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Show : -- ' ... .. THUi SAUi jjAttJsi 'llALb6: SA'lUitlMX AUGUST o. '. " , . '..7 TKe Western Mirirg World. bottom of the shaft. They hare run one level, at a depth of seventy-fiv- e feet, forty, five feet Ion?. The boys feel confident that they have a good mine, and intend to con- - tinue development work until they prove it. Lying near the month of Bear gulch, where it empties into Cataract creek, are the GARFIELD AND BLAINE lodes, owned by Nels Olsen, John Peterson and others, has been formed into a stock company capital stock 500,000 shares; 100,. 000 shares of treasury stock wiil he used for the development of the property. Th de-velopment consists of one shaft..7? feet deep, one level driven from the shaft 100 feet, from which five cars of ore were shipped, one crosscut tunnel rnn across the formation to strike the lead, 24:2 feet long. In driving in this tunnel 90 feet from the mouth they cut a lead which they had never found upon the surface, and in driving a ltvel on the lead they struck some very line galena ore and hare about two chutes of ore in the face of the drift, one on the footwall about 10 or 13 inches thick, and one 6 or 8 inches thick on the hanging wall. This level is 405 feet lonr, with an upraise to the upper workings. At the face of the tunnel where they struck the Garfield lead they have run a level 10 feet east on the lead and have taken out about eight tons of ore. and - 5 ing interest of this nature that im-pelled the Colorado representative at the last conclave held in Washington to put forth heir utmost eloquent arguments for the selection of Denver as the meeting point in 1892. In this I believe they were earn-estly aeconded by the Knights of Utah and California. Whatever Influence it may have toward a better COMPREHENSION' OF TIIE WEST in the minds of these tens of thousands from every quarter of the republic, will be shared by all the Rocky Mountain states and terri-tories, and the acquisition of such knowl-edge is of very great importance. It is safe to assume that a majority who came for the J first time, anticipated seeing nothing better ; than settlements of frame and logs, a wild, crude civilization, without luxury or refinement, a multitude of miners shouting for the free coinage of silver; no agriculture, no fixed indus-tries and but a miscellaneous commerce. The marked contraststruggling between their preconceived notions and the reality has been the Bubject of comment every-where. If the general expression may be accepted, and there is no good reason to doubt its sincerity, the twenty-fift- h conclavebas not been surpassed in aflniiirn - n i n vm p nt hn- - ,nu f ite AT BINGHAM CANON- - Bingham, Utah, Aug. 19. One of the largest veins in this camp is found on the Leonard property, which is being operated by William Smith. The devel-opments 6how come good first class ore, with a large quantity of fine concentrat-ing lead ore. A large body of gold and silver bearing ore, running $17 in gold and 17 ounces silver per ton, has recent-ly been struck. ' Shipments will be made as soon as a road can be completed to the mine. Clarey and Stephens, owners of the JULIA s. lode, have driven a 215-fo- ot tunnel upon the property, and expect to strike a rich body of ore by going 30 feet further. Kidneys of ore being taken from the mine assay 81 per centlead, 431.15 ounces 6ilver and $2.50 in gold per ton. From present indications this property is des-tined to become one of the prominent producers of the Territory. A fine body of ore has been uncov-ered on nearly due? east and the Deep Creek moun-tains ftretch away to the southward. The most remarkable object in the Ticinity is the mountain known as GOLD HILL. The base of this mountain on the southern side is a granite rorphyry, entirely barren of mineral. On the summit it is capped with lime. Close to the summit in the con-tact between the porphyry and lime the main body of ore lies. Higher up in the lime itself, which Is there a white spar and dalomite, is more ore. Over the crest of the hill, a little below the summit on the northern side, a great reef of ouarteite strikes castwardly and westwardly with the general trend of the hill and cuts across the blue and gray stratified lime that forms its base on the northern side. This quartzite reef is heavily charged with mineral, and, by some peculiar polarization, which from the character of the mineral at that point is evidently due to magnetic causes, as you go eastward the ore body leaves the contact and strikes across the quartzite over into the lime. In fact, contrary to what might be generally supposed, the lime seems to hold within it-self the largest percentage of the gold. But this is by no means the remarkable feature of the camp the feature which lends it its greatest, interest in view of the experiment which is now being conducted there. Perhaps nowhere in the world is gold found upon a single hill in intimate associa-tion with such an extraordinary variety of minerals; and, therefore, nowhere in the world can any one place be found better fitted to test the truth of the principle that all gold is radically free. The main body of ore lies flat at its great-est outcrop. On the foot-wal- l, immediately next the porphyry, and varying from a few inches to a few feet tbick, is what miners call a casing of blue and green carbonate, and black oxide of copper carrying free gold. Right above that, and below the lime, is a vast blowout of oxide of iron, carrying gold mechanically encased. Next conies a mixture of quartz, spar and lime, carrying gold also. Again in the lime itself is a car-bonate of lead carrying free gold, which is some times associated with galena. Beyond this are black sulphurets of iron and copper, with arsenical pyrite and a black silicate of manganese, ALL CARRYING GOLD, both