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Show INTER-M- O ONTAIN MINING REVIEW. 11 strata. The appearance is Golden Chest, Cabin, Prize Winner and and both sides of the mountain are identical with that of the famous float, Comrade lodes are the most promising. ing prospected. two-inc- h and Mr. Hill believes this vein to be the float's source. His prospect has been named the Sunrise, and its nearest owned neighbor is the Mountain Chief, Marys-valof Allen and by Messrs. King is an The Sunrise thought to beMr. extension of the other property. and Hill, together with H. W. Ramloseownare the George Long of Richfield, ers of the new strike, and will begin development work upon it at once. of six Since the 17th of March a force men has been engaged in driving a tunnel at the Sevier mine, and the labor is now completed. The hole starts 125 feet from the crosscut that tapped one of the big veins on the Windy tunnel, and is a drift on the one body running south. All through the drift there was encountered good looking ore showing free gold in places and subject to cyanide operation. The tunnel followed a vein of the true fissure species, the dirt assying from $14 to $17. The ore in this vein is similar to the surface quartz, and is also about the same as that in the main vein of the camp, showing tellurium streaks all through. 17 It is variously estimated to bell 15 orhas feet wide, although the never been struck on the tunnel. e. 200-fo- ot foot-wa- IDAHO. Lemhi County. Indian Creek correspondence Lemhi the Republic: Development work on ima vast made Kittie Burton has provement on this valuable property. The south tunnel has been run in a distance of sixty feet, showing a continuous vein averaging over four feet in thickness. The quartz found in this tunnel is perfectly free and will mill in the neighborhood of $20 per ton. The north tunnel, which is some 500 in over feet away on the same vein, is six-fofine a forty feet, disclosingore. Some of the of good milling ledge on this claim found large float boulders are of surprising richness, which plainly indicates that some parts of the Kittie Burton are of very high grade. The Ulysses, on which most of the work is being done, is considered by all to be one of the finest showings in the State. On this claim are found two parallel veins some 400 feet apart, which crop out for a distance of 500 feet, and showing an average width of five feet of good ore. A tunnel is now being run in on the upper one about 150 feet below the discovery, which is in forty-tw- o feet, and the face of which shows seven feet of ore that will mill from $10 to $12. At the mouth of this tunnel is piled 100 tons of ore, representing one man's labor for two weeks. Everything coming out of this tunnel at the present time is ore. ot Nez Perces County. The Lewiston Teller gives an account a large body of rich ore on the Snake at the mouth of Cottonwood creek in Nez Perce county. Miners had worked there for some time, of the discovery of but the general formation and the character of the ore perplexed them, and they became discouraged before they had reached the true ledge. The Teller, continuing, says: A dozen experts exhausted their theories on its formation. It is now believed that the hundreds of tons of ore taken from that mine was simply a piece of float. The latest discovery, however, is one of the few mining propositions that are a cerThere is a mountain of ore tainty. that has no covering but the moss of ages to conceal it. There are 500 tons in sight. There are streaks of ore in the ledge which will assay $150 to the ton. The ledge, forty feet wide, as a whole assays $40 to the ton in copper and silver. The rock is easily broken be- Pioche Record: C. M. Rolker, the expert who has been examining the De Lamar mine for the past month, finished his work and left yesterday. He has investigated everything connected with the property to the minutest detail, and in all probability a sale will result. How soon the management will change, however, is another matter. The- general talk concerning the proposed transfer indulged in two weeks ago has subsided considerably, and developments are awaited with - some interest. ARIZONA. Mohave Miner: T. L. Ayres has just shipped to the sampler from the Eureka mine seventy tons of very rich gold rock. He informs us that the mine continues to improve daily, and that the ore chute is now the largest ever opened up in a mine in Mohave county. The north drift is in 150 feet and the south drift 85 feet, all in ore. average samples from this chute of and can be put aboard the boat for a The 8 ounces in gold. ore is dollar a ton. Similar ore formations Mr. Pope of San Bernardino has just are worked in big mines which assay finished a line for eighteen of the value of this rock. miles of a surveyIt of only one-fift- h is proposed to carry pipe. the water of Iron springs by gravity to Gold Basin, where it will be used for Snake River Dredges. milling purposes. We understand that Boise Statesman: