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Show 6 INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N bedrock, where one would expect its gravity would have lodged it. It was not found on the bedrock at all, but was resting peacefully on t! A Distinguished Mining Engineer. Mr. Charles Butters, the eminent mining engineer, whose return to America has been the top point of a boulder when Mr. Shellenberge-pic- k subject of more than the ordinary amount of disturbed it, and incidentally, left a dent on Lake in Salt arrived Wednesday. that is discernible on the piece. Mr. Shellen-bergnotice, From Mr. Butters utterances for publication it had been working the ground where this is evident that his coming here is of more sigcame from for two or three years, and nificance than was supposed. That in fact Utah nugget had a number of drifts run into the bank. The was an objective point before the distinguished ground has always been very rich, and good examinis Mr. Butters left Europe. gentleman wages were made, with an exceptionally good infor of ores American the gold purpose ing cleanup at times. Going into one of these drifts Siemens-Halske in their the process troducing recently, lie determined to remove a boulder reduction; a process that has been used with that had been worked around on both sides, marked,-succesin the Transvaal and which with the intention of ascertaining what was unore a of treated. low of grade being very permits der it. With his pick he began loosening the It was at the suggestion of Captain J. R. De La on top and had struck a few blows when Mar that Mr. Butters was induced to make the gravel his pick struck the lump of pure metal. The e ores of some of Utahs camps a suboccurience of the nugget so high up in the wash that to he will end ject of special study, and is regarded as remarkable, as heretofore in Osexamination into an exhaustive make every ceola, as elsewhere, the big nuggets have been camp in the State. If the result of his investi- found on the bedrock. gations proves satisfactory a plant with an Coal In Nevada. enormous capacity will be started here, and the Siemens-Halsk- e process introduced. For many years the opinion has prevailed that there are no coal mines in Nevada. It apA Tenderfoot's Discovery. pears that men professing to be geologists gave it as their opinion that the formation precluded The discovery of a new and rich mining dis- the of coal mines being found in that trict near Sundance, Wyo., is another instance state.possibility miners are refuting the Now of the unexpected happening, and is really the theories of practical the scientists. At present the Ne" outcome of what was intended to be a harmless er s low-grad- joke perpetrated by a number of experienced miners and prospectors on a tenderfoot. In this case the tenderfoot lias acquired a fortune while those who put up the job on him are trying to get in anywhere. Here is the story as told by the Rawlins Journal: One day last spring a man approached a party of miners at Bald Mountain and stated that he was looking for work. The men told him they had nothing for him to do, whereupon he asked to be directed to good prospecting ground. He stated that he was not a miner and knew nothing about such work. The men directed him to a large ledge of limestone about a mile and a half south and said that was a good place. He proceeded to the ground pointed out at once, where he selected a number of samples of rock by breaking them off the ledge with a hammer. After working about the place all day he sacked his samples and started off to Deadwood, where he had the ore assayed. The assayer was the most astonished man in Deadwood, for the ore ran about 200 to the ton. The tenderfoot did not say a word, but returned to Bald Mountain and located the whole country and began shipping boulders from the top of the ground, which have made him independently rich. The people who at first were inclined to laugh at the man from the East, as lie is called, are now taking up claims, and the greatest excitement exists. An Osceola Nugget. vada Central Railwray company has eight men at work on a coal mine in Crum Canyon, near Battle mountain, and the prospects are favorable for the development of extensive coal beds In Esmeralda county, not far from Columbus coal mines have been discovered and the coal is being U3ed at Columbus and Candelaria for domestic purposes. This coal has been examined by Charles D. Walcott, director of the United States Geological Survey, and has been pronounced by him as being of commercial and economic value. Gold In