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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. Many placers are now being: worked at Breckinridge, Colo. MINING REVIEW. N the Keystone mine and thirty-stpurchased amp mill, located near Laramie, Wyo., for $12,000. A cyanide plant is to be added to the mill and the property put into operation at once. Some of the big producing mines of Cripple Creek threaten to boycott the railroads and ship their output to Colorado Springs by wagon. It is claimed that it now costs more to ship ore out of the district than it did before the railroads were built. Ogden canyon was the scene of a gold excitement last week. It is claimed ounces that ore assaying thirty-eigin gold has been discovered about six miles from the city of Ogden. The vein is eight to ten feet wide, lying be- Charles Brown has made a discovery silver ore at Dugway. of high-grad- e Three hundred men are employed at the DeLamar (Nev.) mine and mill. The Steen custom mill at Boise is now running day and night on Hornet ore. It is proposed toi work the old dumps at Silver Reef by the cyanide process. Trading on margins is now permitted by the Denver Mining Stock Exchange. Ore carrying 35 per cent lead has been discovered a few miles northeast of Bountiful. tween slats and lime. a DeLamar, Nev., is growing rapidly, It js said that should the Rothschilds fine hospital being among the latest succeed in securing the 300,000 shares of Anaconda stock they are now underimprovements. Many Idaho streams have already stood to be negotiating for, they will, reached the flood stage and the snow together with their ownership of Chile and Spanish copper mines, control the has just commenced to melt. The Kearsarge mine, at Kennedy, copper market of the world. The Queen of Sheba company, owning Nev., has been purchased by the New gold property in the Spring Creek disEra Mill and Mining company. a watrict, near Ibapah, is installing The schooner Albion is supposed to ter ten-to- n two Crawfor plant have been wrecked in Alaskan waters, fordpower which will be in operation mills, with thirty gold miners on board. within ninety days. The company has suit has been set an abundance The Geyser-Mario- n of water for power and a for trial on June 23rd, and will proba- good body of $15 ore. bly be held in Judge Ritchies court. Gold was discovered at Rocky Bar, New and capiJersey Philadelphia Ida., in 1863, and it is estimated that talists will erect a cyanide plant at during the succeeding ten years the 0. Red River City, N. M., at a cost of production was $32,000,000. During the past twenty-thre- e years the production from has $10,000 to $600,000 per averaged The San Juan Mining Bureau has been organized for the purpose of ad- annum and rich free milling ore still vertising the San Juan region, Colo- exists in large quantities. rado. Operations are to be resumed on a Salt Lake parties have purchased number of properties in Little Cottonmining property on Pratt Creek, Lemhi wood canyon, including the Oxford and county, Ida., for $50,000 and will erect Geneva, Lexington, Sells and Alpha mines. These have all been heavy proa mill. A new electric process has been ducers in the past, and it is believed can again be profitably operated tested at Kennedy, Nev., and is pro- they under the new conditions. nounced a success, saving 95 to 98 per cent of the values. The demands of the striking miners been conceded by the DeLamar have has The Gold Dust Mining company received from1 its mine, at Leesburg, (Ida.) Mining company and the strike Ida., ninety pounds of ore that is val- is ended. The company will hereafter ued at over $3 per pound. pay $3.50 for miners and $3 for triman advance of 50 cents all around. Some samples of high-grad- e gold ore, mers, men are also given the privilege The assaying $2000 per ton, have been of boarding where they please. brought up from the Marysvale district by Dr. H. W. Warren. Capt. Thomas Couch, manager of the & Montana company, has sailed It is reported from Butte that Ham- Boston for and is reported to have ilton Smith has effected the purchase told England, a friend that he had been offered of sufficient additional Anaconda stock the management of the largest comto give the Rothschilds a controlling pany operating in South Africa. It is interest. safe to predict that Uncle Thomas will I. T. Peterson has been appointed not undertake to upset the Transvaal State mine inspector of Idaho, succeed- Government. ing E. H. Dewey, resigned. The new William Titman, a Galice creek, Or., inspector has been engaged in mining placer miner, met his death in a pecuin Owyhee county for some time. manner. on night He was liar The superintendent of the mint at work when a large engaged section of the Carson has receiver instructions from gravel bank fell, carrying him into the the Director of the Mint to reopen the sluice-boThe body was forced along mint to receive bullion, and to com- through the boxes and cast out into the mence operations in the refinery. dump wrhere it was found next mornDavid Moffat of Denver and D. R. C. ing partly covered with debris. Brown of Aspen have purchased the An Oregon man has invented a curproperty of the Aspen Deep Mining and rent water wheel which has the merit Drainage company at trustees sale, for of adjusting itself automatically to the rise and fall