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Show 6 U N TAIN INTER-M- O MINING REVIEW. silver and $S4 in gold has been discovered six miles southwest of town, and many locations have been made. Three-to- n In are cars mine the used Green Bartlett, a venerable and ecLake Superior mines. centric Californian, who once owned The Elmore company is operating1 a the celebrated Bartlett Springs, is diamond drill at Rocky Bar, Ida. standing guard, armed with a rifle, on River, Electric locomotives are used in haul- aOr.richHecopper claim on aIndian $100,000 opgave recently ing rock out of the Revenue tunnel at tion on the property, and now jumpers Mt. Snefiles, Colo. to it. threaten take g Two quartz ledges were Agents of the Rothschilds have just discovered within the city limits of San closed a deal for a group of the richest Francisco last week. in Sonora, Mexico. The remines The Tom Boy mine at Telluride, Colo., gold purchase price for the properties provides its employees with a bath- ported is $5,000,000 in gold. The Rothschilds, house and reading-roobefore closing the deal, conducted a re. The Idaho has Mining Exchange thorough investigation, covering a ceived some fine specimens of white period of over one year, of the mines. onyx from south Willow creek. north fork of Salmon river, south The Coeur dAlene dynamiters are ofThe Nelson, B. C., is the scene of the still at work, the Hunter flume at Mul-la- n latest gold strike. It is reported that having been blown up last week. one shot put in threw out some of the a. PolKazimierz finest looking ore ever seen in. that secish gentleman, has purchased a group tion. It assays $350 to the ton in gold. The people at Kossland are much exof claims in the Camp Floyd district. A $30,000 plant is being erected at cited over the new discovery, and a stampede has begun toward the Boulder, Colo., for the purpose of treat- genral new district. electro-chemicing ores by the Marshall process. Randsburg is the name of a prosperous new mining camp located in the The capacity of the Sacramento cyanide mill, in the Camp Floyd district, Mohave desert, fifty miles northeast will be increased to 100 tons during the of Mohave. Water is scarce, but a $50,000 pipe line is to increase the suppresent season. The camp now has a population The Mercur Mercury says twenty-thre- e ply. 1000. The Indians brought out nugof ore trains are now kept busy of gold from this region twenty-fiv- e hauling ore from Ophir to the terminus gets years before the discovery was of the railroad. on made Sutter creek. Harvey, Downing & Co. are operating The richest ore yet discovered in the p mill twelve miles up the a Creek district was encountered river from Boise, and the results are Cripple last week on the Lone Star, owned by quite satisfactory. the Arcadia company. It is in the The gross earnings of sixteen Slocan, shape of a two-inc- h vein of nearly B. C., mines during the first six pure sylvanite, and the Cripple Creek months of 1896 were $1,500,000, and the papers say the assays run from $100,000 net earnings $515,500. to $200,000 per ton. Prior to this disAt the California State Fair, to he covery the property showed nothing ore. held at Sacramento next month, $800 better than will be distributed in prizes in two The dispatches state that Charles D. g contests. Lane of California, chairman of the The Denver Engineering Works are executive committee of the Silver is one of the largest gold-min- e Installing at a southern Colorado coal party, mine an electric pump to raise 1000 gal- owners in the world. Mr. Lane says he is for bimetalism because a perpetlons of water per minute. of the single gold standard The Denver Mining Stock Exchange uation means he would be obliged to give that was struck by lightning last Friday, all the product of his gold mines to but the stocks were down so low that up feed the starving millions. the bolt could not reach them. The Alaska Mining Record, referring Discoveries of free milling gold ore have been made in Box Elder county, to the return of over seventy alleged about fifteen miles from Terrace, and prospectors from Cooks Inlet to the States, declares they all left before the many locations have been made. snow and therefore The Risdon Iron Works of San Fran- knew was off theof ground merits of the the nothing cisco will furnish the water wheels for as a mining field. Moreover, the Pioneer Power company at Ogden. country one not of them had any knowledge of Five Knight wheels will be used. prospecting or mining, and they had Within the city limits of Ouray, Colo., expected to find glistening nuggets only one block from the courthouse, a scattered thickly over the ground. vein of ore has been discovered that A press dispatch says a remarkable carries $32 in gold and 45 ounces silver. phenomenon occurred at the mine of The report that Capt. Couch has re- Santos Reyes, in the State of Chihuasigned his position as general manager hua, Mexico, last Thursday. A treof the Boston & Montana company is mendous explosion wTas heard and an denied by the officials of that com- enormous mass of burning matter was seen to fall from the heavens, striking pany. At the Golden Scepter mine, Quigley, the side of a mountain and bringing entire cliffs, and Mont., daily wages are: Superintend- with it in its course 700 into the ground, feet ent, $10; mine foreman, $7; miners, $3.50; finally plunged making a hole from which boiling wamillwright, foreman, $6; millwright?, $4 