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Show INTER-MOUNTA- IN NEWS CLEAN-U- MINING REVIEW Some promising gold discoveries have been made. The tunnel on the December property in Lincoln district has now been driven 250 feet, and has cut two veins which carry $20 to $30 in gold and 90 to 100 ounces silver. P. At Circle City, Alaska, lumber costs $120 per thousand feet. ' Red Rock, Ariz., claims the discovery of a nugrget worth $590. It is proposed to establish a permaJapanese laborers are now employed nent mining exhibit at the Coliseum In some of the California mines. consisting of ore specimens Listed Utah companies paid $132,000 Chicago, all the mining districts, mining in dividends during the month of June. from machinery, etc. The Suffolk-Glob- e mill, at Ophir, Col., The chlorination works at Garden Is to be increased from forty to sixty City, S. D., are handling tailings con.stamps. taining $7.20 per ton in gold, and saving Ore carrying $480 in gold has been 91 per cent of the values. The Mof-fa- tt struck on Capitol mountain, at Lake oxidizer is used. City, Colo. Edward P. Allis company, representProf. Emmons of the United States ed by W. H. Emarmel, have secured Geological Survey will spend the sumthe contract to furnish all the machinmer at Butte. ery for the chlorination works at ColoThe Big Four mine on Brush creek, rado City, about $45,000 worth. Uintah county, will ship a carload of Ore running high in silver has been ore this month. discovered in the Cripple Creek district The largest piece of gold ever found The Orphan Bell, on Blue Hill, shows a came from California and weighed 134 vein that carries 182 ounces, besides 1.06 ounces gold and 6 per cent copper. .pounds, 7 ounces. The London mine and mill, in Park Monday, June 29th, was the hottest record in the Coeur dAlenes. It county, Colo., have resumed operations, day on with a force of forty men. Much develwas 99 in the shade at Murray. being performed on the Coal from Boise county, Ida., has opment work is of the Alma district. been tested at Portland and pronounced gold properties The Cactus and Eagle mines at Fish equal to the Wyoming product. Springs have been bonded to Mr. At Neal, Ida., the Balbach mill is Charles , Crismon and others for $37,500, dropping ten stamps, and Sam Gunda-ke-r the bond to run two years. The properhas leased the Ainslee mill. ties are owned by American Fork The Barker group of mines at Sawpit, parties. Colo., has been sold to Burke & FitzgerProf. William Eimbeck, who for many ald of Cripple Creek, for $30,000. years has been chief of the Utah diviexamsion of the Geodetic Survey, is this seaMichigan capitalists have been ining the copper properties in the La son confining his operations to the eastern shore of Great Salt Lake and the Sal mountains, southeastern Utah. The Black Hornet mine, near Boise, islands in the lake. The Edward P. Allis machinery comhas been attached and employees have also filed several mechanics liens. pany employs 2500 people at its works at Milwaukee. The company has just The Black Hills Mining Review predicts that good mines will be developed been given the contract for a large hoisting plant for W. A. Clarks Origwithin the city limits of Deadwood. The June output of Capt. DeLamar's inal mine at Butte. A Colorado prospector named Cowles Nevada mine was $155,000, with the 300-tthree-fourtfound a piece of rich float near Empire mill running at of its fourteen years ago, and has searched capacity. for the vein every summer since. Last The Silver Queen mine, at Sheep week he found it, named it the Boom Creek, near Juneau, Alaska, is pro- lode, and thinks he has a bonanza. ducing ore that carries from $300 to A shipment of 150 tons of copper from $700 per ton. Ducktown, Tennessee, mines has Next Wednesday the Calumet & the been made to Swansea, Wales. Hecla copper mine will pay a dividend The aggregate capital of the 526 Ausof $500,000, increasing the total to date tralian mining companies floated in to $45,850,000. The placer mines of Boise Basin are London in 1895 was 53,796,394. The total amount paid in dividends enjoying the longest season they have ever known, owing to the unusual abun- by Cripple Creek companies during June was $102,500. Of this amount the dance of water. r, $6000; A midsummer apathy is upon the Victor paid $20,000; & Gold $30,000; $2250; Globe, Portland, Colorado Mining Stock Exchanges. $11,750, and Elk-to$22,500; Union, Isabella, bed-rock Prices are down to and buy$10,000. The total amount distribuing orders are scarce. ted among the stockholders of these six Five claims on Siwash creek, in Britup to date is $1,684,231. ish Columbia, have been purchased by companies In the rock drilling contest at Park Englishmen for $100,000, and the ore City on the Fourth, the first prize of averages but $3.50 per ton. $100 was won by Duncan Gillis and Prof. Lindgren of the United States William Rasmier, who drilled 23 6 Geological Survey corps is studying in hard granite in fifteen minthe geology of the Boise Basin and the inches utes. The single handed contest was gold belt between Willow Creek and won by Alfred Bennett, who drilled a Neal. 13 hole inches deep in fifteen minutes. The Little Giant mine at Warrens, mining is becoming quite Ida, has been