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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN honest than its fellows grave returns of for shipment, and thirty tons sent to of gold. the Pennsylvania smelter last week ounces in At the Rawhide mine, Tuolumne averaged ten and states that the county, Cal., a new chlorination plant is gold. Manager Keel to be built at once, the present one of matter of resuming work on the great three tons daily capacity being only Butterfield tunnel will be given considabout half large enough to handle the eration by the directors of the company at Paris upon the return of the repreproduct of the mine. The Live Yankee, in American Fork sentatives who recently visited the canyon, is again shipping ore, and it property. An exchange gives this rule for ascarries about an ounce of gold per ton. horse-powof a water The London Exploration company is certaining the Multiply the number of galnow said to be negotiating with W. A. supply: lons minute, by the pressure in per Clark for his Arizona copper mines. pounds per square inch, and divide by Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, Assistant 1500. To determine the pressure in Attorney-Generof Montana, has been pounds per square inch, multiply numvery successful in mining. She holds ber of feet in height number of feet 6500 shares in the High Ore Gold and fall by decimal .433. Copper Mining company, which has rehave been set to sorting ore vein of inMonkeys cently struck a twenty-two-foSouth Africa and squirrels have Just silver-gol- d ore. discovered a rich gold ledge near BaThe dividends paid by the Ontario ker City, Or. The little animals, in exmine at Park City exceed those paid by cavating their underground habitation, in America, carried out small bits of quartz. Some any other except the Comstocks, whose earnings prospectors noticed it, sunk on the spot, are of record. The Granite Mountain and now have two feet of fine Is a close second, with something over ore that carries $20 to $30 per ton.milling twelve millions. The formal opening of the new buildThe current number of the Colorado ing of the Colorado Springs Mining Investor consists of Stock Association occurred Springs Mining last Thursthirty-tw- o pages, very handsomely il- day. The new building adjoins the El lustrated, and contains a history of the Paso bank block on Pikes Peak avenue. Cripple Creek district and an account It has a frontage of 50 feet and a of the growth and work accomplished depth of 150 feet, is two stories in by the Colorado Springs Mining Stock height and of imposing appearance. The Association. pit room is said to be the finest in the The Trade Dollar mine at Silver country. The old dump of the Shoebrldge-B- o City, Ida., is paying $3 per day to underground miners, with an agreement nanza company at Silver City has been to advance wages when silver reaches leased to Mr. George Paxman, who will SO cents. at once. This Superintendent Hutchinson erect a jigging believes the men are entitled to share dump is estimated plant to contain about the benefits of an advance in the white worth of ore, and is to be worked metal. on a 50 per cent royalty. The new The Niagara mill at Bingham, using working shaft is now down over fifty the Kendall process, is treating at a feet and has passed through some very quartz. profit3 ore that carries but $5.50 in gold and ounces silver. The Kendall proA carload of ore was shipped last cess is the use of cyanide of potassium week from the Golden Eagle mine, loin combination with peroxide of sodium cated near Nev., and as a solvent, with zinc shavings pre- owend by Salt Winnemucca, Lake parties. The shipment averaged $20 in gold, 18 ounces cipitation. silver and 7 per cent lead. This propCol. E. H. Dewey, Idahos of mines, and manager of the Florida erty is located near the Ophir ConsoliMountain mines at Booneville, is dated, also owned by Salt Lake people, both mines produce a fine milling claiming the discovery of a body and ore that will probably induce the erecof ore that samples $5000 per ton. If a mill sample is meant, there need be tion of concentrating plants. no further controversy as to the Reports have been received of the disvein of ore at greatest gold mine in the world. covery of a thirty-foCity that is said to carry 27 per A Colorado mining camp paper makes Park cent It is said to be located this sarcastic comment upon the atti- aboutcopper. a mile and a half from the Ontude of certain We be- tario and all the ground in the vicinity lieve a man has a right to want the has been located. A thirty-foearth in exchange for a prospect, but carrying 27 per cent copper wouldvein be when he insists on having a picket equal if not surpass any copper mine in fence around it we think he is showing the world and it is likely that the very poor judgment. average contents will be found to be One of the floats in the Midsummer much less. The Slocan Star mine, in British Cocarnival parade will represent a mining camp, showing a miners cabin, the lumbia, has paid $100,000 in dividends of a vein, men driving during the past six months, and for discovery a tunnel, point others cooking and a pros- this reason a contemporary refers to it pector dragging his burro up a mount- as among the richest, if not the richain trail. H. J. Faust, one of Utahs est silver ftiine in the world. The Silpioneer miners, is the originator of the ver King mine, at Park City, Utah, has idea. paid $225,000 in dividends during the The statement of a prominent mining past six months, and an equal