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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- P. A miners union has been organized at Silver City, Ida. Prof. Churchill, the Montana died last week. Sylvanite ore worth $10 miner-ologis- t, per pound has been found near El. Dorado, Colo. Some very rich free gold discoveries are reported on Douglas Island, Alaska. The Iowa gold mine, at Quartzburg, Ida., produces $12,000 per month with a p mill. A cyanide mill .is to be built in the Freshwater district, twenty miles west of Cripple Creek. The capacity of the cyanide plant at Florence, Colo., has been increased from 150 to 300 tons. Denver stocks are now on the rise ten-stam- and buying orders for the cheaper shares are more plentiful.' It is reported that Capt. DeLamar has taken an option on the Rose group of gold claims, near Tuscarora, Nev. The price of asbestos at the Pacific Coast quarries has declined during the last two years from $50 to $8 per ton. A California farmer, while digging a well near Santa Rosa, discovered a thirty-fovein of high-grad- e cinnabar ot ore. MINING REVIEW. N evil practice that is not wholly confined to the other side of the water. The Paradise district, twenty-on- e miles northeast of Ogden, reports the development of good bodies of copper ore. The Blue Bell shows an immense vein, carrying 5 to 30 per cent copper and gold and silver to the value of $5. The Yukon Transportation company, recently organized to carry the American mails from Juneau to Circle City, is about to callapse, being unable to carry out its contract at the figure agreed upon. The New York Financial Record announces that the Daly Mining company of Nevada has declared a dividend of 25 cents per share. Nevada has many good mines, but Utah will object to a removal of the Daly into the neighboring State. A strike in the Black Dog, at Bingham, made during the week, gives returns of 10 ounces silver, 30 per cent lead and $60 in gold. The property is owned by S. F. Walker, W. L. Pickard and Isador Morris, and under lease to and others. Agents of the Leadville mine owners are said to be recruiting miners in The mine owners declare Michigan. H. S. Joseph that thousands of men have offered to take the places of the strikers, but they are not disposed to bring in men from the outside. plant is to be erected at Secretary Parsons of the Denver MiSaratoga, Wyo., by F. A. Hinman, to treat the tailings of the old Downey ning Stock Exchange estimates the production of Cripple Creek for the first mill. six months of the present year at It has been discovered that one of $7,256,000. The 1895 output was $9,199,-31the main streets of Helena, Mont., are now twenty-on- e There regular contains gold to the amount of 8 cents shippers with a of 340 output daily per pan. tons. The Marshall plant The killed and wounded in the Rand, at Boulder, Colo., now nearly completSouth Africa, gold mines in 1895 aggreed, proposes to treat refractory ores for gated 685; of these 300 were killed. It $3 per ton. should not be forgotten, says the South The Robinson gold mine, in the Trans- African Mining Journal, that the igvaal, produced $343,000 in June and norance, stupidity and drunkenness of $1,670,000 during the first six months of the natives are responsible for the exthe year. cessive death rate. The Nancy Hanks, at Bingham, has The Government has commenced the been bonded and leased for two years survey of the Blackfoot reservation in by H. W. Home. It is owned by L. H. Montana, which the Indians last fall Gray and others. agreed to sell for $1,500,000. The land The turquoise mines at Azure, N. M., is said to contain mineral. Legends of are employing twenty men. These rich finds made in years gone by have mines are now the greatest producers spread the belief that the strip abounds in gold, silver and copper. of turquoise in the world. The Salt Lake land office has ruled Fraser & Chambers are installing a that locations made on the Fort Critmill and tramway on tenden the Little Josie and Red Fir properties, military reservation, prior to the date upon which the lands were Granite county, Montana. thrown open for settlement, are invalid. A new gold field in the Tin Cup disincludes the eastern trict, Gunnison county, Colo., is at- The reservation of the Camp Floyd district and tracting attention. The ore runs into portion the northern portion of the Tintic disA cyanide 7. electro-chemic- al 10-sta- 1800-fo- ot mp the hundreds, and is free milling. A ten-to- n gasoline boat is now plying the Colorado river between the Needles and El Dorado and carries supplies to the El Dorado mines for $15 per ton. The Miners union of Ohio has ordered its members to suspend work on contracts which pay less than scale wages. This is a rule generally enforced in the West. It is claimed that the mining camp of Creede, Colo., concerning which little has recently been heard, is now shipping more ore than at any time during the past three years. The Primrose shaft, at Silver City, has gone through the iron at a depth of 175 feet and is now in ore that carries 40 ounces silver, 26 per cent lead and $2 per ton in gold. At Kingman, Ariz., Frank Yanness has built a dry concentrator that is pronounced a success. Its capacity is tons in twenty-fou- r twenty-si- x hours, and it makes a very close separation. Robert