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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N NEWS CLEAN-UThere are 891 P. diffusion of knowledge of interest to month. The management are considering the advisability of erecting forty more miners generally. Col. Lightner is superintendent of the stamps, which would raise the crushing a mining stock brokers at Cinnabar mine, Savonas, B. C. Denver. A gold find, assaying $35, is reported near Draper. The output of Leadville is now about 1200 tons per day. The Ward district in Colorado is now receiving much attention. A fire at Mammoth last Saturday destroyed $6000 worth of property. The two mining stock exchanges at Cripple Creek are expected to be consol- men mill power to Twenty-thre- e are at work, all but four being white miners. No smelting is being done at present. Drifts are being run and the tons per month. 32,000 SALT LAKE NUGGETS. mine opened up. This mine is said to be Col. G. A. Henry of Detroit district and the only producing quicksilver mine in Deep Creek was in the city during the operation that Is under the protection of week. the British flag. one of Mercurs heavy A. M. The latest gold strike is located a mile operators,Spooner, was in the city during the and a half north of Gunnison, and the week. assay is said to show $11.50 in gold and Manager Neill of Taylor & Brunton's fifteen ounces silver on the surface, and sampling works, made a trip to Denver $35 in gold and twenty ounces silver at idated. last week. William Watson was killed by a cave-i- n a depth of twenty feet. The discoverers Capt. John W. Plummer, manager of vein. Many prosat the Ontario mine on Monday, the claim to have a the De Lamar mine at De Lamar, Ida., 13th. pectors have gone to the scene and the spent several days in the city last week. The new women of Colorado Sprnigs whole country has been staked off. Work has been resumed upon the copper propose to organize a mining stock exThe State Mine Inspector of Colorado mines of the Dixie Copper company in change. has prepared a most rigid code of regu- - Washington county, and the smelter is The Lucky Bill Mining company at latlons for the protection of miners also t0 be started up again. Park City has levied an assessment of 2 against accidents. The timbering of mines At the annual meeting of the Allce com cents per share. is regulated; uniform system of signals pany, held in this city, the old officers and The Horn Silver has been compelled to established; daily inspection of machinery directors were The mine, lay olf a portion of its force, owing to a required; the storing of explosives by mi- - which is located at Butte, is now being ners prohibited and steam or water baths scarcity of water. iked undthe"leasi"ng system.' A vein of ore assaying $1000 was uncov- required for thawing powder. This acThe Price Advocate states that Robert ered while excavating for a cellar within tion of the Commissioner was brought n Forrester, the mining engithe town limits of Cripple Creek. about by the recent fatal accidents in neer of this city, has been appointed mine A contract has been let for another 100 several mines. boss by the P. V. Coal company at Castle feet on the Sheep Rock tunnel, Newton The vicinity of Hailey was visited by mining district, Beaver county. two snowslides during the week, one of Gate. Superintendent Crismon of the Utah In the territory adjacent to Deadwood, which resulted in the death of George mlne at Flsh Springs was in the city dur S. D., there are 1703 mines at work. Last Hague, emplojed at the Vanderbilt mine, lnS the week- - The utah ,s operated with year at this time the total was 12S0. in Star gulch. Russian Pete, a black- horse-powhoist, and the ore isjhauled The Mercur Mercury last week pub- smith, was also buried for half an hour, a lished a list of eighty-thre- e locations but was rescued. The Vanderbilt mill made in the Camp Floyd district since and works were entirely destroyed, the the previous issue. loss being $5000. At Bullion another slide The discovery of a vein of good coal carried away the cabin of James Kirby. three and a half feet thick is reported to An improved miners cage is reported have been made within eighteen miles of from Montana, the principal feature beEmmett, Canyon county, Idaho. a method of doing away with the acing Duluth, Minn., claims a gold mine dis- cidents to life and limb and the destruc- covery within a few miles of the city. A tion of property in mines using the old- yesterday, resulted in the board of directors, who subie high board fence has been erected around style chairs. In this new arrangement the mine so that no one can see it. John Dern as presi-cagfile chairs being made a portion of the sequently The Colorado Springs mining exchange a slight pressure of a lever suffices dent and general manager. John Heim-t- o has divided its listed properties into two to fill the throw them in or out at will, so that