B. Ricketts, finanwater of Grass Springs has also cial agent of J. W. Cass, a wealthy the been and, if necessary, will be Chicagoan, who is at the head of a piped secured, to the mines. A sixty-stam- p mill Chicago company that has placed an will be put up on the mines, and 200 immense dredge and considerable ma- tons of ore per day will be milled. chinery on Snake river at Fromanss came in from Temple Stoner John ferry, is in the city. Mr. Ricketts says Bar last night. He has for some time his company has already invested in been at work a drift into the the neighborhood of $20,000 on Snake gravel bank atrunning the bar, from which he river as an experiment. Operations has taken a great deal of gold by the will be started up soon, and if the enOne of the nugwasher process. dry terprise prove a success several more in the drift weighed a few gets found dredges will be put in. Several ma- grains less than 4 ounces, and is a chines of late patent for the extraction beautiful piece of virgin gold. The of fine gold of the Snake have already clean-u- p ran from $50 for several been placed on the dredge. If these to $102. The gravel days banks the do not prove successful other methods Colorado river are very rich,along and some will be employed. day will astonish the world with their These machines were originally got- vart output of gold. ten out for "dry work, and, with some Mr. improvements recently made by comof Cripple Creek is being rapidly rebuilt, the the Lewis, superintendent the burned buildings are replaced pany, it is believed they will be k suc- and two brick strucand three-stor- y cess on the Snake, although the man- by a tures. the meantime good portion agement is not at all sanguine, and of the In of the camp is being business afproposes to discard the machines if, wooden shanties. In tents in and done ter a fair test, they prove ineffectual. one are found a bank, a salbuilding A feature of the machines is the a gambling house and a telegraph large amount of gravel they can han- oon, dle with a small amount of water, office, separated by light board partiand a mining brokerage firm only two inches of water being neces- tions, in a livery stable. sary to handle six tons of dirt per does business hour. This is claimed to be equivalent to handling the same amount of Every Millionaire Made bis Fortune dirt with a sluice head of 200 inches of from Some Invention. water. The company can, if necesSend us sketches of your invention for sary, do extensive work with sluices but a free opinion of merit and patentability and burlaps, and the never-failin- g method may after all be adopted. The gravel is pumped from Our fees duo after patent is granted and then treated on the We will gladly refer you to many of our the river-be- d dredges. successful clients. old-fashion- ed Ada County. Pearl correspondence Idaho Mining Journal: The Richmond mill is crushing ore for Ben Hall of lower Rock creek. The first installment of ore is four tons of what is known as honeycomb quartz. The Bishoprick mill has opened up for a long run on rock from the Lincoln mine. This is the property of Messrs. Rhodes and Carter. Four hundred feet on the lead have been leased to James Williams, manager of the Bishoprick stamps. Great hope is centered upon this work, as it is surely one of our most promising mines. The DeLavan crusher starts out on quartz frcm property owned by B. L. Hall. Work in the upper workings of the Chackmate has been forced to be abandoned owing to the foul air. Pilmer & Gullis, contractors, who are running the tunnel to tap the ledge lower down, believe they will reach it in a very few days. Dr. John D. Carnahan and C. L. Peebles, capitalists and investors of Ogden, Utah, have recently purchased several promising claims In Pearls immediate vicinity, among which the NEVADA. Washington Patent Agency, 908-90- 4 G St., N. W., Washington, D. C. LARGEST IN THE WORLD. Elko Independent: From Mr. George Riddle, who is in from the Bull Run country, we learn of the discovery of WE HAVE FOR SALE a big gold belt in the northern part of the county by John Murphy and Frank Curieaux, about two weeks ago. The belt is about four miles in length and runs from Bull Run creek to Blue Jacket canyon. Assays from different parts of the ledge where It has been uncovered run from $25 to $500 a ton in gold, 60 per cent of which is free Embracing 16 claims, surveyed milling. No test has been made for sil- for Patent. Plenty of timber and ver. The ledge lays flat where the boys struck it. and one cut of about twelve splendid water power. feet has been run into It. They have sunk about six feet on the ledge and are not yet through it. Mr. Riddle informed us that he took rock out of the COOK . ledge and panned it out, and that it would go at least $300 to the ton. The 42 I Atlas Block, gold, he says, is very coarse for ledge gold. This discovery has caused conSALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. siderable excitement in that section, A First Class Lead Property! B. & GO., |