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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN 3 United States in the interest of American and European capital. He will visit the mining regions of the Pacific Coast, and the men who are interested in the welfare of Utah should see to it that he has every opportunity to learn all the facts about the new gold field of Mercur, the old but undeveloped gold field of Marysville, and the lately discovered gold veins of the State Line District. Mr. Butters says that Europeans will not look at shares of American companies where the stock is quoted at 2 or 3 cents per share as in the case of many Cripple Creek stcoks - -- AND WESTERN MINING RECORD. Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of the Published Weekly by Alex Hyslop, TERMS: 212 Inter-Mounta- West. in Atlas Block. Payable in advance. One Year Six Months $2.00 100 50 Three Months To foreign countries except Mexico and Canada, $3 per year, postage prepaid. matter. Entered at the Salt Lake Postoifice as second-clas- s San Francisco Office; 61 and 65 Merchants' Exchange, where this pape is kept on file. Advertising contracts can by made with E. C. Dake. Agent. Chicago Office: 761 Monadnock Building. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Dec. 10, 1896. The Mining Investor of Colorado Springs, which is devoted to the interests, particularly, of Cripple Creek, is just one year old, and is a journalistic and financial success. It is an able exponent of the merits and demerits of a good mining camp, and enjoys the substantial support of generous advertising from the wideawake brokers of Colorado Springs. The Investor cuts out business for the brokers, and the brokers even the debt with good advertising support. The Montana journals have investigated the report, emanating from Colorado, that a sympathetic strike would be inaugurated in the mines at Butte and Anaconda on account oS the trouble at Leadville, and found the report unfounded. The rumor started from the fact that the Butte union has contributed generous aid to the Leadville union during the distressful period. This aid will be continued, but there will be no strike in sympathy. It is also announced from Butte that the report that the mine owners had combined to enforce a reduction of wages 50 cents per day is also absolutely untrue. There appears to be no reason why such an attempt should be made at the present time, as the only mines that are operating are the gold and copper properties. These are making money and can well afford the present rate. A movement is on foot, however, to try to arrange a sliding scale of wages, based on the price of silver, whereby the silver mines can resume work, and it is stated that the suggestion is not entirely distasteful to the unions. If such an arrangement could be made it would be the means of furnishing employment to thousands of idle miners. While asbestos has become a very important item of consumption bn account of the variety of uses to which it is put, very little of it, comparitively, is produced in the United States. The total production of this country in 1894 did not exceed 325 net tons, of a value of $13.73 per ton, while our imports from Canada, alone, where it is produced abundantly, amounted to 18,647 wet tons, valued at $256,086. Our imports jof mica from Canada in the same year amounted to $126,184. Both minerals abound in various parts of the United States, notably in the west, but they have not been developed into industries. A movement is on foot in Salt Lake, with a number of reputa- Mining ble business men behind it, to organize a Association. The plan of the association is to secure a given number of members who will pay $100 each for a membership certifiof cate, the money so realized to be used for the exclusive purpose Co-operati- ve examined and lifting options on mines that have been properly of experting accepted. A working capital to meet the expenses and developing prospects on which the association may secure assessments on each memoptions, will be provided by monthly to work well, as bership certificate. The proposed system ought it is one of the easiest ways to raise capital for the development of for the mining properties, and there are abundant opportunities region operation of such an association in the Absolute loss of the investment of the member wouid be next to an be grossly impossibility unless the fund created should and the chances for good returns are very much in the majority. inter-mounta- in mis-manag-e- The accidental killing of George Colton at Bingham this week, by an explosion of giant powder, is another case of the throwing away of a life in fact the death can more properly be classed as suicidal rather than accidental. According to the reports, Colton had some giant powder to thaw, and resorted, through either igno- rance or carelessness, to the most dangerous method to accomplish his purpose, by placing it in the oven of a stove. The result was almost inevitable. There are many ways by which giant powder can be thawed, each of which is ab;olutely free from risk. Perhaps the most universal method is carrying the sticks in the bootleg, and obtaining the desired resuit through the heat frorii the body, and this practice has never been other than absolute safe, Some miners object to it, claiming that it induces pains in the limbs, similar to those caused by powder smoke. These can adopt the other safe method of heating water in one vessel and pouring it into another over which is placed the sticks of giant. There is no more dangerous method of thawing powder than placing the vessel in which it has been thawed on a fire. The reason is that e when powder is rendered very soft by heat the oozes out and drops in the vessel, and when again brought in contact with sudden heat an explosion is the result. Ordinary precautions in the handling of giant would close the chapter of horrible deaths by this agent. nitro-glycerin- THE OLD RELIABLE. d, According to Mr. Charles Butters, an American mining engineer who has been operating in the gold fields of South Africa for six States holds the, first years, but is now in New York, the United Mr. Butters preplace in the world as a gold producing country. dicts that the profits of gold mining in the Transvaal and Australia in recent years will seek reinvestment in American gold fields, and his present mission is to examine the gold deposits of the ; The familiar name of the Old Reliable, by which the camp of Bingham, in this county, is so frequently referred to, is a title that not more applicable than it is deserving. From the first discovery of placer gold in the channel of the canyon in 1S65, and the subsequent discovery of mineral lodes, the district has maintained a continuous output of values of one class or another, which has frequently been lessened by unfavoroble market conditions, but has never yet come to a full stop. The performance is the more remarkable when it is taken into consideration that the ores of the is |