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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- be borne in mind, has not heretofore been regarded as a gold State. INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW Tenderfoot Mining. Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of the Inter-Mounta- West. in Atlas Block. TERMS : One Year Six Months Three Months To England, Mexico and Canada, postage prepaid. 82.00 1.00 50 83 per year, Entered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice as matter. ' San Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants1 Exchange, where this paper is kept on file. Advertising contracts can be made with E. C. Dake, Agent. Ernest and Cranmer Denver Office: second-cla- ss 711-7- 14 . Building. Salt Lake All signs fail in mining sometimes. The greenhorn who scorns expert advice and goes boring into an apparently barren mountain occasionally surprises the miners by striking fool-head- ed Published Weekly by C. T. H ARTE, Room 223 (Payable in Advance.) MINING REVIEW. N City, June 18, 1896. Output of the Mines. pay ore and taking out a fortune but more frequently strikes nothing and usually goes broke. The delusion that it takes a tenderfoot to strike a mine is the most ridiculous of all mining superstitions. There is no such thing as Some green prostenderfoot luck. pectors have found ore in unexpected places, and many thousands of them have found nothing. So far as luck enters into mining as an element of success, the advantage is oh the side of the experienced, as against the inexperienced miner, for he pursues such a course as will be more likely to accomplish results. Those ,are foolish people who believe that, inasmuch as one man found a vein by going it blind, that certainly must be the best way to There axe some facts concerning the Utah mines that never appear in print The present output of all the mines of the State is estimated at one million look for mines. The writer once knew d Swede who tons per annum. The State is without an ignorant, means for gathering official and accu- went out with a pick and fell down the rate statistics concerning its chief in- side of a mountain. On his way down chipped off a chunk of galena dustry, and the production can there- his pick four-fovein that stood up fore only be approximated, but the from a above estimate is made by a gentle- three feet above the walls. Therefore, man who gives constant attention to according to the reasoning of some peothe operations of the producing mines, ple, the best way to find a vein of gaand he believes a million tons to be lena is to fall down the side of a mounrather under, than over the actual out- tain. Intelligent prospecting is what put. One million tons per year is a this region needs. It is because it has tremendous tonnage, greater than it is not been intelligently prospected in the possible for the public to comprehend. past that so many new strikes are now It is at the rate of over 2700 tons per being reported. At least a rudimentary of this knowledge of geology and the condiday. Probably over ore is treated by mills at the mines. tions under which minerals are found is All of the Camp Floyd output is thus essential, and a man not so equipped treated, and much of that at Tintic, has not one chance in one hundred for making a discovery. Bingham and Park City. As in prospecting, so in mining. There The output of smelting product averages about 24,000 tons per month, or is a vast sight of difference between This includes raising corn and mining for silver and 288,000 tons per year. crude ore and concentrates. About gold. It is easier to follow a plough of this amount, or 6000 tons per than to follow the dips, spurs, and month, goes to the Colorado smelters faults of a mineral vein. If the owner and the remainder is treated by the of a property has had no practical exSalt Lake plants. perience in mining himself, he should The output does not yet show the in- seek the advice and services of a comcrease predicted at the opening of the petent mining engineer. Because this year, but this increase is expectd to is not done, much money is being materialize later in the season, as wasted right now, notably in the Camp a number of properties are getting in Floyd district. It is not altogether a shape for production. It is expected question of digging a hole straight that the gold production will show a down into the ground. We have in very gratifying increase over that of mind the experience of one of the best last year, the increase coming chiefly properties in the district. A vein of from the Camp Floyd and Tintic dis- pay ore cropped out for a great districts. Mr. A. Hanauer, Jr., who pre- tance, yet the owner, who knew more pares the annual statement of the gold about other things than about mining, and silver production for the use of the started his shaft about as close to these Director of the Mint, expresses the be- croppings as he could get without dislief that the gold output of the State turbing them, and sunk down a great will this year exceed two million dol- distance in barren rock. He finally lars, against $1,546,679 last year, and turned the management over to more $1,090,000 in 1894. In this connection, it intelligent hands, the croppings were should be stated that American Fork found and followed, and a paying mine canyon last year produced 1000 ounces has been developed. The sooner mine of gold that was not covered by the owners realize the importance of mint statement, which would increase placing development work in competent the total to $1,566, 679, and increase of hands, the better it will be for them nearly half a million over 1894. The and for the districts in which they same ratio of increase this year would operate. bring the output up to over two and a The course pursued by the Trans quarter millions, and Utah, it should thick-heade- ot two-thir- ds one-four- th 3 vaal Government raises the suspicion that it has been playing with the reform prisoners from the start. First the leaders were sentenced to death, then the death sentence was commuted to fifteen years imprisonment, and now the offenders are released upon the payment of a fine of $125,000 each. It was doubtless Krueger's purpose to make a terrible showing of severity, for moral effect upon the Uitlanders, to be followed by such a display of magnanimity as would inspire the gratitude of the reformers. Moreover, $125,000 can be put to better uses than a reformer's head. -- No Jealousy at Butte. Western Mining World: In the last issue of the Salt Lake Mining Review (and by the way, for a youngster only 22 weeks old, it is one of the best journals published in the West), we find the following editorial: The publisher of a Butte paper, when asked why he never permitted any news concerning Utah mines to be published, replied that 'there is too much Butte money going into Mercur now,' adding that the Butte merchants objected to any mention of mining operations in Utah. The great mining camp of Butte, the greatest mining camp in America, is surely big enough and prosperous enough to be generous to her neighbors, and her citizens and press should strive to outgrow this petOf ty jealousy of other sections. course those who know anything at all about Butte know the above does not express one sentiment of the feeling of her capitalists. Millions of dollars each year find their way into the mining districts throughout the Northwest. The mines of Butte make it possible for thousands of people to live in luxury in many parts of the world, and there is no better mining center to come to Inter-Mounta- in with good, legitimate mining propositions today, with a more certainty of promoting the same, than Butte. There is nothing on earth that Butte is envi- ous of. i The Utahnian is the name of a very handsomely printed publication, issued in this city, the first number of which has reached the Mining Review. The mission of the Utahnian is to advertise Utahs resources abroad, and as Col. Pat Donan, the gifted author of much Western boom literature, is the editor, this mission will certainly be most ably performed. The first number is filled with spicy editorial comment and write-up- s of the Mt. Nebo Irrigation works, the Northern Light, Shoebridge Bonanza, and other mining companies. The typography and genare most attractive and eral make-u- p reflect credit upon the publishers. The Utahnian will be issued weekly, and the first number contained twenty poges. The results of the experiments with iie McArthur-Forreprocess in the Camp Floyd district are being watched with considerable interest by mining men throughout the world. A few weeks ago the Mining Review pub lished some figures showing the cost of mining and milling by the Geyser st i |