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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. GENERAL MINING NOTES. Mlcstcvn TUB XKW BOSTON MINING EXCHANGE. The Amcriruu Kxrlutnyr in spunking of ibis board, says that great confidence is expressed by persons interested in the new Mining Exchange in Boston, of its entire success. The enterprise has met with great encouragement, aud considerable enthusiasm is shown in regard to it by mining men in that city. It was proposed to have the stock of the organization consist ot 250 shares, but the number has been reduced to 150 shares, all of which it is stated have been subscribed for. The Exchange has secured elegant rooms on the first finer in the marble building of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, facing l'osiulllec Square, in Boxtnn. The location is perhaps the most desirable that could have been selected in that city. It is proposed to have acabi-uc- t in the rooms, in which will be kept specimens of mineral taken from thc'mincs listed on the Exchange. The cabinet will lie divided into compartments, one being set apart for each company, and for the use ot which a small rental will be charged. Those persons desiring to have the privilege of using the rooms of the Exchange will be charged an annual subscription fee, so that people living out of town can make the rooms a place of resort while in the city. The managers of the Exchange confidently predict that within the next six months as many as 100 mining companies of umiucstioncd character will have their stocks listed at the new board. NEW STOCKS AT TUB NEW YORK MINING BOARDS. The committee on stock list of the New York Mining Stock Exchange has admitted the following mining securities to the stork list of the Exchange, Saturday, the 14th inst., being the first day on which they were called : Bonanza Chief Gold Mining; capital stock, $1,000,000; par value of shares, $1 each, mi assessable; location of property seven miles from IIclcuu Mountain, Montana. Father de Smet; capital stock, 10,000,000; par value of shares, $100 each, assessable; location of property, Deadwood Gulch, Whitewood Mining District, Lawrence county, Dakota Territory. Alta Montana ; capital stock, $0,000,000; par value of shares, $10 each, uitasscssable; location of property, Wickes, Montana Territory. Harsh aw; property in Arizona. Alice; property in Montana Territory. Sutro Tunnel ; property in Nevada. TUB HORN SILVER MINK. Colonel C. P. Baldwin, says ihe Georgetown (Col.) Courier of August 12th, returned from Utah on Thursday last, where he has been for the purpose of examining some mines for eastern parties. He made a thorough examination of the celebrated Horn Silver mine, which is located at Frisco, 225 miles south of Salt Lake City, orZ'on as it is more commonly called in that Territory, which he describes as being the greatest ore deposit that he ever saw. The mine is opened to a depth of 1.15 feet, and horizontally for a distance of :50 feet, and at several points the lode has been crossed to each wall and exposed an ore body 50 feet in width, the entire crevice being pay ore There are three kinds of ore in the mine, each kind being 8"puratcd by a clearly defined line of deinarkation. .The largest mass is sulphate of lead, carrying about 00 ounces of silver per ton and 45 per cent, lead, aud occupying three, fourths of the crevice. This body lies on the toot wall and is called by the miners the smelting ore. The body next to the sulphate is about 17 feet wide and worth 87 ounces in silver ami a small pt r rent, in lead, it being known as the leaching ore. In color it varies Irom reddish brown to nearly white, it being light in weight, aud in some respects resembles chalk. It contains granular silica, an uncommon form for that mineral, which gives it a mottled appearance. Analysis shows that it contains 47 per cent, silica. On ihc hanging wall is a body of spar that is sprinkled through with spots lit ruby, brittle, and chloride of silver, this body being the richest of the three, the average product showing it to contain 100 ounces of silver per ton and with a trace of le:ul. The hale is a contact vein with a loot wall composed of dolomctic limestone, that in pinccs is changed to marble, and a hanging wall of trachyte. It is the only contact vein that has been toiiud in the district, the other veins being either wholly in limestone or granite. lu-av- The Eureka (Nevada) Con. has declared another dividend of 50 cents. Within three years Bodic District, California, has produced nearly $7,000, 000. The High Ore mine, Butte, Montana, has been sold to E. M. Wilson for $2,000. The Lucky Boy mine, Idaho, has been sold to a New York Company for $25,000. The Grand Prize, Tuscarora, Nevada, declared a dividend of 25 cents on the ltith. The Stormont, Utah, lias declared its second dividend of thirty cents per share. The Barlicc & Walker, Utah, dividend of ten cents per share is payable Latey ifc Williams started up their smelter a week since at Milford, Utah, on Horn Silver and others ores and is running nicely. Judge W. F. Anderson's new map of Idaho is the result of a great deal of study, and is entirely reliable; giving, as it does, a correct showing of the mineral section of that Territory. F. C. Phillips, electrical engineer, has arrived in Salt Lake, and will immediately put up the electric light for Gen. P. E. Connor in his reduction works at Stockton, Utah. The Atlitntix, Glendale, Montana, says that 25 or 20 more miners are needed at Lion City, and that at least GO more men could get work in the mines or in the construction of the tramway. The article in another column under the title of The Assessment Policy was written by a gentleman who has had an extensive expericncc in the matter, and we recommend its perusal. In the next issue of the Gazkttkkii we will publishes an exhaustive report of the Ontario mine, Utah. This will be followed by a lenthy review of the developments in other mines of this Territory. The lead market is looking up. Yesterday (Tuesday) it advanced considerably in New York, and those having lead ores arc feeling good. The signs are certainly favorable for a boom, and we shall be glad to see it at once. There is a great deal of ore in Utili which will pay to reduce with lead a few dollars higher per ton. On the 17th the following bullion shipments wrcrc made from Tusea-rorNevada: Grand Prize, eight bars, $15,418.11; Navajo, seven bars, $12,1)111.00 ; North Belle Isle, eight liars, $14,000.04. Total $42,!i:W.:5. This makes nearly $75,000 already shipped this month and with twro more shipments during the month, will reach over $100,000. Tuscarora is doing nicely. The Mammoth Mining Co., have purchased of W. II. II. Bowers, Salt Lake, six ore feeders, three combination amalgamating pans and one Bclding settler, to increase the capacity of their present null. It i9 the intention of the company, under the management of Capt. II. II. Day, to rush the production of the mill and mine and establish the fact that the Mammoth mine as a bullion producing property has hut few superiors on the Coast. The Elephant mine in Bingham, owned and worked by the Summit Mining Company promises well for a dividend-payinproperty in the near future. The upper tunnel running on the vein has a fair showing of ore assaying from $2.7 to $75 in silver to the ton with 48 per cent, of load. The tunnel is now in 120 feet, and the Company propose to push it for the centre of Bald Bountain by continuous labor, and with a prospect of shipping ore shortly. The Salmon mine near Custar, Dakota, is on Ihc boom. Some of its ore runs $18,000 to the ton. The one draw-bocabout it is that it is refractory ore, and will not yield its gold to any of the processes uow in use in the Hills. The owner, Mr. Woodward, has made arrangements with capitalists to ship the ore to the Omaha works and have it run through. Even with heavy freights to pay in transferring there is supposed to he a handsome income in the project. Tlie Jupiter Mining Company, whose properity in Big Cottonwood adjoin, on the north the Heed and Benson mine, are driving work vigorously and with encouraging results. The vein in the Jupiter is now pitching to the deep and the miners are following it with the assurance of reaching a bonanza. Assays from the vein show from $1)0 to $22:1 in gold to the ton of ore aud $57 of silver. The formation is similar to that ot the Flagstaff, which is from two to three miles distant in a southerly direction. to-da- v. m a, g k |