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Show 6 INTEK-M0UNTA1- N MINING KEVIEW. of which he is manager and take the management of a mine in South Africa. It is reported that ore carrying 600 The Denver mining: stock market has ounces in silver has been struck in the dumps again. the Black Jack mine, located about DeLamar, Nev., reports an over-suppfour miles from Preston, Ida. Everyof miners and laborers. body is excited and the whole region The Sunlight mine in Boise county, has been located. Ida., has been bonded for $6000. There is more interest in the Deep A miners' union has been organized Creek districts and more prospectors at DeLamar, Nev., with 100 members. headed for that region than for seveThe new air compressor for the Ajax ral years past. Notwithstanding the will be driven by a gasoline engine. large number of claims located, this is a promising field for the prospectThe Pueblo Mining Exchange has still or. suspended business for one month. It is reported from Joplin, Mo., that The shaft of the South Swansea, in the biggest zinc the Tintic district, is now in good ore. twelve or fifteen oftwo at Pitisburg, including A discovery of $10 gold ore is reported smelters, one Rich at and Hill, Mo., will Kan., near the mouth of Spanish Fork can- shut down. Stocks are slow and prices yon. are likely to advance on curtailment of The Denver Mining Exchange con- production. tributed $1000 to the relief of Cripple Two mining engineers well known to Creek. Coloradoans have died in West AusThe Dexter company has sent a new tralia since the first of the year, and hoisting plant to its property, located these two were brothers, Reuben and near Tuscarora, Nev. Alfred Rickard. The former died on The Solomon mine at Creede, Colo., is February 27th, and the latter just one month later. to be equipped with an electro-magnetconcentrator. The Black Hills country claims a rebecase will come to markable gold discovery, the vein disThe Geyser-Mario- n to that of the Mercur trial next week, having been post- ing similar values trict, carrying running from $15 poned for one week. to $500 per ton. It lies between lime The Golden Fleece mine in Hinsdale and porphyry, is several feet thick and county, Colo., last week shipped a car covers a large area. of ore valued at $45,000. Edward E. Clark, who had been enGeorge Pierson, a resident of Park gaged in mining throughout the West City for twenty-fiv-e years and a '49er, for thirty years, died in this city last died at San Francisco on April 13th. Friday. He was 58 years of age, and Quartz assaying as high as $40 in at the time of his death was superingold has been discovered in Park Val- tendent and part owner of the Eagle mine in the Camp Floyd district. ley, Box Elder county. A rich strike is reported in the VulThe Alaska Mining Record reports can mine at Fish Springs, the new that placer mining is still in operation discovery assaying as high as 4000 on Gold creek. At one place the men ounces in silver. are working under a twenty-foo- t bed of tunnels for driven snow, being, Capt. DeLamars new mill at DeLa- boxes. The not is under frozen gravel mar, Nev., has started up, increasing the snow. 300 the milling capacity of the plant to tons daily. A New York dispatch conveys the Jacket The Heffner Queen, in Dry Canyon, information that the Yellow x lode of thirty-sie group, consisting tons of ore last sent in twenty-thresix located placer claims, week that carried $31.25 per ton in gold, claims and Lemhi county, Ida., Yellow at Jacket, silver, lead and copper. for sold been $1,000,000, the former has The Alaska Mining Record complains owners retaining a large interest. that many of the stories printed in the Mrs. John P. St. John, wife of the States concerning Alaska are utterly famous is at Prohibition false. some time suand has been for The new Winnamuck mill at Bing- present the engineering and other ham has been started up, and the perintending a tunnel in a of work owners have an abundance of ore to gold mine constructing at Cripple Creek, in which keep it running at full capacity. her husband has a controlling interest. The Sultana mine of Breckinridge, The Indian Creek Gold Mining and Colo., is making heavy shipments of consilver ore. This comes from Milling company inihas secured a Rock the Sheep trolling interest a blanket vein, carrying gray copper. company, and the properties, which are The Independence Extension com- located in the Newton mining district, pany has discovered what is believed near Beaver, will be developed at once. to be the extension of the famous In- The ore shows high values in both dependence vein at Cripple Creek. gold and silver. The Gold Dust Mining company of A farmer up near Honeyville, Box contract this city has let a for the Elder county, found in a canyon what erection of a twenty-stam- p mill on its he took to be a piece of petrified bacon. near located property, Leesburg, Ida. Investigation, however, showed Gibbonsville, Ida., will permit no it to be onyx, and of a variety not in Utah, being of Italians to tarry within its gates. Sev- aheretofore discovered greenish tinge. A ledge four feet in eral of King Humberts subjects were thickness has been uncovered. escorted, out of town last week. The owners of the U