amount the preceding six months, and journal that if in sufficient quantity, duringare mines that equal gold ore running as low as $3 per ton thereexceedother Utah record. Slocan the can be worked at a profit is mislead- and ing. There is gold ore, in great quanIt is stated that many of the idle ton $3 three times that properties in the Little Cottonwood tity, running per cannot be worked at a profit. A great canyon could be worked at good profit deal depends upon the character of the under lease. It is claimed that one of ore. these is the Flagstaff, in which large The claim against the Salt Lake Cop- bodies of milling ore are exposed. Mithe old per Manufacturing company (Copper ning experts hold, too, that filed by those who donated the Emma, that has produced several milPlant,) site of 160 acres have been settled by lions from near the surface, contains Receiver Mason for $10,000 cash. The many millions more, but it will require money to control the water original claims aggregated $SO,000. The considerable of the prospect for the completion and opera- and some to expert knowledgevein. find faulted the tion of the plant does not seem to be formation very bright. Speaking of the strike in the Gold Coin A very nice pocket of gold ore was mine, located in the heart of Victhe Record says: It absorecntly encountered in the Northern tor, Colo., Chief mine, one of the Butterfield lutely demonstrates the claim that Vicgroup at Bingham. The fact that the tor is not only surrounded by such ore was full of free gold was not mines as the Portland, Independence, noticed until it was about to be run Nellie V. and Gloriana, but is actually through the mill. It was then sorted built upon a mountain of gold ore. In- a percentage one-ha- lf er - al ot silver-produc- er ' $75,-0- nne-looki- ex-inspec- ng tor 9-f- oot ot claim-owner- s: ot -- 00 7 side of a very short time there will be at least six paying mines taking, ore from under the buildings and streets of Victor. Of course the ore lies in veins only, but there are several of them. The first apex dispute arising in the. Camp Floyd district, the suit of the Geyser vs. the Marion, is now being tried before Judge Ritchie in this city. Vast interests, aside from the properties directly involved, will be affected by the decision in this case, which is one of the most interesting and complicated in the history of mining litigation. An outline of the issues involved has already appeared in these columns. Manager Seaboldt of the St. Louis Gilsonite company was in the city this week, and reported an asphaltum output of 200 tons per month from the mine, which is located near Fort Duchesne. The product is shipped to Eastern points and meets ready sale; but the long wagon haul eats up the profit. The mine is worked through a shaft, which has now reached a depth of 100 feet. When the Uncompahgre reservation is opened and given a railroad, the mining of asphaltum will become one of the great industries of ' Utah. One feature of the mining camp float in the Midsummer Carnival parade will be an attack upon the camp by a lone redskin in ambush. This is suggested by a tragedy enacted in the Deep Creek country in 1860. As the overland stage was rounding a point of rocks an Indian crouched behind them shot and fatally wounded, the driver. One of the passengers was Maj. Egan, and the gritty driver, upon receiving his death wound, turned to Egan, coolly handed him the reins and said: Here, Major, you drive while I get down into the boot and die. The poor fellow crawled down and soon afterward expired. Twelve hundred Leadville miners are on a strike for an increase in wages from $2.50 to $3 per day, and the Sixth Street, Maid and Henrietta, Northern, Caronado, Small Hopes, Union Leasing company, Penrose, Bohn, Welden, Bon-ai- r. Ibex and other mines are closed down. The mine-owneclaim that they cannot afford to pay more than $2.50 per day and the miners union seems determined to hold out for $3. The contract system may be resorted to as a solution of the difficulty. Should the strike continue a week longer the smelters will be obliged to close down. The output of the camp has been about 1500 tons daily. Manager S. H. Hill of the Cunning-to- n Company, which probably has a larger trade in general mining supplies than any firm in the region, reports that business this year shows an increase of about 18 per cent over the corresponding period of last year. This increase, however, hardly meets the expectations that were entertained at the first of the year. Manager Hill, by the way, is a good deal of an expert in the matter of supplying outfits for mines and1 miners. A' good many orders are received from people who do not know themselves what they want or need. Mr. Hill simply ascere tains what character of work they to do and forthwith fits them out with every article needed, from a sack of frejoles to an. anvil, with not a superfluous or unnecessary item. An experience of a quarter of a century in handling mining supplies can oftimes be turned to good account. rs inter-mounta- in pro-pos- The chaplain of the Republican National convention offered an invocation from which the following is a passage: We pray that the platform presented here may be framed in righteousness; that the principles promulgated in this council may be consonant with the principles of the Great Divine will revealed to many. At that very moment the committee on resolutions were adopting a gold standard plank. Are there any people hereabouts who still believe in the efficacy of prayer? |