Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-06-23

usual.
Jesse knight has purchased the Mag
gle S. No. 2 claim from G.. I. Bridges
and John A. Hunt, the stated price be-
ing $500. Mr.. Knight will commence
work at once on his new purchase,
which lies Immediately below the Co
diva, and win push the property to a
patent.
The Victoria copper mine, extensive
ly known in mining circles as the
Dyer mine, situated twenty-five miles
north of Vernal, Utah, was sold at
public auction by Deputy United States
Marshal Berry under decree of the
United States District court of Utah,
to Mr.. James L. Gates of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, for S65, 900 cash. Gates
represented himself as the sole pur-
chaser.
Within the last two years quite
number of Salt Lake people have be-
come interested in Meadow Lake min
ing district, Nevada county, Cal, and
these and many others will be glad to
learn that the toll road being built
from Cisco to this old gold camp is
now nearly completed, thus bring
ing this section within easy reach of
the railroad and over good thorough
fare
The Queen of Sheba, in Clifton .
trict, in the Deep Creek country, made
its first cleanup last week and the own
ers of the property received the con-
signment of bullion amounting to
81, 800. 1t is learned that the mill is
giving excellent satisfaction and that
the mine is looking well with fine bod
les of ore blocked out through its
workings.
1t is reported that the Gold Dus\
Mining company of the Camp Floyd
district Is negotiating with Geysey-
Marion for the use of the old Geyser
mill for few months for experiment
tai purposes while the company is
building its own mill The Gold Dust,
from all accounts, is showing up big.
ger and better as development work
progresses and it will not be long be-
fore it will be elassed with the bonan.
"a propositions of the camp.
A group of claims near Murray, Ida.
consisting of the 10 Dandy, Paymas.
ter, Golden Chest, Dora, Katie Bur
net and several undeyeloped properties
have been purchased by Col g. Y.
Bryan. The consideration was not
made public, but it is understood to be
S4o0, 900. There are four mills aggre.
eating fifteen stamps, on the proper.
ties, all except one now running. The
presumption that Col. Bryan is repre-
senting the De La Mar people causes
quite a stir, and the cyanide plant
that will be erected will be the first in
the Occur d 'Alenes. Besides this, all
the property sold is owned there ex.
cept the Golden Chest, which belongs
/ W 11ohA9F lAie, II =, piIbitS. 4 lie Bulh
of the purchasing money will be used
in developing other good mining pro.
perties.
II. c. Baker, president and general
manager of the Consolidated Mining
company, whose property is located
near Brigham City, has returned from
Chicago. Mr.. Baker states that Mil.
Ter gassoline 25-horse double cylinder
engine will soon be put in. together
with Tandem air compressor to fur,
nish air for the mine and to drive the
power drills which will be used here
after. A. +. Nash is the new superin
tendent of the mine and H. H. Ward
leigh is the general foreman The of
| fieers newly elected are: II. C. Baker
Ogden, president and general mana
ger: George A. Weaver, of Urbana, O.
president; Fred d. Clifford, Chica
go, secretary and treasurer; w. w. W
Arthur, of the Southern Pacific, Chica
go, and Hon. A. w. ogleby, member o
the Canadian parliament, Montreal
directors
A mild form of mining fever ha
struck st. Anthony, Idaho, and severa
of her citizens left for the mountains
Phil 0akden, John Marshall and .Iohl
Stewart, old prospectors, returne,
from tour and filed their hearer
with ambition and mining fever b
tales of rich copper discoveries on tn
mountains that separate us from Jack
sons Hole. They brought in as mucl
of the rock as was convenient and sen
samples to half dozen assayers. TIL
reports came back that the rock wa
FROM forty to sixty per cent copper
These reports were better than the
had dreamed of and the finders wer
at once thrown into a state of wild en-
thusiasm and expectation They go t
work at once and will ship 900 pound
of the ore to Butte and Salt Lake t
have their dreams verified.
A new gold find has been made /
the Clear Creek range OF mountains /
Box Elder county, Utah, twenty mile
from Kelton, Central Pacific railroa
station. The mineralized veins al
! described as an oxidized iron quart
which crop up between granite an
slate contact A two-foot vein carri,