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Show INTER-M- O crowded with three shifts. The prop- 2 east of Ontario No. erty lies justnow in litigation with the shaft and is suit Ontario company, the basis of thecomlatter being ore extracted by the admits defendant The taking pany. the ore, but claims the right to do so on the strength of holding the apex of the vein. C. F. Davis, one of the Crescent leasers, brought down 103 tons of ore this week over the tramway and will make a shipment as soon as the rock can be sampled. James Farrell & Co. did the hauling. The ore is fine looking rock and should net Mr. Davis a handsome profit. State Line District- Pioche Record: Will Clark, who was in from State Line district Tuesday, re- Jim, ports that his brothers, Robert, comlast and himself, Thursday John, pleted the terms of a $50,000 bond on one of their claims there to an Eastern syndicate, through its representative, W. C. Christie. The claim bonded is the Sulphides, one of a group of six owned by the Clark brothers, and situated near the Ophlr. Rich specimens of gold quartz float have been frequently found on the Sulphides, but not until very recently was the ledge discovered. It is a contact vein about four feet wide, lying between granite and porphyry, well defined and traceable for a long distance. The shaft on the Ophir claim is now down some ninety feet and the has widened to nearly twenty mainches. A seam of copper-staine- d ore-sea- m terial has appeared in the vein at this depth, from which samples have been taken assaying $2800 to the ton. A shipment of about three tons of the high-grad- e ore is now ready to be made. The shaft has paid its way from the start and has stoping ore now from top to bottom. Bert Dooley received returns Tuesvein day from a sample of a four-foMurwhich has been uncovered by Jim phy and his partner in a recent location, which shows $58 in gold and 185 ounces silver to the ton. A gentleman who recently went in with an assaying outfit is reported as saying that at first he thought the district was something of a fake, but samples brought in to him from nearly every part of it, and nearly all carrying value, prove it to be anything but that. While a second Jim Crow, as to value, may not be uncovered, yet in ot other respects Ferguson never had as good a showing. Cache County. Logan Republican: The people interested in the copper property in the Paradise district are sanguine that they have a future bonanza. Work on the property has been progressing favorably all summer, and the property looks better every day. The assays show from 7 to 14 per cent copper In addition to some silver and gold, and the deposit seems inexhaustible. The vein proper is in the neighborhood of 100 feet wide and can be traced for several miles. If the ore holds out as good as the assays would indicate, Paradise will throw both Anaconda and Michigan into the shade. The formation of the country is most remarkable and is a most inviting field for intelligent and prospectors. It is said that a little capital invested in one of the claims, so that development work could be done scientifically, would undoubtedly prove that the property Is well worth working. well-inform- ed Piute County. Richfield Advocate!: B. D. Darger of the Deseret Mining and Milling com-Pan- y Is In Salt Lake buying reduction machinery for a new mill to be planted forks of Deer Creek canyon a mile from the Silver King mine. The Deseret district now appears to be in a nourishing condition. The 500 feet of 0NTAIN MINING REVIEW. tunneling already done shows up good ore ranging all through from $10 to $12. The company is now constructing a tank capable of washing fifty tons a In the Silver King has been day. struck a fissure vein eighteen to twenty feet in dimensions, whose average ore value is about $10 and whose body shows free gold In places. IDAHO. Shoshone County. Coeur d'Alene Miner: It is thought that the Yosemite will start up their mill soon, as everything looks more 9 cost, and so as to extract nearly all the gold and a fair percentage of the silver which they contained; so he proceeded to erect works at Doniphan. In these works there will be four obcircular tanks. long and twenty-tw- o The oblong tanks will be 30 feet long, 3 wide and 2 deep; the circular tanks, 36 feet in circumference, 11 feet 6 inches in diameter and 50 inches deep. If the process to be availed of is as effective as expected, the output of the Fortuna will be doubled at least, while the tailings are reduced, anyway. There is said to be fully $150,000 worth of tailings at the old dump, and the mill is making more every day. than usually favorable. Kootenai County. The Golden Winnie began dropping stamps Wednesday again which leads Sylvanite correspondence Kootenai one to infer that their development Herald: Mr. Charles H. Bartlett has a work has opened a new and promising force of six men on the Gold Flint. It vein. is understood that they will sink fifty Beale District feet and crosscut the lead. This propThursday Attorney came in to look over his interests in the erty