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Show INTER-MOUNTA- NEWS CLEAN-U- Criple Creek is to have a Cinr.ribar has been discovered on ton smelter. the Clarence river, Australia. Adi'covery of nickel is reported from Colville, Washi' jjton. jacl ElHs will work his placer ground near Sunrise City, Alaska, all winter. Stanley mill at Silver City. New Mexico, is on custom ores. The ning 7 The Columbia .Mining company, in Cable Cove disThe Song Birds shaft which is down too feet is trict, Oregon, will start ten stamps this fall, and will being timbered preparatory to continuing sinking. A depth of 500 feet is anticipated before the ore is ncrease the number to forty in the spring. reached. Hamilton Smiths English backers are said to hold The Marion is making a trial run with a refinery to an option on the famous Homestake mine in the reduce the cyanides to gold bullion, the result of Black Hills, which has paid $5,993,750 in dividends. which will be announced in a few days. Mrs. Nat Collins, the Montana cattle queen, will The Heda shaft is now down to 525 feet and the commence, at once, development work on her Copper formation has changed so rapidly in the last few feet Queen mine, in the McDonald lake country, Montana. that ore is expected almost any day. The owners of the Slocan Star mine, in British The Searchlight lying eastof the Sunshine, is being Columbia, have refused $2,500,000 for their property, hoist. equipped with a with a thirty-day- s and cash $50,000 payment. option An authority says the output of the mines of the SALT LAKE NUGCETS. Slocan country, between October t and May 1 next, will be 25,000 tons, of an average value of $100 per Mayor Hall of Mercur was in Salt Lake during the P. thirty-fiv- e MINING REVIEW. IN run- twenty-horse-pow- creek, a tributary of the Yukon, placer paid $12 per day. The indpendencemine produced 800 tons of ore in ton. September, valued at $80,000. On igle miner.' are ! Preparations are making for active winter washing week. thousand dollars is figured as the present average daily output of Cripple Creek mines. At this rate the district would exceed $12,000,000 annually. The War Eagle mine, at Rossland, British Columbia, will pay a dividend of 6 cents per share, or $30,000, on the 1 5th inst., which will bring the total dividends up to $187,000. The ores of the Helena & Frisco company in the The Tacoma smelter produced 535.6S2 pounds of Coeur dAUne country average 7 ounces silver and 7 bullion in August, valued at $92,139.30. per cent lead only, yet the company has been able to a river recently cleaned up declare dividend. A placer miner on Snake The famous suit of the Tyler Mining company $50 in gold dust from 200 barrows of earth. against the Last Chance, both in Shoshone county, A ricii strike of galena ore has been made in the Idaho, is again up in the United States Court of Bull of the Woods mine, at Ouray, Colorado. Appeals in San Francisco. At a depth of twelve feet the Excelsior mine at In the Veritas mine on Buck Mountain, Cripple Cripple Creek has struck thirteen ounce gold ore. Creek district, a vein of ore four feet thick and from W. Y. 0. D. is the name of a Grass valley mine. $300 to $400 per ton, has been developed. The vein The initials stand for has a four-inc- h Work Your Own Diggings. streak ot sylvanite. The Collett mine near Montpelier, Idaho, has ore P. A. H. Franklin, formerly of the Niagara, in Bingwhich assays $3 in gold, 130 ounces silver and 60 per ham, and later of the New Tintic, in Stockton, has cent copper. been installed as manager and superintendent of the in Basin, Montana. Eighty per cent of the shipping mines of Cripple reorganized Hope mine, Creek have entered the list of producers Since JanuaThe Hale brothers operating big placers at Leland, 1896. ry 1st, Oregon, have just completed a ditch live miles long, A streak of sylvanite, assaying $2,200, has been and are now setting up three giants to commence struck in the Ithaca tunnel, at Victor, at a depth of washing as soon as the rainy season sets it. nearly 400 feet. The Elkton Consolidated, of Cripple Creek, has Cripple Creeks Last Dollar mine ships a caiload of declared a dividend of l cent per share on its 1,000,000 live ounces of gold ore daily, and treats 400 tons per shares, payable October 20. Returns for September month by cyanide. give the property a net earning capacity of 3 cents per share. The Salt Lake Electric Light people are said to be William Orr, the cyanide expert in the employ of investigating the Sevier river with the iew of putting in a Gold & Silver Extraction company, of Denver, has power plant. been making a collection of ores from all over Idaho, Barney Cunningham, working in the Union mil to be tested as to the best method of extracting the near Juneau, Alaska, had his right foot crushed values. Thirty-si- er x on the placers of southern Oregon. in Cripple Creek, has ore that The Anchoria-Lelanruns