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Show News 9 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN The Belle of the West mine on Straub mountain, Colorado, has been purchased by the to be built at Oro Grande, San members of the Chicago police force who have A smelter is Bernardino County, California. organized a company. Lieutenant Thomas of The Shoshone Journal of Idaho reports a pair the Fourth Chicago precinct is president of the ,f sea lions in the river, just below the Sho-lion- e company, and the price was 25,000. Falls. The Columbia mine and mill at Telluride, I Clorado bus closed down and 125 men are Elko, Nevada, is anticipating a big boom with rownout of employment. The null depend- he completion of the canals and ditches at the ed for its water supply on the tailings water of sland Mountain placers. the Tom Boy mm and tMg was B0 thick with The Mining Exchange of New York was in-- 1 slimes that concentrating was impossible, orporated in that city on November 19th., A careful estimate of the October output of with eleven directors. Cripple Creek gives 7000 tons of milling ore of famine is A flour reported from DeLamar, an average value of 30 per ton and 9000 tons of Clean-up- - I and merchants are arranging for heavy smelting ore of an average value of $75, or a total of 885,000. It is believed, however, that onsignmcnts from Utah points. the estimate of $75 for the smelting ore is too Svlvanite assavint? V0 000 in irnld ?'v aq,mtjntthe value of the output was more laseen found in the Russell mine atPPalmer tlian Lake, Colorado, at a depth of 200 feet. The value of breadstuffs exports from the nAmnonias Nevada, we found dead on Eighth Avenue, New York, on the morning of November 19th. It is supposed he died of heart disease. James W. Neill, local manager for Taylor & Brunton, has returned from Denver, where he went to close a contract with the Colorado Iron Works Company, for the manufacture of a new ore compressor and agglomerator for which a patent has just been issued to him. C. J. L. Myer, a prominent capitalist of Michigan, and a heavy holder of East Golden Gate stock, has been here recently looking into the conditions at the property. He says that to him his stock is worth just as much to him now as when he bought, as in his mining share veutures, which include Portland, Anaconda, Elkton and other choice Cripple Creek stocks, he has always been governed by the condition of the property more than the condition of the market, and he thinks Eas Golden Gate has suffered no depreciation although the stock fell. Her-manvil- le t i ' i .1 r i United States for October $19,8G4,896, in Britisn vOlunibi&a wnicli li&vo dggii lo rTtpd in Snnkane cmelly are fast centenng in against $12,297,011 last year , of cotton, 37,Bitumen. 245,408, against $27,808,447; of provisions, . For the ten months A subscriber at Monroe, Utah, sends samples 359,230, against 13,147,632. (V A miner named Charles Lang was drowned these items were: Breadstuffs, $135,288,984, n deCl to the Review, from a hydro-carboin Snake river on November 16th, while drop- - against $97622,351 in 1895 ; cotton, $54,094,571, of a ping his boat over the rapids at McMurrins against $32,733,462 ; provisions, 135,351,713, posit in Castle valley, asking that we announce against 125,598,555. Ferry. through the columns of the Review the aprox-imat- e value of the samples submitted. The annual stockholders meeting of the Frank Klepetko has been appointed general This is a difficult request to comply with off manager of the Boston and Montana mines and Anchor Silver Mining Company, was held in mills, to succeed Captain Thomas Couch, re- Park City on November 18th, and Francis hand as an analysis is always necessary to deSmith of Muskegon, Michigan, Harry E. Myers termine the value of all the signed The The Pioche Record advises allminers looking J2TVpd were, however, submitted to Professor i.r samples to DeLamar for work Nevada, keep away from anbavidKeitli were H. Hirsching of this city, who classed the maas there are plenty of miners thereout of em- - Lwf1 g directors for the ensuing year. A terial as asphaltum, but could not even approxployment. directors meeting is to be held one week from imate the market value for the reason that at which the officers of the company Francis F. Furlong, a mining engineer, was without on analysis he could not determine the drowned in English bay, Vancover, on Novem- will be elected, ber 12 th. He was well known the world over, percentage of paraflne, a component part that in mining circles. Personal. largely determines the values of asphaltum and There are 40,000 tons of ore blocked out in Fred Redmond, the well known assayer, has gilsonite. the Independence mine at Cripple Creek, above been appointed metallurgist at the Northern Gilsonite is the purest form of asphaltum, the Seventh level, and the shaft is being put Light on Lion Hill, some of it being 99 per cent, pure, It is used down 200 feet more. Dan Clays, manager of the Julia Dean m throughout