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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N 9 7 an immense vein of low-gra- de free-milli- IDAHO. ng gold quartz. LITTLE COTTONWOOD. exThe New State company has 1000 on pended $6000 during the yearand will feet of tunnels and drifts shortly commence a new tunnel to catch the ore at depth. Many stringers g gold ore have of very rich been encountered, and the management believes that by going to the deep a strong vein will be found. Correspondence Mining Review. Boise, Jan. 6. Boise has awakened to free-millin- Piute County. Sevier Gold Mining and Milling comuntil pany Operations aren suspended mill will be spring, when a erected, either by the company under contract to purchase or by the present owners. President Lammersdorf states the sale fail of consummathat, should erect a combination copper tion, he will and amalgamation plate, concentration to small mill built the plant, similar several years ago. To prevent the loss of $7 in the tailings, a leaching plant will be added for their treatment. Some rather confused accounts of the recent contract of sale have been given to the public. The facts are as follows: Mr. Sam Godbe, representing a company of American and English capitalists, entered into a contract to purchase from Mr. Lammersdorf 140,000 of the 250.000 shares of capitdl stock at 60 cents per share, and, in addition, to claims settle Mr. Lammersdorfs against the company for money advanced in the purchase of the machinery, etc. Fifty thousand dollars have been paid, and a payment due December 14th has been extended to March 14th, when about $58,000 will become due, this being the final payment. In case of default, the purchasers will become owners of stock at 60 cents per share to the amount of the payments they have made, tut this will be held in trust, voted and controlled by Mr. Lammersdorf. Since the contract was made Mr. George Arthur Rice, a stockholder in the old company, is reported to have placed a block of the minority stock at London. The Sevier mine has four veins, and the average value of the ore is $16. The ore in sight, including large bodies lying upon the surface, Is estimated at 200.000 tons. Dalton A force of five men are at work, and tunnel No. 4 is being run to cut the vein at a depth of sixty-fiv- e feet below the surface and beneath the shaft. Samples sent up from this tunnel during the week showed a value of $43. Messrs. Rognon and Crooks, who own a controlling interest in the Dalton, recently purchased the Straight Shot, an extension of the Dalton, the consideration being $30,000. The Dalton has about 100 tons of ore extracted, but the fifteen feetgood of snow in that vicinity will prevent shipments for some time. Old Republican Blankett Brothers of Nephi are reported to have commenced operations by sinking near the old shaft, and at 40 feet encountered ore that assayed 82 per cent lead, 64 ounces 150-to- silver and $21.85 Boise Basin. t in gold. MINING INCORPORATIONS. Gold King Mining company. Capital stock, 400,000 shares; par value $5. Property, Hard Scrabble. Rabbits Foot. Magna Charta, Gold King, Winning Card and Sage Hen claims in Camp Floyd district. James A. Williams, president; A. B. Miller, and treasurer: H. L. Mygatt, general manager; H. J. Dieter, secretary. Utah Stone company. Capital stock, -- 5,000 shares: par value, $1. Property. Redstone placer claim, Emigration canyon. William Langton, president; H. J. Steiner, E. A. Fol-lanvice-preside- nt the fact that her greatest wealth lies buried in her surrounding hills. From just back of the town, through the low gap to the left of Lucky peak, the placer miners in the past thirty years have sent out to the world more than two hundred millions of gold. It was this stream of yellow metal that first caused a little city to be built at the mouth of Cottonwood, in what then was believed to be a desert. It is alone due to the necessities of the miners for farm produce that this same desert has since proved to be one of the finest fruit and garden spots in the world. It is a trite saying here that Boise basin contains more gold in virgin ground than has ever been sluiced out, and the treasure in the innumerable side is ledges that seam the mountaincontemIs the beyond computation. It wealth that plation of this possible we have anmakes a Boiseite tell you Creek. other Cripple The foothills of the Boise mountains are within the city limits, and for forty miles this range trends to the northwest and to the southeast, with Boise as the center. This entire belt shows quartz. At the northern is end the camp of Pearl, in the Willow creek district, which has been made a flourishing little hamlet by men who went in there with nothing but a hand mortar. At the extreme southern limit the three mills in the Neal district are only waiting for the advent of spring gold-beari- ng to set their twenty-fiv- e stamps again ests of Utah and Idaho that a fearless, independent mining paper has been established in Salt Lake City, one that will try..to give the news of the different mines as they are, and cannot be used for private and personal interests. In this district, that was at one time a large producer of lead-silvbearing ores, the production has shrunken to small proportions, and the producing mines are few and far between. The old mines, like the Minnie Moore, the Queen of the Hills, the Bullion, Eureka, O. K., Elkhorn, Ornament, Ohio, Climax, and very many others, are not producing any ore. The Red Cloud, the Red Elephant, the French group, the Independence, the Gould, Baltimore and a few others Jay