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Show MINING REVIEW, INTER-MOUNTA- IN in the waste, what is the less liable to be in the dark, narrow and cramped stopes? Who that is competent to hand-so- rt ore gives, in the great majority of instances, any attention to this portion of the work? As a iule, the miner is allowed to have his own sweet will in this labor, pnd his own sweet will is too often to do that which is easiest, instead of that which is best. This is but one kind of waste, and the commonest one of bad management, where scores might be mentioned. To the man who understands it. the lack of assayers and assay offices at individual mines often suggest a doubt about the quality of the manigement. It is not all mines that require the constant services of an assayed but a good many more than receive them do require them, and would find them the most valuable of all possible investments. Jfeus of tl?e $amps. The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of .merit coming from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. UTAH. Marysvale District. Correspondence Mining Review. Marysvale, Utah, June 15. Some two hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, near the center of the southern half of Utah, the Sevier river, which rises in the southern part of the State, flows northward and divides the Wasatch range into eastern and western sections. Although all eruptive, the western portion shows evidence of more recent disturbance than the eastern portion. It is very rugged, and irregular; mountains piled upon top of mountains in most sublime confusion, all heavily SALT LAKE NUQQETS. mineralized with almost every mineral known to science. Much of it is base, Mr. A. F. Holden visited the Marys-val- e but the wrhole region abounds in the district last week. precious metals. There are few localiCharles Crane is examining mining ties in the State where iron does not abound, but its superabundance in properties in Cassia county, Idaho. Utah is in marked contrast Mr. Frank Officer, manager of the southwrest all with other quarters of the earth. Pennsylvania smelter, has gone to Indeed, it is possible, no body of this Idaho. metal of equal extent and quality can W. of John be found in any other part of the world. Capt. Plummer, manager the DeLamar, Ida., Mining company, is The more valuable minerals, abound in the city. everywhere, and are especially rich in W. H. Remington is inspecting his mining properties in the Willow Creek district. Idaho. Messrs. Carter and Busenbark of the Fast Golden Gate company made a trip to Montana this week. Prof. William H. Tibbals of Salt Lake college has gone to Skull Valley to examine several groups of claims which show up well, and will make reports on them. Mr. J. E. Bamberger, of the firm of Bamberger & McMillan, has returned from an Eastern trip which extended to the Atlantic seaboard, and reports a general interest in Utah mining properties and a demand for more information. Hamilton Smith, the noted English mining expert, created a commotion in local mining circles by visiting Salt Lake, but it appears that he had no designs on Utah properties. Accompanying Mr. Smith was M. Raphael Georges Levy of Paris, a member of the Mr. Anaconda syndicate. Mr. F. S. Barratt of Spokane, Wash., who was in the city during the week, reports that the people of Spokane are greatly excited over the Trail Creek mines. All that it is necessary for a man to do is to exhibit a sample of ore, and he is immediately overwhelmed with propositions. Spokane people are investing heavily in British Columbia mines. Mr. J. B. Thompson has returned from a trip to California, made for the purpose of examining some properties on the mother lode in Calaveras county. He expresses the conviction that the California gold mines cannot be exhausted in ten centuries. However, it costs big money to get in on these properties, and Utah presents better opportunities to people of limited means. The Salt Lake Pressed Brick company is now manufacturing pressed trick that, it is believed, will come up to the standard required by the smelters, something that the Utah product has not heretofore done. Much of the fire brick used here now comes from Denver. but the best in the market is probably that supplied by A. T. Chur, of 19 Barclay street, New York. The Salt Lake company has recently received a diploma and handsome medal for its exhibit of red and wThite pressed brick at the Worlds Fair. Notably in this respect is the Marysvale district, where good values have long been known to exist. It has, however, remained for late years to determine the rich storehouse of the more precious metals now known to exist in such abundance there. The camp, as now developed, covers an area twenty miles in length by ten in width, with the limits being constantly extended by new finds and developments. A careful investigation of the district shows many finds of fabulous values, and rich strikes are matters of common occurrence. The richest find so far made consisted of a float rock wiiich assayed $9S,000 in gold. Many rich pockets have been struck, and many prospectors have hunted for the mother lode of the rich float, but so far without avail. The finding of rich values over so wide an