P. Keating of Nevada, a Comstock pioneer, died at Virginia City last Thursday. He was engaged in mining for thirty-thre- e years and at the time of his death was superintendent of the trict. The Freshwater district, twenty miles west of Cripple Creek, is claimed to be a continuation of the great zone. There are a thousand prospectors at work and some very rich discoveries of sylvanite and tellurium ore are reported. The country rock is a hard basalt, traversed by numerous dykes of porphyry and phonolite. The Washburn-Moe- n Manufacturing company has filled an order from the mines at Burke, Ida., for 1500 feet of wire rope, and four flat ropes for the Pearl del Monte company, Pachuca, Mexico. The latter is made of specially prepared plough-stewire, with a tensile of 275,000 strength pounds to the square gold-beari- ng Tiger-Poorm- an x5-in- ch el inch. The unusually long placet season in the Boise Basin is drawing to a close, and the results have been most satisfactory. The product of the Granite Creek Ditch & Mining company, at Placerville, was 1105 ounces. Kennedy Corcoran have taken out $14,000, and their reservoirs will enable them to .vork for two and a half months longer. Mr. D. B. Haven of the Queen of Sheba company has returned from the Directors of some English mining mine, which is located in the Ibapah companies refuse- to place orders for range, Deep Creek. Three Crawmachinery with a firm that will not ford mills, driven by water-powe- r, are allow them private commissions, an being installed and will be in operation Savage. - 10-t- on within thirty days. Fifteen men are at work at the mine, which produces an abundance of free milling ore that averages $15 per ton in gold. It is announced that Superintendent Kendall of the Centennial-Eurek- a mine will on September 1st carry out his desire to retire from the superintendency of the property. He will be succeeded by Capt. Hank Smith, an old Comstocker, who has successfully handled some of the most famous mines in the West, including He has recently had the Bullion-Beca of in mine Oregon. charge It is claimed by Oregon papers that a mountainof red porphyry near Merlin, Josephine county, has been discovered to carry $22 in gold per ton, besides platinum in large quantities. Some parties had driven a tunnel 130 feet into the hill, in the hope of striking a ledge. They discovered no ledge, but a test of the country rock gave the above result. A carload has been shipped and the returns are awaited with interest. The periodical tin discovery was reported this week, the location being nine miles southwest of Panguitch in Garfield county. The ledge is said to be eighteen feet wide, and has been traced for nine miles. A Marysvale assayer reported that the ore contained tin, but in what quantity is not stated. Samples have been sent to this city to be tested, and in the meantime prospectors are flocking to the scene and many claims have been located. Three men were killed in the St. Lawrence mine at Anaconda last Tuesday. The brake on the cable reel gave way just as tothe cage reached the top, and it fell the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 1500 feet, at terrific speed. Those killed were Foreman Ryan, who was on the cage, and two miners who were at work in the bottom of the shaft. The hoisting machinery was also wrecked and the fragments thrown hundreds of feet in all directions. Between 20,000,000 and 25,000,000 has been invested in West Australia mines. Statlctics recently published with respect to the Australasian gold yield furnish much valuable information, and present many interesting comparisons. They bring the gross figures down to 1891, and show that since the discovery of gold in these southern colonies the total quantity obtained to the close of that year was 94,967,461 oz. It value is set at 370,466,723. me jLrexi.tT company oi ims city nas received word that the two Kinkaid mills recently installed at the mine, near Tuscarora, Nev., are now in successful operation Their capacity is about twenty-fiv- e tons. It was expected that the fifty-to- n cyanide plant for the treatment of the tailings would be in operation this week. The mine produces some very high-grad- e gold ore. one shipment having sold on this marlong-cherish- ed k. ket at $422 per ton. Another new mineral is to the credit of the Camp Floydplaced district, which has become such an interesting field for mineralogical research. It is called Wardite, in honor of Prof. Ward of Rochester, who was the first to discover it It is a hydrous phosphate of aluminum, of pale blue color, and is found in nodules in the variscite of Clay canyon, occurring in the cavities. It is extremely rare and is highly prized by mineralogists. The Juab County Assessor has amended his returns on the net profits of the mines by adding the Gemini and Eureka Hill to the list. The former is assessed at $37,915 and the at $1G7,010. This increases Juabs latter to $8S1,747, which represents the total net profits, after deducting the cost of all improvements. The Summit county 5UIS ,are as follows: Ontario, $124,-92Daly, $29,382; Silver $378,955, a total of $533,259. The King, Ontario and Daly expended $95,199 on improvements Returns from the other counties aiv not yet in. A Boston syndicate spent $1,250,000 on the Geyser mine at Silver Cliff, Colo.. 2; |