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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- points showed it to be very rich. Mr. Howe states that he never found such prospects on any other ledge in the State. Work on the Hidden Treasure is progressing satisfactorily. The main tunnel was in 460 feet on the 2nd, and appearances indicated that the vein was very near at hand. The Hidden Treasure vein has been opened on Ruby creek at the east end of the claim. The Homestake mine continues to improve with depth. The incline has been sunk 100 feet below1 the tunnel level. The vein there shows four feet of good ore, a large proportion of which is sulphide running as high as eleven ounces gold per ton. On the first of the month Mr. Balbach brought in a gold bar worth $3000. In addition he shipped sixteen tons of concentrates. This was the product for the month of the old Ploughman mill running on Homestake ore ten hours a day, reducing about nine tons each day. . . . Shoshone County. Coeur d'Alene Sun: The Lines company is taking out some of the richest rock from the lower level of the Mother Lode that has been struck in this camp. It is of the ribbon variety and literally glittering with gold. The gold is not in pocket chunks or nuggets, but all through the quartz. The quartz is also heavily charged with sulphurets, which look better than those in the surface ore. The lessees are in no hurry to start up the mill, but are developing the property systematically. It was a godsend to the Mother Lode company that the Lines company got hold of the property. It was also a very good thing for the gold belt. The riches of the Mother Lode were not on the surface; Three they are below the water-leve- l. are of work shifts employed, and the exploration is pushed with energy. Coeur dAlene Miner: The Daddy is looking finer than ever, and giving greater, promise. There are forty-fiv- e men employed in the tunnels and mill. No. 2 tunnel is now in about 600 feet, showing some twenty inches of fine ore. No. 1 tunnel is in about 400 feet, and shbwrs 11 inches of splendid milling ore, with an open breast of 200 feet in sight between the tunnels. The electric light plant, which has been running four months, gives perfect satisfaction, as well as light to the mine and buildings. Below Murray the Golden Winnie and Skookum are giving flattering promise, particularly the former. The properties are managed by Charles Swain, who has a lease on the latter, and is the principal owner in the former. The Winnie has fourteen men, and the Skookum eight employed. Both mills are run by water power. Owing to the unusual expense in getting these two properties into satisfactory as well as economical running order, the Golden Winnie has been seemingly slow in getting into shape, but now she is coming up to time splendidly. Some time ago she gave her owners a $1200 brick on a short run, and a few days ago, it is rumored, gave another for $1800 on about a month's run, and the showing keeps improving. In a month she will be out of all debt and prancing around with head and tail up, independent of . . the world, the flesh and the devil. Owyhee County. Idaho Avalanche: About thirty men are employed at the Boonville mines, opening up ground and preparing for a big production upon the completion of the new mill. The property is looking away up." Shaw Brothers are stoping out more ore from their War Eagle property, and will have a fine crushing this fall. The bond upon their property has expired. Chinamen are doing considerable placer mining at this time in the gulches surrounding town. Trail Creek mining stocks are affording the Spokane plungers considerable diversion, and the Trail Creek boom promises to become a healthy rival of the Cripple Creek excitement. 9 MINING REVIEW. N MONTANA. ORB AND BULLION. Helena Independent: M. L. Hewett, manager of the High Ore company, reports another rich strike in the comproperty near Basin. A vein of pany's e ore nine feet through was cut Thursday, about 700 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, and at a depth of 575 feet. The ore is of even higher average than the rich vein uncovered ten days ago. Native silver can be seen covering the rock. Some specimens of the ore are remarkably rich, and the entire vein will average several hundred ounces to the ton. The stockholders of the company are much elated at the strike: The first vein cut would make a big mine, but the second insures a greater production than any high-graproperty in the State. Mr. Hewett says the High Ore is the only property in Montana whose stock sold above par and was all taken before a pound of ore was shipped to the smelter. It was the intention of the company to put up a concentrator this year, or at least begin the construction