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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- NEWS CLEAN-U- a smel- ter near Casper, Wyo. Denver reports an increasing Eastern demand for cheap stocks. A strike of high grade silver ore is reported in the Austin mine, at Austin, Nev. The discovery is reported of a large body of fire clay in the eastern part of Utah county. One of the events of the Labor Day celebration at Saltair will be a contest. It is claimed that the Rescue mine at Warren, Idaho, is producing some ore worth $2 per pound. n John Healy, a mining man, suicided at Congress, Arizona. Dissipation was the cause. One of the listed companies at Denver was suspended by the stock exchange for charging a transfer fee. The Northern Chief, one of the Butterfield group at Bingham, is shipping ore that carries one to four ounces of gold per ton. George B. Norman has been appointed superintendent of the Lucky Boy mine at Custer City, Ida., succeeding W. A. Stanton. The Butte Mining World complains in of the operations of as a has that city. Salt Lake large per as other any mining cencapita supply ter. The Pan American company, which has a cyanide plant in operation on tailings in Sonora, Mexico, this week paid its regular monthly dividend of rock-drilli- ng well-know- back-cappe- rs $3000. The Gold Queen company has purchased at Hallidie ropeway from the California Wire Works, to be used in transporting ores from the mine to the mill. Thirty cases of Idaho ore specimens have been sent to the St. Paul exposition. Secretary Hunter of the Idaho Mining Exchange has charge of the ex- hibit. Alaska-Treadwe- ll MINING REVIEW. The Florence mine, adjoining company for the year ending June 30th the Marion, has been leased by F. W. show's that the entire cost of mining Rose, and a body of high grade ore is and milling, including concentrating and roasting and chlorinating the conexposed by work recently done. centrates, administration at the offices The last steamer arriving from Alas- in London and Paris, and all construcka brought back seventy-fiv- e alleged tion and other expenses at the mines, miners from Cooks Inlet, and a major- was only $1.16 per ton. The ore yielded ity of them w'ere cursing the country. $2.97 per ton, leaving a net profit of $1.81 One man had $5 worth of gold dust, per ton on the 263,670 tons produced. which, he said, had cost him $500. An The wages paid, with board and lodgexperienced miner stated there was ing, are: Miners, $2.50; laborers, $2; good pay ground at the Inlet, but not drillmen, $2.50 in summer and $3 in enough of it to support the large crowd winter; millmen, $65 to $100 per month. that had flocked in. The capacity of the Alaska-Mexica- n Good reports come from W. F. Mitchstamp mill has been doubled by the of of ell of Salt Lake City, the inventor of addition stamps, sixty the Acme amalgamating machine, 1020 pounds w'eight, and twren- who is now establishing a plant near new Frue vanners. The His Halls Ferry on the Snake river. new machinery, w'hich has Just been machine is doing good w'ork and seems placed in operation, was furnished by to be a success on that most difficult Fraser & Chalmers. A feature of the of all mining propositions, the Snake new stamps is the Blanton cams, an inriver placers. genious device consisting of an eccenThe Utah Supreme Court, in the case tric taper bushing placed inside the of James McGregor vs. the Silver King cam hub and around the shaft, serving Co., has sustained the constitutionality to automatically tighten the eccentric of the condemnation statute, under wedge and rigidly fix the cam into its ducer. P. Geo. Moyer proposes to erect The N company is of 37 paying quarterly Alaska-Mexican comcents, and the pany quarterly dividends of 10 cents per share. A. M. Grant, resident agent of the Colorado Iron Works, has sold a mill to the Camora Mining com-pan- y, whose property is located in Cassia county, Idaho. The cyanide mill recently erected by the Dexter company at Tuscarora, Nev., to work the old mill tailings is now in operation. These tailings carry $25 in gold, and the plant is saving $20 per ton, at a treatment cost of $1.25. The second annual convention of the Northwest Mining association will be held at Spokane, October 6th, 7th and 8th. It is expected that every district in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, will be represented. A gentleman recntly from the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservation states that .while prospectors in the employ of the government officials are permitted to roam freely, others are driven away by the Indian police. This is a complaint of long standing. St. Paul and local capitalists have purchased the Hawkeye mine at Park Cits', a property that was abandoned several years ago on account of the water. It is stated that the Ontario tunnel has since drained the mine and that ore worth several hundred dollars per ton has been found. The Marion group, in Big Cottonwood canyon, which was recently leased by H. J. Dieter, J. C. Taylor and J. B. Taylor, is again a shipper of high grade ore. In the new shaft that was started a large body of ore, carrying from sixty to 400 ounces of silver, is being developed and everything indicates that this old property will again become a rich pro dividends ten-sta- mp ty-fo- ur which the defendant company instituted proper seat. condemnation proceedings for the purThe famous Mono mine, in the Ophir pose of laying a pipe line across plain- district, w'hich, twenty-fiv- e years ago, tiffs mining claims. was the richest silver mine in Utah, The men working at the Last Chance was offered at public sale in and last city mill, at Wardner, Ida., were asked if this Saturday L. to dow'n H. for Driver knocked consent to reduction would a wage they sum $350. 