Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-12-02
WESTERN MINING NEWS.

$500.
The Bishop New Register states
| that miner in the Silver Star district
| recently pounded up fourteen pounds of
quartz. or gold with some quartz in it,
and cleaned up $1,000.
&C. p. Church of Portland has taken
| an option on 100 acres of placer ground
IN the western part of Josephine county.
The price to be paid is $4,000 and $1,000
has already been paid.
The new gold placers found in Ne
| braska are in sandy strip of land near
| Milford, which extends into Kansas.
| 1t is claimed that assays show as high
| as $3.50 ton, and in no case less than
| $50 ton.
Two miners from the placer diggings
| on the Snake river in Idaho report that
under a strata of hard-pan they have
| found on their claims a layer of gravel
remarkably rich in gold that is worth
| over $19 per ounce.
Ole Larson uncovered an ore body in
| the Apex claim, Columbia district, Pit
kin county, Col, which runs from fifty
| to eighty-fve ounces in silver and high
in lead. The vein is three feet wide and
lies between porphry and brown lime.
Idaho Springs, Col, reports that a
pocket of ore has opened out in the Gen
eral Thomas at the fourth level. "A run
| dL Lie edAlDllllS WOLAS U1OuSht PL@O ~
ton. Twelve tons were also tried under
the stamps, and these brought $76 for
| the retort
The Cripple Greek Times announces
I the shipment of carload of ore from
the Mollie Gibson mine that it is claimed
will run IL 900 ounces of silver to the
ton. The place from which this ore
came is worked by the company, and the
strike has nothing to do with the find
made few days ago by lessees.
The Cheyenne Leader gives publici-
| ty to report that the Fortune claim
at Silver Crown is to be fully developed
with Boston capital. The ore vein shows
gold running $40 to $72 to the ton, with
about So in silver. The vein is said to be
45 feet wide.
| -Dagobert H. of France was The
| Young. He was years old when he as
cended the throne. Leo II. and Louis
! VII. were also sometimes thus designat-
| ed, the former having been elected when
only 4, and Louis VII, who was IL on
| his accession.
/ The Vulcan mine, Camp Greek dis
/ trict, near the dividing line between
/ Gunnison and Saguache counties, Col,
4 was sold by its owners to a Denver
combination. The consideration is stated
at 100000, making the largest sale
| which has thus far occurred in the his
tory Of this promising gold camp.
Several weeks ago the campfire of
some fishermen set FIRE in the oily shale
| along the banks of Green river in Wy
oming. The flames arising from the oily
mass have brilliantly Illuminated the
| neighborhood, and supply positive proof
of the existence of a great oil belt near
| Green River.
There is now no doubt that the sale
of the Grand Ronde placer property is
one of the most important and extensive
mining deals ever made in Eastern Ore
gon, both in the way of purchase price
and extent of operations to be inaugural
| ed. The ground is of such an extent
that it cannot be worked out in cent
ury.
According to the Gunnison (Col.)
Tribune big strike of high-grade gold
| ore has been made at the. Vulcan mine
on Camp creek. Two assays made on
Mammoth Chimney ore showed $767 and
/ SAT- in gold, with a big percentage of
silver. Late runs on Vulcan ore went
up to $500 to $500; but the highest
run lately amounted to $2259 per ton,
| from truck taken from the q. S.
In the Airheart lease of the An
| choria-Leland company's claims at Grip
| pie Greek a six-inch streak of bonanza
ore has been encountered, at a depth of
| 232 feet. Select samples from half ton
of the rich ore assay $27, 240.60 to the
ton. The strike is one of the most mar
velous vet made in the gold camp. Run
ming along with this is another seven
inch streak that assays thirty-tWo ounces
to the ton.
According to the Denver Tribune the
work of opening up the large cave re-
Gently discovered fifty feet below the
1900 level of the Mammoth is going
rapidly ahead. The cave is said to be
| much larger than the famous Muldoon
cave in the Beck, and is literally lined
with ORE The full extent of the strike
has not yet been determined, but it is
known to be immense.
The rich strike made by Billie Koch
i and T.. B. Brown in their -Mollie Gibson
lease is improving During one day
two men took out 1909 pounds of gray
i copper and spar ore, assays from which
gave the lowest returns at 5000 ounces
and the highest Is, 600 ounces to the
/ ton. This lease is located on the fourth
/ level. north, of the Mollie Gibson mine
in what is known as block 2. Owing to
the peculiar formation in this mine it is
! impossible to tell very much about the
1 extent of this rich strike.
i "A farmer from Little Potlatch, Ida,
/ on being asked about the crops in that
section, said that the crop was large and
the quality Of the grain frst.class. He
/ had 1000 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels
! 125 acres of wheat he threshed 1920
bushels, an average of 33 l-5 bushels to
the acre. His neighbours grain yielded
on an average about the same, although
there were some small fields that yielded
40 bushels to the acre, and a very few
that yielded >25.
A. /. Stone has returned to Salt
Lake City from the American Falls
placer mines and reported that camp
| booming. He brought down with him Il
j gold button weighing $138, the clean
up of thirty hours with four men and a
| team in one sluice. On the Golden Slip
per mine there are two sluiee boxes run
ming, and the mine is putting out $3.50
clean every twenty-four hours. Other
mines adjoining are doing as well. The
owners of the Golden Slippers Paymaster
& Myrtle, refused a cash offer of $15,-
600 for their properties.
The contract for transportation of
coke and copper bullion between Fort
/ Thomas and Globe, Ariz., has been
awarded by the copper companies inter
ested. This is preliminary to a renewal
| of NV tho great oOnnnr mines