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Show INTER-MOUNTA- NEWS MINING REVIEW.' IN CLEAN-U- P. 9 SALT LAKE NUGGETS. SILVER. A Victor mine on Bull Hill, Cripple Creek, is The employing 220 men. Settlers are destroying miners location notices ne'ir Greers Ferry, Idaho. The recent Gold Coin strike at Victor is the incen-tj;- r for much active work. tunnel at Cripple Cteek is making The Ross-Hur- d eight feet per1 day and is now in about 400 feet. Independence and Contract Mont., suffered an earthquake shock on the 8th instant. The Hope mine in Basin Mont., is now working forty men and is making extensive improvements. The Columbus, Ohio, Daily Review suspended after an existence of six days owing to lack of -- - funds. The tunnel at Cripple Creek is now t,SX) feet long and is being driven at the rate of eight ; Moffat'-Bus- h ftet per: day. Prof. S. F. Emmons of the United States Gelogical survey, is in Deadwood, South Dakota, making ready for a report on the economic geology of the Black Hills. . . f I Postmaster James Hughes, of Mercur, was in the The white metal advanced one cent per ounce durcapital last ing the week. The figures on export shipments are Editor J. B. Graham, of the Bingham Bulletin, was astounding, amounting to over four million ounces, while several thousand Mexican dollars have gone in Salt Lake last week. w-ee- Martin Mahnken, the Mercur business man, was in abroad. town during the week. The New' York Financial Record has the following Col. H. G. Heffron of the Niagara in Bingham, has to say: The banks have shipped to interior points during gone to Gunnison, Colorado, to examine a gold the week some $4,800,000, and have received in gold cyanide proposition. Tom Ferguson, Superintendent of the Crystal mine over $4,000,000. the increase in loans reflects new at MarySvalle, is up and states that he has a force of gold imports, $1,655,000 gold was engaged Saturday. Meantime the general trade movement continues fn eighteen men now at work. John G. Logan, the geologist who explored the our favor. This weeks exports; were $88,423,530 famous Winnamuck fault with such signal success, against $8,506,7 17 last week and $6,380,539 last year; while imports for the week aggregate $7,930,278 was in from Bingham during the week. last year, giving a balance of Duncan J. Frew of the Crystal mine near Marys- against $10,264,001 in our favor. The general situation is encourvale, who was so terribly injured in Sevier canyon for better prices, but for the Time being the two. months ago, is again able to be out on the street. aging sentiment is bearish and we look for lower prices, C. H. Blanchard of Eureka, recorder of the Tintic Foreign exchange is 1$ lower for the week. mining district, and candidate for the legislature on Money 6 per cent. in Lake last was Salt week. the Republican ticket, Recent shipments from New York .were as follows: Mr. A. M. Grant of the Colorado Iron works, who Fuerst Bismarck, . ozs. furnished all the machinery for the April Fool mill at Steamship 475,000 ozs. Steamship St. Louis DeLamar, Nevada, visited that camp again last week. 410,000 ozs. 8teamship Campania.... develHe thinks that the district is not .230,000 ozs. Steamship Trave oped. . 445,000 ozs. Steamship Paris C. C. Higgins, editor of the Mercur Mercury, was Steamship Havel. ... : v. .V 210,000 ozs. : in Salt Lake recently, and states that while less talk is Steamship Normania ;T228,000 ozs. being made of the famous gold camp, more actual Steamship St. Louis. :Vv 582, 000 ozs. hisin before its work is being prosecuted than ever Steamship Columbia . ; . . . 200,000 ozs. : 125.000 ozs. tory. Steamship Spree . .vf1, 458,000 ozs. Maj. J. E. Jackson, of the Consolidated Kansas Steamship New York .1.., . .. 623,000 ozs. City Smelting & Refining company, is making a tour Steamship Etruria 150,000 ozs. of eastern Washington, northern Idaho and the min- Steamship Trave ing districts of British Colnmbia, buying up ores for Total 4251,000 ozs. his company. To which add 50,000 Mexican dollars. Review and Western Mining The The following are the fluctuations of the week: Record of Salt Lake have been consolidated, with 65 ,64. Monday Miller & Hyslop as publishers. Each journal was a Thursday . ... ...651 65i Tuesdiy valuable one in its sphere, and the union of forces Friday .651 .651 Wednesday Saturday and ability will no doubt make the new paper one of FECCRD PRICES. unrivalled reliability and interest. Mount Pleasant Highest (covering a period of ten years) $l.l9Jc, Pyramid. August 19, 1890. The Review is in receipt of a copy of the sixth Lowest, 58c, March 3 and 5, 1894. now is which edition of Browns Manual of Assaying, LEAD. . the all over on the recognized