50 of The sale low of in cents the view of the insignificant per day, covered the mine proper, a long tunnel, of lead. walked all out, They price saying neither yea nor nay, and the and all the machinery used to operate next day their places wrere filled with the property. It was sold by the remen at the old rate of $3.50 per day, no ceivers of the Charter Oak Life Insurance company, by order of the Connectreduction having been made. The Supreme court of California de- icut court, and the sale must be confirmed by the court. The property was cided, in the case of the Altoona Quick- once a great producer of horn silver, silver company vs. the Integral Quickand silver company, that where an individ- $500 shipped many tons of ore worth and $600 per sack, but the rich ore ual or company takes possession of a bodies have been worked out. claim, holds and works it for five years, An important strike wTas made last as good a title is thus obtained as Bonanza at Silthough a formal location of the proper- week in the Shoebridge 2 The issue was ver City. In No. shaft at a depth ty had been made. two-foot disof be a could location whether formal body of ore eighteen feet, w'as encountered that show's an assay pensed with. of 67 ounces silver, 10 per cent value inWe are in receipt of gratifying lead and some gold. This mine, in the telligence of the entire success of the days, produced several hundred Chicago Dredge companys plant, lo- early thousand dollars w'orth of ore from surcated on the Snake river near the Oreface workings at another point on the gon line, which a representative of the vein. It is the intention of the comMining Review visited some time since, deep with No. 1 shaft, and an illustration of which appeared pany to go to thecross-cis now being w'hich a in a former issue of this magazine. from The old dump, Much interest is being felt in the suc- driven to the vein. valued about at has been leased $60,000, cess of this machine, as capital is nowr w'ho M. to H. will erect a jigJohnson, looking to these rich placer fields. the at once, company reJohn Beck and associates, of this ging plant ceiving 30 per cent net royalty at the city, have purchased a large tract of smelter. It is the intention to make a placer ground in Prairie Basin, Lemhi shipment from the new' strike in No. 2 county, Ida., and will work the ground shaft in the near future. in a novel manner. An artificial basin The Salmon Falls Placer Mining comwill be excavated and filled with water and in this will be floated a dredging pany is a corporation formed of E. E. C. P. Harvey plant, similar to that illustrated by the Sherman,O. Thomas Lane, lowrer Salmon Mining Review' in the issue of July 20th. and J.on Meadow's, at from miles six the Snake 30x75 falls, The boat w'ill be river, feet and it is comof the Ida. The nowr being constructed. The gravel is Bliss, purpose to is 25 50 power from the Salpany to to develop cents said carry per yard. mon Falls to elevate water for the purA custom mill was built at Needles, of sluicing a placer on the west Arizona, a few years ago, but it is now pose bank of the river below the falls. A idle. It is claimed that it was erected ditch is carried out from above the as a blind by the promotors of the falls, which produces a head of eighNevada Southern road, to aid in mar- teen feet, under which a twenty-inc- h A ore bonds. of the deal great keting Leffel Standard Turbine w'heel is was treated that w'ould not average $2 placed, w'hich transmits pow'er to a N". per ton, and the concentrates carried 6 centrifugal pump, which elevates 27oO but 11 ounces silver and a trace of gold. gallons of water per minute, to a sluice The Mohave Miner claims there are way twenty-eigfeet above, which is now mines within forty miles of Needles trained along the upper edge of a that could supply 100 stamps with good placer of sixty acres, extending down the river far enough to embrace the pay ore. Mr. J. J. Milroy is engaged upon the present limits of the property, with a of further extension as fupreparation of an map of the possibility State of Utah, one important feature ture necessity may require. of w'hich will be the location of every The strike situation at Leadville lms mining district in the State, of every reached a most deplorable stage, anl, producing mine in each district, with unless conditons speedily change, the important data on the map margin con- mines of the famous old camp will he cerning each property. The map will abandoned by their ow'ners and " show' county boundaries and will be acto fill with water, thus complcie-l- y curate and complete with reference to paralyzing the only industry of the mountain ranges, rivers, towns, etc. camp and resulting in permanent Prominent mining men are encourag- of employment for the miners. The ing the project, with a view to placing strikers rejected the proposition of the the map in the offices of brokers in all mine-owneto continue at the old r;ite the Eastern cities. until silver reaches 75 cents, and theThe report of the Alaska Treadwell latter immediately declared their int ut ht up-to-da- te s rs u- |