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Show district are finding encouraging things. It is a hard-iookiug country on the surface, but results prove that guld is thjre. Luiulj Indtx. The large bowlder of rich silver-lead ere at the Sonora mine, on Tioga hill, has been worked into presentable proportions. Sam-pied Sam-pied at every point it gives high assays, some of them running into the La ldreds, with a good percentage of gold. Carefully j measured, it will not weigh less than 00..0 I pounds. At the great fair in Chicago it I would attract much attention. If omer Indtx. Reports show that for September the Con. 1 Cal. & Va. mines lost money, cud ran behind be-hind $ 30 JO. The company r.ow has an indebtedness in-debtedness in Virginia and San Francisco aoregating 11,500. Among last month's expeuses were tho following items: Salaries and wages, $.'8,000; mine supplies, $10,S13; reduction of ores, 25,500, and royalty to Comstock Tunnel company, $2,43.(4. Oa the Crown Point incline tho 1700 station sta-tion pumps are working continuously. The work of cleaning out and retimbering the drain tunnel is making better progress as ventilation improves, and the tunuel has cooled oil considerably. The official returns of the working of Potosi ore at tho Nevada mill for September show that the quantity crushed last month was 18:0 tons; gross proceeds in bullion, 430,201.03; cost of reducing, 10,800; net proceeds in bullion, $2.1,401. 0U; assay value per ton, S22.61; gross average per ton, $20.14; net average per ton, $11.14. The mill worked the ore up to 8U per cent cf its assay value. W. E. Sharon has been appointed assistant bupcrintendiiut of the Belcher. The Mount Diablo company' mine is yielding the usual quantity and quality of ore and the mill at Soda Spriairs is doing good work. Official report of ore worked and bullion produced at the Nevada mill for account of the Savage mine for the month of September Septem-ber is as follows: Bullion produced Gold, $10,1-;S.50; silver, ?2 1,300.1)0; total, .$30,-523.55. .$30,-523.55. Discount on bullion, $0790.05; net amount cash received, $20,734.00; tons -of ore milled. 2230; average battery assay, $22.23; average ear sample assay, $20.02; percentage obtained, 73 per cent of tho average av-erage battery assay. r - fiIMite0 and Bben t FISH SPRtvCS STR KE- Residents of Lehi who are interested in the Early Harvest claim at Fish .Springs are elated over a recent strike on that property that is being worked under lease and bond by O. Hud-ion and C. B. WeeUs. They sunk over thirty feet oa a well-detincd vein that Las had an average width all the way from the surface of six inches of tine carbonate and galena ore, with chloride and black sulphides. sul-phides. Wood Kiver "Mines. The Vienna mine is looking well and forty men are employed in it. The mill that started up last week employs twenty men and works twenty tons a day. 'i'Lcre are I'M to 1C00 tor.s of ore in the mil', ere house, aud 100 to 2J0 in the mine ore house. John Ahlfors had a few tons of ore sampled sam-pled that were taken from the Ochcry mine on Cherry creek, near Galena, that ran 121 ounces silver and 00. CO per cent lead. Three cr four mines are to be worked in the Galena Ga-lena district duriug the winter, and good shipments will be ready when the roads arc opened. Oie Upland, who has a leaso oa the Idaho - mine, Germania basin, will work all winter, having laid in his supplies. He thinks there will bo thirty or forty men winter in the basin, most of whom have leases on mines owned by Fred Phillips. The last work done by the leasers of the j 8iar mine, whose time ran out last week, was to get out a chunk of ore weighing between be-tween COO and 400 pounds that assays about ISO ounces silver and 00 to 70 per cent lead. It will be seat to the World's fair. A Gopher l'ropictor. W. P. Carter foun 1 a great quantity of rich fkiat on a side hill while prospecting on Willow creek, ia Boise county, Idaho, a weeks ago. Ho patiently hunted for the ! ledge from whence this stuff came but tho , lode was hidden under deep wash. Finally it was discovered through some decomposed quartz that had been thrown out of a gopher hole. Mr. Gopher bad burrowed right on top of the vein as investigation showed. Cropping assayed flo, mostly iu gold. The ledge was stripped and shows a width of ten feet. Ore taken from a depth of only four feet was assayed in Boise City, a few days ago, and showed $10 ia goid and $7 in silver to the ton. Thls'is said to havo been an average of the ore, the entire width ot the vein, that, by the wsy, has been traced for a distance of 750 feet. It is uniform in width nxpareutly. The gangue Is lime and quartz mixed with talc. A shipment of ore will be made for a mill-run test as it is pronounced free-milling. , Nevada Mining Matters. The concentrator and mill at Tuscarora tarted up for a few days' run. A. J. Millick has been re-elected recorder of the Osceola district, White Pine county. i A part of the Mexican mill, on Carson 'river, started uri Inst week on slimes. Oth- : ers on the river will soon be running as the water continues to rise. . James Mahana and Mr. Pierce, who were 9 0 in town during the week, have left for Salt Lake. Mr. Mahana was the prime mover in the deal which resulted iu the bond of the April Fool mine, and was here looking after his interests. Mr. Pierce, who accompanied him on his trip, is a successful mine operator opera-tor recently returned from Alaska. Fcnju-son Fcnju-son Ltide. Big assays have been obtained from ores taken from claims near Cedar in the Ferguson Fergu-son district. J. JJ. Gilbert got one that went 12,7:23 ounces silver and ?18 gold to the ton. He has quite a lot of ore on the dump of the same character, though not so rich. Saine ifc Bailey have a big ledge in the same locality local-ity that they claim will average 30 ounces ia silver to the ton. Good reports come from the April Fool mine in the Ferguson district. Prospecting j is being pushed and two shifts arc working on all parts of the mine. The main shaft is down 112 feet. The south drift was started to cross-cut to the foot wall, which has not yet been reached. The north drift on the ledge was run 10 feet in good ore. No. 2 shaft has been sunk 23 feet in ore which averages well. On the Magnolia claim, in the Ferguson district, fine ore was taken out during the progress of development. Shaft Ho. 1 is down over bO feet and connection made between be-tween that end No. 2. A rich body of ore on the north drift will be opened up by a winze. Iron District. George Davis showed us some samples of ore from claims he owns at Pinto, Iron mining district, Utah, eixty-five miles from here. The ore was taken from the surface aud is fine smelting ore, runuing from 20 to 40 per cent lead. His clainu adjoin some lately sold to a San Francisco company, and Davis has great Lope3 of that district. Ferguson Fer-guson Lode. Opening: lp Itinera! Wealth. Miuers ia Owyhee county, Idaho, are much eneourgcJ over the prospect of a railroad rail-road lo Silver City that will afford them facilities for shipping out ore. Maps and profiles of the survey for the proposed Nampa it Silver City railroad have been finished and the engineers wiil report on the project ia a few days. In consequence of the encouraging signs, a building boom has started at Nampa. When General Manager Dickinson, of the Union Pacific, was in Boise City last week with a lot of big ofliicials of the company, he is reported by the Statesman as saying of the Nampa-Silver City railroad: "I consider the road a necessity, and, while the Union Pacitic is in no way back of the scheme, it w ill assist it in every way possible in the matter of floating bonds and exchanging traffic, both passenger and freight, and extending ex-tending othei jjiilroad courtesies." N i Xeuda Mines. The electric plant of tho Standard Mining company is being pushed ahead rapidly. The poles are all in plac ou an air line from the dynamo to the mill, . distance of about twelve miles. Lttniy Irdex. Industrious prospectors la Green Creek - a |