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Show INTER-M- O NEWS CLEAN-U- There are now 350 P. men in the State district. The Idaho mining exhibit was awarded the first prize at the St. Paul expo- Line slum. electric plant is to be erected at Lovelock, Nev for the reduction of vn nickel ore. It is reported that a small pocket of antimony has been discovered in the Mercur mine. The Geldenhuis Deep company in the Itand in South Africa has developed 900,000 tons of ore. Manager Bert Seaboldt of the St. Louis asphaltum company is in the ciiy from Fort Duchesne. The Humboldt mine near Silver City, Ida., has been sold to the Florida Mi- ning company for $100,000. The wettest mine in the Cripple Creek district is the C. O. D., which is pump- gallons per minute. The Copper Glance claim, in Uintah county, is producing ore that carries 60 per cent copper. It is sold on the dump and shipped to Denver. judge H. C. Bond of Seattle has ing about 700 the Cordwood Jim mine, adon joining the Treadwell property, Douglas island, Alaska, for $130,000. Announcement is made of the death of M. B. Dodge of the Dodge mining bonded machinery firm of San Francisco. It is reported that the business is to be discontinued. Thirteen tons of almost pure antimony were recently shipped from the Big Creek mine, near Austin, Nev. The metal is worth 6 to 7 cents per pound at New York. Fennemore of Beaver arrived in the city yesterday with samples of ore from a new discovery in State Line district that assay 30 ounces in gold and 3 2 ounces silver. The capacity of the Mercur mill is to be increased to 400 tons by the addition of sixteen more tanks. This will nearly double the earnings of the company, which are now $2000 per day. All of the employees at the Black Jack mine, at Silver City, Ida., 112 in number, contributed one days wages to the silver campaign fund, and the company gave the men free board on that day. A dispatch from Teliuride, Colo., says: Last night nine sacks of gold ore, valued at $30,000, were stolen from the powder magazine of the Tomboy mine, where it had been temporarily Dr. 100-pou- placed. The property of nd the Viola Mining & Smelting company, in Lemhi county, Ida., consisting of nineteen lode claims and a smelter, was sold by the sheriff last week and purchased by C. Bunting & Co. The Pearl claim of the Dalton group near Maryvale has been leased to Dan Ferguson on a royalty of 20 per cent. The old workings of the mine are located on this claim, which has produced some very rich ore. Although the aluminum industry is not a large one, in the sense that the 0 N TAIN MINING REVIEW. different parts of the country, in order to maintain absolute secrecy concerning the details. Owing to this fact,, difficulty is sometimes experienced in the installation. Charles La Belle, a local chemist, claims that he has discovered a solvent for the wurtzelite, erroneously termed elaterite. that is found in considerable quantities in Eastern Utah. By the use of this solvent he secures a product resembling gutta percha, which, it is claimed, can be put to various uses. Mining was carried on extensively in the vicinity of Tuscon, Arizona, as early as the fifties. The ore was transported by burros and wagons 200 and 300 miles to the Colorado river and thence shipped by water through the Gulf of California to market. Many of the properties still show pay ore, carrying gold, silver and copper. Messrs. Busenbark and Carter of the East Golden Gate company have acquired a controlling interest in the soda wells at Green River, Wyo., and will at once arrange for a heavy production of carbonate of soda. The water from these wells carries about 10 per cent soda and evaporating vats are all that is necessary to prepare the product for market. One effect of the Leadville strike has been an increase in the smelting rates of Cripple Creek ores, amounting to from 50 cents to $1 a ton. Rates now are $8, $8.50 and $9 a ton a graduated, advance from $8. The scarcity of iron and lead ores for flux throws the in- creased expense on the smelters, which they are put to in securing them upon the dry ores of Cripple Creek. The Coeur dAlene mines still seem to be more or less afflicted by labor troubles. It is reported that the man who had charge of the work on the new Poorman Tiger concentrator was ordered out of Burke by a delegation of three men on Wednesday, and that he left there on Thursday. It is also further stated that Manager Culbertson in consequence thereof discharged the remainder of the men employed on the building. The largest gold coin now in circulation in the world is the loof of a French colony in Eastern Asia. It is a flat, round gold piece, almost as large as a tea saucer, and is wrorth $220 in United States coin. It is believed to be the largest and most valuable piece ever coined in the history of the world, excepting, of course, as far as value is concerned, the different gold coins of smaller denominations which have sold at enormous prices on account of scarcity or on account of historial associations. The case of the State of Utah vs. A. F. Holden, manager of the Old Jordan and Galena mines, has ben argued before the State Supreme Court and taken under advisement. This