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Show year) tho Chance has sent out a million dollars' dol-lars' worth of ore and will doubtless pay over 11,200,000 in the iirst year of its working. work-ing. A careful estimate at present places the ore in slsfht at $1,500,000. The Last Chance ia stocked at $5,000,000, upon which j suni the product of the mine will pay 25 per cent per year. Stock is held at par. Ralph Granger of Del Norte owns one-third one-third of the Last Chance stock, and for Auirust banked $40,000 as his share of the profits or at the rate of about $ ;XX).000 per year. It is doubtful if there is another man in the We?t enjoying snch a princely income in-come today. '1 he Last Chance mine at Creede is about as good as the best. Kemnrk able Cyanide Test. Stebbins & Porter, miners and millmen of Calico, Cal., thoroughly tested the Mac-Arthur-Forrest cyanide process at Reese's mill, below Ilavilah, Keru county, with good results. Only a trace of gold was found in the tailings after this treatment. A tack of fifteen tons capacity is now being constructed con-structed at that mill, and arrangements made for treatment of ores on a large scale. Mr. StcLblns declares that any ore in the H&vilah can bo made to yield all but a trace of its gold by this treatment. Havilah therefore stands a chance of becoming a flourishing camp aaiii. Tbe frold in these ores Is very pure, and heretofore there has been great difficulty dif-ficulty in saving it. Dollar-a-Poand Ore. Mr. Dewoody, financial manager of the Gold Star Mining company of Leesburg, was In Salmon City with the second shipment ship-ment of jjold bullion, 5 pounds 8 ounces. Pretty good for a property worked by a coffee mill Huntington) that is certainly wasting 50 per cent of the ore treated, but when the crude ore is worth $1 a pound it is a pretty hard matter for any old proposition in the way of a mill to result in a failure. Miner. Some Kepairs Needed. The Gorilla mill is beiny doctored tip, overhauled and revamped by R. G. Jlotrose, to crnsh ore from the Harrison mine. Like Paddy's gun, it requires only a new lock, stock and barrel, but we hope it may be made to serve tha purpose of grinding a few hundred tons of rock for hard-workinj miners. Lundy (Xev.) Index. Not Afraid of Silver. The old Algonquin mill on Flint creek near Fhlllipsburg, Montana, has been completely com-pletely repaired by John McKechney & Co., and started on Puritan ore. This company com-pany is now in shape to receive custom ores, f he price f of forty-ounce rock or less is $14 per ton, and for rock running over forty ounces till. m-, SALMON RIVER COUNTRY. 8evcral sales are reported as pending in Texas Catnp, in tbe Salmon River country, Idaho. On the road from Salmon City to Shoup sixteen miles from the latter place the Boulder Crock syndicate ha located COO acres of placer ground, on the stream of the same name. There is water enough to work the gvnund during the entire season. The company has bad three men prospecting there this 6eason who found considerable shot gold ou bed rock. They are coniident of success when they have thoroughly prospected pros-pected the ground and know that the bars can be successfully worked. We do not claim for Letnhi county a large silver production. We, as a community, are not affected by the demonetization of that metal to the same extent some of our M'ost-ern M'ost-ern brothers are. Gold I what we have to offer to tho world. Mimr. j W. S. Patterson resigned as general man- j ager of the Lemhi Placer Gold Mining company com-pany aud turned over all the business of tha concern to H. E. Wood, the vice president. J. A. Bard, who secured the original option op-tion on the Italian mine, disposed of his eighth interest and a sixteenth to DeKalb and Waterman of Salt Lake City for $ 10,000 cash in hand. ThU disposes of the interests of Bard and Joe Erichson, leaving the property prop-erty in the hands of DeKtlb, Waterman and Ray, there being eight interests altogether. The Italian is considered one of the best minaa in this country. Tbe purpose is to negotiato another sale and thereby place the property in the hands of a syndicate who w ill at once put up machinery and work the property on a large scale. Miner. Centennial Gravel Mine. Superintendent Richards, of the Centennial Centen-nial gravel gold mine, reports that the main tunnel is now in over 2E00 feet, and the second sec-ond or back channel shows over SCO feet of a good gravel bod. The main body is on the tunnel level, although at the face it rises above tbs roof of the tunnel quite rapidly. The gold is much 'coarser and heavier than that of the front cbauuol, which is double the width, therefore it is now proposed to commence cross-cutting at a favorable fa-vorable point 100 feet or so back from tbe face of the tunnel, and open out for practical practi-cal and extensive gravel washing. The mine Is now well developed. A long string of sluices hundreds of feet suitably graded and riffled, bss to be constructed, quicksilver adequately used and the gravel washing conducted con-ducted under experienced management. The first channel deposit is known to be all right, end the back one Is, no doubt, equally good. The Centennial is a valuable property, and nearly all owned by Comstockers. Territorial Territor-ial Enterprise. Salt Lakers Build a Mill. J. A. Bard has gone to Salt Lake City to arrange for the erection of a custom mill here. The company will consist of J. A. Bard, Joe Eri. ksou, Joe Lynch, Ben T. Brooks and Gid. R. Propper. They are going to work at once to build the mill. Mr. Bard will return inside of ten day. The company proposes to put up atwenty-6tamp concentrator with frna-vanners, and stamps and plates for working the gold ores. If the ground can be secured, near tho confluence of the Lemhi with the Salmon, that site will be selected for tbe mill. Salmon City Miner. A "Valuable Property. Talk about mines, says the Del Norte Prospector, but the Last Chance at Creede is Indeed a leader. Since tbe present owners began working the property (less than a |