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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- rock as from the Yahk. The Yahk was first discovered and succeeded in interesting: capital, and other sections have awaited developments. As a result, of course the Yahk has been all the talk. As the value of the Yahk properties is the prospectors being demonstrated, of out search in ledges of like spread The Moyea quartz is similar quality. to that of the Yahk, hence in character the attention that that section of the is now attracting. Moyea-Yah- k One of the groups of the Moyea that is now attracting attention is that owned by Charles Ewing, I. J. Brant, as the Jap. King and others, known Buckhorn group. They are located on the head of Deer creek, about twenty miles from Bonner's Ferry. This lead has been traced through five claims. openings every 200 to 300 They have feet for 900 feet, and any rock from any opening will pan gold. Ainfair sample free gold. of the rock assayed $15 The ledge is probably six feet in width, hanging-wa- ll and porphyry with a slate foot-waowners have The for a panned hundreds of samples, and they find it varies very little in grade. ll. Ada County. Pearl correspondence Boise Statesore found in man: The best free-gol- d the district was uncovered by F. M. Carlton on the Alexandra claim, situated on the divide between Willow and Rock creeks, alongside of the wagon road passing up Birthday gulch. The new discovery is only a few feet east of the assessment work for 1895. The property is now owned by Ed Lee and Carlton, who are sinking a shaft on the new find. The opening is among a lot of wild cherries, where the ledge was supposed to be covered to a great depth with black loam, but strange to say, the ledge is not covered to a depth of one foot, and it is about two feet k wide. The is from six to fifteen inches wide, and growing larger as depth is attained. The ore is like most of the free ore found in the district, being greatly decomposed, and pans such large quantities of gold that those who pan the rock make a second visit to the opening to procure more ore to make a thorough test, thinking and even stating they are satisfied their first lot was certainly salted. The ledge at present is the greatest ledge that has been opened up in this district, and, being situated as it is, within ten feet of the wagon road, and a less distance from the oldest trail, and only a few inches from the surface, causes many of our old prospectors to kick themselves for walking over the biggest thing in our camp. pay-strea- free-gold-beari- ng Lemhi County. Gibbonsville Miner: Charley Clifton, who has been running the arastra on Sheep creek for John Dunton, was down Sunday and informs us that since Joe Statmiller went up to his placer claim on Sheep creek, some three weeks ago, he has taken out about three ounces of gold one nuggest weighing about an ounce and a half and another worth perhaps $4.50, picked off from bedrock. He is now sluicing off a pit and calculates to sink on it. Along with Joes good luck, too, he killed a silver-ti- p bear that weighed grizzly 1150 pounds. From eighty-si- x tons of ore run through the old cyanide mill Ed Moore averaged $10 to the ton. Shoshone County. Coeur dAlene Sun: Only one placer company has so far closed down for the season, the Vestal Con. Arizona is still vrorking, but theyThe are confining their work to bedrock cleaning. A large amount of other placer work continues, and the gradual reduction of the water supply does not affect it, as e bulk of lt is done by drift ing. This method of placer mining is. growing in favor, and the run of water does not cut much of a figure, as ? very small flow will furnish a in small Ail the way from Raven to Eagletanks. pla- sluice-reservoiri- ng MINING REVIEW. N cer mining will continue by drifting all the year. The rumor of the sale of the Idaho mine and mill which has been floating about for some time, has at last been consummated, the property going to the owners of the Dora and Katie Burnett, Wentz, Snyder, Beale & Co. The consideration is said to be $16,000. The mill will days. start in about a week or ten 9 hottest kind of work, and is kept up until twelve of the blocks are cast. This special order for copper is to be used for armor plate in lining battleships of the Russian navy. After it arrives in Russia it is rolled out into sheets. In addition to this daily output the usual quantity of ingots anodes and wire bars are cast. ARIZONA. Owyhee County. DeLamar Nugget: Some Spokane capitalists who have been investigating South Mountain mining properties for some time past, last Monday closed a deal with Dave Adams, Mrs. Hunt and Ben Hastings of Silver City, by which they acquire all the properties heretofore owned by the above named parties. These comprise nearly the whole shooting, as Mr. Hastings expresses it, and gives the Spokane buyers control of the best group of base ore mines in South Idaho. They propose to begin work on these properties Needles