is the case brought to determine the constitutionlaw, which ality of the new eight-holimits the period of employment in mines and smelters to eight hours per day. The defendant was charged with employing two men ten hours per day at the South Galena mine. It appears that they engaged their services voluntarily and the defense set up was that law was unconstitutionthe eight-hoand al, in that it deprived all employers conto make employees of the right tracts in a lawful way for lawful purAn-na- ur m, 5 present owners, J. F. Woodman, Col. Fercey M. Sowers and John G. Logan, purchased the property a few months ago for $30,000, and have since expended nearly $50,000. The figure at which they sold is not stated, except that it was "several hundred thousand dollars." The property has ben held at $500,000. It that Secretary E. J. Carter of the East Golden Gate company has sold 200,000 shares of the stock of that company to a Chicago syndicate. Upon the arrival of this syndicates representatives from the East, the company will be reorganized. Mr. Frank Harris, who was recently elected a director, is now treasurer of the company, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. H. Bacon. It is reported that President Walsh of the Chicago National bank is one of the purchasers of Mr. Carters stock, and that the sale is the result of the explorations with the drill, that has now reached a depth of 900 feet from the is announced surface. Abstactof Recent Mining Decisions. Reported for the Mining Review by Salt George Westervelt, attorney-at-laLake City, Utah. Landlord and Tenant Lease of Oil w, Lands Duty of Lessee. Plaintiff leased his lands to defendant, with the right to oil and gas, for a royalty. Defendant was also a leasee of lands adjoining plaintiffs, and was operating oil wells thereon. It appeared, from the location of these wells, that there was danger that plaintiffs land would be drained of oil through them. Held, that it was the duty of the defendant, under the lease, to proceed to open as many wells as necessary to secure the common advantage of the lessor and lessee, and to prevent the loss of the oil under plaintiffs land by drainage into the adjoining wells, in default of which the lease may be declared forfeited. Mitchell, J., dissenting. Kleppner vs. Lemon, 35 Atlantic Rep. 109 (Supreme court of Pennsylvania. July 15, 1896.) Mines, Waters, Easement, Adverse Possession In a compromise settlement as to water rights between two mining companies, it was agreed that defendant had the prior right to fifteen inches, that it should take the water through the plaintiffs ditch, and that it should also have the use of a further amount of water, which was over and above the water necessary for plaintiffs mill. Plaintiff closed its mill in 1883, and from that time to 1893 used no water, defendant, as it might under the contract, using all of the water conveyed into the ditch. Defendant gave no notice, by word or deed, that it claimed otherwise than under the contract. Held, that defendants use was not adverse to plaintiff's right. Smith vs. Hope Mining Co., 45 Pac. Rep. 632. (Supreme court of Montana. July 13, 1896.) Ibid, Nonuser, Abandonment, Inteniron industry is, it is growing very tion When plaintiffs mill was shut down a man was employed to drain all rapidly. The output of the United States in 1894 was 550,000 pounds, and the pipes and oil the machinery, and in 1S95 it was about 850,000 during the whole period of nonuse pounds. poses. someone had charge of the property; a Miners wages on the Camas No. 2, at mine old Winnamuck The famous Red Elephant and Pass mines at Hailwatchman being on the premises and to bonded been English has ey will be reduced 15 per cent next Bingham caring for them most of the time. The prorich was a very It water was not used simply because the month, and the same reduction will be capitalists. time at the but in ducer early days, made in the price of board. Present machinery of the mill was not in moowners possession the acquired present "ages are $2.50 for car men and $3 for a fewr months ago it had been closed tion. Held, that there was no intention to abandon the mill, and hence miners. was none It considerable a period. for down to abandon the appurtenant water Til gold excitement on Grand EnDutch owned capitalists, by formerly Ibid. campment creek, forty-fiv- e miles south-jve- st who it until the water became right. operated 0f Rawlins, Wyo., is increasing, too troublesome to handle, and the It would be extremely exhilarating to are flocking in, death of some of the owners subseprospectors and over 200 claims have been located, up some of the property. the friends of free coinage to know that oonie of the .ore shows free gold in quently tied driven on other properties Mr. Bryan could secure a majority of The tunpels abundance. have drained the Winnamuck to a the electoral votes with the same fadeveloppfS 3 stated that various parts of the much lower level and recent rich some ore, cility that he is counted in every day by atec? concentrators are manufactured ment work has disclosed aifferent machine works in as many carrying gold, silver and copper. 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