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Show MINING EEYIEW. INTEE-HOUNTAI- N known property that has heretofore men, will be shown up before the seaIn son ends. silver and fortunes gold, yielded the bullion. During past year copper the Spy shipped somewhere about 300 Owyhee County. tons of ore by the lessees, and there is Caldwell The Sinker Creek no doubt but that this amount will be district has Tribune: received quite a reputation largely increased the present year. in time past as a diamond field but has never before posed as a rich quartz district. George W. Gilmore was up Salt Lake County. from there this week, however, to se'WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. cure blanks and to record some claims, he and us that no surprise need Bingham Bulletin: At the Winamuck be felt informs if quite a lot of prospecting is the force has been steadily increased done in that neighborhood this season. since the day the new company began He has located three claims. One of operations, until there are now about them is only a few hundred feet from forty men employed. Everything seems his residence and upon his own ranch. to move like clockwork, and certainly The is over a feet wide hundred ledge much has been accomplished. Two car- and has been on the surface for loads of crude ore were sent out Tues- about half a traced mile. He has opened it day, and there are about 350 tons more with a sixty-fotunnel and received broken and ready for loading. A chute assays as as $43 per ton, $24 In is completed, by which ore is dumped gold. Mr. high Gilmore will continue the directly into cars on the Winamuck tunnel to 100 feet and cross cut switch, and nothing could be more the ledge both ways. then handy. The building for the mill is Idaho Avalanche: Through the courexpected to be up within ten days, and tesy of Superintendent the there will be little delay in putting in Florida Mountain Gold Nichols ofcomthe machinery or in getting the hoist pany, wTe were this wreekMining shown the in place at the incline the boilers in blue-priand elevations plans connection being now at the mouth of of the newworking soon to be reduction works, the main tunnel. Boon-villerected on Jordan creek, near A peculiarity noted at the Winamuck is that the water in the mine has from The structure proper will be 133x87 some unknown cause receded nearly feet, seventy-thre- e feet high from the forty feet from the mark it made when lowrer vanner floor to the roof of the the property was last working, and is crusher room, and wTill have an engine now down to within six feet of the and boiler room 41x25 feet and a retort 200 level. A theory is that it has been room 16x30! feet. drawm out through a seam which may The equipment will be as connect with the Dalton & Lark work- follows:machinery A comet ore crusher, located ings. at the receiving room in the top of the R. S. Guiliani broke trail to the Venmill; twrenty 110 pound stamps with ice in Cottonwrood gulch yesterday, and double discharge mcitais; sixteen four-foto on wrork resume as soon it setexpects Frue twelve as possible. Under the magic of a lit- tlers; twro vanners; cleanagitators and a tle capital he is confident the Venice up pan. The vanners will be divided, would develop into a propof the number to operate at erty. The snow in Cottonwood is now the battery, and at the lowest five to fifteen feet, and Mr. Guiliani point in the mill. Power will be furhad great difficulty in reaching his nished by a big compound Corliss enproperty. gine of the type used by the Trade DolThe output at the Dalton & Lark this lar company. week reached 150 tons daily. There are sixty-fiv- e men nowr employed. Idaho County. Florence correspondence Grangeville Press: The latest strike In camp is by Sanpete County. McLean and Davis, on the headwraters Ephraim Enterprise: H. Carlson has of French creek in Florence Basin. At struck a four-fovein of fine galena the end of a crosscut tunnel ore in the Bullion-Pari- s claim. It has the was encountered, nearly ledge created great excitement in this town. wide and feet three partially decomDevelopment work is being pushed posed. The quartz fairly glistens with rapidly on a number of other claims in gold. This adds another great ore prothis district. ducer to the many in camp. The ownp ers will at once erect a mill IDAHO. is There the upon property. enough ore in sight to justify a mill of this character. Ada County. Minert and Boyce are pushing ahead Boise Statesman: J. A. Czizek is as fast as possible their drift on the This is contract work, making arrangements for extensive de- Little Chief. Wells. The former velopment work on the group of mines let by Coneto and 450 run are feet of tunnel for near Warrens, comprising the Rescue, parties Idaho, Superior and Good Enough, a half interest in the Little Chief and which were recently sold by him to a Golconda claims. The average ore of Boston syndicate for $35,000. Mr. the Little Chief assays $446 gold and Czizek still holds large interest in the four ounces in silver per ton. These properties and will probably manage claims all join and parallel the Gold them. It is proposed by the company Bug and Gold Cross on the north. The to erect a hoist and a mill on the prop- Banner and Coupon claims all join and erties. The Good Enough has a vein parallel the Little