free and, as it is commonly railed, base, and not far from them is some of the very finest kind of pure magnetic iron. Taking all these with chlorides and bromides of sil-ver and copper, which exist side by side with the cold in the rock, and you have a combination of minerals upon one mountain too. euch as can hardly bo duplicated any , UTAH WEEKLY REVIEW. Along with reports of new finds and strikes in the Tintlc district, during the week just closed, have come rumors that several well-know- n mines in other districts are to be shut down the first of the month. Low prices of silver is assigned as the cause or occasion for this contemplated suspension of operations. It is a significant fact that while there is a great deal of work being quietly done in - prospecting and develop-ment, little or no activity is reported on sil-ver properties whose reserve ore bodies are of low grade. On the other hand, gold properties are eagerly sought and their development at-tended by unusual activity. , This latter con-dition is the result, or an incident, of the fictitious premium on gold, attributable to the demoralization of silver. Not only is there an extraordinary demand for gold properties but more excitement is created by a gold strike than has been known or ex-perienced since the-earl- sixties. Salmon River Excitement. That is the explanation for the intense in-terest that threatens to develop into a reg-ular furore over the recent discoveries aud location of gold-bearin- g ledges up in the Salmon River country, in Idaho. Already have a number of Utah operators planned to devote their attention and confine opera-tions to that region that is coming into notic"c again after a lapse of twenty years or more since the first discoveries were made there. Because of this diversion of operations to another state, it does not follow that there is any loss of faith in Utah districts. Just now, however, with silver so low, it isn't profitable to work an ordinary mine. It is one of the gratifying signs of the times, though, that capital has begun anew to seek investment in mines. But it is gold proper-ties that are sought after, and the brokers and operators who expect or attempt to make money out of mining transactions have to deal in that for which there is a demand. That explains why it Is so diff-icult to attract or enlist moneyed interests in silver districts. Lest Neither Faith or Courage. The miners and claim-owner- s generally have not by any means lost courage. As at Eureka and elsewhere in the Tintic district, a lot of ground is being opened, about which there is little or no talk. Although there is no object in preserving any form of secrecy, it is noted that there is a disposition mani-fested to say as little as possible about the work prosecuted in prospecting and exploit- - ing claims. Whenever a notable strike is made, of course it is more or less difficult to conceal the facts, though it often happens that thu value or iinoortance of these discov-- . eries is t6 a certain extent discounted. That is strictly true of the Tintic district, and probably equally so of many another. In these days it must needs be a big strike that can enthuse people, and there is no good in doing so, save for the purpose of invest-ment. There Are No Bis Deals. It is sate to say that for some time to come there will be no big deals as regards silver propositions. Transactions in undeveloped claims, or such as have been only in part prospected, are growing niorc numerous, especially in the Tintic district. This is a favorable sign as indicative of the faith gen-erally entertained of the ultimate restora tion of silver to Us rightful place and the establishment of values at which silver min- - MINE SLOPES AND SHAFTS. BT WILLIAM DUNCAN. In thi3 subject two subjects are presented before our minds for consideration, and as all knowledge is gained by comparison, we shall have to adopt some unit of measure, and the unit which we shall adopt in this instance is the almighty dollar, which is recognized as the universal standard of measure in all financial investments. Now, in this case, as there has been no fixed data given, we are left free to select an ideal coal field so situated that we can have,our choice, whether we shall open and operate either by shaft or slope. Wc will select a coal field 5000 feet Square having a dip of five feet to the hundred, this being the average dip in the coke region, and having a railroad located at the outcrop and another immediately over the dip boundary line. Now we arc to determine by which method we shall work this field of coal, or In other words, which is the cheapest, and for the sake of brevity, we shall cancel all factors which arc equal in both methods, as they would have no effect on the final result. In a coal field having a dip of five feet to the 100 and 5000 feet square, the total dip would be 250 feet, hence it would require two shafts of 250 feet each. The hoisting shaft would cost $100 per foot, or $25,000, and the air shaft $70 per foot, or f 17,500. Now a field of coal 5000 feet square would contain 25,000,000 square feet, or a fraction over 574 acres, aud as each acre yields 10,000 tons, this would give a total of 5,740,000 tons of coal, which by the shaft method would require to be lifted a distance of 350 feet, whrens by the slope method this immense tonnage would require to be lifted a distance of only 150 feet, thus giving another advan-tage in favor of the slope opening of at least two-fifth- s of the entire cost of hoisting. And in accordance with the laws of me-chanics, it requires the same units of work to lift a given weight the same height, either by incline plane or vertical lift, the advan-tage would still be in favor of the slope opening as 3 to 5. Now a field of coal of the given dimensioas ' would require a daily output of 1000 tons to make it