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Show 6 INTEB-M0UNTA1- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. The Leadville strike shows no symptoms of a settlement. A tramway 3900 feet in length will be built by Atlanta company at Davies, Ida., this summer. A religious journal has been started in the Coeiir dAlenes, the Pastoral News, published at Wallace. Fraser & Chalmers have sold to the Hanauer smelter a No. 7 high pressure Roots blower. The Boise Iron and Reduction works p are building a mill for the Morning Star company. It is now claimed that there are gold deposits similar to those of Mercur in Nevada, California and Oregon. Frank Bal, one of the locators of the Poorman mine at Burke, Ida., was struck by a train last week and fatally injured. hve-stam- MINING EEYIETV. N that the market price of silver would would think of looking for a mine be influenced by the action of a politithat mountain." cal convention were, of course, disappointed, as quotations have declined two points since the Democratic con- vention adjourned. The question whether a dividend goes with an option canot be solved by the brokers of the Denver mining exchange. The prevailing opinion is that the dividend goes with the certificate and whoever holds the certificate at the time the dividend is declared retains the dividend. Manager J. E. Galigher of the Crystal company has returned from Marys-val- e, where he inaugurated work on a road that will permit the shipment of ore now on the dump. Four of five hundred tons will be marketed as soon as the road is completed, and the product runs high in both gold and on The capacity of the drill now in use on the East Golden Gate is 3000 feet. t The Cactus Mining company on a (concentrator the property,, located in Beaver county. John McChrystal, one of the pioneer' mining men of Eureka, died suddenly at that camp last .Tuesday. He of the Eureka Hill and Gemini mines, and owned a large in-terest in the latter property. It is now learned that Capt. DeLamar has decided to erect the n cyanide for mine Golden at Gate the plant once. An engineer is at work upon the plans, which will be completed within ten days, and arrangements are being made for the transportation of building material. The production of copper by the Anaconda Copper Mining company for the month of May was about 10,000,000 pounds. This copper averages about 120 ounces per ton in silver and a small amount of gold. It is said that it will average 4 cents per pound in gold and silver. The mining camps of Mercur, Eureka, Silver City and Mammoth were visited by a great flood last Tuesday. Two men were drowned at Eureka, and there was considerable property loss in all the camps. The Mercur mill was flooded and compelled to shut down for will-erec- was-superintende- 500-to- silver. The Mining Investor relates that a The Lucky Boy thirty-stam- p mill at mining engineer just from Cripple was asked by another concerning Custer, Ida., recently closed down by a Creek the at the camp. Oh, they situation strike of the miners, is now in opera- are doing the same as usual, was the tion again. answer. The tenderfeet are taking the As a result of important mineral dis- ore out from where they find it, and the coveries made in Cassia county, Ida., mining men are hunting for it where it this year, a concentrating plant is to ought to be. be erected at Albion. It is announced from Cheyenne that Tacoma geologists have started for Chicago capitalists propose to erect a Red Mountain, northern Idaho, which thirty-to- n electrical smelter at that it is claimed has never been explored point if the citizens will give a bonus by white men. of $5000. Capitalists who mean business a short time. p will The mill of the Smuggler hardly be influenced by a $5000 Mr. Newhouse of Denver is donation in the matter of the erection in the Samuel Union mine at Pandora, Colo., is handMr. Newhouse is the reprecity. ling 175 tons of ore per day, and it is of a smelter. These bonus propositions sentative of the United States Exploraare generally regarded with suspicion. tion company of London, the syndicate concentrated eight into one. The Supreme court of the United that paid $40,000 on an option on the E. G. Smith of Mountainhome, Ida., has gone to Australia to take charge States, In the case of Haws vs. Vic- Sevier mine and then permitted it to of a gold mine belonging to an English toria Copper Mining company, holds lapse. Under the terms of the agreesyndicate, at a salary of $6000 per an- that a valid mining location may be ment the syndicate received the nummade without marking the boundaries ber of shares that $40,000 would pay for num. the ground, or even posting a no- at 60 cents per share, but this stock is Oscar Vilander, employed at the on on thq, ground located. This is a held in trust by Mr. Lainmersdorf, tice Swansea mine at Silver City, attempted reversal of other decisions and the president of the company, and voted to board the cage when it was in mocustomary practice of miners in lo- by him. The Exploration company has tion fifty-stam- last Thursday and received fatal cating claims. Injuries. Capt. John W. Plummer, who for Mining for chrysoprase, a beautiful five has managed the DeLamar bright stone which takes a polish and mine,years at DeLamar, Ida., has sailed is highly prized for jewelry, is being for and it is stated that he has prosecuted nine miles northeast of Vi- beenEurope, relieved from the active managesalia, Cal. ment of the property. His health is During the first six months of the greatly impaired and hereafter he will present year the business on the Colo- exercise a sort of general supervision rado Stock Exchange at Denver aggre- over the various properties owned by million shares, valued the Mining and Financial Trust comgated fifty-eig- at ht $2,918,685. A force of men were set to work this week sinking a shaft on the Stemwinder, at Silver City, recently bonded by Messrs. Hudson, Colburn and Templin. 