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Show I INTER-MOUNTA- ridge between Freeman and Markham. he As IN MIRING REVIEW. Gold Mountain. ther assert that no such quantities of ore has the case of the Julia Dean in Markham A mining man who came in from the Gold o Ituby-Nativin the in Freeman Mountain district last the discovery Saturday informed the to the limits the of locally upsetting accepted i Salma Press that some big strikes have lately zone. mineral been made in the property owmed by the Golden V liile the ore shipments for November are Gate mining company. Three ledges have been stili very low when compared with the months tapped, ore from which assays as high as $184 0f t lie first half of the year, they show a great in gold to the ton. The orenot only assays this over October month. The increase following amount, but the company has made several shipare the shipments in tons: ments to Salt Lake City which verifies the wTork 800 of the assayers. Nothing is being said about Old Telegraph .80 this strike and the fact is not generally know?n, Liv Pine 20 but it is safe to say: Utaii Keey your eye on the 00 Golden Gate. Andrew Ross, of Joseph, is one Kept une 10 of the owmers of the Golden Gate properties. Tiewaukee 80 Korthern Chief Frisco Markham Group Blanche M Indiana Winnamuck Montezuma Dalton & Lark Golden Opportunity Congor J. W. Lee Miscellaneous 30 10 15 10 090 210 30 30 20 2403 Total West Point District. Mr. II. Carlston of Fairview, who is develop- j a group of mines in the Ephraim and West Point mining district, about six miles west of Ephraim, was in Salt Lake recently, and reports a very encouraging showing in his properties, which J. II. Paris of Salt Lake is an owner. The group comprises the Bullion Paris, Galena bill and Queen of the Hills, and in the first named property a shaft has been sunk forty feet on a vein that on its surface was twelve feet wide and has maintained its width to the bottom. In the vein is an ore body about four feet wide, which carries a splendid character of lead ore, carrying, however, low7 values in silver. Some of the ore is a steel galena, from which assays as high as 19 per cent lead have been obtained. The average of the four feet is about 00 per cent lead and five ounces silver to the ton. Mr. Carlston has 150 tons of this class of ore on the dump, but as there is no wagon road from the mountain, and the cost of constructing one would consume all the returns with the present price of lead, the ore will be allowed to remain there for the present. Meanwhile the work of developing the ore body and pros pecting the vein will be continued with as heavy a force as can be operated. ing , ! State Line District. Pioche From Joe Delmuc, who wTas in town on Tuesday, we learn that prospecting is going on steadily south of Deer Lodge, or Charley Lytles claim. Joe Vanini recently found quartz fit at about five miles below Lytles claim and onlya quarter of a mile this side of tlieUtali line, which gave assays of 977 gold to the ton. He has already begun tunneling for the ledge. Delmue himself is working on a prospect located by William Bennett. They have a shaft down Slxty feet and he had with him a sample of rock Which assayed $30 in gold and $115 in silver, taken from the ledge, the width of which they Hd not yet know. lie feels sure that before spring that section w ill have more than one ,o(l paying mine. t iYw'r. 9 been taken from the Florida Hill. V II IDAHO. The total bullion shipped from the Boise assay office during November was $124,578.75. A rich ore strike is reported from the Ida mine near Pearl, and ow7ned by II. W. Dorman of Caldwell, but the particulars of the strike have not been stated. R. K. Sheldon, superintendent of the famous California Bar placers at Gibbonsville, has a splendid showing of high grade gold quartz, on Arnett creek, and is erecting a five- - stamp mill. Deeds to the Gold Bug and Gold King mines at Silver City, have passed from C. B. McKinnon and E. W. Grant to the Golden State Mining Company, the consideration being $25,000. Work is still progressing, in spite of the cold w eather, on the Bingham Placer companys big bed rock flume near Gibbonsville. The wrork is under the direction of Charles W. Watson of VIDA. The Midnight Mine near Ely, records a now strike from which assays show7 $155 in gold and 12 ounces silver per ton. John W. Merritt of Ely recently shipped two tons of 1000 ounce silver ore from the Fountain mine in