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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS MINING REVIEW. N CLEAN-U- P. pany for $380,849, in the attachment suit instituted by Eastern creditors, as the Boston crowd. An asA miners union has been organized known sessment of $10 per share is talked of. at DeLamar, Ida. It is announced that the New A. Toponce will erect a mill for the in which the RothMonolith mine at Shoup, Ida. schilds are heavily interested, will erect Mr. Claude Sachs is the new editor of large smelting works at Cockle the Colorado Springs Mining Investor. New South Wales, to handle theCreek, Broores. The Ashcroft process A large number of men are at work ken upon properties in American Fork can- will be used. A company has been formed at Lonyon. The Colorado mining stock market don for the purpose of introducing in lias firmed up and prices are advan- Colorado the Fauvel process, for the treatment of cing. gold The belief prevails that rich gold ores. This process wasrefractory described at quartz ledges will be discovered in Dry length by the Mining Review in the issue of January 21st. gulch, near Helena. The Bingham Bulletin thinks an inch Sunshine, the new mining and a half of rain fell on the just and camp in the Campthrifty Floyd district, has received the inevitable unjust of that camp last week. baptism of fire It is believed that the present num- with which nearly all young mining ber of stamps in operation in Califor- towns inaugurate their career of prosperity. A restaurant, hotel and livery nia .aggregates a little over 4000. Pelton wheel supplies all stable were burned last Thursday. A A Moab (Utah) correspondent of the the power necessary to operate the big mill of the DeLamar company at De Mining Review writes that the recently published story concerning the location Lamar, Ida. the Moab cemetery as a placer The Olympia mine at Summit Flat, of was a fake. There is gold in Boise county, Ida., has been sold to a claim the gravel adjacent to the town, but London syndicate, and a twenty-stam- p water the is all appropriated and the mill is to be erected. facilities are meager. dump The distance from Juneau, Alaska, to There is not a sadder sight than a Circle City, the furthermost Yukon played-ou- t camp. Poor old camp, is S98 miles, and to the mouth of Virginia City mining once a big camp, is now Cooks Inlet 700 miles. deserted by all who can get away. It The Development Syndicate Com- was once the most picturesque spot in pany of Glasgow, Scotland, has pur- the West the resort of thugs, thieves, chased the Elkhart mine, in Mojave gamblers and adventurers of both county, Ariz., for $25,000. sexes, and it ruled the State of Nevada. The members of the Salt Lake Stock Mr. H. K. Thurber, in a communicaand Mining Exchange have resolved r, tion to the Wood River that they will all join the Salt Lake thus tersely describes the situation: Chamber of Commerce. My observation has been, in every miGood strikes of free milling gold ning camp I ever visited, that quite as quartz are reported in the Blue Bell many mines have been closed and shut district, located in the southeastern down for the want of close economical business management as from any corner of Tooele county. The recent heavy storms have se- other cause. The total mineral and metal producriously retarded mining operations in tion of the United States for 1895, just this region. A mild and open winter published, amounted to $628,689,505, an generally betokens a late spring. over 1894 of nearly $85,000,000. The operation of the Bennett placer increase The production of gold was $46,830,200, machine at Green River, Utah, is said an increase of more than $7,000,000; to be attended with success, although silver, $30,254,296, a decrease of nearly no clean-u- p has yet been made. $3,000,000. Output of iron and coal the Statistics from the Pueblo smelters largest known. show that the average value of all ores The Chicago Mining Exchange is received there from the Cripple Creek sending circulars to district for 1895 was $120.24 per ton. throughout the country, urging them The Tintic Miner has entered upon its to list their stock. The exchange franksixth year. It is a newsy, reliable pa- ly confesses to a shortage of brokers per, a credit to the great camp of Eu- and little business, but it expects an reka, and fully deserves increasing improvement. Mr. A. Wegener is secprosperity. retary, and the exchange is located at Recent assays from the property of 16 Pacific avenue. The soda well recently developed at the Crown company, located in Ophir e Green River, Wyo., thirty-fivof a from taken by people who were district, depth 6 in $8 ounces for oil, promises to become a silver, feet, show boring source of big revenue to its fortunate gold and 17 per cent lead. owners. They have figured out a posIt is claimed that a rich copper dis- sible production of 6000 pounds of soda covery has been made on Diamond day, worth $120, and the cost will mountain, Uintah county. A great per exceed 35 cents per ton. not These many locations have been made, and people made a big winning not getby some of them have been jumped. went after. what they The price of cyanide of potassium ting Power company proposes has again been reduced, and it is now toThe Provo3500 horse-powin Provo develop sold at 40 cents per pound by the electrical transmission to canyon for Nelden-Judso- n Drug