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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. ore. South drift, same level has been advanced but little since last re port. In this drift there has been n improvement. The chloride ore taken out by lessees and now being worked, averages about $40, tailings $5. Rei.i.k Isle. The north drift from the joint Navajo east crosscut has been extended 20 feet; total, lot) feet; is now connected with an old east drift that gives 130 feet of grouml in lengih to slope. The ore vein in No. 1 and 2 slopes on this ledge is almut 8 inches wide, aud of fair milling ore. The connection with the old drift gives good ventilation. The upraise on 250 foot level has been carried up 10 feet; total, ri0 feet. Vein is 14 inches wide, and the ore low grade. Noetii Rkm.k Isle The north drift, lot) foot level, has been extended 8 fet, and a crosscut west has been started near the face. The ground for some distance has been all ledge formation. The ore seems narrow but rieji. Will now thoroughly prospect the ground with crosscuts. Have made but little progress sinking the winze iroin the 150 toot level ; delay caused by cutting out and timbering win.e station. Thestopes are looking and producing as usual; vein is narrow, but ore very rich. Pulp assays for the past week have averaged $275.40. The Gold Hill Xurs of the 20th makes this mention of the north-enmines on the Comstock-At the north end all is reported as going ahead well. Sierra Nevada is raising in the ore body struck east of the 2,000 main lateral drift aud north of the line of the main sliatt. The raise is said to be in the crosss ot ore cut 1,000 feet nortli of the incline, And where the thirty came out that assayed $13.75 per ton. It will be remembered that in running cast seventy feet, the first three feet of $10 and $12 rock were cut. Further on five feet ot $10 rock was found, and still further to the cast the formation from which the thirty cars of ore were taken, and portions ot which yielded over $200 assays. Nine feet oi good, clear, gold rock was found 100 further south, and rock 100 feet further north, when cut by the diamond drill, gave $5 to $10 assays. The north drift, 2,500 level, is also progressing well and will doubtless find ore at the proper time. are running and that Of Union it is only known that the cross-cutthey are not yet cast far enough to hit the ore vein. d : of boring with the diamond drill for water is now being seriously discussed aud the miners are determined that bv hook or by crook they will have a well in the camp aud not be obliged to cart their water from the creek. The camp puts on all the airs of one many years older, except the roughness which is almost entirely absent. Dwelling houses, boarding houses, assay and recorder's oliiees, stores, saloons and dance hall, the last some distance from the cainp itself, have changed it wonderfully from the Carhonateville of a year or even six months ago. Most ot those in the camp are working men, and there are to be seen few if any idlers. The mines tributary to it are all looking up well and richly and their owners arc; encouraged more aud more as they sink on the leads. Capital is being enlisted, and a lately developed enterprise, which a prudence easily understood veils from mention, is rapidly on the road to consummation, the result of which will be a doubling of the value of every foot of land in or around the camp, and of every mine in the district. A New' Camp. A discovery of reported rich quartz leads about eight miles from Herlows station has drawn a good many prospectors thither, with so far very meagre results. Our reporter has some very fine and har.dsomc white quartz from that vicinity, but not as yet any very promising ore. However, a district cannot be judged by a few specimens and there may lie some good property there. As yet, no assays have liecn reported, though the whole ground in the vicinity is covered with location stakes. XE W MEXICO. The Xetc Mexican of the 10th furnishes the following: T1IE RICHEST STKfK K YET. ore which assayed enormously had been taken. In conversation with Mr. Martin, a reporter of the Xnr Mixiemi was informed that the lead was found in the village of Las Phidias, on the road from the New Placers to Rernalillo, and about eight miles trom the latter place. The road passes immediately over the deposit, aDd hundreds of people, including experienced miners and geologists and mining experts, have passed over it time and time again in search of the mineral under their feet. Mr. Martin has been engaged in mining for many yPars and he has now struck the biggest thing he ever saw. lie brought a number of the specimens of the ore to Santa Fe, some of which he took to Dr. ounces of gold E. Andrews to be assayed. One assay showed 253 showed and or about $4,504 per ton, subsequent assays equally as well. 