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Show INTER-MOUNTA- MINING REVIEW. IN News of the Camps. tunnel, when completed, is expected. to remove an important obstacle that stood in the. way of the Ibex becoming a paying mine. The ore had to be hoisted Th. Review desires reliable correspondence from every twice in the old workings, and this method ate up a mini' - camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publnews a of merit items from coming trustworthy ish. many Liberal commissions wilLbe paid cm subscriptions. good portion of the profits. The tunnel will furnish ouri a cheap outlet and will also give about 250 feet of new . stuping ground. UTdH. LA SAL DISTRICT. AMERICAN FORK DISTRICT. j M. W. Riley, of Muab, Jipment of ore was receive.! yesterday from the tiller mine in American Fork canyon. This is the urst shipment of ore made from this once famous prop '..ray for a number of years. The lot was a small one. ly ten tons, and !$ averaged lower than the usual product of the Miller, as it only assayed 36.3 per; nt lead, 13 ounces silver and St. SO in gold to Fork World. ilieJ n. A brought in some line samples of copper ore from some new claims this week, which, when assayed by McVicker, gave returns of 21.4 per cent, copper, 7.29 ounces silver, and $1.10 guld. According to Mr. Riley, there are large deposits of this class of ore in the district, but that it is practically valueless on account of the lack of transportation facilities. To overcome this serious obstacle, Mr. Riley proposes to erect a roasting plant in the district' to convert the ore into copper matte, which can be BOX ELDER COUNTY. marketed at the valley smelters at a profit, regardless A !iort time ago an assay was made on ore' from of the long haul. There is plenty of coal at hand, in the Housley mine near Three Mile Creek. It went the district, which can be successfully used in the 6.20 gold and S3.60 silver. For several months roasting plant. Croiiier Bros, and Frank Housley, of Three Mile, have been dmng considerable prospecting on the hills four TINT1C DISTRICT. have of located seven miles southeast Brigham." They Oscar Hardy, the former contractor at the Great During these months from three to good claims. Eastern tunnel, has just been awarded the contract live men have been working steadily on the various for another 400-foextension, chims. but so far the Housley is proving the best. It T'he Humbug mine will market its initial shipment is up in Three .Mile creek canyon about a mile and a There aie several carhalf. The tunnel is being dug in the side of the hill of ore the last of this week. first-claproduct now on the dump, that was recently plowed out by the great reservoir loads of E. D. Crother brought to the Bugler otlice M. Rogers and J. R. Toole, two of Marcus Dalys exIbod. several good samples of ore taken from this mine. perts, were in the district this week and visited the They show pyrites of iron and copper, traces of gold underground workings of the Mammoth, Sioux and and silver, with a good proportion of white iron. The other mines. owners are quite encouraged over the prospects. file ore shipments so far this week from this side Near by they have also located a big deposit ut of the district are: Alax, 4 cars of ore; Sioux, 5 cars graphite. The samples sent to Boston showed 17 ore and 5 of concentrates, Mammoth S cars ore and If a little richer, this lind 12 of concentrates. per cent, pure graphite. would prove a bonanza. Developments may so The Centennial-Eurek- a has made the surveys for a ot ss re-sal- t.- Brigham Bugler. ventilating tunnel to be run from the main shaft to the connect with the workings above the BIG COTTONWOOD DISTRICT. distance required to be run will be some 250 feet. The Gipsev Blair mine located in Day's Folk of The lower workings are reported as making a fine disBig Cottonwood canyon, of which Attorney William play of ore as far as the 1200, and the drifts from the F. Ford is a part owner, has encountered a number ot 1300 are being pushed into the ore body which when leeders of high gride silver and lead ore. The main reached will no doubt be equal to what is demonshaft is down ninety feet and is connected with a 200-fostrated above. Mammoth Record. r The has been tunnel from the surface. tunnel n The Mining Review has passed extended past the shaft and it is in this extension and into the hands of the Miller Printing company, Chas. the crosscuts that the stringers have been found. The T. Harte, the promoter and former editor, retiling. ore carries 43 per cent lead and from i(uto 200 We hope to see the Review kept up to its former high ounces silver with a small value in gold, and it is the Standard. Mammoth Record. intention of the management to push the tunnel toThe hopes of the Record will be realized. ward the main ore body, the existence of which is proven by the feeders as well as by surface showing. STATE LINE DISTRICT. 