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Show 10 INTER-MOUNTA- IN the Syndicate group and have two shafts do urn 100 and fifty feet respectively. They expect to cut the ore body at from 150 to 200 feet. A new boiler and some other machinery have arrived at Mercur for the Geyser. The new tanks are in operation, and with a larger boiler and crusher the mill will be able to handle over 100 tons per day. An additional crusher will bo put in at the Mercur mill, as in the winter the ore is harder to work on account of dampness. The company n intend, to keep up their work to the standard. Machine drills have arrived for the Brickyard and the Wonder and will be in place in a few 200-to- MINING REVIEW. ing and shipping and smelting. Everyone who knows anything about the Old Star district knows that there are millions of tons of this poor iron rock that would not do to handle for the iron, and this is the kind wo are now getting the gold from. If the Frisco smelter ever got any gold out of it they kept it pretty quiet. The less iron there is in the output the more gold there is in it, and consequent when finally abandoned on account of the ore running light on iron we may safely suppose that some good gold properties may yet be developed in the Star district. Of course we must always look on these things in a conservative way until they are assured, but if there are mining men looking for a low grade proposition, it might be well to look this matter up. Five miles due west from Milford is what we have known for twenty years as Rocky. Here we have a whole mountain of copper. One ledge crops out two hundred feet wide and clear across the side of a mountain. On top this rock goes Dry Canyon. from 5 to 8 per cent copper. No one has ever gone down deep enough to better it any, but In the Magnolia group, which adjoins the they will do this some day before long. Water the old Mono, and is operated by the Silver has been the drawback for Rocky, but it is nob State M. and M. Company, of which Charles necessary for a copper country like that to be Angell is manager, an upraise has been run held back for water when it is almost a cerfrom the tunnel, and last Saturday broke into a tainty that three to four hundred feet will strike body of rich silver ore. The streak was sixteen plenty of it. Some one has already started inches wide at last accounts, and the ore occurs down for it, but quit for some reason at the in the form horn silver and sulphurites of sil- depth of one hundred feet. Old John Williams, ver. No assays have been made and none are who used to run the only smelter in this whole necessary as the ore gives evidence of its value country and out of which he made a big fortune, on bare examination. has lasting faith in the copper of Rocky. Away The old Mono, adjoining, produced over a off somewhere, our mining men probably have million and a half in rich silver ore, but ultima- their eye on some copper field to which they tely lost the vein and has been unproductive for are soon going to spend a lot of money, while a number of years. There are strong hopes here at home a prospect like this will be negthat this discovery in the Magnolia may point lected, and mostly because it is at home. Of out a method for the Mono to follow in the course there are no copper mines here for us to search. show, but better prospects are not to be had. Peter Martin, the old stand-b- y in this section Mount Nebo. of the country, has a big prospect hole near Milford out of which he took 120 pounds of Among the promising properties in this new select rock from which more than 120 ounces of district is the Copperhead, owned by Sam Reed silver was smelted. From a ton of the rock a ofNephi. From the surface some high grade little better than the average, he smelted 700 copper ore was taken, which showed values of worth of silver. $75 per ton in copper and gold. Adjoining it is the Sea Gull which shows a strong vein of lead AKIZOY 1. not done is work the but and iron, development sufficient to demonstrate the extent of the ore. There are 350 stamps at present in Yavapa In the Queen Princess and East Side, which county and 245 in Pinal county. are the property of some Nephi parties, an enMojave county mines are coming to the front ormous body of lead ore has been blocked out, around Kingman is several tons of which are now on the dump rapidly and the region days. Operations at the East Golden Gate have been suspended for the present and Contractor Kellogg will move his drilling apparatus to the West Dip. developed so that town i3 becoming a ready for shipment. A tunnel has been run being center. into the hill on these claims nearly GOO feet and mining Ed. Williams, who has been working a silver it is believed that by cross cutting a short disclaim in the Aubrey district in connection with tance the vein will be reached. Ed. Mervin, brought in several tons of GOO Star District. ounce ore and sold it to the Kingman sampler the first of the week. A correspondent of the Tribune writing from The Commonwealth Mining company, at five miles Old Star The district, Milford, says: Cochise county, employs sixty men and above Milford, is just now furnishing some Pearce, to the Pueblo smelters three or four carships for matter here. the sports mining interesting loads of ore per day. The rock is rich in gold The old iron mines from which thousands of 100 per ton. tons of iron was taken years ago and consumed and silver, yielding at Frisco, out of which no one thought gold Another new hoist has been received by the could be gotten, turns out now to carry some- White Hills company at White Hills, Mohave hauled out to the mines in a thing like thirty dollars of the yellow metal per county, and will be ton. Angus Buchanan has recently shipped a few days. In about a month there will be seven car of this iron-gol- d bearing rock to the Sandy hoists in operation in the White Hills. smelter, and the returns were very fair. That The water has been pumped from the Oro is, the car more than paid all expenses of min Plata mine and that property will now be worked extensively. Two good chutes of ore liavo been opened up in the winzes that have been sunk from the tunnel level. Joe Marines and James Raul have located a ledge, in the Chemeliuevis mountains that shows up well in free gold. The prospect promises to surpass in richness the mine upon which they have been at work. The Cedar Valley Mining Company is working ten tons of ore per day through their mill at Cedar and making two tons of concentrates hours. Considerable gold is every twenty-fou- r caught on the plates and the free silver in the ores is saved in the pans. By the several processes a high percentage of the gold and silver is obtained. IDAHO. energy of Alex Toponce, all the lumber for the new Monolith mill has been safely landed at Shoup, and work on the structure is now in progress. The High Five is closed down at present. This property is owned by D. B. Higgins k Company. It is proving to be a bonanza. The ore is high grade, running from 75 to 35000 per Through the untiring ton. The case of George A. Lowe of Salt Lake, vs. Owen Long, involving title to the Golden Crest mine near Shoup, having been appealed from the District Court for Lemhi county, has been decided by the Supreme Court in favor of Mr. Lowe. All the machinery for the new hoist for Dan Rebers Dixie mines, has arrived at Mountain Home, near which the mines are located. In the upper workings of the property a fine vein carrying a good grade of gold ore has been developed, and Mr. Ueber will sink his main shaft to a depth of GOO feet, to catch the vein at that depth. Herald: A party of Texas capitalists have been in the Yahk district this week ex amining properties with a view to making deals, but with what results we have not learned. The party is in tow of Mr. Keen, who made the deal with Messrs. King, Brant and Ewing here a couple of months ago for a half interest in the Jim Hill. Mr. I. J. Brant, who with Charlie Ewing and Jap King, owns the Buckhorn group on the Moyea, has been outside interviewing some mining men with reference to making a deal on the property. St. Paul parties are expected in soon to look at the property. The Hoosier Boy, one of the claims, is developed by a tunnel over GO feet long and has 3 feet of fine gold rock in the face of the tunnel. A writer to the Statesman says: It is demon strated to be a certainty that the deeper we got in the earth in Neal the larger the ledges and the richer they become. Nine assays from the Homestake mine, taken from the lower work', returned, the lowest 140 per ton and t! o highest 300 per ton. The owners are w k pleased with the property and it is expects! that new machinery will be placed at the mint in the spring to operate in a more perfect manner. There will be a small force kept at wo k in the mine all winter. Statesman : A. J. Malloy, the Cripple Cm who has recently been making some investments in this section, is very much Kootenai er, i.-i- |