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Show INTER-MOUNTA- IN NEWS CLEAN-UP- . MINING REVIEW. Crown Point, 10 cents; January 14, Gould & Curry, 15 cents, Alta 4 cents. The large reservoir at Price, Utah, broke last week and flooded a portion of the town, but the lamage was inconsiderable. The ice crop will )e short on account of the break. President D. O. Corbin of the Spokane & 0 Northern Railway, says his road will haul tons of ore out of the Kaslo and llossland region in the next five months. The mining department of the Unix ersity of Idaho will open its winter course for prospectors on January 9th. The course will cover four weeks and the fee will be 2.50. Rock reported to assay 3,000 in gold was encountered in the Grandfather Snyder mine, Osceola, Nev., recently . Just how much of that kind of rock there is was not developed. The corner stone of the Montana State School of Mines buikling was laid on Tuesday, December 29tli., at Butte, Gov. Rickards officiating. The exercises were simple but appropriate. The pay roll of the third government pay0 ment to the Nez Perce indians foots up and has been forwarded to Washington. The per capita distribution will be about 110. Water is hauled six miles for Randsburg, California, and sells at the wells for a cent a gallon. Coal costs 14 per ton, but nearly all other supplies aro on the basis of Los Angeles zinc and lead deposit in Trego and Ellis counties, Kansas. It is now proved that the scheme originated and was put into execution by F. B. Johnson and two others of Kansas City. 9, The pay roll of Butte, Mont., is 10,000,000 a year. The Anacondas profits for the year amounted to 4,258,515. Mineral oil is reported to have been found near Vancouver. The new camp of Randsburg, California, is in need of more hotels. Utah apples sell for 7 and 8 cents per pound in Pioclie, Nevada. Silver City, Idaho, is demanding the erection of sampling works and a custom mill. The profits of the Silver Lake mine at Silver-ton- , Colorado, for 1896, will approximate 800,-00- 0. Charles Crane has incorporated his Idaho mine, the Pioneer, under the laws of that Hon. state. Commencing January 1st., the Le Roi mine in Trail Creek, B. C., will ship 150 tons of ore daily. The gold exports from West Australia for the first nine months of 189G amounted to 196,406 ounces. Colorado papers have already begun to fix up a fifteen million dollar record for Cripple Creek for 1897. 7 The directors of the Garfield-Grous- e in Cripno Creek note toe took of ple legal fight with the Mineral Rock, and presented the stockholders with a cent a share dividend (12,000) as a Christmas gift. The sum was taken from the profits from leasing the Bull Hill properties. 25,-00- James McCann, a miner in the Never Sweat mine at Butte, Mont., was killed on the 27th inst., by rock falling from the roof of the stope he was working in. McCann knew of the dangerous condition of the roof, but failed to pro-ehimself. Elko Free Press: A Chinaman shipped a carload of rich ore from Wells to Salt Lake City last Sunday. lie has a claim near Cherry Creek and recently struck a valuable ledge, lie says he will not sell, and that maybe ct by-am-- be lich, by alle-sam- e Mackay. The Allison Ranch mine at Grass Creek, California, which filled with water and was abandoned twenty-eigh-t years ago, is now owned by Mackay and Flood, who will put in a pumping plant with a capacity of 700 gallons per minute, and will endeavor to reopen the mine. Work is to commence on February 1st. It is reported from Calumet, Mich., that the Calumet & Hecla Company will soon sink three new shafts on its part of the amygdaloid vein, which a drift, three years ago, showed to be about as rich in copper ore as the same vein in the Osceola mines. These new shafts with the new Jacket shaft will, it is said, increase the product to 130,000,000 pounds of copper a year. 186,-30- prices. The daily output of the Belt, Montana, coal The Alice mine of Butte pays dividend No. 30 mines is 3,250 tons, while those of Sand Coulee today, being 5 cents per share, or 20,000. This produce 3,025 tons per day. is the first dividend paid by the company since The September gold output of the Rand is November, 1891, and it brings the total up to placed at 202,561 ounces, a decrease of 11,000 995,000. ounces under August. The Tilden iron mine, Bessemer, Mich., owned E. Thompson of Colton, California, last winA working and drain tunnel is to be driven by the Penokee and Gogebec Development ter struck a rich ledge in the Chemhuevis mounthrough Red Mountain at llossland, B. C It Company, has resumed with nearly 300 men and tains, about sixty miles south of Needles, on will be 5000 feet in length. will mine about 1,000 tons a day during the the Arizona side. Last week he sold to San Francisco capitalists for 125,000, and his first On Pritchard Creek near Murray, Idaho, in winter. Kansas The Consolidated City Smelting and act after getting his money was to present to a the Coeur dAlenes, 125 stamps are running resumes Refining company operations in all man who previously befriended him, ten 100 night and day on gold ores. on January 1st. About 700 men bill. Ontario shares were offered in Butte last week departments the heaviest force ever enwill be Gus B. Leach, editor of the Alaska Mining for 7, while Daly received bids of 7.10 or 1.50 gaged atemployed, the works. Record, was assaulted in Juneau in the first per share above the Salt Lake market. The Wyoming Valley Oil Company has secur- week in December by an individual against Coin of Gold The Victor, Colorado, ed 9. 