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Show G MINING EEVIEAV. INTElt-MOUNTAl- N been located there, but Utah offered such opportunities for investment that one Tlio First Bank of Mercur is now open need seek no further. Conn., one for business and is supplying a long Fc't Franklin Farrell of Ansonia, of the principal owners of the Sioux Conwant. solidated at Mammoth, has been inO. J. Salisbury lias gone to Deadwood that property. to inspect the Homestake mine, in which specting ho is a heavy stockholder. NEWS CLEAN-UProvo is now supplied with anthracite coal from the vein recently discovered ten mining exchanges. cast of that city. It sells for $7.50 per Colorado has The trial of the cyanide patent cases ton. in South Africa begins February 15, 1896. A proposition to handle Cripple Creek The new plant of the Katie Mining comstocks has been made to a Salt Bake pany at Basin, n Mont., includes a broker. If it is accepted, daily quotations cioncentrator and a smelter. will be received by wire from Colorado Alabaster does not hold a very high Springs. place in popular taste at the present day. Capt. De Lamar informed the New York It is admittedly a delicate and pretty correspondent of the Herald that he was stone, but that is all. Scientific Amerin making arrangements to erect a can. plant on the Jim Crow and Monitor, at The net earnings of the Anaconda, De Lamar, Nev. Montana, company from FebruMr. J. E. Schwartz, president of the ary 1, 1801, Mining to June 30, 1895, were Pennsylvania Smelting company and of the Sunshine Mining company, visited the The Rand, South Africa, gold output for city during the week and inspected the November was 195,218 ounces, making 2,- mine and smelter. 099,207 ounces for the first eleven months Star owner the of W. Morning H. Barry, of 1893. mine at Silver City, Nev., has been in A fine showing of carbonate ore is rethe city during the week. He reports that ported from the Alma, south of Marys-val- e, ore has been a large body of high-grad- e owned by C. A. and Willis M. Ames which the mine, and expects developed, and D. A. Giles. has yielded $1,500,000 in the past, to again It is reported that samples of ore from become a heavy producer. a strike In the White Cliff claim, on InGeorge W. Emery, a brother of the late dian creek, Beaver county, assay as high A. B. Emery, was in the city during the as $11,000 per ton. week, returning to Bay Horse, Ida., from Durin 1895 Colorado 3,570,518 the East. Mr. Emery is superintendent of tons of coal, valued atproduced $6,655,136; iron, the Bams Horn mine, upon which valued at $1,586,200, and steel rails to the eighteen men were working when he left, value of $1,348,500. ore for shipment in The piling up high-grad- e Northwest Mining association will the spring. have a convention of Its second The company, a Salt 300 In number, at Spokane, Wash., Lake incoiporation, has not missed a on 22nd. February shipment of cyanides from The Lamar, Idaho. Mining company its mine in Sonora, Mexico, for three made De a profit of $34, GOO on Its November years, which is a record hard to beat. 3236 tons of ore yielding $57,495 The property is producing from $0000 to operations, bullion In the mill. $13,000 per month, and the cyanides are The owners of the Sacramento mine, in sent to Kansas City for reduction. An interest in Utah mining investments Camp Floyd district, expect to be treathas been awakened in California. One ing sixty tons of ore daily within three of the leading brokers received a letter, weeks, the machinery for their mill havarrived. stating that California was full of money, ing State Inspector Jeffries of South but the people had no place to put it. Dakota Mine in his annual report to the GovThe writer had also heard a great deal ernor, places the gold output for that about Utah recently, and had concluded State at $3,500,000 for 1894, $5,000,000 for 1893, it was a good field for investments. Another gold retort, worth $1800, has been and estimates a yield of $7,000,000 for 1896! sent up by Messrs. Ryan and Mitchell, The time set for abandoning the Elk-hor- n who are operating the California placer gold mine, formerly one of the claim, near Dandy crossing on the Colo- greatest producers in Montana, Is April rado river. It was the result of an eight 1, 1S96. The company will then change days run. They are using an improved the scene of its operations to East Fryer Kent washer, which requires little water, hill at Leadville. The Crescent mine at Pierce City, Ida., that little being pumped up by horsep a with power. mill, turns out about $2500 a month. This mine is' the property Recorder Quinn of West Mountain disof Dunn trict was in the city during the week. Brothers, the owners and pubCentennial-Eurek- a of lishers the Coeur d'Alene Miner, pubstock is offered at $00 per share. Last year the company paid lished at Wallace. It is a cold day, and the snow is very dividends aggregating $17 per share, which is 30 per cent on the present value. deep Indeed when the Denver agent of Eastern capitalists will make a very long the Associated Press cannot uncover a big search