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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- pany to resume his lease on the Emma, Alls Well, Gladstone and Copper Plant lodes, on the east side of main Bingham canyon, in the center of the copper belt and lying between the What Cheer and Amanda patents. This property was once owned by Black and Jack Murphy and Doc Hickman,Stans-ilelis now the property of Messrs. Flynn, Stephens, Cleary & Co. It promises to develop another copper d, bonanza. Louis Peterson & Co. have leased the old Thrush mine, adjoining the Tiwau-keand are meeting with fair success. They are working five? men. This property back in the seventies produced ore that gave over $250 to the ton in gold, and it is hoped will soon give up some more of the same kind. At present it belongs to J. B. Stephens and Mike Cullen. Connections between drifts of the Phoenix and Coromandel mines is nearly completed, and the Phoenix e, MINING REVIEW. N NEWTON MINING DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Hob Roy The grade of ore day. ore were Two carloads of high-grad- e Lun-dee- n the from shipped the other .day lease of the Old Telegraph mine. LITTLE COTTONWOOD. The New State company will this week make survey for the new tunnel, which is intended to strike the vein at great depth. In the 150upper tunnel, which has been driven feet, the pay strike widened to nine inches, and the ore shows free gold in abundance, but bad air necessitated a suspension of work. at the surface where the first development was made averaged upward of $10 per ton for the entire vein, which has fourteen gradually widened from six tosame unifeet, and shows about the form distribution of the metal, so that at a depth of 160 feet the average assays will range from $5 to $8. A large amount of work has been done upon the property, but it can scarcely be said in an intelliThe gent or systematicp manner. mill of a owners have a primitive pattern, situated convenient for the working of their ore, but no ten-stam- considerable success has so far rewarded their effort in that line, owing, no doubt, to want of practical knowledge and other causes. At present but four In the not distant future. The company will soon be increasing its working force and shipments. It has for stoping. large ore bodies ready Ten carloads of mixed ore left the best shipment depot Wednesday, theSeven carloads since the holidays. went out Thursday. The Markham mill is running nicelye this week, and chewing up about forty-fivtons of Northern Light ore per There have been some test shipments made from this property, battery results showing two to thirteen ounces silver and $3 to $160 per ton in gold. About 85 per cent of the assay value can be saved by the free milling process. Nine men are at work upon this property. Among the other properties in the district upon which a considerable amount of work has been done by either the owners or lessees, is the Glencoe group, Fourth and Twenty-fourt- h of July, Busy Bee, Young America and White Cliff, situated in various all of which show parts of the district, to various causes, pay quartz. Owing financial the mainly stringency, but a claims have had limited number of work done upon them the past year, and much valuable ground is open to relocation. There is every indication that some good paying properties will be opened in Newton mining district posurcs are made. Beaver County. HoiMC Gold Belt. men are at work upon the mine. The Ellen McGregor and Thistle. These properties, some two miles east of the Rob Roy, show a vein of free gold ore of a somewhat higher grade than the latter. The ore body running through these claims is narrower and more compact, and developed by about 200 feet of tunnels and considerable depth of winze on the vein. They have at present six men at work. The Cremona Group. More generally known as the Sheep Rock mines, lie some four miles southeasterly from the Rob Roy. and consist of the Cremona, August, Extension, Great Western and Hoodoo claims. This group is owned and operated by the Sheep Rock Mining and Milling company, incorporated. The claims lie mainly adjoining, and the ledge carries a course very favorable for development by tunnel, by which means the present ore ex- well-defin- IDAMO. Thi Bo is 2 Gold Belt. ed Correspondence Mining Review. Boise, Jan. 11. The accompanying map shows a section of the State of Idaho known as the Boise gold belt. It is the large of mountains that trends along the border of the Snake river valley between the Boise and Payette rivers, a distance of about forty miles. and This entire region is down leads almost every gulch that from its slopes on either side has been placer mined with the melting snow ina the spring for the past quarter of century. But it is only in the past year that attention lias been directed to the rich possibilities that may result from the working of the innumerable quartz veins that are found everywhere throughout the district. The existence gold-bearin- g, |