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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- total would be sufficient to liquidate the National debt. Before this result can be accomplished capital must be enlisted, so that machinery can be put In to dispose of the immense underflow. That part of the problem solved, the returns would at once commence to be apparent, and the flow of water from the channel would certainly pay for the expense of the work by reclaiming: the arid but fertile lands lying: east of the mouth of Bingham canyon. Therefore the Review urges upon the people of Bingham the necessity of giving their placers a prominent place in the advertising that they propose giving the district. Of the total output of gold in Utah, Bingham has produced 113,000 ounces, or 42.5 per cent of the whole. The rule is that the ores of Bingham carry but very little gold, and while some milling of gold quartz has been undertaken, the output of gold from this source has been so small MINING REVIEW. N NEWS CLEAN-U- Mount Pleasant P. reports of lithographic stone. a discovery The newest mining exchange is cated at Los Angeles. lo- Ore from Bullionville, Nev., is to be tested by the A forty-to- n process. concentrator is to be Pelatan-Cleri- ci erected on the Last Chance, at Bingham. The Lucky Boy mine at Custer, Ida., is making heavy shipments of gold bullion. The Portland company, at Cripple Creek, has decided to pass sthe April dividend. The Sioux Consolidated company will furnish electric lights for the town of Mammoth. The Sunnyside mine at Silverton, Colo., has been sold to a New York syn- 5 mineral land, some of which gives promise of becoming very valuable. She employs a number of men and superintends their work, going from one claim to another on horseback. A recent discovery In the Wasatch mine, Beaver Lake district, is said to carry 60 per cent lead, 300 ounces In silver and $2 to $3 in gold. The property is under bond to United States Marshal Brigham, D. C. Dunbar and G. G. Blakely. The Colorado Stock Exchange at Denver proposes to drop piospects from the list when the stock falls below 1 cent per share, and to cut off both mines and prospects when development work ceases. There are too many cheap stocks on the market. The machine shop of the Alice Mining company at Walkerville, Mont, took a drop of twelve feet last week, but no one was injured. The shop was located on ground directly over the old workings, which collapsed on the 100 level. The trouble at the Hale & Norcross, Virginia City, Nev., has been obviated by the appointment of another superintendent, James, Cronin, an old Nevada miner, and a new man on the Comstock. Operations have been re- dicate for $450,000. Lina is the name of a new town Just organized on the Nevada side of the State Line district. A number of new discoveries are reported from Ibach, Lemhi county, Ida., and prospectors are flocking in. Capt. Miles Standish contemplates sumed. that of the total production of gold in use of a hydraulic plant upon plaThe soda well at Green River, Wyo, the district, at least 80 per cent can be the cers on Johnson creek, Blue Mountain yields 300 gallons per hour, and 1000 credited to the placers. district. pounds of the water contains 200 The Sioux mill last week shipped a pounds of carbonate of soda. Vats are bullion weighing 150 pounds, to be constructed and Judging from the tone of the Mining bar of preparations to be the largest ever shipped made to place the Review's exchanges, there is no great said upon the product from Tintic. market. demand in this region for the goldbug A discovery of ore 1673 The members of the Idaho Mineral plate matter" that Wall street's ounces silver is reportedcarrying in the Mark- Land Commission have resumed work, sound currency committee is now pre- ham group, Silverado canyon, Camp and expect this season to survey the district. Floyd to to most of the of Idaho, expared supply country newspapers The report of a discovery of tin in tending from twenty miles south of the free of cost The Wasatch Wave very Wasatch county resulted, as reports of Northern Pacific road to the boundary sensibly suggests that this country is tin discoveries usually result, in the line on the north. more 'sound matter of a hoax. getting currency discovery An English expert says Georgia has can than it W. H. Thomas, a prominent Arizona the richest gold field known on the digest now," and thinks the committee exhibits tremendous gall miner, was choked to death on the face of the globe," and adds the equally by an organge seed astonishing statement that the mines in making such a proposition The street ininPhoenix of north Georgia are capable of prohis throat. lodging goldbug scheme is, however, one of peThe Denver Mining Record observes ducing forty millions annually. Geoculiar fitness, for it is eminently proper that in some quarters more attention rgias gold belt covers from 3000 to 4000 that stereotyped arguments should be