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Show 9 WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. UTAH. Star District. Stillwater. Oro assaying 4,000 ounces silver per ton has been struck in this mine. McGarry District. Four Feet Wide. A new strike has been made in McGarry district, six miles east of Milford, in the Granite range a ledge tour teet wide containing black sulpliurets of silver; top rock goes on an average thirty ounces silver and three ounces gold to the ton. There are now three parties out prospecting in these hills and the result of their labor will no doubt be the finding of one big mine at least. Fine Grove District. The editor of the Southern Utah Times recently visited this district, and in speaking of the mines says: At the head of the list stands the Carrie Lucille, the property of the Fine Grove Company. The vein stands nearly vertical, so nearly so, in tact, that it is dillicult to say in which direction it will finally dip. The shaft is now down sixty-sevefeet, and as the vein has widened so much in the bottom, ore is being left on what we think will eventually prove to be the hanging wall, and the toot wall is being followed. The ore is not so concentrated here as at points above, but it could hardly be looked tor, considering the width of the vein. The seams of quartz separating iheore are all permeated with ore, and are considered rich ore dump As enough to warrant their consignment to the second-clas- s is shaft in the is sorted the into first and entirely being vein, everything second-clas- s ore. The former is of very high grade and can be shipped to Salt Lake at a large profit, while the latter will pay handsomely for working. We think this property gives great promise of becoming a valuable mine. Five men are at present employed, divided into two t n shifts. at present being done on .the other properties of the company, the Crystal Palace and Pinafore; and as we have already noticed the developments made, a visit was not paid them. The company have erected a substantial and commodious boardinghouse at the foot of the mountain, and arc getting everything in shape No work is for an active winter campaign. Next in importance, in our opinion, to the Carrie Lucille, and situated about one mile south, is the Miller, on which very little work has been done, but still enough to show the ledge to be upwards of seven feel wide, through which run several stringers, from five to twelve inches thick, of fine looking ore. The shaft, on which two men are working, is down but tour feet, and we shall look for interesting as work progresses. The vein can be traced on the surlace the entire length of the claim, and like all the others in the district is in quartzite. Messrs. West and Miller are the happy owners. A south extension has been located upon which one man is at work. We next visited the Pine Grove, Carbonate, Gray Eagle, Hidden Treasure, Col. Comptson, Bismarck, Col. Cook and Silver Cliff. A number of these claims were located and worked as early as 1872, and show veins Irom one to five feet wide, with more or less good ore! On the Gray Eagle a shaft was sunk during that year to the demh of forty-fivfeet, but left the vein at the depth of twenty feet, where it is about fourteen inches wide, filled with material. We did not go down the shaft, but was told that no cross-cu-t had been run to cut the vein, and what it contains at that depth is still a mystery. Considerable work was also done during the same year on the Carbonate, Pine Grove andJCol. Compston, but the workings on all of them have been filled up with slide rock, in some instances leaving hardly enough of them to mark the spot where the early prospector sought his fortune. On the dumps of each, however, some ore remains to show what was encountered. The Hidden Treasure shows on the surface some fine looking ore, hut not enough work has been done to determine the width of the devel-opmen- ts e lively-lookin- g ledge. The Col. Cook is the south extension of the Carrie Lucille, and the croppings show spots of ore of the same general appearance as the Carrie. On the Bismarck a shaft has been sunk a distance of twelve feet, showing about twenty inches of ore, which assays well in silver and gold. This is certainly a promising property and should be farther shown up. What this district needs is a little capital to open up the prospects already located, and thus determine its value as a mining country. The locators are, almost without exception, poor men, and are not able to go on and open up their properties, but are consequently willing to part with a portion of their interests to raise the necessary fuuds to enable iron-staine- d tin m to do so. We recommend this district to the careful consideration of those having money to invest in mining enterprises. the ore bodies of Prospect Mountain, notwithstanding its limestone formation, have as much attraction for the contact as the great ore bod-ie- s of Uuby Hills great ore channel, and that these contact lodes extend down deep into the earth. Wherever the contact is seen in the tunnel, though the rocks are not of the same age but of common origin, ore is found. About 1,000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel a mineral belt is found more than 200 teet in width. This is the Magnet series of mines situated on Foleys Hill. Ores of a nodulic and geodic char-acte- r are seen scattered ail through the belt, but will, when