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Show i INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N ditch which $170,000. Capitalists are not paying of water. such prices for undeveloped claims, inches miners will carry though the surface showing may A strike of high-grad- e silver ore is even The population of Johannesburg is be favorable. very reported in the Watunka group, located 102.714. The Peruvian company has decided near Mill F, Big Cottonwood canyon, A smelter project has been launched and owned to drive a tunnel to strike the by Felix J. Stark and Alex at Creede, Colo. Mitchell. The assays are said to show vein at depth and an assessment of 4 cents per share has been levied. The mines and mining property of 200 to 500 ounces silver. Piute county are assessed at $31,387. The region about Grand EncampGeorge S. Davis, who owns placer The Copper King mine near Douglas, ground near American Falls, Ida., ment Creek, twenty miles south of Wyo., produces copper ore worth $122 writes that the gold is so fine that there Saratoga, Wyo., is excited over some are 1500 colors to the cent. He states rich gold discoveries. The veins proper ton. white quartz and The Griflin mills at the DeLamar, further that one of the McKeller gold duce a two is miles wide by the mineral of belt all has saved practically Nev., cyanide plant, are now crushing machines the values. forty long. nearly 400 tons of ore per day. A recent shipment of fifteen tons of Broker Frank H. Pettingell of ColoSome of the Slocan, B. C., mines will ore sold for $4612 on this marDexter rado Springs writes that several Coloaccount of on close down, probably rado companies that have become dis- ket, and about $5000 worth of cyanides the low price of silver and lead. satisfied with the leasing plan of have just been shipped. This company of miner a is a new Salt Lake incorporation and Nelson Westcoatt, pioneer contemare their property developing Nevada and California, died at Santa plating an increase of their capital will be paying dividends before the end Rosa on the 7th instant, aged 75. stock in order to operate under their of the year. The property is located at Tuscarora, Nev. The Quail mine, near Silverton, Colo., own direction. now shows a two-inc- h streak of quartz The Gold Queen company has levied M. R. Evans and associates of this that is said to be worth $50 per pound. city an assessment of 30 cents per share un are now developing the Chester In the Intrinsic shaft. Camp Floyd group on Dutch mountain, in the Deep the capital stock of 100,000 shares, for district, a live frog was found in a Creek country. A tunnel is being the purpose of raising funds to discavity in the lime at a depth of 270 driven sixty feet on the vein to a point charge the companys indebtedness and feet. below the shaft. Work will be re- to pay for the stamp mill now being William E. Hall, formerly manager sumed on the Accident group next erected on the property, which is located in the Blue mountains. All the of the Alice company, now has charge month. Ross-lanof the famous Le Roi mine at The bullion output of Capt. DeLa-mar- s stock is held by nine persons. B. C. Nevada mill is $220,000 per month. toDr. Stephen 11. Emmens, who claims have discovered a method of changNew discoveries of gold, silver and So says the Assessor of the county, and a tax of $3.30 per $100, or nearly 3per ing silver into gold, announces another copper are reported about seventy-fiv- e miles west of St. George, in the Clover cent, is levied upon the net revenue of important discovery. In a recent letter the property. The DeLamar cyanide to the Engineering and Mining Jourmountains. the nal he says: I have invented a force The fifth annual session of the Na- mill is said to the the largest in 2250 engine, by means of which I can attional Irrigation Congress will be held world, the tank capacity being tain and utilize a pressure of over 500 at Phoenix, Ariz., December 15th, 16th tons. tons per square inch. In saying this About 900 miners went into the Yukon I remain and 17th. fully conscious of the fact Messrs. Crane and Remington pro- region this year, and 104 of those who that there is no material at present p mill on the wintered there have come out. These known to man capable of forming an pose to erect a latter brought with them from $1000 to apparatus able to resist such a strain. gold property they are operating in $12,000 each, and one, John Miller, re- Yet I adhere to my extraordinary Boise county, Idaho. with $50,000 worth of dust. The statement, and at no distant date, The stockholders of the Squaw Moun- turned this season, when the miners are duly setain Tunnel company, at Cripple Creek, and a have notofprospered patent rights now workare them majority cured by our syndicate, I will do myhave rejected a proposition to bond the grub-stake- s. for ing self the pleasure of showing you the property for $200,000. Ore TreatGold of the The manager work and of furnishing The seventy-fir- st meeting of the ment company, Coolgardie, West Aus- engine atand a description for your drawings American Institute of Mining Engi- tralia, reports that by the bromo-cya-nicolumns. neers will be held at Denver, Colo., bemines from at process tailings The New American Natural Gas comginning on Monday, September 21st. Menzies, treated with a 2 per cent