are at work In a small way, but the low price of lead and silver does not give encouragement for the mine owners to push things. There are a number of leasers at work on some of the mines I have not named (that were formerly good producers) In order to in keep themselves and families grub, and waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. It is reported that Manager Price of the Red Cloud has a huge amount of ore blocked out, but he seems in no hurry to take it out at the ruling prices for silver and lead. The Red Elephant has been out of any large body of ore since last May. The Bassett boys, who have a lease on a small fraction of that mine, have been making good wages, and have sent down some excellent first-claore and concentrates. The French group have just completed a mill in Narrow-Gaug- e gulch, and are shipping slowly some first-claore and concentrates. Nate Randall says he has good ore in different er May-flowr- er, ss ss that carries hundreds tunnels and levels, but the silver proof dollars to the ton. This latter camp ducers generally in this section feel has the unexcelled record of having that they are throwing away good ores paid every man employed there from without any fair return. Naturally we the mine in which he worked. That is, dont love Grover Cleveland and his every claim that has been developed goldbug contingent, and now that he has proved a mine. dropping on ore With such a surface showing, and with promising prospects within two miles of town, the people of Boise well concluded that the time was ripe to bring our resources to the attention of the mining world. With this object in view a movement was started to organize a bureau of information. This was just after the close of a notable campaign, when the progressive element had won a great victory by a vote in favor of sidewalks; and the coming year will see more than six miles of cement w?alks laid. The same forward spirit was shown in forming the mining bureau, and so great was the enthusiasm aroused that it w'as decided to found a regular mining exchange, still keeping in view the primary object of advertising the country. In three days the soliciting committee had secured two hundred and twrelve names for an exchange, and the treasury is assured a fund of more than four thousand dollars for the first year. The 22nd of January was set for the formal organization of the exchange, but the success of the committee may determine an earlier date. It is the intention to prepare descriptive matter for dissemination throughout the land, showing that the Boise gold belt offers as good opportunities for investment as can be found anywhere in a mining country. In the meantime the people themselves are not idle, but are showing their faith in the mines by investing their own money. There are more prospectors in the hills today than in of the any winter before in the history an era State. The town already feels newT More of prosperity dawming. buildings have gone up the past year than in any like period before, and still there are no vacant houses. are coming in and the census of iust completed shows a populationmore of a gain nearly200eight thousand, the census of since cent than per two-thir- ds New-peopl- has with his war message brought g large losses to his not do at present worship friends, they their gold god in the person of the g President, so much as they did, and are squealing like stuck pigs. We rather enjoy it. They can see now how losses instead of profits have been making us feel ugly. Well, now, we must tell you something about our gold belt. Yes, we have one, and some time you will hear from us, for there is a ledge of quartz running from near the Malad river to the Payette river near Boise. There have been hundreds of locations and holes in the ground and open cuts made without number, and stock-jobbin- duck-huntin- gold-beari- ng every one of them (if we could believe what they said) have wonderful showings. The fact is, there is only one as yet developed mine, and that is about twrelve miles from Hailey, the Big Camas No. 2. It is now owrned by the For-tun- a Mining company of New York. a twenty-stam- p have mill, but we They do not know' nor can we find out, as to the product, but all the talk is that they are on a large body of ore that runs from to $20 a ton. In your city is owrned a property adjoining (the Camas No. 1 and an annex). They have a shaft dowm about 200 feet, but it is now filled up nearly full of water, and nothing has been done with it in about three years, and yet wre have no doubt that If developed that they could have a paying mine. It W'as bonded to L. E. Holden and others in October last up to January 1, 1896, but wre do not know whether they have or will take the property, but whether they do or not, some time in the near future mining capital will have its attention directed to the gold properties on this belt. $15 From the best information we can obtain, the ores of the Camas yield about $7.50 from the plates, and the concentreasurer; John C. Schofield, sectrates about $3 to $4. Judge Doniphan 1890. retary. opened up the Camas in 1885, and Gold Prospect for Sale. worked for a time. Then, as usual in Mines. Wood River in a good gold prospect In good mines, came a quarrel betw'een Interest lawr suit, owners, a Salt T'- ' county for sale cheap. As- Correspondence Mining Review'. was it and gotten going as a proonly says "" ' dress Prospector, care Hailey, Ida., Jan. 5. It is a matter Minirr Review. for congratulation to the mining inter ducer in the spring of 1895. I send you vice-preside- -- nt: d, long-protract- ed |