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Show 6 MINING 11E VIEW INTE11-M0UNTA1- N a saloon within 200 yards of hole. the prospect The Ophir mine is now down 130 feet. The whim is in place and sinking will be resumed the last of this week. The ore vein continues to hold its own, gradually widening as sunk upon. The last shipment of ore from the mine averaged 589 ounces in silver and $2 in gold. The owners refused $50,000 offered for the mine last Saturday, The Cripple claim, about two miles north of Line City, shows assays of $17 in gold and four ounces in silver. This claim has not even been scratched upon, but the owners are preparing to go to work. The Rich Man mine, owned by the Clark brothers, now under bond for $50,000 to Minnesota parties, averages $17 in gold. There has been little or no work done on this claim, excepting the scratching of the surface soil. erecting- - tunnels in three places, one at seventy-liv- e feet, one at 125 feet and the other at 240 feet. At the latter feet wide. depth the vein is forty-tw- o The ledge lies between granite and porphyry, and the ore, w'hich is considerably oxydized at the surface, is a silica, the latter constituting about SO per cent of the mass, and is impregnated throughout with sulphur-et- s of iron, which increase in quantity as depth is attained. Free gold practically disappears in the mine eighty feet below' the surface. Eighty-fiv- e tons of ore from the Newberg, taken writh por-phyrit- ic from the body of the vein, indiscriminately, milled a fraction over $8.50 to the ton. There are now', according to Mr. Sheridans estimates, 200,000 tons on the dumps of the mine, valued at $1,700,000. Judge Olden, a citizen of Boise, purchased a tract of ground below' Sturgill Bar, on Snake river, that he informs me prospects $5.20 to the yard. He has about completed a ditch to sup- Sanpete County. Ephraim Enterprise: The work of developing the prospects in the Ephraim ply water for piping, and will begin ahd West Point mining district has w'ork in ten days or two w'eeks. The been progressing rather slowly for the past few months, except in the case of the Bullion Paris claim. This property has been worked con- tinuously since its discovery and is meeting the expectations of its owners. It shows a well defined vein about of twelve feet wdde, about one-ha- lf which is fine steel galena ore. There are now a great many tons of ore on the dump, but it will not be shipped, as the company intends to put in a plant to work it. "Work on the Good Luck group on the south of the Bullion Paris, and the Hill group on the north will be commenced in a short time and be vigorously pushed during the fall and winter. Work on the Great Dream claim, which has been allowed to rest for some time, will be resumed as soon as the busy season is over. There are some good prospects in the northern part of the district that are being developed this fall. Ga-len- a IDAHO. The Newberg Mine. Correspondence Mining Review'd Boise, Ida., Sept. 14. This mine is on the northwestern rim of Boise Basin, and w'as one of the earliest quartz locations in Idaho. It therefore has a history. It crops out immediately above the heads of French, Illinois and Matlock gulches, and is believed to have fed those very rich placers. It was originally located and for several years know'n as the Law'yer mine. It lies about midw'ay between the Gold Hill and the Ebenezer, and is probably on the same great fissure as those noted mines. About seventeen years ago P. H. Sheridan became the owner of the Lawyer mine and changed its name to the New'berg. Previous to that date a shaft had been sunk on the mine tc the depth of perhaps eighty feet, and some timbering and stoping done. More or less work had been done on the surface also, and the mine w'as believed to be valuable, but the width of the vein had not been determined. On taking possession of the property, Mr. Sheridan went to wTork to locate the walls and ascertain the size of the vein. Finding the task too great for a pick and shovel, he turned on a stream of water and washed the surface ground and decomposed quartz away through sluices seventy-fiv- e feet deep, realizing $5 to the hand for his work. At the point wThere this ground sluicing was done the vein was found to be seventy-fiv- e feet between walls, and as far as developed it seems to run from feet wide, being forty to' seventy-fiv- e wider at some places than others. When washing the decomposed surface, Mr. Sheridan took the hard quartz out of the boxes and saved it to be milled later on. He also tapped the ledge a-da- gold is contained in an immense gravel deposit, aiid is on the coarse order, resembling flaxseed in size and shape. A similar deposit of gravel, containing the same character of gold, miles southw'est w'as found twenty-fiv- e of Mr. Oldens property, and W'orked out thirty years ago, indicating that in some long anterior age an extensive gravel belt has occupied that portion of Snake river valley lying betw'een Pow'der river and the Pine creek hills, and has been sw'ept into the river by landslides, and, possibly, overflow's from Pow'der river. A1 Cluer, who recently discovered a very rich gold quartz prospect near