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Show 0 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- MINING REVIEW N is proposed to erect chlorinawithin the limits of the city of Helena, tion plants for the treatment of the reMont., has been developed to a depth fractory gold ores known to exist in of eighteen feet, and shows four' feet the Appalachian belt. of ore that assays 21 per cent copper At Butte, Mont., the Union Iron and twenty ounces silver. Works of San Francisco will shortly Ninety-fiv- e per cent gold and 5 per install the largest plant of hoisting cent silver, is the alleged constituency machinery in the State, at the St. Lawo? ore in a mine the stock of which is rence mine for the Anaconda company. offered by a Chicago mining broker to It will be of power, will have a confiding public for the ridiculously a capacity for hoisting six cars of ore from a depth of 6000 feet in two and low price of 2 cents a share. one-ha- lf minutes, the reels holding 6500 In what was supposed to be a worked flat cable. feet of out portion of the Alice mine at The location of the very latest gold Mont., a cave-i- n occurred, disot three-fovein of ore that discovery reported is near the Half-Wa- y closing a runs from 200 to 300 ounces in silver house, in Parleys canyon, but a The copper ledge recently discovered fields. P. Mercur City now has bicycles and prize-fierht- s. Many Cripple Creek stocks are being sold at London. A mining exchange is to be organized at St. Louis. A party of Missourians have started for the Venezuela gold fields. A four-roounplastered log house at Cripple Creeks rents for $40' per month. A discovery of anthracite coal is reported at Twin canyon, near Mount m Pleasant. The Furner mining district has been organized, embracing the region west of Nephi. The La Plata district in Cache counores tv will be a shipper of silver-lea- d during the present season. The Lord is gaining ground in Nevada. Hereafter the Comstock mines will be closed down on Sunday. A new mining district has been organized in Sanpete county, including the territory surounding Ephraim. The richest nugget that has been found in the Coolgardie district, Australia, contained $6000 worth of gold. Successful experiments have been made with the Cassell bromine process upon the telluride ores of Boulder, Colo. and official history of the Cripple Creek district is to be published under the auspices of the ColoAn authorized rado mining exchanges. The ODhir Consolidated company is now shipping high-grad- e ore from its property in the Central mining district, Nevada, to this city. ltumsey City is the name of a new town in Five-Mi- le Pass, near the where Camp Floyd district, many discoveries of mineral are being made. L. A. Dunham, manager of the Revenue mine, Madison county, is stated to be operating the only successful cyanide plant in the State of Montana. Aspen, Colo., was founded sixteen years ago last Friday by B. Clark Wheeler. Since then the Aspen mines have produced $50,000,000 worth of silver. 3000-hor- se 8-in- Wal-kervill- e, per ton. The discovery of rich placers is reported in the Sawtooth mountains, southwest of Deseret. The gravel is said to be filled with fine quartz, which is full of gold. Two cowboys made the discovery, and Cass Hite is upon the scene. There is great activity in the old Moss mining district, now known as Juab district, east of Juab. A town-sit- e has been established, lots are besold and a hotel has been coming menced. Some very promising claims are being developed. A section of school land near Victor, Colo., has been divided into ten-acr- e lots and leased from the State by different persons for the term of twenty years at an annual rental of $5 per acre, and a royalty of 4 per cent on the gross output of the precious metals. Hon. Thomas M. Patterson, editor of the Denver News, is one of the owners of the Whittaker mine at Eureka, in which a strike is reported assaying $119.35 to $223.44. E. N. Jenkins of this city is also interested in the property, and it will be thoroughly developed. The Dalton and Lark is shipping high-grad- e ore, taken from the ground in recently dispute, and the litigation over which was settled by the purchase of the Lead Mine companys Droperty. It is estimated that there is over $2,000,000 worth of ore in sight in the Dalton and Lark. Two Leadville giants, with sledgehammers and drill, pierced a solid block of Gunnison granite to the depth of thirty-seve- n and inches in fifteen minutes, at the Leadville drilling contest, while the eight competing teams lacked only a few one-sixteen- th One of the new rules for prospecting in India is that the owner of an explor- inches of doing as well. The Yosemite No. 1 mill at Bingham ing license is not allowed to turn up was the ground beyond the depth of two totally destroyed by fire last Satfeet. urday. The loss was over $100,000, with The Keystone mine, in Lincoln coun- no insurance. The plant was erected years ago, has been remodeled ty, Nev., have been leased to Denver twrenty several and at one time was parties, who will expend $100,000 in owned bytimes C. E. Benedict of New York. settling up the debts of the company Its was 200 tons and adding to the plant. Jack Sumner is said to have struck a rich vein of gold ore near the famous Bromide mine, in the Henry mountains. Two hundred dollars per