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Show WKSTEKN MINING GAZKTTKKII. c.;!cni 77; Quite a number of these mines are now and fur some time past have been .successfully worked by their owners, and Tintic is again attracting tho attention of both the miner and must not omit lien to mention the capitalist. the exorbitant charges made by the Tintic mills on tbo custom ores brought to them by the miner. Opposition here is sadly needed ; it W.m. Bukdkmkyku, must and will come. Mining Engineer and U. S. Surveyor. J cy' tint id minixa Disrmcr. ;;.! irrowx minks, Montana. Says the Xew Northwest: The belt of gold leads in First Chance District, about four miles north of Bcartown, first brought into prominence by the development and marvelous richncssuf Henry Grants Ilomcstake lode, 1 situated have attracted considerable attention during in Juab county, and comprises 120 miles square tbo past year, have induced investigations by of mineral-bearinground on the eastern slope of the Oquirrh mountain range. The mines operators and the purchase of an interest in one by Frank Taylor and others. The good are situated about bo miles south of Salt Lake Citv and about 20 miles from the Utah South- opinion entertained of them by owners and the . tlatinum ern Railroad. slight development upon which those examinThe formation of the Oquirrh mountains being them must base judgment for large money, of But little is known by people generally has been the cause of no other mi rebuses being longs to the primary rocks of the Eozoic and Paleozoic eras, in which the lower series arc the peculiar character of this rare and curious made up to this time, and the majority of crystalline and more or less metamorphie. The metal, and how it is found in nature ; and a owners were not able to push developments as largest area of the mineral hearing zone or belt few facts in regard to it may prove interesting fast as they desired. Within the past few days however, Messrs. in this district is represented by hornblende, a of metal is readers. a to manv Platinum Samuel Rilcbev and Charles Cooper have consycnitic, granitic and feldspar porphyry, broken steel cluded to organize their claims 1500 feet on through and overlying the granite. This is greyish white color resembling polished especially the case in tho southern part of the It is harder than silver and about double its- the Minnie Palmer, 500 feet on the Mary Eve district. In the northwest part the formation density. It is so infusable that no considera- and 1500 feet on the old Hickory into the is limestone, and on the west base of the moun- ble portion of it can be melted by the strongest consolidated Minnie Palmer Mining Company, It is unchangeable in to stock it at $20,000. and issue at once 500 tain range appear shales and quartzites. The heats of our furnaces. immense masses of eruptive rock have changed the air and water, nor does a white beat impair shares at $5 to form a working capital for its polish. The only acid which dissolves it is the development. of their property. Tim shares and altered the original features of thecountrv, t offered have already all been taken at Bear. which, to a great extent, belong to the Silurian the nitro muriatic. It is usually found in or angular grains or irregular unices. New Chicago and Deer Lodge, and within age. The ore veins in the porphyry and granite bear principally northeast and southwest, It is easily distinguished bv its great specific tlitoe weeks a contract is to be let to the lowest with a dip very nearly vertical. These are the gravity and bvv being almost infusible. and best bidder to sink one hundred feet on Platinum was iirst detected in 1735, in the the lode. There is now an incline in thirty-eigh- t true fissure veins. The porphyry is also intersected by numerous fissures running like a net- alluvial deposits in New Granada where it refeet, showing over three feet of ore that work in various directions and dipping at all ceived the name of idatina . from the word the owners state will average $100 in gold to It is now obtained in Brazil, the ton. The property is estimated to he angles between 40 degrees and vertically. plnta silver. These arc fissures and feeders or branches of and in very small quantities with gold, on the worth $100,000 at a reasonable valuation, but the main or mother lodes. The veins which northern coast of California: but the greatest it has been stocked for one fifth that sum. occur in the limestone and quartzite are bed or portion of the platinum used iu the arts Forty per cent, of the stock sold reverts to the strata veins. The value of the ore in these comes from the Ural mountains in Russia. owners of the mine. The trustees for the first veins varies from $20 to $300 in silver, a trace It occurs there as elsewhere in alluvial beds. three months are Joaquin Abascal, J. A. Feath-ermato $300 in gold, a trace to 05 per cent, in lead, One to three pounds are procured from 3,700 Duncan Dingwall, R. B. Loomis and of sand. and a trace to 30 per cent, in copper; so we pounds Chas. S. Skinner. These claims are all on the in small grains, masses of contact, of which Grants Ilomcstake is the have here a variety of free milling, leaching, Though commonly concentrating and smelting ores, represented bv considerable size have been found. A mass eastern limit, and the vein is now located horn silver, ruby silver, red silver ore, chlorides weighing 1, OSS grains was brought from South 10.800 feet over two miles. America. A mass deputed in the Mad. id and bromides of silver, carbonates, galena, Of other lodes being worked are mentioned Museum ami , a more 11,(511 weighed grains, to us the Magone & Anderson lode. Tliev are azuritc, copper glance, pyrolusite, remarkable mass foumfiu the Urals weighed running a tunnel on the lode and are now in oxides of copper and antimony ores. The lodes of Tintic are phenomenal in their 21 pounds. 