Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-01
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MINING NOTES.

ne Statellne district is showing up
some fine 1edges Of free milling ore
Mr.. Thomas Lloyd, present Utah
mine inspector and ex-sheriff of Car
bon county, has departed f6r Klon-
dyke
The Golden Dream group of mines
IN San Juan county, Utah, have been
sold to Denver parties who will at
once begin the erection of ten stamp
mill.
The Lily of the West, near Eureka,
reports rich strike in an eight foot
vein. There is $4,000 worth of ore on
the dump and a spur will be built to
connect with the railroad.
company at whose head is Thomas
A. Edison. the electric wizard, has
purchased the Pinley tin mine, near
Sheridan, Wyo In addition sixty new
locations have been made
miner named Jim McCartner found
a nugget on Soda creek, near Shasta
Retreat, Cal, which weighed $500. 1t
was a beautiful specimen, being per-
fectly smooth and shaped like an egg
The diggings at which the nugget
was found have been worked for 20
years.
j, T. Van Smith, Prescott, Ariz., has
patented coutriyance to save the fine
gold which ordinarily escapes from a
stamp mill The device consists of
several sets of silver plated wire
screens, kept in motion by a small
water wheel operated by the water
running through the 4sluice. 1t is
practically automatic in operation.
Dan and Robert Page, of Little
Pinto, in Iron county, Utah, are feeling
elated over valuable discovery re-
Gently made by them about six miles
north of the Page ranch. The deposit
is contact in blue lime and porphyry,
and besides good lead values the ore
runs as high as 6,00o ounces in silver
to the ton This is a promising pros
peet and the owners are pushing work
in its development.
Adviees from the Willow Springs
district report that fine body of high
grade ore has been struck in the Pride
of Utah. Assays have been taken
from the ore showing values ranging
from $50 to 500 ounces silver, S57 in
gold and 23 per cent lead to the ton
The owners of the mine believe they
have klondilte good enough for them
at home. Some picked samples have
shown values of over $500 ounces sill
yer to the ton.
A nugget of gold was exhibited at
Boise from the Black Hornet mine, /
miles from that place. 1t is pure met
al excepting one end, which is a bunch
of quartz. The value of the nugget is
placed at Sd995 This gold was found
at at a point on ledge where no work
had been done The Black Hornet
has just been sold to a Colorado com.
pany, of which W. S. jackson of Colo
RADIO Springs is the principle stock
holder. The mine produced a large
lbhiitle ~ StA llll1 A1dlS tlS0s pul
has been idle since, entangled in liti-
cation.
The Idaho Avalanche says the best
mine in Owyhee county is owned by
John Scales. His mine is located at
old Wagon town, about two miles be-
low De Lamar. He has a body of ore
that runs 81 per ton, and has lots of it
--l50 900 tons-and the ore keeps com
ing. Mr.. Scales is not at the expense
of mining and crushing his ore. It
floats down and piles up at no expense
whatever, and the cost of getting it in
to his mill is only IL cents per ton.
Mr.. Scales has big reservoir and for
six years has been corralling the tail
ings from the De Lamar mill. 1t is
said that by the action of the chemi
Gals, air and water, the pulp, by the
time Mr.. Scales gets it, gives up its re.
naming values with scarcely any loss
at all
The Salmon river country in Idaho
seems to be giving up its golden treas.
ures in abundance. The Grangeville
Free Press tells of two prospectors
who came in from the middle fork OF
the river, a section that has never been
explored, bringing in a quantity oil
gold taken out in few weeks work.
The amount of their cleanup was
close To ST COO. An interesting feature
of the matter is that this gold is wash.
ed from the deeomposed surface of a
mountain, which they declare to be all
ore. The mountain is porpbyry. TIE
gold is found all through it. They dc
not claim the rock is all high grade
but they assert that it is all good pay
They have been at work there several
seasons, making small clean ups each
year. They have taken up lode claim,
and are working the surface as pla
GERS. The mountain they call Thun
der mountain, and if il is anywhere
near as rich as they claim it to be, it i.
4 a great waste Of time to rush off tc
klondyke.