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

State Line.
The Mammoth mill resumed opera
tions the 5th
The Mercur mine is constructing ten
new teaching tanks.
The Susan mine at Tintic has en-
countered a body of very desirable
ore
The basin mines at Leadville win
soon be pumped out and the daily out
put increased to 20oo tons.
The recent cave-in on the surfac,
workings Of the Niagara, at Mercur
has been overcome, and the gold ores
are again passing through the mill al
the rate of about fifty tons day.
new gold discovery has been made
near State Line on the road to Desert
Springs. The locality had been sup.
posed to be outside the mineral belt,
as the formation is different.
The North Mountain mining com
pany of Nevada is erecting a mill
which win soon start up. The mine
is showing up well and the seasons
run is expected to be successful one.
John c. Montgomery has been ap.
pointed receiver for the Bassick mine,
Colorado, which is said to be worth
over Sl,0o0,0o0, pending decision in
the litigation that is in progress in.
b4A tn he
Captain j. r. DeLamar is en- route
to Salt Lake from Europe, to look after
the building of the mammoth mill at
the Golden Gate mine in Mercur He
will also take look at his other pro
perties in the West.
Additions will be made to the Bull.
lion-Beclt mill in Tintic to enable it to
handle the vast body of low grade ores
in the mine. The prediction is made
that the mine will soon again resume
the payment of dividends.
The Golden Eagle, Nevada proper
ty, is peparing to market a lot of ore
which it is claimed will run S75 to the
tons in gold There is said to be
five-foot vein of the ore.
60-ton consignment of ore from
the Gold Note mine, Battle Mountain,
Nevada, was sold in Salt Lake last
week, which was of better grade
than usually goes to market. Assay,
showed as high as $500 per ton in
gold
The Salmon River district in Nevads
is attracting considerable attention
from mining men. 1t is situated about
sixty miles north of Ellxo, and is cop.
per proposition. Some assays of picked
samples give startling results, while
the general results are said to be very
encouraging to surface work. Much
work will be done there this reason.
Friends of the district think it will ri.
val Butte in few years.
The Chinese west of town are busi.
~ engaged in placer mining, says the
Tuscarora Times Review, and we learn
from a reliable source that they are
doing better than for many years.
The country west of town has produc.
ed millions in placer gold yet no one
ever heard of this country as a gold
field, as the Chinamen' with the char.
Acteristic reticence of their race, make
no mention of how well they are doing.
1t is only by noticing the number en-.
gagged and the vigor with which they
prosecute the work during the season
that water is attainable, that one can
judge.
The Tribune, published at Nelson,
B. C.. says that mining men from the
SLOGAN say that the Payne is now the
great mine of the section. The Payne
was the first location made in the Slo-
can country, and its discovers knew SO
little regarding the ledge that they To-
Gated the claim across it instead OF
along it. Steve Bailey acquired the
ground soon afterwards, worked it on
and off for five years, and sold out last
fall after a legal squabble, to his part
ners for, it is said, 500, The pre-
sent owners are A. w. McCune of Salt
Lake, W. L. Hoge of Butte and Scott
Mcdonald of Spokane. Rumor has S5,-
| 900, 900 worth of ore in sight
The Black Hills country is highly eN>
cited over the discovery of what seems
to be an inexhaustible supply of gold
in the mine that is known as the Tor
nado. The Tornado is located on Bald
mountain and it impossible to estimate
even roughly the amount of gold which
can be gotten out of it. The ore now
being mined is uniformly worth $40
ton The mine rivals the greatest
gold finds. such as the Granite Noun
tain and the Homestake. 1t is even a
bigger strike than the former, for there
is no prospect of its ever giving out
The discovery Of fissure vein yindi-
Gates theory long held by old miners
that justSsuch body of ore existed in
this vicinity.
Dan Reber, the Dixie mining mana
ger, says the Mountain Home Qda.l
Bulletin, still entertains the idea of
erecting cyanide works at his mines,
in which case about 80 percent of the
refractory ors could be saved and the
mine put on a big paying basis.