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Show 8 INTER-MOUNTAI- Jleus of tfye 5amps. UTAH. Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Mercur, Aug. 18. The drill on the East Golden Gate is down about 500 feet below the bottom of the shaft, and is working at the rate of twenty feet per day. C. L. Dignowity is still at work with his drill on the Moonshine. hills. work on his many properties around Ophir and Mercur. The Judge has sevclaims and with! a eral will little work undoubtedly have a mine before long. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the St. Louis group on Lion hill, reports that property looking well and expects to put a larger force to work in a short good-looki- ng time. Mercur Mercury: H. L. Benner brought to this office Monday a piece of black quartz float in which considerable free gold was discernible with the naked eye. It was found somewhere up toward Lewiston peak. Work continues on the Herschel with three shifts, and the working tunnel is in about 600 feet, with about two more to run before the vein is tapped. At the Cannon shaft fine ore is now being taken out, and large blocks of antimonial ore from a blowout from the silver vein below have been encountered during the week. It is reported that $14 ore has been encountered in the Cannon group, adHillside on joining the Mercur and the was made in east. The discovery the a drift from the bottom of the shaft. 400-fo- ot hours. eight feet every twenty-fou- r more favorThe ground is becoming able for rapid progress and a gasoline exhaust pipe folengine with a lowing the work, keeps the tunnel free from smoke and deleterious gases. New and commodious buildings for blacksmith and carpenter shops, engine-house and storage have just been completed at the tunnel opening and everything about the premises has the appearance of strict business. The Swansea mine at Silver is now level, and the Four nearing the Aces, its near neighbor, has cut the station in its shaft. These are the deepest mines in the prosperous south end of the district. The Mammoth is down to the 1500 and sending up ore from that level that makes the officers and directors wear a smile of benign contentment. Flattering reports are received from the Sioux Consolidated and it is expected a dividend will be posted for that property as an autumn boquet to the stockholders. Tintic Miner: . Shipments from the district for the week are as follows: mine 30 carFrom the Bullion-Bec- k Bullion-Beck mill loads ore, from the 10 carloads concentrates, from the Gemini 5 carloads of ore, from the Eureka Hill 4 carloads ore, from the Ajax 3 carloads ore, from the Utah 6 carloads ore, from the South Swansea 1 carload ore, from the North Star 2 carloads ore, from the Four Aces 1 carload ore, from the Dragon Iron Mine 4 carloads ore daily. Manager T. A. Walley of the Yankee Girl states that regular shipments from that property will commence in about two weeks. The shaft is now down over 230 feet and will be sunk at once to the 300. In the meantime lots of ore is being showrn up in the workings and when the shipments begin they will be continued and regular. Arrangements are now being closed up looking to resumption of work by the New Tintic Mining and Smelting company on the old Tiernan property In North Tintic and operations will probably be commenced in a few days. The Grand Central Mining company has commenced drifting from the level. They propose going hard after the ore channel which should cut this property. 6-in- The Mercur Gold Production company has put a whim on the shaft on the Transvaal group, in the western foot- lar shipments. Arkie Warren is doing assessment REIEW. and a string of rich mines will be the result that will equal if not eclipse the grand old pioneer bonanzas of the district. We again repeat, those who have pinned their faith on Godiva mountain are all right. tunnel is being The great Sioux-Aja- x rate of about ahead at the pushed Correspondence Mining Review. Haddigan, Quirk and Watkins have finished their contract on the La Cigale No. 3 shaft, which was 100 feet, and have taken a contract for the second hundred. C. H. Scheu was expected in camp the first of the week, but was detained on account of sickness at his home in Salt Lake. A. H. Mayne is in Salt Lake on business. A. M. Spooner has been in camp the past week looking after his interests. Arrangements have about been completed to commence the Golden Gate and Brickyard mills. The Sacramento will increase its milling capacity within a few days. George St. Clair reports the Chloride Point looking well. He is making regu- MINING N ch 500-fo- ot 300-fo- ot : Over a dozen properties capable of heavy yields that are now practically idle can be named. The incline of the Wlnnamuck, which is to be put down 500 feet, has reached 275 feet depth and is running in good shipping ore. The mine is not being worked for production at present and will hold off for a better market. The Dalton & Lark property at the present time includes six mines actually producing Dalton, Lark, Brooklyn, Keystone, Richmond, old Lead mine The united outand for put promises to be considAugust 3000 tons. erably over Revere-Gladston- e. Summit County. Park Record: Another sale of Creole was registered this week, the transfer being made at $1 per share. stock The deal was consummated by J. J. Thomas, Berry