Hercules Gap, White Pine Country. The Central Nevadan says if the Adelaide copper mine, near Golconda turns out well there will be 300 men at work in it before spring. English capitalist have put ten or twelve men at work prospecting the mine with a view of determining its value. The North Mountain Mining Company at Egan Canyon, is about to substitute the roller process of crushing ores, for the stamp battery, and operations at the mill have been suspended pending the arrival of the new machinery. The cyanide treatment of the ores has met with marked success. C W. Kinney, a San Francisco mining man, arrived yesterday from Bartlett Creek, accompanied by L. D. Vary and Colonel Hay says the silver State . It is reported that Messrs. Vary and Hay have made a sale of their mines at Bartlett Creek to Mr. Kinney, though the terms of the transfer are not known. The purchaser is said to have a strong San Francisco company back of him, which will conduct operations on an extensive scale. White Pine Newt: The negotiations for the purchase of the Ben Ilur, Belmont and two Salt Lake. other mines in Granite district, Steptoe Valley, An attachment for wTages due Henry Kling the property of W. D. Campbell, took definite has been issued on the property of the Morning shape last Wednesday. The purchasers of Star mine at Silver City. The property has whom Mr. Otto Liefer of Green River, Wyo., been idle for a long time and Kling has been and II. II. Miers and J. P. Darling of Salt Lake six as for months without City, are the principals or represent them, watchman serving receiving his pay. entered into an agreement on the 2d inst., the The farmers on Camas Prairie are offering a conditions of which are that the company is bonus of $4,000 to any one who will erect a to pay $25,000 for the property above mentioned small but first class roller flour mill at Hailey. including Mr. Campbells ranch, wrater-right- s Or they will organize a stock company and put etc; $750 having been paid down, 84250 to be up the funds if they can secure a good respon- paid August 1st, 1897, $5000 January 1, 1898 and sible man to take charge of the business. the balance on the 1st of July following. The The creditors of the Flint mine at Silver City development of the mines must also be conhave taken a mortgage on the property and tinued during the time in which the payments the difficulties between themselves and the are to be paid. The Ben Ilur was a paying owmers have been adjusted. New machinery proposition from the start, and wre are glad to has recently been added to the mill, and wTork know7 that Mr. Campbell has been fortunate enough to make a deal at this time. will soon be resumed. The cabled report of the October operations Very few people understand what an importDe Lamar Mining company, limited, ant mining enterprise is that now crystallizing of the showTs 4,153 tons of ore crushed; bullion pro- at the Island Mountain placers, about seventy-fiv- e miles north of Elko. The properties are duced, $58,005; estimated value of ores shipped, $62,-38$4,000, miscellaneous revenue, $315; total, owned by the Gold Creek Mining Company, a a for Total expenses, $44,890, leaving profit New York syndicate. There are about 10,000 the month of $17,490. acres of ricli placer ground with varying thickTliilo Nette and Abel Borg have brought nesses of gravel, and fifty lode claims embracsuit against Col. E. II. Dowrey, J. II. Galey and ed in the companys holdings. The placers J. M. Guffey, to recover a quarter of a million have always been known to be very rich, but dollars for 2,500 tons of ore alleged to have on account of the absence of water they have been extracted from the Florida Hill mine never been worked. This obstacle has been which was purchased by the defendants from overcome by the new7 company which has plenty G. W. Grayson, and is now scheduled in the of capital at it disposal, and is now building property of the Florida Mountain Mining com- an immense reservoir for the storage of waters pany. On January 1st, 1893, the plaintiffs jumped in times of plenty, to be used in the dry seasons. the ground in question, and located it under the Canals connecting the reservoir with natural name of the Hammer, alleging that the assess- water sources are also being constructed, and ment work for 1S92 had not been performed. about 4oo men and loo teams are now7 at work The defendants deny this allegation, and fur- - under the direction of Coray Bros., the Ogden 0. |