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Show 1 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN C. C. Angell, the discoverer of the first mine and subscriptions to the stock, to be paid for in in Angell s Camp, Calaveras county, where the timber and labor. Utica mine is located, died, a pauper in The new raining town of Randsburg, Califor- famous The Alice Gold and Silver Mining company of at pubburied was and Francisco San recently, 2000. nia, has a population of Butte, a Utah corporation, owned largely by lic expense. Walker Brothers of Salt Lake, declared a diviAmerican Mining Code, 189G, by Henry N. London capitalists, associated with the own- dend of five cents per share, or $20,000, on Dei For sale at this otlice. Price, 50 cents. Clean-up- . j& opp. The steamer Mariposa, from Australia to San Francisco, last week brought 51,750,000 in gold. The corner stone for the State School of Mines of Montana, will be laid in Butte on the 29tli inst. A Chinaman has been working continuously on one bar on Galice Creek, Oregon, for forty-tl- x years. The bullion shipments for the week by the l)e Lamar company in Idaho amounted to 514,000. The Pocatello, Idaho, Tribune comes out with a mammoth illuminated issue for its Christmas number. The estimated profit from the operations of the De Lamar, (Idaho,) company for November are 512,235. Ockonook, the Si wash name for an Idaho post-offic- e, has been abandoued and the name of Porthill substituted. Through trains are now run on the Spokane Sc Northern railway from Spokane to Rossland, British Columbia. The first steam heating plant installed in Alaska was put in operation recently at the Occidental llotel in Juneau. The new mining camp of Randsburg, on the Mojave desert, is said to furnish the richest surface showing of any camp ever discovered. A newspaper is to be started at Island Moun tain, in Elk county, Nevada, where the big reservoir for placer operations is being built. The Pacific Company, organized with a capital of 20,000,000, under the laws of Virginia, will develop mineral deposits, chiefly coal, in ers of the War Eagle mine at Rossland, British Columbia, are to build a smelter at Northport on the American side, about eighteen miles from Rossland. The first deed for land for right of way for the Rio Grande Westerns extension to Park City, via Provo canyon, was filed for record in Wasatch county on Dec. 15. The grantors are J. W. Hoover and wite. As a result of the failure of the Golden Scepter Mining company of Quigley, Mont., the wholesale grocery firm of Quigley & Mullen of Wilmington, Del., has assigned under judgments aggregating 71,000. The 90,000 shares of Butte and Boston stock belonging to the Davis estate, sold for 3.25 per share, but the heirs received only 189,000, and it is supposed that the remaining 112,500 was applied on the expenses of the litigation in Massachusetts. The governments balance sheet for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S95, has been sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury. All departments, are represented, and the receipts are placed at $100,4:75,408, with the expenditures cember 21st, payable December 31st. This is dividend No. 30, and is the first declared since November, 1891. The total dividends of the 995,000. company amount The Colorado Springs Gazette, in its issue of Dec. 19th, reports the sale of 300 pounds of Fannie B. ore at Cripple Creek, on the basis of 19,973.40 per ton, os a little better than 65 per The Gazettes arithmetic is bad. The pound. ore was worth either 130,000 per ton or S9.98 per pound. If it was worth 65 per pound the lot would have brought over 19,000. The War Eagle Mining company of Rossland. British Columbia, has brought a libel suit against Charles S. Long for 10,000. The action rose out of the publication in the Victoria Colonist of a letter by Long intimating that the War Eagle management had been robbing the Poorman Fraction to swell its shipments. The Colonist has since made a public retraction of the statet-- ments. Mr. Kervin, superintendent of several Comstock and Brunswick mines, tells the San FranThe statement that the Chollar-Brunswic- k cisco Post: ground, or for that matter, any other section of the Brunswick lode, is a failure, or The Hale & Norcross Managers have deter- that the ground in any direction has as yet been mined to resume prospecting on and above the prospected sufficiently to enable any one to level, where there is plenty of room for form an opinion of any kind is incorrect, to put a big ore body. There are several streaks of ore it mildly. in the vicinity that are encouraging from the J. H. Dunn and others of Butte, have secured uniformity of their essays. a lease and bond on the Arena and Golden Butte The Boston & Montana company of Eagle mines near Dillon, which have in