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Show 10 INTER-MOUNTAI- Slews of the Camps. The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of merit coming from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. UTAH. Camp Floyd District. MINING REVIEW. N Mr. Dahlgren placed some pulp, estimated to weigh two ounces, in a common iron spoon and smelted it over the blacksmith fire. The result is a piece of metallic copper weighing more than one ounce and retaining the shape of the spoon in which it was melted. The big bridge across the Provo river is completed and ore shipments have been It is reported that Hon. Thomas G. Merrill has made a strike in the Vanderbilt, Tintic District. over on the West Dip. The mammoth mill shipped twenty-twThe Wonder people are preparing to put cars of concentrates in one lot, last week. in an air compressor and machine drills with The South Eureka shaft is now down 250 which to continue sinking their shaft. feet, and a contract has been let for an adthe Northern for The machinery Light ditional feet. 50 and the work delivered is mill slowly, being Twelve tons of bullion have been shipped of completing the plant is being delayed. from the Eureka Hill mill to the Omaha & to are Preble &' spend arranging Murphy Grant smelter, the lot bringing $80,000. considerable money in development work The widening out of the vein in the boton their properties east of the Big Flat, tom of the Homestake shaft, is enabling the and north of the Syndicate group. about 1000 pounds of A string of teams line the road between company to extract Mercur and the properties on the West Dip, ore per day. Bullion-Bec- k -- 5 Centennial-Eurek- a I0 - Humbug Ajax i8 Mammoth 4 Sioux mg 5 Swansea Sunbeam Buckeye Dragon Iron Mine Total l x 21 o n5 Bingham. A shipment of 300 tons is being made from the Spanish mine by the Niagara peo- ple. There is every indication that ore ship- - ments from the camp are increasing. For several days last week the shipments ran at the rate of 200 tons per day. Bingham Bulletin : The Maxwell group in Carr fork, being opened by a common tunnel, is giving up handsome specimens of A tunnel has been started bv Pat Condon native copper and black oxide and showing a hauling supplies for the heavy work in proon the Napoleon claim lying between the good pay streak. Only assessment work is gress in that section. Mr. C. L. Dignowity of Salt Lake, who Ajax and Mammoth, and the work will be being done, at present, but the property is liable to soon be extensively developed. is representing eastern capital in Mercur pushed by three shifts. It is probable that an electric drill similar prospects, states that with the passing of the Detroit District. in the be will much inplaced be in use the will to money the one at holidays Sunbeam, The long tunnel on the Ibex, after being disdistrict. Mr. Dignowitys faith in the troduced in the Tetro tunnel that is being driven into the mountain nearly 600 feet, trict is best evidenced from the fact that he driven into Godiva Mountain. cutting in its course two auriferous veins has this year performed the necessary assess of claim contest adverse and the The whose existence was unexpected, has reached e in different claims on forty-onment work Louisa against the Mammoth Hill application the main vein from which, in the upper the on of are nine which of the district, parts for a patent to the Illinois, has been withworkings, so much high grade gold ore was West Dip, in the vicinity of the Omaha and drawn. extracted. At the lower depth, above which La Cigale, and were among the first to be The shaft of the Morning Glory in Dia- is some 200 feet of stoping ground, the vein located in that section. mond is down 240 feet, and will continue to carries a fine ore body which assays from a depth of 300 feet. The property was a to 6 ounces in gold per ton with 3 ounces Park City. until the sulphide zone was silver and 9 per cent copper. Manager S. famous The Woodard lease, on the south end of reached. producer F. Mount is now on the ground, and is the Crescent ground, made a shipment of The stockholders of the King James M. working a heavy force, opening up the vein 250 tons this week. & M. Company at their election held in and affairs in shape for the extraction getting feet is down now shaft Creole The 275 office in Salt Lake on Wednes- and Judge Deys shipping of ores. and is still sinking. The company has a day elected George A. Snow as president, s ore on the dump, which D. H. nice lot of and Henry Box Elder County. Peery, they are holding. McConnick, treasurer. The company has Considerable mystery prevails about the The Lucky Bill has suspended work in secured control of the property in Silver Consolidated M. & M. which is company the deep shaft, and all energies are being di- City, through an option to purchase from in the mountains north of Bri ham operating rected to the opening up of- the ore found on George Naylor. The mines in the past The company, the local affair of City. the surface some two months ago. Later, a produced about $30,000 from the oxidized which are being looked after by II. C. danlevel to zone, but as soon as the drift will be run from the i,ooo-foo- t pyrites were reached of Ogden, has just completed a very e: .curtap this vein. work was suspended, as in the case of nearly sive wire rope tramway from the min to The new vein encountered in the Alice every other Silver City property. There is the valley below, and on the test run ale shaft at a depth of 200 feet continues to im- a shaft down to a depth of 165 feet, and in ore die recently, sent down a quantity of prove as work is expended on it, and the as this the new owners will commence ener- grade and contents of which are no sociated vein matter is of such an appearance getic operations. Among the immediate A gentlemen in Eureka wlu that the management looks for a good rec- improvements outlined is the erection of a once an owner of the Garfield mine, 0: ()f ord from the property. steam hoist. The property is located be- this sail' hat recently properties, companys the and the Sunbeam iron the tween Dragon there is a vein of very high grade ore ii An idea of the amount of copper that is contained in the ores of the Valeo may be mine. property, and that in addition to a goon peobtained from an ingot of copper Mr. DahlOre shipments from the district aggr rcentage of copper, it carries high valrforeman gren, the owner, is carrying in his pocket. gold and silver. F. J. Wolhoptcr 1 first-clas- vice-presiden- t, - - 1 : nn-nounce- d. - 111 : |