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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- and its purchase announcement of the fabulous discovery. The mine Is equipped with a mill, which has been running for twenty-fiv- e years. The new chlorination plant erected now in operation at Tallapoosa, Ga., issuccess. The first and is proving a ores that charge of sulphuretted gold was run through showed that practically all the gold was extracted from the ore, leaving hardly a trace in the tailings. This demonstrates the fact that the chlorination process will work the gold ores in this district. Mr. A. F. Holden manager of the Old Jordan and South Galena mines at a violation Bingham, was convicted of $50 in each of the eight-holaw, fined of the two cases, and ordered committed until the fines are paid. The defense admitted all of the specific acts the alleged, and rested its case upon Mr. law. the of unconstitutionality Holden is now constructively in jail, and habeas corpus proceedings will be-be instituted in order to get the case fore the Supreme court. The Mammoth company has ordered a new hoisting plant, to cost, it is stated. In the neighborhood of $20,000. It will consist of a 600 horse power, direct acting Corliss engine, with double-decke- d steel cages, equipped with all the latest The capacity of the improvements. will meet plant will be 2500 feet, which to for come, as all requirements years 1300 feet deep, with the shaft is nof but a winze sunk to the 1400 level. It will be manufactured by Webster, Camp & Lane of Akron, O., and is to be in operation within five months. The Salt Lake Abstract company is the owner of the oldest and most complete records in the State, their preparation having involved an expenditure of $40,000. The company commenced business in this city in 1888, and now has a branch office at Tooele City, known as the Mercur Abstract company. This company has the only abstract records in Tooele county, which includes Camp Floyd, Mercur, Dugway, Clifton and other mining districts. Mr. E. W. Genter is manager of the company, with headquarters in this city. The land department now rules that the sale of machinery off a mine is tantamount to abandonment. An exchange thinks it would be a good idea for the miners to send a man as a missionary to the land department to teach them something about mines and mining methods. Such a decision is ridiculous. Suppose an old mill is sold with the intention of substituting a new, modern one. The owners would be obliged to relocate their own property under such a silly decision. There is a good deal the land department dont know yet. Mines have been discovered containing fabulous wealth, although a prospector would starve to death in trying to work them. This was true in regard to the Homes take mine in the Black Hills. The prospectors who made the discovery could do nothing with it, and it passed into the hands of Senator Hearst and other California capitalists. They concluded that, unless it was worked on a large scale, it could not be made profitable. An eighty-stam- p mill was ordered and shipped in from Cheyenne at a cost of $135,000 as an experiment The mine has paid in dividends $37,500 a month for seventeen years. A party of railroad officials and mining men, Including Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific, Manager Officer of the Pennsylvania smelter and George H. Robinson, recently made a trip through the Deep Creek country, examining all the prominent mines and prospects. The mining men of the party were deeply Impressed by the abundant evidences of great mineral resources, but Mr. Dickinson was disappointed by the extent of the develop--me- nt s work. The of that no have had region encouragement to develop their properties, but the surface showings are such as to justify the be the court, for by a $4500, Mr. Boomer was followed by the 25-sta- ur mine-owner- mp MINING REVIEW. N lief that a railroad would stimulate heavy production. The new flag, containing Utahs star, will be hoisted by the army and navy next Saturday. It is authoritatively announced that the DeLamar mill at DeLamar, Nev., has been sold to the English syndicate in whose interest it was recently examined. The consideration is said to be something above $3,000,000. A gold retort containing ninety-on- e ounces was received on Tuesday from the Dexter mine, near Tuscarora, Nev. The company is at present operating a three-stam- p mill, but two Kinkaid mills are being erected, and the output will be greatly increased. has been appointed of Denver Engineerthe superintendent of Denver. Mr. Croll has ing Works been connected with these works for over eleven years, as draughtsman, mechanical engineer, etc., and is well Mr. H. V. Croll and favorably known in this city. Messrs. Rea & Schenck this week received a shipment of amalgam