200-leve- l; ot 1 Inter-Mountai- DETROIT DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. The tunnel on the Ibex mine, which will tap the 'tin at a depth of 400 feet below the croppings, is now in 600 feet. Mr. Fletch. Mount states that Line City, Oct. 6, us96. The district known as State Line, in the southwestern part of Utah, is attracting a great deal of formation at right angles, so that even without iht proper surveys, no change in the stratification culcl have been passed, and Mr. Mount says that rtready two very important parallel vein: have been CutNeither of these veins gave any notice of their existence on the surface, although, since their discov-ery- , the croppings have been diligently suught for, and they came in the nature of an agreeable surprise, ftay were discovered about fifty feet apart and are each about The ore is of three and a half feet wide. ft saiv, e character as in the Ibex, and assays showed 'allies of from i to 3.2 ounces gold per ton. This from a railroad and situated in an out of the way place, the amount of work being done is surprising. The first discovery of ore in State Line was made in November last, by Nelse Millet, who found rich silver me in what is now known as the Utah Spur, one-hain Nevada. the claim lying in Utah and one-haThe claim was worked by a set of leasers, who made une shipment uf ore to Salt Lake and then, rather than go to the expense of providing for the working of the property to a great depth, threw up their lease. The property, which lias as good a showing on the sur nearly another fifty feet will reach the vein, and that the attention at the present time from both prospectors and mining men. But, owing to the fact of the enorrock formation is well in place and standing up paral-k- l to the dip of the Ibex vein, a feature that is mous prices asked by the owners of claims for the Warded as favorable. The tunnel is cutting through same, the active development has been greatly retarded. Although, for a young camp so for distant the - lf t.-- f lf 5 face as the Opliir, is now idle, as the owners are claim poor. The next discoyery of ore was made on the Ophir, owned by Clark, Lynch and Sullivan. The ore is silver sulphide and the last shipment made to Salt Lake showed over six hundred ounces silver ar.d over one ounce gold per ton. They are now working this mine ot a depth of 120 feet, and the vein has improved in both width and value with each foot of development. They have just completed the erection of a Davis whim and are now prepared to go to a considerable depth during the winter months. They have erected a substantial boarding house and they are to be congratulated on making a paying mine of their property from the grass roots. Adjoining the Ophir is the Burro, owned by Stinson, Beak, Baker, Williams & Co., from which two shipments of silver ore have been made, the last running 272 ounces silver and 326 gold. They are prepared for a winters work and should have a good shipment of ore soon. In the guld belt, Drake and Lambert on their Gold King have about six feet uf ure in their tunnel that assays on an average uf over 320 in gold. But they ask a fabulous price for their ground. The Rice boys group, consisting uf eight claims, looks very promising, and on the two on which most of their work has been dune, veins show which vary from three to six feet in width and show from 32.40 to $116 in free gold. The Creole, owned by McBurney, McDonald & Millet, shows about four foot of ore, which runs about 530 in gold. The large extent o; the ore belt is shown when we get to A. G. Campbell and Beil Johnsons locations about six miles Irom Line City, in the Eagle Valley, Nevada, mining district. Here are quartz ledges 200 feet wide, every piece of rock from which horns gold, and assays show from 54 up to the thousands. This district is south ot Line City, on the same vein, and the original locator of it is Mr. Troutman, of New Mexico, who is being staked to prospect that country by the Hon. H. L. Pickett, of this city. About five miles north of Line City, Dr. Christianson has found a small streak of very rich guld ore, and new discoveries are being made every day. The ore belt appears to be about one and one-hamiles wide, by at least fifteen miles in length. The values occur in the quartz which is in the porphyry formation, and, as yet, as no one has gone to the contact of the granite, one cannot fortell very clearly what the future of State Line is to bj. But one must spend some time there before he even gets an idea of its vast possibilities, Fur work has by no means been done cm all the good showings. The water in the district is very good and may by development prove unlimited; and, as for timber, nowhere in Southern Utah does it abound in such quantities. Numerous mining men and experts, who have visited the district, pronounce the surface showing the most wonderful they have ever seen. capt. De Lamar has had the superintendent of hisDe Lamar, Nevada, properties, Mr. Oxman, in the district for some time past. But if he obtained control of any property it is unknown, and what his opinion of the camp is, only his employer is likely to learn. m lf The mining academy of Prof. H. Hirsching is now open. Every mining man should take a course of study in natural sciences, lixiviation and electrolysis in this institute. 'The catalogue provides a special course for the study of lixiviation and the electrolytic processes, and is therefore of great importance to our mining people, who desire to extract metals from ores by cheap processes, |
