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Show A IMIOSIMU TALKS Oa tha Strike in tha BuclihorD, Sam Gilson's Mine in Dugway Dibtrict, A GREAT LEAD CONTACT. The Mammoth Mill and the Suocees it is Having in Leaching Tintio Ore. Hiko mail carrier states that a prospecting pros-pecting company from Los Angles, Cal.. has an outfit prospecting there, which is fully equipped to meet the dtf-liciilties dtf-liciilties of that section, the latest find is situated some tivc miles north-west north-west of the Mackey Bro's gold claims, and the specimen are far richer than any found in the Mackey group. I hese minors together with those of several weeks ago of gold found at Yellow Pino further south, have set people on edge and several are preparing here for a trip to that section of the country. I'ioche Record. A '' Idaho Camp. All Mineral lacks to make her the largest silver producing camp m Idaho is tnoro capital; and from the present outlook the needed capital will be forthcoming; forth-coming; we do not envy the Seven Devils, our sister camp, or take anything any-thing from her that is justly hers; but we do expect and intend to divide the coining coin-ing boom with her. We intend to do it on merit onl v. as there can be no rivalry between the Mineral and Seven Devils. The Devils furnishes the copper mines and the Mineral the silver mines. e have put as big devils here, but of a different character. Veiser Signal. Hatwurn the '"all- Rig Hole Placer has levied an assessment assess-ment of 1 ceut a share. The Centennial-Kureka dividend of 50 cents a share is payable today. Tom Carter is looked upon as the great weather forecaster of the exchange. ex-change. The brokers were jubilant over , the decision of Judge Anderson on the Fort square property. Jake Bamberger offered to sell the Mammoth dividends for the next three months at 25 cents a share. Qiimh of the Welt. The Elmore bulletin fays the Queen of the West is no longer a a proBpect, but a veritable mine, and a rich one too. There is so much ore on the dump that there is no room to store any more. In the drifts there is a well defined ledge of quartz that is four feet thick, the whole of which will mill over $100 to the ton. the miners and the companies. There Is a history, however, not generally known to the outside world. From the first inception of mining in this camp the companies here made it a rule that the meu should board at the company's houses. As long as the board was good anil the charges moderate the men diil not kick, although all the time chafing under the un-American system of compulsion. A few days ago a notice was issued by the Reck management manage-ment notifying the men that board would bo advanced from 20.00 pel-month pel-month lo 1.00 per dav. The men have been paying from $1.00 to 5.00 per month for room rent, and this added to board and other necessary expenses made it impossible for them to live except ex-cept as fel ls lo the large companies. As far as noticed, the men seem to be kindly disposed towards the mine owners own-ers but nay that the paid agents of the companies have been overbearing, oppressive op-pressive and arrogant to a degree. When the men went on shift as usual at the Reck at 7 a. ill. on the morning of the 2d they were informed that those who had quit the company boarding house could consider themselves discharged. dis-charged. The married men who live at home with their families were retained, but in sympathy with their brother workmen quit work at noon on the 3d. The Bullion Beck is shutdown now and will remain so until the just demands of the men are acceded lo. At Eureka Hill all but six men have quit company boarding house, but the the mine is running and the miners seem to esteem in a great measure, the president. John J. Packard. Although the town is full of idle men owing to the difficulty, everything is perfectly orderly. The men seem to bo in perfect good humor, and to show their good intentions, sent four men to guard the Bullion-Reck property last night. What the outcome may be is beyond human comprehension, but one thing is certain, nnd that is that if;neu are allowed to rot and live where they please this will be one of tho best camps on earth. A mass meeting is called for Sunday night bv disinterested citizens to discuss dis-cuss thii matter, and as several of our leading men are expected to make ad-d ad-d res.ses, the sentiments of the general community will be then known. Three months ago it was not know n that any high grade ore existed in quantities quan-tities in any of the camps of tho Deep Creek country; but since the first of the year some very rich stuff has been found in both the Eagle and Dugway districts; in the lirst by the miners who have been working for the Midland Investment In-vestment company, and in Dugway in the Ruckhorn. owned by Sam Gilson. On the Midiand claims very little hat been done except work the assessment and in the most superficial surface prospecting; but even this much has demonstrated that there is some very rich ore in the claims, the probabilities being that it exists in considerable bodies; sullicient at least to make the properties sueeptablo of paying a profit even vrth no cheaper methods of transportation than the wagon haul over a hundred miles of alkali desert. But the accounts that have been coming in from Sain Gilson's Hiickhnrn mine in Dugway, some of them being obtained trom 'disinterested parties, tend to confirm the opinion that the strike is in all probability an extraordinary extraor-dinary one. George W. Cline is, with the exception excep-tion of Sam Gilson, the owner of the property, the last arrival from the district, dis-trict, aud