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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. ' 1st, contracts having been let last week. The mints are now coining: silver dollars at the rate of three millions per month. There are three stamp mills in operation in the Neal district. Elmore county. Idaho. A four-fovein of coal has been discovered in Pleasant Creek canyon. Sanpete county. Machinery for the first hydraulic outfit in Cooks Inlet was started from Juneau last month. The Terrible mine, at Ophir, Colo., has been sold to a French syndicate, who will erect a mill. James Kennedy, employed in the Ontario mine, was killed by a cave on the 1300 level last Thursday. ot Some fine gold ore has been discovered in Park Valley, eighty miles northwest of Brigham City. Agents of a Boston syndicate are making an examination of the upper Platte Valley mineral belt, in Wyoming. The management of the Boston & Montana company expects this yeari profits to reach two and a half mil- lions. Every man employed at Belt, Mont., a coal mining town, is said to have contributed $5 to the silver campaign fund. Among the nations Mexico is the silver present largest producer. The 1895 output approximated 51,000,000 fine ounces. . It is claimed that 45,000 tons of ore are treated monthly in the United States by the cyanide process, recovering $500,000. Several wild-cmining stock swinbeen dlers have arrested at Chicago for stock. Let the good worthless selling at work go on. A number of Colorado mining com- panies that are now paying monthly dividends are said to favor the quarterly dividend plan. . Col. E. H. Dewey, a heavy mining operator of Owyhee county, Ida--, has wagered $1100 that McKinley will not carry eleven States. The Cactus company, known as the French syndicate, will at once comn mence work upon its concentrator at Frisco. The market is quiet in the extreme and peculiarly featureless, is a Denver mining stock brokers report on 200-to- conditions in The that MINING REVIEW N city. The Legislature at its last session appropriated $100,000 for this purpose. A ten-to- n shipment of ore from the Chloride Point mine, in the Ophir district, carried 112 ounces silver and $4.40 in gold. The Chloride Point is an old property that has recently been brought to the front by leasers. Three members of the Colorado Stock Exchange have been expelled for dividing their commissions with their clients. Several members have also been expelled for doing business with the members of the rival exchange. The San Jose mine, an old producer in White Pine county, Nev., is to be n cyanide plant. equipped with a The property was recently purchased by J. H. Hedges, T. R. Higgins, Will Brown and J. Heimrich of this city. The ore carries $15 in gold per ton. The business men of Cheyenne have subscribed $1500 as a bonus to secure the erection of an electric smelter. It will be erected by a Mr. Burton of Chicago, and its capacity will be thirty tons. When it is completed Cheyenne citizens are to take stock to the amount of $3500. By the closing down of all the Gogebic range iron mines at Hurley, Iron-wooBessemer and Wakefield, 7000 miners are thrown out of employment, and many of them are on the verge of starvation. The pumps have been drawn from a number of mines, allowing them to fill with water. At the Taylor & Brunton sampler it is being demonstrated that more work can be accomplished in eight hours shifts are than in ten. Two eight-hou- r now worked, at the wages formerly paid for ten hours, and it costs the company a few cents less perten-ho-ton to handle the ore than under the system. Cox Bros. & Co. Hazelton, Pa., have completed arrangements for driving a tunnel through the Quagmake mountain to their mines at Beaver mountain. The tunnel will be one and one-ha- lf miles in length, and will give a natural drainage to all the mills in the basin. It will take two years to complete the work, and from an engineering standpoint will compare with the famous Jeddo tunnel. The Stock Exchange of Salt Lake City, having become amenable to adverse criticism, has been reconstructed and reformed. Among other changes, a most rigid rule has been adopted for the prevention of fictitious sales, commonly known as wash sales, under penalty of expulsion. There are exchanges in San Francisco that might profitably borrow a leaf from the Salt Lake book. California Mining Journal. A great electrical power enterprise has been set afoot in Shasta county, Cal. Sixty thousand inches of water will be taken out of the McCloud river and conveyed by canal eight miles to a point near the confluence of the Pitt and Sacramento rivers, where an electric power plant and electric smelter will be erected, the latter for the reduction of iron ores. A number of quartz mills will be supplied with water 150-to- d, ur Russell mica mine in Latah county, Ida., has been bonded by F. Rehrman and associates of this city. The property produces very large sheets. The largest sapphire ever found in Montana was taken from some placer diggings twelve miles north of Helena last week. It weighed 19 carats in the rough. A syndicate of Eastern capitalists are thinking of starting a big tunnel enterprise at Georgetown, Colo., to penetrate Leavenworth and Republican