bonded to Eastern par- popular at Leadville, ties for $100,000. Five tons of ore re- of this method! of and the adoption propercently taken from this mine yielded ties has resulted in developing much good to the $1500. district. Fifty men have just formed Citizens of the State of Washington an each paying $50 at the have organized a mining bureau, for the startassociation, $20 and per month. They have collection and dissemination of reliable a leased number of claims, which they information concerning the mineral reto propose develop. sources. ore The output of the Cripple Creek The chlorination works of the Con- district for the month of June was 14,50( solidated Mining and Milling company tons, of which about 4000 tons was at Deadwood were destroyed by fire treated last Monday. The loss is estimated at This is by the mills in the district. the highest June record in the $100,000. of the camp. During the first The steamer Bertha sailed from history of the present year the district half San Francisco last month with a cargo has just about equaled the production of missionaries and bacon for the Yu- during the corresponding period of last kon region, there being nine preachers year. on board. A good-size- d deposit of graphite, CO A new mining camp, named Seward, per cent pure, has been discovered in has been established half way between American Fork canyon. Samples exColorado Springs and Cripple Creek. hibited in this city are claimed to be . on hs Moon-Ancho- n, . 11-1- Co-operat- ive 5 of the quality required in the manufacture of lead pencils, while the poorer grade can be used for stove polish, axle grease, etc. The deposit is near two lines of railroad and the product could be cheaply marketed. The mining float was an interesting and appropriate feature of the carnival pageant. It represented a mining camp scene, with miners driving a tunnel into a mountain, the miners cabin and near by, a portable forge at camp-fir- e which drills were being sharpened, and all the other incidents typical of operas tlons in a new camp. Those who designed the float and carried the project into execution are entitled to great . credit Rich gold discoveries in Kern county have surprised the Californians, as no one ever thought of prospecting that region. Charles Lane of the Utica mine advised the owners of a piece of property to erect a mill at the foot of the mountain and run the whole of it, dirt, sand, gravel, rocks and all, through the stamps, adding that he was willing to take the contract and guarantee that the whole thing would average $30. The famous Bonanza mine at Harqua Hala, Ariz., has a peculiar history. The original owners sold it for $100,000 and shortly afterwards the ore body pinched out. Another big chute was discovered by accident, and such a showing was made that the owners were able to sell out to an English syndicate for $2,000,000. The Englishmen put in an expensive plant, but had scarcely gotten it into operation when the ore was again exhausted and the property was shut down. For the past year it has been in the hands of leasers and now they have discovered another great body of rich gold ore at a depth of but 200 feet. The mill has been started up and the leasers are employing all the miners who apply. There is no vein on the property, but the ore bodies are very large and rich and the production has often exceeded $100,000 per month. A number of officials of the Rio Grande Western and the Pleasant Valley Coal company have launched another mining enterprise which they expect to equal the record of the Swansea. The Sunbeam Consolidated was incorporated during the week, for the operation of the Sunbeam group, in the Tintic district. The Sunoettm was the first location made in this famous district and produced over half a million dollars from the surface, the workings being but 300 feet deep. Iron pyrites were then encountered and the property was abandoned, but recent developments in adjacent ground show that high-grad- e ore is found beneath the iron. The Sunbeam is the same kind of a proposition as the Swansea and will be developed to the deep. A gasoline hoist has been ordered and will soon be in operation. Mr. A. E. Welby is president of the company, Prof. Marcus E. Jones, and Mr. E. L. Carpenter, secretary and well-defin- ed vice-preside- nt treasurer. Some day the copper mines of southern Utah will make a record for themselves and materially increase the value of the States mineral output. At present these properties are salted down, the owners preferring to await the promised railroad, rather than expend the profits upon a wagon haul. The property of the Dixie Copper company shows an immense fissure vein, from 100 to 200 feet wide. A matte smelter was erected several years ago and at this plant there has been treated 4000 tons of ore carrying 25 per cent copper. Shipments of crude ore carrying 55 per cent have also been made. Of course the average percentage is much lower than these figures, but it is high enough to make the mine a great proposition when it is reached by a railroad. One peculiarity of the vein is the presence of a body of ore carrying 9 per cent lead. On the surface this lead ore body was next to the foot wall, but at a depth of 210 feet it 200-mi- le 20-t- on |