Department Mohave Miner: With three steamers plying the Colorado river, the mines will be enabled to work on narrower margins than at present. Supplies have to be hauled in to the mines of El Dorado canyon over rough roads for nearly 100 miles, and the freight charges are enormous. The same may be said of other camps. With steamers making weekly up-count- ry trips this great expense would be obviated. The steamer Mohave is expected on its next trip to take up a great deal of mining machinery for the new camp at once. below El Dorado canyon. The camp, with the introduction of new and labor-saviWood River. machinery, should give a good account of itself within the next six Ketchum Keystone: A rich find is reported at East Fork. A few days months. a number of men will be put ago, while Jpsse Kramer was going toQuite on work the mines across the river over the hills about five miles above the North Star mine, he came across an within the next few months. F. W. abandoned mine, and after picking a Dunn, our rustling mining man, is prefew hours in an old tunnel, found a paring the way for active operations. fine streak of ore, which assays 898 Machinery to work the copper mines east of Aubrey will be shipped from ounces in silver. Kramer and Fred Fulford relocated the claim and called this point shortly. It is rumored that a large smelter will be erected to hanit Silver Leaf. dle the ores of the mines before many months pass by. NEVADA. long-neglect- ed ng Elko Independent: From Lee Par sons, who spent two weeks prospecting in the Bull Run country, and who has just returned from there, we learn that the prospects are good in the new mining district. The ledges are large and well defined, and the ore assays from $10 to $420 per ton in gold and a small amount in silver. Lee says the surface indications on Bull Run mountain are much better than any ever found in Tuscarora. Eureka Sentinel: Prof. J. V. Brooks returned last Saturday In company with Clay Simms and son from1 an extended examination trip to the gold A Mexican Mine. A Californian who recently visited the town of Guanajuato, Mexico, thus describes one of the old mines at that place: The principal mine there now is the Valenciana, and it has no less than thirty-tw- o miles of underground workThe main shaft is 2700 ings. feet deep, is of octagon shape, perfectly walled with stone, and thirty-tw- o feet across. It is said mines owned by Messrs. Clarke, Simms to have $1,000,000,000, produced and Fulton on Bald mountain. Mr. Brooks expressed himself highly principally in silver, and it has empleased with his visit, and says that ployed as many as from 3000 to 5000 large bodies of gold ore in true fissure men. It now employs about 1000 men veins are in plain view, but that the in the upper levels. country is not a poor mans camp, as In the lower levels and shafts are it will take deep mining in that part of the country. The professor has made 800 feet of water. It is said that at maps and sketches of some of the the bottom of the shaft there is thirty mines for the purpose of introducing feet of rich ore. All this immense capital there, which he thinks he wifi work was accomplished by hand have no trouble in obtaining in a short without a particle of machinery. It is time. estimated that it would cost $500,000 to erect a pumping plant to get this MONTANA. water out and keep it out. There are driveways for miles zigAnaconda Recorder: The largest blocks of copper ever shipped from the zagging down into the mine to a depth Rocky mountain region are now being of 1000 feet. It is said that at one time cast by the Anaconda company for an owner of this mine presented sevshipment to St. Petersburg, Russia. eral million dollars to the crown of They average in weight 3600 pounds, and measure 6 Inches thick by 42 Spain. I was told, too, that at one inches square. The company has an time there were in the neighborhood order for 200 long tons of 2240 pounds of 4000 arastras at work in the town, of these great blocks. This represents 1600 tons of ore were crushed 420 blocks, weighing a total of 448,000 and that hours. At present pounds. Placing 40,000 pounds to a car, every twenty-fou- r it will require a train of ten cars to they are crushing about 350 tons of ore carry them to the seaboard. The pro- a day. cess of casting this copper is an interesting and animating sight. Twelve are cast every morning under the diHundreds of prospectors are strandrection of John Sheehy, superintendent ed at Cooks Inlet, Alaska. These are of the casting department. Forty-fou- r men stand in line with long dippers the foolish men who rushed to the new and face the seething furnace with its gold fields in such great numbers last ocean of molten metal. As each man spring, heedless of all advice to provide fills his dipper he carries it to the themselves with the necessary equipmould and pours it in. The stream of ment and supplies and sufficient funds copper must be constant until the mould is filled to the brim. It is the for return passage. 3-- 16 |