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Show owned by liureagard fc Veriyord that looked us li:iu a anything lui had Kceu from the Uuckhorn." Hull , r Or. The shipments of oro from the Dlxey miue at Si. George, owned by Woolley, ' Lund & Judd, are as rich in copper as anything previously produced in the territory. The carload received this week has been sampled and settled for on the liiuis o! -It) pe'cuut copper'and 6 ounce !o ilvt;r. There will bo another an-other carload of the same kind lent io next week. oio wire shipped last year. Tlii. seasou iiOO tacks of .1 j per tent cupper ore were shipped. Many very rich and exceedingly exceed-ingly handsome specimen of copper ore, shoving greal chunks of ore bound together by ropes of gold, have been taken out, and all the ore goes high in gold. "I'he Copper Queen has shipped 10'JQ sacks of line ore this acajou. "The South Peacock is owned by a Boston syndicate, and shows a large, well-deh'ued vein of high (trade copper ore, showing much free gold. "The Copper Key was recently purchased pur-chased by Boston people from Al. Do-nant Do-nant and It. E. Lockwood for J'.'O.OOO." M An Enthnsiast.io Opinion Foiird of tba n Kineralogioil Eiobaasi of Tint 1 Kew Miniog Eegion. WOiiBEBFUL VEIN3 OF OOrPEH. West Tintio Diatrict Indian Springs Tha Dixie Eich Strike at Bingham Bing-ham Local and GansraL Learning; that a vindicate of minim? Or. from tlia t'lc"C A hundred ton lot of ore from the Flagstaff in Cottonwood canon will be shipped to the city the List of the week, after which I'rof. Vincent, the resilient manager of the mine, will leave for England to trv and induce the company to raise a fund with which to undertake more extensive development. Minira for Fiati Spring-.. John Morehouse of Nephi, representing repre-senting himself and liarhman & Hague, will leave tho "little Chicago" today with a lurge force of men which he Intends In-tends putting to work on the Utah, which is reported to bo one of the best looking prospects in the district. Local anil (iansral. W. A. Wilson, superintendent of the Marsao mill, is in the City. jHlnlug- Exohang., Play opened this morning from the time the first ball was put over tho plate, Jake Bamberger taking in 100 shares of Alice from Joe Davis at $1.(10. Tho next stock to do business was Apex which jumped to 10i cash and 17 buyer ISO. lavis and Carter then had a race for a fly of 1000 shares of Crescent knocked out by Stevenson at CO; Car-tor Car-tor muffed the ball and Davis took it in, his scoop being liberally applauded by the occupants of the bleaching boards. After that then were several scattering hits made and at the end of the first inning the .core stood 0100 shares of stock sold, and 10,000 ounces of silver. The second call was not quite so good, only 8100 shares being transferred. men wuru about to becomo interested in the Seven Devil, country and that they had alroady secured options and bonds on properties there and that S. Spencer had just returned with a report re-port on the sumo, a reporter called upon that gentleman who gave the following fol-lowing information: "I am doing some business in that country and will return there in about two weeks viith some others who are interested with me. The country is oew and but little capital has goue in. Tho mines are all as represented, but it requires money and pluck to do anything any-thing there; people with small means had better stay away, as tho force of men on the pay mines is small for the rcasou that the shipping facilities are so meagre. "This great mineral bolt was first discovered by Levi Allen about twenty-five twenty-five years ago. At that time be located what is known as the Old Peacock. The name, Saven Devils, derived from seven jagged, rough, inaccessible peaks just north of the camp. Allen bad every contidence iu the future of the district and every year traveled nearly 200 miles, lifly of this over a rough mountain trail and alone, to do his assessment work. And here entirely alone he took :i0.000 to $40,000 in gold from the gulches around tha great Peacock lode. J. Cooper once chipped oil' a piece of ore carrying froo gold which ho sold for $'.!0. "A new town called Helena has recently been plated and a postcfllce established with Moses Kucha as postmaster. post-master. He is having a building erected erect-ed for a store and otlice. The townsite is located on a level bench and contains con-tains only twenty acres, as mora land could not be secured on account of the rough and uneven nature of tho district. The town has a very thrifty appear-an appear-an co, though this would follov almost as a matter of course, as it is located within 100 yards of tho Old Peacock mine, which is conservatively estimated to have 75,1)00 tons of 30 per cent coppor ore in sight. There is on tho dump, and being shipped, !"00 sacks of ore that will average 43 per cent copper per ton. Twenty per cent copper ore will pay. Ten car loads of ore shipped the past season averaged 40 per cent copper per ton. The highest going 47J per cent and the lowest (only oue car) 2-'J per cent. "The Old Peacock, White Monument, Blue Jacket, Copper Crescent, Mountain Moun-tain Queen, Legal Tender, Helena, f'nlnmet nH orni. nr. u!l nulnted 1 has been almot fully determined to list the Sampson on the mining exchange. ex-change. (iny C. Barton, president of the Omaha & (irant Smelting & ltedning company is in the city. Judge Blair has sent another lot of 2i00 sacks to Dngway, In which to ship the ore from the Spar lode. , Four feet of oro has been struck In the old Tiewaukee mine, at, Biugham, runniutr 0 ounces iu silver, $10 in gold and 10 per cent lead. The improvements which have been made on the HauauiT smelting works aro very complete and greatly facilitate the economical handling of ore. A report is in circulation that the Comstock group of mines iu Park City will in a