company The Ophir pectors found it on the margin of a 60,000 tons of tailings impounded at the patch of auriferous aluminum, within mill, and it is the intention to erect a two feet of the bedrock of sandstone. their treatment next year. The nugget was 21 inches long and a plant for 1000 tons were washed down the fraction over 10 inches thick. When About canyon by the recent flood. melted the pure gold it was found to 2500-fo- ot 2000-fo- ot The two Kincaid mills erected by the Dexter company upon its property near Tuscarora, Nev., were expected to be in operation the latter part of this week. The capacity of each is twelve to fifteen tons per day. F. A. Hoock, one of the heaviest stockholders in the Pheonix Silver Mining company of Big Cottonwrood, has secured a two years lease on the property, and will work continuously a force of six men. Mr. Hoock has Eastern capital behind him. The machinery for the new Daly-We- st hoist reached Park City from Chicago yesterday. This will probably be the finest hoisting plant in the State. The engines are of power, load at a and will lift a double-dec- k speed of 2100 feet per minute. The hoist will be equipped with double-dec- k steel cages, and has a capacity of 3000 feet. It will be in operation within thirty days, and the force at the mine will then be largely increased. In the issue of the Review of July 9th, in the article on the Old Telegraph mine in Bingham, the statement was made That sulphide ores have not yet been encountered, etc. The statement was, in a measure, incorrect; and is misleading. As a matter of fact, the sulphide ores have intruded themselves into the carbonates in that mine, and have been extracted since its earliest history. At the same time, the work done has not yet gone below the horizon of the oxidized ores, and what was intended to be conveyed in the article was that, regardless of the immense output of the Old Telegraph, the unoxidized zone, containing sulphide ores been reached, uniformly, had not for the reason that yet the workings had not been carried to sufficient depth. The Commissioner of Patents at Melbourne has refused the application of the owners of the MacArthur-Forrepatents for leave to amend fyanide their specifications. The amendment desired to be made was the insertion a cause effect that the patentees did not claim generally the use of solutions of any strength, but the process obtaining gold and silver from ores and other compounds with a dilute solution containing cyanogen or cya-nidr other substances or a compound containing or yielding cyanogen substantially as specified. In refusing aPPlication, the Commissioner stated that it seemed to him the object was to amend the specification not by correcting and explaining what was kpo. but imperfectly stated, originally- but by introducing subsequently 250-hor- se st e, acquired knowledge. The Utah State Land Commissioners propose to ascertain, by a test selection, nnether mineral lands were included e and ffrant carried the act. This is a very byimportant en-ablin- g: or mineral lands may be of revenue, provided the otate disposes of them upon such terms S encourage their development, in the absence of any reservation of mineral lands from the grant there reasonable ienli.to for testing the matter. Whengrounds the Idaho Commissioners last winter proposed to self.!;1 ,mjneral lands a protest was to Washington and the Land ioV;e Fc?ffnled the exclusion of such believe such exclusion is ,bu!i authorized Fe by the express terms of the act conveying lands to that State. was recently taken out of &oldT?Uffffet the DeLamar, Nev., mine, but eiesyi1 selected, they may prove to be an source im-porta- for-nard- ft nt ed 7 MINING REVIEW. N contain weighed exactly 2268 ounces, 10 pennyweights and 14 grains. Before being melted down the finders had given away a number of pieces of the specimen. Including these, the nugget is estimated to have yielded 2280 ounces of pure gold, worth $46,355. A Monster Belt. The largest belt ever made is that Just completed by the Chicago Belting company of Chicago for the engine-rooof the Louisiana Electric Light company of New Orleans, La. It is 150 feet in length, 7 feet wide, is seven-eightof an inch thick and weighs 3300 pounds. Selected portions of 450 hides, specially selected from some 5000 skins, were employed in its construction. There is not a stitch or a rivet in it from end to end. The roughened sides of the three tiers of hides entering into the long stretch of leather comprised in this mammoth strap were pasted together, so to speak, with boiling glue, and afterwards subjected to a hydraulic pressure of about 220 tons. The layers of skins are so arranged that at every point from end to end there is not a spot where at least