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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N 7 poration last spring, having paid $62,500 poses varies somewhat, according in dividends, without shipping a pound to climatic conditions, but it is The first carload of ore from the of ore. There is a million about 15 its first-claat the head of Markham dollars per cent. A product carrying Ophir mine, ore of first-claworth Gulch, In Bingham, which was sam- blocked some which less than this percentage would thereof out, of pled last week, showed togold values the lead and runs up into the hundreds of fore be not marketable. $33 per ton in addition this will not be In northeastern Utah there is an area silver. The mine is the property of ounces in silver, and an is until there improvement of bituminous sandstone covering over William A. Robertson of the Rio stoped in revenues The are deentire prices. is and Western Grande being operated rived from the second-clas- s and mill- 10,000 square miles. This sandstone under lease by E. G. ODonnell. Anore, and there is no property in carries from a trace up to 40 per cent other shipment is now at the sampler, ing and a carload will be sent down each Utah in which such large bodies are bitumen. The product of the Wasatch exposed. week. Asphaltum company is a bituminous The Jacksons Hole country, in Wyo- onSeveral ledges have been discovered lime, and this is used extensively for Douglas Island, says the Juneau ming, seems to be a promising field for the street paving at Chicago, Minneapolis carrying ore identically oflow-graplacer operations. Men are making Times, same as character the Treadwell from $2.50 to $12 per day with rockers, and many other Eastern cities. The sulphurets, assaying on an aver- company is now filling orders for sevand a few sluice boxes are running. The country is full of fine gold and' it age from $2.50 to $3.50 gold to the ton. eral hundred tons. are also parallel and have has been traced to its source, which is These ledges same about the It is difficult to state the market pitch and trend. The described as a cement cliff, running are Yakima of Willis and to properties National from the the Park clean price of asphaltum, as there are so Hobock mountains, a distance of forty this description, lying southwesterly of Treadwell, and were taken side by many varieties. The California proIt is composed of lime rock the miles. reason of the great width of the duct is sold on board the cars at $2 to and gravel, and the fine gold is found side byand in order to cover it. The $3 per ton. The price depends in the cleavage, just as it is found in ledge largely is located 1200 by 1500 feet, the property South Africa. the grade. covering the entire Yakima claim upon The Bingham Copper company has ledge enorhalf the Willis, giving the increased its force upon the Starlus and and mous of 900 feet. A crack A Bromination Plant. Nast and Benton groups at Bingham varyingbreadth to fifteen in width from eightand all of the miners are now engaged een feet has cut a canyon through the What is known as the Swiss syndiin the extraction of good ore. An. im- soft ore from ten to sixty feet deep, cate has in broa six-to- n operation high-grad- e of ore strike gold portant on ore solid of walls either side, mination at La Plata, plant was recently made in a winze, leaving comis while of the the ptreaxn bed, sunk at a point 700 feet from' the mouth posed of tl)e same. material. A number Colo., and the process is pro of the tunnel and at a vertical depth of small tunnels and drifts' have been nounced a success. Following is a brief of about 700 feet. There is between run into the ore exposures along the description of the plant: The process three and four feet of this ore and it canyon at different points, showing it is the same as ordinary chlorination so assays upOn-to 30 ounces silver and $904 solid and quite uniform in value. The the Nast property a good average of fifty assays gave a value far as the crushing, drying and roastin gold. rich of vein galena ore wus recently of $3.20 gold per ton. This new Alaska ing is concerned. From the roaster, a opened up. gold proposition is owned by Seattle Bruckner the ore is passed It is announced that the sale of near- parties, who are making preparations into a lead-line-cylinder, d cylinder extractor of the capital stock of the for thorough and systematic ly one-ha- lf filled with the bromine solution, where ' Sacramento company has just been consummated in this city, the money it stays from four to five hours. It is to be paid today. The interest sold then pumped into leaching tanks, Elaterite and Asphaltum. was that belonging to Jesse Lakin and where it is charged, by means of a the purchasers are a syndicate headed by Mr. E. A. Benson of Omaha. The A subscriber desires the Mining Re- Westinghouse air compressor, with 25 cents was per share, aggregat- view to price sulphuretted hydrogen and allowed to of value the elaterite, give amount the for $100,000 about puring and asphaltum, and also the per- remain three