180 feet; have seven feet of ore which assays resistits and of The well in gold. platinum infusibility geological construction, the contents of the to of action the the and ance air moisture and same belonging to two geological formations. Warner it Clem have an incline 00 feet deep f it, most chemical renders value The oldest or original vein formation consisted agents, on tin Robert Emmett, shewing a three foot great HiK for of chemical the and construction of a quartz vein, carrying free gold, antimonial vein of S10 rock. Thev are now running a i cal is usv.l also it for crucibles tunnel to tap the extension of the old incline silver and copper. A subsequent disturbance soph apparatus; reopened tbo fissure, brccciated the"qiiartz ami 'and capsules in chemical analyses, and for gal :at o() depth. Jt is stated Frank Tavlor formed and added a new deposit of mineral. vanie batteries and oiliers have secured an interest on this Some portions of one and the same lode are when heated with iron, gold, lead and sum loth. Platinum does not harden unrich in gold and silver, other parts in lead and other metals. Fred Eggers has a shaft down 50 feet on silver, others in copper, and some parts are en- der pressure or under the hammer like most the Kernan lode, showing four feet of ore and tirely barren. From this it will be observed other melai, and can be drawn into wire as very rich. Work is being prosecuted this that samples taken along a vein here are a bad fmo as the finest hair. winter on the above. Mr. Grant has not done criterion as to the value of the mines located much work on the Ilomcstake since last spring unless mines the thereon, are thoroughly The indication are that before the close of :. ro nos x the mining kxcijan LSS1 there will be a decided boom in Bear opened and developed both in strike and dip. There is another series which I would designate quartz, and at least one mill will be working Business at the Boston Mining and Stock on gold ores in this district. as dyke veins. They form perfect parallels with each other, are traceable for miles, com- Exchange is rapidly on the increase. From posed of quartz carrying iron containing silver thirty to forty brokers are in regular attend-and gold, and small or large chimneys of very Editors Gazetteer: This district is g to Hat-tene- d n, ce-rusi- tc, pyro-morphite- ft to : ; 1 rich silver ores. The principal mines are: On Eureka Hill Frederick Charles, Iron Queen, Black Stallion, Mcrrimnc, Monitor, Lucky llov, Josephine, La Route, Corisa, Fairview, Mammoth mines, Tiger, Argcnta, Little Maud, Brazil, Kin, Cincinnati mines, Celestia, Swansea, Black Dragon and North Star. Galena Hill Lucky, Champlain, Whistler, Park, Chicago, Sidney, King James, Wild Mormon, June Rose. Lady Aspin-wail- , Nelly Bly, Ladv Grey and Golden Bell. Gold Hill Undine, Blucher, Pacific, Sunbeam, Mary Bell, Wildwood, Cherokee, Tesora, Cornucopia, Senator, Golden Treasure, Julian Lane, Bismuth Chief, Scorpion, Frontcnac, Niagara, Shoebridge, Oh No, Norwegian, Lily of the West, Allie Townsend, George Washington, Joe Bowers, Morning Glory, Star of India, Butcher Bov, Wild Rose, J. I). Cameron, Prince Charles, May Cameron, Duke of Athole, Rose of Arthur-stone- , Nammarskiold, Jefferson, Lily of Kin-locRising Sun, Setting Sun, Southern Belle, Roso of Tintic, Lily of the Valley, and many k, others. limb me oicieuu y nas mu ie cminges it) mnKC the tongue of their nativitv. Now there aie Irom the tally record. I ho visitors list has be-. m tbo same area there an , come so great;4ll. it lias been necessary o is-- i 3.000,000 persons H.l.l llmV twice that 10.000 ...lies nulroa.l 0 sue an order to the doorkeeper that hereafter , lrolert.v vl., I1" . no person not a member of the board must .000.000,000, six prosperous bta es admitted except upon tbe order of a director. 'emtonc ktow.iir in wealth and po .n- Countrv orders are becoming quite an item in 1,0 tho business of the exchange, some brokers , 0.0(H) nn.mal Iv, having customers scattered throughout the!? States m smallor towns of four or five States. All indi-- !'" 'TK' Im'c ,ar,'s' " cations point to a great revival in the mining 1C l'nK,n Statkmknts an being promulgated to the industry. The experience of the past year shows clearly that only the same qualities "are died that, new and extensive gold finds have necessary to success iyany other kind of busi- recently been unearthed in British ('olmubia ness, namely : honesty, perseverance, iutolli- - and Alaska. It i hardly likelv, however, that gence, practical experience. The Boston Min- - many American miners wilThe induced to eold and dismal conn ing and Stock Exchange has: demonstrated two stampede to these facts: That its establishment was a business tries, when far more attractive lands, easier d necessity and that it is an invaluable auxiliary access and in the milder and dryer climates, to one of the leading industries of the age. are presenting fascinating inducements for Boston Ad certifier. 1 . 1 -- 'Ti" 7 T" 'T l.cat-grow.n- 1 far-of- f, g |