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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. and increases in quantity with depth. by 500 miners and promised never to A new camp has been established and return. named Cinnabar. The old gold camp of Florence, Ida., and prothat flourished in the sixties now the is gold, much duced placer and hundreds scene of an excitement, of miners are rushing in, notwithstandsnow is seven feet deep and ing the will not disappear until May. process plant at The Pelatan-CleriIdaho, is about the DeLamar mine, This process difready for operation. st MacArthur-Forrein fers from the agithat tho pulp is kept constantly occurs in the and precipitation tated the solution tank by electrolysis. A short time ago u block of Insley stock was sent to this city from Denver In the and some of it sold for 2&.a boost at meantime it had been given sent was block same the Denver and and better. back and sold for 8 cents stock to If Denver can 2stand it to sell back for and buy it Salt Lake for to keep it up. 8, Salt Lakers are willing The two concentrators of the Tiger and Poorman Consolidated company at Burke, Idaho, were entirely destroyed and the deby fire on the 18th instant,and pumping struction of the hoisting work. hard averted was by only plant mine the been destroyed Had these would have been flooded. The loss on the mills was $100,000. The company will rebuild at once. Fraser & Chalmers have secured the contract for the erection of the mill on the Golden Scepter mine at Bonito, Mont., mention of which was made by the Mining Review last week. The plant will cost $110,000. The Golden 200 feet wide, Scepter has an ore body in gold. to $10.50 running from $7.50 The property is owned by United States Senator Higgins and other Delaware capitalists. It is stated that one of the principal causes for the lack of business on the New York Mining Exchange is the lack of certificates of stock. Brokers freouently have orders for 100 shares which cannot be filled, because the stock has not been placed in a registry and transfer office. New Yorkers are accustomed to trading in small blocks of high-price- d stocks, and they prefer certificates of small numbers. Two miners running a tunnel for the Chicago Mining and Milling Company in Morgan county, while waiting for powder, went prospecting and found the very vein the company was looking for In the tunnel, and found it so located that the tunnel could never tap it. They asked for and received 40,000 shares of the capital stock for showing their discovery to the management. Pockets of ore have returned assays of ci 100-sta- mp 100-sha- re $700 to $1200. Henry Siegel of the Siegel Clothing company was the original locator of the Mercur mine twenty-fiv- e years thought he had a quicksilver mine, but knew nothing about the gold. Being called East, he permitted his location to lapse and it was subsequently relocated by other parties, who patented the ground and sold it to the Mercur company for $10,000. It is now worth a couple of ago. He millions. The New York Financial Record has this to say of the Mercur district and one of the Mercur hustlers: Mercur is attracting as much, if not more, attention to solid capital and mining than Cripple Creek, and the probabilities of this camp are beyond all present estimate. We are glad to note that among the successful gold hustlers at Mercur is an old friend, Mr. Arthur W. Perego f New York City renown, and who will make a good mark wherever he goes. The Hale & Norcross mine has been closed down, owing to a difficulty with the Virginia City Miners Union. The union refuses to recognize Tangerman, the new superintendent or permit its members to work under him, and has so notified President Lynch, of the new management. The latter states that Tangerman will be retained and the wane remain closed. Last Saturday tangerman was escorted out of camp The recent In Blue Jay stock on the Denver flurry Mining Exchange, which resulted in losses to the brokers aggregating $50,000, caused the failure of three members and charges of fraud, was all caused by the discovery of three to ten Inches of ore carrying $150. A few more such strikes and the Denver Stock Exchange is lost. The scale on which Transvaal mining is carried on equals the operations of some of our largest mines and perhaps is only surpassed by the Anaconda, Calumet and Hecla and a few other of our mines. For instance, the Simmer & Jack Gold company is now completing a Mining mill in addition to the former plant, to handle altogether by cyanide method 1500 tons daily. The general manager of the company is an American, Richard A. Parker. The cost of mining, hauling, development, milling and general expense is about $6 a ton. A great many Union Pacific dollars seem to be going into Mercur mines. Among the directors of the Overland company, recently organized, owning ground adjoining the Sunshine, are Ed Dickinson, general manager of the Union Pacific system, and W. H. Ban-crif- t, superintendent of the Mountain division. Charles Francis Adams, expresident of the Union Pacific, while in the city recently, purchased a block of