Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-03
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

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The 1896 output from the mines on
Bottle mountain, Col, operated by the
Portland company, is estimated at 49,
100000.
The coal mines in Otto, Big Horn
county, Wyo., are being worked steadily
and find a ready market for the coal
taken out.
Colorado mining men estimate the
value of the ore reserves blocked out
in the Independence mine at from 81,
100000 to $1O,0O0,O00.
The Golden King mine in the Dixie
district, Utah, has a ledge 60 feet wide
that will average $40 per ton, also a sec
ond ledge IS feet wide which runs 500
per ton.
The Park City (Col.) correspondent
of the Inter Mountain Mining Review
gives a list of twelve mining companies
in that vicinity which employ 1877 men
and have payrolls aggregating $4,000
per month.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that
from porphyritic quartz lying between
the granite and slate in the Blue mount
aims gold ore of the value of $40 is now
being obtained, not to mention the peck
cts ia which free gold is found.
&C. B. Richie, who owns the 10 Da-
Wis claim on Lake creek, in the Douglas
creek mining district, Wyoming, has
run a tunnel on the claim 40 feet. The
vein proves to be three feet in width,
and a number Of tests made of the ore
show that it carries from II to Is per
cent. copper and from $18 to $25 in gold
Montana mining men express the be-
lief that 1886 is going to be one of the
greatest mining seasons in the history of
this country, and Missoula, as business
point, will be strictly in it. There is
an unusual amount of snow in the
mountains for this time Of the year, indi-
eating that placer mining interests will
have good chance to show up their
values.
The impression has prevailed here
tofore that the gold at Independence
mountain, Wyoming, was only to be
found in the gravel. This has been
found to be erroneous, as investigation
has demonstrated that gold in abundance
is also in a stratum of cement below the
gravel, and the cement will dissolve
can be worked with water.
The Hawthorne New Bulletin be-
lieves that the Silver Peak mines are
capable of supporting a population of
10000 people, and if work is pursued
they will prove to contain the greatest
deposit of gold ever found on the coast
When the mine is opened the present
30-stamp mill will be a toy, and 300
stamps will be required to do justice to
the product of the mine.
According to the Cripple Greek cor
respondent of the Denver Times the
great strike reported on Ironclad hill was
no exaggerated affair. 1t has proved
even greater than first reported. Suisse
quent assays of the property in question
run above $4,000. Intense excitement
prevails throughout the entire district.
1t is one common sentiment that the
strike is the greatest in the camps his
tory.
The finest collection of nuggets ever
displayed in Denver is the property of
Clarence 3. Elder, and is the result of
years of careful collecting from Colo
RADIO mines. The largest weighs about
ten ounces, and is from Breckenridge;
the others, ranging to about two and
half ounces, were found in the once cele-
brated placer districts of Colorado. The
collection is, for the size of the mug
gets, one of the finest in the United
States.
-Fifty-six tons of gold ore from the
April Fool that netted the owners about
$4,000 has been sold in Salt Lake city.
The ore was in two lots, both high grade,
but one containing thirty-six tons, selling
at $500 a ton, the other containing TWEEN
ty tons and bringing $135 ton. Those
who have seen the dump say the ores
are identical with those that are being
so successfully milled at the De Lamar.
It is claimed that the contents of the
entire vein will average between $S5
and 500 per ton.
A big gold find is reported in Blue
range. thirty-fve miles north of Ora
ham, N. NJ The discovery is on the
Blue river in the Blue range. Those
coming from the scene of discovery bring
samples of gold-bearing rock which as
say from 50 to $500 per ton. This is
mountainous country and can only be
reached by stage from Silver City and
from Graham on horseback.
The Golden Fleece mine in Hins-
dale county, Col, commenced paying div
idends in 1892. 1t divided $2946.3S that
year increased to SOL, 033.47 in 1893,
dropped to $73, 800 in 1894 on account of
DEVELOPMENT work, and swung forward to
5000 800 in 1895. This months dividend
raises the grand total to $4O1, 997.S5 on
a total output valued at S129,25219.
A vein of ore which assays $500 per
ton has been struck in the Orc mine,
Colorado The Importance Of the strike
is not so much in the value of the ore
as in the character of the accompanying
rock, which is a species of hornblende
or Zaphite that has heretofore only been
found in the northern mining districts
of Australia and is residue from vol
canic eruptions.
e. H. Lewis, a Chicago capitalist,
has ready for launching on Snake river
a scow which will be veritablee min
ing camp 1t will carry an engine, a
boiler and dredge apparatus, also board
ing and lodging house intended to accom-
modate anywhere from twenty to fifty
miners. This mechanical battery will
move up and down Snake river work
ing the channel and banks for gold.
Intense excitement prevails in Bould-
er. Col. over the new gold fields situated
between South Boulder creek and Mag
nolia, and there are rumors Of riches
being uncovered by prospectors in holes
not over five feet deep. One strike is al
legged to be worth 100000. Several
sacks of decomposed quartz were sent to
the sampling works from one of the
claims. Gold was. sticking out all over
the quartz, and no accurate estimate
could be formed of the value of the stuff.
The paintings made from the ore are
said to be wonderful, as great rings of
gold form around the pan with each test
of washing. The new gold discoveries
are on the same mineral belt as the rich
Telluride mines of Ballarat, jamestown.
Gold Hill, Sunshine, Salina and Mag
nolia In each of these districts and
camps minerals have been uncovered at