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Show 8 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N non property, the Rovers, the Eagle and others in the neighborhood, have only been reporting progress lately. Of these the Seals will probably be the first to break the silence, as they are now going through the mineralized strata which overlies the ore in the Golden Gate, almost adjoining, and which the Seals people naturally think overlies their ore. Over near Sunshine one of the prop- erties which has been steadily working for a long while is rejoicing over their good luck and making plans for a mill, but for various reasons are holding back definite information for a short time. The Sunshine region is doing a great deal of work and steadily coming to the front. Immediately adjoining the Sunshine on the southwest lies the Mercur-Sun-shin- e, which Jake Moritz, Jack May, Duke and Scott Crismon are deHarry on which a contract for and veloping, a shaft has been let. The outcroppings can be distinctly traced from the Sunshine shaft nearly through this ground. They are now down about twenty feet and they are encountering the same character of formation as was found at the same depth in the Sun100-fo- ot shine. Following around the foothills toward Mercur, and facing on Rush Valley, we come to the West Sunshine, which is being worked by Park City parties under the superintendency of Milo Clark. Near the surface they are getting values of $2 or $3. All they need is depth. Directly adjoining and between the West Sunshine and the Badger is the Buckeye, and, by the way, there are no less than three Buckeyes in the district. They have been quietly working along on this group, which shows most promisingly in several places. In their last workings they struck the vein, which shows fair values, but have not gone in far enough to know just its extent. All the way up and down this ridge in the Hudson group, the Lux, the Charlie and the Ontario values have been shown, but very little work has been done, however, except to uncover the vein, which in this region lies very near the surface. On the Badger, however, they have gone in with a tunnel for seventy-fiv- e feet or more, with most gratifying results in the increase of values. While apparently everything is rather quiet, yet there never was a time when all through the Camp Floyd district there was more real activity than at present, or, with more gratifying prospects. Mercur Mercury: The Geyser, from being the worst,- has come to be the best managed mine in the district, or. at least is obtaining closer, results. Last month they made a remarkable run. For the month they averaged fifty-fiv- e tons daily and treated it at a total cost for mining and milling, of $1.77 per ton. On an average only 30 cents per ton was left in the tailings. At this rate ore running $2.25 per ton would be a milling proposition. - Assays from the White Cap group show a value of $8.80. R. J. Evans of Saginaw, Mich., has purchased a fourth interest in the Modoc group, south of the Sunshine, for $3000. The Mercur Park company has let a contract for a 50-fo- ot shaft. The prop- erty is located near the Gladstone. The Golden Era, at Five Mile Pass, shaft. has let a contract for a averan of ore of A twelve-foo- t body encounterage value of $4.80 has been ed in the Omaha group at a depth of forty feet. New York parties have taken a thirty-bond on the Anaconda for day 100-fo- ot $30,000. Salt Lake County. WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Merrill Bingham Bulletin: of Montana, the great champion of silver, is now actively interested in Bingham, having with his partner, Mr. Conrad, purchased an interest in the Unlimited group of mines in Porcupine gulch they having also taken a con Ex-Go- v. tract the property for development work. This group, including the Silver Crown and Logan claims, was lately sold by J. B. Cornwall, whose advanced age and failing health forced him to leave the mountains and seek a home in the valley. It has produced 600 tons of ore that sold for $30,000, and promises to open up a very valuable property. Messrs. Merrill & Conrad are running tunnel No. 3, which is now in 380 feet, and expect to tap the vein at about 500 feet, when the property is to be extensively operated for production. They have opened an elegant office in the Hotel Knutsford, and, by the way, Gus Holmes, the genial proprietor of that popular tavern, is a partner with them in the Unlimited. A strike of great promise has bebeen made in the Portland, situatedjust tween the Evergreen and Mayflower mines, Copper gulch, and worked since last fall by the Schauppe brothers. Handsome specimens of crystallized lead arrived in camp this week, assays of which show 27 ounces silver and 75 per cent lead. The boys have worked faithfully and deserve their good luck. About sixty feet depth below the 800 level has been attained in the Dalton and Lark main incline. Very favorable reports are received as to the character of the vein and mineral encountered, and the management is elated over the results, which corroborate the indications obtained in a winze started some distance north of the incline several weeks ago and sunk a few feet. In one of the veins of the Nast the face of the drift is this week showing 18 to 20 inches of ore that runs over $7 gold, 40 ounces silver and 70 per cent lead. The Nast is rapidly proving itself an underestimated property, noton withstanding the extravagant things that have been said of it. Word comes that a large body of ore Sessions-Snydbeen has struck in the lease of the Lead mine. Some weeks ago the boys started a shaft on the old mine from the bottom of