authority assaying Lead remains unchanged on the market, although g world. The assaying for gold, silthe decreased production would Jead to the belief ver, copper and lead are. the principal subjects treated, that the supply is being exhausted regardless of a but much of interest is found in its page on the assay low consumption. The local p,rice of $2.60 of tin and bullion assays. The work is invaluable to decidedly does not agree with eastern quotations, as the average all assayers. for September in the New York market was $2.77. $4,-000,0- 00 . shipment of 200 tons of gold ore was made from the Swamp Eagle mine in thi Black Hills, to the Kansas City smelter. The Swamp Eagle has a vein five feet thick which has 'been opened up too feet assaying $25 in gold. One thousand pounds of high grade gold ore in sacks were stolen from the shaft house of the Black Bells mine at Cripple Creek on the 10th inst. A concentrator, of 100' tons daily capacity will be 'erected on the Noble Five mine in the Kootenai country; British Columbia. Seven carloads of ' old mining .machinery is being shipped from Butte to New Zealand via San Francisco. The freight 'will amount to $10,500. A stock brokers firm in Colorado Springs is working the clairvoyant act in its weekly market letter, in reviewing the futures of stocks. John Downey, familiarly known as Black Jack, was killed by a cave in the Diamond mine, one of the Anaconda group in Butte, on the 13th inst, A bar of gold weighing 4637 ounces, and valued at 585,000, was shipped by the Cariboo mining company of British Columbia, to New york last week. Bridget Aylward of Napoleon Gulch, Union district, known as the Queen of Alaska," wears a necklace of nuggets gathered by herself from her own claims. John Reese, working alone in a tunnel near the Half Moon mine near Pioche, was seriously injured by a cave which caught him across the back. The recent damages done to the Bunker Hill traxi-wa- y at Wardner, Idaho, have been repaired, and the mine is again running with full force. The Elkton Consolidated at Cripple Ceek, whose main shaft is down 400 feet, will put in a pumping plant of 700 gallons a minute capacity, and will sink the shaft for deep mining. A French syndicate incorporated as the Flick Bar Placer mining company, is employing 50 men on the ditch to take the waters of construction of a Dalv creek on to the Flick bar, on the Oregon side of A . ten-mi- le Snake River. Just as the management of the Gold Coin Bell tunnel at Cripple Creek had about concluded to abandon the proposition on which eight months h work had been done, a streak of sylvanite was cut which assayed $2,200. The tunnel had been run nearly 400 feet without encountering anything. The October dividend of the Isabella mine at Cripple Creek has been passed on account of the decreasing values of the ores mined in the past two months. At a meeting of the directors on October 12th, it was decided to pay dividends quarterly in the future instead of monthly as in the past. The Pactolus Hydraulic company of Boulder, Colorado, has constructed a ditch which will carry hours gallons of water every twenty-fou- r in the enough to wash 7,500 cubic yards of gravel same period, of an average value of 37 cents per cubic yard. The giants are working under 250 feet of head, j. . one-four- th ..... -- .... 1 ..... . English-speakin- . . . . i record Prices. cn r Highest (covering a period of ten years), $5.25, in October and November, 1890. Lowest, $2.50. August 21, 1896. . MINERAL SURVEYS. m n H - Recent orders for surveys for mineral patents have been issued from the office of Sueveyor-QenerMountain district. Application by Myron YY.. Davis, through Joseph Gorlinski, attorney, Robert Gorlinski, al surveyor. 80,-000,0- 00 h nozzles. discharging through The railroad tunnel at Eagle Rock on the Rio Grande Westerns Marysvale extension, is completed, and steel will at once be laid from Sevier station, . Inter-Mounta- in and-Ma- ten-inc- -- No. 3315, for the Yankee Boy lode in West Mountain district. Application by Myron W. Davis though his I attorney Joseph Gorlinski, Robert Gorlinski, sur-veyo- r. six-inc- through the tunnel to Belknap, the first station te-3Eagle Rock, which is 123 miles from thistle. 'Officials of the road give assurance that passenger .service. will be.extended to Belknap by November 1st, .which willlarid passengers within about seven miles i ?' - ttrysvtfe. C H I No. 3316, for the Free Trade lode in West Mountain district. Application made by Myron W. r Davis through Joseph Gorlinski, attorney, Robert Gorlinski, surveyor. No. 3317, for the Defiance Westerly, lode, in Big Cottonwood district. Application by James T, Monk, T. S. Mathis, surveyor, |