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Show THE ARGUS. CONCENTRATES. outside world. Two districts Boss-lanand the Slocan now adding to the wealth of the world at the rate of over $700,000 a month, were almost unexplored wildernesses three years ago and were not yielding $50,000 a year. Three Colorado prospectors, Fuller, Smart and Bowman have a nice strike in a claim on the corner of Stag mountain. Mr. Bowman was given a third interest in the claim for doing the assessment wTork, and while so engaged he struck gold ore that is said to pan the best of anything so far discovered on that famd Ore thieves pot away with some rich ore from the Orphan Belle, a Cripple Creek mine, the other day. It was rich and ran $5 per pound. Twenty-seveexperts from differn ent places have recently visited the Miller ledge near Grants Pass, Oregon. The region is attracting considerable attention. Mr. Lawrence, of Ivanpah, Ariz., brought a ton of ore to the sampler this week that sampled 1400 ounces silver to the ton. The old Ivanpah district is productive of rich silver ore says the Kingman Miner. The Black Crook group near Lake City, Colo., is located directly north of the Fleece, with side lines touching each other. This mine is now shipping one car a week of ore ranging in value from $250 to $1000 per ton. free-millin- g ous hill. Last Saturday, says the Kingman, (Ariz.) Miner, a prospector found a piece of ore on the outcrop of therein recently located by J. X. Cohenour and Cal Wilson, near Drake, that was plastered all over with gold. In one end of the piece of quartz was a In drifting fifteen feet at the of worth fully five dollars. level in the Mountain Beauty near nugget gold A sample from the whole ledge gave 120-fo- ot Cripple Creek, Colo., there were taken two ounces in gold. ore. out eight tons of high-grad- e A report reaches us, says the Pioche The rich pay streak went $1 per Record, of a very good strike being pound and the balance $80 to $120 made in the claim called the Rustler, per ton. near the Half Moon ; it is owned by A correspondent writes an Arizona parties who live there, but they are locations in rich his paper concerning very reticient about it. It leaked out, the Short Horn mountains, Yuma though, through a reliable source, he has Cain that Mr. says county. that a vein of ore some six inches in thoroughly sampled ore of the ledges width had been uncovered, showing and the lowest assay he obtained was very plainly free gold. $100 in gold. O. N. Davis, who has an option on There is considerable placer mining the Flora group, adjoining the Japan along Snake river in Idaho. For on the east, has a force of men driftmiles the sands of the river and the on the Flora vein and opening up soil of the bottoms are being worked ing new stoping ground, says the Journal with success. It pays better than of Telluride, Colo. The mineral thus teams and where irrigation farming is ditches are utilized. A Record special from Gunnison, Colo., says that the mining outlook for the Gunnison gold belt is very bright. As spring advances and the snow disappears, prospectors are taking to the hills and new and important strikes are continually being re- ported. The Carbonate King shaft struck the vein the other evening. A good vein was also uncovered in new ground during the week, said to be twice as rich as anything heretofore discovered in the mine. Great is the Carbonate King of Colorado, says the Prospector. From the Colorado desert, in the extreme southwestern part of Arizona, comes the word that every train from both the East and West brings men who are bound for Gleason, men who know mines When they see them, and are ready to and capable ef taking held of properties which they consider valuable. It is with unfeigned gratification says the Rossland Miner, B. C., that we see the value of the mineral output of West Kootenai climbing up to the mark of a million a month. March came within $300,000 of that handsome figure, and we shall be there before long. This splendid progress must impress itself upon the sacked for shipment, encountered running as it does from $90 to $100 in gold per ton. Stoping will not be commenced for some time yet, or until there are large bodies of mineral in sight. The Yuma Sun is getting out a mammoth mining edition for the purpose of advertising the mineral resources of Arizona. The editor announces his intention of making it a work that will be of value for years to come ; but above these and above all, a work that will