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Show The Savage company, under the management manage-ment of iusido reformers, ia hoisting 300-per-ton ore at night and loadit g it on the cars at 6.15 in the morning. Our informant claims that he has good reason for believing believ-ing this to be the case. It i a great game, this, of working the Comstock mine. The showing now made ia Belcher, if made a few years ago, would have sent the shares to $20, but the present manipulators appear to be content with a few dollars aud assessments. In Hale fe Xorcros. on the 1800-foot leTel, they are cross-drifting for the west lode eo as to cut its downward continuation. con-tinuation. Good results (selling out shares) are expected to follow. The" work in the Mexican continues to be ignored, but perhaps per-haps the rings want more of the shares before be-fore reporting results. Every move that is being made looks more and more like all -former thieving deals. Silver Hill, it is said, can pay dividends from the 2000 tons of rich 1 gold ore which was extracted, and is now ready for hoisting. Trouble may follow if dividends are not paid. Very important work is under way in several of the mines, but it is hard to get particulars sufficiently verified tojustif y publishing. San FrancU-co FrancU-co Mining and Scientific Press. Kew Mining Laws of Mexico. Those owning mining claims in Mexico must present their ownership titles- to the proper officials before October 31, and pay for the proprietary mine stamps. This gives them undisturbed title to their ground. Then they must pay the annual tax of $10 for each claim of 10,000 square meters, but this I may be paid in three equal parts in advance ! in each fiscal year. Heretofore owners of j mines in Mexico have had more or less j trouble with officials concerning their prop- 1 crty. Under the new law the prices to be -paid are fixed at a specified sum. aud as long as the annual taxes are paid no one can bo disturbed or bo submitted to official extortion. ex-tortion. The receipts for payment of the annual tax are evidence of continued ownership, own-ership, and form a more absolute title than the American system of affidavit of labor performed on the claim. flMnes anft ifoerL ORICIN OF CCEUR D'ALENE- On account of the miners' strike in the Cornr d'Alene country and the more recent trial of participants in it, on the charge of conspiracy, that rich mineral section has become be-come widely known. Doubtless few, even among the residents of the district, know the origin of the term. Bishop Talbot, the brainy dignitary of the F.piscopal church, who includes Idaho as part of his diocese, makes this explanation: The early French pioneers, who traded with the Indians in what is now the northern portion of Idaho, often overreached the reds in bargains. On one occasion an old chief who could get no satisfaction out of the man who had cheated him, turned upon him with this biting reproof: re-proof: Vous arez un Cocur d'Alene, "You have the heart of an awl," meaning at once the hardness, the sharpness and the penetration pene-tration of that shoemaker's tool. That gave the name to the camp of tbe traders, and afterwards to the country. Nevada Mines. the work of two or three days, and by the time these are dry suitable clay and other refractory material for laying up and lining the furnace has been found. While tbe furnace is being built one or two men burn charcoal, and in a very short time transportable transport-able cakes of bullion are turned out. In order to get a strong draft, these furnaces are built against a sUep bank and a flue run up the hillside. Though the first part of the flue is of adobes, the upper portion is often of split timbers daubed with clay and covered with dirt. If the draft is not sufficiently suf-ficiently strong at first, the defect is remedied reme-died by adding to the length of the flue. Mexicans are so expert at refining that they bring out small cakes of bullion that are almost pure silver. As early as 1S03 there were in operation many of these adobe furnaces fur-naces near Owens lake. Cel., in the Cerro Gordo mines. Some large furnaces were used for working silver-lead ores. Money for Hydra alioing. Iu the Nigger Hill district, Black Hills, S. D., are some rich placers, some of which are said to run as high as $1 a yard. This ground has never been worked successfully. owinff the scarcity of water lor hydraulic purposes, which is the only practical way in which it can be operated. It is reported i that Eastern capital has been secured to complete an old ditch that was started and which was to run a distance of twenty-six miles from Cold Spring to Nigger Hill. A great deal of money has already been spent, and it is estimated that it will cost between $ 125,000 and $150,000 to complete the ditch. Miraculous scape. Samuel Dunn, a miner iu the High Ore mine at Butte, Montana, had a narrow escape es-cape from death. While at work, Dunn, in some way, fell into a chute and went down 70 feet. Instead of finding a corpse as they emected, fellow miners picked uo Dunn alive. He was very badly bruised and had his right shoulder and collar bone fractured, but will recover. Fabulous Mexican Mines. Mexico has a new gold district, loeated in the northwestern part of the state of Sonora, close to the United States boundary and not far from the Pacific. Tho district is called Altar, after the nearest Mexican town, which is fifty leagues distant. Tucson, however, is twenty leagues nearer. Au even dozen mines are now being worked, and one was recently sold to Tucson men for $25,000. The other properties are owned by Mexicans. So far all the ore taken out is exceedingly rich; in fact, the poorest grade is quoted as goini; 1200 to the ton in gold. One miner is said to have cleaned up 14,000 ounces of gold by a crude sort of milling process. The great drawback to these mines has been tbe lack of water, that had to be brought a distance of from eight to ten leagues over a very sandy and tedious road. Weiis are now being dug, and the indications indica-tions for obtaining water are reported as good. i ... On the Comstock. On the Consolidated California and Virginia Vir-ginia they are getting ready to take out the very rich ore uncovered to the west on and around the 1700 foot level. If they attempt to take out the ore, we are authoritatively informed the company will he enjoined by a west side company which claims the lode. i . There has been a heavy flow of water from the ore vein between the 300 and 400 levels on the Belcher. That delayed work on the upraise till the first of the present week. A Qttle smokeless engine hat just been - received to haul ore out of the Sutro tunnel. Work has stopped on the Eureka mill on the Carson river, and all the hands paid off nd discharged. Reno Journal: Captain Griffith Is finding very fine ore In the Trinity mine In Peavine - district. The face of the drift is In quartz which carries considerable ore of good quality. qual-ity. A paying mine at Peavine would greatly great-ly benefit Rano. Austin ReueiLle: Superintendent Bray, of tbe Big Creek antimony mine, after many months of dead work, has put his force of men extracting ore. The first shipment of many months, of 'JO tons, was made last week, and if the price of the mineral will justify, large shipments will be made frequeutly. At a special meeting of the directors of the Savage Min ng company it was resolved to ask the directors of the Norcross Mining company to hold a joint meeting with them for the purpose of trying to arrive at some conclusion relating to operating both mines through one shaft. Black HUU Tin Mines. Myron Wilsie, chief engineer of the Harney Har-ney Peak Tin company, states that the plant can't be blown in as aoon as expected as the spurs to the mines, which the railroad company expected to complete by October 10 will require at least thirty days for their completion. Tbe delay was caused by the scarcity of laborers. Tbe mammoth tin mill it completed with the exception of placing the large sectional pump. The mines are working full forces night and day and getting get-ting out vast quantities of ore so that the mill can be kept running continuously. Adobe Furnaces. Mexicans are wor.derfuily expert in con. atructing and operating little furnaces calh d the vaso. In their own country a email p::rty goes to a "mine in the wilds of the mountains, 100 miles or more from the source of supplies, and with the material to , bo found on the ground soon have a furnace J going. To make the adobes required is |