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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- tion. cost about the capital being supplied from Denver. The machine scoops up 2000 yards of gravel every ten hours, pumps the water and is expected to save the fine gold by amalgamation. The power is supplied power dynamo. The reby a sults of the operation of this machine are being watched with great interest, as its success means millions to tne owners of the extensive placers along the Colorado river. During the present season development work will be resumed upon the Pinto Creek Copper Queen, located in three-fourtIron a county, canyon, interest in which is owned by Will C. Higgins, mining editor of the Herald. This is one of the oldest properties in Utah, having been located before the days of- the railroad, and ore shipped by wagon to Salt Lake has run as high as 85 per cent copper, $20 in gold and 30 ounces silver.. It is believed that intelligent development will open up a large body of this ore, and as the railroad is now within sixty miles. of the mine, the output could be marketed The Gold Cyanide Refining company has recently established a plant at 217-2South West Temple street, for refining cyanides and making cyanide, leaching and electrolytic tests on ores. The institution is in competent hands, and should meet with success. Capt. J. R. De Lamar, owner of the Golden Gate mine at Mercur, the Jim Crow and Monitor at De Lamar, Nev., and many other bonanzas in various parts of the West, arrived from New York last Monday, and is now inspecting his Camp Floyd properties. One hundred and nine tons of ore from the Mammoth mine was sold in this city yesterday that was valued at $19,800, or nearly $200 per ton. It came from the 1200 and 1300 levels, and is the ore made first shipment of high-grad- e for some time. The chief value was In $75,000( 19 150-hor- se hs - gold. Some exceptionally strong mining companies have been incorporated since the last issue of the Review, among them being the Dalton and Lark, the Golden Treasure and the Herschel. The latter company owns ground adjoining at great profit. the Mercur, and is capitalized for Smelting men throughout the West $5,000,000. are watching with great interest the rf George Arthur Rice, Charles operation of the immense blast furthe party of mill experts nace just completed by the Denver who wentand dowrn to the Sevier Engineering Works company for the mine at Marysvale, inspect to have returned Globe smelter at Denver. This is said the of the ore, bringing samples to be the largest blast furnace in the uponcity, tests which be to dewill made world, and its successful operation will termine the process to be used the mean fewer stacks and cheaper ore re- new mill. A force of men will by be set duction in the future. Following are to wrork opening up the mine. the dimensions of the furnace: Sixty A heavy shipment of gold bullion inches wide and 160 inches long at the from the Jim Crow and Monitor mine, center of tuyers to top of tuyers; from 30 De Lamar, Nev., passed through the charge, feet; total height of at this 5 city last Monday night. Just what furnace, 48 feet; height of crucible, feet 8 inches. The capacity of the fur- the mine is producing no one knows, nace is 300 tons daily. It will be fed but Capt. De Lamar, but those, who the underby elevators, the same as an iron blast have recently inspected ground workings declare it is a greater furnace. property than the Comstock ever was. The ore body is said to be 200 feet wide. SALT LAXE NUGGETS. Senior & Ladd, the purchasers of the Mercur townsite, are expending a great Samuel Newhouse, a Colorado mining deal of money in advertising the camp. man, is in the city. They have in preparation a F. L. Taylor of the ore sampling firm book, descriptive of the Camp Floyd of Taylor & Brunton is in the city. district, which will be printed in col- and profusely illustrated. Twenty Matthew Cullen and H. J. Faust have ors thousand copies will be issued and returned from a prospecting trip to distributed free at Cripple Creek, ColoDeath Valley. rado Springs and throughout the East. A. M. Grant, manager of the Eagle Mr. Senior has mastered the art of adFoundry and Machine company, has re vertising, and has learned by experiturned from Denver. ence the value of printers ink. Horatio V. Croll, representing the Cass Hite has returned to the city Denver Engineering Works company, and reports the discovery, about eight was in the city during the week. miles west of Burnt Corral, on the A. W. Perego of the Mercur Gold Union Pacific, and southwest of Black Mining Syndicate and Development Rock, in Millard county, of a ledge three to seven feet wide, carrying 60 company is in from the gold camp. 70 per cent lead and a few ounces Secretary E. J. Carter of the East to has been uncovered a disGolden Gate has returned from the silver. Itfifty-eigof feet, several locaEast, where, he says, all the talk is of tance and a camp estions made been have mines. and named Leadville. In the The activity of Little Pittsburg stock tablished Sawtooth range Mr. Hite visited a reis shown by the fact that 1200 transfers cent discovery of wThat appears to be have recently been recorded by the an old excavation, 100 feet deep and of the secretary company. feet wide, which he beseventy-fiv- e J. K. Hickman of the Gold Queen lieves was worked for placer gold, the Mining company has gone down