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Show w v. 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. California is advertising for miners $11 per day. Four hundred miners are at work at Silver City, Ida. The DeLamar cyanide mill at Nev., is handling 2C0 tons per at De-Lam- ar, day. The discovery of some fine deposits of moss agate is reported near Orin, Wyo. A custom mill is to be erected at Liverpool Landing, on the Colorado river, in Arizona. Thirty-eig- ht years ago there were 2S0 quartz mills in operation in California, 2610 with stamps. The Garfield county tin discovery, mentioned last week, turns out to have been a discovery of iron. It is announced that the 6000 gold and silver miners of Utah will contribute one days wages to the silver cause. The Tucson Star claims there are sixty miles of underground workings in the Copper Queen mine, near Bisbee, Ariz. The discovery of a vein of nickel ore, feet wide, is reported on the headwaters of the Cowlitz river, in the Mount Tacoma district. Butte miners receive $3.50 per day, carpenters $5 to $6 and common laborers $3. The pay-rolof the mines aggregate $1,000,000 per month. A twelve-foo- t vein of $7 gold ore is 100 ls reported on the Golden Age mine located on Itock creek, near Boise, and owned by L. L. Feltham. The wages of miners on the Last Chance tunnel at Wardner, Ida., have been reduced from $3.50 to $3 per day. About a dozen quit and their places were filled. Gold dust from Alaska to the value of $100,000 was received at the Helena assay office last week. It was the largest consignment ever received at that office. At the Bullion Paris mine, near Ephraim, Sanpete county, a large body of silver-lea- d ore is being and the owners contemplate developed, the erection of a smelter. The Frisco company, a new incorporation operating at Bingham, has declared a dividend of $900, the proceeds of the first shipment. The property is to be equipped wTith a steam hoist. The Shellberger placer mine, at Osceola, Nev., recently cleaned up $12,030 from twenty-fou- r days work. There is much rich gravel in that vicinity, but very little water. The largest lump of galena ore ever seen in Gunnison county, Colo., was taken from the Lead King mine, about three miles from Crystal, last week. It measured 20x24x10 inches, and weighed 1800 pounds. It is almost pure lead and from a vein that is practically inexhaustible. The working tunnel of the Northern Light, in the Ophir district, has encountered an ore body giving assay values of 60 ounces silver and $15 to $18 in gold. The tunnel has now been driven 215 feet, and will be extended several hundred feet further. A cyanide mill for the treatment of the ores will be erected this year. News has been received of the death of Capt. J. W. Plummer at London, on Wednesday of last week. Capt Plummer recently relinquished the management of the DeLamar Mining company at DeLamar, Ida., on account of ill health. He was widely known as an efficient mine manager, and many friends in this region will deplore his death. low-gra- de Prospectors and miners report the Salmon river and Stanley Basin country devastated by a plague of flies. They appear in such swarms as to obscure the sun, and attack animals with such fierceness that all the game has been driven out. One prospecting party tied a mule to a tree at night and N MINING REVIEW. the next morning it was dead, having been killed by the flies. Boulder, Colo., seems to be afflicted in pretty much the same way as other camps. A correspondent says: There is scarcely a sale made in this or any other mining district that is free from the blackmailer. He lives off spoils and watches all mining transactions, and tries to divert attention from good mining property to some hole in the ground tion with Frue vanners. In the manufacture of improved mining machinery, this firm keeps in the front rank. The Gold Stone company of this city this vreek purchased from Fraser & p Chalmers a mill, to be erected on the companys property in Lemhi county, Idaho. The plant will consist An English syndicate proposes to widen and deepen the Colorado river from a point in Lincoln county, Nev., to the Needles, and set afloat a fleet of light-dra- ft steamers to transport ore. Watkins-Davis T. of the syndicate has The power plant and crusher were purchased at second hand in Idaho. It is expected that the plant of the Pioneer Power company of Ogden will be installed by January 1st. Ten thousand horse power will be developed at the start, and a portion of this power will be transmitted to Salt Lake. It will supply power to the Great Salt Lake & Hot Springs railroad, which proposes to substitute electricity for steam. The Consolidated Mining and Smelting company seems to have been doing a great deal of work in a very quiet way upon its property, located five miles north of Brigham City. A tunnel has been driven 2400 feet, being in ore for a greater part of the distance. It is announced that the company now proposes to erect a concentrator and a wire-rop- e tramway. Its headquarters that he owns. already obtained options on a number of the mines in Lincoln county, to be taken up in case the scheme goes through. Fabulous and mythical lost diggings are being found in these busy days of prospecting in connection with newer and mostly better finds. On the upper Clearwater, above Pierce City, Ida., the lost placer diggings from which the Indians many years ago drove those