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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- 8 MINING REVIEW N en Gate ground into lots. The hill is being laid off into residence lots, which ffeus of tye 5anps. upraise, lifted seven to eight feet above the tunnel, Wednesday night was streak, twelve showing a three-foInches of which were solid gray copper and galena, the balance quartz streaked with the same. Very fine specimens of native and wire silver are found in kidneys outside of this rich streak, and also pyrites running is high in gold. The second-clas- s was partly largely soft pyrites, and will be terraced, and it is expected that it will become the fine residence portion The Review desires reliable correspond- of the town. Mercur Miner: The Rogers property, ence from every mining camp in Utah, located about 2500 feet west of Fairfield Idaho and Nevada, and will give publi- station, is looking well. Mr. Rogers cation to any news items of merit coming reports that he is certain the vein dips from a trustworthy source. Liberal com- northeasterly into the valley, and close to the surface. The last assays taken missions will be paid on subscriptions. the vein. from the property some time ago run obtained in cross-cuttin- g are ore looks better as the being made forin-a $1.25, but the Arrangements UTAH. work progresses. shipment, from which all the tests ton dicate that not less than $1000 per and be realized on the first-clawill Summit County. Tooele County. second-clasand thus, $50 to $65 on the Park City Patriot: Work this week while developments are not sufficient CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. in all the mines of this camp has been to guarantee permanency, the leasers Correspondence Mining Review. with the same regularity are assured by what is in sight of a Mercur, April 1. Messrs. Dern and prosecuted persistency that toit has for the past handsome reward for their labor. Airis have purchased from Hudson and the condition of months. six The Winamuck is now employing Owing Smith 45,854 shares of the Silver Lode the roads in the ore canyons, but little about fifty men. Mining company for $20,000, which in- has been delivered to the sampler. No The Dalton & Lark force was Increases their holdings to 96,000 shares, ore has been handled by the Ontario creased to ninety-fiv- e this week. out of the total 100,000. The property teams since last Friday. The road is n made another The Vindicator townsite. Mercur the adjoins being shoveled this week. This has shipment this week. The Merco company has let a con- caused no inconvenience at the OnElmer Hill owns the Navajo, extentract for 100 feet of shaft. tario mill, as it has still a stock suffi- sion of and across the gulch from the h interest in a group of cient The for twTo more wTeeks run. The claims lying about two miles west of Ontario mill shipped this morning Julia Dean. LITTLE COTTONWOOD. Mercur, belonging to the estate of the forty-si- x base' bars bullion, average The New State companys tunnel has late Stephen A. Estes, will be sold by weight being 1450 ounces, making in all 13th. on now been driven ninety feet and will the administrator April or ounces about 27,000 66,700 ounces, Howrard Carpenter and S. A. Hunt pure silver. That would have been be continued 200 feet further, which have bonded the West Shore group, wrorth in 1893, before silver was demon- will give a vertical depth of 175 feet. owned by Col. E. A. Wall, the consider- etized by Grover and Sherman, $21,060. The ground works easily, and bunches ation being $50,000. Mr. Carpenter is Now' it is wrorth less than $17,000. As of good ore are encountered. There is secretary of the South Geyser company this is the third shipment made by the every indication of the existence of a and Mr. Hunt is from Colorado. gold bearing vein in the hill, and Ontario during the present month, its rich a New State company is determined the Eastern capitalists have purchased in silver for the month of March, loss elevhalf interest in the Pearl group of 1896, compared with March, 1893, is in to find it. en claims, adjoining the Gold King, for the neighborhood of $16,000. $S500. No ore has been hauled from the SilJuab County. A body of good ore has been encoun- ver King for eight days, owing to the TINTIC DISTRICT. tered in the Red Cloud at Sunshine, impassable condition of the roads up and the croppings of a promising vein the canyon. This has been utilized in Tintic Miner: Shipments from the discovered. been also have dead work that had been district for the past week are reported The North Mercur company has let prosecuting in contemplation some time. On the as follows: shaft. a contract for a From the Bullion-Bec- k mine, 20 car7th of April the regular monthly diviBullion-Beck The Golden Gate Extension company dend of $37,500 will be mill, for the loads ore; from the will sink a double compartment shaft Silver King stockholders. ready 10 carloads concentrates; from the on its" property, lying between the Mer5 carloads ore; from The reports from the West Daly are 1 cur and Golden Gate. carload of ore; from the of the most encouraging nature. The the Utah, 1 The South Geysers double compart- more the strike made in the Godiva, carload ore; from the Eureka ment shaft is now down sixty feet, level, an account of which was pub- Hill mill, 12 carloads concentrates; from and is expected to encounter the Golden lished in the Patriot three weeks