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Show 8 MINING REVIEW INTER-MOUNTAI- N grade ore for over 2000 feet in length on there Is a change in favor of the white the surface. Some well known Mon- metal. e tana men are interested in the enterin the Ontario drain The big a let $1000 and have is on and a large removed tunnel contract prise, being to new F. shaft P. Davis. their portion of it taken to the old Daly, The Review desires reliable correspondMercur The Great Eastern where, for some reason, its use is needMercury: ence from every mining camp in Utah, deare In ed. It is reported that the pipe is beto company getting shape Idaho and Nevada, and will give publithe ground in a systematic man- ing placed in the old Federal tunnel on cation to any news items of merit coming velop ner. There is now in the treasury be- the 200 level of the Daly. from a trustworthy source. Liberal comtween $3000 and $5000, and as soon as Following are the ore shipments from missions will be paid on subscriptions. all details are attended to the property the Mackintosh sampler for the pres will be equipped with a steam hoist. ent week: concentrates 288,890 Anchor The Wonder shaft has taken a fresh UTAH. start toward the bowels of the earth. 2S8.890 Total The new hoisting plant was started this week and works well. The bottom Tooele County. of the shaft has been cleaned out and Juab County. new ground is being broken at the rate CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. of four feet per day. TINTIC DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review.. Eureka Democrat: An important A shaft is being strike Mercur, March 25. Erastus A. Benwas made yesterday in the old son of Omaha was in Mercur City last sunk on the Gladstone. of the Norway, in the bottom of The most important sale of Camp shaft week. Mr. Benson is one of Omahas winze now being run down from millionaires and came to the camp for Floyd property recently consummated the face of the north drift. The ore is the purpose of buying some mining was that of the Cannon group, 83 acres, the termed peacock and is what property. Ills stay was short, but long lying near the Golden Gate. The pur- is heavilyusually mineralized. The earlier asenough for him to look over the situa- chasers are Col. N. Treweek and Mr. A. says gave twenty ounces silver, $5 in tion and purchase twelve claims in the Hanauer of this city acting for themand 5 per cent copper, but this west foothills and leave offers in the selves and for an Eastern sysndicate, gold now encountered should go far in exhands of his agents for more. Mr. and the price is reported to be $300,000. cess of those figures. The drift to the Benson is satisfied that the west footDevelopment work will be actively west in the new shaft is now in 170 hill country will come to the front, and prosecuted, under the direction of Col. feet, and a winze is being sunk on a will risk his money there. Mr. Benson Treweek. that assays well and is James Black and M. C. Smith have body of quartz purchased the Valley View Nos. 1, 2 improving. The full face of and 3, the Edna May and the Louis taken an option on the Confederate constantly the winze is in quartz. The Norway group. This ground is just north of group, near the East Golden Gate, for will be a big mine. the La Cigale, now being worked by $20,000. In. the Gemini the main shaft is now The discovery of $10 ore in the SterMr. C. H. Scheu, and on the same ledge down sixty feet below the 900 level, and as the Omaha. It is just west of the ling, near Five Mile Pass, mentioned sinking will continue to the 1200. The Cedar Hill group, owned by Col. E. A. briefly in last weeks Review, is of con- ore bodies on the 900 are showing siderable significance, demonstrating larger with increased development, and Wall and A. G. Campbell. the existence of pay ore in a portion of there is no reason to doubt they will These properties all show good values. No better showing was ever made the district where a great deal of work carry to the deep. in this camp for the limited amount of Is now being done. The company will e silver ore A large body of In a whim and prosecute develop- has been cut in the Cornucopia mine, work which has been done than is put shown on these claims. Ore from the ment work vigorously. northwest of the Golden Treasure The Chicago & Mercur company will lying near Diamond. Assays give a value of grass roots carries values. The Sacramento has been unable to commence the sinking of a shaft next eighty ounces silver and $10 in gold to start the mill on account of defective week. the ton. Four men are now at work tanks. They now have new iron tanks upon the property. The Golden Trea- e to replace the wooden ones, and will sure has been a large producer of Summit be in shape in a short time to do busiCounty. ore In the past and will be ness. again this season. Park Record: Looking back over the worked T. G. Merrill of Helena, Mont., purCol. Rollins, a prominent mining man of valuable Park history many Citys chased, through the agency of C. M. mines, and knowing all that has been of California, who visited the district some days ago, exclusive mention of McEntire, five claims in the west footof the value the proven concerning hills just east of the Daisy group. Mr. which was made in these columns, has