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Show 10 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N C' a map of the Camas gold belt, and any of your readers that wish can have a copy. This State has great expectations in gold properties, but your correspondent knows but little about properties outside of the Wood River district. One thing we do know, that if our silver mines go to the demnition bowwows, and our gold properties do not strike it rich, we have the beautiful Wood river flowing down our valley, and it is the finest trout stream in this country, and if silver aint worth more than a cent an ounce, we can live on trout. We hope that Salt Lake City will increase her facilities for treatment of the ores of Idaho without having to freight them over the Rockies to Den- the present locators are William Clements, Stewart McAnish and Robert Tucker, who are at present opening up the new find. shipment of It is estimated that the ore now being made from the April Fool will be about fifty tons, and is thought to be the most important yet made from the property. Yerington Rustler: John Farrell and Ike Miller are down from theira mine, the Bonanza. They now have a tunnel in 400 feet, and have sunk feet and have just shaft seventy-si- x cross-cuts at the botcompleted two tom of the shaft, running north and south forty feet. They are well pleased with the property, and have a fine body of ore which they will crush in the early spring. Owyhse County. Nevada Gold. Dan De Quille in Engineering and Mining Journal: An astonishing amount of gold is now being found in this State, heretofore looked upon as being Our almost wholly hunproduction of gold is now several dred thusand dollars greater than our production of silver. Next season Nevada will be heard from in gold production. Even at this time some good discoveries are being made. Some of these discoveries in the unexplored southern are being kept separts of the State soon become known cret, but must through their yield of gold. From one of the secret finds, gold to the value of nearly $10,000 was sold in Salt Lake three or four days ago. The men who brought In the gold said they had extracted it by a crude method and claimed to have discovered a region rivaling Cripple Creek, but refused to -- ver or Omaha. De Lamar Nugget: The Meadow Lark Mining company is preparing to begin a new shaft, some 200 feet west of the former one, which will be abandoned for the present. That an immense vein will be developed on that property, in due time, is almost a certainty, but the nature of the ground there has caused many discouragements. Reports from the Morning Star mine at Silver City indicate that the brilliant record made by that property in the earlier days of the camp, will probably be repeated or excelled in the . near future. The De Lamar company shipped this week five bars of bullion, valued at $12,800. City correspondence Boise Statesman: The mining outlook for next year is exceedingly good. A large body of fine ore has been struck in the Booneville, two or three different veins having been cut. Nothing but development work is being done now. but we may look for a $500,000 proposition next year. Taylor Gearhardt has shut down on the Humboldt on account of snow. The dumping ground is quite a distance from the tunnel, and the track is blocked with snow. He has a good property. The Morning Star people are developing a fine body of ore and are contemas soon plating the erection of a mill to be a as spring opens. It is going doubt. next year without good producer Silver NEVADA. Pioche Record: Although the parties who put up a mill at Kennedy failed to make the ore of the camp pay, and pronounced it no good, others seem to have better luck. A lot of Kennedy ore sent to California a few weeks ago paid well, and another lot of thirty-fiv- e tons from the Gold Note mine, sent to Denver last week by A. J. Blossom, averaged $137 a ton in gold. It has been but a few months since we saw in all the papers an item headed. The Mines of Kennedy a Failure. Evidently it was the mill that a failure, or the process. We shall soon see the people who fled broken-hearte- d from Kennedy returning and resuming possession of the homes and property they were obliged to desert a few months ago. The mines are probably all right. Some efforts are being made to make known the resources of Nevada in the East. A lot of the native mineral soap of Nevada was recently sent to New York. It affords a foundation on which to build up a fancy soap for some uses It is as good a soap as is dug out of the ground, but they will doubtless be able to improve it in the big Eastern factories. De Lamar Lode: News of a new gold strike in the Cave Valley range reached here last week. The prospects are promising, and there Is an abundance of water and timber in the immediate vicinity. A few samples assayed as high as $30 gold and 300 ounces silver per ton, while an average of two full