improves with every stroke of Dora and Katie Burnett and their new work. Mr. T. J. Patterson has some fine purchase, the Idaho mill and mine, which, by the way, is hard at work samples of free gold from his claims, Kootenai and Kakanee. The ledge getting ready to drop stamps some time the on these claims has been tapped about next week. feet below the surface. Coeur dAlene Sun: The Daddy folks twenty-fiv- e A ninety-foone of those another tunnel has been run on phepenetrated the Blue and will tap the ledge nomenal pockets which has made Big the mine so famous. It was struck on about 100 feet below the surface. Mr. William Rogers, with two men, Is Tuesday at a depth of 600 feet, the farwork on the Mascot. at thest end of the tunnel, in the Mead It is authoritatively stated that a ground. One piece, which Alonza Copp mill has been ordered for the 11 lan brought to town, weighing ounces avoirdupois, was nearly all gold. Keystone. The extent of the pocket was not NEVADA. known at the time Mr. Coplan left the looked mine, but he says the vein Lyon County Times: The new mill in One of the pockets Silver mighty well. City constructed by Fisher & Co. struck in the Daddy vein a little over was started up last Thursday on a trial a year ago yielded $10,000. Since then run. The mill is run a number of smaller pockets have been power gasoline engine, byanda it works found, yielding all the way from $1000 like a charm. The mill will start up to $7000. Monday on ore from the Silver City mine, which is owned by the company which built the mill. This mill, it is Boise County. will work $4 gold ore at a Idaho World: Profs. W. Lindgren claimed, profit. It will take but three men to and E. C. E. Lord, government geolo- run the mill, and fifteen tons of ore gists, arrived here last Saturday and will be crushed daily. It is calculated went over to Horseshoe Bend Sunday. that ten men will be employed in the They will return to this place in about mine. two weeks. Prof. Lindgren is from Austin Reveille: O. H. Packer, superCalifornia and Prof. Lord from Wash- intendent of the Cleveland mine and ington, D. C. They will make a thor- mill, located in Smoky valley, was in ough examination of the geology of the town last Saturday. He informed a Basin. Prof. Lindgren says what is Reveille reporter that he had temporartermed the false bedrock of this sec- ily laid off all the men at the Clevetion will form a very interesting sub- land, but that work would be resumed ject for geological investigation and in the fall when there was more water study. They made a hasty examina- in the creek. Mr. Packer will remain tion of the false bedrock area Satur- at the mine in the meantime. Pioche Record: The sale of the Keyday afternoon. The Chicago company that purchased stone Mining companys property, adthe Haines placer ground, on Gold vertised to take place on May 20th, and Fork, five miles from Long valley, are continued for a month, has not yet ocnow working with two hydraulic chiefs. curred, though it is expected to come Ed. Beck informs the World that two out all right yet. The trouble seems to veins in the Lucky Boy mine are turn- be that the New York parties who ing out fine ore. One vein is a foot and agreed to put up the necessary funds a half wide and the other two feet. for the Lincoln company (which was organized to handle the property) fails at the last moment to honor their Ada County. paper, and the matter is being pushed Caldwell Tribune: Ed. Lee is re by attorneys for the Lincoln company, his who propose to hold the New York parported to have struck a bonanza insome ties to their contract. Willow Creek mine. He has had of the quartz tested from the reef just struck, which goes $800 per ton free Mining Incorporations. gold. Carter & Rhodes were last week Independent-Tesor- a offered $10,000 in cash for their properMining company was refused. but it the City). (Park Lincoln, ty, Capital, $150,000, divided into 150,000 shares. G. D. Gregor, president; J. W. Cain, K. A. Wood River. A. Kjos, treasurer; Leichter, secretary. Hailey Times: The tailings works of The company owns the Independent the Fortuna Mining company will be Tesora and Tesora No. 2 claims in the ready to be started up by the 15th of Tintic district. next month. The works will use the New Guinea Mining and Milling commodifications with but process, pany. Capital, $150,000, divided into cyanide which H. K. Thurber, managing owner 150,000 shares. George Naylor, presiof the property, has made as tests dent: G. M. Paddock, J. seemed to require. Mr. Thurber has R. Hay, secretary; George H. Naylor, spent the past winter and spring in treasurer. The company owns six He had fifty claims in the Erickson district, Tooele getting these testsatmade. various metallurgi- county. odd made abroad, a dozen at his about and cal works own works. Go to Harris & Wilson He finally concluded that he was reasonably certain that the tailings could For Fire Life and Accident insurance be worked on a large scale at small American companies only represented. ot ten-stam- 20-hor- vice-preside- nt; vice-preside- nt; se |