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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- Jteus of ttye 5amps. UTAH. Juab County. TINTIC DISTRICT. Tintic Miner: One of the most promising groups of claims at Silver City, yet about which very little has been said in the past, is the ground owned by the Junction company, comprising the Picnic and Junction Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 claims. The owners are Park City E. H. men, Buchanan, editor of the Park Record, being the prime mover in the company, while Harry Waters, an old Daly miner from the Park, is in charge of the work being prosecuted. The company is what is termed a close corporation, and having no stock for sale, have never had a word to say about developments, nor done any blowing about the value of the ground. All the same, the day is not far distant when the Junction is going to be classed as one of the richest producers in that part of the district, and we expect to see it join the shipping list within the next sixty days. The group is remarkably well located, touching as it does, the South Swansea, Four Aces and the old Park properties, and containing all veins, beyond any question of a doubt. for the Shipments from the district Bullion-Beck week are as follows: From the mine 20 carloads ore, from the Bullion-Bec- k mill 5 carloads concentrates, from the Centennial Eureka 9 carloads ore, from the Genini 4 carloads ore, from the Ajax 10 carloads ore, from the Utah 5 carloads ore, from the Sioux 5 carloads ore, from the Swansea 4 carloads ore, from the Buckeye 1 carload ore, from the Dragon Iron mine 3 carloads ore daily. The new ore strike in the South Swansea reported in the Miner of last week is daily assuming larger proportions, and there is no question but that the mine is a bonanza. Five carore were shipped loads of high-grad- e this week. A new tunnel is being driven on the Humbug which will tap the ore body feet below the old tunnel in which the ore was first discovered. In is bethe meantime a new ing built at the mouth of the old tunnel, as well as several necessary houses. The wagon road is nearly completed and ore shipments will commence in a very short time, at least is completed. as soon as the about 100 ore-hou- se ore-hou- se Mr. Woodward, who has been pros- Eva, lying south of the pecting the Butcher Boy, nearly all summer, has decided to sink the shaft on that property at once 100 feet deeper. This is another Diamond property which possesses most flattering indications of being a mine and we have no doubt but that systematic development will bring it to the front. The New East Tintic Railway commenced hauling ore from the Mammoth mine to the mill Wednesday. The Mammoth has Mining company just completed a trarmvay from the yard on the tunnel level to the foot of the second-clas- s dump belowT and are hoisting the ore and passing it through the crushers. The trarmvay is operated by separate engine set up for the purpose. This indicates that the full concentrating capacity of the mill will be utilized at once. A new power compound been at the mine received has engine to be lowered the 1300 level, and will and the present winz which is now down to the 1500, will be carried on to Eureka Democrat: MINING REVIEW. N shaft will be continued down another hundred feet. Look out lor the Sunbeam. From all appearances Graves and Anderson will yet make a stake out of the Showers mine. The part of the ground upon which they carry a lease had a very dry appearance for a time, but the boys stayed with it and have just broken into a fine body of ore that will no doubt put them on velvet. Summit County. Park Record: A force of men put to work this morning in the Ontario 600 drain tunnel for the purpose of lowering the track through the entire length of the same and putting it in shape for the transportation of Daly West, Daly and Ontario ores. At least that was the answer given the writer this morning by a prominent employee of the Ontario company in answer to a query as to what was the object of the work in the tunnel. The Record stated some weeks ago that it was possible Mr. Daly w'ould make arrangements to bring his ore through that tunnel instead of building a wire-rotramway direct from the Daly West mine, but his application to the City Council for a right of wray for the latter enterprise put a different face on w-er- pe the whole matter, and the knowledge is to be prepared for the transmission of ores, and that it will be used by not only the Daly West but by the Daly and Ontario also, comes in the nature of a second surprise. The movement is a most important one, and while it will work a hardship to several important interests of the camp, it will be the means of greatly reducing the cost of production to the companies. While not yet given out, there is little doubt but that the track will be extended to the sampling mills and provisions made for transporting coal and other supplies to the mines. The work in the tunnel will be crowded as rapidly as possible. At the next regular meeting of the City Council Superintendent J. J. Daly of the Daly West mine will present a petition asking the Council to grant him a franchise allowing him to cross the various streets in the First ward with a wire-rop- e tramway, the same to be twenty-fiv- e feet above the surface of the ground. What the action of the Council will be is at present unknown, but the petition will in all probability be granted, for it will be the addition of a new enterprise which, w'hile