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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- Jfeus of tfye 2amps. UTAH. Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining: Review. Mercur, July 2S. George E. Barker, Nebraska have been in Mercur looking at the Sacramento with a view of buying E. A. Benson and Mr. Wilson of Jesse Lakins one-ha- lf interest. They left for Salt Lake Monday and will close the deal there. The price is in the neighborhood of $100,000. C. L. Dignowity has put his drill to work on the ground near Manning. He will go next, week to the Black Horse group, in the western foot hills. Frank Knight of Fairfield has returned from his Deep Creek trip. He brings some fine looking copper specimens with him. n C. C. Higgins, our editor and recorder, has returned from his fishing trip. The number and size of the speckeld beauties he caught, according to his smooth way of telling it, break all records. I. B. Hammond of Portland, Or., was a Mercur visitor Sunday. Mr. Hammond is one of the best posted and best known mining men in the country, and he says that Mercur is without doubt the most promising mining camp in the well-know- world. MINING REVIEW. N We are advised that a new water it, has considered it good business to sell his entire interest. Scott hill, at company for Silver City is being orthe point where the Insley group is ganized, the water to be obtained from located, is capped with a lime forma- springs south of Diamond. This move tion fully 500 feet thick, below being a is rendered necessary by the largely thin stratum of porphyry lying on a increased amount of work going on in bed of granite of untold extent, it be- that part of the district. The full one hundred stamps were ing easily traced clear to Alta. The or tunnel incline of the upper Insley dropped for the first time at the Euwas on driven the strength of a reka Hill mill Wednesday. group small deposit of ore found on the surTwo shifts are now at work on the face by Messrs. LeCompte and Giles, Opex group and a good showing is beand comprised about ten tons. It was ing made. A new strike of good shipping ore is exhausted, as many such have been in Idaho. The incline was reported this week in the shaft on the started and at about fifty feet from the Yankee Girl. pot-hol- es mouth another deposit was encoun- Eureka Democrat: Very encouraging reports come from the Southern Eureka property, to the effect that they have ore struck a good grade of silver-lea- d in their prospect shaft at a depth of 65 feet. The company are so sanguine of the future of the property that they have placed an order for a 35 horsepower hoisting plant, a duplicate of the South Swansea, and the preparatory work for placing the same has already begun. The Emerald Mining company are now sinking the old Diamond shaft, which is about 300 feet southeast from the new shaft they began last Februboy ought to be able to recog- ary. They have a body of ore in the nize it. The face of the lower tunnel is face that carries values from $16 to $20 now in the fault, and might be driven and is improving as work progresses. thousands of feet without uncovering another pound of ore. There may be a Salt Lake County. mine on the Insley companys ground, WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. but in the Judgment of the writer, it tered and soon exhausted, when again about twenty-fiv- e feet further down still another was found. Like the others, it was soon dug out and left no trace of a vein or any sign that would lead an average miner to believe that such deposits would continue at regular intervals, as has been the case in sevn mines in Nevada and eral Colorado. In fact, where the last deposit was dug out, the formation shows not only a plain, but a massive, east and west fault, the stratification of the lime bed below said deposit of ore making the disruption so plain that a well-know- ten-year-o- ld will never be found as developments are now being prosecuted. Bingham Bulletin: News of a good strike comes from the Centennial group It gives the Record great pleasureOn-to in Markham gulch, above the Monteannounce that this week the West zuma mine. This property was taken tario was leased, and that within the under a lease about three next few days active developments will months ago by William Thornton and Joe Slama. They began sinking & begin looking toward making that great property a producer. The lease was ob- shaft, but were driven out by water, tained by Messrs.- George R. Hancock and started a crosscut. In twenty feet and F. W. Duncombe, and embraces six they encountered the vein, and now of the claims comprising that group, have between two and three feet of in all. The mineral, said to resemble Julia Dean there being twenty-tw- o are lease of terms the private, but are ore. They are now working day and understood to be very advantageous to night shifts, and confident of opening both sides of the contract. It is the in- up a paying mine. Thousands of doltention of Messrs. Hancock and Dun- lars have been expended by former outcombe to begin work in the big shaft, fits in trying to locate the Centennial which is on the ground they have con- vein, and much importance is attached trol of, and the first work will be to to the present find by parties acquaintclean it out, retimber it and put it in ed with the property. will A. L. and Dan Heaston have their thorough repair, after which they The on