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Show that a couple pended, notwithstanding was put oil tonf weeks ago a force shaft, preDump and clean out the for at tests bedrock, sumablv to obtain company. purposes best known to the now in the is who The superintendent, of six pan- results city exhibits here about 30 cents to nings varying from The gold is coarse,over $1 to the pan. as large as bucksome nuggets being are shot. The West Mountain people as to plans, but as thehave been replacers in their locality proved to bepeatedly prospected isand felt in the comrich, great interest It is vaguely panys future operations. formed hinted that a combine is being below Dry of two or more claims lying the of utilizing the for purpose Fork been has which Watson drain tunnel, from a point near the Lead mill close to the lower end line of the West Mountain property, and within bedrock. It will reach forty feet of bedrock if continued to the mouth ofDry Fork. Here by sinking and crosscutting, the large overflow can beturned into the tunnel, and the probof how to work several miles of placers lying immediately below will be solved. The amount of seepage is so great that it is impracticable to from any shaft until drainage is this plan is so feasible and and had, easy of operation it is very likely to be adopted. Certainly, the character of the ground warrants the expenditure of a vastly larger sum than it would under the cost, and every claim-ownto is doubtless anxious tunnel have the of this demonstrated, plan feasibility If done, millions of dollars will be ta- ken out of the lower canyon placers within a few years. non-commit- 9 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N Shoshone County. Coeur dAlene Miner: There is nothing of unusual interest among the mines in the different camps. At Burke the Consolidated Tiger and Poorman is working about 125 men and running the Tiger mill on two shifts. The shaft is now below the and will have will be fifty liorse-powe- r, one crusher, two sets of rolls and tanks, a large dynamo for the separating of the minerals, and an extra capacity for 100 lights for the mine and mill. Most of the machinery is to be built in Salt Lake. This will give Morgan county quite a boom. 1100-fo- ot level. The Standard tunnel is now in 940 feet. The alterations of the Standard mill are now in progress. It is thought that the Standard will resume work about March 1st. The Gem shaft is now dowrn 470 feet. The work of cutting out a station and drifting will consume several weeks yet, when men will be put on and the Gem will begin producing again. IDAHO, 1 tal Ada County, Correspondence Mining Review. Boise, Ida., Jan. 19. The news of the Week here is a report that the coming summer will see a railroad built into Owyhee county. This is not the first set time that such a rumor has beenbusi-drivmore a assumes now afloat, but it ness-lik- e form. The reason for this renewed belief comes from a recent visit of General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific to this city, and those who are promoting the enterprise show more confidence than ever before, in fact a railroad into Silver City and j)e Lamar has become a simple neces-lesityf and the mining men there say to they will have one if they have of build it themselves. The importance SUch a line, not only to the Owyhee camps, but to Boise will be very great, and railroad building once started will inaugurate a new era of development throughout the entire State. of scarcely less significance is the assurance that D. M. Steen will erect a quartz mill here in the spring. It seems almost absurd to speak of Boise as a mining center, and yet have to confess that, with a gold belt running almost through the city, there is at present not even so much as a sampling en Elmore County. m I er rwiitww. F VA. WlUkl U111VUUW I Elmore Bulletin: Superintendent Harry Thompson of the Bear Creek Alluvial Gold company at Rocky Bar departed for Scotland Friday evening, where he will spend the remainder of the winter, expecting to return in March to renew work on this great gold mining enterprise. During the past season he has constructed over 2000 feet of double flume along Bear creek and removed innumerable tons of big boul-w.odors with a steam portable derrick. He has expended nearly $50,000 getting this property in good working condition, and has that