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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N than is warranted by the importance of the strike, and the inference is held Jfeus tfye 5amps. out that the mining stock excitement has been brought about for the purpose of squeezing the shorts. This obThe Review desires reliable correspondject has certainly been accomplished. Currigan of Denver has ence from every mining camp in Utah, discovered a chlorination process that Idaho and Nevada, and will give publiwill treat Cripple Creek ores at a cost cation to any news items of merit coming of $2 per ton. At least, that is his from a comsource. Liberal trustworthy claim. of Ex-Alderm- an The placers of Alaska doubtless contain much gold, but the fairy stories related by some of the boomers severely strain the credulity of mining men. For instance, a Mr. Pennock, returned from Cooks Inlet, dejust clares that he and his associates own a placer mountain, that has been figured out to pan $3 to the cubic yard. We have located a number of prospects, he says, and if there is a square yard of earth within their boundaries that does not yield a dollar, then I will confess to an untruth and give the fellow who catches me $1000. Notwithstanding the abundance of gold, Mr. Pennock advises all who start for that region to provide themselves with sufficient money for a return passage. Superintendent E. B. Huntley of the Tom Boy mine San Miguel county, Cal., is reported as saying that the company have found it impossible to prevent the stealing of ore by the miners, and that they figure on losing $200 or $300 a week when in good ore. He said: The thing has been going on for years, and persons would be surprised to see the thorough manner in which some of the men were organized. It seems a small matter for a man to earn away a small specimen occasionally, but we realized the immense drain on the property when we got out search warrants and went through a number of the cabins. In one a fellow had several stockings full of these specimens, and had also pounded up some of the rock in a mortar. As a matter of curiosity we had the stuff assayed, and he had just twenty-eiga pound pounds of ore that ran $5.85 x in gold. Another had twenty-sipounds that ran $10 a pound, and the whole was worth $260. Others were the same way, and few of the men had accumulated their supply in a greater length of time than a month. This amount a month for one man in addition to his salary, made a very good showing. Luckily it cant be done all the time. It is only when the ore chute runs through the big crevices that the men can pick out the choice specimens and carry them away without detection. At other, times, the value of the ore is too low to pay for taking away a pound at a time, although some of them did take away considerable stuff which ran ht Now the about a dollar a pound. miners are closely watched and those who are found to have ore under sus- picious circumstances, are discharged, while those who prove worthy of trust are prized and taken care of SALT LAKE NUGGETS. President Schenck of the Dalton & Lark company is in California. Mr. Allen G. Campbell, president of the Brick Consolidated, is visiting the companys property, located in the Vanderbilt district, California. The Conklin sampler has added a new poweT engine to its seventy-flve-hor- se equipment, the volume of business demanding an increase in the capacity. Mr. M. T. Lynch, one of the owners of the Ophir mine, in the new State Line district, is in the city, having brought up his first shipment of ore. It was an eight-to- n lot, and is expected to show an average of about 1000 ounces of silver and $10 to $20 in gold. Last week the water was turned into the works of the Big Cottonwood Power company to test the machinery. Everything worked smoothly and the loss by friction was much less than had been anticipated. Within a few days the generation of electrical current will commence in earnest. missions will be paid on subscriptions. UTAH. Salt Lake County. 15 carloads ore, from the Mammoth mine 5 carloads ore, from the Ajax 4 carloads ore, from the Sioux mine 5 carloads ore, from the Sioux mill 5 carloads cencentrates, from the Swansea 2 carloads ore, from the Dragon Iron mine 3 carloads ore daily. The Sioux-Aja- x tunnel is now a sure go. Work was commenced this week. This will be one of the largest undertakings ever started in the Mammoth. George Paxman has begun work under his contract for 100 feet in the Bonanza shaft. Capt. Deprezin is working the Lead-vill- e and is taking out some fine appearing rock. Eureka Democrat: George Kappes of Silver City has leased to E. N. Jenkins of Salt Lake City, for a term of five years, a group of mining claims adjoining the Four Aces, consisting of the Silver Bow, Granite, Utah and Blue Rock lodes, and work will be commenced on the group immediately, there being considerable development work already done which shows up a ore in the shaft good vein of silver-lea- d running as high as thirty ounces in silver. The property is in a good locality and promises to be a shipper this sumtennial-Eurek- a WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Bingham Bulletin: The Nancy Hanks, at head of Markham gulch, is liable to show up on the list of producers this summer. A tunnel in over 100 feet shows 8 to 10 inches pay, and there are several tons of shipping ore on the dump. It carries about 20 per