Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
To Open Up Many Hundreds of Miles
Of'Splendid Mining Country in
the Interior of Idaho.
NEW MEXICO'S BIG PRODUCTION.
The Camps of That Territory Had an Out
put of $6,OOO,oOO of Gold and
Silver During the Year.
A REVIVAL OF MINING IN MEXICO.
Big Deal on Dozen Of the Most Prominent Mines of
Colorado

ESPECIAL TELEeRAN TO THE DfspArcu.l
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-The following re.
ports have been received from the leading
mining centers of the West:
Opening Up Mining Country.
BOISE CITY-A very important bill is to
be presented in the Legislature soon. 1t
will open Hp hundreds of miles of mining
country, as it provides for constructing a
State wagon road from Banner. in Boise
county, to a point in Kootenai, the more
northern country. 1t will pass both houses
by large majorities.
After leaving Banner it will pass
for 40 miles through q mineral
belt of great richness to the old placer camp
of Deadwood. The mines on this route are
fairly, and some well, developed, but owing
to their isolated position, capital will not
take hold. Men of money will not invest in
mines that can only be reached by pack
trail 40 miles long. The mines there are
numerous, averaging from is inches to
feet in width, and assay from 200 to 800
ounces per ton in silver. That they will go
down toA great depth is certain, as the ores
are ehlorides and sulphurets.
On leaving Deadwood in its northerly
course, the road will traverse Bear Valley.
one of the finest stock countries in the
State. From that point short branch will
give an outlet to Sheep Mountain and Sea-
foam, from which camp ores have for the
past five or six years been shipped to
Ketchem, on Wood river, at an expense of
$50 per ton. There are a great many we'll
DEVELOPED mines in those districts, and the
ores, silver and gaIena, are very high grade.
All that section lacks is communi-
cation, to bring it to the attention
of capitalists. From Bear Valley,
the main road will pass down middle
Salmon and across the south and north
forks of the Sweetwater to Marrens, in
Idaho county. From that point, so miles
further north, State road is already under
construction. The proposed road will
branch off in the northern part of Idaho
county and continue north through Shoshone
and Latak to Kootenai. There are not ten
miles of the 200 through which the road will
pass that is not a mineral or agricultural
country. In fact the mines along the route,
which are now inaccessible, are the richest
in Idaho. The CONSTRUCTION of this road
will return the outlay ten fold inside of five
years.
Affected by Wild Reports.
TUCSON, ARIZ., Jan. 4.-Ihe mining in
dustry this week has received another back
set, and although the mines of Arizona are
in no way responsible for it, yet it effects
them to great extent. The furry has been
caused by the wild reports about George
Westinghouse. There is probably no bust
ness that is SO sensitive to the condition of
the money market as mining. The strin-
gency of the money market has caused much
delay in all mining circles This trouble,
so soon after the attachment suits against
the Central Silver, will make the merchants
very careful about giving credit to what are
supposed to be the solid companies.
ABig Years Production.
SILVER CITY-The production of the
mines in New Mexico for 1890 has been
pretty closely estimated, although perfectly
reliable data could not be obtained from all
the camps. The total output was larger
than it was in 1889, and will reach nearly,
if not quite, 100000 600. OF this total, the
counties of Grant and Sierra produced more
than half. The largest producing camps of
the Territory are Georgetown, Pinos Altos
Lake Valley and Kingston. With the ex-
eeption of PinoS Altos these are silver-pro-
ducing camps Georgetown produced more
than S400, 600 in silver during the year, the
greater part of which came from the mines
of the Mimbris Consolidated Company.
Pinos Altos led all the camps in the Terri
tory in the total output, and is besides the
largest gold-producing camp in New Mexico
in fact about one-half of all the gold pro-
duced in the Territory comes from the Pinos
Altos mine. The total production of that
camp for the year was about S625, 600, most
of which was gold. Considerable silver and
lead was also produced there
Boom for Mexican Mining Industries.
SAN ANToNIo-The work of railroad
construction in Mexico is making great
strides. The old lingering prejudice in that
country against railroads is Just disappear
ing and their patronage grows larger daily.
A mining expert of this city has lust re-
turned from an extended visit to the mining
regions Of Mexico. He says that with the
aid OF such improved mining machinery as
is now procurable in the American mar
ket, great impetus has been given to the
mining industries in Mexico. Mines which
had to be abandoned under the old expensive
processes have been reopened and mapy
low-grade finds are now being worked with
great profit. A number OF valuable corun-
dun deposits have recently been discovered
in Northern Mexico. At the present time
the worlds principal supply of corundum is
obtained from mines in the Grecian Archi-
pelago, and to some extent in Alabama
The Mexican beds are said to be yery rich
and Of superfne quality.
Big Deal in Colorado Mines.
DENyER-Encouraging strikes are re-
ported from Georgetown. The character of
the mineral is gold, silver and copper, the
iormer predominating. A vein of copper
pyrites, seven inches in thickness has been
opened in the Pioneer. The returns ASSAY
over $50 in gold. The Pay Rock Mine has
been incorporated in London, with a capitol
of 100000 Tho price paid for the pro-
perty was e175, 900. Reports, from Ouray
indicate a falling off in the mining in
dustry, caused by the unsettled state of
silver. An interesting deal has Just been
eonsummaUed in London on about a dozen of
the prominent mines around Ouray and Red
Mountain. whereby they are grouped and
pooled into one company, STYLED the
American Bell Mining Company.
Limited" The capital stock is e400, 900.
The properties include the Yankee Girl,
Custer, Robinson, National Belle, Silver
Belle, American Belle, Hudson and others.
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