the United States and in Europe in . The October dividend of the Homestake mine Bingham, left for Deep Creek yesterday morn-o- f the manufacture of black varnish and for other '! South Dakota of 25 cents per share ($31,250) jng with a party of Utah county men, who have purposes. It is worth about $40 per ton on was paid in New York yesterday, making the kroner tv there total to date $6,056,250. board the cars, and sells at $60 to $100 in the one the of Salt Wells of F. Junius Lake, The gold production of Victoria, Australia owners of the Monolith mine, near Shoup, various markets. The term asphaltum covers a great variety of for 1896 will approximate 775,000 ounces. For Idaho, is visiting the property, accompanied by of asphaltic products. There are three types the nine months ending September 30th, the State Geologist Iiicard of Colorado. rock known to commercial use, viz: production had been 5S0.330 ounces. Pacific Union T s Taliafero agent for the Trinidad Asphaltum This is produced on the a President Bolles of the Argentum-Juniatat Green River, Wyoming, and the original e island of Trinidad and in its native state is 40 at Aspen, Colorado, announces that no coverer of the carbonate of sodium wells at that cent. pure. It is refined at New York, the more ore wTill be extracted for shipment until point, was in Salt Lake the first of the present per raised to 60, and is then rebeing percentage in of an silver. the is week. there, price inprovement duced to the right proportions for paving purCass Hite, the well known prospector is re- poses by mixing with sand and pulverized lime Potatoes are quoted at 30 cents per 100 e s pounds at Idaho Falls, and it is estimated that ported to have been near death door in Ills stone. Swiss Asphaltic Limestone This is pulverare not less than 250 car loads in the vi- - pie Creek, his ailment being pnuemoma. to know be that host of Utah friends will glad ized and then disintegrated by dry heat, after cinity, being held for an advance to 50 cents. he is now convalescing. which it is mixed with gum asphaltum and . The El Paso Reduction works at Gillett, Colo- sand in hot mixers. The product of the Pete San of the T. S. secretary ore tons October in Pearson, of treated 1,300 riido, by Wasatch Asphaltum company of this city bethe gross value being 30.000. ley railway and the Bingham Placer company class. of Idaho, has returned from Gibbonsville, longs to this The capacity of the works is to be increased. Bituminous Rock This is found in California he made an examination of the progress where de& The Calumet Hecla of Michigan has and Utah and is natural sandstone impregnated ofwork bn the big ditch and flume 5 or dared a dividend of per share, $500,000, with bitumen. l Lake Salt r6presen-totathe E. J. Jackson, will the Major payable December 17th., which bring The proportion of asphaltum or bitumen Refini and g Kansas Smelting of tative City this magnificent dividends of copper ore necessary for paving purposes varies somean extensive from returned has to company, 46,850,000. property up according to climatic condition, but it is . Idaho, W ashington and the what, 15 through buying trip An exchange says of the Golden Cache mines, Kootenai and Trail regions in British Columbia. about per cent. A product carrying less than this percentage would therefore be not markabout 200 miles from Vancouver, B. C., that an P experienced Charles 1. Hoffman, etable. the ores average 500. in gold to the ton, and been has California, y engage that there are practically a million tons in miner of In northeastern Utah there is an area of bia at London of Exploration Company (Limited) tuminous sandstone covering over 10,000 square sight. Great country !. and Siberia to to go of 15,000 per year, miles. This sandstone carries from a trace up Amoor the John Horton of DeLamar, Nevada, disposed salary on mines of assume to 40 per cent bitemen. The product of the ofhis interest in the Reliance mining claim to rjver charge placer Wasatch Asphaltum company is a bituminous P. Bonner, giving a legal deed for the same. nf Tno lime, and this is used extensively for street Mr. A. Eller of the Colorado sne Later he sold the same interest to the De Lamar on paving at Chicago, Minneapolis and many Gold Mining Company, and then the sheriff bio, passed through Salt Lahe on Monday, The company is now fillhis way to Pueblo from Montana. His brief other eastern cities. ot him . stay here was made pleasant by his meeting ing orders for several hundred tons. The famous lixiviation plant on Castle creek 0ld friends, including T. R. Jones, J. W. It is difficult to state the market price of near Aspen, Colorado, which cost 300,000 t as there are so many varieties. eil! and A. Hanauer. asphaltum, to erect, was sold at auction on November 18th The California product is sold on board the AOrc cars at 2 to 3 per ton. The price depends largely upon the grade. iiior I I $14,-ivoss- ia I : hydro-carbon- s. 0VksbJy I to-da- y. 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