back, the North Star, 5 carloads ore; from Gate vein at a depth of 125 feet. is worked the better it is proving up. the Four Aces, 1 carload ore; from the the exact dupli- Dragon iron mine, 23 carloads ore. A new $25,000 Mercur Mercury: The Golden Gate cate of that inengine, E. N. Jenkins came out Tuesday to the Silver King, has is preExtension Gold Mining company been contracted for by the West Daly. look over the operations on the Whiton the an active for campaign paring Park Record: Jigging plants along taker. He states to the Miner man east of Cannon the Lincoln group, lying Silver creek, into which pour the tail- that he expects the return of his Denoffelected has The company group. from all the mills and concen- ver associates in a few days, when the ings R. as J. follows: icers Walker, Jr., trators in the camp, are becoming nu- operations will be more vigorously and treasurer; George president merous, and under improved methods pushed than ever. The project of a C. H. Griffin, of working the mineral deposited in tunnel from the Mammoth to tap the H. secretary; C. A. Walker and George the creek from the mills above, some Whittaker and adjacent ground is T. W. with and these, are evidently accruing. The now being considered, and Mr. Jenkins Robinson, profits Gate Golden foreman of the latest accession to the ranks are says it is sure to go through. The work idenwiio is also H. R. and Carr, W. S. Sharp, John Blowers and will probably be done by the MamMessrs. mine, Gate Golden with the tified people, James Stevens, who are putting in a moth company under contract, and will comof the the below the tap a vast extent of unexplored terriincorporators comprise plant near Homers ranch,twro is shares 400,000 stock The lower depot, consisting of pany. capital jig and tory. We hope the scheme will matericomeach. of $5 The of a par value two slime tables. From samples taken alize one hoists of the finest will from the ground some weeks ago aspany put up It is reported that the Dagmar-Eu-rek- a and the in the district group says wTere obtained that indicate that develop company is arranging its affairs shaft. double a contains at compartment creek that the good in good shape for the immediate rethrough point fine to of see wrant assoa If you showing of the development work on values, and Messrs. Sharp and sumption exnot ciates are confident that they can save the property, which will be comore, something that you would deso of little see to a in All the plants along the creek, so menced in a few days and vigorously it. prospect pect to over the Badger, near as we are able to learn, are ma- prosecuted. velopment, go owned by the Mercur Gold Mining Syn- king at least wTages, while all of them The Bullion-Bec- k company has purThe & do to even dicate better than that chased the Progress and Good Luck Development company. expect vein is a strong one, and has every in- during the coming summer. millsites in Homansville canyon from dication of values. Good assays have John Beck and W. H. Moeller. These when and the been obtained from it, flow of springs are said to have a goodaddition Salt Lake County. footwall is reached the operators expect be a valuable water and will WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. to have the richest ore body in camp. to the Beck's supply of that commodThe dip is about the same as the upper Bingham Bulletin: A paragraph in ity. or Mercur vein, and the development last weeks Bulletin announced sub J. W. Caine and A. Lechester, who to conclusion the thus far made leads rosa that very rich ore had been found an Eastern syndicate, were that the vein is equally as strong. A in a prospect near the mouth of Mark- represent in camp Monday and Tuesday to close Wedneswere to men of work force ham gulch, the particulars being with- up the deal involving the Tesora and put day sinking to the footwall, and when held by request. We are now at lib- Independent claims, southeast of Silthat is reached it is expected that the erty to say that the strike was made ver. Mr. Caine stated to the Miner property will be a milling proposition. in the Julia Dean lode, under bond and that work will be commenced as soon The discoveries in the Badger have lease to Dan Clays and son. It is as the deal is closed and a shaft will greatly stimulated development in that making a remarkable showing at pres- be sunk to a depth of 500 feet to country, and some good discoveries will ent, and improving steadily. develop the property. Within ten days about two tons of thoroughly very probably result. N. Jenkins purchased 12,000 shares E. R. S. Kilpatrick and J. B. Weston of first-clahave been sacked, tests of of Eureka Consolidated stock on Tuesfor the are who 1000 to 1500 ounces of silwhich show Nebraska, negotiating in the ver and four ounces gold per ton. There day. purchase of the Elmwood group, The air is full of rumors of impendSunshine country, at a stated price of are also in the ore bin about twenty ing mining deals, but reliable infortons of second-clas- s, $50,000, were in the district this week. samples showing mation is hard to secure. 140 ounces silver. At present two shifts Surveyor Gemmill has been busy this Eureka Democrat: Another large wreek surveying and platting the Gold are run and ten men employed. An cave has been opened up in the breast ot ss s; 100-to- one-sixt- 100-fo- ot Cen-tennial-Eure- 900-fo- ot vice-preside- Kis-lingsbu- ry, Mc-Farla- ne, nt; ss ka, |