much more at command, but it will not all be consumed before this company will be handsomely reimbursed from their ground, which is known to be rich in virgin gold, to say nothing about the vast lot of amalgum that has escaped to the bed of the creek from mills and arastras during the past thirty years. Next spring a rk VA. IHtiVU All UCJH, IU1 UlC Use. Hornet shipped more than a thousand and for the building ofbUIilJcUlj which E. C. tons. Even with an average return of Towne has been awarded the contract. . $25 per ton in gold, the profit wTas very small after paying freight charges. Canvon County Now this will all be changed and the Emmett Index- One nf steen mill will start up on Black Hor-- 1 promising sections of the Weft View was found a nice streak of ore similar to that exposed in the bot- tom of a shaft. Since then this tunnel has been extended ten feet across the vein, and at the hanging- wall is now opened up two feet. of ore, foot-wa- ll 200-fo- ot O - what tas already fceon taken at?1rSlof out. The owners, Standish & The Black Hornet has a ledge forty Tata th V ffetlnn fnrP done ?Ix Jimpson, feet wide that will average $4 or $5 -t seven are sack ng the rich ore for shipment to the ton. Twenty-nin- e the assays for of a spanmdic been ellLte(3month of December showed an average aiiJ?uai until1 ith" . been Dalton and Lark is increasing its value of $14. There is only one well- - in the" last few accomplished months force. Sine - his other made In the district. coming dect Sn ofwhict? for the ml- - Th? sol,d showings was to the naked eye, Jis'ble ocrars next ning exchange a lump the gize Qf a mans fist mortared and panned, showed results fine body ol o.'e running high in gold. Rumor has - It, now exposed a Argo- nection, on a site at the junction of Carr fork and Sap gulch, and ground Marsh, will be broken within a few weeks. Connections between drifts of the Phoenix and Coramandel will be ef- and vc fected before the month Is out. Sounds Tribune- - Mining and had clmPI('tf'd a J,ust for ;Iley , are heard through the intervening wall, mining are stru all the go aling the ,on this Plerty which shows a Superintendent Dugan has increased banks of the Snake river 111??edP from 7 ta four feet in 50-fo- a ot os- Eekelsons plant is now in opera- - 'Via from TJh,tc01l1J1any ls raa tion with twenty men. It is found that $350 in with a few dollars in silver considerable g shipments. the capacity of the gravel, or iron, to the gold ton. LITTLE COTTONWOOD. flume is not suflicient, and a larger Gold Dollar Mining company Since one has been ordered. This will enable Owyhee County. March, 1895, this company has driven the Colonel to put on a large force of a tunnel 3023 feet, drifted 63 feet and men and teams. He has taken samples Be Lamar Nugget: There are nu- valuable mining made an upraise . of is feet. X large from all parts . of "the bar. and had them mmus in properties 1. ...1. . f .1 fl UTTlt Art rtil roUftinef-nl- S d up- - Col. 1 I I 1 , m surface provements have also been made. property is located on Gold Hill the mouth of Little Cottonwood yon. J. E. Wiscomb has recently appointed manager. Important tn,n additional men im-- . The near can- - been and iven uit0 thc Hardscrab- -I,?ush the exca$10,000 stamp mill to be erected and ready for operation by March 15th. The engine and boiler n . - . 4 , . . S 1 A. nave money, and know a good through every hours, but !1?n who when when the new flume is put in the thing they see it, can find no bet- tor field than Owyhee to invest in. amouiit of gravel handled will be doubled or more than doubled if neces- I.emlii County. sary. It may become necessary to add Lemhi Republic: Capt. Singiser is goanother of the Haber machines, but the Colonel thinks the one now in operation ing to make a stir in this county before long by opening up one of the will do the work. There is considerable interest spring- - largest quartz veins in the State. Mr. ir.g lip of late in the opal mining indus- - S. has a bond on the Silver Star mine, try. D. Dodge of Mountain Home has owned by Senator Shoup, which has been here looking after his opal claims, been idle for many years, owing priand there is likely to be considerable marily to the fact that the ore is very stir in this direction during the coming refractory and could not be handled at season. a profit by the free milling process. twenty-fou- r |