Chief and Golconda from one to three feet in thickness on the north. This group of mines will that averages $15 a ton. The ore is set the mining world wild before the ot nt e. ot 5-f- oot 8-f- oot big-payi- ng one-ha- lf one-ha- lf ot 140-fo- ot ten-stam- free milling. close of "96. Idaho Democrat: Abercrombie and Boise County. Lindsey each exhibited on Friday a vial containing gold nuggets that came Idaho City correspondence Boise from their placer claim in Lemps Statesman: Livingston and French gulch. The nuggets ranged in size are sinking in the Jupiter again and from a pinhead to pieces worth at least in the bottom of the winze is vein a dollar each. They were rough and the feet wide of splendid ore. By the scraggy and many of them still held two some of the quartz that clung 'when time ore can be hauled to the mill mine in shape for detached from the ledge. This shows they will have the Byrne and Farrell production. that they had been wrashed but a short rapid on the the tunnel are still running distance. The gold is worth $16.50 an to and reach the expect Lagraciosa, ounce. Abercrombie & have next two w'eeks. ore chute within the Lindsay a two miles vein the follows above, and the tunnel .t?overe( The which they hope contributed the nug-s- character of the ledge matter is changand other gold found, ing. The ledge is fully four feet wide. another prospector is trying although to trace Idaho City World: Sheriff Carroll finds in a smaller gulch Baird returned last Wednesday from muting into Lemps. The chances are Squaw creek, and brought up samples most favorable that the mother ledge, of ore from the Liberty mine. The IE already discovered by the two ledge has been tapped eighty feet be et nt 9 shaft. Mr. Baird does not know the depth of the shaft, but if w'e remember correctly it is 150 feet. When Mr. Baird w'as there the miners at work in the tunnel had driven six feet into the ledge, which wras almost solid metal, the nature of which low the bottom of the has not yet been, determined. No assays have yet been made, but Mr. Baird says the men at wrork in the mine have thrown pieces of ore into a blacksmiths forge and it shows to be rich in silver by this crude method. Some of the silver is native. NEVADA. Pioche Record: Four or five days ago Emerson and McGowan returned from an extended prospecting trip In the southern country. They bring with them samples of what promises to be the largest copper mine ever discovered in the State of Nevada. The ledge, which is from thirty to forty feet in width, extends for over 2000 feet in length, and the assays from them go from 51 per cent to 75 per cent copper. The find has caused quite an excitement. They are in Lincoln county and about nine miles this side of the Colorado river and about twenty-fiv- e miles from the Vegas ranch. The gentlemen will return to the mines in a few days with supplies to thoroughly open up this property, and also to ship ore up the Colorado river by boat, which they can do easily as it is down grade from the mines to the river. Good reports continue to come in from the State Line and Eagle Valley district. Mr. Charles Lytle, one of the heaviest owners in that locality, arrived in town a few days ago, and reports that the coming summer will develop some of the richest mining claims ever discovered in southeastern Nevada and over the line in Utah. The Lynch and Sullivan claims are improving every day, and as soon as the roads are In good condition a large shipment of very high-grad- e ore will be sent to the Salt Lake market. At the annual meeting of the South Fork Consolidated Mining company, held in this city, the following directors were elected: N. Youngberg, A. H. Bergman, C. J. Bergman, A. S. Bachman, Charles Carlson, Sam Levy and Some developGeorge A. Whitaker. ment work will be done this season upon the property, which is located in Big Cottonwood canyon. A strawr indicating the activity in mining is the fact that on Tuesday of this w'eek R. H. Officer & Co. made and the forty assays of hand samples,land-office are other assayers doing a business. Messrs. South Geyser Mining Company. On March 16th articles of incorporation of the South Geyser Mining company were filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The property of this company is one of the best known inside properties of Camp Floyd district. Part of the Mercur townsite is upon the east end of the South Geyser. They have business and residence lots. A fifteen-foo- t vein of the same ore found in the Marion, Geyser and Mercur mines has been opened up on this property, and there is no doubt but that the great blanket veins of the camp underlie it. The Mercur mine lays upon the south side, the Golden Gate upon the east, the Marion and Geyser mines and mills upon the north. It has the great ore producers of the camp upon three sides of it. The cap- ital stock is placed at the conservative figure of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No stock is for sale except a limited amount of treasury stock for development. The total amount of treasury stock is fifty thousand dollars. For a short time this stock will be sold at 50 cents per share, par value $1.00. Address all communications to Howard Carpenter, secretary, 46 East Second South, Salt Lake Citv, Utah. MATTHEW T. GISBORN, President. GEORGE II. TRIBE, Treasurer. |