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Show 8 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN is steadily increasing in size as the incline is pushed further along the vein. The lowest value is $6.00 and the ore runs as high as $140. It is not surprising that more than one party would like to gain possession. Q. W. Clay of Pittsburg has purchased the Markham group in Silverado canyon and has a force of men at work on assessment work. He also has a controlling interest in the Alta group. He proposes to have a great deal of work done on both properties. Work will be done on the Pennsylvania group at Five Mile Pass in hope that a valuable strike may result. Property owners in that vicinity feel satisfied that they have a good location. Work on the Studebaker group will be commenced in a few days. The claims are close to the Bismarck at Manning which has been under steady development and with considerable suecess. XEVADA. Over 300 men and 200 teams are at work on the Island Mountain placers, under the contract of Coray Bros, of Ogden, and 60 more men and teams are now on their way from Oregon. We will soon have another mining company in Cheery Creek, and more coming. It is now demonstrated that there is more gold in connection with the silver in our ore than was an. ticipated ; and the fact that it is the best of cyaniding ore is attracting the attention of mining men all over the country. We have hundreds of mining claims lying idle that could be made bullion producers at a small cost. White Pine News. Last nights train from the east brought Joe Farren of Salt Lake, a mining man well known in Nevada, who is representing a strong English syndicate, with ten miners, to go to work on the Adelaide copper mine, ten miles south of Golconda. The Adelaide is a fine copper prospect, and Englishmen have a hankering for rich properties, and intend, if the mine proves as rich as they think it will, to put up large concentrators at Golconda and work 500 or GOO men. Mr. Farren will put on a force of about men next week to do the prospecttwenty-fiv- e ing. He is also operating at Cheery Creek, White Pine county, on the Star and Grey Eagle, for the same company. He is working about twenty men in White Pine. Reno Gazette. The De Lamar bullion shipments for last week were three bars valued at 10,200. A strike of extraordinary richness has been made in the Star mine, which is located near Hailey. A big station is being cut for an underground hoist, on the level of the Idaho tunnel by the Black Jack people who intend to sink to the deep on the big vein. A proposition to introduce electricity for light and power in the mine is now being considered. Development work has been progressing rapidly in the North Star on Shaws mountain, and a tunnel has been driven that taps the ledge at a depth of 300 feet. The vein is five foot wide with a 14 inch pay streak. Assays of the rock taken from this depth run S3.8S in gold and G ounces of silver to the ton. The mine is under the management of R. W. Purdum and it is the intention of the owners to mill on the property. The mill place a is now being built in this city and it will be transported to the mine in a short time. The shafts on the mill are being constructed with a view of putting on five additional stamps at a future date. On the Southern and Murphy quartz property p on Picket creek, Owyhee county, a mill has been erected to work on the ores of a rich stringer from the main ledge that showed up good values and permancy. The mill is one of Captain Baxters prospecting stamp mills, and it is run by a gas engine purchased from the Union Gas Engine Co. of San Francisco. Florida mountain has a hole clear through it, the Blaine tunnel, 4317 feet long, having connected with the Idaho tunnel, 3,200 long. The former belongs to the Trade Dollar company, and the latter to the Black Jack group. By this connection the underground workings of both companies will be thoroughly ventilated. A bulk head is being erected at the dividing line, which will be perforated with holes for the air passage, but the continuous tunnel will not be used for traffic through the mountain. A number of specimens of gold quartz were received at the Mining Exchange yesterday from the Warrens district. One came from the Rescue mine, which was recently purchased by a Boston company. The ore assays $40 in gold to the ton. A sample from the Iola mine, which contains a vein, assays 20 in gold. The ore from this property is now being run through an arastra. A specimen was also received from the King Solomon, which assays $50 in gold to the ton. The Checkmate mine in Willow Creek district, which is owned by Salt Lake railroad men, furnished another pleasant surprise last week. During the suspension of sinking, waiting for the necessary pumps, the mine force was engaged on drifting east and west on the vein, and on Friday an ore body was encountered which excelled anything yet seen in the mine, although ore of a value of $G,000 to the ton has been taken out. A large hoist and two pumps are now on their way from SalFLake for the Checkmate, and when they are set up sinking on the main shaft will be resumed. Something like two years ago the owners of the Star, among them David Falkl and John Lemp, of Boise, bonded the property to eastern parties for a large sum. The men who took the The Rambler mine in Battle Lake district, with inferior facilities for working, has extracted during the past six months, 125 tons of copper ore of an average net value of $100 per ton. The Grand Encampment district, south of Rawlins, continues to furnish evidence of rich mineralization, On the Bessie P. a shaft had been sunk to a depth of only 11 feet, and on Friday last a vein three feet wide was found between walls, which assayed from an average sample, $533 in gold per ton. The New York Syndicate which paid Tom Sun and his associates $150,000 cash a month ago for 1,600 acres of placer ground west of Casper, are preparing to spend a half million more in opening up the ground, and will put many men to work in the spring, building canals and hydraulic plants. The gravel averages about fourteen feet deep, and is said to be very rich in spots. AKIZOXA. Luis Sanders was in from Cedar Friday with a couple of lots of very rich gold ore from that district. The ore worked at the rate of over 20 ounces per ton in gold. He has gone back to get some more of the same kind. While doing the assessment work on the first northwest extension of the Flores, W. B. Camp, bell encountered a six foot ledge of high grade gold ore that will mill away up. On the hanging wall is a two foot streak that will average away up in the thousands per ton. The property is owned by W. N. Gourley, of Philadelphia, who is also largely interested in the Flores Gold and Silver Mining Company. It is likely that as soon as Mr. Gourley is cognizant of the strike a large force of men will be put on to develop the property. It is among the possibilities also that the Flores mill will start up on this ore, as there is enough in sight now to keep the pounding away for months. King-ma-n 5-sta- mp . two-stam- 4-fo- WYOMING. mine have been unable to make the payments and the original owners were taking steps to again secure control of the property when the rich strike was made. The proposed foreclose re will be held in abeyance pending further development of the strike, which was quite a surprise to the men who have the mine. It is possible they will now be able to make the payments. Boise Statesman. IDAHO. ot Miner. How Mines I an Found. The first gold found in Cripple Creek was put there by hand, and the salted mine sold. Frank Wilsons April Fool mine at De Lamar, Nevada, is the result of an All Fools Day hoax. A kicking mule exposed tho first piece of mineralized rock in what is now the famous Mercur district in Utah. An unsophisticated Swede rolled down the slope of Mount Baldy and tore a boulder loose, which led to the discovery of the Dalton and other gold properties. A bull fight was the cause of the discovery of mineral at Kamloops, British Columbia, the animals having torn up the ground so that valuable quartz was exposed. The principal claim of the Midland Mining Company of Bingham is recorded as the so Damphool, one of two prospectors having designated his partner when the latter started to look there for mineral. |