while he does not concede that tho future of the mine is assured with tho developments now made, he docs admit that for tho amount of work done it is one of the most wonderful showings that bo bus ever seen. Here is what ho says of it: The formation of the country is a stratified limestone, dipping at an approximate ap-proximate angle of fifteen degrees; through this and cutting the strata at almost right angles is a dyke or band of porphyry. This is a big. soft ledge, and is part of the vein in which the ore is found. The developments devel-opments done, is besides several small open cuts which expose the vein wilh some ore in it, one big adit driven in for a distance of twelve feel, which has a face of ten fent and a width of fourteen feet. In this cut everything, from top to bottom, is ore with no telling how much deeper it goes into the floor; the poorest of which will assay '0 ounces , i . l n t - .. w i The receipts of ore in the city for last week amounted to 142 cars. There is still too much snow in the Wood river countrv to commence the summers campaign on the Malad. Virginia City papers always carry a long string of mining stocks on which the assessments have become delinquent. delin-quent. Thk Times has received five requsts in the past week for specific information informa-tion about the mines of the Deep Creek district. Louis Bamberger is pressing the developments de-velopments ou his mines at Silver City, and thinks they will rank with the producers pro-ducers this summer. Charles Humphry, the Bingham as-savcrcame as-savcrcame in Saturday with a car load of'oie from the Minnie mine, ou York hill, for which he received $1001) net. Idaho people anticipate that the De Lamar group of mines will soon take the same position as a dividend payer now occupied by the Uranito Mountain of Montana. The water in the Crown Point mine on the Couistock is now down to eighty feet below tho lh'OO level, the pump having hav-ing lowered it seventeen feet iu the last Week. Another rich shipment of twenty-four tons of Centeuniat-l-iureka ore was re eeived iu the citv on Saturday which returned .Vi;U5 ounces in silver, 13.35 per cent lead aud $13 in gold. The lot netted $12.0110. Marysvale is a Utah camp that will attract the attention of prospectors and capital this season. Some of the reports re-ports from the district are most flattering; flatter-ing; assays from the Dalton mine have returned over 1200 in gold. A letter received by a prominent real estate man here, from a friend in Ouray, gives the information that no fewer than five prospecting expeditions expedi-tions will be fitted out from that town this spring to explore the mountains of I (n ( 'r.-'L- The Itrenrd on tho Vines of Park. Considerable progress is being made in the Anchor raise notwithstanding tho large volume of water that has recently been encountered. The raise has reached the level of the hole sunk in the shaft above and a drift is now being run to mako connection therewith. I'.very blast put in is attended by a rush of water, which shows that some of the water courses are being tapped, and this fact is further substantiated by the gradual lowering of the water in the upper shaft, which has gone down some twenty-five feet. The works below the tunnel level are kept free from water without much trouble. Ore is again being sent out, as the roads are in condition con-dition to haul to the concentrator The Anchor is fast getting into excellent shape for her most active season, and she will mako a record this summer that will astonish many people. Arrangements are being completed to resume operations on the Jupiter in about ten days. This property will be worked by a large force during the coming summer, and as it was in x-cellent x-cellent shape when closed down last winter, some very important developments develop-ments may be looked ior. The Jupiter contains a true fissure vein carrying some of the richest ore in the camp.and under the reorganized management it is going to be made a rich producer. Good headway is being made in the Kentucky tunnel. Over 100 feet have been driven and the vein is liable to be cut any day now. The distance to be run w as estimated at 125 feet and that isnow nearly accomplished. The timbers and all other supplies in the lumber line, with which to construct con-struct the new Anchor hoisting works, nre beginning to arrive and w ill be on the ground not later than the 15th of this mouth. The shaft on the Typo group is down about 1 tis sect and sinking is still going forward; Mr. Cadwell, ono of the leasers, reports the ground as looking quite favorable. The Crescent shipped 2iiS,0D0 pounds of first class ore this week. in silver. Mr. ('lino took two samples from a breast of four feel, taking them from top to bottom and from side to side with as much fairness as he possibly could so as to avoid getting anything better than an average. Of these No. 1 went 510.10 ounces in silver and 3 ounces in gold; No. 2, t'H? ounces in silver and 5 ounces in gold. A hand sample that he took off a piece of rock which he says looked no better than a piece of sandstone, sand-stone, returned 2(12. H ounces in silver and 10.3 ounces in gold. He also sampled sam-pled a couple of carloads of common place looking second class stuff on the dump, which ran 330 ounces in silver. This rich ore has been traced on the surface for a distance et I ono feet and the vein itself for nearly twice that far; showing the same general characteristics of vein lilling, such as spar, manganese and iron, nil of which gives good assays for croppings. It can, therefore, be readily seen that, should the ore body retain its present size and strength the value of