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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N NEWS CLEAN-U- P. The New England woods are full of Cripple Creek wild cats. The discovery is reported of extensive deposits of mica in the Teton Basin. Colorado has eleven smelters, and all are handling much more ore than last year. The Mining Record says there are more wild-ca- t brokers Denver. in wild stocks cat than John Bennett, an old miner, was fatally injured by a in his mine near Idaho City. cave-iRich placer discoveries are reported near Golden, N. M., and the miners are taking out from 83 to 810 per day. Ore assaying 84,823 in gold has been discovered forty miles southeast of Rawlins, Wyo., aud the town is excited. Two colored men recently stumbled upon a gold bonanza at West Creek, Colo., which they have just sold for 850,000. Some active work will be done on the mines near Willard, in Box Elder county, this season. All of the claims are located near the railroad. L. A. Doane, described by the dispatches as an expert from Salt Lake, claims to have demonstrated the existence of a great oil field on Butcher Creek, Montana, The citizens of Mercur will incorporate and organize a town government, something that the Camp Floyd metropolis should have been permitted to do long ago. A diamond drill, of 500 feet capacity, will be placed in mine, and from the lower levels operation in tho Bullion-Bec- k the ground will be prospected in all directions. The Silver King company has added to its Park City possessions by the purchase of the group of claims belonging to the Union Mining company for 850,000. The property lies west of the Silver King ground. John Morehouse reports the discovery, near Goshen Pass, south of Sunshine, of a large body of white quartz carrying free gold, evidently the source of some of the rich iloat that has been found in that vicinity. Dr. William C. Day, in Paving and Municipal Engineering, reports the results of an analysis of gilsonite as follows: Carbon, 89.30 per cent: hydrogen, 9.93 per cent; sulphur, 1.32; ash, 0.10; oxygen and nitrogen (undetermined), 0.32. Mining is the title of a new mining publication issued monthly at Spokane, by L. K. Armstrong. It is the ollicial organ of the Northwest Mining association, and is a journal worthy of the support of those interested in the mining industry. The directors of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange at Denver have prohibited trading in unlisted stocks in the floor of the Exchange at any time before or after call. They gave as their reason that too many wild-cat- s and fakes were receiving encouragement. The passenger department of the Rio Grande Western has distributed 35,000 copies of a Mercur folder throughout the east, and is certainly doing its share in advertising Utah. Thousands of attractive posters are also being distributed at Cripple Creek, Colorado Springs and Denver. A State mining and immigation convention will bo held at Helena, Mont., on March 10th, tho purpose being to promote the legitimate development of the gold, silver, copper, lead, coal and iron resources of the State, to encourage the settlement of agricultural lands and to promote immigration. The Accident group, in Clifton District, is being developed by the owners, M. R. Evans, Henry Dinwoodey; John Brewer and others. A 100-fotunnel is being driven along tho hanging wall, and the vein shows eleven feet of ore that will average CO ounces silver. With transportation facilities it would be a splendid projjerty. The coming season will witness great activity in placer mining along the Green and Colorado rivers in this State. The Bennett machine at Green River will be in operation with in a few days, and is expected to handle 3000 to 4000 yards of gravel per day. The plant of the Good Elope company will be started up just as soon as the present low water stage is passed, and M. J. Ryan will operate the Mitchell it Ryan washers on California Bar. These placers are beginning to attract the attention of outside capitalists. The famous Harqua Ilala mines, in Arizona, have evidently struck bottom, after having produced millions of the yellow stuir. The present owners are arranging to ship their machinery to South Africa, having no further use for it at Harqua Hula. The mine seems to bo completely worked out. tor several years it produced from 859,000 to 8100,000 per to its owners. The present owners, however, bought i pi? i1 a 'ear ago, paying therefor something over $1,000,000. aey have succeeded in getting only a small portion of their bl,000, 000 back again; but there are many thousand tons of valuable tailings, now valuable because of tho cyanide process, n ot 4 MINING REVIEW. which will now be worked, and the owners think their purchase price