The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10


At Goldfeld, Arlz., are numerous de-
posits Of gold d-bearing rock over lVO feet In
width which will average % per ton ana
the miners are anxious 10 see erected soon
large nlants forthe reduction OF this ore.
A great many chloriders are now at work
in Wallapai district, Ariz.
In one Of the assay Offices at Prescott,
All. q mineral cabinet has been arranged
~ for the instruction Of prospectors who. by
leaking at labeled specimens, may recog-
nize similar ore when in the field.
The newly discovered placers at Golden,
y. Mex, seem to cover an area OF about
1900 acres. About half OF the tract is on
the Ortiz mine grant. The gold is coarse
and the whole tract has been staked of.
Mr. Underwood of Portland, Or, has
devised a machine for saving float gold,
consisting Of wire copper screens, silver
plated and dipped in quicksilver These
are suspended on the sluiceboxes so that
float gold adheres TO them while the gravel
passes below.
Some months ago the Meran Mining
Company of Utah put up plant to reduce
their cyanides TO bullion, using the same
method as that OF the Livingstone Com
pany at Boulder, Colo, but it did not work
wish any degree Of success. Two Salt Lake
men have been working on the problem OF
converting the cyanides into bullion with
ont increasing the usual metallurgical loss,
and are rep orted TO have finally solved il.
Ths method has not been made public.
Thomas Couch OF the Boston and Mon
tana Company of Montana, who recently
visited the properties IN Aariposa County,
has gone back to Montana and assumed
The combined management of the Boston
and Montana and Butte and Boston COM
panies.
The increase in the capacity of the De
Lamar mill, Ferguson district, New, will
&c even heavier than was anticipated, four
tanks having been ordered in Salt Lake IN
addition to the original six,
II reports in the Montana and Utah
papers are 10 be relied on, a sale of the
Anaconda properties TO the Rothschilds is
pending, notwithstanding the denials OF
the story heretofore made.
The lead mill at Bingham, Utah, has re-
sumed operations after lying idle for q
year.
Utah has elected the following directors
A. c. Washington, J. \. Ceballos, B. NJ.
Whittock, 7. B. Moore, John Sharp, F.
". Jennings and ?. 7. Farnsworth.
The Independence group OF mines in Ida
Harland guleh, Warm Springs district,
Idaho, has been purchased by b. K
Toundrow of Salt Lake.
The Morgan mines on Hard scrabble
Canyon, Utah, which contain heavy per-
centaees OF bismuth, cobalt and nickel,
are said TO be very large veins There are
quite a number OF prospectors in the dis
trIct who have gone there since the rich
ness Of the veins was first announced, and
many new locations have been made.
Hamilton Smith, J. D. Rogue, Ellsworth
Daggett and W. H. Parrish are making q
careful examination OF the ninety-sever
haF1 he DC
Mining Company OF Montana, sampling
ana taking measurements OF the ore bodies
The Barrin er-Penrose-Broekman syndi-
cate has closed down IT'S mines at White
Signal, Y. Mex, but whether for good OF
tenn Dorarily IS not known.
Cartwright & Markley, the new owner:
OF the famous Texas mine at Central, n
Mex, are working twenty men and ship
ping ore to the Iyanhoe smelter.
The Mercur Company has obtained an
other group OF Camp Floyd (Utah) claims
in addition 70 the Matte group recently
purchased. The new claims are the Sun
shine and the adjoining properties, and
consist of the Malvern, Malvern 2, Free
Coinage. Fellowship, Little Gem, Kampas,
Lower Reef, Old Horseshoe, Lehi and o. K
4 large force OF men will be put TO work al
once.
A half interest has been bought by J. A.
Fleming Of Phoenix in the Gates group oi
mines in Castle Dome district, twenty
miles north Of Yuma, on the Colorado
River.
The Arizona Copper Company, which
has been operating at Clifton, Ariz., since
1852, paid the first dividend in Its history
last month.
ST. Louis capitalists have arranged tc
buy the Bald Mountain mines in Gold
Mountain district, Sewer County, Utah
The price is said TO be 100000.
4 company is now at Work at Guiana
L -.
been eccumulating for the past 800 years
The output of the producing mines o
Utah seems TO be steadily increasing, and
ii is expected that there will be much les
suspension Of work this winter than il
usual.
At American Fork Canyon. Utah,
good deal of prospecting is being done or
claims which were abandoned many year
ago but which are just now being dis
covered to be mines. A railroad was ono,
built into this canyon but the track wa
afIerward torn up, the mineral deposit no
panning out as expected.
Gold-bearing rock has been discovered II
Teton County, Mont, on Brush Creek
about fifteen miles from DUpruyer, anC
about fifty men are at work prospecting.
The Anaconda mining company Of
Butte, Mont, Is mining 4000 tons OF cop
per ore daily.
Gold mining in the State OF Nevada is
more active than ever before.
a few placer miners at Osceola, New,
have taken out about $500 in the pas
three months.
The placer miners in Sadowa district
Elko County, Nevada are making rooC
wages though some are working with dry
washers. 1t is said that a peeuliarity o
these placers is that the richest ground i.
found on the mountain side, instead OF il
the bottom Of the canyon, as usual. Some
body will ind quartz ledge up above some
OF these days.
Twenty mines have been brought in E
Dorado Canyon, Lincoln County, Nevada
on the Colorado. The veins are OF low,
grade GOLD ore, six miles from the river
An electric plant viii be put up on the
river to furnish power for mining and
milling.
The mines of Silver Star, Esmeralds
County, Nevada, are said TO be constantly
imnroying as developed.
The Oneida mine, Jackson district, ANA
dor County, about which there are many
rumors of resumption OF work, has in the
past yielded about 5000, 600. 1t has been
worked to depth of 1850 feet.
DR.. Bryeson, large owner in the Ken
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