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Show THE INTER-MOUNTA- : MINING REVIEW. IN -- ,..i News of the Camps. f JUAB COUNTY. . r TINTIC DISTRICT The North Star commenced loading ore this- week and will probably send .out at least a ten carload TOOELE COUNTY. - . lot. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Mining Review. - ' . . - new strike of ore is reported in the west drift . Mercur, Oct. i, from the 200 level of . the Ajax A small sample of Cvow and Spaulding are working steadily on the ore taken out a few days ago showed 73 .per cent Fou th of July group on Lion hill. They have a shaft lead. Supt. Stewart. considers that the Ajax is a sure feet, with very fine looking ore in winner. down forty-fiv- e . . Our pondenc -- the . A . ; Anson has one of the best prospects in the iieie iborhobd of Mercur. He is working his property neai the Northern Light and Chloride Point mines and with the showing he has now.no doubt, in a sho; t time he will have a large producer. j;-.'r- Tise La Cigale still continues in very good ore, with fair values. Northern Light management has started excaIt will have a 200-tovating for their new mill. n! capacity. Frank Hall and Jack Green are working their property at the head of the Silverado canyon. This is another of the many properties around Mercur that will soon make the Owners many thousands. The Lessees of the Trace and Banner groups, on hill, report good values. The Heda is in ore. Values so far are low', but wtth little drifting, no doubt they will strike pay ore. Lion A. H. Mayne, superintendent of the Mercur Gold Productions properties reports a fine showing in the Valley View claim. J. W. Robinson, the genial proprietor of the Spooner-Blac- k saloon, took a flyer last week. He purchased the Ethel B. group, near the divide between Mercur public, and Ophir. The price paid was not made but it is understood that he has a good prop- erty and paid accordingly. Pr. Brewster, of Evanston, was in camp this week looking after the work on the Gold Bug group in Silverado canyon. Arkie Warren reports a fine body of ore in the Japan. The judge has several line properties, which he is working. Work has commenced on the Sage Hen group, near the Sacramento. The new owners will prosecute the work and demonstrate what they have. Some of the new tanks at the Sacramento mill are now in operation, and the new disolving vats are also When the others are put to work the There are now working force will be increased. about thirty-fiv- e men employed by the company. in readiness. The drift on the 1,000 level is headed in the right direction, but will have' to be driven some 250 feet further before it can reach the new vein, which gives much promise of putting the Lucky Bill on a paying basis The Record hopes it will prove better than anticipated and make every stockholder rich. However, the boys are not at all excited and will develop he new find carefully' and systematically. Park Record. 1 : ORE SHIPMENTS: 953,330 Continued explorations - point to the South Swan- Silver King 190,960 sea as the greatest mine.m the.Silver City, end of the Silver King Concentrates 16,800 district. The. ore strike on, the 350. level is daily Vallejo ... Creek diggings 50,000 growing bigger and richer and that it continues on to the deep is unquestionable!. Ffve carloads were . . . . . . . . .'. . 1,211,090 Total week' tons the and over are .100 shipped during past now ready to malce up. another lot which will go out STATE LINE DISTRICT, n inadayortwo, .Fred Redmond, the assayer and metal-urgis- t, The Undine company has struck water at a depth of has returned from a absence 280 feet in the shaft. At present the 'water is .being prospecting in the new State Line district where taken out with the bucket, but tlie company is. con- he secured for himself some good interests. He residering the advisability of putting in a pump,. Sink- gards the district as a particularly promising one, but ing is being.steadiiy prosecuted and as soon as the 300 looks for no remarkable activity until after winter level is reached' cross cutting toward the vein will has passed. Capital, he says, will not attempt to gef commence. Manager Wilson is confident bea foothold at present on account of the high prices able to commence ore ing shipments. asked bythe locators far their prospects, many of Shipments from tlie district for the week' are as which have had only enough work done on them to follows: , comply with the law.. Neither will there be many From the Bullion-Bec- k mine 25 carloads ore, from men in the district for the reason that snow falls to a 9 carloads ore, from the Gem- great depth and the winters are severe. the Centennial-Eupek- a ini 4 carloads ore; from the Ajax 10 carloads ore, from The gold belt in which the Creoie and other mines the Utah 4 carloads ore, from the Sioux 5 carloads are located, has a course almost north and south, and ore, from the Swansea 4 carload ore, from the South has been traced for about fifteen miles. In the belt Swansea 5 carloads ore, from the Sunbeam l carload are some immense veins the ore of which is low grade ore, from the Buckeye 1 carloads ore, from the Dragon and free milling, the values running from $10 to $14 Iron mine 2 carloads ore daily. Tintic Miner. and many smiller