Pine grove, in Blaine county, came into towm this week and purchased one p of Capt. Baxters mills, on erect his will which he immediately mine. Samples of the ore exhibited in tow'n by Mr. Cluer, and worked by panning process, would easily w'ork $75 to the ton, and I predict sensational returns w'hen he gets his mill in operT. J. SUTTON. ation. the largest for any month in the history of the institution. The total receipts for the month amounted to $203,747.94. The total receipts for August, 1895, w'ere $129,135.34, or $74,612.60 less than the receipts for August of this year. The receipts for 1S95, wras August, 1894, w'ere about $64,000 less than the receipts for the same month this year. This unprecedented heavy business w'ill sw'ell the years receipts considerably above w'hat it has bepn in the past, and it is expected w'ill make 1896 the banner year. The receipts from Boise county last month amounted to in the neighborhood of over $50,000; from Oregon over There wras considerable gold $80,000. received from the southeastern part of the State and not a little from the north. It has been generally believed that the Snake river gold wTas the purest received at the Boise assay office. This is a mistake. The finest gold comes from the Cariboo district, in Bingham county. The record shows some of the gold received from Cariboo was w'orth as high as $20.11 an ounce. ARIZONA. Mohave Miner: Needles parties are looking into a proposition to put a big pumping plant on the Colorado river near old Liverpool landing to pump Water across the range to work the big placer grounds on the eastern slope. There are millions of dollars in the gravel beds of the Chimehuevis mountains, and a plant of the kind in contemplation w'ould prove a great bonanza. A company should be organized at once and the w'ork commenced. Dry washers are in demand in this county. It is our earnest conviction that many gulches throughout the county that have not been prospected will yield millions of dollars in gold, as soon as prospecting for dry placet becomes general. This fall thousands of men will be in the mountains of Arizona prospecting for gold. The leasers of the Nighthawk mine, with few' exceptions are making money. The McMahon lease is turning out about $5000 w'orth of ore per w'eek. McMahon and Wilkinson have big ore Owyhee County. lease and wdll soon be shipIdano Avalanche: After twenty years in another of idleness South Mountain mining ping to the sampler. camp will be resuscitated. For some w'eeks past it has been known that NEVADA. movements were in progress to accomplish this end, but it w'as only a few Eureka Sentinel: A partnership was days ago that the organization was per- formed during the week under the fected, incorporation papers filed and name of the Keystone Mining comthe deal closed for the mining ground. pany for the purpose of developing the The headquarters of the company is rich and silver mines in Roberts at Spokane. H. L. Weed is president Creekgold near McClosky creek, and general manager, L. C. Schultz, in the district, west side of the county. The and C. M. Weed, secrefirm consists of R. D. Clark, H. H. tary and treasurer. A. Archibald, E. D. Walti and F. The general manager is expected here Clark, R. Walti. The principal mines owned on or before the 15th inst., to comthe company are the Keystone and mence development work. Buildings by Odair. A very encouraging strike was will be erected, supplies laid in and a made in the former mine recently force of miners employed all winter. if present appearances count for South Mountain has immense depos- which, anything, indicates the property has a its of galena and lead carbonate ore, bright future. Much confidence is felt Lead-vill- e Coeur the and dAlene rivaling in the of the new company. districts for size and value of de- They enterprise have purchased the reduction posits. Its remoteness from the rail- works at the old or town of road has heretofore made successful Union, and are arranging Sherw'ood, to have the operation questionable, but with the engine, furnace, buildings, etc., rebuilding of the Owyhee railroad, now moved to the neighborhood of their in progress, this only drawback has mines near McClosky creek. been removed. The property secured by the company Three Eastern capitalists went to embraces nearly all the old claims of the camp, among which are tjie Grand Baker City, Or., last week for the purCentral, Arthur OKeefe, Boulder, Lau- pose of paying $350,000 for the Bonanza ra, Blackstone, Summit, Liberty, Mon- mine, having been informed that it was itor, Fanny Hunt, Virginia, Golconda, for sale at that price. Upon arriving, Laxey, Smelter, Nancy and Ella. The local owners w'ere Dave Adams, however, they learned that it was not Mrs. F. M. Hunt, B. F. Hastings and on the market at any figure. Arthur OKeefe. Dave Adams is State agent for the company. The Mining Review of Salt Lake City, is an excellent minAssay Office Receipts. ing journal, and one of our most valued Boise Statesman: The business transacted at the United States assay office exchanges, says the Kansas .City In in this city for the month of August, vestor. gold-beari- ng one-stam- vice-preside- nt, Inter-Mounta- in |