the gulch, intimating that they knew what they were going after. They got it all right, but we have no particulars. er IDAHO. Lemhi County. Correspondence Mining Review. Salmon City, April 26. Although the pleasures that can be experienced, the sights to be seen and the variety of people met in our seaboard cities of the East are enticing, there seems to be but a short limit to the time an old mountain prospector cares to indulge in them before his restless spirit yearns for his mountain home and occupation. When this desire seizes him he seeks the shortest and quickest method to get back. Especially is this the case when he is absolutely aware that the hills adjacent to his home are ribbed with veins of precious minerals, only awaiting the disappearance of the snow so that they can be found and located. Such was the experience I recently had when I paid the East a visit. Hence, when my delights approached the limits of satiation, I came back to the boundless mineral field of Lemhi county, Ida., where, I am sure, in the near future wonderful and startling developments will be made. During the winter such work as was done by our local miners on discoveries made last summer and fall has proved very gratifying. In 1893 Sam James and Joshua Brown wandered on to the waters of upper Black Bird creek and located two claims on promising looking quartz veins, known as the Uncle Sam and Idaho. They put the winter in working these claims, resulting in a tunnel 140 feet in length, run along on the course of the Uncle Sam, and showing a width of crevice between four and five feet solid ore, which assays 29 per cent copper, $26 gold and 2 ounces silver. The Idaho, with its development, shows a vein and ores similar in every respect to the Uncle Sam. Last fall Mr. Brown disposed of his interest to Mr. Swift, so now the firm name of these two properties is flames & Swift. The discovery of these two claims was the nucleus around which have been located many others, to the number of forty. They are all similar in character of ore, but vary a little in size. On top and for a short distance down, the ores are porous and pound out in free gold, which could be readily saved by the ordinary quartz mill method. However, at a varying depth they pass into solid veins of copper ore of the most desirable qualtiy for manipulation, it being a sulphide, similar .to the Butte, Mont., copper, but differing from it in the matter of the the Butte ores carprecious rying silver, whereas the Black Bird is gold. It is believed that the Black Bird district will, with a more extended development, prove a worthy rival to the mines of the same character about Butte, both as to quantity and quality. Although such mines may prove somewhat slower in arriving at the actual output of wealth, there is no doubt about their future and the vast influence they will have upon the future prosperity of this county. Black Bird creek is a tributary qf Big creek, and is to be reached in the following manner and distances: From Salmon City to the mouth of Black Bird by wagon road, 30 miles; Black Bird to mines by trail, 7 miles; total, 37 miles. Timber and water in great abundance. Last fall Messrs. Ibach and Crandall camped on Indian creek a few miles above its mouth to prospect, and at this time they discovered three mines and named them the Kitty Burton, Hillside and Congress. Work was begun and continued on the Kitty Burton until two tunnels were run, the longest now in a length of fifty feet, which shows a vein that will average six feet in width and will assay by sample for that width $12.50, all of it being perfectly free milling. The other two ledges have been prospected by holes and cuts along on their course, showing ore of the same character as the former with about the same width. Along about the 1st of March the same gentlemen, on the opposite side of the creek from the Kitty Burton group, found and located quartz claims that bear the following names: Ulysses, Chuckluck, Mountain Dew, Bicycle and Snow Drift. Only light work has been yet done on them, but so far they show strong, rich and free. The group is known as the Randall. The Hon. Ell Suydam has purchased a half interest in the group that of Mr. Randall and hereafter work will be pushed until the claims are developed. William Buchannan also has a promising three-fo- ot vein in the same locality, and there are many more. The district is bi-produ- ct, creating quite an excitement among our local miners. Indian creek empties into the Salmon river about thirty-fiv- e miles from town, and the trail leading to the rich mines about Shoup crosses it at its mouth. This district includes all of the waters of this creek, and will certainly soon come into prominent notice. This discovery in the region between the Gibbsonville and Shoup districts confirms the opinion of many that almost an unbroken belt of highly mineralized country will ere long be located clear through to the Yellow Jacket district and Wilson creek, eighteen miles beyond, making an aggregate distance of fifty miles on this belt alone. When the fact is considered that these rich mines are on Indian creek, lying only three our four miles above a public highway over which thousands of miners and prospectors have traveled to and fro for years between Salmon City and Shoup, and were not discovered until within the time given above, and that are so prominent and attractive they that no mining man would or could pass over them without at once becoming interested, the thought naturally occurs, what yet remains to be found in the wilds of the Lemhi mountains, where the presence of man is rare? Of course the mines in Central Africa, Australia |