before they will find an invest- vein of solid gold somewhere in Colorado. The latest is near Boulder, and the quartz ment like this. Lester Taylor of Payson announces his is being sold by the pound. In 1895 Russia employed in her mines p intention to erect a mill upon his Viking group of gold claims in the 250,000 men, and produced gold to the Blue mountains. Several promising pros- value of 43,800,000 rubles; silver, 3,500,000; pects are now being developed in this dis- platinum, 3,800,000; iron, 3,000,000; coal oil, trict, which will be the scene of active 35,000,090; salt, 9,000,000; coal, 49,000,000. operations in the spring. Some high-grad- e The San Francisco stock exchange has free milling ore has been found, decided to list gold mining stocks, and and there is an abundance of timber, coal suspend article 3 of the for twelve and water In the vicinity. to is the effect that a fee months, which A Georgia gentleman wrote to a Salt of $500 shall be charged for placing miLake broker, asking him what Cripple ning stock on the regular list of the exCreek stock he would recommend for in- change. vestment. The Salt Laker replied that About thirty Comstock miners who are Cripple Creek was a long distance from out of work have chartered a box car in Utan; that he had heard of the district, which to go to Cripple Creek. The car and, doubtless, some good properties had will be fitted up with bunks and cooking SALT LAKE NUQQETS. P. 500-to- 200-to- $10,147,-555.0- 1. vice-presiden- Pan-Americ- an semi-month- ly one-stam- five-stam- by-la- ws ts, apparatus, cabin fashion. In this way the men expect to make the trip for about each. The Groom Creek group of mines near Prescott, Ariz., have been sold to Chicago parties, but the price is not given. The mines are gold producers and the ore mills $25 nor ton. On the 12th ult., the Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa announced the striking of a reef at a depth of 1125 feet in the Simmer and Jack mine, with regularity of width and value. All the. first row deep level shafts are now claimed to have struck the reef and established the value of the ground. A gasoline stove explosion at Mercur on the night of the Gth instant was the cause of a serious conflagration, in which Jack Barnard lost his life. A row of buildings extending north from the Mercur hotel were destroyed, the total loss being $5000, covered by $1G00 insurance. The burned section will be rebuilt at once. The economical treatment of the arsenical ores of the Camp Floyd district Is a problem yet unsolved. It is claimed that a German chemist has discovered a salt possessing peculiar affinity for arsenic and that an application of this salt in solution to the ore will carry off the arsenic in the same manner that the cyanide solution attacks the gold. Whether this salt can be manufactured in commercial quantities at a price rendering its use profitable is a question Capt. De Lamar is said to be now investigating. Work has been resumed by the West Mountain Placer company, which last year sunk a shaft 140 feet deep to bedrock upon its property at Bingham. The immense flow of wrater, which was attempted to be handled with two steam pumps, forced a suspension of operations, but the management now believes that by changing the location of these pumps in the shaft, and adopting a new plan of operations, the water can be kept down. The gravel on bedrock is extremely rich, $140 having been taken out from the space covered by the bottom of the shaft. The April Fool mine at De Lamar, Nev., promises to equal the record of De Lamars famous Jim Crow and Monitor, near which It is located. Messrs. Wilson and Dooley have disposed of their last shipment In this city, the fifty-si- x tons bringing $14,220. They are now receiving proposals from local machinery firms for the erection of a tw'enty-stam- p mill, with a cyanide plant for the treatment of the tailings. Their property consists of six claims, and application has been made for patent. The vein resembles that of the Jim Crow and Monitor, and it is claimed the ore will average $85 to $120. Mitchell & Ryan claim to have solved the problem of saving the 'fine gold of the Colorado river bars with a machine of their own device, which they have been working on California bar with satisfactory results. A Kent washer was taken as the basis of their model. Slot sprays with increased pressure were added, and the riffles were changed so as to discharge from one end to the other, instead of from only one end. The gravel passes over sixty riffles, each charged with quicksilver, and it is claimed that 99 per cent of the values are saved. Mr. Ryan believes the. gravel will average $1 per cubic yard, and that there are two and a half million yards in the bar. He has just sold his interest to Mr. Ryan, who will put in a gasoline engine to provide power for operating the machine and Dump. Mr. Mitchell has other claims on the Colorado which he will develop. $12 , An inch of rain falling upon an area of one square mile is equivalent to near- gallons, weighing tons. 64,844 pounds, or ly 17,500,000 145,250,000 |