the for contract system sinking past produced a quarter of a million in gold. have adopted the 200 and For six years the mines have been closed down shaft Colusa West their Atlantic and 300 feet respectively, additional. The company and were filled with water, but as soon as the contractors to day the miners in present operators had the works pumped out, requires the ore was found, and regular shipments of ore the shaft 4 per shift of eight hours. are now being made. Alvin Offan, the young man who was killed in Peru. mine in Butte on the 13tli, had Intense excitement was created in Colorado Thirteen thous md five hundred dollars has the Philadelphia several years preparing himself for the Springs and Cripple Creek last week by a rumor been allotted to Oregon for the surveying of spent of mining engineering. His finan- that counterfeit stock certificates of the Anagovernment lands for the year ending June profession cial condition compelled him to work as a miner conda, with forged signatures of the officers, 30, 1S97. were on the market. When traced down it was and lie was so employed when killed. 500 to 01500 per ton found that the certificates were genuine, but Gold ore assaying from Lander tax of list county, The delinquent is said to have been found on Monday, in a big 22. 19; of Elko county, the endorsements of stockholders had been to amount3 only Nevada, The signaledge in the new Grand Encampment district 202.71; of Humboldt county, 752.02. In Lan- forged in a number of transfers. tures stockholders will be obtained and kept in Wyoming. der and Hnmboldt there is a dispute with the on file.of A correspondent of the Yreka Journal says Central Pacific over taxes on unimproved lands, that in Southern Oregon mucli capital has been which are not included in these figures. on the recommenput into worthless schemes, E. G. Maclay, president and manager of the dations of unprincipled men. Moulton mine at Neihart, Montana, has gone H has decided The Supreme Court of California to St. Louis to arrange with the directors anc that the law requiring mine managers and su- stockholders for the resumption of work. The EH 00 perintendents to submit to stockholders a pumps were pulled out in April, 1894, and the & Co level with water. weekly report is constitutional. shaft is filled to the On Tuesday last, the Frenchmen who last Oregon Mining Journal: Messrs. J. A. Ifeiss .CO and J. M. Healy, both mining men from Salt August obtained an option on 300,000 shares of PS Co Lake City, went out to the Illinois on Thursday Elkton stock, took up another block of 50,000 5 O w la3t in company with D. C. Brownell. price is shares, at Cripple Creek. The option s 1 and there are 150,000 more shares share CO offered per the has Bratnober Champion E Q5 Henry 1897. of months three first H the in be taken to up to the Grass mine at ExplorValiey, California, os: C 0) Browne and to Wartenweiler and Q3 ation company, has of Laramie, Wyoming, McOutcheon John 3 f are now engaged on the examination. O taken a contract to sink an an oil well on grouud cs ri near Golden, Colorado, where oil was discovered, It is estimated that the tailings dump of the in QO CO R. McClelII. for tunnel mineral, a by driving Drum Lummon in Montana, contains 1, 000, 000, EH s: c c PC been formed to explore 03 has A land. company is to these recover valuer W and a cyanide plant & S3 of being imW which fields oil promise u give the U London directors. o being considered by the rt portant. u The Hope mine of Basin, Montana, of which states & Chalmers Fraser of M Chalmers W J CO P. A. II. Franklin is manager, is said to have on of the Golden Sceptre Mining co CO the 200 level, a body of ore 15 feet in width, that the failure to not due was Montana, of Quigley, Company 5 and running high in gold, silver and copper. 3 had the fact that to the company but e any fraud, EH develand in some improvements is $850,009 W. Ellison of Neplii J. expended exhibiting A 5 and needed 100,000 more to put the samples of saltpetre taken from his claim, five opments, on a paying basis. miles southeast of Goshen. He says he lias a property GQ mountain of it, and it goe3 00 per cent saltpetre. A capitalist has made a proposition to put in Coal found near Columbus, Esmeralda electric power plants, rails andtorolling stock to Market Lake, It will be advantageous to mining inen to have their notices from St. Anthony county, Nevada, has been pronounced of good build a line to haul freight for 3 or 4 and promises of indication Idaho, with anil permanof shareholders meetings, assessment notices and delinquent every quality, of donation wants a lie cents pound. the of per Walcott Geographical ency, by Director power sites and rights of way from the county, ists published in the Mining Review, Survey. 434,G78,654. 900-fo- ot 200-fo- ot 6 E- - fcJD t--l I J |