worked on and opened up, swell to large ore bodies. Ore is being extracted from two lodes. When first discovered the lodes were not more than inch in width. After a few days1 work one of them has opened to 86 or 88 inches in width, and shows ore, black and gray carbonate, running high in gold and silver. The second is 18 inches in width carrying a silver chloride encased in black oxide with manganese as a matrix. This matrix or gangue assays $288 to the ton, while the chloride will assay more than douole that amount. The Eureka Tunnel as a great enter prise will be of great importance to Eureka, and notwithstanding the fine discoveries already made, it will some day not far distant, astonish the world with its great discoveries. The workings are still in the shale, and when the tunnel passes through the great shale belt of Prospect Mountain it is then that it will enter the immense contact lode that is known to be under the apex of the grand old mountain. Eureka Con. Affairs at the mine remain about the same as per last, report no change worthy of mention. Both furnaces are running; Bmoothly, with enouth ore to keep them in operation. The following: prospect work has been done in the several drifts this week : Sixth level Drift northwest 20 feet, in all 168 feet. Eighth level Drift north near west line, 17 feet, in all 105 feet. Ninth level Winze sunk 12 feet,, in all 86 feel. Tenth level Drift east 28 feet, in all 571 feet. New shaft, sunk 80 feet, in all 288 feet. lioclie District. Paid Up 'The Meadow Valley Company has paid up the entire in debtedness due on its machinery, amounting to $45,000. The company sold a portion of their tailings to God be & Co., of Salt Lake, and the money received from them was applied to paying oil' the indebtedness on the hoisting and pumping machinery. Raymond & Ely. On Wednesday the Raymond & Ely pump was started up for the purpose of testing whether the machinery was in good order, and eyerylhing was found all right. Bristol District. Mayflower. There has been quite a number of men put to work on the Mayllower mine this week extracting ore. Timbering the shaft progresses rapidly. Mendiia. The Mendha mine it is claimed, has more ore in sight than any other mine in Nevada. This ore goes heavy in lead The New Mill The Bristol Companys new mill will drop stamps on the 26th of this month. They put up an experimental roaster last week and from 160 pounds of ore they got four ounces of silver. Everything in and around the mill presents a lively appearance. Record. Tuscarora District. We find the following in the Times-Revie: Grand Prize. The south crosscut from the west surface prospect shaft has been advanced 10 leet; total 56 feet; and the nonh crosscut 7 leet; total 87 feet. The east drift from the north crosscut 400-folevel has been extended 8 feet beyond No. 8 crosscut; vein has been lor the past 80 feet narrow but contains bunches good ore. Thestopes are producing rich ore for some 120 feet in length, present extent of opening. We have cut for and timbered station lor winze on the 500-folevel ; will have pumping facilities ready to ower water by Saturday, and will then commence sinking winze. Pulp assavs lor the week ending 6 a. to-da- y w ot ot m. to-da-y, $217 62. The south drift from the main incline 70 foot level, has been advanced 8 feet; total 25 feet. Vein is 12 inches wide, and gives low assays. The south drift from the joint Belle Isle east crosscut, has been extended 9 feet; total, 78 feet. Vein 8 inches wide of fair ore. The south drift on the intermediate level between the 150 and 250 levels has been extended 7 teet. Vein 12 inches wide of good milling ore. The surlace south incline 50 feet south of the Banfield surface tribute line is down 18 feet 10 inches of ledge matter. Banfield surlace incline (tribute ground), south drift has been advanced to, and is now within five feet ot the south line. Vein two feet wide of good ore. Stopes south have been carried up 35 feet. Pulp for the week, tribute ore, has averaged $121 81. Aroenta. The 200 loot level east drift has been extended 9 feet; total 125 feet. Work in the drift is stopped lor the present, and an upraise started from the face of the drift, and extended 20 feet; also crosscutting into the hanging wall near the face of the drift; progress 17 feet. The upraise above the crosscut west ot the shaft is extended 15 feet; total 07 feet. West drift from the bottom of the winze is 25 feet, east drift from the same 10 leet. The former drift is stopped, and we are now stoping. The chloride stopes continue to yield well. The drift and stope arc yielding some very line sulphuret ore The in the crosscut from east drift is changing, and looks more favor, able. The mill continues to do good work. Average pulp assay for the week, $33,92. Independence. During the past week the north 500 foot level drift has been advanced and timbered 22 feet; now in 361 feet. The ledge continues .to look promising, and some good ore is being taken out. The stopes between the 400 and 500 levels are yielding good milling Navajo. t fc-riua-ti- Eureka District. NEVADA. Eukeka Tunnel. The Sentinel says this tunnel is now in Ieet 1,445 By a walk through it the structure of the eastern slope of Prospect Mountain can be seen, composed for the most part of argillaceous and lime shales. Also, limestone of a colorific character can be teen nere and there. The tunnel is that demonstrating a great fact, to-wi- t: -- |