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Show Around the Mining World. AN IMPORTANT' LEASE- An important mining deal was closed up this week whereby Dr. LeCompte leased his Deer Valley croup of mining claims, eight ia number, lying just east of the Ontario mill, for a period of eighteen months and gave a bond on the same in the turn of , $50,000, says the Park City Retard. The deal was made through John Potter and F. P-Tierce P-Tierce for a company of ten men, all Ontario On-tario miners, and they propose to push developments de-velopments on the ground for all it is worth. Each man has put up $3.j0 cash, and work will bo commenced within the next twenty days, - and be continued from that time . forward on an average of 3C5 days in the year. The gentlemen gen-tlemen who have the lease feel reasonably sure that they will strike a body of good ore long before their lease and bond expires, and being so well acquainted with the. workings ! of the Ontario, they should have some deli- j nite knowledge upon which to base their j calculations. Work, it is understood, will be done by mentis of a shaft, and it will be sent down to the depths where good ore should be found If it exists in the ground. Park "Ke:ord" Crosscuts. Saturday was pay day at the Anchor. The Crescent paid oil on Thursday. There was a rumored strike of rich ore in tho Anchor this week, but inquiry at headquarters head-quarters failed to verify the report. The Crescent concentrator vti closed down Monday last to make a few needed repairs, re-pairs, but was started up again Tuesday the pipe of galena ore will be followed. The Monte Cristo is a new discovery on the south fork of Big Cottonwood. Denver parties are figuring for the purchase pur-chase of the Stockton smelter. Will Grosbeck has been over to Tintic looking look-ing after the Red Rose proDerty. Tohn Sevenoaks and W. T. Rich arc in from the Ferguson mining district. It looks as though there would be an exodus ex-odus to the Deep Creek country soon. A carload of silver ore was shipped from the Iron mine at Silver City Tuesday. A gold brick worth $230,000 will be exhibited ex-hibited at the World's fair by Montana. C. A. Ames will go to Denver and Ouray this week on business of a mining nature. W. M. Greeip, an English capitalist, is in the citv after an inspecting tour of the mines of Alta. Mining in and around Pioche is very quiet. The smelter closed down Friday last from scarcity of ore. 1L Fitzhugh and C. S. Davis are preparing for a trip to Clifton, Furber and other Deep Creek districts. Professor A. W. Kimball has returned from Little Cottonwood district, where he has beeu looking over the Greeley property. Harvey Hardy has started au outfit to develop de-velop the property of the Black Mountain Mining company, recently incorporated. The holdings of the company arc in Spring Creek district. George Cullens, a prominent mining man of Salt Lake, after spending a few days on Wood river examining mining property with a view of investing, left yesterday on his re- Iturn home. Hailey Xews Miner. A deal is pending whereby Eastern par-a: par-a: a j luiuuiug pruuipwy uu nine. Ezra Thompson has two teams and a force of men at work repairing the Daly road. The deep ruts are being filled in and other improvements made. Joseph Lubeck is again sinking the Morning Morn-ing Star shaft and will send it down to the 545j-foot level before any more drifting is done. Mr. Lubeck is morally certain that at that depth his ore body will show np good and strong. Martin McGrath is still prosecuting work in the shaft ho is sinking on the Creole No. 2, and the same is now down something over 100 feet. Mac feels positive that depth will put him in good ore, and that is what he 1 . proposes to get. The Alliance company has a number of men at work repairing and strengthening the cribbing around its bis dump to keep it from blockading the road. The Alliance is going to be greatly bothered for dumping ground if they do much more work through the big tunuel. The old Iron Horse shaft has been cleaned out and thoroughly retimbered, and on Monday Mon-day next the work of sinking will be commenced com-menced and pushed steadily until the depth contracted for is completed. The parties who are doing- the prospecting feel sure of finding big mine. lies win secure unuer oona ana jease me Golden Chain, Sldevlewand Fairvicw claims, lying east and adjacent to the Copperopolls and Dom Pedro,aud 2000 feet from the Mammoth Mam-moth hoist. The Manhatta shaft is down 140 feet and is being sunk as fast as three shifts can do it. The bottom is well mineralized and the wall continues at the same pitch. Small lissures occur at regular intervals and the draft through them keeps the air pure. Tin-tic Tin-tic Miner. Frank Clifton, A. M. Wood and R. Keate of this city have given a two-years' lease and bond calling for $10,000 upon the Mammoth froup,' consisting of four claims in Lead line gulch, near Bingham. The property is to be worked continuously during that period. Prof. Garvin, au old Leadville mining man, who recently made a thorouirh inspection of the Deep Creek region, leaves today for the Furber and Muncy Creek district. The professor pro-fessor has interests at Ruby bill, on the Shell Creek mountains, between Aurum and Muncy Creek. The suit of the owners of the Copperopo-lis Copperopo-lis mine at Mammoth Tlutic, in which the i plaintiffs pray for a temporary restraining order against the owners of the Hungarian ground, has been postponed for several A.a -rv. v i .