Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-08-11
MINING NOTES.

Men employed in doing dead work
and prospecting at the Ontario mine at
Park City have been discharged, while
all those working on ore have been re-
tanned.
AT the Galena mine, in Beaver Lake
mining district, Frisco, the shaft is in
a fine body of good ore; aud the
outlook for the property is said to be
very encouraging.
superintendent Hanson SAYS he has
/ 5000 tons of $50 ore on the Aztec
dump at Summitville, Colo, aud
enough ore in the mine ready to slope
out to run thirty-ton mill three
years.
At depth of twenty-five feet on the
/ Crown Point, at State Line, Kelly and
Emerson have struck very high grade
ore, but the Crown Point has been a
high grade proposition from the grass
roots
The Moriarity boys at Idaho City
are repairing their ditch at the Boulder
and before long the thirty stamps OF
their mill will be run by water power.
They have out 800 or 400 tons of ore,
all the bins being full.
strike of rich ore has been made In
Blacksmith Fork canyon by Hyrum
citizens. Samples containing gold,
silver, copper and heavy per cent of
galena are being assayed.
Reports come from Kingman, Ariz.
of extensive gold placers forty miles
easterly from White Hills, ON the Col
orado river. The auriferous gravel
lies adjacent to the Colorado river and
is easily worked.
A mammoth vein has been encount-
cred in the Bullion Beck at Tintic, the
greatest in the history of the mine 1t
is eighteen feet high, and OF great
wealth, averaging ounces silver and
10 per cent lead,
Another cleanup Of amalgam from
the Ben Hur mill in Steptoe valley,
White Pine county, New, received at
the company's office in Salt Lake City,
represents from S40O to $500, and was
the result of two and half days'
run. 1t is reported that the new mill
is working in most satisfactory man
ner.
The shareholders Of the Inter Noun
tain Mutual Development company are
feeling encouraged over the outlook,
as it is understood that the company is
perfecting arrangements so that it
will soon begin work on a shipping
proposition that is likely to place the
company on a dividend paying basis at
an early day.
The contract for charging the main
shaft at the Golden Gate at Mercur has
not yet been let, but large number
of bids have been put IN. In addition
to the shaft tunnel will be run, con
Meeting the BriclSyard ground with the
main shaft This tunnel will be
nearly mile long, and work on the
Briekyard end of it has already com
menced.
e. M. West, president Of the Beaver
Lake Copper Mining company, which
is located in Beaver Lake district, a
few miles north of Frisco, reports that
there is increased activity in mining
circles in that locality, and that re-
suits are becoming more and more en-
couraging, the indications being that
within short time this will grow into
one Of the best camps in the great
state of Utah.
Eight of the tanks for the La Cigale
mill at Mercur have been received and
twelve more are on the way. They
are oblong shaped, weigh 1000 pounds
each and have capacity OF forty tons.
The pipe line is well under way and
will be completed in about two weeks,
at which time the mill will be about
completed. Work in the mine is pro-
crossing more rapidly than before as
the steam hoist is now in operation.
After years of Industrious labor, a
strike has been made in the Lower
Mammoth. The strike was made at the
depth of 124 feet in the winze which
had been sunk from a point $50 feet
from the mouth Of the tunnel. The
ore is a lead carbornatc' the first ASSAY
showing AZ per cent lead, 72 ounces
silver, trace of gold and / y per cent
copper. When more depth was at
tanned assays averaged AZ per cent lead,
SO ounces silver, s. in gold and per
cent copper.
A Butte smelter is In receipt of n
shipment of ore from the newly dis
covered copper deposits north Of the
camp called Elk City in Idaho These
copper fields are situated in the heart
of the range of mountains bisecting
the northern end of Idaho They are
said to cover an area sixty miles in
length. The shipment sent Colonel
Bethune was Of the glance variety
and ran as high as 4s per cent. II is