and I are preA San Francisco man has invented an ore crusher that is operated by paring to start work on their property two horse power and will crush from in Bingham canyon. There is a nice vein of ore in sight, and they will betwelve to fifteen tons per day. operations as soon as needed reIt is now proposed to build a railroad gin pairs are made in the tunnel, and will from Caldwell, Ida., on the Short Line, begin shipping as soon as this work is southward through the Owyhee min- completed. ing districts and to some point on the Uncle Sam has now gone after the Southern Pacific. cats. The Postoffice department wild Two placer companies have com- has stopped the mails of the African-America- n menced operations in the Cariboo disGold Mining company, 100 trict, Bingham county, Ida., and the New York. The swindlers mill of the Union company will be in- Broadway, advertised extensively, on credit, even creased to forty stamps. using religious weeklies, and sold stock The Lucky Boy mine at Custer City, based upon nothing for $10 per share. Ida., that was recently closed down A very rich placer discovery is reon account of a strike by the miners, ported in Old Timer Santa Fe expects to start up again about the county, N. M. Nuggetsgulch, valued at from 20th. $1 to $8 have been found, and the Daily It is reported that Capt. Thomas New Mexican says one piece of pure Couch will sever his connection with gold fully an inch long and over a the Montana and California companies half an inch wide was taken out. Many NEWS CLEAN-U- P. ly ic . ex-Govem- 300-oun- ce or, years ago this region was famous for its yield of nuggets. George Riley, a miner, was the victim of a strange accident on the Bonanza mine at Mercur last Saturday. He had put a shot in the breast of a tunnel and sought the mouth of the tunnel for safety. When the charge exploded a fragment of rock was blown through the tunnel, striking Riley on the shoulder and inflicting fatal injuries. The 250 men employed upon the DeLamar mine and mill at DeLamar, Ida., struck last week for an increase in wages from $3 to $3.50 per day, and a reduction in the price of board. The company expects to fill the places of the strikers. A miners union was recently organized at DeLamar, but the miners of Silver City, Booneville and Black Jack refused to join. S. L. Adams of St. George, Utah, discovered and opened up a rich copper vein, took out and smelted a quantity of the ore, and made a copper pick, pointing it with silver produced at Silver Reef. The handle, of native ash, was also made by Mr. Adams, and this unique article of home manufacture will be sent to the promoters of the Pacific coast road, as an object lesson 300-fo- ot in the resources of the Dixie country. Prof. Kimball, he of the divining rod, who located gold and silver mines galore throughout the mountains of Utah at $100 a location, is now operating on the Comstock. The Utah clients of tHis rod wizard will be interested to know that he is still using the same old rod and still locating great bodies of the precious metals. His Utah engagement resulted in no producing mines. The Northern Light, in the Ophir district, is developing a large body of ore that carries $30 in gold and is well adapted to the cyanide process. This mine, like those in the Camp Floyd district, has two veins, one carrying silver and the other gold, but the lower vein carries the gold, while in the Camp Floyd district the gold is above the silver. There is also more iron in the Northern Light than in the Mercur ores. The Dalton & Lark company at Bingham, in order to meet the requirements of the eight-holaw, which next effect into month, has adoptgoes ed a new system of wages, and will hereafter pay 25 cents an hour. This does not affect the wages at present, but if the hours are reduced, it means but $2 per day for the miners. This is one of the evil effects of the law fore-see- n and pointed out by the Mining Review. The Burlington mine, on Sandy creek, Lemhi county, Idaho, has again become a steady producer, after having been abandoned by the company some years ago. The vein faulted and the ore body was lost, the company being unable to recover it The foreman of the mine and three associates then leased the property and have not only found the lost vein, but have several hundred tons of good free milling ore On the dump, with enough more in sight to keep the mill running for seveur ral years. Within a few days a company will be incorporated in this city to operate the Gold Ridge mine, located in Baker county, Ore. This property was purchased a few months ago by J. E. Bamberger, J. Barnett and C. B. Jack. It consists of 200 acres of patented p mill. The mine ground and a was operated some years ago, but was tied up by the death of one of the owners. It has been quite extensively developed and the workings show eighteen inches of ore that carry $15 to $17. The capitalization will be $100,000. An important strike is reported in the Black Dragon, adjoining and upon the same vein as the famous Iron mine, near Silver City. A fine body of ore has been encountered beneath the iron capping. The iron lying on top of the vein is valuable for smelting purposes and the Iron mine is making heavy shipments to the smelters. Be- ten-stam- |