Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-07-14
MINING NOTES.

The gold mining convention will as.
semble in Salt Lake in 1898.
Butte is now producing 10, 900 tons of
ore every twenty -four hours and could
do better.
The Century mine, Park valley, Box
Elder county, will soon have ten
stamp mill.
The Cripple Creek district during the
first six months Of the present year;
produced s6, ,075, 600 gold and it is pre-
dicted that the output for the year will
have a coinage value of sl4, 900, 900.
The Banner and Gold Bug Mining
companies of Florence, Idaho, have
contracted for a quartz mill to be put
on those properties, with a capacity of
twenty-five tons in twenty four hours.
A very good imitation of gold brick
is on exhibition at the office of Broker
Pollock, Salt Lake City, and it attracts
the curiosity of a good many people.
1t tells its own story in these simple
words: This gold brick cost an Ida
no man IS, 600
Henry Meegan of Elmore, Idaho who
went to Nenezula in search of placer
digpins got disgusted with the coun-
try and a short time ago returned to
his old mining claims on Snake river,
which he pronounees much richer in
/ gold than any ground he found in
/ Venezuela.
It is reported that the big gold saw,
ing machine at Green River, Utah, the
property of the South Park Placer Min
ing company, is to be moved from the
river to richer diggings, The plant
has been inspected recently by stock
holders of the company, and it is re-
ported that number of good clean-ups
of amalgam have been made SO far this
season.
A price has been agreed upon and
/ the papers are now being executed for
bond for thirty days on the Sunset
4 group in Tennessee gulch, near Gold
/ Creek, Nevada, says the News, to Geo.
W. Addison for $50, 900. The thirty
day bond is taken simply 10 allow MIR.
4 Ad lison TO bring his eastern parties
ont here to look at the property. The
preliminary examination of the several
claims has been satisfactory, and the
investors are coming prepared to buy
the mine. The Sunset group embraces
eleven claims, ten quartz and one
placer.
The event of last week in mining
matters at Grangerville, Idaho, was thu
rich strike in the Poorman and the
purchase by II. Z. Heppner, formerly
of Moose creek, of the one-seventh in
terest of Charles Phillips ia that prop
erty. The consideration was Sa,0o
cash and block of stock. Mr.. Hepp
ner has also purchased all the treasury
stock of the company, The Poormai
group Of mines. consisting of the Poor
man, Silver King, Richmond am
Crown, were discovered in 1892 and ar
the original locations which starteS
the present boom in Florence. Thes'
! mines lie on the breaks of the Salmon
! some distance south of the gold belt o
the camp. All these claims have mor'
OF, less development. but the principa
) work has been done on the Poorman
D where there is "A ,5-foot shaft and 30
feet Of tunnel In driving this tunne
the rich ore shoot shown on the sur
face and in the shaft has been under
cut, the strike being made only las
/ week, and showing an ore body sevel
feet between walls. giving values 81
! in gold and 90 ounces in silver per ton
An lS-inch streak Of very rich or
has been ST uel in the face of the 7o'
foot tunnel ON the Cold Bug at Flor
ence, Idaho, and the company are nov
! contracting for the sinking of a zoo
+. foot shaft from, the tunnel on that orr
shoot. The tunnel struck this or
about 125 feet perpendicularly below
, the surface The completion OF th,
new shaft win give 4spth Of ae5 fee
; on the cold Bug
I The old Cave and Carbonate mines al
Frisco, Utah, it is said, will be again
, worsel by eastern people