700 acres of oil lands from J. Blair Sclioen-fel- t whom Juneau society circles had beon warned company 100 miners with a its each of presented and others near Douglas, Wyo. This gives through the Record. In the physical encounter gold piece on Christmas m rning. the company control of 15,000 acres of oil Mr. Leach came oft first best, and later had the satisfaction of seeing his assailant landed in John Alexander, formerly of Whitlash, Mont., lands in one tract. with two serious charges against him. was accidently killed on the steamer A4 Ki at There is a gold excitement in Indian Terri- jail Berners Bay, Alaska, on the 7tli inst. tory, and a rush has started from Marlow, near Suit has been begun at New Haven, Conn., Ore assaying 80 per cent copper and 12 in Fort Sill, for the new field. The best finds by the Empire Mining and Milling Company of Otter Creek on the north Mainp against the Tombstone Mining and Millgold per ton has been recently taken from a have been made on mountains. side of the Wichita ing Company of Hartford, Conn., for 350,000. vein in the Grand Encampment district. The two companies own adjoining mining an that almost is total It ore closing to is have Creek expected another sampler in Arizona, and it is alleged the de(ripple to be built by Tutt & Penrose, and run in con- down of all the Aspen mines will occur after properties fendants agreed to open the of the nection with the Colorado Chlorination works. January 1st. The mine owners are making no plaintiff for 10,000, and thatproperty the defendant and they are loth to exhaust their mines profit in the company opening The output of the DeLamar mine in Eastern with silver at its present price. plaintiffs property sold ore. worth of 250,000 tons about was of November for 7,000 Nevada The Canadian Mining Review published at ore, the gross value of which was about 250,000. The Dalton & Lark management is now an for lias Canada, applied injunction issuing stock certificates to the holders of Arizona has a mining law which will not al- Ottawa, the Iloss-lanKevieAV at published claims against the defunct Bank of Salt Lake, Mining low the relocating of claims to avoid assessment againstB. in of for C., infringement copyright the claims being relinquished as the stock is work. It compels the locators to do developname. same issued. The depositors accept the stock at 1 adopting the ment work. Mr. H. C. Mitchell of Toronto, has devised a per share, or twice what it can be bought for The official vote of Utah gives a total of 78.040 in the market, and accompanying the certifiby which scrap mica and mica cuttings cate votes cast, of which Bryan received 6 .535; Mc- process in each case is the note of James H. Bacon can be manufactured into a flexible web to be 21. 13.484; Palmer, Bryans plurality used for covering boilers and steam pipes, to for the full indebtedness, payable in two years, Kinley, was 51.030. on the redelivery of the stock. reduce the loss of heat by radiation. Hon. G. S. Nixon, editor oftlio Nevada Silver The finest specimens of uncut opals ever One of the largest nuggets of gold of State, announces his personal candidacy for the found have been discovered in eastern Oregon which record has been made thatpure was ever United States Senate in oppositien to Senator by D. V. Bean of Hamilton, Montana, who has found in either North or South America is now John P. Jones. secured the ground rnd is organizing a com- in the office of Carter, Hawley & Co., William street and Exchange place. It was found in a custom pany in Chicago to work the mines. A Chicago man wants to build a n mine in Dutch Guiana, on the North smelter in Nugget Gulch, near Sheridan, Mont., has been ex- placer dollars thousand Twenty-eigl- it coast South America, in November last. It and writes to that place asking for detail inforthis year in development work on the is in ofthe pended mation on the matter. shape of an irregular honeycombed mines of Gold Mountain district, exclusive of plate that is about ten inches long on The steamer Australia leaving San Francisco the annual assessment work where only the triangular the base line by six and a half inches high to on the 29th., carried for Honolulu, 100,000 in necessary amount of labor was performed. the apex and an inch and a half thick. It American gold coin, 10,000 silver dollars, 1,000 Denver mining men have successfully re- weighs 15.54 pounds troy, and seems to be pure in dimes and 400 in nickels. futed the charge that Denver mining sharks enough to sell for 2u an ounce, or 3,753.60 for for the fraud stocks were responsible by the whole mass. It will be put on exhibition in Delinquent assessments on14 Nevada Decemwhich an eastern syndicate that would a day or two, probably in a Wall street window, cents; are; December 20, Occidental ber 29, Overman, 10 cents; January 8, Con. Cal. not invest in a legitimate mining pro- but after a few days unless purchased for some in an alleged museum, will be melted up and sold. 200,000 & Va., and Hale & Norcross, 25 cents; January position, spent five-dol-l- ar d, 40-to- |