Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-06
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

Tho SouaW mountain tunnel at Vic
Ter. Col. is at present engaged in taking
out ore that runs better than $4,000 per
ton.
The lessee of the Matte L.. on Gold
hill. owned by the Jefferson company. IS
nroducing at the rate of 400 tons this
month says the Cripple Creek Journal,
and the ore is running near $1,000 ton.
Camp Carter is the latest acquisition
to the producing mining districts or Col
orado. The camp is about seycnty-hve
miles northwest of Denver, on the Ar
kins branch of the Gulf road, and IS
within sight of Loyeland.
A ranchman on the stage road about
eighteen miles south of Lander is en-
gagged in placer mining on his own farm
and MAJ king it pay well. He was recent
IL offered $4,000 for his claim, but re-
fused it.
The owners of the copper mines at
Casper mountain, Wyoming, Will com
mencc TO ship ore to Deadwood. The
Deadwood smelters have offered $40 per
ton for the ore, provided it will run ~
per cent copper. ASSaps OF the prouuct
show 60 per cent.
A Miss r. Miller owns claims i'll the
Mercur district and is also extensively
interested in Camp Floyd properties.
She has given her Mercur claims the
names of Tam O Shanter, Monte Cristo,
Comet, Daisy Mckee, Midnight. El Pa
SO. Pennyroyal, Starlight and Alt Car
son.
A boulder of ore, revealing the pres
ence of carbonate of lead, galena and
bromide of silver, yerifieS the news of
the recent strike in the Yankee Girl
at Silver City, Tintic, while the assays
show it to be one of the richest OF the
series that have been made the present
season.
-Eldorado bids fair to become one of
the best camps in northern Colorado this
summer, there being great deal OF
development work going on all over the
district There is not an idle man in the
camp, says the Denver News, and 1T is
now an assured fact that three different
companies will commence operations IN
the spring.
All the ore shipments from the
Kootenai country are credited to the
custom houses of Nelson and Westmin-
ster. and last month the total ore shipped
was $450,000. At this rate the business
of the year, the second in this new dis
trict, will be over $5,0OO,O0O, and there
is a constant increase, so that mining
men predict that the district will ship
not less than $6,OO0,00O for the year.
The report of the inspector of mines
for Idaho shows the output for the past
year to be $40, ,485, of which Sho-
shone county, the Occur d'Alene dis
trict, led with $3,5OO,OO0, Owyhee fol-
lowing with $2,50O,000, and none of the
other counties of the state having an
output of more than 100000. Gold
silver and lead were about equally di-
vided with an output Of $2,500,0OO each,
and nearly all the lead came from Sho-
shone.
The figures of the recovery of gold
by the various reduction works of the
Black Hills, now for the first time made
public, shows that this region is pro-
ducing to exceed $7.000,000 per annum
To this must be added the product of
mines that ship to smelters elsewhere,
estimated conservatively at 100000, be-
ing about so tons a day of ore, worth
nearly $50 a ton. This makes the total
production of the Hills for the past year,
$7,300000.
A very interesting and somewhat an
noying condition of affairs has arisen in
the smelling industry of the state, and
has affected the plants all over Colo
RADIO. 1t is, in brief, a silica famine.
There is such scarcity of silicious ores
at the present time that the Philadel-
phia smelter of Pueblo has been com
PEELED to shut down several of its fur
naces. Some of the Denver plants are
q lSO affected