company, the sole the mining camps of Mercur and Eudealers in this region. This is a re- reka. The Big Cottonwood plants will duction of 4 cents. power to the mines of Park City The Apollo Consolidated gold mine, supply Bingham, and thus the four printhat produces $300,000 per year, is lo- and camps of Utah will have an abuncated on an island 1000 miles southwest cipal of Sitka, and is sunk on a fracture in dance of cheap power. Montana's third mine disaster withlava. The ore carries $8 to $9 in gold in ten days occurred at the Broadwater and some native copper. at Neihart last Saturday. Six men A cyanide plant is in successful op- were killed by an explosion of giant in eration near Atlantic, Wyo., and the the middle tunnel. Sixteen others were miners in that vicinity are now develop- wounded, some of them frighting their properties, having heretofore fully mangled. The minebeing was been under the impression that it was caved in. Nineteen miners havebadly lost impossible to save the values. recent three in accidents the lives their During the present season the Aurora in Montana. company will drive a tunnel on Placer discoveries are reported on its property, located in the Marysvale the south fork of Hawkins creek, south district. This tunnel will reach the of Pocatello. One locator says the gold vein at a depth of 400 feet. The ore is as coarse as grains of wheat, and carries $40 to $60 in gold and silver. another declares it is quite fine. All enthe ground has been located and there Judgment by default has been tered against the Butte & Boston com- - is a dispute over the water. It is said Sul-corporati- on, low-gra- de six-fo- ot News-Mine- mine-owne- rs er 200-fo- ot that these placers were worked in 1853 by a party of prospectors on their way to California. Wildcat mining stock fakirs have been reaping a big harvest at Kansas City, which seems to possess an overSchool teachers, supply of suckers. clerks and the poorer classes have been loaded up with worthless stocks at high prices. The success of these swindlers is such as to encourage the brass-bric- k man to again come forward with his bar of solid gold. Cripple Creek mine-ownerejoice over the collapse of the smelters combine. It is said that the smelters have been having things their own way, but the pool has been broken up by the rapid construction of many new mills for the treatment of medium-grad- e ores. For some time past the ores have comproducers of high-grad- e of plained unsatisfactory smelter returns. The litigation between the Idaho and Union mining companies, involving the famous Cariboo mine in Bingham county, Ida., has terminated in favor of the Union, which will erect a forty-stam- p mill during the season. The rs so-call- ed Cariboo shows a good vein of gold ore, and the operation of the mine will doubtless attract attention to other good properties in southeastern free-milli- ng Idaho. Capt. Polhamus, the Colorado river navigator, has for twenty years done the assessment work upon a group of rich gold and copper claims on the Bill Williams fork of the Colorado in Arizona. Last year the men he employed to do his work failed to attend to it, and the property was immediately jumped by California parties. Much work is being done in that region this season, the veins running high in gold and copper. At Johannesburg, South Africa, a mine staff usually consists of a general manager with a salary varying from $6000 to $15,000 a year, and the following managers of the different departments under him: Battery manager, $200 to $400 a month; underground manager, $200 to $350; cyanide manager, $200 to $300; chief engineer, $200 to $300; compound manager, $150 to $250; secretary, $125 to $250; surveyor, $150 to $200; $125 assayer, $125 to $200; storekeeper,boarding-hto $150; timekeepers, $100 to $125; ouses charge $35 per month. It is announced that experiments are being made with the Roentgen ray in the Black Hills by mining experts with a view to using it in locating ore bodies. It is said that one prospector named Glover has just been attended with partial success in this direction. This story is doubtless another X-rfake, as the object photographed, or shadowgraphed, must be placed between the Crookes tube and the camera, and the introduction of the tube behind a supposed ore body, in undeay veloped ground, would present a somewhat serious problem. The largest and handsomest specimens of crystallized orpiment ever found in this or any other country have recently been discovered in the Ruby tunnel of the Mercur mine. Some of of an these crystals are three-fourtinch long and very beautiful. Foliated orpiment, also very rare, occurs in the Mercur mine in greater quantities than elsewhere in the United States, and is found at all in no other countries except Hungary and Greece. Orpiment is an arsenical sulphide, composed of 60 per cent arsenic and 40 per cent sulphur, while the realgar found in the Golden Gate is 70 per cent arsenic and 30 per cent sulphur. The Hope mine at Basin, Mont., in which seven men were entombed by the burning of the shaft-hous- e and is to of the said have mine, flooding been a regular death-traThe men had no means of exit, except by outside assistance, and the evidence showed that they rang twice to be hoisted, but the engineer was talking to a friend and paid no attention to the signals. It is also said that the superintendent never had any previous hs p. |