veins that will develop into speciThe Buckeye shipped two cars of ore last week, and men mines, the gold values running very high in will repeat this week. Supt. Green reports the mine Some instances, and the quantities being correspondwith lajge ore reserves in sight. ingly less, Running at right angles to this is the belt looking first-claThe first four cars of ore came down from the containing the silver veins which all carry from $10 to Mammoth mine over the New East Tintic railroad on $14 in gold and frequently run up to 3,000 ounces in Sunday and went on through to market on Monday. silver per ton. The contents of the silver veins, so Two cars more came down the same day for the far as demonstrated, show high values. The silver Mammoth mill, and two cars yesterday. belt has been prospected up to its intersection with The Home Stake, which lies to the north of the the gold belt but not beyond the point of intersecMorning Glory, has its shaft down 250 feet but will tion, and whether it continues through and beyond, continue on to the 300. Some high grade ore has or what occurs at the contact is not yet known. The owners of the Ophir mine are erecting a horse been encountered but none will be shipped until the intended depth has been reached, when the mine will whim to enable them to continue sinking the shaft be systematically opened. Five men are at present beyond the present depth of 1 10 feet, and are housing the mine so as to work through employed. Mammoth Record. -- . . -- well-know- TJie a -- 1896. bottom. 1 - ; : three-mont- hs -- of-soo- n " -- ss the-winte- r months. SUMMIT COUNTY. IDAHO. The Lucky Bill property, of which many a notice Last week the DeLamar company shipped five bars has appeared in the Record, is another illustration of Mercur Miner. of bullion, valued at $16,220. It is reported that the Marian people have secured a the old saying that mineral is where you find it, and Gibsonville is to have telephonic communication patented process for reducing the cyanides. Hereto- a living example of how easy it often is to work all with the outside world. a mine and never suspect its proximity. For fore all the around sent this been district from have cyanides A fine body of ore has been encountered in the cast to have the been work has years prosedevelopment vigorously extracted. this By gold process, Standard mine near Wallace at a depth of 2,645 feet bullion is on the its location cuted the Bill, result Lucky being easily and quickly produced that goes 969 reached bythe Campbell tunnel. fineIf it was introduced here it would effect quite a of a rich find near the old Flag Staff, upon which vein Hereafter the output of the Stemwinder mine- at a fine was some shaft and sunk The out. ore taken Miner. saving.Mercur Wardner, amounting to 1 50 tons per day, will be shaft caved in, however, and was abandoned and the handled through the No. 2 tunnel of the Bunker Hiil, BOX ELDER GOUNTY. property laid idle for several years, being finally reorThe lost placers of the Clear water which were The main tunnel on the Consolidated mines north ganized under its present name. Our readers know eighteen years ago and abandoned on account f Brigham is in 2200 feet and ore is exposed in many of the large amount of work done in recent years in of Indian depredations, have been found. Mr. Jenplaces. the energetic search for mineral carried on, and how nings of the Rose Quartz district has located them on Mile creek and has obtained as high as 100 colors Several of the best mines in the tops of the moun-tain- s to date the stockholders havi put up month after Five cast of Willard are still being worked. Within month without any return, all having faith in the to the pan, 1 radius Idaho is a picturesque country. We have mounof a mile there are probably a dozen pros- ultimate richness of the ground. Last week, by pure tains so high that you can tickle the feet of the silver pects, considerable work having been done on many accident, a new vein, carrying a fine quality of carbonin heaven, and gorges so deep you can def them. The Surprise, for instance, has a shaft some ate of lead, assaying well in gold, silver and lead, was angels scend to the base and hand down ice to the gold feet deep, which strikes a body of good ore. A found sticking out .of the ground, and developments bugs in the infernal regions. Albion Times.- - funnel is now being run into the side of the mountain to date show the ore to be making regular, while the f H, W. Schultz, who has a lease oh the Isabella d tap the bottom of this shaft, when a great quantity vein is strong, and standing almost permine, at Smoky, which has laid dormant for several a find The new JJf valuable ore will be taken out, is from vein Over 510,000 have pendicular. separate any years, received the returns this week from his first een expended on this claim and still the owners are cut in the present shaft and distinct from that uncov- shipment of thirty-tw- o tons of ore. It averaged 247 encouraged that they continue to push it. Brig-Cit-y ered in the old shaft, and lies something over 100 feet ounces silver, 30 per cent lead and $20 gold per ton. further east, though having the same strike and dip. Mr. Schultz has another shipment in transit and says Bugler. - - dis-cever- well-define- ed |