Show it is stated that the old carbonate and ratler mines mines near frisco have been purchased by M P gilbert of this city who is identified with the blackbird copper gold mining corn com any the old carbonate and rattler were famous producers many years ago ago and it is believed that they can be made to repeat their past achievements they have long been owned by H W lawrence and ben hampton the purchase price is said to be of which 2500 has been paid the balance to be forthcoming within e eighteen it I 1 r eteen months elihu G neighbor an old prospector and miner of ogden has secured a patent on an invention that he feels will become a great factor in placer mining it is a portable concentrator cen and amalgamator and is somewhat different from any other placer machine yet invented in appearance it is fashioned after a threshing machine and may be constructed small enough for a single man to operate or large enough to handle all the gravel a steam shovel may feed it mr neighbor 0 has gone to the snake river with his machine to operate it he is undecided whether to let the manufacture of the machine to a company on a royalty or to sell it outright |