from their Crystal Palace mine, at Baker City, Or. It was retorted by Assayer Currie and contained about $500 worth of gold. The Crystal Palace ore carries from $3 to $93 in gold and a ten-stamill is now being operated. The California Gold Mining company, in which W. W. Chisholm, J. S. Scott, Dr. A. S. Bowers, Dr. Dart and other Salt Lakers are interested, is developing a very promising group in Nevada county, Cal. The entire face of the tunnel now being run is in ore that averages $35 in gold. The Denver Engineering Works recently received an order from the Germania smelter for five of the largest-size- d Bruckner roasting cylinders, they being eight o feet six inches in diameter and twenty-twfeet long. The Denver works report much activiEngineering ty in business during the last few months, caused partially by the many improvements recently made by that mp company in the manufacture of their goods. They will shortly issue a handsome catalogue, fully illustrating the cuts machinery they make by half-ton- e taken from actual photographs. Utahs first, last and only quicksilver mine never made itself famous, and there are comparatively few people who ever heard of it. Yet it was quite extensively operated a number of years ago, and a smelting plant was erected for the reduction of its ores. It is located near Marysvale, and the old retorts are still standing. It is called the Ferguson mine and shows a two-fo- ot vein carrying a small percentage of quicksilver in the form of selenide of mercury. It was never operated at a profit, the owners claiming that the quicksilver was lost through some defect in the construction of the retorts. A stamp mill for $100 illustrates the progress that is being made in reducing the cost of mining machinery. The Boise Iron & Reduction Works is building such a mill, and it will crush over a ton of quartz in twenty-fou- r hours. The same firm is also building p a mill for $180, and these can be carried upon pack anplants imals into any inaccessible region. They are especially adapted for prospectors rs and of limited means, and are destined to come into extensive use. One was recently ordered from as far away as Arizona. Captain James Baxter, manager of the Boise works, reports increasing business and a bright two-stam- mine-owne- outlook for the mining industry in Idaho. The Golden Chest mine at Murray, Ida., is to be operated by the company owning it, lessees having demonstrated that it can be worked at great profit. This is known as one of the whisky properties, and is owned by Louisville people, who threw away about $120,000 upon an incompetent management. Two other whisky mines, the King and the Idaho, upon which $210,000 and $350,000, respectively, were extravagantly spent, also promise to reimburse the owners under prudent management. 9 The Idaho is described as the biggest mine in the State of Idaho, the Homestake of the Coeur dAlenes. It is a huge quarry of gold quartz, and if operated upon a large scale every ton will pay for working. The discovery of rich ore in City Creek and other canyons adjacent to this city has become an old story. These canyons are strongly mineralized, and a great amount of money has been expended in the search for the source of the mineralization, but thus far no paying mines have been developed. Something more than ordinary interest has been aroused during the past week by the relocation of ground on Black mountain, eight or nine miles from the city, where a great blowout of silver-lea- d ore is shown. The first locations, of three claims, were made by two boys named Free, who sold out to Messrs. Parks and Paris. A shaft was sunk on this property twenty-tw- o years ago and abandoned, according to tradition, by order of Brigham Young. Entirely surrounding these locations are the eight claims composing the Belmont group, owned by E. W. Genter. The ore is found in seams between sandstone and lime dykes, about 300 feet apart, and carries from 60 to 65 per cent lead and 15 to 17 ounces silver. The properties are being developed. Assessments. CQ P o Company. Lucky Bill .... .02 JJune 13 (July 11 ifJune 29 .01June .05 16 6 Mohawk Con Bogan Peruvian Con Eureka Con .02 .10 June July 8 June 22 July 'July 8Sept 275 July 136fJuly 3 .01 Emerald .02 Apex uly Aug. . 001-- 3 jJ uly Gold Belt 2uAug. 10 Utah State.... .001 July 20, Aug. 5 The scientific world is deeply interested in the polar expedition of Prof. S. A. Andree, the Swedish aeronaut, who will sail, or soar, in a balloon from Spitsbergen on the 15th of next month. The point of departure is but 500 miles from the pole, and under or- dinary conditions Andree thinks the distance should be covered in forty-eighours. He will be accompanied two by companions, and they will be supplied with sufficient provisions to last them two years. 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