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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. LINCOLN DISTRICT, UTAH. IT IS COMING This district is situated in Beaver county, and is attracting the attention of capital. A great deal of work has been done on the mines, and the following report of Prof. J. S. Newberry, of the Columbia College of Mines, after a recent very careful examination of the December mine, must carry much The thunder is heard, and the flashes of lightning which horri-zoportend the coming storm arc plainly discernible on the The atmosphere is rife with strikes and developments weight: roiOF. newheurys hepout. minthe all over districts in the mines of the different great The December is located on a large, vein, which is but imeral belts of the West. From British Columbia to Mexico, perfectly developed by the explorations yet made upon it. It new districts are being discovered and organized almost daily, apparently stands nearly vertical, and has a direction bearing and it bewilders one to consider the immensity of the West but little from true east and west. It is enclosed in granite A considerable walls, and is from 50 to 100 feet in width. in mineral resources. Districts abandoned years ago are comportion of the vein is composed of a greenish, hard, tough, to as such a and more once front the to showing making ing rock, but the central portion is made up of epidote forever place at rest doubts as to their value. The pick and bands of white quartz, carrying much specular iron. Near drill is busy in Utah, and her steady bullion shipments are bethe north wall the epidote has been penetrated by a double excavation was ing marked by capital. Idaho is building quartz mills and incline, to the depth of about 100 feet. This will be soon adding her share of the precious metals to the made for the purpose of following a somewhat irregular chute or chimney of ore specular iron with some galena, carrying, necessities of commerce. Nevada has sufferd from the black-ey- e from 30 to 3000 ouiices of silver. The central portion of the old as received through the Comstock two years ago, but vein has been opened by two shafts, about 40 feet deep. well as new districts are boldly coming to the front with such These display a distinct banded structure in the vein, and a showing of good mines as must receive attention. The have furnished considerable ore specular iron and galena, from $25 to $40 in silver and $4 to $10 in gold per steady drop of the stamp mills, of Dakota are making their yielding ton. A tunnel has been driven into the north wall of the should bullion and Montanas shipments monthly impression, vein, about 100 feet, and perhaps an equal distance below its clamorMexico is New State to or a be pride This tunnel is all in granite, and is supposed to Territory. any outcrop. ing to bo heard, and California still has some of the steady have reached within 25 or 30 feet of the vein. In my judgment this tunnel should be continued through the vein, in dividend paying mines. order to afford what is not now a clear idea of its Capital, that great motive power which makes and dethrones structure. The other work done attainable, on the vein have opened so is westward. has in iron held been the bound It Kings, moving little of it that they afford very imperfect means of judging coffers of the East until it is rusty and the monied men must of its value. They give very encouraging indications, howhave their cent, per cent. They are beginning to perceive the ever, and such as warrant the expenditure of whatever difference between six and eight per cent, per annum and the amount may be necessary to fully test its structure and richimmense profits offered in the opening up and working of good ness. On the whole, the December mine promises to become and and valuable one, and to my eye it seems tliQ mines. The enormous wealth suddenly acquired in Leadville most important attractive property in the district. by several Eastern firms nearly set the people crazy on that section, but when the Texas Norther came their ardor cooled. Who is to blame for this crash? Was it not an overGREAT ACCUMULATION OF GOLD. weaning confidence in all that bore the name of Leadville or The New York World says: Thomas C. Acton, SuperinColorado? There are without doubt good mines around Leadtendent of the Assay Office, is receiving by each European ville, but there are rich mines in Utah, Montana, Idaho, Wyosteamer large quantities of gold. This specie is deposited by ming, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, just as importing bankers, and consists of twenty-fran- c pieces, marks, well. But their day is coming. There is too much competiand English coin and bar gold. The vaults already tion in large cities, and capital is seeking a less confined field; Japanese contain about twenty-fiv- e million dollars in gold, bought by the it must have more room, and the West is the only direction in Government during the past year and not as yet taken out for which it can turn. It is coming, and those owning mines The importations of the present year began on the should develop them with the means and rapidity at their coinage. 2d of August, and are already most up to six million dollars, command. Thinking of capital and Leadville reminds us of about $1,700,000 in American coin, which were at a story: A Frenchman was whipping his son for doing some including .once deposited in the Advices have been reThe lie declared would not do so again, ceived of thing naughty. boy enough gold in transit to swell the figures to ten milbut the old man said, Yes, you will py got a lion dollars before the end of the present month. taste of it now. Last year, when the importations began on the 12th of August, the seasons total run reached the unprecedented sum of $75,000,000, and then it was only checked by the importation A New York banker, returned from New Mexico that says of large quantities of iron; hundreds of thousands of tons of the streets of Beal de Monte are literally paved with the baser metal as a substitute for gold in exchange gold and that the abobe bricks in the houses assay $5 each. We for American coming provisions. In the Assay Office about three presume, however, that the banker aforesaid is willing to part days is consumed in melting (up and determining the value of a lot of offered for purchase before the seller gets his check with a few shares in this new El Dorado at a moderate price. for thegold value of the metal. Among large importing houses, An average sample of ore taken from the Eureka Tunnel, dealing heavily in gold, opinion is very much divided as to the Eureka District, Nevada, assayed 50 per cent, lead, 142.91 amount which will come over. Some think the total influx of ounces silver and a trace of gold. gold will run far above last year, and point to the fact that it is already in advance of the figures for the corresponding period Sierra Nevada has levied an assessment of $2. But guess of last year. Other bankers think that the total will not run will make a big strike before it is delinquent. they above $30,000,000. n. . Sub-Treasur- y. tain-youv- e |