profitable and it would take 'JO years te exhaust, this field of coal; then, we have an investment in the shaft openings of $37,500, which at interest for 30 years would amount to $120,263. Whereas we would have invested in the slope openings not ex-ceeding $1000, which at 20 years interest would amount to $3207, hence the difference in favor of the slope opening in this item alone would be $120,262 $3207 or $117,055, which is no inconsiderable Item. As experience in the coke region has. demonstrated, we have three tons of water to lift for every ton of coal mined, therefore we would have 16,220,000 tons of water to lift, which by the shaft has to be hoisted a distance of 250 feet, whereas in the slope opening we would lift this immense body of water only three-fifth- s of that distance, or 150 feet. Therefore the cost of lifting the water would be in the same ratio as the hoisting of the coal, or as 3 is to 5 in faTor THE TfRKGREN GROUP, on which a 600-fo- tunnel is being driv-en. Ore i6 being taken out daily, and ore bins will soon be built. J.J. O'Rielly is one of the principal owners in this group, and thinks some more valuable property will be developed before the tunnel is completed. The tunnel is be-ing driven by contract. A. P. Mayberry has taken a two-year- 6' leas on the OLD DIXON MINE, and started to sink an incline shaft near the cyanide works. From the mouth of this shaft a trestle will be constructed over the top of the mill to the railroad. This will be used for delivering the concen-trating ores into the . mill and also for hauling the first-clas- s ore to the railroad for shipment. The Old Dixon is being sunk on two feet of first-clas- s ore. Scott and Bush have 6unk the shaft over 60 feet on have about one foot of ore in the face of the level. At the very head of Bear gulch lies THE CRYSTAL MINE, being operated at present by the Schreiner Bros. They have a shaft 110 feet deep, with 250 feet of levels run from the shaft, and Mr. Schreiner says there is about nine feet of solid ore in the bottom of the shaft, but on account of water they left the shaft and drove a tunnel in on the lead, and when the writer was at the mine Sunday Jfily 1", they had Just uncovered five feet of 6ohd galena ore. which was very nice-lookin- ore. The tunnel is 440 feet long and they have had a little ore since they struck the lead all the way in. The lead is large and wherever they have crosscut it, it has shown up ore, and it looks now as though all the small shoots were coming together and form, a large shoot of ore. John Schreiner, jr., who is in charge of the work and who has worked hard to make a success of the enterprise, now wears a pleasant smile in contemplation , of the success before him. W. W. II. PROSPECTORS IN WASHINGTON. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 19. During the last two years the Kootenai mining district has been attracting much, attention, both from prospectors and mining companies. The Kootenai river, from which it takes its name, rises in the Rocky mountains in British Columbia and, flowing south, runs iuto Montana. There it heads back again toward the north, and crossing into Idaho, empties into Kootenai lake, a large body of water in British Cblumbia, a short distance north of the Idaho boundary. The lake finds its ultimate outlet in the Columbia river. THE KOOTEKAT DISTRICT properly embraces the whole rearion trav-ersed by the Kootenai river, fent the name is commonly applied only to the part in Brit-ish Columbia. West of Kootenai lake is the range of Selkirk mountains; west of them Slocan lake; still west of that the upper and lower Arrow lakes, through which the Co-lumbia rivdr runs, and beyond them the Gold mountains and Okanogan lake. The principal town in th district is Nel-son, on the west arm or outlet of Kootenai Lake; leadintr' into the Columbia rivar. This predecessors. The doors of the city and state have been thrown wide open and every worthy comer bidden to the feast. The same generous wel-come has been accorded by every town. The serious business ending with the parade, the balance of their stay has been given up to exchanges of fraternal visitings, to excur sions among the towns and cities of the mountains and plains; to gathering, while the low rates last, all the informa-tion' attainable of the couDtry to the westward, the sources of power which has, in a few short years, convert-- d the wilderness Into blooming gar-dens. Many have extended their observations to Utah and the Pacific states, aud we may readily conceive some-thing of the effect it will have upon their future. It will be felt in THE EASTERN CAPTTALS and in the hails of congress where it is needed For more than a quarter of a century we have been appealing for recognition; sup-plicating the forces which exert influence upon the political and other affairs of the West to come and see what wc have done and are doing tow ard the spread of our na-tional glory, the perpetuation of the gov-ernment, and more important than all, the maintenance of its credit. : We want to be known as we are, estimated by the fruitage of honest, well-directe- d en-deavor, not by the crude notions of people who believe nothing good can come out of this western Nazareth. Wc apprehend that more substantial benefit will result from the twenty fifth conclave of - KnighU Templar than from any recent movement that has taken place west of the Missouri river. ALHAMBRA, MONT. Alhambba, 'Mont., Aug. 19. Mining in terests in this portion of Jefferson county are in a prosperous condition. Almost every claim is being successfully operated and the futurs of the district is one of assured prosperity. The Timberllne lode, better known as the m'arthcr iron juke, lies about four miles west of Wickes, and one-hal- f mile west of Bluebird mine, and is supposed to be on the same lead as the where upon the