- ... , 11 v... i, .1 t t The Mayflower hois tine: engine broke down Sunday last and caused the engineer and carmen to lose a couple of shifts. Tho topers went to and from their work through the old Woodside tunnel, and tho regular tonnage of ore was broken down. The break was repaired in shjrt order and ore is now beiiig hoisted at the mine as rapidly as ever. Encouraging Oatlook. When we look around us and view the improvements im-provements going on at the great producers, It is, to say the least, encouraging, says the Tintic Miner. It is the evidence of the fact that some day hundreds of men will be given employment underneath the large hoisting worka now under construction. At the Cen-tennial-Eureka work is progressing rapidly, and we understand Superintendent Kendall has said that the new machinery would all be In place ready to commence active work by October let. The Keystone's new hoisting hoist-ing rworks are just assuming the -v appearance of whaV-it will eventually be one of the largest worka iu the territory. With this mammoth structure, struc-ture, located as it is, the mouutain to the west of town will be deprived of that heretofore barren appearance, and its bowels bow-els will be the home of hundreds of men. While the condition of business at present is discouraging, yet when we consider what is beiny done the outlook for the future Is exceedingly ex-ceedingly bright and should spur each and rvery citizen to still greater exertions and enthuse them with unlimited confidence. uajv. i ucjiilji nut uv liau fth 1 lytvi.- Mining Journal. A. II. Tyner, an attorney in Boise City, Ida., is said to be in correspondence with an English syndicate that has $2O,O0O,CO0 to Invest in Western mines. The company is anxious to know something about the prospects pros-pects of Idaho with a view to purchasing. I'tteblo Ore and Metal Review. The gold production for ten years past In this country has varied but little from $32,-000,000 $32,-000,000 annually, while the production of silver during the same period has increased from t4o,000,000 to 470,000,000. . More silver is now produced in the United States in one year than in the wholo world in 1870. In 1890 the world's output of silver was f 171,-000,000 171,-000,000 as nearly as can be ascertained. . An important strike made in the Keystone has just come to light. On the 700 level between be-tween the old and new shafts there is a large body of ruby silver ore running up Into the thousands. We learn that a large amount of it is already blocked out by running run-ning drifts 1 and stopes about the ore body, and shows tons of this valuable ore ready to break down. It Is considered one of the best strike ' ever made in the district. Tintic Miner. T.-H. Hedges has returned from Nevada, where he has been assisting in putting in a large mill using the cyanide process at the Pine Grove mine. He states, says the Mining Min-ing Journal, that the mill is doing splendid work, and is treating about thirty-five tons of tailings daily. He brought iu some of the product for assay to ascertain what tier cent is being saved. He also brought in a very tine sample of ore from a new discovery recently made near the Pine Grove mine, which carries free gold and silver enough to make it worth about $700 per ton. Not only arc the two grt. mines mentioned men-tioned above preparing-for a greater production produc-tion than ever before, but many new properties prop-erties are emerging into what will soon be tho equal of any. Tintic mines are preparing prepar-ing to surprise the world, and are only awaiting an advance in the price of silver. Placer Mining; in Idaho. G. W. Hartfield. who has been employed by the Ba'mon River Placer Mining company, com-pany, has returned from Idaho, where he has been for several months looking after the great placer fields of the company. But little progress was made this season owing to the great scarcity of water. The lessees of a small portion of the company's ground worked one small plant for a few weeks, so long as the water held out, and took out $5000 or $0000 worth of gold. This result establishes the richness that haa always been claimed for the Salmon river fields. The Lemhi company had better luck this r summer and by turning several creeks into their source of supply had an abundance of water for some time and the season was very profitable. Placer mining will be verv active in the Idaho valleys next year. " j Knreka, Bingham and Park City. The Eureka and Bingham papers are feeling feel-ing quite elated over the prospects of the nines in their respective localities, and are quite positive of a decided improvement in the near future. Large bodies of rich ore have recently been uncovered, and the companies com-panies are undoubtedly making preparations to increase their present forces. The Park Record is pleased to note these evidences of prosperity, and trusts their most sanguine dreams may be fulfilled. Ia the meantime, Park City ia also decidedly in it, and will make a better showing than ever when the figures are totaled up next January. If tfcla silver question could only be adjusted fairly, Park City would be a city in reality, both as tegards wealth and size. a wo Biame rtecort Hiaos. This sight is enough to give a man the yellow mining fever to look at two small labs of retort containing 700. J. W. De. woody, one of the Golden Star Mining company, com-pany, who has been negotiating for the Italian mine at Leesburg, has deposited in hoop's safe two small slabs of gold as the result of fifty-two hour's run from this property prop-erty at tho Brirham mill, says the Salmon City Miner. Mr. Dewoodey recently came here from Salt Lake City and was originally Colorado man. They are greatly pleased with the outlook of their proposition over the raoRe, and if satisfactory to all concerned con-cerned they will put up works and operate on a large scale the coming year. Deny tha Reported Rich Strike. The reported strike of rich ore at the Lucky Bill Is denied by the hoys at the mine. Several bunches of good ore -were encountered encoun-tered bnt nothing like a chute of ore. The company la now figuring on a steam hoisting hoist-ing plant, as the depth from which hoisting is being done., 835 ft-ct, makes a whim almost al-most as slow as a windlass, says the Park Record. A steam hoist can be put in comparatively com-paratively cheap aud would soon save its cost in labor. Superintendent Burton expect ex-pect to see one in position before winter ets In, and feels that the company would ' never regret the expenditure. . Mines and Miners. T. C. Morehouse Is In from Fish Springs. The Victoria at Tintic has resumed opera-Jons. opera-Jons. Leonard Bixby has returned from Colo-mdo. Colo-mdo. W. M. Ditchfield, an Elko, Nev., miner, is .to the city. Work on the Diamond at Eureka will be-. be-. fin this week. It is said work will be resumed on the BaltOn property. A drift is being started in the shaft on the - ttonte Cristo ground on the east side, and 1 t - ' ; i |