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Show WESTERN MLMXC GAZETTEER. lfl;tcru ABOUT ASSESSMENTS. jusdfccr t The San Francisco Bulletin of December gives a classified list of the mining assessments falling delinquent between the 1st of January and the 01st of December, 1SS0. The 1G LATEST FROM THE MINES. UTAH. list covers 2 10 claims in California. Nevada, Idaho. Utah, Arizona, Dakota, Lower Californa and Mexico. As it takes at least two months to go through all the legal forms of an assessment, it is impossible for my company to get in more than six during a single year. Only one company succeeded in doing this during the past year. Others levied only one. Sierra Nevada leads in the aggregate amount, having (railed in $1,000,000 the largest amount collected by any single mine in three years. The table iools up $10, . . 000, of which not over able pumping machinery must be put in be- - fifty per cent was paid in. In many eases tlio fore work can be resumed as the volume of collections were not sufliciont to the cost water cannot be handled by the present work, of advertising the assessment pay und'dclinqiient n)tL'0, In twenty years the yield of the Comstock lode has ,been $027), 000, 000 worth of bullion. The length of shafts and galleries is 250 miles.; Three hundred and sixty million tons of waste rock have been hoisted, and 1,720,000, 0(H) tons The Idaho mine of Grass Valley lias declared of water pumped to the surface. another dividend of $. per share, aggregating Tho Glencoe tunnel is in i()() Aid. Fred Rehren 1ms purchased the Turk. The LYrro Gordo is showing up nicely. Work is progressing on the Hornestake tunnel A new shaft is to be sunk on the Mellenrv mine. Work 1ms been suspended on the Ladv of the Imke. There is plenty of $100 ore in sight in the Km pi re. I Some good ore is being extracted from the j North End. Ten tons of lid ounce ore is taken from the Kanarrali daily. A dO-poun- sample from the Luxawaxen d gave an assay of $22. Ore from the Nabob assays 200 ounces in This is the l.0th dividend, and swells the total amount of dividends to $1 Lucky stockholders. The Idaho mine furnishes an example of what perseverance can accomplish in mining. The original owners sunk 7)00 Ait on prospeets before thev had a paying mine. In going down that distance they once lost the ledge altogether. Rut they had faith and determination. They persevered idaiio. and developed a splendid, property, selling out 'fhe shaft on the Carrie Lucille is down 105 he lorce will he increased next week. ieet. The lowin tunne1 on the Sub Ros.i will tap for enough to make them independent, lbr life. The ITawkeve shaft has attained a depth of the vein 500 feet it is now in 10!) feet .,n(. One of the original owners, a cultivated gentle200 feet, the bottom being in quanzitc and fourth the distance necessary to nm, and 100 man, now resides in San Francisco. For ten years he toiled as prospector, but reaped no retons of ore on the dump. lime. ward until lie struck it rich in the Idaho The Frisco Mining and Smelting Uo.s furmine. Alaska. is nicclv mice on ores from the working nhe captain of a whaler, who ha " recently Carbonate been in Alaska, came upon si hill, on a hunk he hoisting machinery for the Utah having of one of the riverswhich he found to bo full arrived, will bo erected at once. The extraction of silver ore, assaying $0,0iK) per ton. Rich of ore continues. . men of San Francisco have chartered a vessel wil1 hr there 1,11,1 investigate There is said to be $5 .OOO.O!);) in sight in the Ontario. We are of the opinion that t h i is a " V'v U!,'nt";." vveekle shipments V wry lmv estimate. Tim Alaska. letter bullion reach nearlv .) jjohi 10. received at Washington iroin Sitka, byaTrea- he Stanley (on. advanced the tunnel 7i()t) ury ollieer, says that the dovolo;uient of t!i Ieet and suspended work. flii believed to mineral wealth of that region will produce a l)e on the Rarrin- vein. Iiiis is considered a gold fever and attract, ihoiKmd of prospector lim property and work will doubtlos re- - The writer sa vs Two miners, who have been Mimed at an early daw Joan Lawrence of prospecting all summer on the main land. thi city is president of the company. cured some of the richest gold quartz that ha The mining'd istricts throughout Utah will been found in Alaska, and some of the miners, it i the richest thov ever saw. An make a good showing lbr 13S0. Excitement nny ot a ,M:,'h lair has not run high in any of them, hut the dc- sample, not a choice piece. at 1,;lM 'ver $ 1,000 to the ton. The only velopments have been substantial and the pro- bow much can they get ( Owing duetion large. In refined bullion the showing T101011 to but. is much larger than ever helorc. the snow, little can be done thi winter,' as the ground is now covered over two feet! ni-mi:.ici. deep. The location i easy of access, being Gold is known to exist in over lifiv localities. ,,fd mn!V (ban two miles from water, in the Territory of New Mexico. 'Evidences of mines worked in ancient t in s bv thcSo-iniards are found in many porti ms of the connThen are 25 men at. work on the Cable. ti and work h h en renewed on them m suspended on the o.Mump niil It is a curious and interesting fact that the being erected near Ruth to reduce the I11' Pymucs. vin of mineral in Northern New Mexico Lld n,vs Thr(e hundred' t0MS 20 gold is on the dump. in down to ahiait tin. 55th parallel resemble those ()l ( olorado, while hose south n 1i;i; i arc similar to the veins found in Old Mexico. , v v... " i 'niii.'r.il v s in lliv south holm- mm-'"g.1'"1 "!!'?: T'm 111 ' l " l"' "'iderinid in soimi instances runiiin" as widens .'iU "'l'V 'i Herner Commercial and Hirst Soulh Streets I will bureau (ltllsturn enits 17)0 attention lut. 'flic o. ton. n- not as lelrnclorv. SALT LAKE CITY. Xevnd.-tir,.,y properly. silver and 28 per cent. lead. The llnrlinjrto,, and ISollallower has been $15,000. The State Line property, recently stocked bv I . situate; K,!1,ar'sr Ng,,Ym'k'Js 1 his ot miles lo south Lida is the alley. sold to J.M.Hurki-fo- r 1,001). most isolated well as as barren region of Xe- . Another crusher has been ordered tor the vada grass, timber and water bein' scarce assay department ot the Horn .Silver. for even this Stato. It is just farenou-- h to he The drift will have to lu advanced 27 feet Jiway good until the guliihle public ask Ibr a dividend. further before cutting the vein in the Ross. S.'JO,-50- : j 1 ; - I , 1 j ; : '; '' J;'? -- $-)- 1 i - 1 : o- - : i - .111 i j t r-- I i . 1 1 1 h 1 - - 1 nl 'CC ' - i WASlIIXCroN TKIIIHTOUV. he tmmels on the Swank mines arc being I M'D .uhanenl. The mining and stock exchanges this vear increases at every other commercial center hut R,)shni. Philadelphia and Raltimon. he Golden Enterprise tunnel i in :27 l'ci-tanl the face shows favorable vein matter. It i cslimnl'o.l Ihnt Ilia viald td Ilia m.ld nnd slnp I;,," m.xt lo the Columbia bound- Snndkaniaan silvar minas of tho l.'nitad .Stales during Ilia miio!!"!'. .'I', A10" ol "'ll! to sal asi.Ia as a present year u ill ;u;t;roi;ala savantv live million minbi 1 . ' 1 'esorvo. !' ii-k- ul dollars. PAT. LAN NAN, A full stijijily Proprietor. tf Venison, Beef, Pork and Veal. The Rest is the Cheapest. 0. |
