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Show westsb-osGENERAL MINING t nvriisrusra- ITEMS. Tio Lone Pine, on Adams Hill, Nevada, has a bonanza. Tlw old mills on the Carson river are being torn down. I The Silver West, Eureka, made a shipment of fine ore last week. The new roaster for Balentynes mill, Good Hope, Nevada, is completed. A rich silver lead has been struck in Pierce county, Washington Territory. Board is $2 per day, or $9 a week, at Gold Mountain, Nevada, a new camp. a, John Wilson is the new Superintendent of the Argcnta, Nevada. Globe, Arizona, has just opened a mining exchange, with a branch at Tucson. Arizona people insist upon an absolute repeal of the law creating a tax on bullion. R. C. McCormick, is President of the Tiger Mining Company, Arizona. Rumor is current that the Richmond has a new bonanza in new ground on the sixth level. The Infidel Company, Tuscarora, Nevada, will take hold of the Bonanza, Centennial District The Similkamcen mines, Washington Territory, can only be reached on snow shoes at this time. The New Mexico fever still rages, and lack of funds is the only thing that allays its ravages in Eureka. James E. Anderson, of the Ruby Hill (Nevada) Mining Nezvs, is writing a prospectus of Eureka District. It is reported that the owners of the Copper Queen, Arizona, have refused a cool million for the property. Ore of great richness is now being taken out of the Montana mine, Idaho. It is filled with gold and silver. It is reported that an eight-fobody of silver ore has been discovered in the Disowned, at Bisbee, Arizona. Assays from the Major, Granite District, Utah, show 47 ounces silver, 19 per cent lead and $3.95 gold. The Danville mines, Nye county, Nevada, having changed hands, active operations are to be inaugurated. There are thousands of tons of good ore in sight in Marysvale District, Utah, awaiting the advent of a custom mill. The lower tunnel of the Charles Dickens, Idaho, is in nearly Coo feet and running in a good breast of excellent ore. At the Alice shaft, bells have been placed on each level to alarm the workmen in case of any danger on the surface. The yield of the Ilomestake mine for December amounted to $108,000. The dividends thus far paid amount to $87,000. The third monthly dividend of the Starr Grove Mining Company, Nevada, amounting to $20,000, has been declared, payable Tus-caror- ex-Govern- or, ot - gazettesr. The output of the Wellington colliers from the month o December reached the large amount of 21,000 tons, the heaviest monthly output ever reached in British Columbia; but even this will stand a chance to be beaten this month. The furnace built by the Puget Sound Iron Company at the head of Port Townsend Bay is said to be one of the best in the whole country, including in its construction all the modern improvements. It will soon be ready for smelting. W. C. Potts, recently of Fort Ellis, Montana, is reported to be mining in Maiden Gulch, about six miles from Fort Maginnis, and making an average of six dollars per day. Three to five dollar nuggets are frequently panned out of the gravel in his diggings. Berryman Bros., at the Rescue mine in Silverado, Nevada, have twenty tons of good ore in their shaft-housrunning in grades from $65 to $160 per ton, that will be shipped to the Richmond furnace by John Ericksons teams very shortly. The formation of a Mining Stock Exchange in Philadelphia, in which are the names of many of the most reliable business men, is an indication of the interest in mining matters in the Quaker City. There is no apparent reason why a mining exchange, well conducted, cannot- do a good business in Philadelphia. The following mining companies were dropped from the list of the Boston Mining Exchange : Adrie Consolidated Arnold Copper, Belcher, Bodie Consolidated, California, Consolidated Virginia, Chrysolite, Eureka Consolidated, Grand Prize, Hukill,. Mexican, Northern Belle, Ophir, Sierra Nevada and Union Consolidated. The Gloster mine, Helena, Montana, is making a still bitter showing than when recent developments began. From the upper works the ore averaged, for the first run, $17 ; another $14.70 per ton, the latter being considerably improved in fineness. Recently a run has been made on ore from the tunnel, over ioo feet deep, which realized a saving of about $22.50 per ton. The Alta Montana Company is developing the new find with results that reach much beyond their expectations. For the month of December the output of ore from the Alta, as it came to the works, averaged 109 ounces of silver a ton, and the quality of the ore last received is better still, while the bullion made carries over 400 ounces of silver and $100 gold per ton. The gold mines of the East Fork of the Verde river, Arizona, arc large. Cut by a stream of 200 inches of water, they have every facility of good roads, heavy forests to supply the necessary lumber, and although unprospected in depth, it justifies the belief that an unlimited amount of gold ore of a fair grade can be delivered to the mills with merely a nominal cost for e, - There arc seven men at work in the Rising Sun mine, at Shaws Mountain, Idaho. They are sinking a shaft which will connect with the tunnel now in 210 feet at the depth of 70 feet. The face of the tunnel is now within forty feet of the shalt. Both are running through ore. The vein is four feet wide. There are iqd tons of ore on the dump. A crushing will be made as The Hillside, Nevada, is giving its creditors a rough deal. It soon as Plowmans mill starts up in the Spring. is reported that Jack Gilmer, of this city, will put up $25,ooacash Some of the best informed quartz men of Virginia, Montana, to relieve the company. predict that the number of men employed in lodes adjacant to Another report is made of the fabulous wealth of Alaska. Im- Alder gulch during the coming season will exceed that on the mense ledges of ore, and free gold running through, is the latest placer mines. Many of the quartz mines, upon which little has to-da- y. report from government officials. The machinery for the roaster at the Custer mill, Idaho, will soon arrive, when crushing will be commenced, and a large force of men put to work in the mines. The net product of the 5 stamp mill of the Barbee & Walker from January 27, 1S80, to January I, 1881, was $90,000, $60,000 of which has been paid out in dividends. The reduction works of the Red Cloud Gold and Silver Mining Company, Arizona, are steadily pouring out bullion. Cine hundred bars were turned out in two days run,. Our dollar contains more silver than the like coin of the British Empire, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and others. A rich strike has been made in the Star mine, White Pine District, Nevada, on the 360 level, 75 feet further east than any work heretofore done in the mine. Nearly 500 tons of ore are on the dump, and 25 tons extracted daily. -- and worked, now been done for several years, will be that the cost of operating upon them is so much reduced that they can be workedpvith profit to their owners. There is perhaps no region in which the improved systems will develop more important results than in- Venezuela. Below the surface diggings, which formerly gave such rich returns, are deposits of gold and silver only awaiting the introduction of machinery and the improved labor processes of modern mining enterprise to give abundant returns. The inviting field is already being occupied by American and foreign capital. The organization of a prospecting company of practical miners and capitalists is now being agitated at Frisco, Utah. It will be the purpose of this company to sink shafts in various places in and around Frisco for determining the exact character of the ground upon which Frisco is built. The same conditions and surface showings existing in and around Leadville, Colorado, surround this camp, and there is every indication of the existence off vast carhonate deposits.. re-open- ed - |