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Show Around the Mining World. near the Park. Every day or two some one brings in a sample to be assayed, and almost always the showing is good. Look out, everybody, for another bonanza. The force on the Anchor water ditch has completed its work. In nine and cne-half days from eighteen to twenty men dug over 8000 feet of ditch two feet deep and one foot wide. Tho pipe will be laid as soon as it arrives. Dips and Spurs. A strike was made Wednesday in the Eagle. The ore body is large and very rich. It is the intention to at once increase the force on the Eagle. The dump is being sorted and a shipment will be made this month. - - TINTIC- "Times" Correspondent Reviews the "Work (ioing On in the Camp. The past week has been a dull one. Quite a number of the smaller properties have suspended sus-pended work and a haunting fear has possessed pos-sessed the people of Eureka and Mammoth that the continued depression would result in closing down all the mines. This fear was augmented by the Mammoth making a draft of fifteen men on Wednesday of last week, and many more of the men employed by that corporation have been expecting to follow fol-low them. However, Superintendent Nes-til Nes-til gives assurances that there will be no ' more drafts. If he is compelled to further reduce his force he will close down com-pletely, com-pletely, but does not anticipate such action. The Mammoth is working betwpen eighty and eighty-live men, but shipping no ore. The machinery for the new works at the Centennial-Eureka are ou their way here and should arrive in the course of the present pres-ent week. The buildings are already completed com-pleted and boilers in position. The Keystone has increased its force on the erection of its new works, and the buildings are rapidly assuming shape. , The boilers are being placed in position and they will be ready for the machinery in a few days. A change in the foremanship of the Keystone took place this week, Kobert May retiring and Jackson McChrjstal being appointed in his stead. Mr. McChrystal Is a graduate of the Houghton (Mich.) School of Mines, ami has been connected with the Keystone for a good many years, so that he is fully conversant with the workings of the mine. The Bullion-Beck is still working along as usual and making regular shipments. A great many rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Beck would shut down, but we are unable to confirm the report at headquarters. Some good work is" being done north of Eureka. The Retribution has started a shaft, sink ing upon an iron ledzc which looks promis- Sntr on the surface. It wiil discontinue driving driv-ing the tunnel, which is now in 300 feet. The Peru ' shaft is down 120 feet and the rock looks very promising. Dick Tone predicts that it . will le but a short time until they get pay ore end lots of it. By the way, Dick Toue and ' Lee liopper, who have owned the group north of the Keystone, popularly known as the Toue A Hopper group, have for some - years dissolved partnership, Dick taking the Outcast, Manhatta and Reveuue, and Lee the Iletribution and Torkville. Dick has put nine men to work on his share and proposes to continue the development until lie proves what he lias always maintained, that he has the bigsrest mine in Tintic. C. S. Davis of '"the (J. W. B. has just returned from Salt Lake. He has two shifts at work preparing to eink upon the ledge which was struck in the tunnel at a distance of sixty-live-feet, and seems much pleased with the showing made. other properties. J. B. Ilonyman has sold tlie N'apoleorr to Arthur Brown and C, E. Michenor for 1.3000. Work was this week corumeuced ou the Boss Tweed, which was recently incorporated. incor-porated. This property should make an excellent rexord. It already has pay ore in sight. J. T. Hask'nn has commenced work on the Tennessei! Rebel group, near Mammoth. Tho dump of the Eagle is being sorted end a shipment will be made the present rnoutli. Wonders of Deep Creek. The wonders of the Deep Creek country as an ore-producint: district have never half fceen told, if all the reports of prospectors who have overrun the hills around Fish Springs and Dujjway are to be relied upon. The country is yet in its infancy even as to discovery, and what it will become after the hardy mitiers have prospected it over, is a matter of conjeeliure. Among the sanguine prospector of the Deep Creek country is James W. White, a patriarchal seeker for hidden wealth who followed the flood tide which poured into the lilar k Hills and later on rushed to tlie outh toward the Carbonate camp in Colorado. Mr. White has spent several mouths in and around Fish springs. He has several locations, loca-tions, amoti tin; rnot valuable of which, he thinks, is the Carolina, Bully Boy and Rising Ris-ing Sun. "If we could only pet a railroad into the Deep Creek country," said Mr. White, "you would see one of the biggest ore-producing camps in tlie whole Western 8 country. The great trouble with the people of Salt Lake is that they seem to want somebody else to build the road which must necessarily benefit bene-fit this town more than any other city. Salt Lake capital shoul.I build the Deep Creek road, but I do not believe it ever will." W. S. Martin, the well-known mining man, has returned from the Deep Creek country enthusiastic over the region. He says a big gold discovery has been made in the Spring creek district in the Jumbo claim which runs eighty ounces in silver and $16 in gold. The vein has been traced for a long distance and about forty locations have been made on the belt. To Make Gold. In a pamphlet entitled "Ths Art of Making Gold," which comes from Paris, the author, .11. Theodore TirTereau, declares that he has discovered a way to convert Iron, copper and silver into the more precious metal. He learned the trick in Mexico. Nitric acid, we lielieve is the chief aarcnt employed to effect the transmutation. We do not sen the advantage ad-vantage of bothering with silver as a basis When copper will serve equally well. The cost of converting a kilo of copper into the same quantity of gold is ridiculously small, M. Tiifcreau tells us something like $15. When it is considered that a kilo of natural gold is at present worth nearly $700 the great significance of the new discovery becomes be-comes at once apparent. M. Tiffereau holds iu his hands a thunderbolt of unheard un-heard of potentiality. The power is his to paraiyze the property-owning world. lie can bring dollar go'd pieces down to the value, of little red apples. He complains in his pamphlet that the Bank of Prance will pay no attention to his discovery. We should think that that arrogant institution had hotter look out for itself. Its director-; wuuld not feel very comfortable should they awake some fine morning to find their gold deposits down to $16 a kilo. The Paris newspapers have generally taken notice of II. Tinereau, and their comments are printed iu this the third edition of his pamphlet. pam-phlet. They do not seem to be much flustered flus-tered by his diocovery. The journalistic feeling in Paria seems chiefly to bo, s far as he is concerned, that it is rather curions to come acrops an alchemist in the year 1S92. M. Tiflercau is described as a somewhat some-what diminutive alchemist, irreproachably . Shaven, of a good color, polite and appar ently sincere. A Discovery in Ogden. An important discovery of what purports to be tin-bearing ore was made recently a few miles north of North Ogden. The lead Is dascribed as being thirty-five or forty feet in width and of variable thickness. Samples Sam-ples of the ore have beea brought to this city by Mr. F. H. Huff, who claims that assays as-says have been made showing it to be conclusively con-clusively tin ore and of suffielsiit grade to make it very valuable. If seek should prove to be the case a tiu plate factory will be one of the acquisitions of the immediate future. Millard County Samples. B. and n. Stout of South Cottonwood, have made a valuable discovery in Learning, ton, Millard county, of a 4-foot rein of sttiel galena. The gentlemen are in the city today to-day with samples of the ore, and MoVicker is making an assay of the same. . Park City Nates. (surveyor Charles P. Brooks baa been doing some work for the Silver King Mining company. com-pany. Mr. I. D. Carlton of Port Huron, Mich, has been in town for a week or two. He is a stockholder in tbe aachor mine and la out looking over that valuable property Nlel McKiell, an employee In tho May. flower mine, crushed bis hand recently. At first he feared he must loose that valuable member, bat now it is hoped that medical skill -will save it. A great deal of prospecting is being done j |