earth. The problem before the miner was how, out of this heterogene-ous mixture, to extract the gold, for that is substantially the only mineral of any value in to all ideas heretofore enter-tained by gold mincis, no gold was free ex-cept what could be saved under stamps and over copper plates by the old process of amalgamation with quicksilver. It has been determined that not more than from 40 to 50 per cent of the gold held in the rock has ever been saved by this process. So that a waste of one-ha- lf of the gold product of the world has been going on since the begin-ning of quartz mining washed away in the tailiuga. There was no way of recovering this or any part of it, unless the matrix that carried the base gold was valuable for smelt-ing purposes by reason of something in It other than the gold it enclosed. This was true in but very few cases. So that in many places through'the country gld mining has been destroyed by reason of the refractory character of the sulphides and sulphurets that carried the metal. Therefore the pro-cess of saving gold by fire may be said broadly to have been a failure, just as the stamp mill has proved only a partial suc- - THE AGNES, and struck two feet of good pay ore on the bottom of the incline. This is sup-posed to be a continuation of the York mine, and is situated on York hill ad-joining that claim. Twenty tons of ore have been taken out which assay 70 per cent lead and 29 ounces silver. This has come from the shaft while sinking the first 60 feet. PARK CITY NOTES. Park Citv, Utah, Aug. 19. The Ontario is pushing forward at a good rate. A gas plant will soon be put in the mill for drying and roasting ores. Grading is being done for bunkers, cement floors are being laid and general improvements are going on. A new sixty-to- n rock breaker is being added to the miU. Developments on John Bogan's CUMBERLAND GROUP are being pushed with renewed vigor. Work will be continued during the season." A force of four men is kept at work and the incline has been re timbered and placed in good 6hape. The incline has been straightened and the vein will be followed to considerable depth. A discovery of silver has been made SEAR WOODLAND, the assays from which, give seventeen ounces per ton. Thomas Potts has taken charge of the property aud will sink a shaft to develop it to pay ore. It is not known how much of a vein exists there, as no work has been done. Peter Krollcr is actively engaged on his group of claims in BLUE LEDGE DISTRICT, upon which some work has been done. He has about 200 feet of tunneling completed and is sinking an incline. As the air is none too good for working he has had a fan put in the face of the tunnel to furnish pure air. They group gives every indication of becom-ing good property. Operations have been temporarily sus-pended on In the fullness of time men of science de-vised another method of capturing chemically the gold that heretofore had been washed away, and now the method of treating re-fractory gold ores with cyanide of potash has almost been demonstrated to be, so far as it goes, a practical working success. Six months ago anybody who would have said so positively would 'have been looked upon as a visionary crank. But the stamp mill, the smelting furnace and the cyanide vat are none of them capa-ble of testing all ores of gold, because one is founded on the principle that gold must be free and the others admit that it is base, and no one of them by itself could by any possibility be a success in such a camp as Oiold Hill on Deep creek, where, outside of telluride, gold is found in almost every form, free aud base, iu which it exists in nature. In order to save the gold, a combined pro-cess, under' the old methods, is necessary. There, cither a stamp mill aud concentrator to save the tailings for the smelter, or a stamp mill and cyanide process to 6ave the free gold in the first instance, and then leach out. tlia tailings afterwards. Blue-bird. There have been 400 tons of ore shipped from this property, which was taken out in running a small tunnel and crosscutting within twenty feet of the surface. The main body of ore is pyrites of iron, but there is considerable bfsrauth ground in the ore which is of very high grade, Tanning into thousands of dollars in value per ton. There is also a shaft forty-fiv- e feet deep, and the ore gets richer with depth. Truly this is a wonderful surface showing for some com-pany with money to put in machinery and develop an. immense mine. Joining on the north and east is THE BON TON LODE, owned by D. S. Osgood. Mr. Osgood is a practical and systematical miner, and his work speaks for itself. He has sunk a shaft twenty-fiv- e feet deep which he had to aban-don on account of water. Then he com-menced a tunnel which he has driven HO feet, crosscutting the ground, and expects to reach the hanging wall in from fifty to seventy-fiv- e feet. He expects to strike a body of ore ou the hanging wall. On the west of the McArthur is of the slope opening. Now, since the cost of production and de- - -- livery to the main haulage road is the same in both methods, it need not be taken into consideration. - But from this common point the two methods are diametrically opposite, as by the shaft method the product would have to descend to the lowest level, whereas by the slope method it would be ascending to the point desired. And experience has proven that it requires as much power to control a descending load as an ascending one. Hence we have two sets of engines performing the labor that could be done by one set of equal power located at the mouth of the .slope opening; thus making the cost of delivery from the common point to the same level on the surface double by the shaft method that it would be by the slope method. Another factor to be considered is that the liability to wreckage and consequent loss I