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Show G INTER-MOUNTAI- SALT LAKE NUUQETS. The Silver King paid a $37,500 dividend today, Capt. F. M. Bishop has opened an assay office at Mercur. The Buckhorn property, at Dugway, has been surveyed for a patent. W. V, Rice of the Anchor was down from the Park during the week. The discovery of a vein of anthracite coal is reported near Springvnle. The holidays brought a lull in the incorporation of newT mining companies. Prof. Marcus E. Jones will shortly publish a book on the Camp Floyd gold belt. The Silver King company has been temporarily enjoined from laying its pipeline across Crescent ground. 'sUJddojd pioS joiuo pun uoonQ pioq ui)BJOdo Sf aJoqAi suiujunoui oqj dn em si poo.wAaH 'll 'AY eniij uiojj The Centennial-Eurek- a paid $510,000 in dividends during 1S93. At present stock quotations the mine is worth $1,800,000. Henry McCornick has returned from the Lucky Boy mine at Custer, Ida., W'liere he met with an accident resulting in injuries to his back. County Surveyor Josephs has been surveying the claims of the Utah Asphalt company and the Ashley Oil and Gilson-it- e company, near Vernal. Capt. Miles Standish of Idaho, who spent the holidays in Salt Lake, has gone down to the Blue Mountain country to look after some mining interests. e Tw'o carloads of ore from the April Fool mine at De Lamar, Nev. were brought up to this city during the week by N. P. Dooly. Frank Wilson, owner of the mine, is in the city. The Bennett placer machine will be in operation on the Green river within thirty days. The inventor has the nerve to back the invention to the extent of a small fortune and deserves success. E. J. Raddatz of Stockton, one of the Camp Floyd pioneers, who w'as honored by his constituency by being sent to Utahs first State Legislature, has now turned his attention from mining to MINING REVIEW. N at the SunThe first cyanide clean-u- p shine mill took place during the week and the cyanides were shipped east. Returns w'ill not be received for some time. ri ne ore in the recent rich strike in the Utah, of the Sioux-Uta- h group, resembles that found on the 1400 level of the Mammoth, and goes w'ell up in the hundreds. W. S. Fugate is one of those Camp who has found Floyd rainbow'-chaser- s the pot of gold. Five years ago Jie was clerk at the Cullen hotel, and he has just said nay to a $100,000 offer for his Mercur ground, lying adjacent to the Golden Gate, Brickyard and Ilecla. George St. Clair, lessee of the Chloride Point, on Lion Hill, shipped to Salt Lake eight tons of ore that contained 7 per cent lead, 462 ounces of silver and $42 gold. The Chloride Point Is one of the old mines that had been a rich producer in the past, but had been closed dowrn until Mr. St. Clair bonded it for $10,000. The Cave mine in Lincoln mining district, Beaver county, is being reopened by a tunnel that is now' rapidly nearing the ore body, if the dip of the vein continues as found in the upper works. The tunnel is now in about 1300 feet. The Cave was a large producer in the early 80s. Hon. Presley Denny is the present owner. THE NEWS CLEAN-U- P. Pueblo now' has two mining exchanges. California claims over 14,000 working mi- ners. The Chicago Mining Exchange will be opened on the 24th. Five hundred Cripple Creek claims were jumped on the 1st. The owners of the Bald Eagle, Alaska, mine netted $75,000 on the season. The California Gold Mining Exchange has been established at San Francisco. The Anaconda mine, at Butte, consumes on an average ICO, 000 feet of lumber daily. The Colorado Stock IiJxchange was opened at Denver on the 2nd, with 250 members. A group of Leadville mines have just to Col. S. the Sow'ers, According Percy been sold to an English syndicate for Eastern mind is still skeptical concerning $1,500,000. Western mines. Nothing short of a ten-foThe gold yield of California in 1895 is vein of $20 gold pieces w'ould satisfy estimated by the State Mineralogist at some communities w'hich he came in high-grad- law-makin- g. ot contact. with The Morgan company contemplates the ore to the shipment of its second-clas- s Alice mill at Butte, if a satisfactory rate can be secured from the railroad. The mine will be in shape for a heavy output as soon as the new hoist is erected. Reports have been received in this city of a discovery of copper ore writhin four miles of Ephraim, Sanpete county. Samples sent up assay 78 per cent copper, and the discoverers claim they have four feet of it. An investigation will be made. The case of the Victor Gold and Silver Mining company vs. the National Bank of the Republic was decided by Judge King at Provo in favor of the defendant. Valuable ground in Tintic district wai involved. William McQueen has been appointed superintendent of the Samson, at Bingham, which property is to be congratulated upon securing the services of such an efficient mine manager. Bill McQueen has been identified with Bingham mines as far back as the memory of man runneth. A discovery of gold is reported in the Silver Reef sandstone, assays showing from $3 to $20. In the opinion of cyanide experts, this sandstone