the production pro-duction could be reduced nine tenths anil it would still be a big mine. Mr. ('line is also authority for the information that there is an immense lead contact in the Dugway district between be-tween lime and quartzite formations, from which galena float is found scattered scat-tered over an area of one mile by six. This contact is all covered by locations on which nothing but the annual assess merit labor has lieen done and in some caes not even that much. Prospectors who are contemplating an expedition to the Dugway district must lako everything they ueeil along with them, as there are no stores, no stopping places of any kinil and very few miners cabins where hospitality can be obtained even for pay. Moo m; Kxclmiie. The way the bears jumped on to Mammoth and Big Hole today was calculated cal-culated to strike consternation to the hearts of those who bought the stocks two weeks ago, everything was in lhe soup and nothing in the clouds, l he transactions were extraordinary large. TOPY S IJCOTATIONS. . .j. - -- - K ? STOCKS. Xi 9 i, " f Alice 81 Alliiin. e I 2 '" Anchor 6 A,.x- I 8TK0 10' i im, Hi'i Ic.'iriics Sulph'r I 1,1 4 tin.' Hole I M'ttl W Ol't; Ccnt -Kiuvka ! M Coimu l"l) " i O'vsiH-nt is si :a i 'l , I IS 7i (iiciic'e.'.'..:... HO '-" -i 1 -i Horn Silver.... Ml '-'1" 3 " Maiaii TO 0 u.'S ."?! i", M;,;iimotli. ... '- a M 3 : 3 ro" N. Spv 1 Onlartn ' 4U Stanley 1.0 1 I!. I,. & C. Co flan nil 111 V.Wie Kilver ('rt-f s .... . . .VT't Mining officers have not been haunted haunt-ed with Colorado smelting men the past week, to the same extent as they were a short time ago: they have found Plah miners pretty tough people to deal with unless they pay the right kind of prices. Senator DeLamar of Idaho is going to personally contribute $100,000 to the state's exhibit at the World's fair. He intends to have a stamp mill on the exhibition ex-hibition grounds to which he intends to ship enough ore from his own mines to keep it working constantly. The Ragle will probably be the next Eureka mine to attract attention; only limited development has been done on it so far, hut it has shown some rich ore and has made small but regular shipments, but it is the history of the properties of that district that they get belter with depth, and then the Eagle has Captain McCrvstal as director, who is looked upon as a mascot. Prospectors in some of the Utah mining camps are damning Colorado miners with faint praise because they will not put up an exorbitant forfeit on a bond lor the privilege of trying to make a mine out of a hole in the ground; the Coloradoatis being dubbed single blanket capitalists." In some cases it is learned that the forfeit asked is ten limes greater than the claim would sell for in cash. It is one thing that Utah miners are making a mistake in, and they are to some extent being encouraged in their delusions by the press of their camps; for the capitalist who spends his thousauds in trying to develop a valueless prospect into a pay mine, takes bv far greater chances than the owner o'f it and he would be a chump to pay a bonus. Mammoth Mill. Davis & Shuttle, who now control the old Mammoth mill, are working U "villi their improved process of leaching, on laiUugs from the Homansville mill. They are treating thirty tons of the stuff a dav, which will run $13 a ton, nnd they have 5000 tons of it on hand before their present source of supply is j exhausted. The process used is the old Clark system, with some improve- ments mau'o by J. E. Shettle. It has worked with marked success on the si-licious si-licious ores of Tintic, and they have been able lo save K per cent of the value When the Homansville tailings are cleaned up it is the intention of Messrs. Davis A- Shettle to erect a mill of the same kind near Salt Lake to j treat the low grade ore from the various craups of the territory, for which the process seems peculiarly adapted. There are thousands of tons of this low grade .stuff already extracted from the different differ-ent mines of Tinlic; the Mammoth alone having 20.0110 tons in its second class dump which will average $20, and the Northern Spy, Governor. Caresa, Bullion-Beck, Centennial Eureka and others probably nave three times as much more. The mill which it is intended in-tended to build in this valley will have a capacity of fifty tons on the start, and will be able to "treat at a profit all dry silver ores which will run as much as twenty ounces in silver. T.'tal shares sold, ia.l!l. Seller & days. S ALES or STOCK. e.W shares of Apex ffr. H"sic ion Hi Hole Placer Ct. r'4c. 40 i ' - " ": iitU C'4'jC PO '"c. fi " " " ft 7c, seller 30 dars. t ' v-.e... Kti " Congo '"Hie. 0 " (eSJe. VJfut 14 C -escent r 3-'lc. pO Cn'neoft ui 4.&l. p Jloin Silver.... '.en. It). 0 " Mah.d 'J'si.-. Hint li !)'. e . seller W days. m.i ' Mamm-'tn w UiO. i;o " St ii, ley (, l.u:. irievnce or Kurcks Miner. l-ino.KA. I'tah, April 5. Editor Times: It was noticed very generally in the camp today that The Times gave the news of the difficulty here between Tht Cantlfl Smelter. The machinery for the Castle smelter arrived on Saturday last and has been partially loaded and started for the camp the past week. So far 40,000 pounds of the 100,000 received is loaded and freight teams for the balance nre expected to arrive in a few days. Mr. Ash. who is superintending the shipment ship-ment from Livingston, is confident that all the machinery will be on the road for Castle by the first nf the month. and that tlie smeller will be in operation by May 1. Inter Mountain. Inthettterlinc Dlttrlct. New gold ledges are reported to have been found near Sterling district in the southwestern part of this conuty. Toe |