Show i I CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT I Interesting Items Clipped From the I Mercur Mercury I The I a CIsrjilo property continues to improve The vein has grown larger and richer as depth is attained until now the width of the vein in the lower levels is not known and will not be until it is crosscut The assays taken during the week 26 In number ranged from 5410 to Jli20 and gave an average of JCG3 per ton for the new ground drifted into dur Irs the week which amounted to 213 feet in all as follows Boston No1 drift i south 23 feet No2 drift south 3 feet No 1 drift north 6 feet No 2 drift north 27 feet Discovery No 1 drift 47 feet No 3 drift 20 feet This entire work 214 feet of drifting in one week was done by a force of 2 men under ground The total amount of workings in the mine are now as follows Boston Incline 263 feet No 1 north drift 12 feet No 2 north drift 104 feet No 2 I south drift 9S feet No 2 south drift 113 feet Discovery Incline 2C5 feet No 1 north drift 317 feet No2 north drift 237 feet making the total amount of working I work-ing to date 1519 feet The bunkhouse stables assay office and dwellings have I been removed from the vicinity of the I shaft to the La Cigale townslte and the I work of grading the millsite is 1 now under way A road is also being graded to run above the mill York on the company com-pany cottage commenced Tuesday Contractor Con-tractor Tones laid out the water line during dur-ing the week and the work of digging the trench and laying the pipe will soon be commencpd As soon as the delayed lumber lum-ber arrives the work of construction will commence Monday the Geyser tramway was equipped with a new threequarterinch I wire cable Wednesday the cable was cut off short by the shleve wheel and a skip loaded with ore which was at the top of the incline shot down with the I lee of a thunderbolt and plunged Into the mill with the force of a catapault Great beams were tossed aside and broken like strrws and the ore house and I engine room were left badly disfigured Superintendent Benner who was on the upward bound skip saw the skip coming I just barely in time to jump and save himself i him-self and Fngineer Fox was baptized i with a shower of broken glass and flying j I splinters hut received no injury The Fulnters dnmagro was repaired in a few hours and I no time was lost at the mill A similar accident occurred about two years ago I Joe Smith J J Blake and associates are flrurins on securing a lease on the I Sum lne mines and mill and I successful success-ful will have the property in operation in Jess than a month These gentlemen woro among the first to apply the cvaude process and Mr Smith probably has given the subject more research clone more experimenting and understands how to meet the difficulties which arise in the treatment of the various characters of ore mined in the district better than an man in I AVe believe that if the lease is perfected the mine will soon be I a paying Institution A mot favorable change has occurred in the Daisy incline now down about 3QO i I feet adding that much to the width of I the ore body which is Improving right i I along in values It is very probable that 1 the mine will be equipped with a mill at jan I j-an early date j j At the Edna May the property of the Mercur Gold Production company the drift has been run on ore for 6 feet since drlt new shaft was sunk Three shifts are regularly employed and the showing is most excellent The pay ore is from fle to six fet wile and average about I 7 Superintendent Andrews of the Nathle roup which is in close proximity 1 prox-imity to the Daisy has let a contract to Iml J T Riley for considerable development II work whch Is now in progress During i the week thep roperty was added to by then urchase of the Big Flat claim from I Frank P Divis for a goodly figure J H Conrad who is interested in the I Cliesi5 ie group with C 1 McEntire h In cam looking after this ando other properties Mr Conrad has much faith THIS camp and is backing it with his he will give more time means In future wi gle tme to the district than In the past Fine lookliK rock Is being extracted I frer the Golden Gate Extension In tho I tiirrel on top of the hill Good assays are reported from the ground I are Henry Rippeto one of the pioneer I miners of the west has been in camp this ot overseeing operations at the VanderbIlt a west dip property of great promise I Georce A Parokard of Butte arrived In camp yesterday to take charge of eamp at the the metallurgical department La Cigale He Is said to stand high in that profession Chloride Point stock is I In big de mad In < Mercur and a number of I sales are reported at lOc during tho week Minors and mining men are lners the purchasers I The Brickyard north drift Is I now in about 200 feet and the good ore still i continues The property is looking exceedingly I ex-ceedingly well I Mining Notes and Personals I Mercur sold as high as 770 on the curb I yesterday AV E Hubbard who has returned from I his visit to the Chloride Point nie on ILion I-Lion Hill is enthusiastic over the showing show-ing in this property One or two big mining deals are on tap In this city and I is believed that one of them ct3 least will be consummated within the next week or ten days I J J Thomas and A W Fortescue of the Creole Mining company will go up to the Park today for the purpose of making mak-ing an examination of the property and also to arrange for ore shipments Work wil he resumed in the development develop-ment of te American mine at the head of Big Cottonwood as soon as the county commissioners open tHe road In 1 the canyon between the stairs and Argenta I Several Salt Lakers are making arrangements ar-rangements for active work in the Little Cottonwood this summer and as soon as I the snow disannears some heavy shipments old ship-ments camp will come down from this famous O E Loose of the Grand Central mne at Mammoth was In the city yes terdy from Provo Ed strtes that the Grand Central is looking all O K and that it wH make a record for itself in the near future Let Rustler G F Potter of theO the-O y mine near Pelican Point arrived from Salt Lake yesterday Mr Potter with George Hammer and a force of men will start for the mine the first of next week where they anticipate doing considerable con-siderable work Call Boise Ida I is reported that 5 I men Are to be put to work at