of one, but the new find may alter its plans. A Butte dispatch says: After spending over a quarter of a million of dollars in developing its new mines in the Camp Creek district, the Anaconda company has been compelled to suspend operations there entirely on account of the large volume of water encountered, and which it has been found impossible to handle. high-grad- de ARIZONA. Prescott Courier: Gold! gold! is what was struck in the Etta mine, and it was a great strike, for in 300 feet in the tunnel, 167 feet down the shaft and 100 feet of mine, the ore body ranges in width from four to six feet, and some of it shows gold to the naked eye. The ore mills high, as the writer saw a five days run at the mill cleaned up in pansfull until the chunk of amalgam looked as large as a bushel measure. Mr. Giroux has closed the mine down until the company builds a new p mill to crush the ore which is now opened up. The mine would not now be closed but for an unavoidable accident in hauling a large boiler, which is twenty feet long, ten feet power, which was to wide, take the place of the present power boiler and run the proposed sixty stamp mill at the Etta. By some means, while this monster boiler was in transit, it got off the grade and rolled down in a canyon. Hence the Etta is shut up with heavy planks, fastened with strong locks, and the shaft Is bulkheaded six feet down, then filled with rock and planked over, to shut out the prying eyes of the expert and the greedy gaze of the specimen fiend. sixty-stam- 500-hor- se 200-hor- se NEVADA. The Salt Lake smelters are now well supplied with ore, with every indication of uninterrupted activity during the remainder of the season. The accumulation of the winters operations in the isolated camps is beginning to move; and properties that were idle during the winer months are starting up, assuring an increased output. The base bullion output of the' smelters for the week just ended was $72,259; there were also shipped cyanides to the value of $9900, and miscellaneous bullion shipments, $4700, making a total bullion output of $86,859; against $85,700 the preceding week. The output of the Salt Lake smelters was divided as fol- -. lows: Pennsylvania, $29,934; Germania,', $21,900; Hanauer, $20,425. Ore purchases were reported as fol- lows: Bamberger & McMillan, $24,557; Germania, $48,300; McCornick & Co., 0; $70,900; Commercial National bank, National Bank of the Republic, - $36,-20- $13,300. silver. Silver opened at 68c, but fell off! during the week to 68c, which is still a higher figure than the closing of last week. Concerning the recent advance,, the New York Financial Record says: When silver was 58c we recommended its purchase. With the change in conditions which has since taken place it is relatively cheaper at 69c than it was then at 58c. Silver then had no friends. It was discarded, in disrepute. It is now clear that a silver battle has begun which will continue until silver is remonetized. As this fact becomes apparent abroad other countries will fall in. Action by the United States for free coinage will immediately force action by other nations, except England, to prevent a drain of silver from them to the United States. No European can to afford lose country silver, and if we remonetize it the world, in e, must follow. Following were the quotations during the week: 68 Thursday 68Monday 68 Friday 68Tuesday 68 Saturday 68Wednesday self-defens- Lead. Lead remained at $3 until Tuesday, when it dropped to $2.90. Advices from the East indicate a dull market, with limited demand. The Pacific ocean is now attracting some attention as a mining field. Chicago parties are reported to have purchased a gold mine having $1,000,000 in sight, located on Cerros island, 300 miles south of San Diego. Pioche Record: The street rumors of CO Che sale of the DeLamar mines and entire plant, that are going round, we think rather premature, as the experts are still at work examining the propersales are not ty, and in a made day. The sale generally may be a go in the future, but there Is generally considerable red tape in such transactions before completion. Silver State: Several State exchanges speak of the cinnabar claims near Wadsworth as having been bonded. The claims are situated about a mile from Mill City in this county. Add quicksilver to the list of Humboldt countys productions from now on. Mr. Phillips, a coal expert who has been examining the Esmeralda fields, and the dissays the coal is tip-toin a very valuis his covery, opinion, able one. six-million-do- llar "0 CP r CL O 0) pi a CP o A dispatch from- Pretoria states that lohn Hays Hammond and the other "reform leaders have been released ind that Mr. Hammond will shortly sail for America. 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