two solid thicknesses of leather do not cover the spliced section of the third layer, the being beginning of the lowest layer made up in three pieces 21, 42 and 21 inches wide, respectively. Above these come two pieces of 42 inches wide each, and the third, or topmost, layer is made up of three oblongs 28 Inches wide. Thus arranged, no two seams fall together, but, on the contrary, every joining is strengthened by two solid thicknesses. Standing on end, this huge roll tests the reach of an ordinary man to touch its top. As an evidence of its mammoth proportions, it may be stated here that special tackle had to be rigged up to the freight elevator to remove it from the finishing room on the top story of the factory, at Chicago. This monster belt is to be attached to the driving wheel of the Allis Corliss engine, and is capable of transpower. The mitting about driving wheel weighs some 85 tons, or 170,000 pounds, and the engine weighs, complete, in the neighborhood of half m hs oak-tann- ed 2S-fo- ot 3000-hor- se a million pounds. The manufacturers of this immense belt are justly proud of their achievement, and expect it to make a great record in the particular field of service for which it was made. Age of Steel. Abstract of Recent Mining Decisions. thereon, and went away before it was opened up for settlement, and did not return till after the water right location was made; and it is Immaterial that he left an agent in possession, as must by section 2259, a in make settlement person. Where the lands on which one makes a water right location are in fact unoccupied public lands of the United States, it is immaterial that it is at the time contended by another that the location is on lands claimed by him. Scott vs. Toomey, 67 N. W. Rep. 838. (Supreme court of South Dakota. June pre-empt- or 17, 1896.) Same Maintenance of Water Ditch Estoppel. Where one makes a water-riglocation on unoccupied public lands of the United States, but before he has constructed a ditch across the lands to conduct the water to his premises another acquires a right in the ht such lands as and one to whom he conveys the lands fifteen years thereafter, will be estopped to deny the right to maintain the ditch, the having been present when the ditch was surveyed and constructed, and having made no objection thereto during the fifteen years he owned the land, and having, by permission of the owner of the water rights, used surplus water from the ditch, and opportunity to make other water right locations having been lost by the lapse of time and changes in the condition of the country. Ibid. Master and Servant Latent Defects When the duty which a master owes to a servant respecting machines furnished for the servant to work with requires inspection of the machines, the duty will be performed by such an inspection as ordinary prudence would dictate. A master is not liable for an injury occasioned by a defect which would not have been disclosed by such an inspection as it was his duty to make. Atz vs. Newark L. & C. Mfg. Co., 34 Atl. Rep., 980. (Supreme Court of New Jersey, June 4, 1896.) pre-empt- or, pre-empt- pre-empt- or, or Assessments. THE PROMISED LAND. Why the Tourist, Traveler and Student should visit Utah. There are two reasons either one of which ought to be conclusive with every American citizen. First: The trip from Denver to Utah via Rio Grande Western, Great Salt Lake Route, is the grandest to be found anywhere on the continent. No European trip of equal length can compare with it in variety and grandeur of scenery and wealth of novel interest. You should go because, Second : when you have made this wonderful trip, you will find Utah at the end of it Utah, one of the world's famous spots and a land of gold, silver, copper, iron and coal ; of lofty mountains and fertile valleys ; of vineyards, fruits and flowers. Prepared for the Mining Review by George Westervelt, attorney at law, Salt Salt Lake City, the capital, is of great Lake City, Utah. Water Rights Location on Public interest on account of its historical and Lands. Where one makes a water religious associations. Here are Hot right location on unoccupied public Thermal Springs, Warm Springs, Sullands of the United States opened up phur Springs, Sanitarium, Parks, Drives, to settlement, his rights thereto, under Canyons and the most healthful climate Rev. St. U. S., secs. 2339, 2340, as on earth. Great Salt Lake with the new settles and beautiful Saltair Beach against one who thereafter Resort, of the lands, are Moorish thereon and no has in design, equal America. not affected by the fact that while the to A. F. Wadleigh, Salt Lake City, lands were part of an Indian reserva- Write of for built a cabin copies tion such pamphlets, etc. pre-emp- pre-empt- or ts |