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Show ESTERN I i r Gazetteer I 9 1 1 VOL. 1 1 n i t - I SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1880. fSteteu giubxg (fejetim, PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEVOTED TO GOLD AND SILVER 31INING, AUTHOR! Z ED AGENTS t Maj. Danilbon, Blackfoot, Idaho. John McG. Scott, Eureka, Nevada. Cal. C. Clawboy, Bonanza City, Idaho. T. E. Clohecy, Galena, Wood River District, Idaho. Charles K. Miller & Co., Room 2, Tribune building, Chicago. Charles W. Crane, Room 39, Safe Deposit building, San Francisco. ed Subscription, postage paid: United States and Canada, $3 per annum; all other countries $1. Payable in advance. Remittances should be made by Order, Bank Draft or Registered Letter, payable to Mark. W. Musgrove.Communications in regard to the Mining or Milling of Ores solicited. Descriptions of new camps specially desired. -- Post-Offic- e ICC - 000 SAW TOOTH, WOOD RIVER AND WAR3I SPRING DISTRICTS. IDAHO. in- - Special Correspondence of the Western Mining Gazetteer. SAW TOOTH DISTRICT. The shaft on the Pilgrim is down 100 feet, and the quality of The vein is 22 feet between walls, 8 ore extracted very fine. feet of which is pay ore, averaging $200 per ton. The Columbia has been opened in five different places, show- ing a continuous vein for 700 feet. In some of these openings A small lot of averore worth $600 per tori has been struck. age ore is being extrteted for shipment. In Smileys Gulch, wrork is progressing on the Vienna and Alturas mines. Ore is being shipped to Salt Lake all the time; the grade being about $500 per ton. Some extraordinary rich ore is being extracted from the Lucky Boy. The vein is from 5 to 0 feet wide, and will average, across the vein, $300 per ton. It is bonded to Col. W. H. Brodhcad. ! 1 i of K UPPER WOOD RIVER. The Alturas Con., a New York company, is developing their group of mines, consisting of the Gladiator, Eunice, Baltimore, erilS. j and Big and Little Chief. All looking remarkably well. The Gladiator shaft is down nearly 100 feet, showing a well j defined lode of high grade ore. Another opening on the trend cr and j 0f the vein is showing The vein is five feet, wide, up nicely. lcy and runs from $120 to $700 per ton, though as high as $1,600 has been obtained. The late strike in the Eunice uncovered a body if $300 ore. I I C j The development on the Baltimore progresses. The vein j is four feet wide, and goes frsm $80 to $160 per ton. No work is being done on the Big and Little Chief. The Senate and Quiinby series of locations are looking first-- l rate. It is thought they will soon be sold to Eastern parties. Pease & Taylor recently shipped 100 tons of ore from the White Cloud. ; 5 st-cl- a ! I di css ill. GENERAL MINING NOTES. The Dcfrccs mill, Tuscarora, Nevada, is running oh tailings. The bullion shipments from Tuscarora, Nevada, for tlip month of August amounted to $151,729.42. It is reported that that the Danube mine, Globe district, Arizona, has been sold to San Francisco parties for $100(j. The Silver King mine, Arizona, has recently put on a larger force' of under-groun- d miners; still there are many idle men in the district. For the quarter ending July 1, the mines of Eureka county extracted 20,943 tons of ore, which4 yielded $891,492, at a cost of $572, 707, Ira A. Vail, mining engineer, considers the Pioneer South mine, Globe district, one of the. finejst prospects he has examined in Arizona. By contract coal is furnisned to the Eureke, Nevada, works at 22J- cents per busnels, and the bins are overflowing with coal. The new shaft of the Eureka Consolidated is now 375 feet deep, and the work is progressing favorably. It is a splendid piece of work throughout. The hoisting works on the Quinn .mine, near Silver City, Nevada, were destroyed by fire, on the night of August 31st, These works were recently erected at heavy expense. The Yankee Fork (Idaho) Herald says that Elden Dodge brought in some extremely rich float, from the Paradise location, about one mile from town, and on the west side of Jordan-Onpiece was so full of gold that it could hardly bo broken, and was about as rich a piece of top rock as we ever saw. The Paradise is one of J. G. Morrisons group of mines. The San Francisco Stock Report says that, We shall have a boom, and a big one, too; there can hardly be a doubt. The doubt comes in on the points of when and at what standard of That is satisfactory to the stock price it will commence. gambler, at least it is a good average bit of information of tlfe . ow lorn NO. 4. ff re-ducti- on three-compartme- nt e stock market. Prospects in Bingham look brighter. The Stewart No. 1 and No. 2 are both preparing to start up work on their properties. Active operations are also being returned on the Jordan mines and on the Lucky Boy. The Tiewakee is producing a a considerable quantity of high grade ore, and a large amount of prospecting is being dono. Gibbons is working on the Bed Rock Tunnel with push, pluck and splendid prospects. The December Gold and Silver Mining Company of Lincoln District, Utah, have just made their first shipment of ore (nearly ten tons) from the December mine. It was sold to Latey & Williams at Milford, and sampled as follows: First class, 47 in silver; second class, 39 per cent, percent, lead, $165.11-10- 0 HOT SPRING CREEK. (91.2 ounces) silver, and $6 in gold; third lead, $117.64-10- 0 One hundred tons of good ore was lately shipped to Salt 12.5 per cent, lead, $56.37-10- 0 (43.7 ounces) in silver and Lake from the Elkhorn. The district generally is looking up. class, in gold. The whole shipment thus averaged about $100 in $6 LOWER WOOD RIVER. The Wood River Con., a Salt Lake company, are shipping gold and silver, and 33 per cent. lead. This is a very fine showi0 tons of ore to Salt Lake from the Bullion mine. ing for the December. |