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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- IXL A mill is to be erected on the property, in Willow Creek district, Idaho. Placer operations on the Snake river have been greatly retarded by high water. Electric power is now used by the Tom Boy and other Telluride, Colo., mines. acquire full citizenship in the Trans- vaal Republic. The A. D. & M. company, at Gibbons-vill- e, Idaho, is producing about $1000 in gold per day. N. B. Dresser, a newspaper man of ability and experience, has purchased the Mercur Miner. The leasers of the Crescent mine at Park City have sent 300 tons of first-claore to market. A Boston company has a tract of placer ground onpurchased Bohannan Creek, Lemhi county, Idaho. A sixty-to- n cyanide plant is to be erected on the Dexter mine at Tusco-ror- a, Nev., owned by Salt Lakers. Railroad contractors at the mouth of Sevier canyon found a boulder of quartz very rich in free gold. A chlorination plant of seventy-fiv- e tons capacity is now in successful operation at Garden City, near Deadwood. Annabella, Sevier county, is having its mining excitement, and it is claimed the discoveries include manganese, silss 300-pou- nd ver and lead. William Zirn, owner and discoverer of the mines at Pine Nut, near Carson, Nev., was caved on last week and instantly killed. A gold bar valued at $2000 was the first shipment from the new April Fool mill at DeLamar, Nev., and reached this city last week. F. F. Frisbee, who claims the distinction of having made the first mineral location in the Cripple Creek district, is now a resident of Utah. A gold mill and concentrator are to be added to the plant of the Reno re- duction works, wrhich now consists of a chlorination mill and a smelter. The Lucky Boy mine, at Custer, Ida., recently closed down by a strike of the miners, has resumed operations, and the mill is to be started up. The Denver Mining Stock Exchange is undergoing a woeding-ou- t process, and when it is finished there will be fewer wildcat brokers and wildcat stocks. XJie capacity of the Tacoma smelter is to be increased to 200 tons per day, mp at an expenditure of $100,000. Two new stacks, six roasters and a refinery are to be added. West Tintic reports a strike that avounce erages $34 in gold, eighty-fou-r silver and 20 per cent lead. The vein is fourteen inches wide and belongs to Fred Frank. The wrorking tunnel of the Ibex, in the Detroit district, has reached the vein, at a depth of 425 feet, and at this depth ore is found that carries $S0 in gold. 'A mill is to be erected on the Horn Silver group of gold properties, located on Trout creek in the Deep Creek country, owned by Joseph Parker and Fount Robinson. The silver exports from January 1st $100 5 ed for the Alaska gold fields, this season were cured of the gold fever by 1, 1896, the mere sight of snow and ice, and came back on the same steamer that took them out. To become a successful miner in any country a man must be made of good stuff. The Old Dominion mine at Globe, Ariz., owned by Lewisohn Brothers of New York, has been closed down on account of trouble with the miners, who demanded an advance from $2.25 and $2.50 to $3 per day and the discharge of all Mexicans. Two hundred and fifty men were employed. The company last week recorded its regular shipment of cyanides from its plant in Sonora, Mexico, to the Consolidated Kansas City refinery. The last shipment was valued at $4080 and was the output for the last half of May. Much better results have been obtained since A. E. Beveridge took charge of the mill. Elko county, Nevada, is enjoying a renewal of mining activity, and work is being resumed on many old properties. Charles Bonne is shipping forty tons of high-grad- e ore from his Bald Mountain mine, and work will soon be commenced on the smelter at the Pha-le- n copper mine. A promising vein of coal is being opened up at Twelve-Mil- e. The Southern Pacific has made a rate of $15 per ton on ore from the White Cloud district, White Pine county, Nev., to Salt Lake. This district is not over 250 miles away, and the Deep Creek road will give the mines a short haul to market, at about one-thir-d the above rate. During the week the Eureka-Hi- ll company, at Eureka, shipped twenty tons of base bullion, the product of the mill having been allowed to accumulate for several months. This was a big shipment, but its value has been greatly overestimated by the press; according to Superintendent Packard, who states that it was 75 per cent black se 50-t- It requires fifteen years residence to to were valued at $20,000,-00- 0 against $13,000,000 for the corresponding period of 1895, and $15,000,000 for the same period of 1894. Proof that the American Fork mines are coming, to the front was supplied by the filing of an apex suit by the owners of the Whirlwind against the lessees of the Wild Dutchman. teams are engaged Twelve four-horin hauling gilsonite from the mines of the Salt Lake Gilsonite company at Pariette to Price, where it is shipped east over the Rio Grande Western. Pending the construction of a new mill for the Tiger and Poorman mines at Burke, Ida., the pumps in the mines have been stopped and there is now about 800 feet of water in the Tiger. Business