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Show BINGHAM. ! Thn Iti'dudion WoiAs iu (be. Camp Snme are Failures. There's Millions In It- Ore Teams Wanted in the Canon. Special Correspond-mc'1. Binuham, August 19, 1S7G. As a mining camp Bingham undoubtedly un-doubtedly takes the lead at present in mining activities. It in true, the ores in this district aro mostly all low grade, but this difficulty is being rapidly rap-idly ovorcomo hy the orection ol concentrating con-centrating works of various kinds. As you go up tho main canon, you i first encounter Clark a fuur-slamp mill aud tho boxes working on second class ores from tho American Flag mino and making good returns. Still further up the canon are tho Spanish jiggers, four in number, all busily engaged concentrating theOros ot tho inexhaustible mine of that iiiiiiki, with remunerative results. Independent In-dependent of the company's jiggers urn one or two others running on the ores of the old dump under contract, ur rather on shares. The Utah jiggers are also running to their full canauitv. fnrebndintr I profitable returns for their labor. The Revere mine in Butterfiold canon is being provided with reduction reduc-tion works on quite a Urge scale. Workmen are already engaged on tlie water wheel which is to enpply ! the motive power for the machinery. The wheel ii twenty-four feet in diameter, with a threo feet breast, I aud it is designed to drive a ten- , stamp nnM. with a proportionate number of ji gers. ! The Nt',1 lAireea company arc also 'contemplating the orection of reduction reduc-tion works for the treatment of the juulimitcd quantities of second-class ores on their dumps, and the Btill j larger quantities yet lying undia-Jturbed undia-Jturbed in that mammoth mine, being jiinsaleahle in their crude condition. (This miue is shipping 100 tons of j ore daily. I Passing from the main canon over j tho divide by way of the Neptune and Kempton mines on the one side, land the Last Chance, Occidental. 'Saratoga, Constitution, Peabody, Buruine Moscow, and a number of other mines, situated at tho head of the Muddy Fork, on the other sido of tho ridge, all producing largo quantities quan-tities of low grade ores, with a small : percentage of high grade, or what may be more truthfully called marketable mar-ketable ores, we proceed down the ' Last Chance trail, and at its junction j with Carr Fork main road we find I two other reducing works. Tho first j we strike is owned, as I understood from workmen, by J. J. Scofield. This is a new invention. It consists ' ot a double ekined cylinder, about sixteen feet in length and about twenty-two inches iu diameter, running run-ning horizontally at an incline of about nine inches to its whole length. The skins are perforated with slots bout two inches long by three-eights of an inch wide, through which tho water and fine ore nre supposed to pass, while the coarser material is carried by tho force ot the current out of the lower end of tho cylinder. This machine ia fitted with a screw propeller, and is intended to supply its own motive power. The upstream end of the cylinder is not perlorated for the first five feet, and this far it has a single Bkin only. It is in thiB part of the machine that the screw is placed, going onca and a quarter round. The water running at an incline in-cline of about three and a half inches to the loot, strikes the screw and revolves the cvlinder. The contri vance, although somewhat novel in construction, is not looked upon by miners as a success, aud judging judg-ing " from tho repeated daily alteration;", which I am informed it has undergone, ila constructor can not view it in a very favorable light. In fact, I noticed at the time I visited the site several of its former component compon-ent parts lying in the brush in a very dilapidated condition. A little farther down stream is another contrivance for reducing ores, belonging to parties from Salt Lake. These works are located on a very desirable flat and consist of a number of sluice boxes of a somewhat modern cosstructiou, about 100 feti in length. The first of the six (this1 being the total number of boxes) are for feeding purposes. At the lower end is a six mesh seive similar to the old Californian long torn. This seive screens out all coarse malarial, the balance passing on ovsr a saries of ri files through the next two boxes, where the material undergopsinother washing and is finally deposited in a fine seive, or rocker, where it is again screened and from whence nothing but the finest particles can escapo into the last Hiring of boxes, which are so constructed as to remove and carry ofl all foreign matter, leaving nothing but tho heavy fine material to pass into tho receiving box. These latter boxes would deserve notice were it not for the tact thsy are kept covered and BCcret, and thereby preclude pre-clude description. The owners call them ths "billy goat boxes," whatever what-ever that may siguify. However, all I can say o( thorn is, they produce in an inconceivably short time a fiue sample of ore from the coarse feed put in tho upper end. Tu:b contrivance con-trivance appears to me, and my opinion wb supported by several parties "to whom I spoke of it, by way of information, hfinf t.hfi simnleat and most effec tive method in the camp for cleaning low grade ores. I ' understand the proprietors of these works intend erecting a five stamp mill at an early day, which will enable them to treat Auy class of ores, and render the whole canon very material aid by making our now worthless ore marketable. mar-ketable. A vast number ol mines aro being worked on email scales, but with successful reducing works at hand a still larger number of mines would start active operations and all be mado profitable undertakings. Teams ara in great demand at the present. The number obtainable are entirely inadequate to the demand. A number num-ber ot others could find ready employment em-ployment at $o per day. More anon. Rover. |