Show I A Duty on Gold Exports I i Washington Sept 22l11e owncuS of I i tire gold mires in Nicaragua ore worm worI rtod over a decree publittocd Aug 151 anti taking effect imnv3datery eotab f Ksihidg an export duty of 1 goOf per < ounce en gold iinsoits and 52 per ounce on gold dust The Informatucn cornea to tiha state department from Consular Agant Claiicey at Blus5e5d3 He says tOre old duty was D5J1 cents per ounce on sold The mrAns icicreals have uirdlted in itlcaing tire gorwzucncat to revoke the decree wKcrt thay aG t would ba ruacJ5 to a now Iaiui5ifr Last year the gold exports from Blue1 fields amounted to 8163565 an Increase of J31C3G over tOme preceding years sQ pment I Silver ad Lead The silver rind lead quotations yesterday yes-terday were as foltows Bar silver 5S ½ cants Lead exchange 32i fi435 brokers 4Copper 1125 caetiJas 1025 Ore and Bullion The ere and bullIon receipts yesterday I yester-day were as follows McCoraack Co ores 5COO T R Jones Co ores 3700 bullion bul-lion 9100 Commercial National bank ores 9650 Mining Notes and Personals I Chloride Point stock owns a good seller on the curb fesiterday afternOon at 40 cents The Z C M I has declared Its semiannual semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent payable on Oct15 Hon P T FUmswonth has rettimd from Austin Nev where he has been examining ex-amining into the operations of the Austin Aus-tin mine and mill The Hardscrabble company has just let a contract for another 50 feet of tunnel work The main tunnel Is now In a distance dis-tance of 450 feet the face being in a large body of lowgrade copper ore Democrat Baker City Ore A deal was closed In Baker City yesterday by which an eastern capitalist purchased a onehalf interest in the Hall opal mines on Burnt river near Express The consideration con-sideration was 2200 Ben Conklia has returned from 1 visit to Colorado and it is expected that he will leave for Cripple Creek on Tuesday of next week with the intention of working work-ing some properties there on a bond saIl lease Colonel Nat Fitzgerald returned the first of the week from a visit to the Champion mine in Little Cottonwood canyon can-yon where efficient work is being done in the development of this old producer The tunnel in the Champion is now in a d stance s-tance of 751 feet and It Is expected that within the next few feet the big ore body for which It Is being driven will be encountered en-countered Times Halley Ida Last Saturday I evenlnr Marmy Mills one of the Red Eleahant leasers had In sight a vein of I galena ore 14 inches thick with aboircslx inches additional of concentrating ore rhe vein was stripped for f1 helghth often I of-ten feet above and below the discovery drift with no apparent lyaltatlon In either drectlon The strike seems to be very imaortant Free Press Grangervine Ida = The Powell placer mine on Salmon has been leased ta a Spokane company This property Is developed and pipes and giant are in place ready for Immediate use The proposjtion consists of a large bar that prospects uniformly l dlIltl will I f bIn a pay b-In mine from the beginning The jvn ers receive 15 per cent of the output of the mine as rental Free Press GrarcgervIIIe Ida Messrs Marsh and Crawford the two soldiers wh > discovered the old river channel up Salmon river near Carvers were In town agaIn this week and showed us about So worth of coarse gold which they had taken from the claim This Is the same character of gold found on the property of the Crooks Corral mines Limited the stock of whIch Is now on the market Democrat Baker City Ore The grading grad-ing for the ten stomp milt to be erected on the Elmer tract of land on the east sde by the White Rock rgd Mining company thG about finished and lumber I for the mill building will be delivered on I the round this week and the work of j mill construction will be carried ID completion com-pletion as rapidly as possible During ie w ek oroESQUtttaE will be commenced at I the Perry mine owned by this company j I The directors of the Butter Creek Gold I Mining company whose property is located I lo-cated in Amadour county Cal held a meeting a few days ago and decided to erect a 40stlimj mill on the ground tfSs I winter besides which it will deepen Its shaft to the 200 or 400foot level and run I drifts and make upraises on the oreibodv I which from crosscuts already made hall I h-all of SO feet wide and no footwall has as yet been encountered The Sutler Creek I mine is in on excellent neighborhood as I It Is surrounded with heavy producers and mines which have paid their millions I in < sWill s-Will Coushanour jr the young son of i Hon W A Couprhanour of Payette save the Index of Emmet Ida passed through town one day last week on his way home from a visit with friends at Quartzburg WhIle at Quartzburg the ynunz man was looking over the dump of the Gold Hill mines one day and seeing I see-ing a piece of rock which he thought looker pretty good he picked It up and I upon breaking It open found a solid I seam of sold running entirely through I it He pounded it up and secured ISO from the rock which was only half as large as his head Will did more respecting I res-pecting around tile old dump and picked up altogether about S110 It is expected that the excursion to Beaver Bea-ver Lake mining district over the Oregon Short Line on the 2nd of OctOber will be largely patronized The train will leave f Salt Lake on Saturday evening arriving at Smiths rancd Sunday morning where I teams will be In waiting ami the tourists will bo conveyed over the district frets of I charge and a lunch will be served at i King Carvers at noon In the evening I I the special will leave for Salt Lake nr 1 riving in the city Monday morning so that the excursionists will be absent only I one day spending two nights on the cars I Which are equipped wlyi tourist sleepers I I The fare for the round trip has rip ri-p lced at G which will be about the only I expense Incurred with the exception of j I the price for berths In the sleepers I J W Power and Frank B Work have i returned to the city from an extended visit to the leading mining camps of southern Utah and eastern Nevada During Dur-ing the trip they took in the Thousand i i Lake nnninitttns in Vile southeastern portion por-tion of the strafe where they found excel I I lent signs of mineralization They aim irUde an inspection of Marysvale nnd I Gord mountain and were especially well 1 pleased with the latter whIch they believe be-lieve has a great future before it as a i gold camp At Osceota Nev the bov < i made several quartz locations of promise i I and are of the opinion r1no time tr s old camp will make as great a record with Its lode mines as It has in the past with its placer diggings They also speak I highly of Ely and Cherry Creek at whIch t places there is a great deal 01 activity Ut the present time |