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Show WESTERN WlESTEBK MlKIIB PUBLISHED rMHINXfcTCa- - ASEOTESS. WEEKLY. DEVOTED TO GOLD AND SILVER MINING. Advertisers will please remember that four issues are one month. Subscription, postage prepaid: United States and Canada, $3.00 per annum. Payable in advance. Remittances should be made by Post Office order, Bank Draft or Registered Letter, payable to Mark. W. Musgrove. Communications in regard to the mining and milling of ores solicited. Descriptions of new camps specially desired. contributors : Professor J. E. Clayton, D. W. Bredemeyer, C. E. and M. E. Professor J. H. Morton. Leadville has just organized a stock exchange. The Alta, Montana, turns out 30,000 pounds of iron ore daily. The best miners in Mexico (natives) get from 25 to 50 cents per day. Ontario, Stormont, and Horn Silver rank as the three leading mines of Utah. A 4l2 foot vein in the Iron Age, Helena, Montana, averages $40 per ton by roasting process. It is claimed that the Katie, Helena, Montana, shows a vein 31 feet of which is pay ore. wide; The Belle, Butte, Montana, shows native silver ; and assays obtained as high as 2,000 ounces per ton. A mining expedition, composed mostly of young men, left Newport, R. I., the other day, for Atrato, Panama. The gold product of California since 1848, according to the most accurate estimates, amounts to 981,800,000. Gold nuggets weighing 6 ounces, discovered on the DeLery property, River Gilbert, Canada, are being exhibited in Quebec. The RubyDunderberg furnace, Eureka, still adds its quota to the fumes and bullion of the Base Range, and continues to produce very satisfactorily. Applications for patents to the Ramshom, Beardsley, Whistler, General Custer and Unknown mines, Idaho, have been filed in the U. two-thir- S. ds Land Office. Several Philadelphia companies operating in Meyers District, Arizona, have claims from which the lowest assays is 155 per ton and the highest 13,000. Late news from Alaska to the effect that mines have been struck from which assays obtained as high as 3,060 per ton. Alaska is bound to have a mining boom. Recent developments of hydraulic diggings in British Columbia, warrant the hope that this season will vastly increase the ores as well as the results in mining operations. The furnace at Irondale, Washington Territory, was charged on the 20th, and if the iron proves suitable for car wheels, it will be one of the best investments on the Coast. It should be constantly borne in view that facts prove most conclusively that judicious investments in mining, enterprises, as a rule, render extraordinary percentages of profit. Coal and iron is found in large quantities all round Puget Sound, Washington Territory, and gold in nearly all the streams running from the Cascade mountains ; some of which are said to be remarkaf bly rich. Ihe vein in the Bluster, Helena, Montana, is only 3 feet wide, but is sufficiently rich to make it profitable to work it. Out of a thirty foot shaft the proceeds of the ore milled paid all the mining and mill-in- g expenses, besides the cost of making a road from the mine to the mill, and left 180 over for a dividend. 1 he Montana Mining and Milling Company is the name of a company which has been organized in Chicago. The capital stoc 850Ooo, in 500,000 shares of the par value of ten dollars a sh The object of the company is to work a number of mines which it acquired in the Wisconsin creek district, Montana. GAZETTEER. VIGILANTES UNDER ANOTHER NAME. Wc have always been in favor'of good wages for skilled labor: especially for miners, who take probably as great or even greater chances of life or limbs as any other class and we think they should be paid accordingly. The Miners Union of Silver Reef, not content with striking for higher wages, have evidently resolved themselves into a vigilant committee and are ordering parties to leave that camp who speak disrespectfully of them, or call them vile Now isnt this a nice state of affairs. They most cermanes. tainly have the right to stop work if they deem proper, but there is a very serious doubt as to whether this same right permits them to carry off the pumping machinery of the Buckeye and allow the mine to fill up with water, which will without doubt ruin Rule or run is a hard game and if they are not the company. careful two may play at it. Forbearance ceases to be a virtue in time and there may be a limit even to the endurance of the companies operating at Silver Reef. These are really all old Comstock miners and look upon working for less than 4 a day as a crime for which they will be eternally dammed, but they forget that from $3 to 3.50 per day is paid in every other camp in Utah and it is all nonsense to claim that living is much more costly in Silver Reef than other portions of this Territory'. Power, for the present, may be in your hands but the recent outrage in ordering Rosewarne out of camp is a little too much. It would cause trouble in some sections when a man is deliberately driven from a town because he called an organization vile names. Things are evidently assuming a very serious shape. The miners Union of Bodie drove George Daly out of camp and while Daly is certainly a man of no ability whatever as a superintendent, it was a little rough to tell him that he must leave between certain hours because the Union did not like him. No one better than the writter knows what would be the consequence of writting such an article as this in a camp where the Union was strong, but the time has arrived when companies have a few rights which miners are bound to respect. While we unhesitatingly declare in favor of fair wages, there is a proper way to obtain them, and bulldozing should be a thing of the past. The filling up of the mines at Silver Reef with water may put an end to operations in that section and if their conduct is reported correctly, it would serve the mines right, did it do so. Might is good for a time, but a grain of common sense comes in after a while and things assume a different shape. In such cases as that at the Peef would it not be better to have a standing committee in all Unions whose duty it shall be to examine, the owners being willing, any property upon which it is claimed the currant wages cannot be paid on account of the grade of ore or otherwise; let union men in that instance work for a little less in order that developments way be advanced. This rule would apply nicely to unopened prospects which would often admit the expenditure of a few thousand dollars, while a larger sum would be out of the question. It is to be hopcJ the Union will think proper to change their g attifude for there must certainly be enough sensible men in the organization to influence the others in a reasonable and fair course. There never was a more orderly' industrious class of miners than those at work in the mines of Uintah district and it would be well for the Silver Reef miners to pattern after them a little In speaking on this subject the Carson Appeal of recent date lays : bull-dozin- There is very little doubt that a scheme is cn foot to effect the breaking up of the Miners Union in Virginia City, on the ground that it would make profitable the reduction of low grade ore, and that no other kind of ore now exists on the ComstocL There are many people now joining in the cry being raised agaiist the Union, and the charge is being laid to their door that their stubbornness is retarding the development of the Comstock. Tiie bullion receipts of this city for tic week ending arc a coal $100,000. Quite an advance tom last week. to-da- y |