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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- ore taken, out the mill. The high-grad- e work in development during the winter has been sacked and will be shipped as soon as the snow goes off. By that time the Rio Grande Western extension to Richfield will have been completed, thus reducing the cost of mar- keting the ore. The Buckeye, Tintic district, this week marketed ten tons of ore that carried 31 ounces in silver, $2.70 gold and 35 per cent lead. Two lots of ore from the Checkmate mine, Willi w Creek district, Idaho, were consigned to the Pennsylvania smelter this week. One lot is said to have carried seven ounces in gold per ton. The Black Jack mine at Silver City, Ida., is now equipped with a telephone system, instruments being located on the various levels. The mill has also been provided with an electric fire alarm system. K. R. Smoot has instituted foreclosure proceedings against the Frisco Mining company of Bingham under a mortgage given to secure the payment of $50,000. The property involved includes the Frisco mine. Pioneer placer claim, True Fissure mill site and one-ha- lf interest in the Cox lode. The discovery of some large bodies of quartz in the mountains south of Utah lake resulted in a stampede of farmers and villagers to the scene, and for about one day the people believed they had a second Then the assay reCripple Creek. turns commenced to oome in, showing from a trace to $4 in gold, and this cooled the ardor of the argonauts. The Progressive South, published at Richmond, Va., cannot understand why Eastern people should go to the Rocky mountains to buy gold mines, when Virginia offers so many fine opportunities. According to this paper there is no gold mine in Virginia that has been worked to a depth where pay ore gave out, all the properties having been abandoned when the sulphides iron-stain- ed were reached on the water level. suit involving the title to the Wolf Tone mine, one of the famous Leadville properties, has been filed at Denver. A The mine was formerly owned by the Agassiz Mining company, which borrowed $85,000 from the State National bank. It is alleged that the officers of the bank advised that it be sold to satisfy this claim, falsely representing that the property sold was of little value. It was bought in by one of the directors of the bank and is now worth a million. Utah is a land of marvels. It has furnished silver in sand, gold in coal, and now from Oasis, Utah, comes report of a ptyschaporia kingi, or prehistoric crab, covered with silver, and Capt. Richards says that at the Emigration canyon lime quarries the lime which finds a market at the smelters contains an average of $5 a ton in silver, and that this paid all costs of production and transportation, leaving the value of the lime a clear earning. Mining and Scientific Press. Another of the Tintics old producing mines, the Nabob, is to be restored to the list of producers. It is located at Silver City between the North Star and Morning Glory, and upon the same vein. Both of these mines are producing good ore. The Nabob is developed by a shaft 210 feet deep, at which point the iron pyrites that form the capping to the rich ore bodies in this district were encountered. The shaft will now be sunk through this pyritic ore. The property is owned by Receiver Frank Harris, J. T. Harris, Charles Baldwin and others. The Golden King company, recently organized in this city, is having plans prepared for its electric power plant n and cyanide mill. The properties are located in Elmore county, Idaho, and are said to present as great a showing of ore as any mine in the State. While doing the assessment work last week upon one of the claims a new vein was en 100-to- un-patent- ed MINING REVIEW. N countered, three feet in width, that carries $12 to $15 in gold. This new discovery is located about 1000 feet from the point where the main ledge is opened up. A company operating in the placer district of Four-Mila Colo., is machine that is thus described using the by Steamboat Pilot: The company has put in a costly plant, consisting of a grinder, which thoroughly chops and shoves the dirt into a revolving screen, under which there is a strip of Brussels carpet to catch the gold dust. The pulp passes from the screen into the amalgamator, having a slump in the middle in which the gold settles by specific gravity. However, should any pass on, it will drop into a large oscillating gold pan. The several parts to this machine are run by an engine which also forces water into the as it is being worked. Water ground is developed from springs and d. Capacity of plant is 150 yards in ten hours. The gold output of Colorado for 1895, 7 neutralizes certain acids contained by the ores and the combination also effects quicker action. The capacity of the DeLamar plant is now 300 tons daily. e, re-use- as given out by the report of the Director of the Mint, reaches a total of $15,013,434. The value of the entire amount of silver produced is given as $31,075,296, calculated on its coinage value of $1.29 an ounce. The