has been dull on the Colorado stock exchanges, but Cripple Creek is enjoying a mining boom. Many strikes are reported in territory that has been regarded as barren. A bromine plant is ready to start up on the Nellie Bly gold mine, at Magnolia, Boulder county, Colo. It cost $75,000, and is expected to treat telluride ore at a cost of $1.75 per ton. Prof. Robert Peele of the Columbia School of Mines, will spend several weeks at Butte with a number of students, who will pursue their studies to June P. The Mercur Miner reports a demand Jfor good miners. New leases are being taken on manv Bingham properties. Dennis Ryan is working 100 men on liis Hunter mine at Mullan, Ida. Some promising gold discoveries are reported in Cassia county, Idaho. The Ophir Hill company is now shipping fifty tons of concentrates per day. Bromide of silver ore, carrying 800 ounces, has been found near Ouray, Col. 30-sta- MINING REVIEW N Pan-Americ- an semi-month- ly on from the standpoint of practical operation. The owners of the Blue Bell claim, located near Paradise, Cache county, state that they have a vein sixty feet wide that carries from 7 to 25 per cent copper. This claim is worth investigation. The San Francisco Chronicle is authority for the doubtful statement that Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato have sent an expert to British Columbia, with a view to investing in the mines of that region. great mining boom is predicted for Rossland, B. C. Mining booms this year seem to move about with the copper. Under the mining code of Argentine changing seasons, commencing away ini and South down Georgia traveling Republic no patent is issued on a location covering ground under which it North to the Artie circle. A cyanide plant is being erected for can be shown the apex of a prior locathe Phoenix mine at South Pass City, tion dips. The mining laws of Argenextremely liberal in other reWyo., and another to work the Carrisso tine are There is probably no country mill tailings. It is stated that the ap- spects. on the Western Hemisphere that is not plication of the cyanide process promises to work a revolution in this camp. provided with a more intelligent and A MamThe shipment of high-grad- e wreek moth ore mentioned last averaged $300 per ton, rather lower than expected. There were 114 tons, and it was purchased by the Philadelphia Smelting and Refining company. The miners of the State Line district have quit work on their silver properties and gone to prospecting for gold. The silver properties contain some very rich seams of ore, but the average just mining code than that of the United States. What is termed the hydro-carbonoxygen process of reducing ores is to be put into operation at New Westminister, B. C., by Samuel M. Trapp, who has been at work upon the process for sixteen years. He claims that it will treat all characters of smelting ores, producing a refined product, at a cost of less than $1 per ton. A n costs but $3000. Thus is the miplant values are not satisfactory. and ning smelting industry again revoTreadwell lutionized. Alaska The report of the company for the month of April is asts Attention is directed to the adverfollows: Ore milled, tons, 22,114; tisement in this issue of the Dodge Mitreated, tons, 347; bullion ship- ning Machinery company of San Franbullion from sulphurets, cisco. Mr. M. B. Dodge, the manager, $46,867; ments, $14,759; working expenses, $27,469; profit is one of the best known men in the line of mining and milling machinery for the month, $19,39S. The representative of Eastern stock- on the Pacific coast, and the mining holders of the Morning Star mine, at industry is indebted to him for many Silver City, Ida., has paid up all the improvements in rock crushers, concendebts of the company on the basis of trators, amalgamators, etc. The Dodge 75 cents on the dollar and will sink the New Gold Amalgamator is attracting shaft 100 feet deeper. It is reported especial attention at this time. that H. W. Barry has resigned the Dr. W. Seward Webb, of New York management. Central fame, has invested in stock of All the cyanide of potassium sold in the Crystal Mining company, owning this region is manufactured by the nine claims near Marysvale. Other Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical com- New Yorkers have also become interPerth Amboy, N. J., and sold ested and the property is to be vigorpany atNelden-Judson Drug company. ously developed. Some very asby the The present price in Salt Lake is 40 says have been obtained, but high, average cents per pound f. o. b. values are believed to be about seventy-founces silver, 20 per cent lead The Pacific Northwest Bureau of ive Mines has been incorporated at Port- and $20 in gold. Following are the ofland, Or., for the purpose of promoting ficers of the company: George M. Scott, the sale of mining property. In its president and treasurer; Joseph E. Gali-ghe- r, H. S. Rumfleld, prospectus it states that the value of mining plants in Oregon is $14,000,000, secretary. and the gold output this year will be An increased force has been put to over two millions. work upon the Accident and Chester Several tenderfeet miners, who start groups, located on Dutch mountain, in ic I 200-to- sul-phure- vice-preside- nt; ' |