decide future developments. novel water power Jigs working in West Ontario is one of the best located great shape, and while the of the district, and in that Mercur Mercury: J. A. Anson, who is Old Gold Note, on two-yeaLion hill, expects to go out to that property in a few days. They are now down about forty-fiv- e feet, and intend to run an incline in 150 feet at the bottom, where they expect to strike the ore body. This mine has a very encouraging looking future. Evanston, Wyo., parties have let a contract for a fifty-fotunnel in the Wasatch shaft. This company owns several claims in Silverado canyon, of which this is one. The shaft is now down at a depth of sixty-fiv- e feet, and a drift of twenty feet has been run in at the bottom. The prospects are looking very encouraging. A contract was let on the Hecla shaft for a hundred feet of sinking and timbering to Frank Drake during the week. part groups of the neighborhood complain Good miners are always in demand in Just so sure as depth is obtained it will people that something is drying up their cows, this camp, and an adept miner has no be one of the big mines of the district. just the same the boys are treating trouble in securing a Job. about twelve and one-ha- lf tons of ore Juab County. per day each from the Montezuma and The Cedar Valley company, Peep-ston- e Dean mines, with very satisfacJulia TINTIC DISTRICT. district, yesterday let a contract results. The Montezuma has over tory for fifty feet more work on the incline Tin tic Miner: Shipments from the 2000 tons ore on its dump, of that is being sunk from the face of the district for the week are as follows: while its dailyjigging output of that class is mine, 25 car- sufficient to keep tunnel. This incline has from the Bullion-Bec- k one machine busy. reached a depth of forty feet, and at loads ore; Bullion-Bec- k mill, ten car- The Julia Dean also keeps ahead of this point shows a large body of ore loads concentrates; Centennial-Eurekthe other. The is machinery rudely but carrying $3.20 in gold. Values are in- 7 carloads ore;4 Eureka Hill, 7 carloads1 ingeniously constructed and put tocarloads ore; Sioux, creasing at the rate of 4 cents per foot. ore; Gemini, quite original in application, The shaft and inclines on the Gold carload ore; Ajax, 3 carloads ore; Utah, gether, to the inventive resources and a Dust will be connected within a few 1 carload ore; Buckeye, 1 carload ore; of A. L.credit Heaston. days and the workings indicate an ore Swansea, 5 carloads ore; Dragon Iron Joe Bush has just completed a con- -, body fifteen to twenty-fiv- e feet thick mine, 5 carloads ore daily; Noons Iron tract on the Extra Sessions in Pine at the point of connection. The devel- mine, 1 carload ore daily. soon to be a Gulch, property The Swansea is now in good shape patented. promising about 500 opment work has shown that the vein feet of has a greater dip than was at first for regular and continued shipments, work has Altogether on been done the claim, exand will make a record for the balance posing a large amount of ore of pay of the summer that will surprise its grade. The vein shows thirty-five feet The Rio Grande width and hanging-wa- ll most friends. sanguine not in Summit County. sight. Western Railway company is formally A few the drew ago pumps days Park Record: The Record has during considering the building of a new the last of the freshet water in out the the past few months received a num- switch to the mine, and will undoubt- Winamuck, and rebeen has ber of inquiries concerning the ground edly put it through. This will be a sumed below the sinking 200 level. The mine owned and controlled by the Insley great convenience to the Swansea peo- and mill will soon be in full Mining company of Colorado, whose ple and will result in a considerable re- blast again. probably property is located on Scott hill on the duction in the cost of handling their It will take about sixty days to comBig Cottonwood side. The property is ores. the South Galena drain tunnel, one of the many strange characteristics Manager Green of the Buckeye plete during which Manager Holden says in that section of Utah, and while the states to the Miner that the shaft in the Old Jordan and Galena will be writer believes that great depth is go- that property has nearly reached the idle. He is reticent as reing to show up at least one or two big 300 level, and will be sunk through to practically mines at Scott hill, it would not ad- the 320 before much drifting is done. gards the future policy of the vise any of its readers to invest heavily The shaft is now all in ore, which runs in the stock of the Insley Mining com- from $19 to $80 in gold, about 15 to 20 pany. Its reasons for that advice are ounces in silver and a fair percentage Piute County. embraced in the fact that develop- of both lead and iron. Only enough ments to date show absolutely nothing ore is being taken out at present to Piute Pioneer: Paul Dubinl has vein in the Ontario that would indicate a mine and from pay running expenses, but Manager struck a two-fothe fact that Mr. Taylor, who organ- Green states that in a short time he tunnel that assays to a good mill prosized and incorporated the company and will be prepared to ship a carload every pect. Some locations have been made sneaked the ground with which to do two or three days. that show that the Crystal ore vein a part owner of the ot rs God-feari- sixty-five-fo- ot a, ot ng |