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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. 'jjcstcrii luiug THE TELEGRAPH MINE. azqifccr. GENERAL MINING NOTES. Among the new claimants for favor among quartz miners is a rocking quartz mill, invented by I). 15. James, of San Francisco. If its claims are good, and it will do what the makers say it will, it will become popular with miners ot limited capital who have ores. It is a combination of the stamp mill and arastra movements, and the crushing is accomplished by rocking a heavy piece of iron in a mortar carrying four shoes in the arc of a circle. The combined weight of the shoes and holder is alternately imparted to each shoe, separately, as it is rocked on the dies, creating sufficient agitation with the water in the mortar to discharge the quartz through the screen as fast as it is reduced, and the gold retained in the mortar, in amalgam, on the inside copper plate and among the dies. There is also a circulating channel from one end of the mortar to the other, through the concave dies, that the feed may be uniform under the free-millin- g convex shoes. The principal mines at present being worked at Mineral llill, Nev., are the Austin, Great Republic and Troy Consolidated and Spencer and North Pole Consolidated. The Austin is, perhaps, the best of the group, and has yielded very handsomely in the- past, having turned out a net of over $100,000 since its location. Tho Spencer and North Pole Con. has also yielded well, and is a very promising claim. During the past year over one hundred tons of ore have been taken from the Austin, and there arc now 200 tons that will run upwards of $100 per ton on the dump ot the Spencer and North Pole Con. For two weeks past a force of men has been engaged in putting in repair the 15. stamp mill belonging to Messrs. Spencer & Co., and it is expected that a start will be made inside of a few' days. Every of best the and in is shape, supplies thing sufliciedt to make a two months run are on hand. Work is progressing finely on the Custer Mill, Bonanza City, Idaho. The batteries are up, the pans are set, and the brick work for the roasters is advancing rapidly. The machinery is being put in place and it is expected crushing will commence about the loth of December. The ore now being taken from the mine is better than any ever before encountered, and the mill could easily be kept crushing quartz worth $500 per ton for several months should the Company so desire. The prospect Mountain Tunnel, Eureka Nevada which was driven 1,400 feet through hard limestone, shows every indication of a vein being. near at hand. This shows what energy - and confidence will do. The Nevada City Cal torn hi Tnnuterijr says: The thirty thousand bar of gold shippei from this city last week by the North Bloom SOMETHING NEW. This property should not be confounded with the Old Telegraph mine, although it is on the same lode ; this being a new company, having been organized in September last. The main incline has attained a depth of 130 feet and follows a well defined vein which averages about three feet in width. The hanging wall is quartzite and the footwall lime. In sinking the incline to this depth 30 tons of ore was extracted which averaged 18 ounces of silver and 55 per cent. lead. The ore today, in the bottom of the incline is 3J feet wide and averages with that heretofore taken out. A tunnel has been started to tap the vein 400 feet down and is now in Go feet and it will be necessary to run it about 175 feet further before cutting the vein helow the present workings in the incline. There is a full supply of lumber, mining timber, etc. on hand to prosecute thorough developments the present winter. The force of men will be considerably increased in a few weeks and work advanced with all possible dispatch. Some of our most influential business men are interested in this property and we shall be glad to see their high anticipations realized. ery for the new hoisting works is on the ground. About 13,000 feet of lumber was shipped out from this city last week to complete the new buildings. The Lead will give employment to 50 men this winter. This is one of the finest properties in the district. THE WORLDS GOLD AND SILVER DUCT FOR 20 YEARS. PRO- Newman Spallart estimates the average annual product of the precious metals to have been as follows : U0LI). on Eighty tons per day arc being raided from the Northern Belle, Nevada mine. mill was recently shipped from San Francisco to the Mina Lricto mine, Sonora. p Col. B. A. M. Froiseth has been appointed genGold is being extracted from black sand on eral agent for the Victor Rock Drill in Utah, the Coast of San Luis Obispo, Cal. Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. This drill is spoken of very New York capitalists arc very enthusiastic highly wherever in operation and being furnished at a low price is something much needed by mining men. The Norway Company Northern Minnesota. has ordered one for use in their mine. ver the mines of Arizona. discovered . It is reported that gold has been 111 ne Please publish for the information of the people that Congress has passed a law by which any anil all persons who made their original homestead entryH prior to June 15, 1880, can make final proof for their land without residence and is owned by Bemis & Co. or cultivation by paying the government price therefor, the fees and commissions paid at date of The Mayflower is the deepest mine in Bing- and get credit for is $1G on each 100 acres. Claimants which original entry, ham, the shaft being down S00 feet. Opera- are not required to publish notice of final proof under this tions are to be resumed at once. The fine vein law. Further information will be given free to any one in the bottom of the shaft will certainly who write to me. Persons who have had homesteads Desert and Timber Culture entries cancelled on account justify the putting at Work of a large force. of conflict, or other good cause, ean obtain repayment of the money paid on their entries. There are 25 men at work on the Lead and J. A. Dailey, Land Agent. 20 tons of ore shipped daily. All the machinSalt Lake, Xov. 20, 1880. The Sundown shows a well defined vein of good ore. It is on the same belt as the Lead The original Empire mine, Grass Valley Cal. one of the oldest mines in that State, has resumed production. A lot of 09,770 pounds of ore from the California mine, Eureka, Nevada, yielded hand 40-stam- air-engi- The Golden Eagle mine, Globe, Arizona, has 1200 tons of gold ore on the dump which averages $G0. There are 40 men at wTork in Copper Gulch The Milk Maid, on Deer Creek, is now' exexclusive of the number at work on the Lead tracting ore assaying 100 ounces silver and GO mine. percent, lead. The Happy Boy and Ruthven mines beThe Miners Dream has been leased to Rhodes & Co. longing to tho Deer Creek Mining Company are opening up finely as work progresses. The Wasatch is idle though several parties are trying to lease it. Editor Gazetteer Hydraulic Mining Co. created considera ble interest when it arrived in San Francisco. A tion in machinery, has just been tried at Woolwich with complete success. It is an invented by Colonel Beaumont, of the Royal Engineers. It is described as a marvel of compactness and convenience, weighing but ten tons, yet capable of hauling a burden of sixteen up a tolerably fair incline. The air reservoir, which contains only 100 cubic feet of air, was charged up to the pressure of 1,000 lbs. to the square inch, and with this supply it was propelled to and from Dartmouth, a distance of sixteen miles. The secret of tho invention was explained by Colonel Beaumont to be the introduction of a minute quantity of steam by which the air is largely heated, and The thereby greatly increased in force. strange looking engine, seemingly uncontrolled by steam or any other motive power, produced the greatest excitement along tho road, and the people asked each other wheather the days had really come when engines should be worked without hands, and journeys accomplished without the reckoning of either time, or space, or any visible guidance. BINGHAM CANYON NOTES. field somely. At least something has been developed the Comstock the small-pox- . A. new invention, destined to make a revolu- |