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Show i i 0 s i WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. TIIE CHRO UO AND EMELINE MINES, ARIZONA. RICHMOND VS. ALBION, The mining editor of the Silver Ilelt , Globe district, writes up these mines as follows : The Chroino is one of the oldest locations in Globe district, and a great deal of time and money has been expended in its development. A tunnel 1ms been run into the hill a distance of 400 feet, cutting in its way innumerable seams of quartz and spar, some of them small and the two largest measuring 20 and 45 feet respectively. These seams assay from $5 to $25. There are two shafts, one of them down 30 feet, having good ore all the way. The other shaft is down a few feet and drifts run from it wfiicli are in high grade ore. On one of the dumps arc about 25 tons of ore which assays from $97 to $1,G00, This property is connected with Globe by good roads. The main shaft on the Emelinc has been sunk on the vein 50 feet, which shows an ore streak 18 inches wide, averaging 200 ounces per ton. A tunnel is being driven from the base of the hill to connect with the shaft, which it will do in 140 feet. Over 100 feet is already run on ore of the same value, but in some places it is two feet thick. There has been extracted and worked up to the present time from the shaft and tunnel 123 tons, besides 100 tons from stoping 225 tons in all, which averaged 150 ounces at the mill. Ore is being shipped to the Baldwin mill at the Wheatfields every day, and new. stopes are being started which will greatly increase the yield. A new working shaft will be started as soon as the connection is made between the present shaft and the tunnel. The increasing richness and width of the vein, as depth is attained, warrants the thorough development of the property. From the Eureka Sentinel of the 1st we clip the following : The new injunction suit against the Albion will be commenced before Judge Rives in chambers, on Friday next. Notes of are visible, on. every .hand. I he attorneys are Eeparation matters in shape. Hon. Thos. Wren appears for and Hon. A. M. Hillhouse and Judge Have E. Baily for the Albion. The present proceeding is to determine whether or not the temporary restraining order shall be made permanent, pending the trial of the case on its merits. The hearing probably will not occupy more than three or four days and no matter which side wiiis, the other is likely to carry the case to Carson. Various suits are pending between these Companies, all of which have been transferred to the United States Circuit Court, except that whicli comes on for hearing on Friday. The main case will not be tried in Carson before N ovember. J. , THE OUTLOOK Although at the present time Candelaria, Nevada, is comparatively dull to what it was a few months ago, says the True Fissure, it is safe to predict that before many months have gone by there will be a healthy reaction in all branches of business, especially in mining, which is the backbone of of the cainp. Generally speaking, it is dull all over the coast, and it is but natural that we should feel the depression. Virginia City is very dull, so are Eureka and Bodie and Mill Creek. These are all old camps, and well known. This town and its mines are yet in their infancy, the development of the latter having hardly commenced. The extension of the railroad to this place is another encouraging sign, and shows that capital has confidence in the great chloride belt. With the introduction of the road, supplies will become cheaper, and mining machinery, which it now takes from three to four weeks to deliver, can be shipped here at a few days notice. The telegraph will shortly be here, and the bank is in course of erection, both of which will be welcomed among us. The next project will undoubtedly be that of a sufficient water supply, which is much needed. A handsome return awaits the parties who will take hold of this enterprise. All things considered, no one should get blue over the temporary quietness, but take things philosophically and prepare for the active times that are not far distant. Another strike has been made in the vicinity of Cummins Wyoming, by .John Cummins and W. S. Bramel. It consists of a mammoth vein of g ore, which prospects well. It is about three miles from Cummins City, in a northwesterly direction. gold-bearin- The third number of Musgroves Western Mining Gaze- tteer is printed, and is an improvement on its predecessors. The paper ought to thrive. Suit Luke Tribune , Sept 3A These little items are published because they are. of so much interest to the public not that we care for them. . THE WAY THE MONEY GOES. The Pichc Record of the 28th contains the following bit of news which will be interesting reading to those holding Raymond & Ely stock : The Sheriffs sale of the real property of the Raymond & Ely Company takes place on the 2nd of September and of course the inartgagees 'will bid it in. This property is assessed at about half a million dollars, and the whole property of the company, both real and personal, was mortgaged for $52,000, and is going to be permitted to fall into the clutches of the mortgagees for this small amount. The tailings of the company could have been sold for at least $100,000, enough to pay off the entire indebtedness of the company and leave a nice little sum in the treasury. The trustees, or the man who controlled the trustees, perhaps thought it was wrong to give the stockholders any chance, and rather than to do wrong, concluded to hog the whole thing. -- , Tlic Rise. and Fall of Miniiig Towns, The Nevada Monthly prints the following: Three years ago there was for a time, but one man living on the site of what is now the populous city of Bodie, and that man was only waiting for the snow to go off to leave the country. There are in each of which there are but five or six mining camps y men, and any one of these camps is liable tn repeat the history of Bodie- - There are mining camps which at one time contained upwards of ten thousand population, that are now deserted. When t mining district comes into prominence, it fills up with peeple with o rush, and in most cases is over-donwhen a district begins to fail, there is a stampede out of its. These are phases of the ups and downs of a mining country. Take a mining town that is in the rush geriod and a town-lo- t may command $10,000. Take it. a month afterwards, when it is in the stampede period, and the same property could not be sold for $15; and its owner would probably be glad to trade it for a pair of blankets with which to go prospecting for a new camp. But all mining camps do not thus go up like a rocket and come down like a stick. When the rush subsides, the population then begins to accomodate itself to the resources of the place, and the surplus population disappears in a great measure and the places settle down to business. This has been the history of all the mining towns of merit on the coast that are old enough to have passed through the necessary conditions; though it is qualified somewhat by the fact that in nearly all mining towns there is a surplus of'"miners am laborto-da- e; ing men. m .. tyanri Slahdu id : Jlr. Mark. W. Musgrove, for- -' merly of the Ymdre Fork Jferultl, lias commenced the publication in this city of a new weekly mining journal, the Wkstkk.v Mixing Gakkttkkk, which made its first appear18th ance on the nit. It is (juarto in form, nicely on book paper, and devoted to mining information ofprinted this and other Territories. We wish it success and trust it will meet with encouragement from mining men here and elswhere. Anti-Po- l |