Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-30
WESTERN MINING NOTES.


mal.-London Spectator.
WESTERN MINING NOTES.
Two discoveries of gold prospects are
reported from Winnemucca, New. One
III DEMO district is a 2-foot vein of rich
free-milling ore. The other, near Dis
aster Park, is said to be the best in the
district.
The main ledge Of the Bald Eagle at
Sum DUN, Alaska, is showing ore the
full width, about nine feet, and it is still
maintaining it's rich and high grade char
acter. Conservative estimates place the
ore in sight at 100000.
British mining men are looking with
interest to the gold mines of California.
They believe we are on the edge OF a
great mining boom, and if one or two
great strikes should be reported the in
terest would become extraordinary
The Belleview mine, Tuolumne, CAL,
is in peculiar position. The mine clears
$4,000 per month, but as most Of the
stock is held by two estates that are in
the probate court the money is paid into
court, and cannot be used for improve
ments, and an assessment of 70 cents
share has just been levied to pay for new
machinery.
The annual report of the Consolidat-
ed California Virginia in Nevada shows
that the mine produced during the year
ending September 80, 1896, $211 1888, an
average of $29.93 per ton of ore. There
was little more gold than silver value in
the bullion.
in the new tunnel on the MONDAY
mine, near Yuma, Ari., the ore has wild
average of 500 per ton. The balance
Of the twenty feet of ore which the tun-
mel cuts yields So.
About half mile from Adler
Springs, Ari., ledge was recently dis
covered which, with development, prom
ises to be big mine. The pay streak
is from six to ten feet wide, and ore
an assay return Of $3.50 per ton, gold.
In the Cliff mine in Trail, B. c., the
ore has been stripped along the vein,
the exposures showing solid bodies OF
ore 30 feet square in places This ore
assays $50 gold and II per cent. cop
per. An offer of 100000 has been
made for this property by an English
syndicate.
The production of the properties OPP
Grated by the Gold Coin Mines company
in Nevadaville, Col. above Central City,
last month, amounted to $4,000, the
average production being sixty-five tons.
per day. Shipments from the Golden
Wedge property show it to be one of
the best mines in the county. The ore
! runS ABOUT lOuTlGCu OUNCES OF SOlQ,
twenty-five ounces silver and II per
cent. copper, which, with the second
class ore, gives total net value of $500
in shipment of five tons.
Great activity is reported in mining
along the Colorado river in Arizona,
where Stephen w. Dorsey and his asso-
ciates of Denver are investing heavily.
They have purchased mines to the value
of over 100000 and have just bought the
Golden Dream group of five mines, the
Alcyon, Ora Glanca and the MONDAY
groups, paying 100000 for the mines.
The new purchases are hardly more than
prospects and their value lies in the i'm
mense ore bodies, which are expected to
keep up an average of IS ton.
"A gold discovery Of more than or
binary Importance has been made with
in the limits Of the King Solomon ground
near Clancy, Mont. The discovery was
made by e. Bedding, who accidentally
found some rich float while walking to-
ward his home from the present work
ings of the King Solomon. He procured
pick and shovel, dug for half an hour
among the rocks, and in that time was
fortunate enough to strike the vein, dis
closing Is inches of between 300 and
400 ounce ore Several sacks of the ore
have been taken out at a depth of less
than two feet.
William Ogilyey, Canadian sur
veyor who is in the Yukon district in
connection with the delimitation of the
Alaska boundary, has made a report to
the Canadian minister of the interior,
stating a great gold find has been made
on the Bonanza creek, which flows into
Deer river about forty miles from Fort
Cudahy. Mr.. Ogilvey said that 200
claims had been taken up and there is
room for 1000 more. If the property is
prospected there is work for 1000 men.
One gold nugget worth $12 was picked up
on the surface, and in an hours time
three men took out $50.
The recent gold quartz discoveries on
Perry creek, about twenty-five miles west
of Fort Steele in East Kootenay are
attracting miners from all over the coun-
try. There are four parallel lodges, and,
from what can be learned they will each
average fifteen feet in width. The ore on
the surface is of excellent grade and will
run from $50 to $3.50 ton in free gold.
The ground is located for distance of
seven miles. Gold quartz has been dis
covered on the Wild Horse and tributary
streams and for a distance Of ten miles
norta and south Of the Wild Horse.
There are large areas on the western face
of the Rocky mountains where copper
has been found.
Cedar River district, within sight of
Seattle, Wash, now shows valuable min
ing properties The May Earhart group
will ship it's frst-class ore all winter, re-
serving the second-class until concentrat-
ing machinery is put in. There are sew
eral hundred tons on the dump and thou
sands in sight in the tunnels and drifts,
that will average from $40 to $50 per
ton in copper, gold and silver. The San
Jose. group show a ledge forty feet in
width, carrying iron and copper sui
phides. with gold and silver. The Los
Angeles. which is embraced in this group,
has a crosscut 800 feet, showing an ore
body eight feet wide that assays So per
ton in gold. The Ophir group is new
discovery of free milling old quartz,
brought to light by Z. Lewis, and trans
ferred to the San Jose company. This
ledge is a half mile from the San Jose.
which it parallels. and is sixty feet wide.
Assays show eighteen ounces gold and
three ounces silver.
How Gen. Lee Proposed TO His Wife.
When Robert e. Lee cast his lot with
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