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Show Mining Sew fiom Tin l It. (Sl'ECUL TO THK HUfSALD.) Diamond City, Tintic, 7. Tho Tintic mining and smelting company of this place have their smelter with two furnaces about ready for starting. The capacity will be about the reduction reduc-tion of fifteen tons of ore per day to each furnace. This company have two well defined leads of ore, and are getting get-ting out large quantities. Their minei; are conveniently near the furnace. The furnace and other buildings bo-longing bo-longing to the company are very creditable cre-ditable structures. The company expect ex-pect to purchaso ore., but will not do a tolling business. .Diamond has improved im-proved considerably since my last visit. B. M. Moore, the gentlemanly recorder recor-der at Silver city, tells me there have been over 1,700 claims recorded by him in the district. He thinks the number num-ber of located mines exceeds 8,000. F.urcka is dull: causo, pending litigation liti-gation about ownership of most all the valuable mines of tho famous Ku-reka Ku-reka hill. Homanville is very lively. The smelter of the Eureka company is hard and successfully at work. The twenty stamp mill will be completed, it is said, in about four more days. |