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Show THK MAMWril 31 ILL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STAMPS NEARLY COMPLETED. Local Ore Miti-kct --Another Ui h felrike iu (arr'k Fork, Hingiiaui ltedut tion of the l ore e on the IVtio - A High Grade Shipment is. Muele ly the Jlultoii. It wi!l take about week more to complete tlic addilionul improvements which are being be-ing Hindi: by John A. She UW- on the old ILiiinjiutli mill. TIjcm- improvcni'Mit will he the iiicri-iinin of tin: liuuilicr of lunii.s from liftccu to twenty-live. When this is don,- the mill will lnive a caprtcriy tor tii-iitiiii;' ht;ent live ton.- of ore a (lay, Which capucJty it n qnirod if it is even ex-J.eeted ex-J.eeted to work up the hccoiul elaa- (lump of the Maniiiii'tli mine which is estimated to conUiin :.'."i,0(K) ton and is beiiit; added t" every day. Mr. J . 5hettle, the siiperintelideiit of the 'villi, says it could scau el.y w ork w it h greater Bat isfaction. it i- saving a very much higher per centae f the alue than was anticipated, anticipa-ted, and ttie list of treatment i.s less than it was expected il would he, The pnice.-s has been imaiuil.ie to the Mammoth mine, enatdiii'4 it to make Ihoiisand- of ton- of me avaihihic w liich would have ttlierxvise heen a i i ie les-. T(. the other nines id 'lint ie the in ill ha - no special value as Mr. MieiUe has made a contract with the Mammoth emiipanv that, he would purchase no other ore until I hat from the Mammoth is Worked up. Tla Ore Keccipth. ' ok-s To int. '':!. ri.'o p..!!tt ft i.iltii I. i-l ( hale 1; i II I 1 . 1 M Kalheii l:.-, !. filL.illi'' SJ ( 'fiiU-inn 'I K i reka .... ol '!. I!l MiM-r '. s ""ll eilena , 31. i ,i,d ' . : I l lllll.i' Leil ... 1 1 t-.-j 'J'otaL j-;7i; Will rruduce mod Tons. The management of llie i'.uliion licet, Min i o-mpaii y expect tin- priwlm tioii of that J:I.V lor the month of Nowniher f approximate iuiiil ton-. 'l'hi-I 'l'hi-I 1 1 1 1 !i! aecidi-Ilt 11- to I'aehiuery w.ihin the f iiPainiiu three Ait the mouth. So far t his mouth l he Viin-tion lias heen slightly laier than it la-t and the mine is looking in a most yjdetidid condition Tin; value of the ore, too, L- ipiile up to the liili average Inch ly'1'' mine has imiiidained hcfore. N No one who is -not lauiil iar v it h m 1 1 i 1 1 t. I li.eiatious can imauiue what, a hide in I he ;' I I'-ound the extract ion of that iiiiiiieu.-- tot. r-3 I I a ire makes. It i- not al.-ne the a I ua! i- I l""' "ie W!,,''' rock which eora- - oiii ! JI'Ithit. J ml yet the I Seek malia-cm n '. c x ,'eet. to keep up the record made duiiii the j'ast few months indeliuiteiv. Local Ore Market. There is beginning again to lie tin same t it'll phi int by miners of Hie condition uf the lire market that there was last spring, and 'j! is c crt.'iiiily niivihing lint satisfactory to lliem. 'I'll fit? is it limited ileiimnil fur ttYcr-taiii ttYcr-taiii ciass of cue, that a lew ummli ago found n ready market and it is causing; some mines to l educe their forces. This is for ores which are low grade in silver and that do not carry more than an average fieri enlage of lend. Ill i xplaiuttioii of the euttdiljuii, the smelters claim they have an abundance of such ores ulrcuil.v contracted tor or on hand and that il would be folly lor tbeiii to bid high on tiicli oie.T aud slack nil :i surplus, particularly particular-ly in the present iiiicirlaiti stnU; of the market. Kicli Haltcm Ore. The Daltim mine is steadily regaining the -positing it lielil last summer as a rich ore producer uiul is deserving it. tome purtic- tila'.ly line discoveries, have been made " "' " within the. past, few weeks and something more tangible is coining from them thuil assays. as-says. A streak of ipnai tz was encountered u Week ago, seven inches wide, which shows, in some of the samples, solid nuggets of fiold as large as navy beans. Hut. better than those samples, is a cur load of ore sampled sam-pled on Wednesday which netted :Jij.s to the ton. Superintendent IhtlLm says Unit of itself it-self is fairly reassuring, but that he will Lave a shipment in next week which will eclipse it. laiy Oil on the 1'etro. There Luis be en a reduction of the working force on the I'ctro mine at Bingham. I bis was made necessary because the dead work had gotten as far ahead of prodnc tioti as it Was deemed advisable. Tin: out pill of lirst- lass lire w ill not be reduced iu coliseiiieucc, the men laid off being employed cither on dead work or iu mining; sccond-elas ore, of which there is now n large ace tunuialioii on the dump, unci besides tile market for it is not suc h as to make it ptotitalile to handle. The new tunnel on the mine will be cunt in-tied in-tied with the same speed that it, has been since it w as started. -V New Strike in t'arr's f ork. Another good strike- has been made at Bingham in ('air's Fin k gulch. The name of the mine could not be obtained, but the reporter's informant said then- was no . doubt of the genuineness of the- discovery I h eau-c he had seen it. The informant said: j ''A vein of steel galena two and a half fee t ! vide lias been opened, whic h is as line as anything I ever laid my eyes mi. It will usviy T( to IK) pur cent in lead and 2o to 75 onuees in silver. It looks like the making of a property at least as big as I In: York or lctro." |