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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- Jteus of tl?e 5amps. UTAH. Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Mercur, July 22. No one without per- sonally riding over the hills can form any idea as to the amount of work beespeing done on different properties, twenAt least Sunshine. cially around ty different mines in that locality are now being worked, and the showing gets better with every days work. Among the properties there that will soon push the great Sunshine mine as payers are the Electric, Red Cloud, Overland and Malvern. Around Mercur, Ophir and the foothills it would be hard to estimate the number of men MINING REVIEW. N group of claims between the Mammoth and Robinson is being pushed by the owners, Messrs. Donahue, Peyton and Bacom, and it is reported that they have a small streak of ore in sight. We are advised that the property will shortly be incorporated under the name of the Opex Mining com- pany. H. Tattersall, a prospector from Deep Creek, came into Mammoth Wednesday and by his report stirred up considerable excitement. He left for that coun- yesterday, together with a try again d party, headed by Hans Hassell. Eureka Democrat: At the Mammoth some very important surface improvements are in progress. A new forty-hors- e power double action engine has been placed at the ore bins and the two Blake crushers are being moved from the mill to the bins, where hereafter all the ore will be crushed and sized before delivering to the mill n at work. floor. At the mill a capacity to The Mercur mill is again in shape from Is bin erected, storage being receive and treat the ore. The flood, which the prepared ore will be fed did considerable damage, but nothing automatically to the battery.. When that could not be straightened out in these improvements are completed the a short time. The roads to Mercur full sixty stamps will be operated. were more or less torn up, especially Superintendent B. F Woodward of the Lewiston canyon, which was impassa- Eva Mining and Milling company has ble for several days. returned from Spanish Fork and startC. H. Scheu has sold a ed work on their property with two in interest in the La Cigale property, shifts. the western foothills, to Boston capitalists, the consideration being $22,500. Summit County. This is one of the best properties in Park Record: There has been considMercur. Work on the No. 3 shaft has erable life In and around the Lucky Bill commenced and will be pushed. E. A. Benson of the Mercur Gold Pro- during the past week. To begin with, duction company will be in Mercur the board of directors held a meeting at the Park City hotel Monday and Friday, accompanied by George E. Bar- levied an assessment of 2 cents per ker of Omaha. share on the capital stock, payable at The Hillside continues to improve. The Sacramento has opened up an- once. The writer, from what he saw, conceived the idea that ore had been other large body of ore. encountered in that property, and to owns Mr. Farrish of Park City, who satisfy himself made a trip to the mine. quite a large amount of Mercur real While all the boys about the works and estate, was in Mercur over Sunday. Burton denied the soft imForeman C. L. Dignowity is in Mercur looking on the after his many interests. He will start peachment, we saw enough to convince us dump and in the works his churn drill to work in a few days. that the denial was a conservative one. General Manager Dickinson of the Inquiry revealed the fact that a seam of Union Pacific visited the Overland mine good ore had been encountered in the and while averaging last week. He is one of the directors drift being driven, one in width, showed inch about only of the company. a $45 net value of per ton. The vein A contract on the Golden Bar, located near Sunshine, has been com- makes on the footwall of a vein fully four feet wide and dips toward the pleted. One of the shafts on the Brickyard shaft, and to catch it the shaft was downward again, but sinking has reached the vein during the past started to discontinued on account of be had week at a vertical depth of 100 feet and from the heavy rains, water a depth on the vein of 200 feet. The surface ore body at this point is 25 feet thick but will be resumed at an early day. The Anchor company has a force of and the average value is $7. The main at work building a new ore shaft, which is intended to be the carpenters house, besides which there are other working shaft, has reached a depth evidences of great activity in the near of 380 feet, and there are indications Record has known for two The future. that it is approaching the vein. Should weeks that recent developments in the the ore at this point meet expectations mine some very fine ore, uncovered had as to quantity and value, a mill will be some It of showing as high as 500 erected at once. not feel at liberty to did The Searchlight shaft has reached a ounces, but make the news public. Now, however, depth of 125 feet, and the management as Is preparing to make expects to sink to a depth of 350 feet a the company of the ore, we feel that no shipment before the vein is encountered. any interest by pubThe Buckeye company has let an- harm will be done to fact the the world. For the other contract for 100 feet of work on lishing first time the Anchor, in its the incline. The ore is constantly im- which has severalhistory within its