of the river. The wheel $63,000. The oil wells about Los Angeles are hangs on a log suspended horizontally from the bank and by a series of buckbeing threatened with a flow of salt the paddles carries the water water which came in at a depth of 900 ets on a flume and thence to the ditch. into feet. Several wells have already been It will be of especial benefit to river ruined. miners. The Mercur Mercury reports that two A company has been organized at dogs fell into an unused shaft and Denver, with a capital of $500,000, for were taken out alive thirty days later. the purpose of erecting a number of Stranger things than this have hap- cyanide plants in Boulder county. pened in mine shafts. the incorporators are W. H. The Mining Review has received, Among James of the Omaha & Grant smelter, with the compliments of the Colorado William Emanuel of the E. P. Allis Springs Mining Investor, the handsom- Machinery company, Milwaukee, and T. est and most elaborate map of the W. Goad of the Gold and Silver ExtracCripple Creek district yet issued. tion company of America. A company has been incorporated at Mr. Howrard E. Shock, who Helena, Mont., for the purpose of de- returned from' a trip down the recently Colorapower at Stubbs, do, brings the information that the big veloping on the Missouri river, and transmitting current wheel of the Good comit by electric current to Helena, four- pany has been so damagedHope by drift teen miles distant. wood that operations will be delayed The Breitung-Cryslsyndicate have for some time. Several small outfits ht $50,-00- x. 8000-hor- se er have recently commenced operations with washers upon various bars, and all claim that they are taking out good pay. The Butte Miner says that one of the largest and most important mining deals ever inaugurated in the Black Hills is now under wray, and involves the expenditure of nearly $2,000,000 in the development and purchase of about 400 acres of mineral land on the siliceous ore belt, on which options have been secured running from thirty days to six months. The property is all contiguous to the Homestake mine. The London Mining World announces that there are those wrho are working night and day upon an oil process which bids fair to do for Westralia what cyanide did for the Transvaal. It also states that a method has been discovered and patented by Mr. William Herbert Hyatt, F. C. S., a well known chemical engineer and metallurgist, by which the finest and lightest gold can be recovered without the use of a single drop of water. A handsome specimen of copper ore, showing azureite, malachite and native copper, was brought in from the North Star mine, at Silver City, by Superintendent Lawrence this week. In this connection it may be said that the Tin-ti- c district produces minerals in greater and more interesting variety than any other In the United States. The list, which embraces many rare forms, is constantly being increased, Messrs. Holden and Bixby having recently discovered several minerals not heretofore found in the district. Precisely as was to be expected, the wail of the Cooks inlet tenderfoot is heard throughout the land through the medium of the press. The Alaska Mining Record says numbers of this kind have already returned on the same vessels which took them there and the burden of their doleful tale Is that there was Ice and snow in that region and that no nuggets grow on the bushes there. But Alaska has passed the stage where she need care for the baseless whines of this class of people and It a matter of congratulation that their stories will influence none but those whose absence from Alaska will be to the countrys advantage. The stock of the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee Railroad company, organized last winter, has been sold to Col. E. H. Dewey and John E. Stearnes of Nampa, who represent Chicago and Pittsburg capitalists. The syndicate is said to be the same that recently commence extensive mining operations on Florida Mountain and they propose to construct a road from Nampa to Boon-vill- e at once, thus giving the Owyhee country an outlet for its ores. The company has been reorganized, with the following officers and directors; W. H. Dewey, president; John E. Stearnes, R. E. Greene, secretary and treasurer; W. E. Borah, attorney; J. M. Goffey of Pittsburg and Robert W. Marion of Jamestown, N. Y. Orpiment crystals from the Mercur mine have been sent to Yale and Harvard, with the compliments of Mr. John Dern, president of the company, and the result will be a revision of the text books on mineralogy. Prof. Penfleld of the chair of mineralogy at Yale writes that he has made the interesting discovery that the crystals are monoclinic, instead of orthorhombic, as given by Dana and other authorities. Prof. Penfleld is hardly entitled to the credit of the discovery, however, as Mr. Maynard Bixby of this city had previously called attention to the fact. This error of the authorities is explained by the absence heretofore of any specimens sufficient in size and perfection to permit an accurate determination. White Pine, Nev., News: Telluride ore is believed to exist in large quantities In this district. In fact It has been demonstrated by Messrs Raybould and Gregg, experienced metallurgists from Salt Lake City, who are now making a general examination and test of vice-preside- nt; |