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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- News Clean-up- . tion of California from 1848 to 1895. inclusive at bank at the time of the failure. electric light plant is being agitated for XepMj Utah. The bullion shipments from the Boise assay office last week were valued at 32,125.49. The Golden Reward reduction works of Dead wood are treating 150 tons of ore daily. ounce sylvanite ore has been Twenty-fiv- e found in the Sweepstakes mine at Victor, ColAn orado. Horseless mail wagons are to be introduced in fev York City for the delivery and collection ofmrils. Ferris, the inventor and builder Ferris of the Wheel, died at Pittsburg on NovGeorge W. G. ember 22nd. Ground has been broken for a 200-stam- p mill erected at Galena, South Dakota by the Union Hill company. Hyde and Murphy have thirty burros packing ore from their mines on Mount Nebo to the railway at Nephi. Iron ore is mined and placed on the cars in the Mesaba and Vermillion iron ore ranges, at a cost of 10 cents per ton. to be at Niagara Falls, to the city of Buffalo, 22 miles was delivered 14tli. on November distant, Electric power generated assessment of one cent has been levied on the 500,000 shares of the Poorman Gold Mining company at Rossland, B. C. The largest nugget found in Alaska this year was worth 700. It was discovered last May in Franklin Gulch on the Yukon. A banking institution has been organized in Amsterdam to do business in Spokane, under die name of the Holland Bank. An of the smelter at Trail, British be increased to 750 tons per day, and a refining plant is to be erected. The October pay rolls of the Anaconda comThe capacity Columbia, is to in Montana, amounted to 114,000 which sum was distributed on November 20th. Since the closing down of the famous Drum pany mine in Montana, its shares have declined on the London market to 2s. Cd. Mr. J. H. Mason of Cripple Creek has secured a lease and bond on the Blue Bird mine on Bull Hill. The figure is $250,000. Chicago parties have secured a bond for Old Cattarangus the and Merrimac lodes, at Sum Dum, Alaska. It is believed that the coming year will see an addition of fourteen power hoists and the erection of at least one mill in Silver City, Utah. Lummon six-mont- hs 45,-(HiO- on Seek-No-Furth- MINING REVIEW. N er, party of Ogden business men have made an inspection of the Lehi beet sugar factory with the purpose of erecting a similar plant in Ogden. Strange as it may appear, the most important of the mineral products of India is salt, of which over one million tons were produced in 1895. A None present were acquainted with the condition of the mines, and the consent of the company will be Tracklaying has commenced at Nampa on asked the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee railway, which will tion to allow an expert to make an examinabe forty miles long, and will have its terminus at Booneville. Peter Ferns, a miner in the Green Mountain November 26th, by The Victor (Colorado) Stock Exchange has its mine attoButte, was killed on1 ,400-foshaft. He call in the evening, and the curb transactions of falling the bottom of the was on the third deck of the cage and fell off the day are registered on the board of the ex- when near the surface, without being noticed change at night. by his companions. The locks at the cascades of the Columbia, It is estimated that the Le Roi mine at Rosswhich were commenced by the government land has 2,000,000 in sight between the 350 and eighteen years ago, are completed and have the 450 levels. The shaft is being sunk 100 feet been opened for traffic. deeper and if it finds the vein the same size The Chicago and Cripple Creek tunnel being and carrying the same values, the mine will be driven into Globe Hill from Poverty Gulch, is able to show 7,000,000 in ore unextracted. now in 1,150 feet and is making progress at the The London correspondent of the Engineering rate of twelve feet per day. ami Journal informs that paper that CapThe Colorado Fuel and Iron Works at Pueblo tain Mining an option on his J. R. De Lamar has have resumed operations, employing over 1,500 Nevada mine to English given parties, and that he is men. A large percentage of the first orders to also arranging a consolidation of his interests be filled is for railroad steel. at Mercur, Utah, with those of the Mercur J. F. McLoughlin is moving for a telephone mine. system to embrace all the mining districts of It is reported that the Butte and Boston stock Kootenai country, in British Columbia, and to amounting to 90,000, cwhich was held by the connect Rossland with Spokane. Davis estate, has been sold in Boston, under a The government of the province of Ontario decree from the courts of 'Massachusetts. This has granted a franchise to develop power from removes the last obstacle in the way of the the current of the upper Niagara river, to the Butte and Boston reorganization. The stock brought 2 per share. Mather Bridge and Power company. Mr. William Metcalf, the eminent authority The Homestake Mining Company of the Black Hills is sinking a 3,000-foshaft, and recently on steel, says that burned steel can be restored sent its master mechanic, Mr. Spargo, to Butte by heating it through carefully and uniformly to a mediumorange and leaving the