from $5,000 to $10,000 per ton. The Heinze smelter at Trail, British Columbia, is now ti eating 400 tons of ore per day. Cripple Creek has erected new buildings since the lirst of the year of a value of $900,0000. d . Hon. A. C. Cleveland of Nevada is at the Cullen Hotel. S. J. Kenyon has returned from the mining districts of Montana, where he is interested. George Arthur Rice, one of the heavy holders of Sevier stock, is back from the coast. Hanauer, Jr., attended the Festival of Mountain and Plain, at Denver, and has returned. L. C. Trent, of the minnig machinery house of L. C. Trent & Co., was in Butte last week. President Theron Geddes, of the Swansea mine, at Silver City, visited the property last week. H. V. Crall, superintendent of the Denver Engineering Works, was in Salt Lake the lirst of the week. A. Robert Bell of the Barney Barnato gold mine near Salmon City, Idaho, was in Salt Lake during the week. Paul Jordan, of the Polytechnique School of Paris, is making researches in the different mining districts of the state. Nelse Millet, one of the first locators in the State Line district, and present district recorder, was in Salt Lake recently. Dr. A. J. Lanterman of Leadville, who is developing some Bingham properties with a long tunnel, is in Salt Lake again. Frank Wilson, manager of the April Fool mine at De Lamar, Nevada, came into town Wednesday with a big gold bar from the mill. Gay Lombard, who has been operating the La For-tugold mine, in southern California, for nearly a year past, returned to Salt Lake last week. Norman B. Dresser of the Mercur Miner, and candidate for the legislature on .the Democratic ticket, was in on business during the week. na Editor Diehl of the Tintic Democrat came down to timber. A dispatch conveying information of a strike of the Capital the first of the week. He states that the N. E. Jenkins in charge of an engineering party in ore in Iowa, says that there is plenty of the ore. If Tintic district is enjoying an unprecedented growth. the Blackfuot reservation in Idaho, repoits fen feet of it had said there was just enough it would have snow in the mountans. conveyed just as clear an idea of the extent of the MINING ABSTRACTS. by a heavy by Salt Lake new tind. E. W. Genter, Abstractor of Titles, Complete Aband about 125 A recent r..ill run on twenty-seve- n tons of ore stracts of all mining property in Salt Lake and Tooele mfl are taking out ore. from the Oregon Bonanza mine in Southern Oregon, counties. 150 Main street. The mail carriers from Mastodon and Dead wood gave a cleanup of 215 ounces of gold. Fifteen tons in mine the same the Eccentric from district milled gulches on the Yukon report an unusually heavy -n ounces. fortv cleanup from the placers. A vein The Florence & Cripple Creek Railway will build a of quartz has been found on a farm six miles zz uth of Clinton, Iowa, which, carries gold and silver spur three miles in length from Victor, through Gold-hel- d H tothe value of $13 and Independence to Altman. It will furnish na CD per ton. a facilities to the mines of Bull better transportation is. There are 100 boomers on the bordcis of the o Hill and vicinity. I Bhckfoot reservation, in Montana, the for waiting C5 vT n The average yield per ton of the pening six months hence. n ores is $2.40. The average cost of mining and millA strike of very rich sulphurets has been made in rt V) ing is $1.70 per ton. leaving a net per ton of only 70 Berners a rf. Bay District, Alaska, and the locators have cents, but the company mills nearly 7,000 tons per $io,ooo for their prospect. month, so that there is money in the proposition. DO C In sinking the shaft of the Crown Point mine twenty at Central City, New Mexmine The famous Texas eefin Gilpin county, Colorado, $5,000 worth of ore ico, has been purchased by a New York company, o taken out. It is a new strike. incorporated as the Bayard Mining & Milling comt --t George Myers, of Georgetown, Colorado, fell from pany. The Texas has paid dividends from the grass e 500 to the 600 level level at the Centennial mine, roots down, and has ore that runs from $200 to $400 rn 'n October of the values in gold and silver, about 9, and was instanely killed. being gold. The Wheel of Fortune and the Maggie Reeves minec There is a lively fight on between the present manLnppie Creek, which have been in conflict, have en agement of the Ben Hur mining company of Cripple consolidated under the former name. Creek, and a faction which wishes to secure control. Anchoria-Lelanmine at The annual meeting is to be held soon, and both sides d rJe eKrss output of the Broker F. H. Pettingell, jlFP. Creek, in September, is placed at $50,000. are hustling for proxies. in shipping ore only, and does not include who is secretary of the company, makes a plea for quantities of milling ore that is yet to be treated. proxies in his weekly stock market letter. 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