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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. There are but three goldbugs at Silver City, Ida. A discovery of platinum is reported at Aspen, Colo. The discovery of a soda spring is ported at Nez Perces City, Ida. re- There are eleven million ounces of bar silver in the San Francisco mint. The Pleasant Valley Coal company is building fifty new cars at Castle Gate. St. Louis capitalists will erect a mill and concentrator at Berners Bay, Alaska. The custom mill at Rocky Bar, Ida., is running steadily on ore that gives good returns. At a drilling match at Wallace, Ida., the victorious team drilled 34 inches in fifteen minutes. The discovery of a vein of limonite, showing free gold in abundance, is reported near Horse Shoe Bend, Ida. Among the Alta properties that are now producing good ore are the Griz-zleCity Rock, Vallejo and Chicago. The Union smelter at Leadville has been sold at trustees sale for $56,000. Colorado has an over supply of smelters. Prof. Cumenge, chief mining engineer of the French Government, is making an examination of the Cripple Creek y, district. Leasers on the Copperopolis mine at Aspen, Colo., have opened up a small seam of ore that carries nearly $14,000 worth of silver to the ton. The other day a gold nugget was found on the Howland placer claim in Trinity county, Colo., that weighed 42 pounds and was valued at $9072. An Alaska prospector searched for a vein in the Sheep Creek district for nine years and has just found it. It is four feet wide and will average $100. In London it is thought that a solution of the labor problem in the South African gold mines can be found in the importation of 10,000 Chinese to the Rand. There is a project on foot looking to the erection of a smelter in the Ophir district, for the treatment of the Northern Light, Ophir Hill and other ores. The 2000-fodrain and worktunnel ing being driven by the Sterling Coal company is now in over 400 feet, and machine drills have been put in ot operation. The Alaskan mentions the case of a man en route to Cooks Inlet placer fields, whose sole possessions in the way of an outfit were a pair of blankets and a can of lard. Prof. Jenney, well known in Utah and Idaho, who experted the salted diamond fields in Arizona, is now op- erating at Silver Cliff, Colo., and is referred to by local papers as a noted geologist. An inexperienced employee at the Germania smelter dumped some molten slag into a pool of water. The result was a terrific explosion, and the mans face was filled and terribly lacerated by the slag. Pelatan-CleriThe process plant erected at the DeLamar (Ida.) mine last winter has never been placed in operation, owing to some mechanical defects which the Extraction company expects to remedy. Extensive placer operations have MINING REVIEW. N from the owners the amount they have paid, even though by agreement such payment is forfeited. The Idaho Mining Exchange will pre- pare a mineral exhibit for the Minnesota State fair, and calls upon mine-owneto send in samples. The fair association will pay transportation charges and the expenses of a man in charge of the exhibit. Receiver C. P. Mason of the Salt Lake Copper Manufacturing company has submitted his fourth quarterly report to the court. The total receipts for the quarter were $5542.77, and the disbursements were $15,073.03. There is a balance on hand of $7935.09. The Hallidie patent ropeway is coming into extensive use in the transportation of ores over rugged country, and it is found that this method is most economical and satisfactory. It is manufactured by the licensees, the California Wire Works of San Francisco. The Sevier Mining company, in Piute is now engaged in constructing county, three-mile a ditch to provide a water n for mill it is prothe supply to erect this season. The proposed cess to be used has not yet been decided upon, but cyanide will be one of the features. P. W. Breene, owner of a interest in the Weldon mine at Leadville, which has been closed down by the strike, secured possession by strategy and resumed operations last week. The other owners secured an injunction, restraining him from disposing of any rs 100-to- one-twelf- th of the ore. According to the returns made to the Assessor at Butte, the net profits from the operation of the Boston & Montana company last year were $2,015,655, and of the Anaconda company $1,125,-37Fourteen Butte mines, were worked at a profit, after deducting the cost of all improvements. A Tacoma company is building a mill constructed with a coil spring sufficiently strong to deliver a blow equiva-leto that of a thousand-poun- d gravuse and the of the spring stamp, by ity twice the number of drops per minute are made. to It will be note its working test. interesting Bryon E. Shear paid $15,500 for the Gironde mine at Silverton, and then discovered that it had been salted. He charges that the ore was doctored while in the hands of the Silverton Smelting company, and that false returns were made, hence he sues the smelting company for the amount paid. Gold assays as high as $906 have been obtained from the Benton claim, one of the Bingham Copper companys group at Bingham. These high assays are from an oxidized ore found beneath the sulphides, which is regarded as a most unusual occurrence, but similar conditions exist in other Bingham mines. The deepest shaft in the State is that of the Centennial-Eurek- a in the Tintic a depth of reached which has