Mercur stock. S. W. Eccles, general agent of the freight department, has interests in the gold belt, and so has General Passenger Agent Burley and his 280-sta- mp assistant, Mr. Spencer. A romantic phase of life in the Yukon region is thus depicted by the Alaska Mining Record: Marriageable females are evidently scarce in the Yukon country, and in great demand, judging from reports, as every maiden, spinster and widow has a score of suitors, men rich in mines but poor In family blessings, who lay their love, backed by sacks of gold, at their feet. d men work their rockers and sluices day and night to clean up a bigger sack than a competitor in the race, to back up his wooings to a lanky spinster, and bloody duels, at which pistols crack, are fought by the younger rivals who worship at the shrine of a buxom maiden. Grey-heade- From the Transvaal, says an exchange, comes a taunting tale that will not set well with any Anglo-Saxo- n in any quarter of the globe. Discussion among some Boers as to the color of the English flag, some claiming it was red. caused an old Boer to rise, and with placid mien assert it was white. Being told that it was an absurdity, he said he had seen it three times; once at Majuba, once at Brunkerspruit, once at Doornkop. Each time it was hoisted; each time it wras white. Each time the old fellow had gone to fight English troops and each time the only flag he had seen them wave was a white one. It is possible, however, that some day the old Boer may have a 'vause to change his opinion, which, from past events is certainly based on a logical line of reasoning. In comparing the four great tunnels of the world there is seen to be a very remarkable decrease in the time and cost of successive works. The Hoosac tunnel, the oldest of the four, cost $379 a foot; the Mount Cenis, the next in date, cost $356 a foot; the St. Gothard cost $229 n foot, and the Alberg, the latest in date, cost only $154 a foot. This rapid decrease in cost within comparatively few years, is a marked indication of the great progress in mechanical methods and improvements in rock excavating and tools. The wildcat promoter has even borrowed, or rented, the livery of heaven to serve the devil in. The Pulpit Herald and Altruistic Review, published at e advertiseChicago, contains a scheme investment ment of a mining indications that carries all the surface of a fake. On the opposite page is an announcement of the second coming of to pass Christ, which is likely to come before the innocent lambs who invest full-pag- 7 in these wildcat stocks see the color of a dividend. E. H. Airis has been elected president of the Northern Light (Ophir) company, vice Gill S. Peyton, resigned. Mr. Peyton recently disposed of his stock to E. E. Crooks, who has been elected vice-preside- nt. SALT LAKE NUGGETS. D. B. Levan, one of the of the Boise gold belt, is In thepioneers city. Col. H. C. Woodrow, manager of the Emma mine, has returned from an inspection of Californias mother lode. J. A. Yeatman, Salt Lake of the E. P. Allis company, has agent Issued a map of the Mercur district as an advertisement. The rate on ores from Bingham to Salt Lake has been advanced 25 cents per ton, which works a hardship upon the Salt Lake samplers. Hon. R. C. Lund of St. George is in the city and reports considerable excitement in southern Utah over the discoveries in the State Line district. W. R. Busenbark of the East Golden Gate will return from the East in a few days and will be accompanied by John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank, who is the owner of East Golden Gate stock. A party of adventuresome Salt Lakers will shortly leave for the Venezuela gold fields, under the auspices of the Venezuela Mining company of Utah. They propose to take with them a steam launch with which to navigate the streams of the interior. The Utah Chemical company,recently organized in this city, claims to be able to manufacture cyanide of sodium at a cost of 6 cents per pound and cyanide of potassium at a cost of 9 cents. The sodium cyanide Is said to be as effective a solvent of gold as the potassium. Will G. Nebeker has just returned from a trip to the Vanderbilt district, southern California, where he inspected the properties of the Brick Consolidated company. The vein show's several feet of free milling that carries from $18 quartz to $50 per ton, and a ten stamp mill is in operation. Allen G. Campbell is one of the pricipal stockholders in this company. Mr. Nebeker also visited Cripple Creek and thinks that camp offers no greater inducements to capital than Mercur. Mr. E. G. Rognon, who has just re- turned from a trip throughout the East, brings the information that the people of that section, particularly in the New England States and at Philadelphia, are beginning to show a lively interest in Utah mines. As yet, however, such intense conservatism prevails that the inquiry is for developed, paying mines and no one wishes to invest in a prospect. While on Wall street he wras approached by the repre-sentiof an English syndicate, wrho desired an option on the Mercur mine. 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