Show AMONG OUR EXCHANGES Mining Items of Interest Clipped from Their Columns Market Lake Idaho Sentinel A large outfit of mining supplies is being be-ing sent in with men to Teton Basin for the purpose of developing some very promising prospects carrying gold and silver rock The parties backing the outfit are supposed to be a Montana Mon-tana company Teton Basin and Jack sons Hole will be overrun with prospectors pros-pectors this season That there are vast deposits of precious minerals in that section besides great coal measures meas-ures cannot longer be denied Moscow Idaho Star Last Wednesday j I Wednes-day Captain Rogers of the mica mines started east on a trip for a month He took about a hundred pounds of cut mica to use for samples of the product of the mines A business meeting of the directors will be held at the head office at Cleveland 0 while he is there During the past few weeks the tunnel has been driven into the main lead and within a few days about a ton of block mica will be shipped to an electric company with which the mining min-ing company has a contract Captain Rogers informed us that there were several tons of mica in sight in the face of the tunnel and with no bad luck the miners would take out several thousand dollars worth before he gets home Cabins and work houses have been built and the mines placed in condition con-dition for active operations The eastern east-ern > company to which i will be shipped pays 50 cents a pound formica for-mica in the block 1ou The Alaska Mining Record tells the story of two Yukon miners Jack Gre gor and Pat Keriealy whb took up a L claim on Birch creetota 1894 late in the season and took out 8000 after August 1 Last season they commenced com-menced work with four men and increased in-creased the force to forty then someone some-one came along and reported a big find near by and away went all hands bag and baggage leaving the force again reduced to four men Then gradually the force would be increased as the men could be hired until it would again get back to the required number when the same fever would catch all hands again This was repeated from time to time during the working season sea-son Still on figuring up at the close of the season the firm found that they had paid out for labor about 19000 and still had a net earning of over 20 000 paying for labor in some cases as high as 1 per day and the mine hardly opened yet Greglor left Juneau April 2 on his return to the Yukon for I another years work Democrat Baker City OregonA company composing the Applegate Gold I Mining and Milling company have filed articles of incorporation In the county court of Multnomah county for the purpose of purchasing and leasing several sev-eral claims in the Applegate district I Southern Oregon The incorporators are J G Roberts J W Virtue R 31 Holmes D D Law and Paul C Bates The claims that are to be acquired o Applegate river in Jackson county are the Bob lode the Rising Sun the Red Bird the Rainbow Montana Queen the D Law and the Lucky Boy The capital stock is 1500 The company com-pany will develop the claims on which i ha secured an opinion StarTimes Grand Junction Colo The mining development of western I Colorado will keep pace wlth that on i the eastern slope during the season if the signs count for anYthing Hahns I Peak Saw PIt Lake City Goose Creek and Telluride all are mining centres of growing prominence Mining World Bufcte Montana I is among the possibilities that this city will soon lose one of its most influential influen-tial citizens and that one of the leading lead-ing mining companies of South Africa will secure his services as general manager I man-ager Captain Thomas Couch i is understood will resign the general management of the Boston and Mon t1e I tuna and Butte and Boston of this city and the Merced company of California I to accept a similar position with a large English concern operating in Africa While this report does not eminate from the head authorities nevertheless i comes from a source that is considered consid-ered well posted on the inside workings of these large companies An erchange says that when the Venezuelan boundary question has been settled as it is likely to be during the next few months there will be another an-other great mining craze in that territory ter-ritory now under dispute The goldfields gold-fields are reported to be very rich The first properly equipped gold mining plant in the territory was put in by a Philadelphia syndicate and it has been a source of great profit Stamp mills and other modern accessories are essential es-sential as placer mining does not amount to much Journal Logan Utah Information comes from Preston that there has been a rich strike in silver ore running over 500 ounces to the ton near that place and that there is great excitement excite-ment and many locations in consequence conse-quence Tribune Oaldwell Idaho Mr E H Lewis the well known Snake river placer pla-cer mining man has just received a shipment of 55000 pounds of mining machinery