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Show INTER-MOUNTA- IN NEWS MINING REVIEW. Three tons of quartz milled at the Jacksonville mill, Oregon, from the Goldbug mine, yielded $96.54, or Germany's production of amber in 1895 was 440 $32.18 per ton. tons. The vein of the Baley mine at Grants Pass, Oregon, will mine Victor 1800 to 2000 tons has been struck. It is two feet wide and carries a The ship from October. in high grade of ore. Gold was first discovered in the province of QueFourteen mechanics from the Union Iron works are 1847. at Jordan, Mono county, California, erecting a new bec in forty-stam- p mill. The Comstock pay rolls for September amounted Sir James Grant in a paper on the Canadian Gold to 63,225,66. Fields, estimates the gold output of Nova Scotia up to The gold cleanup of the Yukon country for 1896 is 1S93 at $11,500,000. estimated at 52.500,000. A strike of free milling gold ore running $20 per A discovery of good coal is in the French reported is in 600 level the of the Keystone mine ton, reported territory in Western Africa. at South Dakota. CLEAN-U- P. Custer, The Garfield Grouse, of Cripple Creek, lately shipped 100 tons of ore in three classes, carrying 3 ounces, 14 ounces and 30 ounces in gold per ton, respectively. The Emancipation Group in Boulder, Colorado, went to the lawyers to pay their fees in a contest case, and they have just sold it to an English syndicate for $100,000. Placer mining near Marysvale, Oregon, is receiving new impetus from the discovery that some of the ground thought to be worthless has proved to be the richest in the district. tunnel 600 feet long, driven by Professor Hardman in the Province of Quebec, in 1895, found the old river bed from which enough gold was taken to pay A the expenses of the enterprise. Tim ONeill was instantly killed by a falling plank Cripple Creek, in December. The Plymouth Rock company of Cripple Creek disin the shaft of the Minnie Healy mine in Montana, on tributed $65,000 in dividends on Friday, the proceeds Helena, Montana, will have electrical current from the night of the 24th inst. of a sale of mining property to W. S. Stratton. It is the Missouri river next year. The cage in the shaft of the Never Sweat mine in at the rate of 6 cents per share. The total iron ore produced in Germany in 1885 Montana, fell to the bottom of the shaft, but being The Prospector-Sta- r of Cringe cietk says that in amounted to 12,549,595 tons. empty no one was injured. a drift seventy-fiv- e feet from the suriace in the Little A streak of ore in the Abe Lincoln mine. The September output of the Doctor mine at May mine, a Cripple body of ore was uncoverd forty feet Creek, assays 40 per cent gold. Cripple Creek was 600 tons which sampled from six which ran an eighteen-inc- h streak of sylvanite. to nineteen ounces gold per ton. J. R. Vanwinkle has taken out 580 nuggets from The banks of the Big Blackfoot River in Deer The Hall mines smelter in Slocan produced fifty and his Fall creek, Oregon, placers. Montana, are being staked off by one-ha- lf tons of matte from 738 tons of ore run Lodge county, who have made big finds of copper in the prospectors The first authentic gold find in the United States in six furnace the days. throngh was in North Carolina in 1799. croppings. Assays of 30 per cent copper have been A new cyanide plant at Black Oak, Tuolumne obtained. Mine owners at Hill City, South Dakota, are comcounty, California, is successfully treating the refracAt a depth of 1000, in a tunnel 3,000 feet long the plaining of a scarcity of miners. Mammoth ores of the mine. tory ledge of the Senator group in Idaho Springs, ColoThe output of the Victor mine in Colorado conWater has been enconntered in the Hesperus shaft rado, has been struck. The vein is from four to tinues to exceed 100 tons per day. of the Parrot company, in Butte, at a depth of forty twelve feet thick, and has a ten inch streak that assays $3,000 to the ton. The Le Roi Mining company, of British Columbia, feet, and pumps are being put in. dividend on the 50th. paid a Silver was first discovered in the United States in mine in the Black Hills is The Deadwood-Terr- a canyon, by Peter ORiley and Patrick The pay-ro- ll of the D. & D. smelter at Deadwocd, producing about fifty tons of ore per week, the values 1859 in who were working the placers and found McLaughlin South Dakota, amounts to 15,000 monthly. ranging from $60 to $180 per ton. the silver in their rockers. The find led to the discovThe Keystone stamp mill in Troy district, Montana, The Carrick & Baily mine on Green Horn creek, ery of the Comstock. will commence on November 1st. operations Siskiyon county, California, is reported to have A1 and Richard Standen while developing a group of vein a of ore. struck $100 gold good Ore lately found in the Little Mountain at claims seven miles from Hill City, South Dakota, disCripple Creek, when roasted showed great beads of gold. John Keller, a miner in the Ontario, had both eyes covered a quartz ledge six feet thick which averages $15 in gold per ton. Samples of the quartz show N. W. Bennett & Son, of Baker City, Oregon, have blown out on Saturday, by striking an unexploded gold in rich quantities. bonded the Tempest mine to Baker City capitalists. charge of giant powder with his pick. A rich strike is reported from the vicinity of Aspen, The gold receipts at the Denver mint in one Charles Taylor and William Crow, operating on day the disColorado, the exact location being witheld