of the miners they failed to massacre, have been rediscovered and are now being worked. Jerry Hatch of Uintah county, in Northeastern Utah, has discovered a very rich copper ledge across the line in Colorado, and took some samples to Denver that carried 15 to 40 per cent copper. He also exhibited slugs of pure copper that he had smelted in a blacksmiths forge. Rich copper deposits have been discovered in Uintah county, and one mine is nowr being worked, but the ore occurs in the form ten-stam- of a ten-stam- p stamps, one and two cost is $5000 four-fo- battery of ot six-fo- ot on board 850 pound corrugated van-nvanners, and the er cars at Chicago. are at Ogden. Judge Ritchie during the wTeek ruled upon numerous demurrers in what is known as the Sheep Rock mining case. The most important point decided was that certain stock had been improperly issued and that directors elected with the aid of this stock could not act in that capacity. This block of stock is a portion of that recently sold to the Inof surface deposits. dian Creek Mining company, through A piece of float brought up from the which the latter secured control of the State Line district last week was found Sheep Rock company, and through this to contain telluhium, and the assay decision the Indian Creek company showed 500 ounces silver and $124 in loses this control. gold per ton. Tim Driscoll found the John Hoover, who has been in the float, and he is now looking for the western parts of Fergus county, Mont., vein. The ore is quite different from reports that Montana sapphires are in anything heretofore found in the dis- demand, and that fairly good prices trict. For a new camp, State Line is are being paid for them. He sold $300 reciving considerable attention, and the worth of the stones in the rough rerich discoveries reported are creating cently to Helena jewelers. That, howa good deal of excitement. ever, was but a trifling sale compared A Washington dispatch announces to one he made recently to Tiffany & that advance sheets of the mineral re- Co. of New York, who bought at one sources of the United States by the time 16,000 carats and offered to take geological survey devote much space more. Since the Montana sapphire beto the asphaltum deposits of Utah, came known a few years ago it has which are declared to be exceptionally taken a place in the front ranks of rich. Seven distinct veins of gilsonite, gems of that sort. They are admittedone' of the purest of bitumens, are ly as fine as Oriental stones, are exnoted on the Uncompahgre reservation. ceedingly hard and lustrous, but many Deficiency of transportation facilities of the stones have not the rich coloring are stated to be the chief obstacle. To- of the Oriental gems. A great many of tal cost of mining and shipping to Chi- the Montana sapphires are almost cocago is placed at $25 per ton, and net lorless and the others are yellow or pale blue. Several claims are being worked profit at $10 to $20. There are doubtless hundreds of idle in the vicinity of Philipsburg. The are found in the porphyry and properties throughout the West that stones a red could be developed into great bonanzas. clay. How easily a good ore body may be Theodore Bruback and associates of missed has just been demonstrated in this city have purchased a tract of the old Salzac mine in Placer county, rich placer ground, between 200 and Cal. The property was a rich producer 300 acres, located at Gibbonsville, Lemforty years ago, but the vein hi county, Idaho. The tract includes pinched out in 1860 and the mine was a portion of the Gibbonsville townsite abandoned. Two years ago the Mar- and covers about three miles of the guerite company purchased it, and has channel of Anderson creek, a tributary just discovered a blind ledge of fabu- of the north fork of the Salmon river. lously rich gold ore within five feet The consideration wras $100,000, and the of the old shaft. Several tons that have been shipped averaged $5000 per ton. purchase4000includes water rights aggreOld abandoned mines seem to offer as gating 65 miners inches. The bars rich a field for the prospector as the prospect cents per yard, but the main channel has only been opened up on new and unexplored districts. the rim, where it shows $1 per yard, The Mining Review has received from and much higher values may reasun-abl- y the mining machinery firm of Fraser & be expected from bedrock in the Chalmers a number of publications of channel. former owners have been interest to mining operators, covering taking outTheabout $10,000 each sear on further data of the success of the by sluicing. It is the of the Bridgman sampler, the introduction of purchasers to organize aintention company, with the Otto Aerial Tramway, the Woods a capital of $250,000, to be known as the Dry Placer Miner, the Alsing Pulver- Bingham Placer Mining company. A izer for fine grinding on gold ores, a contract will next week for the record test of the Fraser & Chalmers construction ofbea let three-mil- e and triple expansion Corliss engines, circu- it is the intention to install aflume, completelar on a new line of small steam hoists, hydraulic so this plant that evyear, and fine results in the use of the Ried-le- r ery thing may be ready for active operair compressors and pumps, the ation with the opening of the next reaComet adjustible crusher, and the son. The enterprise is one that premBrowne hydrometric sizers, in connec ises rich results. very , j |