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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N trict. will resume work this season and level with what is known as the golde en chamber. This is an important develop their immense bodies of ore is similar to that as the ore, in anticipation of a railroad strike, outlet. This group consists of fifteen taken out of the golden chamber. It claims, each of which shows a strong runs from $12 to $15 to the ton. ledge, and the showing made by this Cassia County. property is an indication of the mineral resources of the entire region. Upon Albion Bee: Development work in one claim, at a depth of fifteen feet, a the mines of Cassia county is five-fovein is exposed, a fourteen-inc- h steadily on, and by the end of thegoing year streak of which carries horn sil- we will be able to show to Investors ver and averages 600 ounces, while the some of the best developed and paying balance of the vein carries an average mines in the State. of 25 ounces and some lead. Among the The Comora Is working four men and other veins opened up on this group is is down only fourteen feet The ore is one carrying 80 per cent lead and an- steel galena and decomposed honeyother 84 per cent lead. A tunnel being comb quartz, from which they expect driven to develop the whole group is an assay of $50 in gold. This mine is now in 200 feet, and will be extended owned by J.. J. Story and others. They fifty feet further. M. R. Evans and expect to have two carloads of ore John Brewer are the owners of this ready for shipment to Salt Lake in a short time. This will demonstrate beproperty. The Accident group, owned by Evans, yond a question of doubt whether they Brewer and others, is also being de- will pay or not. high-grad- ot veloped. The ledge is of immense size, being from twenty to thirty feet thick, eleven feet of which will average 60 ounces. A boulder weighing six tons and carrying 15 ounces of silver was found in the vicinity of this group. These properties promise to become heavy shippers as soon as the railroad is completed. IDAHO. Owyhee County. Idaho Avalanche: Messrs. Shaw Bros, are about to commence operations up- on their War Eagle property for this season. They bonded the mine last fall but the parties did not succeed in securing capital, so the deal failed to go through. The property Is a valuable one, and is being worked at a profit by and the owners. Twenty-seve- n tons milled at Wagner's arastra last fall gave returns of $4125. one-ha- lf work is suspended Morning Staiv-A- ll on the Star pending final settlement with the miners. It is thought that everything will be straightened out by the 15th inst., and that an increased force will be put to work. Manager to Barry has sent on a new foreman take charge of the mine. It is understood that Superintendent .1. F. Nugent has sent in his resignation. Trade Dollar Report says that the rich streak of shipping ore in the breast of the adit tunnel is now about twenty inches in width, besides nearly three feet of milling ore. These recent developments in the Trade Dollar will be of incalculable benefit to this whole district, as it shows great value and permanency of the Florida mountain ledges. The mine is making its regular shipments of concentrates and bullion. ten-pou- nd foot-wa- Mr. Frank Earl of the Denver Mining Record staff was in the city during the week. one-thi- rd Bu-senba- good mines in Nevada came to be looked by the pioneer prospectors: more modern date. Elmore County. Elmore Bulletin: H. C. Swanholm, G. B. Cuneo and Charlie Hopkins arrived ot honey-combe- SALT LAKE NUGGETS. Superintendent Buzzo of the Alice was in mine, at Walkerville, Mont, the city during the week. Broker James A. Pollock is confined to St. Marys hospital by a severe Illness resulting from a cold; Col. Ben Hite has returned from Cripple Creek, and will leave for the Colorado river placers within a few days. He reports a flattening out of the Colorado mining boom. Reports from Green River are to the effect that the Bennett placer machine is now in successful operation, handThe Emma, owned by Maj. Stokes, Is ling 127 yards of gravel per hour, about its capacity. No clean-u- p has showing up well. He has about two carloads of ore now on the dump, and yet been made. Col. E. J. Carter and Maj. W. R. expects to make a shipment in a short time. of the East Golden Gate visitOther properties in that vicinity are ed San Francisco during the week, for equally as good, and only need develop- the purpose of looking after a Japanese ment to make them pay. One thing railway concession. Maj. Busenbark about these mines is that if the assays started yesterday for the East, and can be depended on they will pay from will visit Chicago, New York and other cities. the grass roots. of the county many In other parts Sam Gilson, one of the pioneer prosare claims being located, espe- pectors of Utah, known by every miner placer cially on Snake river. throughout this region, has secured possession of a gold mine down in Canyon County. Georgia. Associated with him Is Mr. Rock Creek correspondence Emmett Hyrum Johnson of this city, who will Index: The property owners are pro- shortly depart for the scene. The proprich producer half a century