short time be equipped with a plant of machinery and be actively developed. Very little interest is taken in this city in tha proposed mining congress con-gress in Cheyenne in September or the miuing convention to be held in Denver Den-ver iu October. A strong syndicate has been formed in Colorado with Dave MotTat at its head to sink a deep shaft in the heart of the city of Leadvilie to try and lind the carbonate deposits. One of the best of the recent discoveries discov-eries in Biugliani is that made on the Diegau, a initio that has been idle for a nnrabor of years. Sam Linkston. in clearing up some of the old workings opened up a body of galena having a thickness of eight feet, which is of an average grade and will pay to ship. TODAY'S QrOTATIONS. V ft 4 9 STOCKS. l Z I E f : Alice 1,0 100 1 CO Hill Alliame i Ht Anchor 6 ir. Al'el J 17'4 16'i K'i tiariiKS' Sut oa Hitr Holci 1' 17' i Cent. -Eureka . Vi (XI Clnve'.aml Con : CenfM 17'i Crescent 2 W0 tf frl Ifti Duly 20 t'i Glt'Iir-ot..' 5 till Horn Silver 3 10 M'llMd itS'4 Mammoth 8 ?f North Kureka 3'JUO ;H ;lt li Nurtimrn t-py 3 01 Ontario 3.4 U 8t:mpv I is U. L. (! Co.. IU) 8 (HI Litii'HU ol Vtuoiisi.lH 2 01 stiver eiTtirv. to.rnio ljini i co 1 iw'i Total shares hoM, (I.UOO. Oliver .0. Selle.-IR Hu.verCi. PAI.liS of stock. imOsharea of AHcf? 1 SO. 1.'kw vhams of Apex l'i'ic. ;xiO wiuires of Ap-X: Ke. aiu Khare. of AK-x('t IT'.c . buyer 30. 10. .-Cures of Orescent 'n B. Hi i shHi'es of rrs"iMit i'i liii'.. seller W) day. Hi Utf suares of Nortn Kureka (4 14c, buyer CO days. il shares of U. L k C. Co. S.OO, Sum ounces of slh er on l.u ". 6u0i) ounces of silver 4s ll.UO'i. After the adjournment of the exchange ex-change the management of tho Great Salt Lake &. Hot Springs railroad, through the caller, extended an invitation invita-tion to all the members of the board to take a trip over the line and participate partici-pate iu a banquut to be given at the Hot Springs tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. today's oue receipts. This has been another light day amoner the assayers. McVicker has four tons of Burnett. Steward has seventeen tons of Centennial Cen-tennial Kureka. Hodges has thrse tons of Excelsior and forty-five tons of liullwhacker. To Wait T otlo. L. 15. Walker will return today to the Wft Tiutic mining district where he is working a lease on the old Scotia mine. Mr. Walker has only been running his leaso on the Scotia for a few months but has succeeded in opening a large body of ore some of which will pay even after af-ter paying the cost of the transportation transporta-tion by wagon i distance of twenty-! eight miles to (ronton Much encouragement is given to vnrk in that district by the hope thu the Kio Grande Western railroad w hen it builds to Fureka will be exicmied to the Deep ; Creek camps via West Tlntic. The re i are some line showings of low grade oro there and the district would become a lurgo producer if accorded railroad facilities. On Auttlopa Ialaurt. There has been considerable superficial super-ficial prospecting done on Antelope island isl-and this summer by Captain Garwood Davis and others. Some very favor-ablo favor-ablo looking reiu have been found and some good ore, but it is impossible to determine if they wiil have any value uulil they are opened tip more. The assays have gone as high as I10 in gold and"$70iu copper, but the great mass of tho ore is much lower. The owners of these properties, however, intend to do enough development the coming winter to determine their extent. Indlaa HpriDg-s pcimua. Indian springs has been the latest of the Deep Creek district to attract public attention. Parties have come in from there who have brought the most glowing report, of the hue prospects. pros-pects. W. L. Dyke, who returned from Dugway a few days aeo, says that he was shown some specimens of quartz and galena from the claims mines and were recently sold by Messrs. Albert Kleiuschmidt and Samuel Hau-ser Hau-ser of Helena, Montana, to a syndicate for $1,000,000 cash, besides a large block of stock and are now incorporated incorpor-ated under the name of the Amer.can Miuing company with a capital of $0,000,000; John liogers being the roai-dent roai-dent manager. "The pay streak in tho Alaska is five feet wide and averages -10 per cent copper, !!0 ounces in silver and ? :u in gold per ton. There id an incline duwa forty-five feet on tho veiti and a tunnel in 100 feet. About sixty tous of ore on ' tho dump. Col. E. II. Mix and others of 1'aker City, Oregon, own lhe great properly, and George A. La'uu of Wuisur, Idaho, has it bonded. "The Mmiutain King has au Ojnm cut twonty feet, showing a three font pay streak which averages from o0 to .'iO per cout copper per ton and bO ounce in silver. Three hundred tons of high grade copper oro has been shipped from '.lie Mountain Queen this season, of which average value per ton 4o per cunt copper, 20 (.unices in silver and $'.0 gold. ' The lliuu Jacket has u shall down 145 feet (tho deepest in the district) and the pay streak iu the vein is from four to eieht feft wide. "The Helena has 100 tons of ore on tho dua.p and one tunnel is in 100 feet, ami shows a well dotinud eight foot vein ail tun way of fony livo per cent copper cop-per ore. "The Decora is owued by Col. E. II. Mix and Air. Steele of Portland. A tuuiicl has been driven seventy five feet uu the vein and shows 2M tons of ore; on the dump lifly tons of K5 per cent ore. "The Calnnifct has a ttinuol in thirty feet and a shaft down twenty-five feet and the pay gireaks five lcet wide. "Tim Lockwood has a tunnel in 115 feet and a shaft down forty -five feet which show ore all the way that will average 10 per cent copper. About 00 tous of ore on the dump. "'Tho Sampson b.is a 100 foot tunnel and a pay t'.reak fifteen feet wide of low grade ore. "On tho White Monument a tunnel baa been run 100 feet, and 000 sacks of |