Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
WESTERN MINING NOTES.


John F. Brady Of Chicago has pur-
chased the Nos. / and 2 Crank mines
on Raven hill in the Cripple Creek dis
triCt fer $3.50, 600 The Masked Venus
property near Duncan, Gel, has been
sold for S-.20, 000.
The Baker City (0r.) Democrat an
noanees the sale OF GIL acres of pat
ented placer grossnd situated on Clark
creek, owned by the Hong Sing Mining
company, composed of Chinese. and for.
merry known as the Virtue e. Van
Schuyler gravel mines. The purchasers
were the exploring syndicate of mines
and mining. IN whose directorate are
Paris and Havre (France) capitalists.
Am important strike has been made
III the main tunnel of the Trade Dollar
mine at Silver City, Ida. A tunnel had
chutes, from which the large gold and
silver production of the property has
been maintained. 1T has now developed
another, which seems to be far larger
and richer than any of the others The
entire face of the tunnel is in ore, much
OF which is very high-grade.
Great excitement has been created
IN Creede by Anton Frank and O. H.
Mayatt bringing in several rich samDles
of ore containing large fakes of free
milling gold. An assay showed 246:3O
ounces, or S4926, III gold to the ton.
NO information can be obtained as to the
whereabouts of the claim from which it
was taken, except that it is within three
miles Of Creole and that Che vein is %
inches wide.
One of the biggest mining deals con.
summarized in Colorado during the past
few months was closed at Jasper recent
~. A half interest in the johnson group
of mines, located near Jasper, was sold
to q syndicate of Chicago capitalists for
S750,000.
Fresno, Cal, reports the return of a
prSspector from Quartz mountain with
samples of decomposed gold-bearing
The assays rum from $50 to $500 per ton
in fine gold.
A discovery that means as much for
Salt Lake city as any Of the almost
endless series that have been made dur
ing the year, is that which establishes
the presence in Parley's canyon Of a
well-defined vein of anthracite coal.
The Higginson brothers have struck
It rich IN their mine about seven miles up
Summit canyon near Provo, Utah. Ac-
cording to assays the ore carries 5000
ounces in silver and $40 in gold to the
ton.
A mammoth quartz ledge has been
discovered on the ridge between Nevada
City and Washington. The ledge is said
10 be ZUO feet In width, and Will yield
81 to So per ton in free gold besides sui
phurets. 1t is thought to be fine low
grade proposition.
Cloud peak, the highest of the Big
Horn range, is attracting the attention
of gold prospectors. Gold colors can be
found in the Einey, Little Goose, Paint
Rock and Ten Sheep streams that head
in that peak. A number of prospecting
parties will go into that district as soon
as spring opens.
The opening, of the forest reservations
in Colorado to mineral entries has given
plenty Of new territory for exploration,
and upon the western slope of Pixies
peak there is quite rush to stake out
claims. In the West Creek district the
area of staked ground has spread until it
covers many square miles OF territory of
unknown mineral value.
The richest strike ever made on the
Pacific coast was recently made in the
White Gold BASIN one mile from the Col
orado river and two miles east of Piacho
twenty miles north of Yuma. The vein
crops for 400 feet, and is from twenty
to twenty-five feet wide. Samples taken
from the whole length of the vein by mill
test give 500 to $3.50 per ton. sample
taken across the vein, twenty-five feet,
gave $3.50. Forty pounds of ore taken
from the middle of the pay streak gave
$40 in gold