once on the Minnie Moore mine near Bellevue under I a continuous contract for four years A rich strike has recently been made in this mine and ore will commence to be shipped as soon as the water goes down Hon Allen G Campbell will leave for his Eagle valley Nevada ranch next week accompanied by Mrs Campbell and the children I Is the Intention of Mr Campbell to mae a careful examination of his group of gold claims in the Eagle valley district on which development work has been pushed during the past winter R E McConauchy secretary of the l < < < < > < Sacramento came In from Mercur Thursday Thurs-day night bringing with him the regular weekly shipment of cyanides from the Sacramento mill valued at 53400 I Is learned that I Is I likely that the company com-pany of June will pay a dividend about the first Mlllard Progress J T Charlesrvorth of Joseph City Sevler county was In the city Friday last and Informed us that he had just sold a fourth interest in some mining property known as the Placer Gulch situated at Gold Mountain district Piute courtly receiving 51100 for the same John M Stratton of Cripple Creek being the purchaser The Dexter Mining company has contracted con-tracted for 500 tons of coal and 0000 feet of lumber which Is to be shipped to I the mine at once The contract for the hauling of the cool and lumber from EIko to Tuscarora has been let to B F Red I mond The Dexter company means business busi-ness and Is going at things systematically systematical-ly I and on a large scale TimesDemocrat Moscow Ida Quite a mining excitement has recently developed dE-veloped on the Moscow mountain In the 01 discovery of a rich quartz ledge about six miles northeast of Moscow Many citizens left yesterday to make locations and will commence active development work at once feeling confident that a rich ledge has been located at last L F AAllliams had an assay made last week from a small piece of ore taken from the Golden Gate that went SC911S350 to the ton Mr Williams says he Is confident he has a bonanza Boomerang Laramie AVyo Among the transfers of mining property reported this week was a saleof a quarter interest Inter-est in the Leviathan in the Grand Encampment En-campment district by B Y Hale to J J Burns and A Tombs of Pocatello Ida e Consfderaton named In the IJoIS l I 5 E C Hamlln sold a third Interest In the Anaconda copper mine In the Timber mountain district to Z T Pickworth the consideration being 0 Harry Folmsbee sold to George Harrington a quarter interest in-terest In the Old Abe Little Maudie Lizzie R and Bonanza claims all In the Upper Platte district The Herald Is Informed that it Is the I Intention of the Alaska company to put I In a fine hoist on its Tintic property i which is located in Ruby Hollow near Silver Citr This plant which has already al-ready been ordered will be a duplicate of the hoist at the South Swansea mine which Is one of the most complete plants for its size to be found in this western country From this it would appear that the Alaska people mean business from the word so and it Is stated that there is no doubt but that this property will soon find a place on the list with the other producers and dividend payers of the great Tmtie district A specIal from Santa Fe New Mexico says A special to the New Mexican from Cerrillos says that in opening a new shaft In the CarleyAranda mine a piece of quartz was taken out at a depth of 17 feet which is 14 inches in length by 11 thick ard six Inches wide that weighs 65 pounds atid Is estimated to bp worth 2000 being almost a mass of free gold The repeated rich strikes lately made in this claim has given a great stimulus to quartz mining in Santa Fe county The CarlevAranda people are said to have J 0 OCX in free gold quartz sacked and stcrel away in their homes and their deepest workings Is less than 70 feet Prce Advocate Lieutenant L M Kohler Ninth cavalry has completed his survey of the western boundary of the Uncompahrre reservation which he was recently detailed to do by the war department de-partment His report shows the Le Stout Castle Peak mine the mine at Castle Peak owned by the Salt Lake Gil sonto company and lire mine on which Bert Seabolt has a patent to all be on the reservation By instructions from the secretary of the Interior the United States district attorney has been Instructed In-structed to enter suit against Le Sieur for removing the gllsonlte and for trespassing tres-passing on the Indian lands The miners working at the Castle Peak gilsonite mine for St V Le Sieur were ordered off the property last week by the military authorities More interest is being taken In mining In tbs city this spring than has been the case for many years past In fact mining is the only pursuit In Utah at the present time in which there is any marked activity and It i is the only business busi-ness In which any money is to h made consequently nearly every man who has a dollar Is planting it where it will according ac-cording to his idea do the most good and it Is safe to say that there are more people here who are defending on the dividends paid by Utah mines than there are who derive a revenue from other sources This is a straw that shows which way the wind blows and one pleasant feature of the whole thing is the fact that In the recovery 01 the precious metals from the interior of mother earth no o is robbed or Injured but on the contrary this Is an increase to the material ma-terial wealth of the world The mining companies of Baker City are afraid of holdups and are keeping the bullion output of their mills a dead secret Butte InterMountain May 4 The Alice company of Butte is keeping up its record as the greatest producer of the sliver properties now In operation in the district Today a shipment of 26 bars of ore bullon weighing 2372 pounds and worth at the lowest estimate over 520000 rs made to Salt Lake The bullion represents the work of a 14 days run but does not include the ore which is sometimes shipped from the property for treatment elsewhere Much of the bullion bul-lion war cleaned up from company ore and the balance from custom ore and contains con-tains a high percentage of gold The Alice mines arc looking as well now as they ever did and are being put in snlendid shape by Superintendent Buzzo Development work Is in progress at many of the properties and everything points to an active and profitable seasons sea-sons work |