district, 1535 feet. Although this property has paid $1,770,000 in dividends, the mine is yet in its infancy, and the most of the ore has been taken from above the fifth 9. nt level. A shipment- running over 100 ounces in silver was made last week. - During the year 1895 British Columbia produced gold of the value of $636,-54which, with the exception of $135,-00- 0 from the quartz mines at Fairview and Camp McKinney, was derived from placer mining. In addition to this $2,175,000 were derived from gold and silver mining in the Kootenay district. These amounts will be substanbeen inaugurated in the region about tially increased during the present seaSteamboat Springs, Colo One com- son. ditch and pany is taking out a five-miThe information that the owners of will operate several giants on the sulphur mines in Sicily have formed a Twenty-Mil- e placers. syndicate, or trust, to advance the The disagreement between the Old price, is of importance to the sulphur Dominion Copper company and its em- industry of Utah. Sicily produces three-fourtof the worlds product and any ployees at Globe, Ariz., has been settled satisfactorily. Men in the mine material advance in the market will and smelter are to get $3 and general stimulate sulphur mining in this State. surface labor is to be paid $2.50. Low prices and high transportation The California Supreme court has de- charges at present operate against the cided that the holders of an option on a industry. mine, in the event of their failure to The Conglomerate Mining company, complete the purchase, may recover which succeeds the Societe des Anony- 50-t- on 5, ci le hs mes des Mines des Lexington in the ownership of the Old Telegraph mine at Bingham, has filed a copy of its articles of incorporation with the County Clerk of Salt Lake county. It is capi- talized at $1,000,000, and the principal place of business is Cripple Creek, where other properties owned by it are located. This seems to be a hard month all around on mining stock brokers. Frank H. Pettingell, one of the leading brokers of Denver, has this to say in his last weekly letter: It would seem that the market will never reach bottom. Down, down, down they all seem to go, and those whom we would naturally expect to brace it look on with apparent indifference, or they industriously take hold and help bear everything. One of the oldest and most reliable mining machinery firms on the Pacific coast is the Joshua Hendy Machine Works, manufacturers of all the latest improved mining and milling machinery. Their catalogue of iplning and milling machinery is an encyclopedia of information, and they have Issued a special catalogue on hydraulic mining machinery, which is an exhaustive treatise on this method of gold mining. No progress has been made toward a settlement of the miners strike at Leadville, and the outlook for the camp is a gloomy one. The smelters have not yet been forced to suspend operations. The miners of Cripple Creek have sensibly decided not to engage in a sympathetic strike, as they were unable to see how such a course could possibly benefit the Leadville strikers. The owners of Cripple Creek mines feel greatly relieved over this decision. The work of retimbering and straightening the old shaft of the Black Dragon property, near Silver City, is rapidly progressing, and a tunnel on the vein, which will develop a vertical depth of 300 feet is also being driven ahead. The Black Dragon is an extension of the famous Dragon Iron mine, which produces such a desirable product for the smelters. The latter has been worked only for the iron, but the Black Dragon company has gone through the iron and encountered good ore beneath it, just as has been done on other Silver City properties. A subscriber at Monroe, Utah, desires to know the commercial value of soapstone, as he has a large deposit, favorhandling. ably located for economical Drug It is quoted by the Nelden-Judso- n 1 cent about at of this city company per pound, but the demand is limited, and a very few tons would be sufficient to stock up the Western market. It is produced in cheap abundance in the North Atlantic States, and is used as fire stones, slate pencils, etc. Fine manufactured grained varieties are alsocertain into ornaments, and a quality is sold in powdered form as French chalk. Mr. Charles M. Rolker, the expert who examined the DeLamar, Nev., mine on behalf of the Mining & Financial Trust Co. Ltd., of London, announces that the negotiations are off. This outcome was foreshadowed by Mr. Rolker in conversation with a representative of the Mining Review a couple of weeks ago. He intimated that Capt. DeLamar placed too high a valuation upon his property, adding: Capt. DeLamar seems to think that his gold is worth more than that of anyone else. It is understood that the failure of the deal was due solely to difference of opinion as to the value of the mine. the Fraser & Chalmers have received p a of erection contract for the mill on the property of the Gold Queen company in San Juan county. There were eight bidders on this plant and is that the competition was very keen comshown by the figures, as the plant and plete, including one vanner cost the compower engine, will pany, on board the cars, considerably less than $5000. The stamps are of 850 to be pounds weight. These are onsaid a stamp the best terms ever given witha time was mill in Utah. There in the memory of the present generation when such a plant would have ten-stam- 35-hor- se |