Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-30
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

WESTERN MINING NOTES.
a fine ledge of anthony ore has
been struck in mine in Bloody canyon,
between Unionyille and Star, New, and
short time since shipped d carload of
ore to New York city.
The Calf Mining company in Mon
tana sent each of its stockholders a
neat card wishing them the compliments
OF the season and inclosing at the same
time a check for & dividend at the rate
Of Is cents 4 share.
The interest in the Salida gold field
IN Colorado still continues and new
CLAIMS are being regularly developed.
New finds of fne-iooking ore are com
mon and local surveyors make most
encouraging reports as to the prospects.
The Durango (Col) Democrat says:
A La Plata miner assayed his door mat
and returns indicate twelve ounces gold
and no silver. The gang will sluice
their carpets and run blankets through
the rooster next week. Gold. How
much 90 you want?'
-Arizona's mineral output for 1895.
roughly estimated, is IS follows: Gold,
$780, 600; silver. 375, 900 ounces; copper.
6O,OO0,OOO pounds: lead 100000 pounds
The gold output for the year was marked
by steady rise of production. and
1896 is expected to double the above fig
ures.
One of the greatest gold strikes ever
made i'll Arizona since the famous Old
Vulture find by Henry Wickenburg in
1864 was made at Castle Creek. a new
camp about sixty miles east of Phoenix
William G. Gray of Denver, Col, Il
Cripple Creek operator. discovered a
three-foot ledge of free-milling ore which
assays 1925 a ton.
-Leasers of the Quito mine report a
rich strike according to a correspondent
writing from Idaho Spring, Col The
mineral has been running about $40 a
ton for two months past, but as a clos
ing climax to the successes of 1895 the
mineral suddenly began indicating high
er values. It was closely saved for a
few days and when shipped to the ore
buyers it ran $500 to the ten, thirty
nine ounces of it being in gold.
An estimate gathered from the
mint receipts show that Nevada's output
of precious metals for the year will ag-
gregate about 81 100000 in value. which
is 100000 larger than the output of
1894. Much of the output of Nevada's
gold mines is not recorded in this state
but goes to the Selby Smelling works
and some is taken over the mountains
by wagon transportation and does not
go through the express Office.
An interesting discovery has been
made in the Homestake mine in the
Neal district, near Boise, Ida. In all
three levels of the mine the ore-chute
has been cut off by a porphyry dixie. Re-
run through the porphyry and see what
was on the other side. The result is the
opening of an ore body six feet thick
that is of high grade. The only assay
so far made returned $3.50 per ton in
gold.
The recent gold discoveries in Buck
eye, Pine Nut and Dayton. New, prom
gold output. The value of the Buckeye
placers is estimated at nearly $780, 900,
0OO The Pine Nut lodges and placers
in the vicinity of the Zirn find are es
timated at S75.O0O.O0O and the lie
Granle Orc placers, between Silver City
and Dayton. are fixed by practical placer
miners as worth $2OO,OOO,O0O.
Judge Beatty of the United States
circuit court at Boise, Ida. has handed
down decision which forever settles the
litigation that has been pending for years
between the Tyler and Last Chance min
Republican fraction to the Tyler COM
pany This is small triangular piece
of ground lying between the Last Chance
and the Tyler. This contains no ore
bodies so far as known. All the known
ore bodies are within the lines of the
Last Cnance. In1S leaves the lyler
property practically valueless.
Manager w. J. Cox Of the Mollie
Gibson mine at Aspen has been invest
ing in Cripple Creek gold properties. In
speaking Of the present excitement at
the gold camp, Mr.. Cox said: 'There
is nothing I can compare with it. unless
it be the oil excitement in Pennsylvania
in 1862. Then people went wild and
they are now doing the same thing in
Cripple Greek. One thing that struck
me forcibly in the new camp is the large
number of prosperous business men
from all over the country who are look
ing over the ground. They embrace
people from every section of the United
States, from the Pacific to the Atlantic
ocean Idle curiosity is not their mis-
sion. They are there looking for invest
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