'returned A low grade of the ore was also assayed and $43 20 to the ton. The lead is said to be eighty odd paces wide and 0,000 feet along the vein has been staked oil'. Of these clanns Mr. Martin, Governor Lew "Wallace and Mr. 8. II. Lucas are the principal owners, each of these gentlemen having secured 1,500 feet along the vein. The ore is milling and is very deceptive in appearance, no gold or trace of gold being apparent to the naked eye. This is probably why the huh; was never have been taken from the before discovered. Quantities oi the no one in but the suspected that there was anything ground vicinity, hid behind its commonplace appearance. It is even said that the corrals at Las Placitas are enclosed with ore similar to that which assayed $43.20 here yesterday. If this is true it is probably the only ease on record where dumb brutes were penned in by golden laden walls. Hitcher Hoy. This mine lias been sold to Pal ton, Crossmi and others. The consideration was $050 cash. The new owners have christened it the Mountain Queen anil verily less appropriate'n-imefor mines have there been. The average ol three assays made from ore taken across the whole width of the vein was $0. silver and gold, while picked specimens have given from $500 to $075 as a result. Some of the on1 pounded in a mortar aud panned out roughly showed seven nr eight colors of gold, this test being made last Monday. Oil this claim there is now but a twelve toot bole, but the new owners are putting down other shafts and are now taking out ore for shipment to Pueblo. shaft down on a sixty-foo- t contract, the pay Hertiia. Has a ft aud inches lu streak at this depth galena quart.. ing twenty-twand thirty-threounces silver. ore from the vein assays thirty-twThe Silver Ckkrimh. Carhonateville is now a live camp, a solid and constantly growing one. Tents have almost entirely given way to frame buildings, and Ungers A Cottle are now putting up a large ad ;be building. Its situation could hardly In; better save lor the absence of water, a drawback which will soon be done away with, as the project 2-1- 0 s t Av-wag- o o I Nick Nitiokt. Last week a handsome nugget was picked up in the claim of Spencer, Hros. k Porter. It weighed a fraction less than ten ounces, but was of such unique shape that $3lH) was ollered for it and refused. It is the prettiest specimen we have ever xvun.Mtnlimn'iin. Hutte Miner : The volume of business trans acted in Hutto is steadily increasing, and there is no remote indication that it will take a relapse. There arc no fears of the mines of this district petering, for we have no blanket deposits to scoop out in a few short months' time. Our mines are only in the first stages of their development, and hence confidence in a permanent and large trade is manifested by all our business men. IDAHO. Yankee Fork Diiitrirt. Scmmit. At the depth of forty feet a body of ore worth $2,000 per It. was in ton was struck in the Summit mine, on Custer Mountain f teet worked in wide. The ore the newr shaft, and is two aud Chris. Morlers arastra last fall w'ent well up into the hundreds. Tunnels are I wing run to connect the old and new shafts so as to obtain pure air. A batch of the ore will soon he worked in Morler's arastra. one-hal- Quite a sensation was created in the city yesterday by the announcement of a rich strike made near Bernalillo. The rumor was to the effect that Mr. Jesse Martin, whom almost all miners know, had found a vein on the north side side of the Sandia mountains, trom which gold fly-foo- 4 MOXTAXA. car-load- s i e e llernll. DAKOTA. : Mr. Woodward, one of the owners of the mine Salmon near much talked of Custer, came into town vesterday with a wagon load of ore from that mine, that certainly never has been surpassed in richness by anything that has lam seen in the hills. There is from 1,200 to 1,800 pounds of the rock; some of it hnrd white (piartz, some of it white decked with black, and some of it black as mangane.e; but all of it is literally gleaming with free gold. Every piece of it is veined and seamed and dotted with glistening yellow metal, so that the ore itself would almost do to polish un for 'jewelry. Some of it assays $18,000 to the ton, and all of it far up in the hundreds. The one drawback about it is that it is refractory ore, and will not yield its gold to any of the processes now in use at tiie Hills. Hlack Hills Pioneer , 11th rr ARIZONA. Tombstone District, Tlu: Epitnh , in speaking of the mills of this district, says : Durin the recent heavy rains the Hood in the valley of the Hio San Pedro swept away a portion of the dam aliove the Charleston mills, necessitating a shut down for a few days. Pending the repair, the mills were thoroughly overhauled, and the additional five stamps of the Gird mill were placed in position, and both an running with their aeeus-tome- d regularity. The Contention ami day on ore trom this mill is humming night, mine. Grading for the Sunset 20 Contention City, has well advanced. The stamp mill, one mile work of grading lor and erection ol the Grand Central mill, (the millsite Iwing situate between the Contention and Sunset, mill), is to be commenced immediately. The 20 stamp custom mill of the Poston and Arizona Smelting and Reduction Company, on the San Pedro, just, below Charlestow'n, is completed, the machinery having all arrived, and will be running early in September. The preliminaries having all W:i settled, Mr. C. 8. Pilshury will begin the erection immediately at Waterville of a custom quartz mill. The machinery lias been at Ilenson for several davs. When completed Hie mill will have a capacity ot from eight to ten tons daily. It is a we are and be will as known the Hopkins mill. informed, dry crusher, Its completion is expirted in about forty days. It gives us great satisfaction to chronicle the above item, a custom mill being one of the wants from which this camp has long been laboring. This comiug week the smelter in tiie Mule Pass will commence its work on Copper Queen ore. A new mill is in course of construction in Evans District, in tiie Hiiaeluieas, and another is under contract by Eastern parties for Dos Cabezas. well-know- 20-stam- I i p n la-lo- 20-stam- p r i i 1 t |