cya- pany of this city reports a steady inRecent arrivals from Cooks Inlet, nide of potassium solution and .05 per crease in the consumption, that lor Alaska, state that there are still about cent cyanogen bromide, secured 14 million 800 prospectors there, but there is no dwts. 5 having been seventeen ton from tailings av- August grs. per e was comsuch destitution as has. been reported. eraging 16 dwts. 8 grs. per ton in feet. Since the pipe-linpleted the wells have supplied sixty Ten cases of mineral specimens twenty hours. million feet to the Salt Lake and Oghave been shipped from the Tintic disof four claims, den Gas and Electric Light company, The group Antelope trict to the Colorado School of Mines located at Bingham, has been sold to an the the distributing agents. Under Gas by Prof. H. B. Patten of that institu- Eastern syndicate, represented by terms of the contract the Natural tion, who recently visited the Tintic George W. Keel, manager of the But- company is to receive 50 cents per mines. terfield company. The owners were thousand feet until a debt of $15,000 is mine a superJack McNally, Daniel Harrington and extinguished, when the rate is reduced James Miller, formerly intendent at Rocky Bar and Atlanta, R. McDonald, and it is said they re- to 17 V2 cents. It will therefore be seen Ida., is now manager of the Consuelo ceived $100,000 for the property. The that the earnings of the company have gold mine, in the Coolgardie district, Antelope has produced some very good been sufficient to wipe out the debt ore, and the new owners will erect a and leave a handsome surplus, but it is Australia. The owners of the Sterling placer hoisting plant, preparatory to increased understood there is some disagreement over a settlement. It is the opinion of mine, in Jackson county, Or., have sent production. to the Portland exposition $24,000 worth Pearson of the Bingham the natural gas management that none Secretary recent a of result of gold nuggets, the Placer Mining company has returned of its wells have yet gone down to the clean-ufrom Gibbonsville, Ida., and reports main reservoir, and as soon as the The Butte School Board has decided that a contract has been let for the con- state of the treasury warrants the outflume. It will lay, they propose to install a boring to use Utahs kyune sandstone for its struction of a four-mil-e stone to new school building, this being have a capacity carry 2300 miners plant of greater capacity than any cheaper and better than any Montana inches, will be completed by December heretofore used and go to the deep. 15th, and will cost $16,000. SpecificaAn important work, and one that will product. tions for a complete hydraulic plant be appreciated by surveyors, has been It is believed by those familiar with are prepared. Some very inaugurated in Wyoming by the Unithe Peck process that it will handle the rich now being has recently been opened ted States Geological. Survey. It congold ores of the Camp Floyd district, up inground an unexpected place, the gravel sists in placing iron monuments at and a test may be made when the Park each township corner with bench carrying from 10 cents to $2 per pan. City plant is completed. The work which will be comThe experts who examined the Cen- marks. The Gold Coin mine, located in the menced first is in Laramie county, heart of the town of Victor, Colo., is tennial Eureka mine a few months ago where 3000 square miles of counsaid to be producing more and richer in the interest of an Eastern syndi- try willover be thus marked. The posts are ore than did the Independence and cate, reported the gross value of the iron and tubing 3 inches in diameter ore in sight at $5,800,000, and the net 4 feet Portland at the same depth. long. They are swelled contest at the value at between four and five mil- out In the a at the3 with flange is claimed lions. the It Esola F. manageFrank by California State fair, sunk be and will this report did not cover any bottom and A. L. Noce of Amador City won ment that one foot exin feet the with ground e high-gradof 33 was the confined tending above the surface. On the top ore, but the first prize, $200, drilling to bodies ore of the that is fastened a brass plate on which is solely milling inches in a block of Folsom granite. out. The report that blocked been have "United States Geological It is reported that the Octorora com- the company has purchased a mill site stamped, and "B. M. The elevation, Survey pany, a Park City incorporation, is preand water rights, with the intention of township numbers will be and range on its resume work to property, paring erecting a mill, is denied. stamped on the plate by dies carried located at Charleston, Nev. An asbe State Line district will not attract by the engineers. The posts will will sessment of 1 cent was recently levied. much repainted with asbestos paint and the capital until the claim-owneTen-fobe practically indestructible. In The Taylor Park Mining company, vise their valuations. proswhich owns 4000 acres of rich placer pect holes are held at $50,000, and one future all Government surveys will be shaft is valued at marked in this manner in the West. ground in Gunnison county, Colo., is with a seventy-foo- t NEWS CLEAN-U- building a P. seventeen-mil- e 8500 500-fo- ot free-milli- d, ten-stam- de p. rock-drilli- ng 5-- 16 rs ot ng |