rock can be worked by that process, and experiments are to be made. Should they prove successful, the famous old district may again be the scene of great activity. Ex-Sheri- ff feet per month. When completed, the. tunnel will be equipped with electric cars to carry the miners and the ore. The regular midwinter gold discovery is announced, this year near Logan. As usual, the find is reported after the ground has been covered by two feet of snow'. It is a bonanza of great richness, of course, but the discoverers are keeping it quiet. The suit of Margaret Billings and others against Jerome B. Wheeler for of the profits of the Emma mine at Aspen during the year 1884 has been decided by the United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis in favor of the plaintiffs, w'ho are awarded $404,804. An interesting reunion of of 49 was held at Belfast, Me., a couple of weeks ago. On December 8, 1849, the bark W. O. Alden sailed from that port for California, with a party of fifty on board. The party reached the gold fields, had varied experiences, and of the fourteen that now survive, six have drifted back to their old homes in Maine, and they met to dine together and talk over the exciting days of 49. Wyoming promises to keep up with the procession of gold producers. It is claimed that the Colorado gold belt upqn w'hich Cripple Creek and other famous camps are located extends across the entire State of Wyoming. This belt has produced over a billion dollars worth of the yellow metal, and that portion of it lying in Wyoming is yet undeveloped. Half a million dollars were expended in prospecting and development work last season. The Black Hills Mining Review claims that nowhere in the United States is the outlook for the production of practically unlimited quantities of mica more forcibly apparent than in Custer county, South Dakota. Hundreds of granite reefs in that district expose books of mica of a quality and quantity and of such commercial importance that if judiciously handled they will place it among the foremost industries in the State. The production of gold in the Rand district of South Africa for the mouth of October last, as given by the Witwraters-ranChamber of Commerce, w'as 192,652 ounces, having a value of 664,083, or about Of this amount, 128,640 ounces $3,320,415. came from the mills, 9677 from concentrates, 53,130 from tailings and 1174 from other sources. This includes the product of forty-tw- o mining companies, running 2716 stamps, and of five customs works. The tonnage of ore treated by the mills was 309,801, yielding 1 9s 9d per ton, or a 9u0 two-sevent- hs gold-hunte- rs d. in 1894. A tw'enty-stam- p mill, to be operated by electricity; has been erected on the Companion mine at Cornucopia, Or. A nugget worth $155 was found recently in the drift mine of Oscar Foss, near Low'ell Hill, Nevada county, Cal. little less than $7.50. The Russian Ministry of Public InstrucProf. McCaw of California makes an intion has decided to establish mining teresting comparison between the famous schools on a large scale in the mining Mother lode of California and the districts. district of Africa, He takes A daily mining paper is now issued by the 100 miles of the lode and compares the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf road. it to the African district, and then says It is distributed free and gives all the there is more gold in Calaveras county news of the camps along the line. alone than in all of Witwatersrand. If The gold nugget Welcome Stranger, California had $100 to put into the develtaken from the Ballarat deposits, Austra- opment of the lode for every $1000 put into lia, weighed 2280 ounces wrhen found and Witw'atersrand, she would easily run yielded when milled 2248 ounces of pure to $100,000,000. Hayward, at the gold. Utica-- S tickles mine in Calaveras county, Congressman Shafroth of Colorado has turns out five times as much as the RobIntroduced a bill providing that all miinson, the most noted of the African ning claims hereafter located shall be mines. The Utica-Stidkl700 staked with stakes 100 feet apart, so as white men at $2.50 to $3 a employs day, while to clearly define the boundaries of all 2500 Robinson has Kaffirs at 30 cents a claims, and prevent, as far as possible, day. The African miners, however, have the overlapping of claims. hurt California. They have taken away The average value of gold ore treated in most of the competent mining superinAustralia is about $15, and most of it at tendents, giving them $S000 to $10,000 a a fair profit; while in this country we year and expenses, on a contract running $15,000,000, against $13,923,281 Wit-watersra- nd $50,-000,0- 00 es have the notable examples of South Dakota and Alaska, where $4 ore is treated with profit. The new tunnel in the Standard at Coeur d!Alene, Ida., will be 3300 feet long, and it is progressing at the rate of several years. The digest of recent mining decisions this issue will be a of feature the regular Review, and will be one of the many special departments which it expects to present for the information of mine owners. w'hich appears in |