hours, after which it is chased. The Sacramento company owns sixty-fiv- e acres located south of centage of purity required for commer- drawn off into settling tanks, the brothe Mercur mine, in the Camp Floyd cial use. no mine having been eliminated by the has Elaterite, ore bodies of and good district, large process just named, hence by gravity have been developed. A cyanide market value, as it is not found in com- the resulting product, sulphide of gold, plant is in operation and its capacity mercial quantities off of the Uncom-pahgr- e is run into a filter press where it reis to be increased to 100 tons. reservation, where no mining is Eighteen miles northeasterly from permitted; moverover, it cannot be mains until retorted in a crucible and Ogden, on the Cache Valley slope of the utilized until a solvent has been dis- run into gold bricks. The advantages range, at a point six miles north of Mr. Englehardt, the patclaimed Liberty, is located one of the finest covered. The proper name of the Utah entee, areby greater rapidity and higher deposits of onyx so far developed in product usually called elaterite is Utah. It is of a beautifully mottled percentage of gold extraction, and conshade of several colors and altogether wurtzelite. more economical process. Gilsonite is the purest form of sequently a is the prettiest in coloration which has been found to this time. It is very asphaltum, some of it being 99 per cent The extraction is 95 per cent, and with mill the cost of treating solid and polishes with a perfect sur- pure. It is used throughout the United a hundred-to- n lamiface, and is free from the usual sulphides would not exceed $5 nations and fractures of quarry face States and in Europe in the manufac- ordinary so common with onyx everywhere. It ture of black vanish and for other pur- a ton, though at present a charge of $12 quarries out in blocks of any extent or poses. It is worth about $40 per ton on is made on account of the increased cost incident to limited capacity. thickness and may be sawed vertically or horizontally with equal facility, in board the cars, and sells at $60 to $100 slabs of many feet extent. It presents in the various markets. SALT LAKE NUGGETS. a quarry front of sixty feet and extends The term asphaltum covers a great into the mountain to an unknown of products. There are three depth. Blocks now on the dump meas varietyof D. Mr. of the Denver asphaltic rock known to com- Daily J.MiningDillenback ure 8x6x5 feet and are entirely free types Record staff, is in the from flaw or fracture. It is within fifty mercial use, viz.: will write and up the Utah camps city, This is yards of a good wagon road and is easy Trinidad for his produced Asphaltum paper. of access. The owners, Messrs. J. A. on in its of and Mr. Trinidad H. B. Eldredge, representing .the the island McCulloch and D. W. Ellis are making and native state is 40 per cent pure. It is Bradley Pulverizer company of Boston, preparations to supply the trade,indefihas been in the city during the week, with good machinery can do this refined at New York, the percentage in the interest of the Griffin mill. nitely. Expert tests prove it to be of being raised to CO, and is then reduced Mr. J. E. Bamberger has returned superior quality, and a whole mountain side of it demonstrates the quantity to to the right proportions for paving pur- from Baker City, Or., where he inspectbe practically unlimited. poses by mixing with sand and pulver- ed the property of the Gold Ridge comp mill is now in The pany. What was known as the Lead Mill, ized lime stone. ore of satisfactory operation, treating owned by the Dalton & Lark company, Swiss Asphaltic Limestone This is an ton. $15 of per average value at Bingham, was totally destroyed by pulverized and then disintegrated by fire last Friday. It was a concentratGeorge E. Johnston, proprietor of the which it is mixed with after heat, dry 150 tons and of ing plant, capacity, Walker House, has returned from a was purchased from the original own- gum asphaltum and sand in hot mixvisit to the Snake river placers last spring. Expensive improve- ers. The product of the Wasatch As- ers. He is working four men about ments were made to the plant, and it of this city belongs four miles below American Falls, and was valued at $25,000. The Dalton & phaltum company is cleaning up about $8 per day to the Lark company has been extremely un- to this class. man with ground sluices and burlaps. in is found This Rock Bituminous to fortunate of late, but seems possess the. resources to cope with every California and Utah and is natural Teams are hauling the new Kinkaid emergency, and it is expected the r egr sandstone impregnated with bitumen. to El Dorado canyon. Three big mill ular dividend, of $12,500 will be declared bior teams loaded with machinery left King-ma- n on the 1st. The property has made a The proportion of asphaltum Thursday. wonderfully good record since its incor tumen necessary for paving pur hands of the present management. ss ss de 65-fo- ot - gil-soni- te so-call- ed, 50-t- on ten-stam- six-wee- ks |