100-fo- ot Three hundred and ninety men are employed at the DeLamar mine and mill at DeLamar, Nev., and until quite recently 250 woodchoppers have been given employment. There are 180 stamps dropping in the Tintic district, 100 at the Eureka Hill, 60 at the Mammoth and 20 at the Sioux. The Bullion-Bec- k mill is with crushers. equipped The total gold production of Cripple Creek to date is 800,000 ounces, and the cost per ounce is figured out at a little less than $14. The cost per ounce in the Mercur district is $4.50 to $10. In a mine near Prescott, Ariz., an underground water course was encountered and the water contained great numbers of eyeless fish. This, however, is not the only mine that has a fishy reputation. The recent sale of the old Rollins lead mine, in the Lincoln district, has been set aside for the reason that some of the shareholders, representing 350 feet of the lode, had not been served with a summons in the case. The owners of the Battle Lake (Wyo.) copper mines are receiving an outfit of supplies of machinery, preparatory to making large and continuous shipments of copper ore. The erection of a smelter at the mine is one of the improvements contemplated. The people who foolishly expected pany, Ltd., of London. Kean, Cortlandt & Co. of Paris, France, have taken an option on the famous Tom Boy mine at Telluride, Colo., for $3,000,000. The principal claim in the group was once sold for $5, and several companies became bankrupt in the attempt to make the property pay. The present owners have developed a great mine and the output to January 1st had been $800,000. The Bullion-Bec- k ground is being thoroughly prospected by the diamond drill placed in operation last spring. The first hole was driven 500 feet southwest on the The second was sent west 300 feet from the and the drill is now in operation on the All the holes bored have been horizontal, and this method of exploration is found to be much cheaper than No new ore bodies running drifts. have as yet been encountered by the drill, but the management states that more good ore is now shown in the workings than at any time in the recent history of the property. 800-lev- el. 600-lev- 900-lev- el, el. The tunnel on the old Damphool mine at Bingham has cut through a four-fovein at a depth of 400 feet beot low the abandoned workings, and ore assays silver and 58 per cent lead, the ounces As the new 32 some gold. Messrs. Virtue, Bemis and Kerrick, now have 400 feet of stoping ground, the property will again become owners, a heavy producer. The mine was lo- cated many years ago by a drunken miner who went up on the mountain to walk off the effects of a spree. He called it the Damphool because, as he explained, "no one but a d d fool sufpurchased minority stock one-half ficient to increase its holdings to the capital stock. Funds have been secured for the completion of the Nelson tunnel, which is intended to drain the Amethyst, United and other mines on Bachelor mountain, at Creede, Colo. The tunnel is ten feet high by twelve feet wide, with a double track, and will be 9000 feet long. The Amethyst and United mines are working double compound pumps, with a capacity to hoist 1000 gallons per minute, but even with this great capacity they are unable to The tunnel keep the water down. will cut the veins at a depth of 1500 feet and save $1000 per day in the expense of pumping, while nearly half that amount will be saved by using the tunnel as an outlet for the ores. Messrs. George and Scott Crismon of the Gold Stone company have returned from a trip to the property, located on Bloody Dick creek, twelve The miles from Salmon City, Ida. company owns an option on a group of eleven claims, formerly known as the McKillip group, the consideration being $50,000. It is one of the most promising properties in Lemhi county, as It is a proposition and there is an abundance of ore. The vein is two and a half to seven feet wide, with slate hanging wall and porphyry foot wall, and has been opened up on the surface for a distance of 3000 feet. There is one shaft 108 feet deep, another 68 feet, a tunnel 100 feet and numerous drifts, all in ore. The average of a very large number of assays is $24, and the property is very favorably located for economical mining p mill is to and milling. A be erected, with power for twenty stamps, and as the amount of ore at ready for stoping is estimatedsoon be tons, the company will in position to realize profits. A wagon road is now being built which will greatly shorten the distance to the railroad. As foreshadowed by the Mining Review last week, the holders of the since free-milli- ng ten-stam- 50,-0- 00 |