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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN mnsolidated mines north of Brigham. Jpi.y.' reat tunnel is in to a depth of ioo feet. It is said that considerable i ore is being exposed along the n iin tunnel and small side tunnels. Tt in said also that the object of the iwnVrs is to expose as much ore as. possible, then open the mine for inspec-tion and sell. Work on the proposed $16,000 tram-wa- v has already begun. It will proba-i,le two miles or more in length down the- mountain side and across the fields to the Union Pacific railroad track. and Men are already at work gradingstruccutting the way for this great tlrkotographer Compton was up to the mim the fore part of this week and seemed several good pictures of the rugged gorge and the mining buildings, mouth of the tunnel, etc., which can be seen at his gallery. Several of the best mines in the tops of the mountains east of aWillard radius are still being worked. Within of a mile there are probably a dozen good prospects, considerable work havThe ing been done on some of them. some Surprise, for instance, has a shaft f,00 iVet deep, which strikes a body of good ore. A tunnel is now being run into the side of the mountain to tap the bottom of this shaft, when a great quantity of valuable ore will be taken out. Over $10,000 has been expended on this claim, and still the owners are so encouraged that they continue to push V 1 - it. State Line District Pioche Record: State Line continues force of men at work developing the mine; and it is said to make a splendid showing. The five men own an equal interest in the property. One of the largest placer mining works in the United States, with possibly one of the best equipped mining apparatus in the world, has just been completed on Bear creek in the Rocky Bar district. Harry Thompson, who is in the city for a few days, has had the superintendency of the works for a number of years. He spent about six years and a great amount of money oil the work, but was unable to complete his plans without the assistance of foreign capital. He wont to Scotland three years ago and after overcoming many obstacles succeeded in organizing the Creek Alluvial Gold Mining com- 5?aR?l,W1jCwias .bought the work to dSSS? Line City contains seventeen houses at present, with several more to be immediately put up. Mail facilities are badly needed, and a postoffice meeting, so called, was held there on Sunday. Mail is at present sent via Desert e Springs, Utah, or via Newlands in Spring valley, Lincoln county. J. A. Denton is arranging to put on a regular service for mail and passengers from Desert Springs station, the distance from there to Line City being e about sixteen miles. Next to a the greatest want of the district is wet grocery, but the high tariff license of Utah on this class of business to promises give the Nevada side of the line a monopoly of it, and already an enterprising Individual has a log house nearly finished, placed about 1000 feet west of the dividing line, which is to be used for this purpose. Sunday is generally observed as a day of rest, all the boys laying off that day and doing up chores for the week. post-offic- post-offic- IDAHO. Elmore County. Boise Statesman: For several days persistent rumors have been current that the Pettit mine at Atlanta had peen SM ip a syndicate composed largely of Frenchmen. The owrners of the property, all of wThom are in Boise, are reticent, but it is pretty well understood that the sale has either been consummated or will be within a very aays. only the matter of formal iwinsfer remaining before the property Passes into the control of the syndicate. He La Mar Nugget: The new gaso-Beline hoist used on the winze on the South Central mine, War Eagle moun-- a tain, is doing most satisfactory work, both in P011 of economy and utility. This was the first gasoline hoist con- ducted on this plan by the Union Iron oir Works of San Francisco, and the im- ar I fnn? hppnnnnariint!!?