with the descending load is much greater place, which is about two years old, has less than one thousand inhabitants. Just now the crying need of the Kootenai country is transportation, for few of the mines are so situated that ore worth less than $150 a ton conld be profitably carried over the pack trails. The region Is a rough one,' not unlike that of the Carur d'Alene, directly south in Idaho, but the ores 6eem somewhat richer. How they will turu out it Is impossible to say, for no work but that of development has yet been done, and few of the prospect holes are more than twenty --five feet deep. TWO THOUSAND PROSPECTOR re already in the region, and before the sea-son closes the value of the deposits wil be more definitely known. The oldest claim in the district is the Blue Bell, discovered in 1825 by some- - Hudson Bay company trappers. From time to time a little work was done on it, but no attention was drawn to the country until seven years ago, when the Silver King mine was found on Toad mountain, seven miles from Kelson. A Scotch syndicate has bonded the Silver King for $1,500,000, and experts are now making careful examination to determine whether the bond shall be taken ud. Since 1111; Miuti uaui ucruuiu prouiaoie. Good dividend stocks of all sorts, whether of silver t;r gold mines, ore in demand, and brokers report sales on a large scale. Money from the East is being sent to Salt Lake for investment iu such stocks, and the holdings of old investors are being constantly in-creased. While there is an increasing demand in git-ed-ge stock, it is" notable that specula-tive stocks or those of development compa- nies lind practically 110 sale at all. How ioug this manner of tliinsrs will pre-vail can be only a matter of conjecture. The period of dullness will, in all probability, be dependent' on the outlook or a promise for a ri.e in the price in silver. Krcular Dividend Payers. To the list of dividend papers is likely to be udded the Centennial-Eurek- a of Tintic within the next few weeks. The 'now hoist-work- s of that property will shortly be fin-ished and it is announced that the mine will resume it dividends about September 15. It is known that there is a large quantity of very high-grad- e gold ore in the Centennial-Kureka'- s reserve. The Horn Silver of Frisco has continued its shipments pretty regularly. That has an immense body of low grade ore to work on. There has been little or no diminution in the fhipmenls of the Ontario and Daly. Another Park City property, the Silver King, is beginning to shii) largely. That is held closely and while its dividends are not mat-ters of comruon or public notoriety, they are regarded as generous. 'The Bullion-Kee- k of Eiireka is producing regui-laily- , while, the Mammoth of Tintic, isre-porte- d as getting ready to shut down. Mines Shutting Dowa. The ld Jordan and South Galena of Bing- ham, that has been a regular shipper for a number of years to the extent. of 30,000 tons or more, is sa,id to be of tho number that will shut down. The. first of next month is the limit up to which this noted property of l'rof. I.. K. Holdon is to be worked. The Brooklyn of Bingham is also classed among those that are to be placed on the retired list, on a term depeudent on the period that silver continues to be unprofit- able. Fu Tintic there is undoubtedly more doing than in any other L tah district just at pres- ent. Those who ore backing their judg- ment with their money down there in the direction of opening ground and developing prospects haw in most instances been by eubbtantial evidences of ore de-posits of value and considerable extent. Tho North, Star, that Del. Roberts is working under lease, has within a few days shown an ore body rich in both silver and gold. It has hitherto been stronger in gold, in the ratio of about one and a third in gold to silver. The recent strike is reported as goiug over 700 ounces iu silver with a high value in gold. More Tintic Strikes In the North Star, in the same district that adjoins the Silver Spar and Red Rose, a rich ore-bod- y has been struck that shows up bitr in silver. On the Silver Spar seven or eight men are at work sinking shafts and driving tunnels. -- The company is not trying to do anything in the way of taking out ore, but operations are confined to prospect aud development work. The I'tah Chief has come in for a good 6hare of attention the past week on account of a strike in a tunnel run to cut a cross lead that dips into the North Star. A min-eralized quartz vein was encountered and the tunnel is now being driven on the lead. The width of tho vein has not yet been de-termined, as no crosscutting has been done, but the ore looks well and there is over six feet of it as . shown in the tunnel. The Utah Chief belongs to W. C. B. Allen, the well-know- n Salt Lake operator, and big things have been predicted . of it. It is in a group or rather surrounded i by good claims, with the Red Rose and Boss 1 Tweed on the west line, the North Star on 1 the south end and the Governor and other j well-know- n claims on the east. The Utah I Chief is on the main Mammoth and Copper- - Opolis zone between the Tintic iron mines, bear the east end. George F. Canis. THE COLD OF DEEP CREEK. on the northern part of the Deep country, to some extent out of the line of travel, is an old camp that for twenty years or more has been 'known Hill. Gold Hill is remarkable in a many ways. For the information of who haven't been there we might say iOutis close down, to the edge of the desert. of what wasn't long ago the lake close up to the hill itself and to the about a mile distant, which is now started there. Dutch mountain lies northwest. The Ciifton hills are Both these methods entail large and double expense in many cases, if not in most, ren-dering gold mining unprofitable and there-fore impossible. Now comc3 in