Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-05-21
MINING NEWS.

jackson McChryStal has been pros
pccting a group Of claims.
j. c. Lynch w,ites back from State
line that the roads leading in there are
lined with teams and that this summe,
will determine the question Of a per.
manent camp or not.
The ore taken from the South Swan
sea shows the presence of native sill
yer. This ore Is coming from an en-
tireIy different locality from the recent
rich strike, and proves that the rich
ore bodies are continuous throughout
that property.
Word comes from Bingham that in
the development OF the Silver group
in Dry Fork a two and half
foot body Of ore has been uncovered
that carries average values Of FROM 50
TO 81 per ton, and II is believed that
within fifty feet more the mine will
rank as a producer
The numerous copper leads about
Frisco are at last receiving the recog.
milton they deserve. The Montreal
property in Rocky district is reported
on good authority TO have been sold in
Denver for 5000, 900. and percentage
Of the money already paid. The pur
chasers are preparing for work on a
large scale.
big deal has just been closed in
the Seven Devils country by which
some leading New York gentlemen
have acquired the Peacock Farm and
White Mountain claims aud other prop
critics, the consideration being nearly |
$500, 900. Ex-Governor Hauser OF Mon
tana was one of the original owners OF |
the properties sold.
Owing 10 the immense flow of water
encountered In the Iron Duke, work on
that property has been suspended for
"A short time. The shaft is now $40
feet deep and no more sinking viii be
done for the present drift from ths
shaft will be RIA on the vein at the top
OF the water level, but this will not be-
done until the water in the shaft stops
rising.
Parties just in from Deep Creek
country report big strike at Granite
r pels, twenty miles north OF Dugway,
and much work is now going on at the
new find. Coe Bros. & Shale have three
feet Of galena on their Flush claim
that goes SEQ 70 Sf0O in gold. as high as
500 ounces silver aud % to 90 per cent
lead and have started a tunnel TO be
1000 feet long and cut eleven veins
A few strikes such as that which is
reported from the Mountain Boy near
Wadsworth, New, and that grand old ,
which has contributed
SO many a ,rtunes and so many mil
lionaires 10 the recorder, will have been ,
her proud self once more That the
strike Is most sensational one, and
that some OF the ore Is worth its
weight in gold. Is revealed in samples
that were seen. {
In the country in the vicinity Of the
old Copp mill and Diamond Dennis Sui
livan's ranch, south OF Silver City, I
there for some years has been known v
10 exist immense lodges Of quartz, but o
not until recently have they be known U
10 carry any values. W. IL. Wilson o
vas the first to secure an assay from
hat section, and he startled the inhab- .
ts.nts br the announcement of his II
having secured an assay of seventy u
our ounces gold. This Of course Gre II
tied some excitement and Large crowd 81
tarted at once for the new Eldorado 81
great many locations have been made II
n that vicinity. some of which have u
-iven great deal of satisfaction u
William H. Simpson, of Jackson,
yyo. says; The recent report of rich
discoveries OF minerals in Jackson's II
lolc are false in every particular. and
deny any completely ON the part of
be residents OF jackson valley to &C
Dom town lot in the alleged city of sc
ark. Utah proSpectors and all others IL
tho are being influenced by these re- q
orts 20 come here. will please take d,
farming that the reports are false, III
he SHOWS of the mountains are very bl
eep, aud no mines As "A paying invest W
rent exist Prospecting will proba- p,
Is be unsatisfactory and unremuner- 81
tive; at the least calculation the 18th III
I July is the earliest moment the vi
fountain can he travelled "
Among other business transacted by
le Federation OF Labor, at rs session
salt Lake City last week. was 40
ovenent toward establishing home "a
,r I'D miners Boaanxa mine own w