proving and now shows values of from lines, has found ore veins is not only that $2 to $3. strike the but and dip has rich, right A contract has been let for another to give the company the big end of the 100 feet of development work on the chute. Heretofore all the rich ore unGold Bug group in Silverado canyon. covered ran into the Daly West ground From the tunnel assays of $13.50 with a persistency that was gratifying in gold have been obtained. to the Daly West, but discouraging to the Anchor. Now, however, the tables Juab County. are turned, and the latter company has an ore vein that promises much for the TINTIC DISTRICT. future, and which has influenced seveTIntic Miner: Shipments from the ral to send orders to Salt Lake district for the week are as follows: for Parkites several hundred shares of Anchor From the Bullion-Bec- k mine, 25 car- stock. loads of ore; from the Bullion-Bec- k The principle employed in the Peck mill, 10 carloads concentrates; from the concentrator, the means by which the Centennial-Eurek4 carloads of ore; ore are separated from the from the Ajax, 4 carloads of ore; from wastevalues rock. the writer was Informed Is, the Swansea, 3 carloads of ore; from this week on what Is considered reliathe South Swansea, 2 carloads of ore; ble principally centrifugal from the Sunbeam, 1 carload of ore; force,authority, same the idea employed in the from the Yankee Girl, 1 carload of ore; now famous cream separator. from the Dragon Iron mine, 23 carloads The ore is firstpower crushed fine enough to of ore; from Noons Iron mine, 1 carpass through a screen, after load of ore daily. Is passed into a double cylinwhich it The development of the Standard der, the inner one revolving one way hastily-equippe- 3000-to- three-quart- er 100-fo- ot 50-fo- ot and the outer one the opposite direction, thus giving the ore two treatments with the same power. These cylinders run at a high rate of speed, and the light, waste dust is thrown off and passes out of one end of the cylinder, while the ore remains and is forced out at the opposite end. The ore is then given a treatment in vats and tanks, as is also the waste, and every particle of metal in the rock, no matter what its form, is saved. The fact that the mill is being equipped with extra large steam capacity is evidence that bears out the information given concerning the method employed. This Is the first custom mill of the kind ever constructed, the company heretofore having purchased mill dumps and worked them over for the metal in them, several plants being now in operation on the coast, where one of them was examined by the gentleman from whom our Information came. Work on the mill is progressing rapidly. The Daly West is a swarming hive of stone masons, carpenters, painters, machinists, miners and day laborers, and it does one good to watch the busy scene around the works. The work of laying the foundation for the monster new hoisting engine that Is expected to arrive early next week without fail, is in charge of P. B. Watson and Frank Evans, and they are doing not only an excellent, but a scientific piece of work, and the foundation will be the most complete and perfect piece of work of that kind in the camp, for besides containing all the conveniences of other works of that nature, a number of new Ideas are embraced in its construction, and the structure will come as near being perfect as modern facilities and ideas can make it. . Salt Lake County. WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Bingham, Bulletin: President W. E. Germaine and Manager O. B. Hardy of the Bingham Copper company were in camp Tuesday and busy throughout the day adjusting the companys affairs, which were somewhat dragging, owing to Col. Hardys extended Eastern trip. The result of their coming will be an immediate stimulation of operations on the Nast and Starlus properties. The former will be a regular and considerable shipper from now on, while in the Starlus the body of gold ore lately encountered is to be opened up. Its development will be noted with Interest, as it was broken into after sinking through many feet of sulphureted Iron, and is believed to furnish the first instance in Bingham of oxides underlying sulphurets. The latest assays of the ore gave high returns in gold. The Lone Tree tunnel, in which work was resumed a fortnight ago, is now in forty feet and has out a twelve-fovein, with a mixture of lead carbonate and gold quartz. There is fifty feet more to run to strike the main vein, and it is believed a rich ore chute will be encountered. The Lone Tree side lines the noted Frisco mine, and fifteen years ago produced ore which sold for $60 per ton. Several outfits having slowed down temporarily, the total output for July will probably show a falling off as compared with June. Some of the mines now nearly idle will put on full forces about the 1st of August, and it Is likely to be a busy month. The Harrison No. 2, in Silver Hill gulch, is making a sixty-to- n shipment this week. It has opened up a large body of ore, and regular shipments will probably follow. ot IDAHO. a, 125-me- sh Kootenai County. Kootenai Herald: The Herald learns that there is quite an influx of miners into the Moyea country at the present time. There are many reasons for is quite as thinking that the Moyea g rich as the Yahk in quartz as is It Certain that good ledges. just returns have been obtained from Moyea gold-bearin- |