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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N 9 awaiting the completion of the new Ward have taken a lease on the Tilden mill. A group. Io. 5,wasone of the Phoenix on the discovered It is rumored that Superintendent accidentally vein Brown of the Poorman has resigned to while month a ago grading claim about starta leasers have accept similar position in New Zeaa wagon road. The ed a tunnel, and are following a small land. The new manager is expected to arrive about the 15th. but promising streak of ore. of Montezuma The DeLamar company shipped out the Strickley Manager down another shipment, the this week six bars of bullion, valued at is "getting $17,425. lirst in several weeks. of the late G. manager John Logan, Lemhi County. Winnamuck, has sold his interest in P. to J. the Woodman, that property A Gibbonsville correspondent writes principal owner. as follows concerning the operation of The Intermountain Electric company are putting in a plant at the Winna- the American Development & Mining muck for the purpose of lighting the company: The American Development & Mining company secured control of mine, mill and office. Itevere-Gladstowill begin ship- a group of mines just above town and The have been working them systematicalping today. COTTONWOOD. LITTLE ly for over a year with the best kind The New State tunnel, near the of results. The ore is treated by the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon, chlorination process in the companys ha? now been driven 236 feet and the own plant, situated at the lower end gold quartz of Main street. The plant has every main vein of high-grad- e on surface is facility for separating the precious the was opened up that forbe to encountered within metals. The American Development expected 232 of feet more. a distance At & Mining company has in the neighfeet ty In a four-inc- h vein, carrying an abund- borhood of 200 men employed in the ance of free gold, was cut. This was mines, mills and woods. Mr. McDonald a seam but one inch thick on the sur- is the general superintendent and well face, and if the main vein is found to deserves the success he is meeting with. be widened in the same proportion it This is one instance where practical will be a bonanza. The tunnel is now mining men took property that was ungoing through ground that is filled with developed and put it on a paying basis. g ribbons and seams of Gibbonsville and vicinity abound of an indica- with abundance quartz. Such good mines, and all they need is tions encourages the company in its practical men with means to put search for the large body of rich ore them on amining paying basis. Gold has been that it believes will yet be found in found in nearly every gulch in the disthe hill. ne thirds interest for $10,000. Both instruments give the same time and conditions, which are: that the bonds may run to April 29, 1897; not less than two men are to be constantly employed on the ground, a cessation of work for one week to work as a forfeiture, and no ore, except for sampling and assaying purposes is to be removed from the premises until the whole is paid for. A portion of the surface ground lying along the west side is reserved for the use of the present April Fool mill. Rumor says the DeLamar company is desirous of securing most of the adjoining claims to their already valuable' property, and they are seriously considering the purchase of the famous April Fool mine and mill; if they should do so they will possess the greatest gold belt in the State, if not in America. United States patent for the April Fool consolidated mining claim was recorded last week. The group embraces the April Fool, Lookout, Cliff No 2, Swifter and the Jumbo locations. Elko Independent: Mr. Duval, the superintendent of the Island Mountain placer mines, informed the Independent this morning that a contract to burn 250,000 brick to build a store and hotel at the mines would be let soon. Also that it was the intention of the company operating the mines to build a reservoir and construct twelve miles of ditch this fall. The estimated cost of the contemplated work is $67,000. At Austin the Austin Mining comis now 5000 feet in. panys tunnel There are 1000 feet more to be pierced; 100 men are at work and it is expected trict, but the attention of miners has the tunnel will be completed January 1, been more prominently directed toward 1897. quartz mining. White Pine News: Hercules Gap has been thrown into prominence the last few days, through the discovery by Bear Lake County. Merritt of a rich vein of silver Montpelier Examiner: W. H. Dodge, John ore. Mr. Merritt, who has been prosthe mine owner, was over to St. Charles in the vicinity of the Gay) for this week investigating his property pecting some two made the find about there. He is highly pleased over the four weeksmonths, the vein which was since; new strike recently made in the Black-stonno thicker knife a blade on the than and as a result another man was now is between three and four put to work, to be followed later by a surface, inches in and is increasing thickness, large force. A new mill is in contem- rapidly as the development conplation, though it will not be put in tinues. It cuts the formationwork and has this year owing to the lateness of the every indication of a true fissure season. Development work will be Three assays made Sunday, wentvein. 