the peculiar force snd value of the experiment which is being tried in Deep creek, an experiment, as was stated before, which is founded on the principle that all gold in nature is finally free. If that b.e true, it follows as a logical deduc-tion that one process can save it all if THE r.IGIIT FROCES3 cftuld' orily be found out. And while the methods by amalgamation by fire aud by chemistry have each their advantages, as well as their drawbacks, the new method now being tried at Gold Hill, which acts mechanically, claims to cover the ground embraced by all three, to save as high a per-centage of the gold contained iu tiie rock and mineral as all of them put together, and that at far less expense than the ore can be treated by anyone of them. If this can be demonstrated it is evident that it will revo-lutionize the whole industry of gold miuing. The method by which the gold is freed from its surrounding matrix, no matter what fhst matrix may be, is by grinding the pulp to ' an infinitesimal fineness. The old stamp mill mashed it down on an average so that it might pass through a 45 or 50 mesh screen. The ball crushers of this new ex-tractor grind it down into an impalpable pulp, which can pass through a 135 or 150 mesh screen. But there is no screen used, nor yet any table. It is claimed by the Inventors of - THI3 NEW EXTRACTOR, when ore, no matter of what character, base or otherwise, is ground to that degree of fineness that ail the gold in it is liberated and that it only remains to devise some method of catching it. It Is at this point that the distinctly me-chanical character of the mill is developed. Below the chamber in "hich the ore is ground down and entirely removed both from the pulp itself and the action of the crushers, so that there is no possibility of any "flouring" of the quick, is the mercury chamber. A column of water coming from below washes over the top of the quicksilver at such a degree of pressure as to carry away both the pulverized rock and ail the base elements it contains, but yet so gradu-ated as to allow the fine gold to settle down through it on the mercury. The mer-cury , is tapped off periodically and the amalgam extracted from it in the usual way. This is in substance the philosophy of the whole scheme. The mer-cury can't "flour" because the pulp never touches it. It can't "sicken" because the base elements, the sulphides and assenides of iron, copper and lead, are kept away from it by the rising water which washes them through the waste pipe into the tail-ings, allowing nothing to settio down into or touch the quicksilver but gold itself; and of this it is claimed that from 90 to 95 per cent is saved, no matter how ba6e tho ore may be. The mill depends for its success upon an exceedingly fine pulverization of tho pulp and upon the mechanical action of a nicely-balance- d column of water. That la the whole principle in a nutshelL A TEN-TO- N MILL is small, cheap, uses but little water, reduces the ore at from 60 cents to a dollar a ton and the wearing parts can be restored as readily as the shoes and dyes of a stamp mill. If all this be true it will drive the stamp mill, the' smelting furnace and the cyanide out of existence; it will revolution-ize the gold industry by saving half of what is now lost every year and enable thousands of mines to be worked that heretofore were unprofitable. So that it would be wise for men interested in gold mines to watch the result of the experiment now being tested at Deep Creek. Let them not limit them-selves to the Idea that the mineral in that region is exclusively a low grade lead. THE SILVER KIT, but will begin soon. The second-clas- s ore on the dump and in the mine has been leased. Louis Gerard will run a jig on the ore and pay a royalty to the owners. This has been tried on the ore and it concentrates well, producing a very desirable grade of rock. - - 'It is expected that the BALD EAGLE SHOUF will soon develop into a bonanza equal to th'e best mines of the camp. The ground is 1S00 feet wide by 1500 feet in depth and will be cut across diagonally by the famous On-tario drain tunnel. - This will make it a dry mine to the depth of 1500 feet and will result in a great saving to the owners. Tho tunnel is almost to the eastern edge of the Bald Eagle group now and the recent rich strike indicates that a big chute of pay ore will be unearthed. COLORADO MINING MATTERS. ' "Denver, Aug. 19. The most remarkable event in the annals of our state occurred during the past week. The twenty-fift- h tri-ennial conclave of the magnificent order of Knights Templar brought a prodigious host, for the transportation of which all the vast railway facilities of the west between Chi-cago, St. Louis and San Francisco were taxed to their utmost, Indeed, we have the statements of the managers that nothing like it has occurred in the history of rail-roading. It is unnecessary to dwell, upon the inci-dents attending this memorable occasion, for they have been heralded to the world by at least a thousand reporters and by this time, if not inscribed upon the measureless scroll of the forgotten, are simply happy memories with such as were fortunate enough to be situated in a manner to mako their stay pleasurable. The principal advantage to Colorado ac-crues from the number of permanent set-tlers brought by this unprecedented tidal wave. While the Knights were transient and have mostly now returned to their several homes, TUB ADVERTISEMENT to them of the resources and opportunities to bo found here will inevitably cause many changes of residence from all points of the compass to the Rocky mountains. All have been royally welcomed, and entertained with boundless hospitality. The occasion has been nade as agreeable as lavish expenditure of money, polite attention and a perfectly devised and directed system of administra-tion could make