The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-05
MINING IN THE WEST.
Increased Activity Throughout the
Pacific Coast States.

Paclhc Coast states.
The following interesting items rela-
/ tive 10 the mining industry of the west
are cleaned from Herald exchanges:
a new strike of copper has been made
on Suaw creek, Shasta county, Cali
! fornia.
: a dredger for gold mining is to be
put in the Rio Grande river, in New
Mexico. this summer.
Secretary Mahon estimates an at
/ tendance OF 10000 AT the Denver con-
ventiOn next month.
The Sacramento Power company are
figuring on extending their wires TO
Woodland and Chico.
The statement of the Anglo Mexican
for March SHOWS production of 9S963,
expenses s5,092. profits e3.S1l.
The Peck plant at Dayton, Nevada,
was started up last week and is work
ing POO tons of tailings day.
AT the ADELAIDE copper mine, at Col
cOnda. Nevada, the concentration VIII
be ready for work about September l.
The British Columbia Exploration
company has purchased the Ottawa
mine, near Trout Lake. B. c., for 81
COO
Nearly every train from Spokane,
Wash. for British Columbia, carries
from 100 to 200 passengers for the
mines.
1t is proposed to erect a mill with a
capacity of 100 tons daily. in the
Horse Shoe mining district, Park
county. Colo.
AT Cripple Park. near Guffey. Colo.
a cyanide plant with a capacity of 200
tons daily is to be erected to treat lov
grade ores.
Considerable prospecting for gold is
going on in the western part Of Tehama
r,1 bc -Fn itr.irl ifN-
county divide.
The Waverly, a mine on Albert can
yon. is being placed on the London
market by the Canadian Gold Fields,
limited, at 100000.
The three miles of tunnels in the
Santa Ana canyon for the Southern
California Power company are TO be
finished January l, 1895.
the recent receipts of bullion at the
Denver mint for the first four months
of 1897 were s6.942,S77, against Si,19S,-
OF in 1896. a gain of S2,744.S-4.
On the Rand group of mines. in the
Rand district, Kern county, Cal, IS
men are working, and the output is IS
tons of ore daily.
The Detroit Copper company has
had a survey made for bringing water
by fiume from Eagle Creek to Morenci
Arizona, a distance of 60 miles. The
cost would be nearly 100000, and a
final survey is now being made.
Colonel George V. Bryan has taken
a bond on several of the best gold prop
critics near Murray Ida, including the
Golden Chest, Katie Burnett, Dora,
Idaho, Joe Dandy and Paymaster. He
represents De La Mar interests.
The Kootenai Mine Owners associa-
ton have decided to invite capitalists
to consider the question of manufacture
ing powder in Kootenai, promising
support TO any one outside of the COM
bine who should start in the business.
The Alice mine, located in the Lin
coin district, near Idaho Springs. Colo,
has been sold TO a Chicago syndicate
for S250,000. The property covers 9S1
acres of patented ground, and has been
a producer for a number Of years.
Much freight for Yukon and Clon-
dyke, Alaska, is cached at Sheep creek
until next winter, as the snow melted
this year before it could be taken over
the divide. Provisions are reported
very scarce in the Yukon mining
camps.
The old Hanover mine, near Silver
City, New Mexico, is being reoDened.
This mine was worked 80 years ago
and 100 tons of copper was smelted in
adobe furnaces by the Mexicans, but
water was encountered and the mine
closed.
On the Alaska readwell mines. in