Rivjrs. In the River Seine a small quantity of gold exists in a state of division so fine as to be invisible to the unaided eye, and it is said that when tho sand of the river near Paris is used in making glass, the crucibles in which it is melted are frequently found to be gilded over at the bottom. In former times, in fact, says the New York Sun, a sort of mining was in vogue on the Seine at Paris, carried on by men who would buy a francs worth of quicksilver, and, after passing the sand of the river over it all day, would sell it in the evening for six or seven francs a kind of work which, however, for some reason was discontinued. Almost all the rivers of Europe carry small quantities of gold in their sands, such as the Rhine, the Seine, the Aar, the Reuse, the Danube and others; also the Clyde and many other streams in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall; and, though one ton of sand from the bed of the Rhine, for instance, h of an yields only 9 j grains of gold, or ounce, yet the total amount of the yellow metal in that one river is believed to be immense. It has been found, indeed, by careful scientific examination and calculation, that that part of the River Rhine alone which flows through what was formerly a portion of French territory contains no less than 36,000 tons of pure gold. The large nugget recently found by Abe in his Osceola placer diggings, mention of which was made in last weeks Review, has been on exhibition at the Bank of Com merce this week. It weighs sixty-on- e ounces and is valued at 1,061. In is nearly flat in shape, measuring about two inches through in the thickest part, and is about four by five inches on the fiat sides. It is also remarkably free from quartz for so large a nugget. The manner of finding this handsome specimen was, Go to Harris & Wilson to say the least, unusual. It was not found, as For Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. be in might expected, the lowest crevice In the erican companies only, represented. Shel-lenberg- er PERSONALS. Ed. X. Kirby, now representing the Risdon Iron Works, is back from a business trip to Denver. James W. Searles of this city, who is operating a quartz proposition at Goldfield, Arizona is back here for a brief visit. C. J. Hodge of Houghton, Mich., who is operating the Last Chance properties at Bing ham, is in Utah again, looking alter his mining interests. John Malia, an old resident of Park City, lias returned from Missoula county, Montana, where he is now operating some very promising gold t V j I t i i. ledges. Manager 0. II. Hardy of the Bullion-Bee- k Tunnel company at Tintic, has been in town since before Christmas, laid up from a hurt received by slipping down stairs. Superintendent Frank Hines, of the Northern Light property on Lion Hill, was in the city last week and reports that he expdets tho mill to be running by February 1st. Mr. Phil C. Gallagher, for many years con nected with the Germania smelter in this valley has returned from old Mexico, where he has been in the employ of Guggenheim & Sons, operating smelters at Monterey and Aguaes Cal-iente- John R. Toole of Montana has returned forty-niner- Mr. M. K. Ames of Denver, an extensive mining operator of Gilpin County, Colo., arrived in Salt Lake last week, and in company with Mr. Willis M. Ames of this city, has gone to Marysvale to resume work in the Alma mine. W. E. Ostrander of the Colorado Ore Sampling Company, passed through Salt Lake lately, on his return from the mining districts of British Columbia. He is very much imprt ssed with the region and in the spring will erect a 200-to- n sampler at Trail Creek. the inventor of the Little Won" der Amalgamator, spent Christmas in Salt Lake, but has returned to the Colorado river wiie re, at A. McKellar, a point seventy-fiv- e miles below Green river, he has acquired some good placer ground wiiicli le is working through his machine. Emile M. Du Marais, a graduate of the Paris School of Mines, and Emile P, Enders, editor of the Revue Economique et Financiere of Paris, wTho are examining American mines under a commission from the French government, are now in Utah, and will examine and report on the mines of Mercur, Tintic and Bingham. From here the eminent gentlemen will proceed to the Mother Lode in California. q: i' co Ho y--A Co j Aett 0 c C J w E- 3 Co 03 03 ! o: 53 CO p 00 Co 0) 3 CD CO CO 53 03 CO is , Co 03 03 .- -I 52 Q H i ) r to s. cz I i s. Butte from an inspection of the now Randsburg district in California, which he describes as being good enough to gladden the hearts of old one-fift- Am- i t |