- trafkhas been built along the creek upon which a derrick is moved that can lift seven tons of debris at each load. The latest approved apparatus for saving the black sand has been brought into use. This sand has been variously assayed and runs from $22.50 to $6000 per ton. The company owns five miles of vir gin placer ground lying just Ahead of the works. Bear creek crosses the famous Rocky Bar gold belt, which has produced enormous wealth in quartz, and the company is now taking out large quantities of rich float. A !? m AirSmls Davey of this Place lnsp5 up9n on the hoists being made by the showed them how they could con?pany, much more compact. A full oiak it of this description engine will appear in the Nugget soon. I Canyon County. Boise Statesman: Ever since operations were comemnced on the Checkmate mine in the Willow Creek district the owners of the property, and Manager Chapin in particular, have maintained the strictest reticence as Boise County. to the value of the ore. The Statesman Idaho World: Mr. Ragland, superin- is in a position to state, however, that tendent of the Summit company, was the Checkmate ore is far richer than in town last Wednesday. The shaft is even the most elaborate statements now down 122 feet, and has cut through have placed it. The last ore shipped to Salt Lake fourteen feet of pay ore, and not yet attract general attention. The large canyons there afford numerous good camping places, and it is estimated that at least 150 men are scattered throughout the district. Every inch of ground for several miles in extent has been staked off, and vigorous prospectacross it. ing is going on in several quarters. to termnaton; they S6 he iniCKnent 7 I from this property was wrorth 17 ounces to the ton. The carload brought puzzled. The shaft was sunk quite a f distance south of the ledge, and caught $5100 above all charges. A car shipped it at something like 100 feet, whereas, Just before netted $oi00. with the dip of the ledge in the old The worst fears as to the outcome shaft, some distance east, he did not expect to tap it short of 140 or 150 feet. of the Leadville strike have been realThe Summit is either a mammoth ledge ized. Last Sunday night a mob of fifty or sixty feet wide or the one strikers, armed with rifles and dynathey are now going through is a new one that does not showr at the surface. mite, made an attack upon the CoroSample assays have been made of ere nado mine and fired the works. The taken all through the ledge. Ten feet fire department attempted to extinof it runs $y.32, and four feet from $75 were atto $100. Some samples from this four-fo- guish the fire, but the firemen vein run up into the hundreds. tacked by the rioters and one of them Mr. Ragland is confident the entire four was killed. After the destruction of feet will mill from $75 to $100 a ton. the Coronado buildings, the strikers atWater is increasing very rapidly, and tacked the Emmet, but this property they now have to hoist out eighty bar- was bravely defended, and the rioters rels a day. It is understood that the President were driven off. Five men are known of the company, Dr. A. B. Robbins, will have been killed, and it is suspected at once decide to pul in a steam plant rioters carried off their dead to handle the water and otherwise faand wounded. The State militia is now cilitate the work on the property. Valentine Weiss came oyer from at Leadville, and quiet has been reQuartzburg Friday. Valentine and stored. It is believed that the strike Philip Minor have been at work since a ig practieally ended, as the mines can now started up. under the protection t w?r and aahaw miles strikers depass, on Charlotte gulch. Their vein of the State troops. Many runs from eight inches to fifteen feet- nounce the outrage, and announce that are now willing to return to work, wide, and the ore is mostly decomthey posed. They have been running it g Cajmea that the riots were insti- Mr. Ragland is somewhat ot - LitV ()?1 sTton. sated professional strikers the Coeur dAlene, and that very few It will mill about $12. They haveisquit work on it for awhile. The claim for 0f the working miners participated, sale. With a mill at the mine it would the free gold pay handsomely. Besides h 'rein of eight-incan ledge they have out turn-- Son an a Lse of by galena. Promoted by Maj. New York, who is known here SILICA as the Nestor of Deadwrood, where he County. Owyliee COPPER Interested in placer mines. was in SMELTING Price John Avalanche: Idaho Maj. Catlin wrent to Atlanta not long Steele mining district one day from afro and made a on the property. report things lively in Trade Mark, ABERNANT.1 , understood the consideration is this week, and reportsAlf is Sothren neighborhood. that neighborhood of $250,000. a good force on his claim. He working owners Imported and for sale by W1 Gen. are the Pettit Con Lowney excellent showing. it an has nVi ' Pettit, who has been in charge on the property, Frank R. Coffin, David and Herb Davis are driving away tunnel uith day A. Hal Coffin and A. L. Richard-al- J their long dross-cu- t .00 They have about Bill 9 Barclay St., New York. residents of Boise. Gen. Pettit and night shifts. ledge. cut their to run to WE HAVE FOR SALE TTpY'd from Atlanta a few days ago. feet yet has for three years past had a McCalls Redlight is bonded to Messrs. sae was Jke of FIRE BRICK T. CHUR, Sole Agent 1 |