Ontario group of twenty-tw- o patMerrill is an old mining man and West closed negotiations for the control just most to seems ented it claims, strange knows a good thing when he sees it, hundreds of skilled and of the late Judge Smiths interest in d the price paid being $10,000. He will the Yankee mine, one of the promiscommence development work in about miners that ofthe group has never been ing properties of the district. taken hold by a strong corporation ten days. R. G. Wilson has bought the since and a into long developed paying n Interest of Frank Hunter of miHarry Ferguson, the mine. Twenty-tw- o patented claims, Butte, Mont, in the Lake View claim, ning expert, now interested with the clear of all chance for trouble in the lying south of the Maggie S., on the Mercur Gold Mining Syndicate and Defree from kind of embarcourts, any east side. The consideration, we learn, velopment Company, reports business rassment and containing quesbeyond was $650. good, sales numerous and the outlook tion both the Ontario and Daly veins, for Mercur very encouraging. Tin tic Miner: Shipments from the ore in access with rich of easy are reported sight, Gus Holmes was in Mercur last week. district for the past week Bullion-Becsure to and is k it returns, yield large From the F. W. Rose has sold the Tettie group, as follows: reBullion-Beck should that the property 20 carloads ore; from the near the Utica, to Ogden parties, the strange mine, main dormant year after year. Not consideration being $2000. mill, 15 carloads concentrates; are who all but the 2 carowners, only that, Centennial-EurekMera At meeting of the citizens of the from men and unable to develop the loads ore; from the Eureka-Hi- ll mill, cur on Tuesday night, the first steps poor themselves, are willing and 6 carloads concentrates; from the Godi-vwere taken toward organizing a Cham- ground to anxious give a strong company most ber of Commerce. Committees were ap1 carload ore; from the Ajax, 5 terms favorable to of hold the take and securing memSioux, 1 carload the from pointed on carloads ore; and it. In all ore; from the Dragon iron mine, 22 properly develop bers. No doubt this will be a good group of more not is Utah there a thing for Mercur, as the Chamber of or safer investment than the promising West On- carloads. Commerce would then take charge of The new Swansea engine arrived and the in Record feels tario, justified outstanding business. This has here- saying that the group represents a sure Monday and is being put in place as tofore been no ones business, but atas possible. The pipe line rapidly a for mine will the be that thing equal to tended by those who would devote in from Silver City is completed and the every respect of the famous Ontheir personal attention to it. is now running up to the mine. The South Geyser have two shifts at tario and Daly properties, and would water Prof. Marcus E. Jones, who recently work. They have a good showing and like to see a strong independent comglowing the property, gives a ore pany take hold of the group during the examinedHe will have a mine in a short time. can if the that says report. summer. coming reManager Corey of the Gladstone be readily concentrated the Swansea of James the ports good ore in their shaft. Manager McGregor a great bonanza; and If this cannot Crescent company left Salt Lake Sun- is is a, big thing and will be it be done, to informal an attend Mercur Miner: M. Mahon disposed of day morning a great producer. the Edward, the Annie, the William meeting of the board of directors of Tetro reports striking the Manager that held in which was company, Wallace, the Stella, the Stella No. 2, in the Tetro this week and the the Della, the Red Horse, the Northern Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday of ledge Is now in an enormous body of drift over week. this The to was talk Rock Blue and the Lueky object Light, quartz. No assays have yet miles the situation and decide on the policy been secured, Chance, situated one and one-habut it is believed that northeast of the East Golden Gate to be pursued during the coming summer. From Secretary Cole the writer they have something good. property, to E. P. Sears, who is supadvises us that Capt. Hugo Deprezin learns that there is little hope of the posed to be representing Eastern capiwill be recommenced on the talists. The consideration was $2000, mine beginning active operations until work half cash and the balance in ninety there is a decided and permanent im- North Eureka in a few days. days. The first payment was made last provement in the markets, for the simple reason that the company will have night. Salt Lake County. The Henretta Mining company have a large amount of dead work to perrEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, a force of men sinking a new shaft on form in the near future to put the mine the Daltonn their property hear the East Golden in shape, and the company does not delgham Bulletin: Since Gate. They have a large fissure vein sire to sacrifice its product when it can Lark has become a prominent fea-owhich shows a continuous body of low be avoided by simply waiting until the Salt Lake Mining Ex- Jfeus of tl?e 5amps. air-pip- double-compartme- nt high-grad- high-grad- well-poste- one-thi- rd well-know- a, a, by-la- ws fine-looki- ng lf |