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Show INTER-MOONTAI- than ever from this time companys new hoistThe Daly-Wenow in active operation ing plant is nml work through the shaft was begun run made Thursday night. The test to be all that proved the machinery and for it, only a few miwas claimed the ground and a Boise made whim has been ordered; five men are employed. The ore is comparatively free with a little base at the present depth, forty feet, showing up. The ore is all assorted, portions of it being very rich. The first ten feet of the shaft milled, on the Bishoprick mill, $180. The ledge is growing wider as depth is gained. A h streak in the ledge assayed oyer $800 in gold, but was quite base. The owners of this claim are very proud of their bonanza, and will push its development and no doubt the Alexander will be one of the best mines in the district. The correspondent thus describes the Ida, one of the I. X. L. group: I find the surface showing something Immense, a body of ore from five to seven feet wide, not under cover fifteen inches deep and uncovered for 150 feet in length; lower down the hill a crosscut was run fifty-fiv- e feet, tapping the e thirty-fivabout feet deep, and, ledge where cut, measures fifteen feet between walls and carrying over twelve feet of ore. On the drift south, the ledge being wider than the drift, the same was cross-cand a cleaner body of ore the writer never saw. The tape was put on the cross-cand eleven feet was given. Asking Mr. Dorman if this body of ore panned, he said: Sample it as you like and pan as much as you wish, which I did, and was greatly pleased to find eleven feet of ore pan so well. The south drift was continued sixty-fiv- e feet, and the entire distance the ledge was larger than the large drifts; an upraise was made to the upper workings, and the for-war- d. vigor st nor alterations were necessary to make the big plant perfect in every detail. The plant is a beauty and well worth a trip to the mine to see. Just what six-inc- ,ize force will be put on now that the mine is thoroughly equipped, has not vet been determined, and may possibly he regulated somewhat by the daily quotations on silver and lead. Mr. Daly is sick and has not yet been out to see the machinery work. Manager Jones of the Peck Concentrating company has closed a contract with the Anchor company for tailings the big dump lying at the Anchor con- centrator, and that will be the first dirt handled by the new mill when completed. The method of moving the dump to the mill has not yet been decided upon, although Mr. Jones was considering the feasibility of conveying it to the mill by means of a pipe line, the dump being composed entirely of very fine material. That method has a number of features, however, that would, according to a Anchor official, make It not well-inform- MINING REVIEW. N ut ut ed feasible. IDAHO. Owyhee County. Correspondence Mining Review. Construction work is progressing rap- four sides show solid ore. idly on the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee railroad. Eight miles of grade from Idaho County. Nampa southward is now ready for Weiser Signal: It will be remembered the iron, and an increased force is beshort time ago mentioned ing put on, and it is the intention of the Signal a two of the experts from Cripple trip the management to push forward rapidSeven Devils in the inthe into Creek ly to the Snake river, before- winter terests of a wealthy company which sets in. and thus shorten the haul to Silver City and DeLamar temporarily had some negotiations on for the old to thirty miles. Meanwhile the con- Peacock. It is said that the company suited with the report, but waststruction of the bridge across Snake-rive- were much time haggling over the and the grade up Badger creek ed so that another company which had will be pushed all winter, and the early price its eyes open and knew all about the spring will witness the completion of report suddenly stepped in and snapped the road to Booneville, intermediate the proposition without more ado. between Silver City and DeLamar, up Mr. Lucien Eares of which will be the terminus of the road. Last Monday Butte, Mont., stepped off the train here Mr. F. P. Barnell is at Nampa, makand began to make arrangements to ing arrangements to push development get into the Devils. He is said to have work on the Flint Mining companys stated that he had in his pocket a conproperties, nine miles south of Silver tract for the erection, immediately, of City. A shaft Is now down to a depth a smelter on the Peacock. This is givof 400 feet, and values are shown of en as wre have heard it. We do not 1500 ounces of silver and $300 in gold. pretend to offer any assurance of how Col. Dewey has a force of forty-eigmuch there is to it, but we hope It is men at work busily pushing develop- true. The putting of a smelter on the ments on the Booneville mine of the Peacock w'ould be the entering wedge, Florida Mining companys group. A and if done, a few short months will tunnel is now being driven through see the Seven Devils district revoluthe mountain to the Trade Dollar, and tionized. It will bring such a sudden connection will