mountains. power. A recent letter from Resurrection A company has been organized at There are Spokane for the operation of a group creek. Cooks Inlet, says: a few claims here that will pay small of mines on South Mountain, Owyhee miles southwages, and that is about all there is county, Ida., twenty-fiv-e west Silver of at present. City. The mines were A shipment of ore from the Old Tim- worked many years ago by a California er mine, in Lincoln county, Nev., re- company, at the head of which was the TJiis ceived in this city during the week, banker, Ralston, who suicided, a erected and smelter company 40 carried per cent lead, sixty ounces out a million and a half dollars. took The silver and $17 in gold. 100 as is vein described feet wide, being Thomas W. Goad has resigned the $100 in The silver. lead and management of the Gold and Silver carrying 4000-fotunnew run will a company Extraction company of America nel. process). His succesThe Grass Valley and Nevada City sor has not yet been named. district is forty years old, and While grading for a wagon road re- mining has produced $148,570,861. This does not cently, the Phoenix company uncov- include Bloomfield mining district. ered a good gold ledge between Carr Of this the amount Valley has proFork and Cottonwood gulch, in the duced $103,000,000 Grass and Nevada City West Mountain district. The belt on the east side of The building for the Montana School Wolf creek, not including the of Mines will be completed by Augrust group, but taking the Em ot (Mac-Arthur-Forr- est $45,-000,0- 00. Idaho-Maryla- nd pire and the mines to Slate creek, also the Norambagua and the Shamrock, has produced $21,962,742. The Empire is down 2200 feet, being the deepest in the group of seventy gold mines. Mr. A. M. Grant, agent of the Colors do Iron Works, has returned from a trip to Frisco and other camps. General Manager Dan Reber of the Golden King preperty was down from Idaho during the week. A large body of good ore has been encountered in the Ibex tunnel, Detroit district, at a depth of 300 feet from the surface. has been Attorney George Westervelt Peruvian mine, spending a week at the in Little Cottonwood, and reports an encouraging showing, but no important strike. The Acme Amalgamator company of this city have purchased a tract El-of river, in placer ground on Snake more county, Ida., and is preparing for extensive operations. The Acme machines will be used. the The second shipment of ore fromsamOphir mine in Bingham hasa been inslight pled, the results showing crease in the values of the silver and lead and a decrease in the gold values. The shipment was carefully sorted and per cent, but the silica was reduced 10 1.1 ounces as the lesser gold value of gives against 1.5 in the firsttheshipment is the in gold belief that to the rise a milling quartz and that the Ophir iswill be inproposition. The question vestigated, and a mill on the property is among the probabilities. In the western part of Millard county, east of the Sawtooth mountains, there is an old excavation of mysterious origin, 62 feet in diameter at the called the top and 112 feet deep. It isHell Hole, Old Spanish mintf' and excawas According to tradition is and Spaniards, vated by the carried was the gravel taken out to water and washed for gold. Venturesome prospectors visited the hole was last week, and one of the number lowered to the bottom. He secured samples of the gravel, and it showed barely a trace in gold. Within a few miles of Woking,inEngthe land, lives a man who fought Crimea, being wounded at Sebastopol; he went through the Indian mutiny; he proceeded to South Africa, fought the Zulus, and had some bouts with the Boers. For 350 he purchased tracts of land (715,000 acres), including the site of the Johannesburg, the Crocodile redistrict. gion, known as the Limpopo Then came the Transvaal annexation in 1880. He was called upon to serve under President Kruger. He objected, and eventually his property was confiscated. But for this he would have been worth millions, instead of being an invalid in a workhouse infirmary. The famous Mono mine, in the Ophir district, will be sold at public auction in this city August 29th, by the receivers of the Charter Oak Life Insurance company, acting under the order of the county. Superior court of Hartford of silbodies Conn. One of the richest ver ore ever discovered was found in the Mono mine, and a fortune was taken out by the owner, M. T. Gisborn. was found It is related that horn silverwas worked it in such large bodies that sule high-gradout with saws, and phides were also taken out. The propcomerty was sold to the Charter Oak pany, which, after the rich ore had been worked out, spent many thousands of dollars in an unsuccessful search for other pockets. The Aetna tunnel and the machinery with which the property is equipped are also included in the sale. A little flurry was caused in local mining circles during the week by the discovery of placer gold in Mill Creek canyon, but a few miles from the city. Eight locations, extending up the canyon from a point near the lime kiln, have been recorded by P. S. Witcher, J. S. Witcher, M. Watrous, J. J. Campbell, C. M. Owen and Ira Davisson. What is claimed to have been an aver- - |