The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-03
MINERS AND MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, New Prospects
and General Mining News.

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June will he over 100000, the largest the
assay office has ever had for that month.
boise Statesman.
A miner In Boulder count Colombo.
has been working nearly all the time
alone for five years in n tunnel in the
mountains. The only periods when he
has suspended from labor has been when
he was tied up into double bow knots with
rheumatism and has stopped for a short
time To untanRle himself.
William Farrell and Thomas Gallagher
recently discovered a mammoth ledge sit
uated about six miles from Gibbonsyille,
Idaho. IL can he traced for "a distance of
~ miles, averages from five 90 II feet i'm
width. IL Is what is know as gray copper
ana assays 2O ounces in silver and also
o " u copper In paying quantities.
III. NJ. Myers came in from the Quartz
vile mining district this week, where he
has been prospecting, a the Slayton,
Ore, sun. He reports that good results
are bt ing had from the work now going
on. Little nuggets as large as peas are
frequently found. Water is not easily OBJ
tanned, otherwise some profitable work
would result at once.
A coal mine some score or so of miles
from Salt Lake has ''pctered out" This
might seem strang To those who are ac-
puainted with Utah's ~inexhaustible coal
deposits but the really strange feature of
the matter is that where the coal ''pinciled
out" a silver mine was discovered. The
loss OF the coal mine was the owners
gain, after all.
The miners work i'm the Wallowa
mountains, Oregon, this year will he pro-
ductive OF good results, says the Chieffdin.
More han one claim will be developed
tsnntiUh Ia slaxx, x.,hat A., .,., -.
sesscs in the way Of mineral, and il is
probable that some of the lodges may be
sold. The boom may not come this year
or next, but il will be along i'm due time.
Utah possesses one of the finest sulphur
mines to he found i'm the United States.
The mine-callcd the Barnes Sulphur-is
located e Frisco, and is almost abso-
lutely pure. Extensive improvements are
being made in this property, among them
being the establishmentof refining works.
The mine furnishes a good subject for
chestnutty jokes and sundry illusions, but
in reality IL II is one Of utah's most valuable
deposits. sulphur is used In a variety of
ways, and in times of war n sulphur bed
Is as good as "A gold bank.
There is great excitement over a big
discovery of copper and silver at Kettle
River rapids. Wis. For years search has
been made for the main lead, as nuggets
OF pure cope aud silver have been
found, showing they had been washed
from "a large vein. This vein was Monday
located for a long distance. Ii is extremely
rich, h copper being dendretic and cas-
lily mined, while the silver is in detached
particles and found with the copper. The
land in that section has been occupied
and located many years as pine lands,
and patents received from the govern
men by the Cornell university and "A
gentleman of Saltwater, Mimi. who re-
Gently purchased the university's share Of
the tract.
Mexican onyx is a form of ~stalagmite,
and its colors are formed by oxides of
metal in the earth over the caves through
which calcarcous water passes. Gold is
represented 10y the purple, silver by the
yellow, iron by red, copper 10y green, and
arsenic and zinc by white. Volcanic
cruptions and earthquakes nave almost
destroyed the caves In which onyx exists,
and the native Indians who mine IL nave
to cut through masses of ruins. Blocks
of the material are quarried in a primitive
way, in order not to shatter the substance.
Deep round holes are drilled 10y hand on a
line. In cach hole is Inserted n snugly
fitting piece of wood, which has been
grooved from end 10 end. Hot water is
poured into the grooves at night. This
swclls the wood and the block is split
along the line without damage. The
natives then saw the blocks into slabs
aud polish the surface by hand. Each
piece is semi-transparent, and when
placed between the eye and a strong light
presents a remarkably beautiful appear
ancc in form and color