locations assayed $20 gold and thirty ounces silver per ton. The property is situated sixty miles north of here, and new-fangl- ed silver-producin- g. give particulars until after January 1st. Through men working about Disaster Peak, we have had rumors for two or three months of men at work in secret mines in Southern Nevada in the direction of Death Valley. One of these mines is reported to be in the moun- miles west of Hiko. Doubtless all these new discoveries will be shown up next spring or before. There are still thousands of square miles in Ne- tains 100 vada about which little is known. I think the tide of mining development and speculation will turn Nevadaward next summer. MONTANA. controlling interest in the Hope mine, at Basin, has been sold to New York parties for half a million. Senator Carter retains his interest in the propA erty. Anaconda Correspondence New Northwest: All the smelters, the refinery and the big plant of the Anaconda company in this city, including the Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply works, are running full blast. The great rate of which prevailed during the summer months is being kept up, and thousands of tons of copper are manufactured and stored in this citv by the company. The recent drop in the price of the red metal has in no measure affected the output by the Anaconda company. Every furnace is working and every wheel in the big works is turning, lust the same now with copper at 10.50c, as a few months ago when it was bringing in the open market pro-dncti- on 12.50c. ALASKA. niNING MACHINERY NOTES. All the mining machinery dealers re- port more inquiries from prospective purchasers than ever before at this season of the year. Fraser & Chalmers have sold to Gay p & Lombard of this city a five-stam- mill, to be erected on their gold property in Lower California. J. W. Young, Western manager of Fraser & Chalmers, has been up ijj the Northwest for some weeks, and is now supervising the erection of an electric twenty-stam- p mill at the Companion Union mine at Cornucopia, Or. J. A. Yeatman, resident agent of the Edward P. Allis mining machinery firm of Milwaukee, has sold to H. S. Stovre, for the Jeremy Salt company, a complete salt reduction plant, consisting of crushers, purifiers and a rotary dryer. The Eureka-Hi- ll company has closed a contract with Agent Yeatman of the Edward P. Allis company for forty more stamps, which will give the mill i total of 100. L. C. Trent of the machinery firm of L. C. Trent & Co. has returned, from a trip to Phoenix, Prescott and Jerome, Ariz. Work has been commenced on the copper smelting and refining plant for the Detroit company at Moreceni, for which Mr. Trent recently secured the contract. The first frue vanners to be manufactured in Salt Lake are now being turned out by L. C. Trent & Co., who are building twelve upon their own model, and of an improved type for the Mammoth company. Every part of the machine except the rubber belting is manufactured in this city, and this is but the beginning of what promises to develop into an important home industry. The Salt Lake Tribunes New Years edition was a great achievement in journalism, and presented a magnificent description of Utahs resources. It reflects credit upon those responsible for its publication, and will promote the interests of the new State. The Heralds description of the Camp Floyd gold belt was also exhaustive and in- tersting. la ska Mining Record: The Tread well is pounding out its million ner annum. the folMexican lows with a full quarter of ths.t sum, four little stamps at the Bald Eagle nut out 8700 every twenty-fou- r honrs during the season; the several mills in Silver Bow basin grind awav upon ore which yields its vearly half million: Sheep Creek adds no small sum to the output; hundred-weigshipments of bullion are by no means infrequent from the Berners Bay mines; the forty stamps at Unga contribute A sums of heavy proportions; Golovin Bay sends to California smelters shiploads of silver ore rich enough to pay handsome profit even at the depreciated price of the white metal; the Yukon will show up no less than a round half million for the past season; the placers at Silver Bow basin, at Lituya Bay, at Cooks Inlet and In every nook and corner of the territory add their hundreds and thousands to the annual output, to say nothing of the hundreds of claims awaiting only development to become paying properties. This stream of wealth aggregates fully $3,000,600. ht Thomas A. Edison believes the vehicle of the future Is the horseless carriage, but they are more likely to be run by gasoline or naptha motor than by electricity. The most voluminous patent ever awarded was sent out from the patent office in October, 1895. This patent was granted to James W. Paige of Hartford, setConn., for a machine ting and justifying type. It took 163 sheets, containing 191 drawings, and 55 sheets of long primer to describe this patent. for-distributin- |