Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-20

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A run Of orc from the South Africa,
n mine on some placer gfOunis OprrAt.
ed by Crinamen GEAR Idaho Clty,
ldsh0, has Melted returns oil $50 gold
10 the ton.
From ten TO twenty placer and
quartz claims have been located each
Jay the past week on More creek anu
Snake river, idaho.
Lohi banner. For some time c0u-
siderable pTIspoc,ing has been done la
the hllls north Of the city aud o. mum.
her OF claims have boon located. a
company including the Hgsr Bros.
have beOB working the Old "pnint hoitD
aud have sunk q ehstt there 70 ne ak.
teen feet. The first assay taken from
the ton went fraction over 81 IN gold
and this last one shows decided i'm.
pfOvemen,, being fraction over $40
In gold with a trace OF silver. 10 10
found In docDmpOsed quartz, through
which there runs numter uf rich
fissurc veins which, however, are
small.
Ploohe Lod0 Regular shipments Of
heavy ltaI orc are being made from
the P0Orman 10 the Salt lake market.
A sample taken from the recent attike
on the Exohcqutr milne IN Ferguson
district WIS assnyed yesterday snd
returned $1,000 por ton In god. A
number Of pans ani settlers are buiug
removed from the old Floral mill below
town 90 BuliiOnyillc, whofe they will
be used 10 work over several hundred
tons Of roasted tailiugs. II. @. Nj
Dun0ugh went out 10 the OnonIas "a
mine last Sunday 10 hoist john
Snoath's ore, and returned agaiu last
Thursday, having huistlu some fifteen
VI twenty tons which nov await ship
mont 20 the salt Lake market
Nesbilt Bioe. state that the mill ut
Condor VIII only 10 operated until nr.
engagements can be- completed for tile
erection OF n mill IN Ferguson district,
and Ray they Intend beginning work
on this latter pr1pos ton not later than
three or four months hence. As tho
orc can b. hauled from the district TO
Condor at n cost Oi about s. per tou
there IN but very littlo doubt bul what
success win attend their efforts, and II
can but ultimately result ia having all
OF Ferguson dls,ric.'a ores worked at
home.
The Georgetown, Colorado, C0urisr,
publishes u letter from M. lockwood,
sn old time miuer anu prospt ctor. MI.
Lockwood has passed the summer In
Arizona anu advises miners ~ stay
away, as there are plenty Of men
tramping f1r work. At Castle Creek
camp he says there orc two five.
stamp mills, neither one running.
They have plenty N good pfOspuClf,
but wood And water are scarce auu
everyone was waiting for om,thing 10
turn up. A. ChappGrnlg pa oh, Ia ckwOld
found twenty men for cry lob anu
the country covered wi u mon-
umeniH, which hold OF without
work TOR one year. Loci VOID and his
parlnrr worked two months ma lease.
They had a mill run Of sevou,t en- Jous,
and after paying 20 per cent royalty
and sl06 Tor milling Charge, had 81
each Tor their work. Mlupr5 were paid
81 per day and board In that camp, but
Lockwood aud hls partner did mot like
the board, which consisted mainly Ui
beans, bacon and yoWt-powdur bread.
"Phefe are few good mines IN IN
section, hut when they sink down fuT y
or nifty feet the Tree milllngore change
ana gets base aud poor grade. Il
changes 70 what they call sui hufets
here, but IN culurllU 10 Is Iron pyritr-.
There are four stamp mile IN the dis.
trlct.