to the gravel being taken to the nearest waBlue mountains to inspect the prop- ter, five miles distant, for washing. erty, and will be absent two weeks. Col. R. A. Hawkins of Helena, Mont., C. A. Armstrong, one of the owners has come down to Utah to take a look of the Bachelor mine, in Ouray county, at the Camp Floyd gold belt, and may Colo., is in the city, having come over decide to open an office in this city. to look after Camp Floyd property in Col. Hawkins has large mining interwhich he is interested. ests in Montana, and is one of the The stock of the Hot Stuff Mining noted characters in the Western minWest thirty-on- e company has not yet been called upon ing world. He came the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, but years ago, helped to organize the San when it is offered Hot Stuff ought to Francisco Mining Exchange, has passed create a scramble among the brokers. through all the mining booms and never took a drink of whisky in his The mining incorporation record of life. At the outbreak of the war he this city was broken on Monday of last was an r, Alabama but he week, when nine companies, with an 175 slaves, entered the aggregate capital of $11,S00,000, filed emancipated as a Union army private, and fought their articles. This is only about one-ha- his Brigadier-Generalshito a brevet way of Colorados daily average. 62 He is old, but he can Fraser & Chalmers have sold a Hunt- climb as steep years a mountain as any n ington mill to Browning Bros, of prospector and ride a. broncho as hard Mexi-sambe e as any vaquero. sent to a mine in old Jo Concerning the presfirm is also equipping ent mining boom, he says its duration the Eureka-Hi- ll mill with pans and will depend upon the results of developsettlers for the forty additional stamps ment of the mines. Some men wil recently ordered. make money and some will get singed. Lam-mersdo- 42-pa- ht slave-holde- lf Og-(le- 7 MINING REVIEW. N p. ge Abstract of Recent Mining Decisions. Prepared for the Mining Review by George Westervelt, attorney at law, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mining Surface Owner Right of Support. When the mineral estate in land is severed from the surface by a conveyance, the owner of the former is bound to leave enough of the mineral in place to support the surface, unless the owner of the latter has released his right to support. Robertson vs. Youghiogheny River Coal Co., 33 Atl. Rep., 706. (Supreme Court of Penna., Jan. 6, 1896.) Mining Operations Injury to Surface Recovery of Damages. If the owner of coal beneath the surface undertakes to mine and remove it, and damage results to the surface, which is owned by another person, either from negligence in conducting the mining, or from failure to properly and sufficiently support the surface, or from both these causes, the surface owner may recover compensation. Pringle vs. Vesta Coal Co. (Supreme Court of Penna., Jan. 6, 1896.) Master and Servant Risks of Employment. In an action for personal injuries it appeared that plaintiff, who was employed by defendant company as engineer, had complained to the foreman of the mine, who had general control of operations in the mine, of danger from projecting bolts on revolving shaft, and that foreman had a few days before the accident (which was caused by said bolts) promised to have the coupling covered with a box for safety. Held, that it was within the apparent scope of foremans authority to promise to make coupling safe, and that plaintiff did not, by continuing in companys service in reliance on such promise, assume the risks arising from the dangerous position of the coupling. Homestake Mining Co. vs. Fullerton, 69 Fed. Rep., 923. (C. C. of App. 8th circuit. Sept. 16, 1895.) Employer Defective Appliances Liability. An employee cannot recover for injuries from defective appliances while using them, without necessity, in a manner and for a purpose not intended, where defects would not render such appliances unfit to be used as Intended. Jayne vs. Sebewaing Coal Co., 65 NW. Rep., 971. (Supreme Court of Mich., Jan. 28, 1896.) Mining Claim Location in Anothers Name. Under Rev. St., U. S., section 2322, vesting in the locator of a mining claim the exclusive right to its possession, a location of a mining claim may be made by one person in the name of another. In such case, where one locates and has a mining claim recorded in anothers name, the legal title thus vested in the other cannot be defeated by a subsequent parol agreement that it is held by him in trust. Moore vs. Hamerslag, 41 Pac. Rep., 805. (Supreme Court of Cal., Sept. 12, 1895.) Centeiuiial-Eurek- a Option. of an English syndicate has secured an option on the Centennial-Eurek- a mine, for four months, the consideration to be $3,000,-00and the prospects are said to be very favorable for the consummation of the sale. No stock will change hands, the company simply agreeing to sell the property for the sum stated. of the stock The necessary has already ratified the agreement. The par value of the stock is $50 per share and it has paid to date $54 per share in dividends, the monthly payments now being $2 per share, and the proposed sale will return $100 per share. The stock was sold in this city last week at $69.50. At the present rate of dividend payments the mine is yielding 24 per cent per annum on The representative 0, two-thir- ds $3,000,000. - Utah may be short on but she is long on mines. boomers, |