ton is the assay reported. The lllgginson Brothers, owners of a claim in Summit canyon, near Santa-quihave encountered a four-inc- h streak of vein matter that assays 3600 ounces silver and $45 in gold. Mr. Charles D. Ladd of San Francisco is oiganizing an expedition to the Cooks Inlet gold fields of Alaska, to start on the 5th of April. A sail vessel has been engaged, and the fare will be only $50. A bill is before the British Columbia parliament which, if2 it becomes a law, will levy a tax of per cent on the gross output of the mines in that province, on the basis of the ore ship- per day. The Arizona Star claims that the Fortuna mine, located forty miles east of that Diace. is the greatest property in the world. It shows a vein of free milling ore that will average $35 to $40 per ton. As a prospect it sold for $150,000, and has since been devel- of ore. money. n, capacity 25-fo- ot oped. A forty-stam- p mill is to be erected. A discovery of anthracite coal in Parleys canyon was reported last week, but parties who have visited the scene pronounce it bituminous. However, the discovery of coal of any kind so near to Salt Lake is a matter of importance and should the vein develop greater size it will cut some figure in the fuel question. Verv little is being said and a gotv deal is being done at Keswick, Shasta county. Cal.. where an English comped. pany paid $300,000 for a copper-gol-d At Leadville, Colo., in December, the property, put 1000 men to work, built Arkansas Valley smelter, owned by a railroad twelve miles long, is putting the Consolidated Kansas City Smelt- in four smelters, has spent nearly a ing & Refining company, broke the lo- million dollars, and will shortly begin cal record, runing through 27,000 tons shipping copper matte and making The mining craze has struck Vircents per hsare, with a ginia, and the Progressive South, pubits stock at to guarantee buy it back within sixty lished at Richmond, has been changed 15 cents davs at per share. It is in- from an agricultural and industrial pacredible that there are suckers ready per into a mining journal, with a speto swallow such bait. cial mission to boom the Virginia gold A Colorado 9 mining company offers It ch few miles from this city. A ledge has been opened up, from which, it is claimed, assays of $200 have been obtained. The discovery is very near to the alleged coal find of last week and the ground is covered by the coal entry. Many locations have been made in the vicinity. The Checkmate mine, in Willow Creek district near Boise, has been sold to F. L. Chapin of Ogden. It is understood J. C. Omelveny and other Union Pacific officials are interested in the purchase. The Checkmate is a recently discovered prospect that shows much rich gold ore. It is sold for $6000 cash. The smelter at the Waldo copper mines, near Grants Pass, Or., is now in successful operation. Sericus alarm was recently occasioned at Leadville by the report that the Smith-Moffsyndicate intended to pull up its pumps and cease draining the Wolftone, Maid of Erin and Henrietta, which would close down a number of other properties and throw out of work one-ha- lf the entire number of men employed in the Leadville mines. The Smith-Moffpeople have not yet decided what they will do. in seventy-fiv- e The of the Northwestern Mining number association met last week at Spokane. Representative mining men were in attendance from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Two important suggestions were infor a dorsed by the convention-o- ne of to of a member be mines, secretary the cabinet; the other directing the preparation of a bill providing for parallel end lines in location of mining claims. The Denver Chamber of Commerce has undertaken the publication of a journal to be known as the Colorado Chamber of Mines, the objects of which are of vast importance to the mining interests of the State. It will contain a monthly statement of ore produced by the various shipping mines, its value per ton in gold, silver, lead, copper or other minerals, the reports of the United States mint, the various smelters of the State, the iron, oil and at at vice-preside- nts coal output. The prospectus of the Dalton & Lark company, which has just been issued, is a most voluminous and attractive publication. It is profusely illustrated with maps and engravings and contains interesting statistics concerning the mineral output of Bingham. The Dalton & Lark company is one of the strongest in Utah and paid a dividend six days after incorporation. When the properties and mill recently purchased are placed in shape for operation, the daily capacity will be about 300 tons. Development work is being steadily prosecuted on the Webster mine in the is Marysvale district, and the tunnel 500 i.' w' in 1400 feet, having been driven since the mill was closed down. t. The lace of the tunnel is 800 feet below the surface, and at this depth the vein ounces silver, $4 to carries thirty-fiv- e $6 in gold and some lead. If silver continues to advance, the operation of this property may be resumed upon the completion of the Rio Grande Western extension. The mine is equipped with the first combination concentration and amalgamation mill built in Utah. The Bennett placer machine is in preliminary operation on the bars south of Green River station on the RioGrande Western. This plant, In posi- |