working harm to one or two lines of business, will be the means of largely increasing the number of men employed at the mine. The filing of the petition shows that Mr. Daly is seriously considering the construction of such a tramway over the route surveyed and announced exclusively in the Record. If constructed it will be one of the largest tramways of that nature in existence. One of the spans, reaching from the hill above the Silver King to a point above the old Massachusetts, will be over 1200 feet in length, the main tower supporting the same being fully 90 feet in height. Not only will it be one of the longest, but it will traverse some of the roughest country ever operated over by a like plant. The Record will give its readers full particulars of the enterprise as soon as they are obtainable. that the tunnel Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Mercur Miner: The Geyser is making a new opening on the ledge into which was recently run what is called the front tunnel. The new opening is only in a few feet, but the character of the ore is the same as in the other opening and is improving as they advance. The tramway has been extended to the new opening. The values are found in a loose porphyry vein that overlies the silver ledge. They have been doing some development work in the 1800 level. The work of cleaning out and timber- the disputed ground between the Geyser and Marion, but of course taking ing. the main working shaft at the Sunbeam continues: at the same time a out no ore. The relations between those considerable amount of fine ore is be- working along the disputed line are not ing broken in the upper workings. of the most cordial character, and it When the ground is all caught up the is said some pretty warm disputes oc 40-hor- se casionally arise between those working on either side of the line. The Hecla is nowr down 460 feet. After going through twenty-tw- o feet of yellow porphyry they have got into five feet of darker formation, which has a more promising appearance. The shaft is in good order and last wreek it wras sunk over twenty-tw- o feet. They are running three shifts and work is j progressing uninterruptedly. The last of the iron for the new tanks at the Sacramento wras received this week, and as they are all ready to put together, they will probably begin leaching in the new tanks this week. Eighty feet will be added to the mill to accommodate the tanks, and the force of men will be increased to about forty. A reduction in wages took place at the Sunshine mine this week. The shovelers were reduced from $3 to J2.50 per day. As an offset their board Was reduced from $1 to 75 cents. Salt Lake County. Bingham Bulletin: It is an open secret that but very little if any ore of good grade was ever taken from the 200 level of the Winnamuck, below Which until recently w?as all virgin ground. The 200 was run into the hill 1703 feet over twenty years ago. For some unaccountable reason it Was driven nearly the entire distance in the black lime hanging wall, while the ore chute as seen above lies against a Finally a proposition beyond and separated from the main ore chute by barren quartzite foot-wal- l. low-gra- de ground was broken into, and further work was abandoned. But one drift was ever run from that remarkable level, and that wrent northerly ninety feet, away from the vein. John G. Logan, the present manager and an experienced engineer, made careful surveys and demonstrated to a certainty that according to the old maps and dip of the vein the level was a fool job; but he had not seen it, as it was flooded, and it has been only since his recent return from a visit to California, during which the level was pumped out, that he could prove his work. While on the coast he interested the present purchasers, and undoubtedly the sale depended on his theory of finding the main ore chute at the 200. On retumig he found it free of water, but the company having meantime caused it to be examined, were disgusted and seriously talking of pulling the pumps. Mr. Logan proposed, however, to demonstrate his theory, l. and started two drifts toward the a Within few feet broke into magnificent ore bodies, they and today there is practically 300 feet of new stoping ground proved up, equal to all that has ever been worked out, and that will average better in values. The main incline, which is to be sunk 500 feet, has now reached a depth of 365 feet, and is also coming into the chute, which trends westerly toward the incline. A dozen assays of ore from the new openings in the 200 show an average value of about 22 ounces silver, $2.25 gold, 41 per cent lead and 22 per cent iron. There is no doubt that the late developments are of immense importance, or that the new company will ultimately demonstrate that the old mine has as yet hardly been touched. The latter may be said of the Wasatch and Dixon, formerly famous producers. A specimen of gray copper and ruby silver from the Republican mine, assayed by Cowan Tuesday, showred 155 ounces silver, 35 cents gold per ton. It was not tested for copper, though evidently carrying about 35 per cent Mr. Teachenor has run the upper tunnel recently begun on the Republican about fifteen feet, and is following a streak of ore which when first struck foot-wal- three inches and has now widened to fourteen. The above was a picked specimen, but it is all good truck. There are about eight tons of it on the dump. Was Cache County. Brigham Bugler: A force of fifteen or twenty men is now employed on the |