175, pushed till next spring, when, if indi3 566 3820 8 ounces in silver, each and cations still point as they do now, a rea good percentage of lead. The duction plant will be built. The prop- showing is called the Fountain. erty at present shows a fine, large body claim of galena, which runs well In silver. Mr. Knapp, who has been working MONTANA. there steadily, is enthusiastic over the fine showing and predicts the mine will be a great producer by next year. It will surprise many to learn that gold nuggets are found in Ada County. Boulder gulch, but such Is the case, Boise Statesman: The latest report says the Philipsburg Mail. Messrs. about the Checkmate is that a streak of Clem and Maywood have a couple of ore has been opened at the lowest point them in their possession, one of some reached that is two feet wide and runs $7 and the other of the value of $8.20. $700 per ton in gold. This, of course, These intrepid and experienced placer is only a report, but it comes from a miners made up their minds some twro source that is most reliatie, and it is years ago that there was gold in this and went to work on the theory that the gulch probably correct. It is known that Princeton ages ago had ang at the other channel creek owners have been than the present. To level to catch the rich ore reach a this to be tunnel chute, and it is understood that it is driven 400 or 500 feet.would have have now in this drift that the discovery has been driven over 300 feet ofTheyfound it, gold made. However, one thing is certain dust and the above mentioned nuggets the mine is producing and the ore in the gravel 100 to 150 feet below the taken out is rich. Shipments are being surface. May success reward their made regularly. Six tons is brought in pluck and perseverence. every three days and sent down the Western World: As was anroad. The man who has the contract nounced inMining our last weeks issue anregot behind with his work and was other valuable copper property has more teams. passed into the possession cently obliged to putno on of the Anaone knows. No conda through the How rich the ore is manipulations of d one even has an opportunity to see it, that Marcus gentleman, as it is sacked in the mine and not ex- Daly. It was known for several weeks posed to the eye of the public. From that both the Parrot and the Anaconthe time it is mined until it is opened in da companies were after the Moonlight the works of the purchasers it is under claim, and Dave Bricker kept them bidcanvas. ding up tc just two days before his option expired. The actual amount paid for the Moonlight and the Blue Jay NEVADA. fraction was $860,000. Brickers net bond on the claims called for $350 000 leases bonds and making his profit $510,000, less the Pioche Record: The amount of he has expended in developrecently given on the Jumbo claim, ment were work. This latter work amounts the April Fobl group, at Ferguson, to week. probably $50,000, aside from the ore placed on record this to out in development work. The taken C. Griffiths J. D. A. Reeves bonds d interest for- property lays a few hundred feet south of Salt Lake, a a two- of the Anaconda mine. bonds Wilson $5000, and Frank . gold-bearin- State Line District Four lots of ore from the new State Line district were marketed in this city last week, and sampled 700, 250, 200 and 15S ounces in silver respectively. Three of these lots were from the Offer mine, which has been sufficiently developed to demonstrate that it is a property of great value. The shaft has reached a depth of 105 feet. As has before been stated, two veins cross the claim, one producing high grade silver ore, such as the shipments of last week, and the other gold ore running as high as 22 ounces per ton. This district seems to be fulfilling all the predictions made for it last winter, and promises to become a producer of importance. Several good properties are being developed and 150 men are at work. The district now has a called Line City. post-offle- e, IDAHO. The Dora Condropped fifteen solidated company stamps at the Idaho mill on Monday, and the remaining five will probably add their music tomorrow. The first two days 1-- 5-- old-time- Shoshone County. Coeur dAlene Sun: e, the ore was taken from the Idaho bin, which was full, but since then the Dora Consolidated quartz has been coming down to the mill in wagons. It will keep a number of teams quite busy to supply the mill from the upper mines with fifty tons quartz a day. The distance by the wagon road is about a mile, with a pretty steep grade part of the way. The run on Idaho quartz surprised the amalgamators as the plates filled up. very little was expected from the conof 'll I ion of things and the long disuse of Four concentrators have been ordered and they will arrive next week. There ought to be eight of them, but there is only room for four in the null. The rock breaker and were in good condition at the start, and the machinery now runs very the plates. self-feede- rs smoothly. Owyhee County. Idaho Avalanche: We had the pleasure of looking at some of the richest talcen from Florida mountain iofever week, it was in big slabs and ame from the Florida Mining compa-fJ- t SJfrouP This company is having an a very pleasant difficulty cross-cuttin- 150-fo- ot long-heade- one-thir- rs |