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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- neath this iron the ore runs well in silver, gold and copper. The Black Dragon is owned by Mr. L. L. Terry, Dr. Woodruff and others, and a company was recently incorporated. Cripple Creek was visited by a second awful conflagration on Wednesday of last week, when the destruction of the businessdistrict was completed and a large portion of the residence section wiped out. The loss was $1,250,000, and 3000 people were left homeless. Three supposed incendiaries were shot and another hung, the latter being strung afterup to a telegraph pole that was Are set the down wards burned by by his own hands. The work of rebuildupon a most energetic ing is proceeding scale, and a new, handsomer and more substantial Cripple Creek is springing up. Cipher telegrams and other documents introduced in the prosecution of the Johannesburg Reform Committee make it appear that the Jameson raid was instigated by the British South Africa company and that Cecil Rhodes was one of the prime movers in the affair. John Hays Hammond took an active part in the preparations for the invasion, but subsequently advised against any further prosecution of the movement. The death sentence imposed on the five members of the Reform Committee has been commuted, but it is not yet known what the punishment will be. In addition to Hammond, five other Americans have been sentenced to two years penal ' servitude and to pay a fine of 2000. The steamer schooner Excelsior, which left San Francisco for the frozen North about two months ago, with a large party of enthusiastic Oaklanders, whose chief care was the transportation of their accumulated gold upon their return trip, returned last week with seventeen of the gold hunters on board seventeen sadder but wiser men. The remaining members of the party are still at Cooks inlet, but those who have just returned say that another month will probably see the entire expedition back in Oakland. The experience was not the single round of pleasure and profit many of them had pictured to themselves before departing, and the arrivals do not hesitate to say that they have had enough of gold digging in a country where the thermometer stands forty degrees below zero, and where, in order to reach the auriferous earth, three feet of ice must first be pierced. MINING REVIEW. N SALT LAKE NUGGETS. prices, with a very small percentage of Mr. Irving Hale, agent of the General Electric company at Denver, is in the Multiply the price, per ounce, as quoted at London in pence, by 1.6955 and it will give you the value of our dollar in cents. Multiply the price per ounce at London, quoted in pence, by 2.19211 and it will give the price of pure silver per ounce in cents. Multiply the price of pure silver per ounce in cents, as we quote it here, by .77 and it will give you the value of our dollar, as bullion, in cents. National Bimetalist. city. Superintendent W. A. Stanton of the Lucky Boy, Custer City, Ida., is in the city. Broker James A. Pollock is in New York City, and wires that he is feeling much better than when he left Salt Lake. Mr. Simon Bamberger, manager of the Searchlight, is in the East. The insurance and mining brokerage firm of Windsor & Hudson will establish a branch office at Mammoth. The recent order of the Rio Grande Western, advancing ore rates from Bingham to Salt Lake, has been rescinded, which permits the producers of that camp to again send their ores to this city for sampling. Mr. C. H. Jacobs, manager of the Sunshine, has returned from the East, having visited Washington, New York and other cities. He found the people of the East suffering from the sweltering heat and financial evils, Mr. Letson Balliet, late professor of natural sciences, chemistry and physics at the Arkadelphia Methodist college, Arkadelphia, Ark., is in the city, for the purpose of examining the Mercur district, and may become a permanent resident General Manager Dan Reber of the Golden King company, has returned to the mine, in Elmore county, Ida. The company, the incorporation of which was noted last week, has just issued a neat prospectus. The cyanide mill, which is to be erected at once, will be of 100 tons capacity. ORE AND BULLION. While there is a slight increase in the ore traffic, the unseasonable weather still prevents anything like a free movement from the mines. The samplers are running day and night and the bullion output is a little heavier and will show a still further increase as soon as the roads become solid. The ore receipts of the week were of the value of $104,446, against $107,773 the previous week. The base bullion output of the smelters was $91,587; Ontario silver, $19,480; cyanides, $11,200; miscellaneous, $4000; total bullion output, $126,267, against $124,804 the previous week. The base bullion output of the Salt Mining Incorporations. Lake smelters was as follows: Penn$38,700; Willow Springs Gold and Silver Min- sylvania, $28,337; Germania, $24,550. ing company Capital, $200,000, divided Hanauer, Ore purchases