rich was elected classes mines and prospects. Nothing is the station-tende- r can in no case leave vacancy caused by the retirement of H. called a mine that has not produced $5000 the chairs in, as they fly back as soon W. Brown, and George Dern was made in ore. as the engine takes the load off them, treasurer. The president submitted his The Golden Gate company has platted They can also be employed very service- - annual report, showing the years opera-abl- e a portion of its claims lyinf adjacent to in making repairs to the shaft, such tions, but it was not given out for pub-a- s tho Mercur townsite, and will give longretimbering, etc., resting as they will lication. The matter of enlarging the n time leases at about $2000 per twenty-fiv- e any set of timbers, and the workmen pacify of the mill will be taken up later, foot front. in the shaft are assured greater safety A recent inspection of the great mother A contract has been let to run the writh the cage resting on the chairs than lode in California has moved Martin Slrickler tunnel, near Colorado City, one if it were hanging by a rope or cable Harkness of this city, one of the 49ers, and a half miles in length, through Pikes the fact being well known that a frequent to speak of the conditions that prevent-sourc- e Peak at an altitude of 11,580 feet, through of trouble at all mines has been ed the development of this enormous solid granite. due to allowing the cage to drop on the body of freemilling gold quartz in the The Oregon Placer company, in which chairs at a station. With this improved early days. The extent of the vein, which L. C. Karrick and other Salt Lakers are arrangement the only source of damage is 300 feet wide in places and two or three interested, will, next season, operate a is that of dropping the cage into the sump hundred miles in length, and the value hydraulic plant upon its property on Ce- or hoisting it into the sheaves. Mining of the ore were well known forty years dar creek, Montana. and Scientific Press. ago, but it then required very high grade Thomas A. Edison has perfected his ore to pay the cost of production. A South the Africa, says Johannesburg, automatic electrical process for the reand Scientific Press, presents a ner expected an ounce of gum per day of duction iron ore. After separation the present field of weath to the makers of for his labor, and freight transportation lion is mixed with building material and g machinery and plant. Forty- - from San Francisco to the gold fields was pressed into small bricks. stamp mills, of about 7000 tons crushing often as high as 50 cents per pound. The Senator Teller is said to have tele power per month, appear to be the gen- - stamp mills attempted to be operated graphed this advice to a Colorado mine eral run of crushing machinery erected were of the rudest construction, the owner: Hold on to your silver proper at the newer gold mines in the Johannes- stamp stems being made of live oak ties. The price of the white metal will esburg district, but many of the older beams, roughly shod with iron. In spite reach 85 cents by April 1, 1896. tablishments, where the development has of these adverse the Hayward The Yerington (Nev.) Rustler claims proceeded farther, have 100 to 1G0. Every- - mine and some conditions, others were up, that sixteen varieties of marble are found where large expenditure is being incurred and the former has been in opened continuous within forty miles of that place, to say in winding and hauling machinery, and operation for forty years and has a moun-plannothing of the onyx and two new varieare erected being extended tain of good ore left. Mr. Harkness states already ties yet unnamed. all over the Rand. At the new Primrose that there are many abandoned workings Fraser & Chalmers are now suing S. M. mine, Johannesburg, machinery equip- along the vein, which, doubtless produced Green, the copper plant promoter, for the ment is of the first order. The mill en- ore not considered in the early profitable balance due on machinery sold by that gines have been altered to triple expan- days, but which would be regarded as firm. Mr. Green alleges that the agent sion, to cope with the increased output, now. With the applicavery high grade of Fraser & Chalmers padded the bills. and 160 stamps are in The tion of the cheaper machinery and ecooperation. The organization of the Southern Ore- crushing at this time amounts to 25,000 nomical appliances of modern days to the gon Miners association, composed of tons of gold quartz per month, and its development of the mother lode, he berMn owners, has been effected. The ob-on the crushing lieves its production will exceed that of j development is j i ii to secure better legislation and mill power to thegaining extent of 2000 tons per the whole of South Africa. six-fo- ot I re-elect- ed. well-know- I er cy re-electi- re-elect- on e, ed vice-preside- nt, ca-o- mi-Mini- ng gold-minin- ts |