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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. ore. South drift, same level has been advanced but little since last rechloride ore port In this drift there has been no improvement. The s taken out by lessees and now being worked, averages about $40, tail-ing- 5. The north drift from the Joint Navajo east crosscut has been extended 20 feet; total, 130 feet; is now connected with an old east drift that gives 130 feet of ground in length to stope. The ore vein in No. 1 and 3 stupes on this ledge is about o inches wide, and of fair milling ore. The connection with the old drift gives good ventilation. The upraise on 350 foot level has been carried up 10 feet; total, 50 feet Vein is 14 inches wide, and the ore low grade. North Belle Isle The north drift, 150 foot level, has been 8 fet, and a crosscut west has been started near the face. The ground for some distance has been all ledge formation. The ore seems narrow but rich. Will now thoroughly prospect the ground with crosscuts. Have made but little progress sinking the winze from the 150 foot level ; delay caused by cutting out and timbering winze station. Thestopcs are looking and producing as usual ; vein is narrow, but ore very rich. Pulp assays for the past week have averaged $276.43. The Gold Ilill Neics of the 20ih makes this mention of the north-enmines on the Comstock : At the north end all is reported as going ahead well. Sierra Nevada is raising in the ore body struck cast of the 2,300 main lateral drift and north of the line of the main shaft The raise is said to be in the cross-- . of ore cut 1,000 feet north of the incline, and where the thirty came out that assayed $43.75 per ton. It will be remembered that in running east seventy feet, the first three feet of $10 and $12 rock were cut. Further on five feet of $40 rock was found, and still further to the east the formation from which the thirty cars of ore were taken, and portions of which yielded over $300 assays. Nine feet of good, clear, gold rock was found 100 further south, and rock 100 feet further north, when cut by the diamond drill, gave $5 to $10 assays. The north drift, 2,500 level, is also progressing well and will doubtless find ore at the proper time. are running and that Of Union it is only known that the cross-cut- s far ore to are not yet east vein. hit the they enough Belle Isle. ex-tend- ed . d . car-loa- The New Mexican of the 16th furnishes the following: TIIE UICHEST STRIKE YET. Quite a sensation was created in the city yesterday by the announcement of a rich strike made near Bernalillo. The rumor was to the effect that Mr. Jesse Martin, whom almost all miners know, had found a vein on the north side side of the Sandia mountains, from which gold ore which assayed enormously had been taken. In conversation with JMr. Martin, a reporter of the New Mexican was informed that the lead was found in the village of Las Placitas, on the road from the New Placers to Bernalillo, and about eight miles from the latter place. The road passes immediately over the deposit, and hundreds of people, including experienced miners and geologists and mining experts, have passed over it time and time again in search of the mineral under their feet. Mr. Martin has been engaged in mining for many years and he lias now struck the biggest thing he ever saw. He brought a number of the specimens of the ore to Santa Fe, some of which he took to I)r. E. Andrews to be assayed. One assay showed 353 0 ounces of gold or about $4,604 per ton, and subsequent assays showed equally as well. A low grade of the ore was also assayed and returned $43 20 to the ton. The lead is said to be eighty mid paces wide and 6,000 feet along the vein has been staked oft. Of these claims Mr. Martin, Governor Lew Wallace and Mr. S. II. Lucas arc the principal owners, each of these gentlemen having secured 1,500 feet along the vein. The ore is milling and is very deceptive in appearance, no gold or trace of gold being apparent to the naked eye. This is probably why the lode was never before discovered. Quantities of the rock have been taken from the ground in the vicinity, but no one suspected that there was auy thing hid behind Its commonplace appearance. It is even said that the corrals at Las Placitas are enclosed with ore similar to that which assayed $43.30 here yesterday. If this is true it is probably the only case on record where dumb brutes were penned in by golden laden walls. Butciikk Boy. This mine ha3 been sold to Palton, Crosson and others. The consideration was $050 cash. The new owners have christened it the Mountain Queen and verily less appropriate names for mines have there been. The average of three assays made from ore taken across the whole width of the vein was $80. silver and gold, while picked specimens have given from $600 to $975 as a result. Some of the ore pounded in a mortar and panned out roughly showed seven or eight colors of gold, this test being made last Monday. On this claim there is now but a twelve foot hole, but the new owners are putting down other shafts and are now taking out ore for shipment to Pueblo. Bkhtiia. Has a t shaft down on a sixty-focontract, the pay streak at this depth being twenty-twinches galena and quartz. Avand thirty-thre- e erage ore from the vein assays thirty-tw- o ounces silver. The Silver Ckkkillos. Carbouatcvillc is now a live camp, a solid and constantly growing one. Tents have almost entirely given way to frame buildings, and Rogers & Collie arc now putting