were reported as folinto 200,000 shares. The company owns McMillan, $28,296; four claims in Tooele county. Follow- lows: Bamberger &McCornick & Co., $15,400; ing are the officers: President,CJ. R. A. Germania, Dun- $48,850; Commercial National Bank, D. Hasbrouck; vice-preside- A. Rebentisch; treasurer, J. W. Cunnington. Uncle Sam Mining company Capital, $200,000; divided into 200,000 shares. The company owns two claims in the Tintic district. Following are the officers: President, F. H. Auerbach; S. M. Auerbach; secretary and treasurer, H. J. Wallace; George Rhodes and John McChrystal, directors. Malvern Gold Mining Company Capital, $1,500,000; divided into 600,000 shares. The company owns ten claims in the Camp Floyd district, adjoining the Sunshine. Following are the officers: President, John Dem; W. A. Sherman; treasurer, G. W. E. Dorsey; secretary, C. H. Jacobs. South Swansea Mining company Capital, $150,000, divided into 150,008 shares. The company owns the South Swansea and the West Swansea claims, in the Tintic district. Following are the officers: President, J. T. Croxall; J. M. Wheeler; treasurer, c. V. Wheeler; secretary, W. H. vice-preside- nt, vice-preside- nt, nt, Farnsworth. Mr. J. E. Jackson, general agent of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining company, has gone to Colorado. error: 1-- 3, ARIZONA. Mojave County Miner: A. L. McKesson has opened up one of the richest and most magnificent bodies of ore that White Hills has ever seen. It is in a new location, about one mile north of the Chief of the Hills. The ledge is a large one, and the ore of a character similar to that found in the G. A. R. Mr. McKesson brought in a small lot this week as a sample, and when he goes home he Intends to timber up the shaft and sink it to a depth of one hundred feet. Frank Gross yesterday brought from Cerbat a large gold retort, the result of a clean-u- p from Gold Bar ore. The Gross boys work their ore by arastra process and are making a big success of it. A French syndicate is about to take hold of the Temple Bar placer mines and will put in an immense hydraulic plant to work them. Engineers are now working on designs for the plant. NEVADA. Silver State: J. H. Deegan arrived yeserday from Pueblo valley. He and Robert Denio are the owners of mines in the Pueblo mountains near the latters ranch, which is just this side of the boundary line between Nevada and p Oregon. They have erected a Kendall mill, which will be started up some time this week on ore from their mines. The owners have sunk two shafts, about forty feet each, the ledge being about five feet wide all the way down. A sample of the poorest ore in the ledge assayed $60 per ton. It is free milling, and the owners have reason to believe they have a bonanza. White Pine News: Rich placer discoveries are reported from Washoe valley in the vicinity of the old Harris. Carson men have secured everything in sight. This ground has been tramped over for years before any one stumbled on to the fact of its value. It will pay Nevada people to keep their one-stam- eyes open. OREGON. nt, bar; secretary, Henry vice-preside- 7 $11,900. Oregon Mining Journal: A new discovery of quartz has been Silver. on made about twelve creek, Silver continued steady, closing at an miles downLimpia on river the south Rogue advance over the opening quotation. Folto side, which, according reports, Is lowing were the fluctuations of the week: the most find made in that 68 important 68 Monday Thursday of the 68 for a long time. 68 Tuesday part country Friday 68 68 Wednesday The is rich and free millquartz very Saturday the about ing, three feet ledge being Record Prices. wide. Messrs. Silsby & Verdin of this a period of ten years) city are interested in the Highest (covering1890. property and 19, $1.19, August to expect push development work at Lowest, 58c, March 3 and 5, 1894. once. The Salt Lake parties who have been Lead. negotiating for the famous Denver Lead fluctuated from $2.90 to $3.00. The City mine, on Soldier creek, have about market remains weak, with a heavy sup- given up the attempt to make terms ply from the West and a light consumpwith Mr. Miller for the property. The tion. cash consideration is too high for the Record Prices. amount of ore in sight. W e ore sorry Highest (covering a period of ten years), that this deal cannot go through; for it means a paying mine for the coun$5.25, in October and November, 1890. 1896. 10, Lowest, $2.87, January try provided the ore is there. These people know how to mine, and would The Price of Silver. spend considerable money in developthe property. They would put up ing The price of bar silver at London is large mill as soon as enough ore was the English coinage quoted in pence, at.925 in sight to justify them in doing so. fine, while in the fineness, which is United States we always quote the Go to Harris & Wilson silver in our money. price of pure In order to avoid longer calculations For Fir Life and Accident insurance, these three pimple rules will give the American companies only represented. gold-beari- ng |