also be made with the cyclone of prosperity to Washington Black Jack. A bucket tramway is being county as to bewilder us all. constructed, which will carry the ore Blaine County. from these three groups to the mill of the Florida Mining company, now nearNews-Mine- r: William Schultz, lessee ing completion, at Booneville, at the on the Isabella mine, Little Smoky, terminus of the Boise, Nampa & Owy- owned by Judge Beatty now but forhee railway, where a large force is now merly in possession of James McFad-den- , at work on construction of the mill, ore tons of ore is shipping thirty-tw'- o s, houses, store houses, lodging-house250 ounces in that will average about hotel and dwellings. silver. He is working eight men in A lively, town is bustling rapidly the mine, which is showing up ore in springing Into existence, as It were In large quantities and is likely to become - r ht and a season of unparalleled ac- a great producer. tivity is opening in all the Florida mountain mining camps, and prospectMONTANA. ing parties are making Important discoveries in the Meadow Creek district, fifteen miles to 'the south. Mining World: Late on Wednesday of three evening the Mayflowrer group A. Clark claims was purchased by W. Canyon County. no has discovery this city. Probably "Vs Bock Creek of the of correspondent as much attention during the Jai dwell Tribune says: To my sur- - attracted group. Out past fewr years as has this found the Rock Creek slope of a small hole, one that could be made Z:111 humming. The first claim we by any prospector in a months work, in full operation was the Alex- -' has been shipped fully $60,000 worth of on the summit dividing the two the richest gold ore ever discovered in ,r Tllis mine is owned by Carl-- the State. tn this open Maden. Lee has it leased Everything in and around wili sink a deposit shaft. The cut goes to show' that it is a on ibers for sinking the shaft are on rather this However vein. a than & S 100-fo- ot 9 point there is great difference of opinScores of mining experts have visited the coveted property during the past few weeks, and the fortunate owners have had numerous offers of purchase. Several Butte companies were very keen to secure the prize, but it remained for W. A. Clark to finally close up the deal through his representatives, J. K. Clark and Mining Engineer Gillis. A payment of $50,000 has been made, and the other two of equal amounts are to be made in thirty and sixty days, making a total of $150,000. The values of the property and shipments have been greatly exaggerated, and for the information of our readers we have secured the following smelter reports per ton of several shipments; $218.80, $159.60, $591.20, $252.40, $476.40, The gen$154, $101.20, $160 and $140. eral average may be said to be from $140 to $200 clear across the deposit. ion. ALASKA. Juneau Record: Again rich ore has been uncovered at Sheep creek, this time on Johnnie Dolans claim, about 200 feet above the dam. Dolan has for a short time been driving a tunnel upon his property, and it had been pushed in but about twenty feet wrhen the ore body was struck, disclosing a highly mineralized lode of green mica schist in w'hich free gold is thickly sprinkled in colors which in many instances attain a twenty-fiv- e cent size. The vein has been traced to a width of several hundred feet, and if its promise is fulfilled will prove a veritable bonanza. Miller creek, regarded as the best district, and diggings in the Forty-mil- e until the present season sustaining its reputation, is said to be practically worked out. On the Polky claim men have been laid off for the reason that they could not take out their wages. From the Miller claim the ow'ner, Johnny Miller, cleared $40,000 during the past year, after paying out $16,000 for wrages, and then regarding the claim as so nearly w'orked out as to make it doubtful of he could profitably continue operations upon it, gave it to twO friends who had been less fortunate. The ten stamps of the Julian mill at Berners bay began dropping on first-clarock this morning. This brings the number of stamps now in operation in Alaska to 572. free-milli- ng . ss NEVADA. Carson NewTs: Tuesday attachment papers were issued against the Union Mill and Mining company, owning the Mexican, Morgan, San Diego, Vivian and other mills. The sum is $10,000, and action is brought by Trenmore Coffin. Mr. Coffin wras one of the attorneys in the water case several years ago, in which the mills sued the farmers along the Carson river to enjoin them from using the waters of that stream. The Belmont Courier says that ore assaying $1000 in silver to the ton is being taken out of Charles Harrisons mine in Jefferson canyon, and that there Is plenty of ore in sight. Assessments. Company. Eureka Con. West Cable Lucky Bill ... Utah State .. Golden Star . I .10 .01 .02 .00 .01 .01 . Constellation Octorora Sevier .01 .05 Dalton .01 .01 Steamboat ... 1 IJuly Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. 8 Sept. Sept. 17 Sept. 25 Sept. 13 Sept. 26 Sept. fSept. 1 Sept. ISent. 9Oct fSept. 22 Oct. iOct. 2Oct. 17 5 17 5 15 4 16 22 9 12 17 The Elmore (Ida.) Bulletin thinks the gold craze is dying out. |