The sun., 1897-10-25

which has Just completed and placed in op-
SSTreperos IN BnSham have q" sca%rSd nS BOND
on tho Stewart No. group in the samo camp |
S as bs II BOY SSH S RS
promise as producers of silver, gold, and cop
per, The amount OF money involved in tho
deal has not been made public, but 1t is a good
superintendent Chambers OF tho Ontario and
DAILY announces that operations will not bo re-
sumcd on an extensive, scale at the properties
OF the companies named until silver Is back to
at loast 20 cents per ounce.
Tho decline in the price of lead, which oc-
Cured on Saturday last, was a new blow to tho
mining. industry; The maintenance OF tho
lit since silver went under the 65.ccnt mark
Tho final cleanup for the season has been
ham. Superintendent HctIron brought in sixty
pounds OF gold silver bullion as q result Tho
m NH ,C SpsFIbS p be On So weather on
Rich strikes are reported from the Ajax and
Grand Central in tho Iinic district; In the
latter gold quartz.
TUCSON, Oct. l6.--Georpe Lockwood has five
inches of 81 900 silver orc on his lease on the
Daisy, White Hills The Tennessee shaft is
going down rapidly, and in short time the
large ore body will be reached.
The rich strike made last week at depth Of
100 feet in the schuylkill mine at Chloride still
and 1000 ounces in silver per ton, and the ore
body is about five feet thick. This strike is tho
largest and richest ever mado In Mohare county.
IDAHO.
IDAHO CITY, Idaho, Oct. 10.-For cgh
teen months a company represented by VIII
lan. G. Shedd Of Demer has been running tun-
in inc Gambrnus ] district I tiI that % yielded SOL so largely
when worked twenty years ago; Tho great
number OF, ledgcs cutting through the noun.
tain caused great amount OF work to be done,
as it was impossible to be sure as to the veins
the tunnels were following. On last Saturday,
tered good ore, assuring Mr.. Shodd that he had
vt last discovered the right vein at depth. This
as it proves that our gold quartz mines do not
give out within two hundred feot Of the sur.
face, as some had thought.
SOUTH DAKOTA
| DEADwooD, S. H., Oct. l9-Thc rich pyritic
ore of the Hardin strike has now been sunk
into nearly twenty-five feet without touching
richness large amount Of machinery for
the mine II ,ia has just arrived , ,, -. A..
tending its railroad TO the Jim Creek coun.
try to:p large belt Of timber, and has 200 men
plying timber for the iIomestake mines
line deposit Of onyx is being developed
| adelphia have shown the stone far superior to
that that usually secured, and shipments will be
| II satisfactory large quantity will be taken
out this winter. and the ground thoroughly do
| vCoped.
| LAKE SUPERIOR.
| DuLuTH. Oct. 22-The great Chandler mine
| at Ell has discontinued shipments Of ore for
the year. with an output of about i?o. 900 tons;
| 1t has in stock for next years shipping 200, 900
TONS and will mine during the winter not far
| from 10000 tons n month, while its shipments
hood of 100000 tons. Almost all tho ore
shipped from this mine this year has been Of
the highest grade Bcsscmer, and so even is the
mines vast orc deposit that 1t has not been
| necessary to sample the ore, except in cargoes,
in order to be sure that it was running up to the
Many men will soon be added to the force in
both tho Norric and Tiden mines. Stock
nil nf fha hif hnin oh ,ol
east as fast as possible, and by the close Of
navigation there will be ample room for piling
| The three steel ships ordered for the Rookie
| fellcr-syndicate this week are not for carrying
pany. but for the Mesaba business Of the Rocke.
| feller company.
| ONTARIO.
| RAT PORTAGE, Ont. Oct. 22.-From the first
| cleanup of the Sawbill Lake mine, east OF here,
$4,000 gold was taken, representing $l5 per
ton OF rock crushed, The mine is a new, one
mil as rapidly as possible 1t has one shaft
'ft aef sSa'2emsns o %o in rs
ern part OF this district to make a showing.
owned by Dr. Walker of Duluth. A wido vein
rich In gold and extremely easy to work has
been found 1t bids fair to prove one of the
rich strikes of the lake district
.GrAYMAs, Oct. ,16..,The Mulatos mine. one
OF the most noted gold properties OF Sonora.
sold to English capitalists for 81 200. 900. Tho
| new company will put in new reduction
| works and operate the mine by modern methods.
! Experts who have inspected the property say
| that II can be made one OF the greatest bullion
| producers of the continent.
| The Recompensa silver mine, Charcas dis.
trict, state OF san Luis Potosi has been sold TO
rhittsburs. h Pa., men for $4,000. Assays from
ounces OF silver, with 1.27 ounces of gold and
| 40 per cent. lead
The Yaqui gold region is n rolling valley.
about thirty-fve by sixty miles In area Tho
| gold is coarse and in the neghborhood are
quartz lodges with frec-millng sold ore. An
| American who has recently examined the re-
| gion says the grounds are not OF sufficient rich.
ness to warrant rush He thinks there ia
gold In almost all the tributaries OF the Yaqui,
but that 1t will pay only by the expenditure Of
much money for hydraulic working.