Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-09
MINING NOTES.

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State Line
The Mammoth mill resumed opera
tions the 9TH
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 will
soon be pumped out and the daily out
put increased to 1000 tons.
The recent cavern ON the surface
workings of the Niagara, at Mercur,
has been overcome, and the gold ores
are again passing through the mill at
the rate of about fifty tons day.
A 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 mill
which will soon start up. The mine
is showing up well and the seasons
run is expected to be a successful one.
John c. Montgomery has been APP
pointed receiver for the Bassick mine,
Colorado, which is said to be worth
over 81, OOO,O 900, pending a decision in
the litigation that is in progress m
volving the title to the property.
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 Beck 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, a Nevada proper
ty, is peparing to market lot of ore
which it is claimed will run s75 to the
ton in gold. There is said to be
fve-foot vein Of the ore.
A Cotton 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 Assays
showed as high as 5000 per ton in
gold.
The Salmon River district in Nevada
is attracting considerable attention
from mining men. 1t is situated about
sixty miles north of Elko. 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 bust
" 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 Cinnamon with the char
= 1,as, 7alr
no mention of how well they are doing.
1t is only by noticing the number en-
gagged and the vigor with which they
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
tall, after legal squabble, to his part
lers for, it is said. 100000. The pre-
sent owners are A. W. McCune Of Salt
Lake, w. L. Hoge of Butte and Scott
Mcdonald of Spokane. Rumor has So
100, 900 worth of ore in sight.
The Black Hills country is highly ex-
.ited over the discovery of what seems
o be an inexhaustible supply of gold
n the mine that is known as the Tor
lado. The Tornado is located on Bald