| Show THB MINES OF BINGHAM I S T 11 BINGH Renewal of Activity Throughout This Grand Old Camp I The Bingham Bulletin in its weekly mining review says When the operations of the West i Mountain Placer company have been carried to success and the underflow Mr the creek bed Is diverted au sequence will be that all placer ground below will come In for a benefit and being drained without expense can be developed devel-oped and worked at a comparatively trifling outlay I The Dalton and Lark company being owner of some 3000 feet of placer ground at Leadmlll immediately im-mediately below the West Mountain companys holdings Is likely to profit by the advantge thus given and may this season develop i on quite an extensive ex-tensive scale The company is still using its best endeavors to secure reduction re-duction works suitable for treating the immense bodies of conceut ating ores in its mines and we understand with good prospects of being successful but In any event I can operate the placer with the main difllculty removed which has heretofore rendered all bed rock placers of Bingham practically forbidden forbid-den ground Meanwhile Manager Schenck In connection with C P Wat terson Is experimenting on the east rim of the Dalton tind Lark placer with a gold saving machine Invented by Mr Wattcrson and good results are expected I ex-pected as the ground carries 1 and i upwards per cubic yard WILL BUILD A SMELTER One of the probabilities of the near future is a roasting furnace and snfel ter for the Highland Boy mine Whenever When-ever developments are sufficiently advanced ad-vanced to guarantee a return for the heavy expense of such a plant as the company will procure If It enters Into the smelting business at all there is no doubt but that it will be forthcoming I Quite a per cent of the sulphide ores return but a small margin over transportation trans-portation and treatment charges whereas at Butte City much lower grades are treated at home and yield the largest part of the immense Incomes In-comes of some of the mines The present pres-ent outlook at the Highland Boy Indicates Indi-cates that the management will soon decide on more economical methods asa as-a purely business proposition NEW CONCENTRATING MILL I In three days with fair weather Superintendent Su-perintendent Bemla of the new Swan BemIs concentrator will have the building under roof Construction has been slow owing to bad weather which has caused several stoppages and upset up-set calculations The work will now be pushed to completion rapidly as completon as possible pos-sible A fine 65horse power boiler is nearly enclosed in brick and will soon be housed together with a 40horse power engine now on the ground A heavy crusher also arrived with Cornish Corn-ish rolls four jigs end two Wilfly tables ta-bles will complete the plant at the start subject to any additions or changes that maY be found necessary STRIKE IN THE CUBA Recent reports were to the effect that the Cuba mine was not looking so wel as when H H Green Co began working it under lease Sinking was begun the other day however and the property is now showing a fine chimney of ore with good indications that an other shipping proposition will soon be added to Binghams list A number of assays of Cuba ore show that it runs high in copper A test from the present pres-ent strike gives 22 per cent with 1 gold and 12 ounces silver This strike will have the effect to renew interest in Argonaut Mil Ned Coyle whose sad death we record in this Issue was one of the locators of the Cuba I CRYSTALLIZED LEAD CRYSTALLZED LEAD In the north drift of the 650foot level of the Antelope a streak of crystallized lead was broken into yesterday morning morn-ing and last evening about 12 inches was showing The streak widened out rapidly like a wedge and promises to prove of great importance An assay of the truck shows 51 per cent lead 29 ounces silver and 525 in gold Judging Judg-ing from a specimen shown us it will average even better results DIPS AND SPURS A 16ton lot was shipped from the Amazon yesterday Manager Strickjey of the Montezuma marketed a twocarload lot this week Lee Jones Is making another shipment ship-ment from his Tlewaulee lease this week We understand Colonel Wall and A W Noble contemplate the erection of a combination mill on a site north of the Rogers mill The Winnamuck is at last free of water and the 400foot level is being cleaned out preparatory to resuming deelopments In that level A broken line shaft caused another two days shutdown at the Giant Chief mill this week The stamps were dropping drop-ping again yesterday afternoon I is understood that a shaft is soon to be sunk on the Dick Mackintosh group ana tnat coionei wait contemplates contem-plates having considerable development work done on the group this season The Last Chance mill Is limbered up at last and making a very satisfactory of 100 tons of being run Upwards 10 ore are he ing treated daily wth excellent results j All the machinery is working perfectly Wednesday afternoon the weather was Yen threatening but yesterday i was warm clear and breezy and conditions j con-ditions seem favorable for a speedy dryIng dry-Ing up of the roads Shipments have I been much impeded during the past three weeks by mud and slush I At the Julia Dean there has been lively work during the past few days I putting in timbers the character of ground recently opened being such that j I is quite difficult to hold In a day i or two I will be made safe On the i dump Is about 50 tons of very rich ore which will probably hit the market next week The Highland Boy bins have a capac ity of between 700 and 800 tons Only development work J being done at this time In the sulphide areas but there is a steady output of about 30 tons a day I and it will not be long before shipments will of necessity ho resumed The gold mill Is treating an average bfSO tons I day of gold ore per |