extent of country abundantly proves the extent and richness of the field. Development work is being pushed on many properties and the present season promises to be the most active in the history of these districts. The advent of the raihvay, which it is fondly hoped will reach Marysvale by the first of September, will open a new era in the history of the town and its contiguous mines. Many of the mines are preparing to increase the present force, and build roadways and other facilities for the handling of the output. A wragon-roa- d is contracted for up the Cottonwood to the Mountain Chief, the owners of which aie preparing for a heavy output. Also a wheel road is under contemplation from the old reduction works on Bullion creek through a systo reach tem of side cuts and zig-zaside of on south the several properties the canyon and pass over the divide into Horse Heaven canyon, where development work is now' active and rich ore is being piled on several dumps. The great barrier to progress of the Marysvale camp has been the inaccessibility of the mines up the slopes, which bv reason of snow could not be operated half the year, which, coupled with a long wagon haul of fifty miles over a and heavy very heavy mountain road to smelters tariff on raihvay shipment 200 miles away has rendered mining in Marysvale district almost a prohibited industry, as only the richest of ores could stand such an expenditure and return a profit. Happily this condition is now ap some localities. gs 7 proaching an end, and the early advent of railway transportation and the completion of roadways to the various mines will reduce the shipment of ores to a minimum, and render many dividend-payin- g prop- erties which would not pay the expense of working under the old process. There might be a good field at Marysvale for a smelter, or other reduction works capable of handling the output of the camp, which would be quite considerable under the new conditions. A careful investigation proves that the district abounds in galena and carbonates. Immense dykes of iron ore are found near at hand. Massive ledges of limestone face the mountain and whole mountains of salt can be quarried within forty miles, now developed, and much nearer undeveloped. All matters considered, there are few camps in the West promising such rich returns and permanent growth as Marysvale. It will be of easy access from all quarters of the world. It will be located on a transcontinental line of railway, in easy touch with the Eastern marts and Western resorts. It has the elements out of which a manufacturing or commercial emporium may be built. Streams of cold water pour out of the gorges and canyons, and the finest timber abounds. In a word, Marysvale furnishes the elements of wealth, health and comfort in a larger degree than falls to the lot of any other mining district in the West. Of the hundreds of locations in the Marysvale district, possibly not have had any development work done, and only a fewr of this number have had assays. Of those developed a few have been operated at a profit, while others are opening up workings preparatory to more active operations. Prominent among this class is the Clyde, owned by the Pluto Mining company, under the supervision of Isaac Jennings of Salt Lake, which has a good camp-houand blacksmith shop and water power capable of generating electricity sufficient for lighting and drilling. It has some 1600 feet of tunnel work, including 300 feet of cross-cutThe main tunnel is 1300 feet long and is almost at the vein, which it will strike at a point 700 feet below the point of discovery. It is a true fissure vein, with surface assay of $400 gold, 800 ounces silver and 20 per cent copper. The workings are at 10,000 feet elevation, and 3200 feet above Marysvale, from which it is located seven miles distant on Cottonwood canone-four- th se s. yon. Among the older and better known properties in the district may be mentioned the Dalton, owned mostly in Salt Lake City, which consists of a group of five patented claims, having a development of about 1400 feet of tunnels and about 300 feet of shafts. A Huntington mill has been operated and it is now proposed to build a wire ropeway from the mine to the mill. Some high assays have been obtained and there are large bodies of good milling ore. The property is to be actively operated this season and a lot of high-graore will be shipped within a few days. The Mountain Chief, owned by Messrs. King and Ware of Marysvale, is the furthest development up the Cottonwood canyon. It has workings of 540 feet. The best assay showed a valuation of 15,000 ounces of silver and de $500 gold. The Tip Top, owned by A. J. Sargent, O.. J. Odbert, Henry Robbins and Mrs. Hamil, has workings of 125 feet of tunnel and a substantial camp-housIt shows an assay of sixty ounces of silver and $10 gold, and is considered a promising property. Mr. Sargent and Mr. Odbert are also interested in the Highland. The Cascade, owned by S. R. Thurman of Provo and Mr. Dewitt of Marysvale and another gentleman has workings of tunnels of 210 feet and a shaft of thirty feet, and shows assay values of thirty ounces silver, 10 per cent lead and $500 gold, with a pay streak three e. feet wide. The Branch mine, owned by the |