tip a large adobe building. Its situation could hardly be better save lor the absence of water, a drawback which will soon be done away with, as the 2-1- ot o project r - MONTANA. ds NEW MEXICO . fifty-foo- of boring with the diamond drill for water is now being seriously discussed and the miners are determined that bjr hook or by crook they will have a well in the camp and not be obliged to cart their water from the creek. The camp puts on all the airs of one many years older, except the roughness which is almost entirely absent. Dwelling houses, boarding houses, assay and recorders otllces, stores, saloons and dance hall, the last some distance from the camp itself, have changed it wonderfully from the Carbonateville of a year or even six months ago. Most of those in the camp are working men, and there are to be seen few if any idlers. The mines tributary to it are all looking up well and richly and their owners are encouraged more and more as they sink on the leads. Capital is being enlisted, and a lately developed enterprise, which a prudence easily understood veils from mention, is rapidly on the road to consummation, the result of which will be a doubling of the value of every foot of land in or around the camp, and of every mine in the district. A New Camp. A discovery of reported rich quartz leads about eight miles from Herlows station has drawn a good many prospectors thither, with so far very meagre results. Our reporter has some very fine and handsome white quartz from that vicinity, but not as yet any very promising ore. However, a district cannot be judged by a few specimens and there may be some good property there. As yet, no as- says have been reported, though the whole ground in the vicinity, is covered with location stakes. Nice Nugget. Last week a handsome nugget was picked up in the claim of Spencer, Bros. & Porter. It weighed a fraction less than ten ounces, but was of such unique shape that $300 ivas offered for it and refused. It is the prettiest specimen we have ever seen. Madisonian . Butte Miner: The volume of business trans acted in Butte is steadily increasing, and there is no remote indication that it will take a relapse. There are no fears of the mines of this district petering, for we have no blanket deposits to scoop out in a few short months time. Onr mines are only in the first stages of their development, and hence confidence in a permanent and large trade is manifested by all our business men. IDAHO . Yankee Fork District. Summit. At the depth of forty feet a body of ore worth $2,000 per . ton was struck in the Summit mine, on Custer Mountain It was in feet wide. The ore worked in the new shaft, and is two and one-hal- f Chris. Morlers arastra last fall went well up into the hundreds. Tunnels are being run to connect the old and new shafts so as to obtain pure air. A batch of the ore will soon be worked in Morlers arastra. Herald . DAKOTA. Black Hills Pioneer, 11th : Mr. Woodward, one of the owners of the much talked of Salmon mine near Custer, came into town yesterday with a wagon load of ore from that mine, that certainly never lias been surpassed in richness by anything that has been seen in the hills. There is from 1,200 to 1,800 pounds of the rock some of it hard white quartz, some of it white flecked with black, and some of it black as manganeze; but all of it is literally gleaming with free gold. Every piece of it is veined and seamed and dotted with glistening yellow metal, so that the ore itself would almost do to polish uo for jewrelry. Some of it assays $18,000 to the ton, and all of it far up in the hundreds. The one drawback about it is that it is refractory ore, and will not yield its gold to any of the processes now in use at the Hills. Tombstone District, ARIZONA. The Kpitali , in speaking of the mills of this district, says : Durin the recent heavy rains the flood in the valley of the Rio San Pedro swept away a portion of the dam above the Charleston mills, necessitating a shut down for a few days. Pending the repair, the mills were thoroughly overhauled, and the additional five stamps of the Gird mill were placed in position, and both are running with their accustomed regularity. The Contention mill is humming night n and day on ore I tom this mine. Grading for the Sunset 20 one below mile Contention stamp mill, Cly, has well advanced. The work of grading for and erection ot the Grand Central mill, 20-sta- well-know- 20-sta- (the millsite being situate between the Contention and Sunset mill), is to be commenced immediately. The custom mill of the Boston and Arizona Smelting and Reduction Company, on the San Pedro, just below Charlestown, is completed, the machinery having all arrived, and will be running early in September. The preliminaries having all been settled, Mr. C. S. Pilsbury will begin the erection immediately at Watervillc of a custom quartz mijl. The machinery has been at lien son for several days. When completed the mill will have a capacity of from eight to ten tons daily. It is a dry crusher, we are informed, and will be known as the Hopkins mill. Its completion is expected in about forty days. It gives us great satisfaction to chronicle the above item, a custom mill being one of the wants from which this camp has long been laboring. This coming week the smelter in the Mule Pass will commence its work on Copper Queen ore. A new mill is in course of construction in Evans District, in the Iluachucas, and another is under contract by Eastein parties for Dos Cabezas. 20-stam- p ; i i I t |