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Show - WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. BULLION SHIPMENTS. CARBONATES AT LAST. TJio Laramie Times says at frequent intervals during the summer our people have been told that carbonates real, genuine carbonates had been found near our city, but each time the ore proved to lie of such a low grade that it would not pay to work it. Although the geological formation of the country is such that scientists declare that carbonates exist here somewhere, the frequent disappointments have led people to hoot at the idea, and declare that the only paying ore m the country was quartz. Yet it seems that the scientists were right, and that a body of rich silver ore, similar to that found at Leadvillc, exists iiear us, of a richness that will open the eyes of everyone. Nor is the fact of their richness mere for an assay of this ore gave a return of $87 per guess-worWe were shown a piece of the ore by Luce ton in silver. and left for Cheyenne.. Sweer, who came in from there The location of this new camp is at present a secret, but will Suffice it to say be given to our readers at the proper time. that Laramie City will be the outfitting and supply point for the new bonanza. k, to-da- y, The following shipments were made from Salt Lake, through the companies named, for the week ending September 3d: PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY. Aug. 31. Six bars Crimson Mammoth Sept. 2. Five bars Crimson Mammoth Two bars Tintic M. & M. Co $ 2,940.00 2,342.00 755.48 Total... $ 5,037.48 MCOKNICK & COMPANY. Two cars Brooks, one car Morgan, four cars Old Telegraph, and four bars Stormont. . .$17,015.00 Aug. 30. One car Morgan and one car Brooks. . . . 3,150.00 Aug. 31. Two cars Old Telegraph and one car Brooks 4,050.00 1. One car Brooks, and four bars Stormont.. 8,000.00 Sept. One car Old Telegraph and one car SteSept. 2. vens 2,050.00 Aug. 28. . Total Mine Ventilation. $30,005.00 WELLS, FARGO & CO. The Gold Hill Meics tells of a simple and efficient method of Aug. 27. Four cars Horn Silver as: ventilation adopted by the Scorpion mine, on the Comstock, Four bars Ontario follow : As is usual with good inventions, the method adopted by the Scorpion is exceedingly simple. An eight-inc- h pipe is led from from the surface to near the face of the east drift on the 500-folevel; total length of pipe, about 850 feet. On the surface the exhaust of the hoisting engine is thrown into this pipe. This exhaust as it goes out the surface and of this nipe creates a partial vacuum, which is filled by atr coming up tne pipe, thus causing the fill to take place at the lower end. By. this means fresh air is induced to flow down the shaft and to the face of the ot One bar. bullion Aug. 28. Four bars Ontario Aug. 30. Five cars Horn Silver Twelve bars Ontario Aug. 31. Two cars Horn Silver Six bars Ontario Two cars Horn Silver Sept. 2 Four bars Ontario Total drift to supply the place of that literally sucked out by the ex- haust.. The practical working of this method is most satisfactory. Where it' was next to impossible a short time ago to exist, and where after a blast the workmen were unable to get in for hours, now there is an abundant supply of fresh air, and the fumes of powder are cleared out in a few minutes. The system is to be patented, and letters have been applied for. In speaking ef the sale of a very rich placer claim, the Butte Miner savs: The mine embraces 800 acres of mineral land in Opliir gulch, including the bars. The ground is about thirty feet deep and the pay gravel averages about 20 feet in thickness. Much of the gravel is said to prospect all the way from ten to twenty cents to the pan. It will require a flume from two to three miles long to strike the bed-roc- k at the lower end of the ground, but when this has been done, the company will have about four miles of pay ground at the head of their flume. There is an ample water supply from 1,500 to 2,000 inches and the design is to put m a flume of sullicient capacity to utilize this water. Mr. Grayson estimates the cost of this flume at $20,000 but proposes in the spring to push on the work rapidly with a large force of men. The purchasers are Messrs. Grayson, Colnian & Co., of San Francisco, who have bought the claim at the price of $25,000 from its former owners, Col. A. II. Beattie, of Helena, and Mr. Jonn ORourke, of Butte. It is said that Messrs. Grayson & Coleman are also negotiating for the purchase of some quartz claims about Butte, among others the High Ore owned by Mr. J . Y. Suprenant. ; r ! i $77,495.90 Grand total . . $110,598.44 The AJgonquiu Mill, A correspondent of the Butte (Montana) Miner, briefly de. scribes this mill, which was built by Messrs. Griffith & Wedge, Zainesville, Onio, as follows : The plant consists of a power engine, the steam being furnished by two immense boilers. A huge rock breaker crushes the ore as it is brought from the different mines, thence the ore drops upon a drying floor, where it is thoroughly dried and the amount of salt for cholorodizing is added. Then the ore is changed into the hoppers of the Hendy automatic feeders, four in number, there qeing one feeder for each five stamps of the batteries. The ore passes from the stamps through a trough worked by a screw, to a resovoir, from whence it is elevated and runs into the large Howell cylinder, forty feet in length, by five feet in diameter. When the ore has passed through this cylinder it is thoroughly chlorodized and ready for the pans. No salt is added to the pans in this mill, and they generally save a higher per cent, of silver than the chlorination assay shows, on account of the metallic silver in the ore. I should judge that the Algonquin mill saves from to ninety per cent., which is very close work, coneighty-fiv- e sidering the baseness of the Algonquin ore. It is mixed with ore from the Salmon mine, which is much more free in charac100-hpr- Rich Placer. 10,000.00 4,590.34 100.00 4,997.58 8,045.00 15,134.51 . 5,000.00 0,993.32 5,000.00 4,994.95 se ter. The same firm supplies the extensive machinery of the pire mine, Park City Utah. Em- The Western Mining Gazettek is the name under which a handsome quarto of eight pages has been adventured in the Utah field of special journalism, at Salt Lake City. In the initial number we find the promise of a valuable source of information hereafter, touching the mines of Utah and the neighboring Territories. Mew York Mining Record, |