recently totalled 2,106.85 ounces, valued at $38,000. quartz on Galice creek, Oregon, with a hand mortar, coverers. Numerous assays showing fivebyounces in Frank G. Burns will put in a giant this fall to work took out SO ounces of gold in one week. gold pet ton have been made, and there is also a presthe placers of Six Mile on the Illinois river in Oregon. Rich gold finds are reported from the mountains ence of lead and silver. The Standard Exploration A rich strike of copper ore carrying silver was company of Bodie, is to about six miles northeast of Hot Springs, Arkansas. sink its shaft 3,000 feet and are into the district. flocking made on the 400 level of the Alex Scott mine at Butte, put up 100 stamps in the Prospectors mill. under lease and bond by Dick Watson. The ton realized for coal in Great workedhad The per average price leaser Specimen samples of ore from the Gold Standard spent $15,000 and sunk the shaft 200 feet Britain in 1895 was $1.45. In the same year in the before he had mine in Ashland, a sign of ore. Oregon, assay $230 in gold per United States the average price was $1.10. ton. C. L. Hatlnvay of Butte has secured an option on The Mad Mule mine in The Homestake of South Dakota paid another div- the Bertha mine in Virginia City, Montana, and will Whiskeytown, Shasta county, California, has been sold to San Francisco capit- idend of 25 cents per share on the 26th instant, mak- build a mill on a new plan for the treatment of the alist. ores. The same gentleman has secured 700 acres of ing the total dividends an even $6,000,000. The total receipts of the state land board of piacers on Warm Springs creek, and will commence Wyoon the from river The wingdams Rogue cleanups ming for the year ending October 14th were working them next spring. have seabeen this very satisfactory Oregon, placers, John Smedley of Indiana has leased the antimony and much activity is promise for next year, son, A mines near Thompson Falls, Montana, which, it is discovery of gold bearing quartz is reported from the mountains A cleanup of $725 was made lately in a run of 140 claimed, contain the largest deposits of antimony in east of Pleasant Grove in Utah countv. hours on the placers of the Grant Mining company in the United States. The mines have been idle but the leaser says he will operate them extensively. The company is composed of Utah men. Kalispel county, Montana, has a new find of ore Oregon. that goes 60 in A new' strike recently made in the Zuri claim in the gold, $22 in silver and 30 per cent R. D. Clem & Co., of Browntow, Oregon, are sendcopper. ing in large amounts of gold dust to Grants Pass, Alma district, Colorado, milled 40 per cent iron, over in gold and some small values in silver per ton. John T. Young, working in an open cut in a mine which speaks well for the placers of the Althouse $20 The Zuri is the property of J. H. McDonald, of Alma, it Hamilton, Nevada, was seriously injured by a falli- country. and the new strike shows seven feet of ore. ng rock. The production of steel in Great Britain in the first It is currently reported in Montana that the Pen.The Napa Quicksilver Mining company of califor-.ni- a half of 1896 was 1,969,320 tons as against 1,689,660 an increase of 16.5 nington mines in Madison county, which have been paid 20 cents per share, or $20,000, in dividends to ns in the same period in 1S95, idle fora number of years, are to be started up under hst week. per cent. the management of 0. T. Hallen. Contracts have leader of the Cueur the Thomas The Gavin Smelter and OBrien, great been let for new buildings and improvements. Sampling comany has shot and killed of strike 1892, dAlene accidentally Jpened up works and offices at Cripple Creek for, himself last week while hunting near Iron Mountain, The annual meeting of the Ben Hur company of business. Montana. Cripple Creek, at which a lively fight for control beThe town of Trail in British Columbia has a popumine in Arizona has a depth of 1S00 tween the contending factions was expected, passed The Congress Jtl0n of 3 R. McKinnie and F. H. Pettingell, the a at the mines of $25,000 ,000 and pay-rmiles of underground workings, em- off tamely. J. four has feet; monthly. old president and secretary, were and their 355 men and has an estimated monthly output ploys was the endorsed. for administration Some new year copper locations have been made on of $80,000. ancheree creek, Oregon, by J. D. F. Stevenson and A contract is closed for 2,000 feet more wrork on M. Albright. OLD BOILERS. the Gold Hill tunnel at Cripple Creek, which has its The first of that and residence camp goes portion copper purchased by the United States mouth in the If you have old boilers, whims, steam hoists, 'nt for Hill. coinage was on September llth, 1S92 whem under Gold donkey engines or other mining machinery, or apstock of six pounds was laid in. A streak of sylvanite carrying 70 ounces gold per paratus that is in good order that you want to sell, Pn uKust 22nd, the feet deep in advertise them in the Mining Review. If you want d ton has been found in a shaft sixty-fiv- e l people of Gleiwitz, Silesia, the century of the Gleiwitz iron works, it the F. H. & R. claim on Bull mountain. The vein is such articles advertise for them in the Mining VlnKbeen 100 years since the furnace first started. three and a half feet wide and averages $45 per ton. Review. A dividend is expected from the Elkton in nt 5-c- ent Six-mi- le $21,-522.9- 6. . oll re-elect- ed, E- - cele-ate- |