Show I Mining Notes and Personals I P J Donohue is back from an inspec tion of the camp of Mercur He predicts I a great future for the district Chloride Point was active on the curb l yestErday afternoon at 45V cents while whie Moitur advanced in the bidding to 2 The Horad is informed that the recent I re-cent strike in the BullionBeck on the 12GO gtuI f gt level to th north is steadily ol Improving as work progresses I Pat Ryan of the ButlerBeck in Gold Mountain district is in receipt of several sacks of ore samples s from the property which are being assayed The directors of the Blue Mountain I Tunnel company held a meeting yesterday afternoon to consider the ronort submitted I sub-mitted by General Manager Ben Hay I wood I The BullionBeck Mining company held 1 its regular monthly directors mseting l yesterday biSt nothing but routine business I busi-ness came before the board for its consld I oration v r prcoxiraclng news has been received re-ceived from the Seals at Mercur and it is stated that in the incline being run under the direction of A Murphy gold values ar constantly increasing I Work has been begun in the driving of the new tunnnl on the Western Light group on the Welt dip and cabins leave bsrr built and supplies laid in co that yrb can be puwhad ail winter jecisa Burr ot the GeyserMarlon went out to lle n josteiJaj with Instruction In-struction Trai Otu company to See that O cal Aruo WhO was accidentally jtsd in the mine on Thursday received Jiarir attention and Vurliii The Silver Ivinsc and < the Swansea paid their usual dividends yesterday the for mor company increasing the circuiting medium of the country to the extent of y7500 while the latter dropped J5000 Into the channels of trade and commerce 14 is learned that the west crosscut in the Opex at Mammoth is now In 1 formation for-mation of chert and lime that carries with it a heavy mineral stain This crosscut Is being run towards the Tennessee Rebdl 1 ground and the indications are considered as being very favorable M I Newhouse and associates of New I y kI who rOeu identified with the Highland High-land Boy enterprise at BIngham who are registered at the Knutsford went out to Bingham yesterday in company with Mr Thomas Weir the manager for the purpose of making an inspection of the mina and mill mi N A Dunyan who has long been identified identi-fied with the CentennialEureka mine and knows the property like a book has been appointed superintendent of this great producer and dividend payer for Which position he is eminently fitted Tilr Dun yan went out yesterday morning to enter upon his duties At the office of the Sunshine Mining company yesterday the recent statement made by the Tribune to the effect thatthe mine and mill had been leased toa Mr I Ford is denied as Is also the announce I ment made by the sable paper that It was the intention of the company to levyan io I assessment upon Us capital stock Colonel E A Wall is in again from Mer cur He is pushing work in the development develop-ment of the Glencoe but states that it tha may be some time yet before he is able to demonstrate what he is alter lie bears I out the oHrepeated assertion however that tho camp is growing steadily and that eventually i will rank aq the greatest great-est goldproducing district in the world G R Bothwell who is In from the Sacramento Sa-cramento at Mercur states that pow bodies of good milling ore are being exposed ex-posed in the different portions of the mine and that the mineral run through the mill Is all being taken out In doing development work as no sloping is being done R E McConaughy the secretary of the company was at the mine yesterday yes-terday Dave Teachenor the superintendent of the Liberal at Bingham who was In the city yesterday states that in the new lower tunnel he is already in a distance 20 feet and that the faco of the tunnel is in vein matter The Liberal is being operated op-erated by the Intermountain Development company of this city and it is understood I that of late there has been quite a demand de-mand for the stock of the company The Salt Lake syndicate backing La I Favo in his Klondike expedition has received re-ceived word that he is busy making locations loca-tions in tho vicinity of Douglas island not far from Juneau Mr La Fave would most likely have born In Dawson City by this time had i not been for the fact that he was taken sick before leaving the coast and nearly passed in his checks with a severe attack of Inflammation of the bowel He is all 0 K now however and expects to leave l for the Klondike by the 1st of February Democrat Baker City Ore Superintendent Superin-tendent H G Snyder and D A McKcown arrived yesterday from the Belcher mine near the Don Juan and Virginia of which Hon Joseph Barton Is the efficient manager man-ager The Belcher sixton steam mill is working smoothly and saving splendid values from the ore which shows steadily an assaying value which promises much golden treasure in future The ledge is three feet wide and even by washing its crumblings with a pan good showings In gold are obtained |