cent lead, 5 to 6 ounces silver, and several dollars in gold. L. H. Gray, attorney associated with Col. Frank D. Hobbs, is interested in the Nancy. He says she kicked like a steer because the Bulletin map ignored her, but will mer. get down to work and deserve promiThe latest enterprise of importance nent mention in the next special edi- that has been brought to a successful tion. is the decision of the stocktermination Word comes from Copper gulch that holders of the Sam Mining a fine body of ore has been encountered company to at Uncle once develop their in the Pride of the Valley. As stated ground adjoining the Godiva. This in our columns two weeks ago, at 475 means that another great mine will feet depth the shaft in this property soon be added to the list of Tintics had reached soft vein matter, and it shippers. was then deemed a question of only a The owners of the Godiva have decifew feet when ore would be reached. ded to run drifts from the bottom of C. W. Cook and associates have emuthe 160 foot winze and will at lated the example of their neighbors once stoping ore for market. begin ore The of the Dalton & Lark in staying by body has widened to 30 feet and is of their proposition to land in ore or excellent shipping grade. China, and we cordially hope their The ore bodies in the Mammoth are energy and pluck is about to be abun- growing bigger and better as work dantly rewarded. progresses, and it is safe to say a reOre of improved quality is being sumption of dividends be looked taken from the 640 level of the Ante- for not later than July. may lope. Work has been practically suspended in the incline until a steam Summit County. hoist is put in. The incline was sunk to nearly 700 feet depth with a horse Park Record: Since work was suswhim. pended in the West Ontario a cave occurred in the shaft that is going to The little McKellar while here demonstrated that it could prove very obstinate to catch up and resave $15 per day to the man from dirt pair. W. J. Wilson, so the writer is inthat would hardly pay for running formed, took the contract recently to put the shaft in shape, but when he had through a sluice box. It is said the old Tiawaukee mine gotten his timbers on the ground and never made a better showing than at made an examination of the cave, he present there being ore bodies in five gave the matter up as a bad job, which places, one a breast of four feet of is of itself strong proof that the shaft galena. Some of the ore runs 300 ounces is in fearful condition and will require in silver. The Tiawaukee is under the great engineering skill and much exable management of Mike Flynn, an pense before the damage is repaired. We hope, however, that matters are not old Colorado miner. so bad as Mr. Wilson thinks, and that cave can be caught up with ordithe Juab County. nary appliances. If that can be done TINTIC DISTRICT. the chances are that the West Ontario resume active developments again will Tin tic Miner: A great change which is calculated to gladden the hearts of in the near future. The reported new and rich strike on the Swansea stockholders took place level of the old Daly is simin that property Monday. In the winze the at a depth of 430 feet from the surface ply a repetition of the cutting of the big the vein has widened out to twice ore chute recently on the of its former width and is solid ore of a the Ontario. It is not a new strike at all, but is the simple result of a matheparticularly fine100quality. Samples taken 75 ounces silver and matical calculation, as Foreman Quinn out run over cent from and Superintendent Chambers, as well and lead appresent per A sucas scores of boys in the mine who have no is of end it. pearance there cession of dividends is now a certainty the brains and the inclination to study and Swansea takes its rightful place as the ore channels in the mine, knew the h ore was there or ought to be there bonanza. a certain, President McGhan of the new Home-stak- e and that it would be cut by a straight Mining company advises us that drift driven a given number of feet from level. The drift has been they now have three men at work cut- the and out a whim and for the ore was found just retimbering completed, ting 200 was now is feet deep. where it the shaft which expected, and there was no the about The company proposes to continue it. The work of getting surprise to of down the the and driving the roperty vigorous development which will shortly be able to commence drift to the ledge was a great struggle, shipments, there being now a good owing to the large volume of water enshowing of ore in the shaft. While countered, but the work was done and 100,000 shares of the stock has been the result is the opening up of a handplaced in the treasury, we are advised some ore body. John Sweeney has a force of men at that none of it has been offered for sale and there will be no offerings made work developing his Sailor Jack group at present. of claims located a short distance northfor from the district east of the Steele group. He has an inthe Shipments as are follows: week cline shaft down about thirty feet on a reported past mine 25 carFrom the Bullion-Bec- k vein, which carries a rich mill looking, porous, iron quartz, that may, loads ore, from the Bullion-Bec- k 10 carloads concentrates, from the Cen- - with depth, show good values. It is his gold-machi- ne 1000-fo- ot 1500-lev- el sure-enoug- 1000-fo- ot 1000-lev- el well-defin- ed |