value of the lead produced is computed at and copper at $1,065,900, making the total of $50,202,220, the mineral outof the State. In the production of put gold El Paso county leads with $6,879,-13and Lake county leads in silver with $12,487,284. The increase of the gold output over 1894 is given as slightly over 41 per cent. In gold production the greatest loss noted $3,-047,- 590 7, $4,-396,9- 71, was in Gilpin county, which fell off from 1894 nearly $812,915. The Sholbridge-Bonanz- a company, incorporated this week, proposes to put one of the famous old properties of the Tintic district in shape for profitable production. The mine is located at Silver City, adjoining the Walker Brothers Showers property, and has produced $700,000 worth of ore. The old shaft is 600 feet deep, but the company has started a new working shaft which will strike the old wrorkings at depth. The last seven shipments of ore averaged 72 ounces in silver and 47 per cent lead. The property was abandoned when the iron pyrites were encountered, but developments on adjacent properties have demonstrated the existence of richer ore bodies beneath these pyrites. There is a large amount of ore on the dump, a sample from wrhich assayed 103 ounces in silver. Negotiations are pending for the sale of M. The Rigaud Process. de Rigaud, in a paper read before the French Society of Civil Engineers, describes a process for the treatment of sulof gold ores with phur, at a cost of $1.80 per ton. He has two methods, a rapid and a slow process. In the former the ore and chloride of sulphur are placed in a leaded cast-iro- n drum, supported horizontally with a shaft in its axis carrying blades that stir the mass as it revolves. When the chemical reaction is complete the cylinder is given an almost perpendicular position, and the chloride of gold run off. This, he says, occupies from four to five hours. In the slow process M. de Rigaud uses a set of reaction tanks, a pump and exhaust chamber. The tanks stand vertical and permit of inversion. The ore, ground to a slime, is placed therein with chloride of sulphur, then covered, and the resultant chlorine drawn by the pump through the mass, the destructive action of the chlorine on the pump being neutralized in the exhaust chamber by being drawn through a siphon tube into milk of lime in the upper part of the chamber. The chloride of gold is run into precipitating tanks, sulphate of iron added. The claim is made that the tailings are barren of gold; that complete works capable of tetra-chlori- de treating 100 tons daily can be erected The Total Gold Extraction company, on the Canal, Havre, France, is now completing a plant for gold extraction by this process. M. de Rigaud furnishes figures which estimate the cost of treatment at eighty cents per ton, purchase of tailings at sixty cents per ton and redemption of capital forty cents, making, according to his calculations, the total cost of treatment $1.80 per ton. He says the this dump. tailings on which the company will operate will give a profit of $4.20 per ton, SALT LAKE NUGGETS. and claims that considerable resultant Mr. J. E. Bamberger, of the brokerprofit can be secured, alleging the enage firm of Bamberger & McMillan, is tire and absolutely complete extraction in Newr York City. , of all the gold, and that the solvent The Conklin sampler in this city is can be furnished at a price not to exnowr running at almost its full capacity. Twenty-twr- o carloads of ore were re- ceed six cents per ton treated. cently received in one day. Mr. Theo Poindexter, who is introducing the Hercules gasoline engines in this section, left for Denver the early part of the w'eek, but will return tomorrow. The Hercules engines are manufactured by Palmer & Rey of San and are coming into Francisco, general use in the mines throughout the West. The Cumberland at Park City and the Four Aces at Silver City have recently been equipped with Hercules gasoline hoists, which have given such satisfaction that the owners of several other properties contemplate the purchase of similar plants. Mr. H. A. Cohen, general manager of the DeLamar mines, has returned from DeLamar, Nevada, and announces that the new Kendall process plant erected for the treatment of the Jim Crow and Monitor ores is now' in successful operation. The Kendall process is simmethod, ilar to the MacArthur-Forre- st is of solution peroxcomposed but the ide of sodium and cyanide of potassium in combination, instead of potassium alone, as in the MacArthur-Forreprocess. The peroxide of sodium for from $20,000 to $60,000. Tan-carvil- le The deepest bore-hol- e that at in Upper Silesia has reached a depth of 9570 feet, at a cost of $15,045, and penetrates eighty coal seams, with a combined thickness of 293 feet. The temperature has increased one centigrade degree for every 111 feet. The rod, tools, etc., weigh fourteen tons, and have bored sixteen feet per day. Pa-ruschow- itz THE INTER KOUNTAIN HIKING REVIEW IS THE Minins Onlv LHIiy Journal OP GENERAL CIRCULATION THROUGHOUT UTAH, IDAHO AND EASTERN NEVADA. st A WORD to the WISE ADVERTISER is Sufficient. |