can be realized. A slab of Summit County onyx has been sent down from Coalville to this city to be polished. It is said to be of very fine quality. A company has been organized to build an electric railroad from Denver to Cripple Creek. The power will be supplied by the mountain streams, along which the route will run. It is stated that Captain DeLamar has decided to erect a small plant for the purpose of testing the merits of a proposed mill for process, before proceeding with work on the 500-tothe Golden Gate. The discovery of a copper ledge within the city limits of Helena, which assays 21 per cent copper and fourteen ounces silver, was one of the surprising events of the week. The vein is said to bo six feet wide. The St. Geor e Union reports the discovery of another copper mine in the Tutsogubbet district, and many claims are said to have been staked off. Southern Utah will some day yield a heavy output of the red metal. Reports from Mercur are that the burned district has been entirely re built. Two hundred houses have been erected since the first of the year and indications are favorable to a red-hboom n the spring. Some choice lots are now held as high as 8100 per front foot. A disgruntled Boulder man visited Cripple Creek and sends this roast to his home paper: Cripple Creek is all right if you have got money, and all wrong if you have not. and still they come, and the guileless tenIt is derfoot is very much in evidence. The prices are stiff, and, like other camps, the woods are full of prospects which will come in handy for post holes some day. The most outrageous prices are asked for holes with nothing in sight and if you take a lease and bond they want machinery put up immedin ot over-crowde- d, ately. The condition of the mining industry is pretty accurately gauged b-- ' the volume of trade in mining supplies. Managers. H. Hill, of the Cunnington Company, remarked the other day that the mining trade was more than 10 per cent better than during the corresponding period of last year. Nor was it confined to any particular section, the activity extending to all the camps. The increased demand for prospecting outtits was particularly noticeable, and Mr. Hill expects his men will bo kept busy day and night filling orders as soon as the snow A prospecting craze seems to bo upon the leaves the hills. people, said he, and it extends from Brigham street to St. George. The Butte Miner reports the discovery, in Madison white spar porphyry, which is full county, of honey-combeof bismuth in a pure state of chemical powder, which seemed A piece mixed with myriads of particles of line flake gold. of the ore was placed on exhibition at Butte and for several days bystanders had been shaking out the gold. Every shake brought a shower of gold. A piece of this ore should be sent to Secretary Carlisle, and the problem of maintaining a gold reserve would be solved who had just brought his A West Australian wife and baby over from Melbourne, thus related his trouble to his mate: When the missus come there warnt much furniture an sich, about the tent, leastwise not pots ail cookin things an them. So she starts away on one o my gold pans the kid in an makes the soup. The nex I sees her the same bloomin dish, an then the kids fixins. Well, when I see her fryin the bloomin chops in the same dish, I sez, AusHeres the bunce, go and buy a bloomin sausepan. tralian Mining Standard. The Temple Bar placer plant, locate 1 on the Colorado river, below the Utah line, has met with disaster. Two large boats on the catamaran order were built, which were anchored in midstream, and an immense water wheel constructed between them. The force of the current turned this wheel, which was attached to a pump, which forced the water out on the land to wash tho rich gold bearing gravel. The machinery alone cost 815,000. According to the Mineral Wealth, the enterprise has proven a failure, as it says: The Temple Bar hydraulic plant broke from its moorings recently, and started down the river on a jamboree. It grounded a few miles down, and there it will probably stay. The extent to which American engineers direct operations in South Africa is illustrated by the following incomplete list of our countrymen who have gained distinction in tho Transvaal: Hamilton Smith, engineer to Messrs. Rothschilds & Sons; John Hays Hammond, engineer to tho Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, Limited, and to tho British Chartered South Africa Company; Hennen Jennings engineer to Messrs. Wernher, Beit & Co.; George W. Starr, engineer to Messrs. Bernato Bros.; Georgo E. Webber, manager of tho Crown Reef mine; Captain Mein, manager of tho Robinson mine; and Charles Butters, managing director of tho Rand Central Oro Reduction Company, Limited. d, dry-blowe- r, |