ter still issued. to $4.50; laborers, $3. The richest piece of placer ground Duluth capitalists have purchased six claims in the Willow Creek district, ever discovered was the famous Monnear Boise, for $12,000. One of these is tana bar, Confederate gulch,anMont. acre bar comprised less than the Birthday, upon which considerate The of ground, but yielded $1,200,000 in development has been done. months as the result of the labor three Two prospectors recently perished on of four men. The dust, which of course the Colorado desert, in attempting to contained some black weighed cross from Banning, Cal., to Yuma, 7000 pounds, was packed iron, in nail kegs Ariz. One of them was Edward M. and floated on a raft to St. Joseph, Mo., Clark of New in the fall of 1864. Confederate gulch Clark, a son of York. produced in all about $3,000,000. David Keith, one of the owners of the E. G. Rognon, secretary of the Dalton Silver King at Park City, recently pur- company, the property last chased the southern extension of the week, and visited tunnel has that reports famous Virtue mine at Baker City, Or., nov. been connected withthe the It and will sink a shaft at once. is 200 feet in length, and theshaft. connecThe property is known as the Consoli- tion w'as made at a vertical depth of dated Virginia. 60 feet. At this point a two-fovein New strikes in the vicinity of Marys-val- e of good ore is exposed. A half a carload have stimulated operations in that of first-claore is sacked and district. A vein carrying 135 ounces of for shipment, and the dump is ready being NEWS CLEAN-U- P. gold-bearin- m. Karso-Siedlews- ki, al two-stam- five-oun- ce rock-drillin- ex-Go- v. 500-fo- ot ot ss sampled, with a view to determining whether it contains shipping ore. The new Shoebridge Bonanza shaft, at Silver City, has reached a depth of seventy feet and within ten or fifteen feet more it will catch the vein on its dip. The secretary of the Idaho Mining Exchange urges all mine owners to forward their samples for the Minnesota State Fair exhibit at the earliest possible moment, as boxing is to be commenced on August 1st. It is expected that a million and a. half visitors will attend the fair, which will be held at St. Paul, commencing August 31st, and a full exhibit will be a great advertice-men- t of Idahos mineral resources. Philip Deidesheimer of Santa Barr bara, Cal., is suing W. H. Hollister, A. N. Butts and others to recover 16,000 shares of stock in the Golden Gate Mining company. This is part of the stock purchased by Capt. DeLamar in the transaction that gave him control of famous Golden Gate mine, in the Camp Floyd district. Hollister was president of the company and Butts was manager and Deidesheimer alleges that he transferred his stock to Hollister for the purpose of facilitating the sale. United States Judge Beatty, sitting at Boise, last week decided that an adverse mining case could be tried in a Federal court without a jury. The decision was upon a demurrer in the case of R. J. Rutter and F. W. Bradley vs. the Shoshone Mining company, Involving the title to valuable ground near the Last Chance, in Shoshone county. The Supreme Court of the United States has never passed upon the question whether adverse cases are suits at law or in equity, and the lower courts have ruled both ways. The Gold Dust Mining company, a Salt Lake incorporation, will have a p mill in operation upon its Idaho property before the end of the season, the machinery to be furnished by the Colorado Iron Works. The mine Is located near Leesburg, Lemhi county. The development consists of a shaft and 300 feet of drifts, all in ore. The vein is 73 feet wide, with 20 feet of pay ore that averages $13 in gold. There is an abundance of wood and water, and the mine can be cheaply operated. The plant will be equipped with power for twenty stamps, it being intended to add the additional ten next year. The Gold and Silver Extraction company of America sold to the Black Hills Gold and Silver Extraction company the right to use the MacArthur-Forreprocess in four counties in South Dakota. It has since become apparent that this will be a most profitable field for the cyanide process, and Thomas W. Goad, manager of the parent company, threatens to annul the contract, alleging that the Black Hills people have not provided a custom mill of sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the district. This recalls the promise made by Mr. Goad several months ago to erect a custom mill at Mercur. We are not advised that any steps have yet been taken in the direction of fulfilling this promise. The latest advices from Cooks Inlet, Alaska, are that 500 men are placer mining along Six Mile and its tributaries. Supplies are brought from Sunrise City by pack train for 4 cents per pound. The placers of Six Mile and other tributaries of Turn Again Arm are not so rich as those of the Yukon region, and the gold is not so coarse, but the men are making from $2.50 to $10 per day with rockers. The conditions are favorable for hydraulic working, and a number of large enterprises of this nature are projected. The gold averages about the size of grains of wheat, and some of the large pieces still have grains of quartz adhering to them. Sunrise City, on Turn Again Arm, has a population of 1000 men and nine women. The Frisco property at Bingham will make a twenty-to- n shipment next month. This is the first shipment made since the property passed into the ten-stam- 75-fo- st ot |