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Show MINING NOTES. j The N'tir Last Chance mill will coin-, mence work thl week. James llslrd brsko hi arm while going dfiivn In the raja, at the Heck mine 1 Operations are soon 15 lie resumed On the property of the ijiclflc Mlnliii, company at Diamond, s The DAter Is keeping 'both It mill running on ore The noxt shipment of bullion will undoubtedly bo n good one. The Summit Mining company, owning own-ing property beyond ICnma. ha elded to alnk another hundred feet at j once. j Work on tho site for tho now con- I ccntrntor near the mouth of Markhaui gulch will begin aa soon n the frost permits. Ten Inches nt oro valued nt from SIOO to f aoo per Ion Is the Intest record of the Homo Hula mine, near Colorado Springs. The Constellation Mining company ha Just levied nn assessment of 1 ut a share, which becomes delinquent on March 8. The Ontario, Anchor and Silver King mines rath psld oft enrly thl we,k, nnd money lis ben easier In consequence conse-quence nt the I'ark. The Oponhnugo has resumed nitrations, nitra-tions, l'rospeetlng I lielug prosecuted from tha bottom nf the 300 foot shaft In the llmo formation, which Indicates the near presence of mineral. More shipping oro Is being token from tha Oram! Central than any oilier mine In Mammoth (lutch. Shipments have Wen Increased until tiow n osr U being loaded nnd sent to market every day. The mining fraternity of Nephl nrs considerably exeltod over tha finding of quarts carrying gold to thu value of ttu.ni to tho ton, about two miles northwest of Nephl In tho MLNabo country. Fred K. Illgbce, president of tho Chicago Chi-cago Antimony company, which Is furnishing fur-nishing llrlca with nnllmoiiy for his gold factory, waa In Utah last week trying to hurry up tho shipment. One car was sent out, n the faotory nn closed for want of material. The tlmoof salaofilcllnqucntCrown i I'olnt milling stock has been extended to Wednesday, March 3. Several thousand thou-sand shnra arc said to havo changed . hands In Salt I.ako during tho week at all!!' cent a share, which, Ingcthtr with the 3-t-ent assessment, make the price 4i cents. The largest smeller In the 'Untteif States and the second largest III the world will rear Its smokestacks at l'ucblo the coming summer, and will be the Joint property of the tolorsdo Iron nnd Fuel company nnd the I'hll-adslphla I'hll-adslphla Smelting nnd Itellnlng company. com-pany. They am sK-iullng more than 8I,xh),ooo In improvements. Itrganlliig the Checkmate mine. In Willow Creek district, which is largely owned by Knit I.ako mid Ogtlen people, peo-ple, tho I'cnrl correspondent of the llolse Statesman says) The prospect for contlderhblu activity In thl camp the coming season I very bright Tho Checkmate company are nt nurk extracting ex-tracting fully a good oro In the nest chute ns found III the former wordings. Superintendent (leorgo II. Wymnn Is vory much elated over thu bright pros-wots. pros-wots. James Hutchinson, superintendent ot the Trade Dollar Milling A Milling company Is quoted ns saying that good gold mines ara 111 demand. Plenty of eastern capital Is ready nnd anxious to Invest In good property of till character, and aro on thu lookout fur tha same. The syndicate, In whosa Interest Mr. Hutchinson la employed, haa mining property In California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Co1orado,(liorgls and Nova Scotia, and lias more cnpltnl to Invest should It find property which will bear Inspection. Thu mining outlook, locally und generally. Is exceptionally ex-ceptionally auspicious. J. J. Harris, a resident of Cripple Creek, passed through Salt Lake City last week on hla nay homo from Klon dike. All ho brought back waa a native na-tive dog, which hosayscosthlni "I.S. He had 1H00 pounds of supplies which cost, for packing alone, 81. tt per pound, which he lost In a fire, and Inoompauy with fifteen others nn ordered to lenvo the country because they hud no visible means of support. This, notwithstanding not-withstanding thnl it wo a ilrunkm Canadian policeman who started the lire. Mr. Harris says all tho good claims aro taken within llfly miles nf Dawson, nnd hundreds of no value, which will bo disposes of to gullablo people. ""ho rcoent tfrlko In tho Unolo Bain hue develop! Into a veritable bonan-ta. bonan-ta. lh juarts ledpo In whteh the gold I found la aald to be 100 feet wide and soma assays which have been made run foom jo.000 to JlO.onu per ton. The new mill nt Slatellno has proved s success. Two test runs havo btn completed and both wero satisfactory. The first run wa on Creole oro nnd run Sti to the ton In gold. The second run was (5u Gold Holt ore uud nveraged SIT In gold. |