steel in a to learn the latest in deep mining hoists. warm, place to cool. This is a quicker, A addition to the equipment of the State simplerdry and cheaper method, and has more of School of Mines at Rapid, South Dakota, is to sense in it than the witchcraft prescriptions so be made in the shape of a capacity smel- frequently suggested. ter. The school already has a stamp mill. Marcus Daly and J. B. Haggin have purchased M. Lucas of F. Bonners Ferry, Idado, a tract of 60,000 acres of land below Mill Creek Captain has secured a contract to deliver 2,000,000 feet near Butte, and it is surmised that the Anaconda at Kaslo. The Co. will erect a mammoth smelter on the site of logs to the Buchanan saw-milogs will be cut on the Moyea river in British Both brickyards of the Anaconda company are Columbia. running to their full capacity night and day, and about 60,000,000 common and refractory $500,000 worth of Minnesota iron ore has been brick are now on hand. sold by the Rockefeller Iron Syndicate, to be The Rossland, British Columbia, Mining Redelivered next season. The deal furnishes immediate employment to thousands of miners on view, assumes that M. Du Marais, the expert sent out by the French government, to examthe Mesaba range. ine the mineral resources of the Trail and The Vindicator, Wallace and Trotter lodes on Kootenai must be pleased with what he Bull Hill, Cripple Creek, have been consolidated has seen. regions, is that The basis for the and merged into one company. One of the di- the gentleman has invested assumption heavily in a numrectors of the new Vindicator company is Adolph ber of the mining stocks. Zang, the big brewer. Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M. P., has left London Much of the developed ground in the prin- for China, via the United States, accompanied leased out in cipal mines at Aspen will bo a number of mining experts. He was the by will devote their the and companies blocks, discoverer of the gold mines in North Wales, and the to openprospecting energies general and from the fact that he was in close touch new of ground. ing up with Li Hung Chang during the latters visit to The Le Roimine at Rossland, British Colum- England, it is thought that Mr. Pritchards ' bia, will declare two dividends of 25,000 each, mission to China is to prospect for gold. in December, one on the 2nd, and one on the The price paid by Mr. Louis Nicolai of Port24th. After January 1st, 50,000 per month will land, Oregon, for the Horrible and Mexican be distributed among the stockholders. mines in .Berners Bay, Alaska, was 90,000. The parties who are promoting an electric The ledges are exposed by croppings for 1,800 feet, and the values range from $8 to 63 per power plant at Leamington on the Seviera river, mini ton. The ore is free milling and Mr. Nicolai is have been assured by their engineer of be will mill framed on the now having a mum of 5000 horse power. The power transmitted to the camps of the Tintic district. Sound, which will bo erected next spring. The Nelson (British Columbia) Tribune does Henry J. Davis, who has spent ten years on not join in the Canadian growl about Americans the Yukon river, was a recent arrival at Juneau, On the Alaska. He crossed the Chilcoot pass in 1886 investing in the mines of the Kootenai. too slow, and and has remained continuously on the Yukon contrary, it says the Canadians are the Americans led in the development of the since. He reports that about 1,200 persons will winter at Circle City, and he fears that the supmines. of bacon will fall short as the last consignAnother immense cavern has been discovered ply ment of 130 tons spoiled on the trip up the river. in the Black Hills, near the famous Wind cave, from which there is a constant flow of gas with The owners of the Tom Boy mine at Telluride, been have scientists The odor. offensive a very are in Denver awaiting the reports of the exan exploration perts who have been examining the mine for advised of the discovery and will be attempted. the Exploration company. The reports are now On Saturday last a number of the largest being prepared, and while none but the experts themselves know what their findings will be, it creditors of the insolvent bank of Salt Lake, met 11. is confidently believed that the deal will be and discussed the proposition of Mr. James 10th on which date Bacon to accept the Dalton & Lark stock which closed on or before Decemberbetween the parties is now worth about 50 cents on the market, at the preliminary agreement 1 per share, in payment for deposits in the expires. 1,205,217,217. ot ot 10-to- n ll 20-sta- Uintah years assessment work on the William near Vernal will be performed by This mine Donoher. nel work who receives i2 per foot for the tun- Trail Smelter in British Columbia is treat-m- g 350 tons of ore per day, and has machinery on the ground to increase the daily capacity to tOOO . The tons. Alaska Treadwell company paid a dividend of 17 cents per share, or 75,000, on Ptobor 28th. On the same day the Alaska Mexican company paid 10 cents per share, or The f $18,000. The en jSnin, v)0 San Francisco Glass works which have idle for many months, have started up and are furnishing employment to about people. statistician of the United mint places the aggregate gold produc- - Charles G. Yale, totes v |