it. There has been but one serious disaster the terrible accident to one large section of tho Santa Fe just out-side the city limits whereby eighteen or twenty passengers were badly injured. Elsewhere it has been a round of enjoyment from the beginning to the close of conclave week. The order of Knights Templar represents some of the better elements of society in every state in the union. It represents also countless MILLIONS or CAPITAL. colossal enterprise, limitless commerce. It would be exceeding strange if among the twenty to thirty thousand heads embellished with white and black plumes there were not some who have not already tesolved to cast their fortunes here. The rare beauty of the climate, the evidences of. wealth and pro-gress on every side, the seductive allure-ments of mining, or the attractiveness of our settlements, above all the facinatin spirit that pervades the great empire between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific, form Irre-sistible inducements for the younger and middle-age- d man of this generation to make homes there. It was the hope cf creat. ' ' ' THE MON1TOE LODE, owned by John McMahon and W. T. Totten. This is a lead about thirty feet between the walls on the surface. They have a shaft 114 feet deep, but have never crosscut the lead in the shaft. The shaft is full of water at present. Mr. McMahon says they struck a shoot of ore at fifty feet in depth which con-tinues to the bottom of the shaft, 114 feet, which will average fifty feet in width with an average assay of $200 per ton in free gold. Truly this is a bonanza. Lying to the west of here is THE BLUE-ETE- NELLIE, owned by James Russell and Jamse Thomp- son. They have a tunnel .300 feet in, which shows three different chutes of ore, each chute miking an excellent showing for a large mine, there being ore continuously for a distance of 200 feet and ore in the face of the tunnel. There are four claims in this group, which the boys are offering to bond on very reasonable terms, and such property ought not to go They have taken some very rich bismuth ore running into the thousands of dollars per ton. There is also a tunnel 175 feet long showing some I very fine copper and silver ore, but they I have not struck a large body of this ore as ' yet. , Lying parallel with these leads and on the north is the GEORGE CROGHAN LODE, owned by George Heuer, developed by a tunnel 240 feet long, and showing from 1 to 6 feet of ore, some of the ore being very rich. Mr. Hcuer has five claims here which join the McArthur on the west. They are all large leads and show ore wherever they are opened up. One place showing 1 a large body of free milling gold ore on the ; surface of about the same character of ore j as found in the Monitor lead at 50 feet in - depth. Surely this group of claims, cam-- J mencing at D. S. Osgood's and taking in Arthur's, McMahon's, Totten's, Russell iMc Thompson's group, and Charles Heuer's of five claims, is as fine a showing for 4 development work done as can be found in Montana. THE AMERICAN FLAO is a claim owned by George Gaskell and partner, lying a little north of the Copper Bell mine, and running parallel. They have sunk a shaft thirty-fiv- e leet deep, and Mr. Gaskell says they have twenty inches of $100 ore in the bottom of the shaft, but the water was 60 strong that they had to abandon the shaft and commence a tunnel, which' is in fifty feet and will tap the lead at about 100 feet. They are pushing ahead as rapidly as possible, and Mr. Gaskell feels confident that he will be able to develop a paying property before snow flies. The boys who havo been working THE COPrER BELL on lease, feel pretty well satisfied with the results. Buck Wilson, James Madden and Robert Cain have a lease for six months and have taken out six cars of ore, which run about $100 to the ton. The boys arc trying to get a new lease, which they expect soon to accomplish. THE SIRICS MINE lies about one mile and a half southeast of the Copper Bell mine, and is operated at present by Joseph Garneau, .fames Wasson and Barney Montague. These boys have a large amount of dead work, running a tun-nel over 600 feet and a raise of over a hun-dred feet for an air Shaft, but at last they are beginning to get a reward for their la-bor. ' They have a fine body of galena ore, and over 100 feet of stoping ground which gives thetn an opportunity to make a hand-some pull during the continuance of their lease. Lying east of the Siris is THE SNOWBIRD, owned by Joe Weaver, Charles Kroegle and Nets Pearson. They have a shaft down 100 fuet aad about six inches of fine ore la the than with the ascending, as we can apply means for protection and safety at the rear of an ascending load which we cannot ap- - ply to a descending load. Another point which we think in favor of the elope opening is the short space of time in which we can begin to realize an income from our invested capital. By a slope opening we csn find a field of coal and begin charging ovens in one month,two hundred in six months, and three hundred in one year, as has already been done. Whereas opening this coal by shaft would require six months before we would begin to realize on the capital invested and we lose not only the interest on the capital invested, but the profit on what we would have produced during the six months. Still another point in favor of a slope opening is the facility with which all mate-rial used in the mine,such as posts and reils, can le sent down. In the slope all thaMs necessary is to load the material on the wag-ons, and it goes directly to the point de-sired, while on the other hand in the shaft all rails have to be placed on the eages in a vertical position which necessitates handling' at the top of the shaft snd rehandling at the bottom, thus increasing the cost. Again, granting, that we will exercise as much skill and good