Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-06-09
MINING NOTES.

tention of capitalist and prospector.
great deal of work is being done
by claim owners at State Line, and the
more the claims are developed the bet
ter is the showing. Everything indi-
Gates that the veins are permanent.
John Dern, who has been looking in
to the ground on Lion hill, Mercur,
says that no locality has impressed
him more favorably and that there is
more activity there at this time than
at anytime since development was un-
dertaken.
The election of a mining recorder
for Camp Floyd district was held in
Mercur recently. There was evidently
not many who wanted the job. and but
little interest was taken. j. f. Con-
nor was the only nominee and he was
declared elected.
Thomas Thomas arrived in Baker
City recently, bringing with him five
big gold nuggets, the largest valued at
between $500 and 5000, which he had
obtained from the Gordon, Thomson
and Allan plaeers at Gimletville, Grant
county Oregon. Altogether the mug
gets weighed about seventy ounces.
The Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany has made a report to the county
assessor that its net proceeds of mines
in 1896 were 81, 375,0 900 and the gros
S17, ,375, 600. The working expenses
were S13, ,375, 900. 1t is said the output
is the largest of any mine in the world
Its net proceeds the year before were
81 ,OsO, 600.
Attorney-General Bishop has served
notice on the register of the land office
and on c. V. Wheeler, claimant of the
| Kingley lode at Tintic, that he will
protest the application for patent on
the ground that it was school land be-
| longing to the state, and that in the
served the right to locate mineral
land for the prospector.
Considerable development and pros
pecting work is being done in Snake
Creek district in Summit county, the
present season. In times past ore fab
ulously rich in the precious metals has
been extracted from some of its mines
notably the Southern Tier. Work on
that property was abandoned because
the vein had 'sfaulted." Lower down
the stratafication appears to be in
place and it is from this point that big
things are expected the present sea
son.
The DalyWest at Park City has sue
combed to adverses heaped upon it by
the cost in marketing its ores, and dis
missed all save very few men who
will be employed on exploratory work.
Manager DAILY said that he had been
unable to make what he regarded as a
favorable contract with the smelters,
in that they had advanced the treat
ment charges $3.50, and that until a
better figure was presented he would
make no effort to do more than devel-
opement work.
A rich gold strike has been made at
a point six miles southeast of Neal
district, Idaho, of which the ore is very
rich but the extent unknown The
discovery was made by +. NJ. Brown
and a man named Stanton, who took
a sample to Boise and had an assay
made which showed value of Sl96.
The result of the assay justified the
discoverers in thinking they had be
nanza and they went back and marked
out claim, which they had not done
before owing to the robability of the
ore proving of small value. The weir
is four or five feet wide and well de
fined
An Italian named Antoine CavigliC
was killed in the Mercur mine. lie
was working in the first cross-cut or
the 3O0-foot level in the Resolute in
cline, and was engaged in squaring uI
the roof to put in second square set
He was standing on the logging on tn,
first set, about seven feet above the
floor, when the falling of some ore be
hind him caused him to step forward
In some way his foot slipped from the
cap timber and he fell on his side ant
stomach across pit car that was or
the track below and died soon after
the accident.
The new gold camp of Wyoming
Encampment, continues to give every
promise of future greatness CLAIM
owner brought to Carbon several pie
ees of spar as large as a mans thuml
that We're studded with gold and on,
gget of pure wire gold an inch lon,
and half an inch in thickness Beside
these specimens, he had a three-ounc
bottle nearly full of nuggets that hac
been picked out of the spar, that wer
all the way in size from grain o
wheat to pea. These specimens ar
the finest and richest yet seen in thi
country, and demonstrates beyond tn
question of doubt that the preeiou
metals are there in abundance Thes
specimens came from less than fou
feet from the surface of the ground
There is three feet of this ledge matter
which is "Fleur SPAR" and 'abou
eighteen inches pf IL Yields OuUuatS n