is paid to working the public than square miles. Jack Snyder ,a prospector ,is said to disseminated by means of stereotyped working the prospects. Detroit parties have bonded a copper have located the town cemetery at plates. But this mining region is not property in the La Sal mountains, for Moab, Grand county, as a placer claim, a very promising field for sound cur- $50,000, and if developments justify it and reports have it that he has found gravel running $6 to the pan. The inrency operations. The wild Western a smelter will be erected. of the silent city should rise habitants A mill is to be erected on the Deer barbarians have made the financial and resent this effort to inaugurate in Marysvale district, up Trail group, a a of question subject graveyard boom. special study and owned by O. J. Salisbury of this city. Cripple Creek people claim that their investigation, and are not only familiar The ore runs well in gold and silver. stocks are being sold on the Denwith all the single gold standard sophisThe Anchor company, at Park City, good ver and other exchanges at far. less schedule in than their tries, but are also prepared to rip them has adopted the eight-hoactual values, while the new law with the w.hich, conformity open Whenever occasion requires. poor stocks bring double what they however, does not go into effect until are worth and they are trying to find June. out Why mining companies owning propwhy things are thus. The output Coke Coal and The company of the district is now increasing. Sterling erties of actual worth and claiming to decided to run a drain tunnel 1800 has The firm of Fraser & Chalmers is be engaged in legitimate operations feet, which will settle the water quesout the machinery for the 100 should resort to the ways of the fakir tion at the mines, located at Morrison, gettingmill to be erected by the Golden stamp in pushing the sale of their treasury Sanpete county. Scepter company at Bonito, Mont. The Bulletin a list The publishes Bingham stock is beyond comprehension, but plant will include an electric tramway 160 mines in the West Mountain of five miles long, from the mine to the some of them are doing it here in Utah. district that are now or have been mill and it is about the largest maThese people seem to believe that it shippers of ore. There are few mining chinery contract ever awarded in the showcan make a such that districts requres great shrewdness and cunning Northwest. to float a mining proposition of any ing. Information has reached Denver by disthe district Tintic West reports letters, says the Mining Record, sort, and in their clumsy and inexperivein of ore private of a seven-foNew York alleged covery enced efforts to become shrewd, they showing an assay value of 218 ounces that the sales on the are of the wash vaexchange mining is owned The by riety, and that few of the stocks are property unconsciously lay hold of the methods in silver. others. and W. Naylor of wild-clisted or even known in Colorado. The operators. An apparent George interest in the Crusader, concern, blown Into existence by a A policy of sharp practice is calculated to has been sold to Ernest brass band and champagne, has only arouse the suspicion that an attempt is Tintic district, injured Colorado stocks. The people of Williams, the representative of Tootle, nothdealbeing made to sell something for Mottler & Wheeler, boot and shoe ad- New York are pretty smart themselves. ing. The surest and most honorable ers of St. Joe, Mo. The property Six men were killed last Saturday in Tetro. the the St. Lawrence mine, at Butte, by way to success is to first acquire pos- joins The Anaconda company has expend- the explosion of a powder magazine on session of a good property as the basis On the preceding ed over $72,000,000 in the purchase and the 1100 level. shaft-housof capitalization; then present its mere erecJts mines and the of the at the Wednesday development its in a straightforward, honest man- tion and operation of its smelters and Hope mine, at Basin, was destroyed ner, and it will command attention refinery, and has the names of 5000 by fire. The shaft timbers were burned, the shaft caved In and the employees upon its payroll. from capital. were disabled. The seven men The Cripple Creek Times says that pumps were either smothered to in mine the Colorado stocks are on the down Miss Hilton of Arizona, who has been death or drowned. lady prospector grade, the declines in some Instances mentioned as theis only not According to the Mining and Sciencountry, singular in her reaching 25 per cent. It is coming to in the M. A. of tific Press the following California gold Orcutt Mrs. Cripple be recognized that nothing but sub- vocation. some claims, mines have paid dividends as follows: thirty stantial development work at the mine Creek has located 300 of Idaho, $5,4S9,000; Standard, $3,771,159; acres less not than will give a stock stability and standing. embracing pan-hand- le t ur ot at one-four- th |