| Show MORE COPPER MINES BONDED The Clark Syndicate Secures a Dozen More Properties Messrs Snedaker and Shear the ex perts representing the Clark syndicate that has become so largely Interested in i the copper mines of this district have been engaged since their arrival here last week in surveying the boundaries boun-daries of the claim already acquired and In addition have bonded about a dozen more The new acquisitions are the Fnmoug and Bully Boy owned by John Weber the August owned by P C Weber and Thomas Rockhill the Boss of Nevada owned by Thomas Rockhill and Mrs Magnuson and the I Turkey Splon Kop and Last Hope I owned by Thomas Rockhill We un I derstand that the bonds are to run for one year and Involve the performance of considerable1 development work while the ultimate price to bepaid aggregates ag-gregates gt nearly 20000 In addition to these properties five or six claims be longing l to R A Rlcpe have been tied up Altogether this syndicate now holds nearly forty claims in this district the greater portion of them adjoining and making one immense group on which development work is being pushed In several places About twentyfive men are now employed and this force will without doubt be increased us room is mate for them White Pine Nev Ore and Bullion Settlements In the ore and bullion market the week opened with settlements amount setlements Ing l to 80920 divided as follows folows McCornlck Co Mingo bullion 5300 silver and lead ores 13200 T R Jones GoOre 21500 bul lion 1 S31GOO Bamberger r McMillan Silver and lead l ores 7420 Commercial National Bank Silver and lead ores 2000 In the metal market silver ruled at 64 cents an ounce casting copper at 15 cents a pound and lead at I a hun dred pounds f J Sale of Rambler The sale of the Rambler mine in tho Grand Encampment district Wyoming fs reported by 1 the Denver Republican to have been concluded the price paid being 250000 The purchasers are ofll clals of the Union Pacific railroad The Rambler is looked upon as belli second sec-ond only as a copper proposition to the Fcrrlsllaggerly mine It produces I avery a-very rich ore running us high as 03 per cent copper and has Immense bOll ies of a lower grade It Is these pur chaser It Is said who had an option on the FcrrlsHaggerty property for 2 000000 hut at the expiration of the option the owners refused I to renew It The purchase of the Rambler by the Union Pacific interests it Is thought will secure the construction of that road Into the Battle Lake country Queen of the Hills Option The Queen of the Hills property at Salmon City Ida has been bonded to New York capitalists by Drp A II Franklin of the Blackbird mining syn dicate which has controlled the prop crly The New York capitalists will take Immediate possession Th option I will expire November 1 1901 and by that time the now operators are to enlarge en-large th i present mlii and to crosscut a number of velira addition to sinking sink-ing still deeper the present 250foot shaft The property Is believed by all the parties Interested In the transaction to possess values that will make it one of the great mines of the West The J main vein Is about fourteen feet wide and from sa to 7 a ton are realized on the platcsA larger vein which has not been explored it Is believed will yield good returns Time price of the l bond was not announced |