judgment in the opera-tion and management of the slope as t&v shaft, our first aim should be to reach the extreme boundary or dip of the coal in the slope opening and from this point commence exhausting all our coal and thereby create a constantly increasing sump-roo- and as each flat or lift is worked out and aban-doned it will not only lessen the lift of water very materially, but will have the great ad-vantage of solidly filling up all the vacant space with water, thereby absolutely pre-venting the accumulation of large bodies of dangerous gases in the abandoned portions of the mine, and at the same time improves the ventilation by constantly reducing the rubbing surface. Again, experience teaches us that the vol-ume of water incrceses ia proportion to the amount of territory it is requisite to keep drained. Now from the time we rcaeh our boundary line by the slope method, our ter-ritory Will be gradually getting less, conse-quently the cost of pumping will gradually decrease as our coal is exhausted so that when our mine is finished we will have left in the exhausted space a volume of water equal to the volume of coal extracted. y hereas, by the shaft method It is abso-lutely necessary to keep every foot of the territory drained until the last ton of coal has been hoisted. So that your expense for pumping and .operating will be greatest when your production is least. Now, in summing up the few points given (and we could have given many more) wherein the slope has the advantage over tho shaft, we find first, that we have a difference of $30,500 in the cost of opening in favor of the slope. Second, all the material, both coal ana water, has to be lifted only three, fifths as high by the slope as by the shaft. Third, by the shaft it requires two pairs of of engines to deliver the same tonnage on the surface that is delivered by one pair in the slope. Fifth, we can realize an income from our capital much sooner by the 6lope than we can by the shaft. Sixth, it is much cheaper and more convenient to send mate-rial into-th- e mine by slope than by shaft. Seventh, by the slope method we prevent the accumulation of large bodies of dangerous gases in the exhausted parts of the mine, and as each successive lift is abandoned we diminish the cost of pumping; also improve our ventilation by diminishing the rubbing surface. Eighth, by the slope we have ac-cumulated in the mine a volume of water equal to the material exhausted, thereby saving the cost et lifting It. the Silver Kins: has come into prominence several hundred claims have been located on the same mountain, and the assays range from $10 to $500 in silver, while the ores also carry copper and lead. West of Nel-son is A GOLD BELT extending down the Kootenai river, and pla-cer mining has been done on a 6mall scale. During the fall of 1891 some rich , finds were made in what is now known as the Kaslo-Sloca- n district, between Slocan lake and the north end of Kootenai lake. Into this division of the Kootenai a great many miners went this spring, and some extraor-dinarily rich ores are said to have been found. The prospect hole of the Noble Five in the Kaslo-Sloca- n has just been sold for $60,000, and the Climax, Hennessy and Seaton claims are considered as good. The ore ranges in value from $58 to $150 a ton, and is from two to TEN FEET THICK in ledges from twelve to twenty feet. A sample of ruby silver from the district as-sayed - $3200 to the ton, and one of native silver showed $5000. The confidence of mining men in these several ores is shown by the fact that Far-re- ll & Hcndryx are spending from $300,000 to $400,000 on a refinery and smelter at Pilot Bay, on the east side of Kootenai lake. Real estate in the various mining camps is beginning to bring good prices. A lot in Nelson that sold for $100 two years ago was recently bonded for $3,500. Though there are only about fifty houses at Pilot Bay, where the smelter is being built, lots arc selling at from $450 to $1,000, and in Kaslo at from $200 to $300. NEW MEXICO MINES-- Hillsboro, New Mexico, August IS. Viewed as a process of concentration, the copper matte furnace is a most pronounced success. For every ton of matte produced from twelve to fifteen tons of ore arc con-sumed, and the great proportion of worth-less slog in the dump represents the saving effected-- The average expense of market-ing ore in Pneblo or Denver is about $50 a ton; the cost of smelting docs not exeeed $5 per ton, so that on from eleven to fourteen tons the saving effected is about $22 per ton. It must be readily perceived also that $30 or less value ore cannot be readily shipped at any profit, and that this home process opens a remunerative market for unlimited amounts of low grade ore hitherto thrown over the dump or left in the mines. In this way the smelter benefits the miners, profits its owners and further insures a considera-ble and not otherwise possible tonnage for the railroad. Thus, again, the completion of the rail-road will reduce the cost of fuel and out-going freight on matte and , enable the smelter to successfully treat still lower grades of ore, to extend its operations and to insure to Hillsboro the business and activity it should possess. MINING NOTES. ' The Standard company will eoon com-mence the erection of a 100-to- n mill. The production of their Snake and Opportunity mines is much ahead oi present mill capac-ity and Is increasing constantly. Free gold specimens of exceeding richness are very common just now In camp. It is evident that the gold strike in the 350 south level of the Snake is one of considerable dimensions. As usual in such cases it is al-most impossible to get reliable particular,. . J GEORGE M. SCOTT, President. JAS. GLENDINKT.NG, Vice-Preside- nt. H. S. BUMFIELD, Secretary, G. M. Scott & Co IXC0EP0RATJED. 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