which will be freighted to his claims near the mouth of Sucker creek and placed in position on the big barge constructed at Fromans ferry fer-ry last winter i Tribune Oaldwell Idaho The Trade Dollar mine made its weekly shipment I of seven bars of bullion last Wednesday Wednes-day The mine also produces about a car load of rich concentrates rI month and gives employmentto over 100 men S Lc j i Tribune Caldwell Idaho The Stern fels placer mining plant on this side I of Snake river a mile or so below the Warm Springs ferry is running night I and day The surface dirt or waste is being hydraulicked into the river i leaving bare the gravel and pay trrnnnrl The nrosnects for a success j I ful season are very encouraging Censor rRichfield Utah Homer Mc Carty is > an enterprising fellow and takes delight in doing something new His latest scheme in which two others are also interested is worthy of great praise They have found a mineral deposit de-posit of silicious material from which they are manufacturing a polishing powder known a silverine The compound has demonstrated to us that i is better than any imported scouring powder or soap I will polish gold silver and nickel without scratching and lend a beautiful polish to our glass mirrors and such articles We wish the new industry the greatest success i is i worthy of Censor Richfield UtahIr and Mrs Lammersdorf are stopping at the Metropolitan htel waiting for the nnoninfr of the roads between here and the n mines Mr Lammersdorf is the I principal owner in the Sevier Mining company A Censor reporter called to j see him yesterday and asked him about the mines Mr Lammersdorf is I a jolly fellow and was enjoying a game of cards Well he said the I company have but six miners working I now They work two at a shift and are running a tunnel a little east of north I the rest of the stockholders do not pay up and build the bigger works will We are doing nothing but blocking off ore until the works are ready We are a little short of water for the big works but that can be fixed all right Censor Richfield UtahB D Dar ger was in Elsinore a few days since He has been prospecting around our I I mountains for over twO years and says he has just struck a seven foot I I vein of goldbearing ore Ill had some of the gold in a bottle and it looked well too while the ore was all right Censor Richfield UtahT F Gil lan was in town Sunday and Monday He says that the lead they are following follow-ing in the vicinity of the old Antelope mines is in a formation similar to that sit Cripple Creek Colorado I is the only lead he knows of in Utah that is in granite and porphyry and he hopes soon to cut the vein I Herald Evanston WyoJ C Hamm spent a few days in the great gold mining min-ing camp of Mercur Utah He is enthusiastic I en-thusiastic in his descriptions of the extent and value of the mineral lands of that locality He says that while the ore is low grade i is practically inexhaustible and the cheap process of extracting the gold makes the mines immensely profitable I Herald Evanston WyoJohn Lawrence I Law-rence a miner who has been working j for the Corlett Mining company all winter and Mr Lively agent of the I Short Line at Opal have filed a mining 1 I I claim notice in the county clerks office I 11 this week on the claim called the Bonanza I I Bo-nanza in the Collett district about a mile and a half south of the Collett mine The locators are sure they have struck a bonanza and from quiet reports re-ports received by the Collett companys secretary John C Hamm recently it begins to look a though Uimta county would yet attract the attention of the copper mining world Derrick Casper WyoJ E Dam has in i view the unearthing of a mountain moun-tain meteor on his gold claims at South Pass within a few weeks Last year when Mr Dain was working his mining min-ing property ihe went out with his gun to kill some meat one morning and found where a mighty meteor had torn up the earth for about two or three hundred feet moving the brush in its way as a mover would cut grass The heat was toogreat for him to approach ap-proach the spot at the time but he was determined then to remove from its earthly repose the luminous phenomenon phe-nomenon of the celestial space The Butte Miner says that the Pela tanClerici canlde electric plant of the > J i t < I I De Lamar company at Di Lamar Idaho is so far completed qat a portion por-tion of it ha been started Miner Butte Montana 3 > r G W Beal and Perry H Beal ad still continuing con-tinuing their efforts of alpost thirty years to develop to full capacity their two placers in German glch They have yet five claims placer and quartz and will start development as soon a the snow leaves and the water runs in their flumes The Beats have taken gold from this guldh for thirty years I is mostly fine gold but there are lots of nuggets Simon Hauswirth earned his first money from the Beals on this placer and then one and one ihalf years later he located the Only Chance and made money in a few seasons sea-sons work |