jecting a wagon road from Upper Rock erty was awas abandoned in 1849 beCreek to the Payette river at the ago, but Stephenson ranch, where a millsite has cause the owners did not know how to been located by Mr. Flishner of the handle the sulphide ores encountered Black Hornet district. The mill will be on the water level. These old mines erected at once for working the Pay- are now being worked at great profit, ette slope and Rock creek ores. The and the old dumps are also found to be very rich, as no appliance but the crude material is partly on the ground. was used by With one mill on Rock creek and one and primitive sluice-bo- x on the Payette to handle the ores and the early miners. obtain returns for expenses, the miners Pioneer Prospectors. of this district will soon make a showDan De Quille, in a letter to the Salt ing that will attract attention. Lead-vill- e This camp begins to resemble of the '80s, or Cripple Creek of Lake Tribune, thus explains how many over- Saturday evening from Rocky Bar. These gentlemen all speak enthusiastically of the mining interests at the Bar. Besides the big deposits of rich gold ore recently uncovered on the lower levels of the Elmore mine, many other important strikes have been made this winter. The Bear Creek Lemhi County. Flume company is now working quite a and so soon as Harry Lemhi Republic: R. Bell has just re- force of men, the manager, returns from turned from the south fork of Carman Thompson, in Scotland, the work of ditching to bring creek, where he has been putting on the waters of the Trinity lakes to their the winter doing development work has claims will commence. the Barnato group, in which he busiinterested some of Salmon Citys NEVADA. ness men. He brought down about of specimen ore, which thirty pounds the richest ore ever is probably Pioche Record: A two and a half-foundevelan Salmon from brought into One ledge, assaying $12 in gold and 90 which of the mine. pieces, ounces in silver to the ton, was discovoped two has ten pounds, ered last week between Pahranagat weighs about solid continuous veinlets of gold that valley and old Groome district, by Pahare eight inches long and from two to ranagat prospectors, and eight locait. tions were staked off three inches deep running through alongside it in three-dollAnother piece shows about a two Dave Service expects to go bunch of coarse wire gold in a downdays. and do some development work as is that d cavity, on some of the claims next week. large as Among the coarse baling wire. DeLamar Lode: Charles Lytle was in a is rubyite also specimens town during the week on business. He ll of a copper ore that comes out is direct from Deer Lodge district, and streak of the same vein. He de- reports wonderful improvement in this scribes the vein as a contact fissure new section for the small amount of from four to forty feet thick, between work that has been done. The samporphyry. quartzite and ples of ore which he brought here avseem that with such excepwould It about $200 per ton, gold predomtionally coarse gold occurring so near erage inating. Mr. Lytles properties in this the surface in such favorablenotgeologi- section are regarded among the best. help cal surroundings, it could The a tramway cable of the DeLamar profitable property, ifa not proving adividend-payelittle company broke again last week and is with r bonanza being taken down. All ore will further development in depth. have now hereafter be run through tunnel No. 10. The Kentuck company of Shoup The additions to the DeLamar mill of ore to recently struck a fine chute and a on .'ire being finished as rapidly as possi the west of the old chute, ar and when completed will be a great improvement, over the one first ble, rk In the early days, twenty or thirty years ago, in this State prospectors would hardly look at a quartz vein the croppings of which showed a value of only $5 to $10 a ton, no matter how large the lode. In those days most of the prospecting was done by parties of a dozen or more mounted or armed men. They prospected from the backs of their horses. When a big vein was encountered a man would dismount and knock off a chunk of the croppings. What does it look like? some one would sing out. Looks like it might carry a few dollars in gold. No sign of silver. Not the least. Then wrell not stop to fool with it, would be the decision, and the party would ride on. A man told me that he once traveled with such a party from Plumas county, Cal., through the Honey lake country, down through Nevada, out across Death valley, and then through to Kern county, California, and that on the whole trip they never sunk but one little prospect hole. The listing of the Galena mine on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange, and the payment of the Dalton & Lark dividend, increase the total dividend payments of Utah listed stocks to thirty millions even. The character of the stocks .listed upon the Salt Lake Exchange should arrest the attention of investors abroad. While upon all other exchanges the great bulk of the stocks are of the cheap class, selling at a few cents per share, very few of the Salt Lake securities are quoted at less than $1, and the majority range from $2 up to $75. This is an investors market. |