Brothers being the sellers. James Berry informs the writer that 4000 shares were sold for spot cash, and the balance of their holdings were put In escrow for ninety days. The Creole is reported as looking fine and the shaft is going down steadily. With the sale of Berry Brothers' stock the control and management of the property will pass into the hands of the Spooner syndicate, and some important changes may be looked for in the near -- future. It is intimated that hoisting works will soon be erected and the mine equipped for deep mining. The recent rumor that ore was cut in the shaft is denied by the secretary of the company and others connected with the property. The Crescent company has had a large force of men at work for some time retimbering the big incline shaft and strengthening weak spots in the mine. The work will be completed by Tuesday next, and the property will be in shape for immediate and active work or for continued idleness, whichever policy the company elects to follow. To date the Peck Concentrating company has refused to make a direct bid for Crescent ore, and the company is undecided whether to repair the tramway for active work or not, as the value of the ore on hand cannot be estimated until a bid is made. We would like to see the Crescent put in two or three active months before snow closes down the tramway for the winter. The machinery for the Daly-Wenew hoist is all in place and the connections are now being made. It is expected that every rod, lever, pipe, screw and bolt will be in position and the hoist ready for service early next week. The big wire cable, made by Andrew Walsh at the Ontario mine, is finished Salt Lake County. and ready for service. This is one of the best arranged and most perfect WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. and well hoisting plants in the world, see. to It is Bingham Bulletin: After several worth a trip to the mine years of idleness active operations are a monument to the energy and ability to be resumed on the old Badger mine, of J. J. Daly. situated in Brooklyn gulch below the Brooklyn property. Included with the State Line District y Badger are the and Medicine claims, to be worked in conTim Driscoll, one of the veteran nection. of this city, arrived a few The Badger was located in 1874, and prospectors Iron days agoj from Iron Mountain, worked with more or less regularity county, a promwhere he is developing until between three and four years ago ising silver-lea- d property. Just before when It shut down. A large amount of coming up he made an examination of silver-lea- d ore carrying some gold was the New State Line district and was produced, the values of which are said very favorably impressed by the prosto have been from $60 to $S0 per ton. pects in that vicinity. Some very rich It has quite extensive development, the gold and silver ore has been found, but deepest shaft being down about 400 it will more development to defeet. Some prospecting has been done terminerequire the permanency of the veins. on the other claims. veins are found in The silver-bearin- g The Tilden (Phoenix group) crosscut a porphyry dyke and the gold in tunnel, begun in 1891, had been run trachyte. Mr. Driscoll states that over 1200 feet when last Tuesday It every of rock tested by hi-piece broke into the vein and the whole face panned gold. The claim upon which is now showing a lead carbonate ore the greatest development has been that is undoubtedly of good quality. done is the Offer, upon which a shaft The strike is very important, as it has been sunk to a depth of 100 feet. proves up the Phoenix vein to such It is producing some very high-grad- e depth as to establish beyond perad ven- silver ore and the vein holds out well ture its great value. This tunnel will with depth. Just above the Offer is shaft. ultimately form a handy outlet on the the Burro, which has a Carr fork side for the Coramandel, and The vein has widened from two inches in fact all the claims of the Phoenix on the surface to fourteen inches in group. the bottom of the shaft and carries 400 of The mines Bingham are estimated ounces silver and $40 in gold. The to be in condition to make a present Creole shows a two-fovein carrying output of 10,000 tons per month. $600 to $800 in gold. The district st 700-fo- ot Happy-Go-Luck- Juab County. TINTIC DISTRICT. Eureka Democrat: We are glad to be able this issue to fully verify the report of the rich strike made in the Humbug last week, and to add that the great ore zone that trends from the Mammoth northeasterly through the Sioux and Utah has been cut in the Humbuge and at a depth of but about feet from the surface. seventy-fivWhere the ledge was encountered by the tunnel face it is strong and well defined, of vast extent and carries! a silver and lead. high value in gold, cross-chas been vein The by the tunnel so far a distance of about twenty-fiv- e feet and the farthest wall not yet its actual cannot extent be known. But the fact is known and demonstrated fully that the trend of the vast mineral belt continues intact from the porphyry dykes on the south to where it meets the granite range on the north, and that it will only require a well directed effort backed by moderate capital to open up this rich section of country lying on the eastern slope of Godiva mountain ut reached,-consequentl- y 45-fo- ot ot |