place Yuma County and our section, maligned and traduced and despised abroad, before the world in the proper and true light. There is said to be a large district around Gold Creek, Nev., where the loose gravel runs from $50 to $100 per ton in free gold, according to the News of that place, and the sample of tailings from the sluice box in Johnson gulch, after all the free gold had been thoroughly panned out, assayed over $500 a ton. After all, asks the News, why should this seem so startling? It is a well known fact that the Gold Creek placers have been formed by the disintegration of large dikes. It is possible to go into the Old Constitution tunnel and pan out gold anywhere in a hundred feet from the mountain Bide itself. Assays of $2000 a ton can be obtained. If these dikes have formed the alluvial deposits below there is no reason why the placers themselves should not be equally as rich. The Oregon Mining Journal says that Henry Hutchins has sold his quartz ledge in the Galice creek district to Mr. Cramer, the mill man of Myrtle creek. Consideration, $3000. As noted elsewhere, Mr. Hutchins last week made a big strike in the ledge, exposing ore equal in richness and quantity to the famous Lost Flat mine. The Kimberley diamond mines employ 10,000 natives and 2500 Europeans ; 2500 horses, mules and oxen and 3300 steam engines. The capital invested in the mines is $90,000,000. Over $10,000,000 is expended each year for labor and fuel. In one year the mines produced $14,000,000 worth of diamonds from 2500 loads of dirt, and a dividend of $5,000,000 was paid. The Journal of Grants Pass, Oregon, reports that Messrs. Stock and Doerfus returned from the Waxahat-chi- e mine on the lower Illinois on Monday, after a hard struggle with the snow. While there a partial clean-uwas made with good results. It has been determined to sink the flume several feet deeper. This is rendered necessary by the dipping of the bed rock a discovery unexpected but not unpleasant. Many of our business men have expressed a willingness to assist in the erection of a stamp mill at Grants Pass to do custom work, says the Grants Pass (Ore.) Mining Journal, and a proposition will soon be presented to them to take stock in such an enterprise. The promoters of the scheme are practical men and wish, besides, to construct a small foundry and machine shop with sufficient machinery to make hydraulic pipe. A Picacho, Cal., dispatch to an Arizona paper states that the camp is developing bonanzas which exceed in richness the greatest finds of the century. One morning there was encountered in the Golden Dream mine, one of Colonel D. K. Allens most valuable properties, a vein of ore two feet in thickness which goes not less than $2000 per ton, perhaps much more. Next day a strike of like exceeding riches was made in the Noonday, which adjoins the Golden Dream. Last week the Golden Fleece mine at Lake City, Colo., shipped a carload of ore to Denver, valued at $35,-00A few years ago this property was lying dormant and was not considered by most mining men as sufficiently promising to justify even a small expenditure of money for development. It is another illustration of the hidden wealth that lies undiscovered in mines and prospects all over the country. Comment is unnecessary says the Mining Record. There are hundreds of such illustrations existing in Colorado. An idle or abandoned prospect hole, with a little ore in sight, the owner too poor to develop it and p capital too scary. Capital does not I seem willing to take the chance with j the prospector, and only becomes bold when a sure thing is in sight and b the miner needs no help. j The report that the Gleason mining I property near Yuma had been bonded for $500,000 is disputed, but the Sun j says that some sort of a deal has been j consummated, whereby certain parties secure a interest in thef mine, and that a sum of money hasj been paid down. What the terms of the contract are is not known. De-- : velopment of the mine is going stead-ily on, and all who were excited at I first grow more so, for the showing is j not short of marvelous, and the most j famous mining men of the country acknowledge that they never saw the equal of it. one-fourt- h 1 The Abgus is the leading weekly ' newspaper of Utah. MISCELLANEOUS. THE ROESSLER & HASSLACHER CHEMICAL CO., ..Km st.. ? NwYrk,j CYANIDE r, I. bed-roc- k TBADE MAKE. Dru Go. Nelden-Judso- n : SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 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