Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-11-10
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MINING NOTES.


s6o1 900. The sale was at public auc-
tion and the bidding started at
$4,000.
The Pride of the West on Richmond
hill, near Aspen, Colo which is being
worked by Fred Watson, is temporarily
drowned out A shot, which is sup
posed to have broken into the contact,
let in such flow of water that within
short time it rose twenty fe ct in the
shaft.
There is prospect that the Caleb
Rhodes mine which has been buried in
the Uintah reservation for so long a
time, will be worked again soon. The
pay streak in the mine is from three
inches to three feet in width, and as
says have been made showing values
as high as $3.50, 900 to the ton Asso-
lated with the vein is what is called
barren ledge, but even this runs 35
ounces in silver and 81 in gold.
The Utah law taxing the net profits
of mines will generally be complied
with. All the big mines, including
the Mercur, ,Centen nial Eureka and Bull
lion-Beck, will pay the tax under pro-
test, and endeavor to have the law re-
pealed by the next w-making body.
There is not much talk of testing the
constitutionality of the measure, al
though mining men generally consider
1T not only an imposition, but scare
crow to investors.
According to the San Francisco En.
aminer English capital has invested
an amount, said to be nearly $500, 900,
in the purchase of the Grand Victory
group of gold mines on Squaw creek
in Ell Dorado county, seven miles
southeast of Placerville. This is the
largest deal which has beeu made in
California for some time, and the in
tehtion is to work the property on an
extensive scale. The purchaser is the
Transatlantic Mines Purchase Syndi
cate, Limited, of London and the sell
lsrs were H. E. Pickett of PlacerVille
and J. C, Wright of indianapolis,
lad.
The Baker City Democrat, in spexk-
ing of David Keiths mine, says an ore
vein four feet wide has been struck ON
the sixty-foot level The finding ef
this ledge, which is beyond question
the Virtue vein. sets at rest any fur
ther speculation as to the success of
the work that has been carried on for
the past year, and the promoters of
this mining enterprise have been ro-
warded for their pluck and sagacity.
A large amount of money has been
expended to do what has been accom-
plished and fortune in the Con. Vir-
ginia awaits its owners and will be
realized aa soon rs mill facilities can
make it producer.
Colouel Pat Donan, is the author
of a folder published by the Oregon
Railroad e Navigation company of
Portland, in which the Klondilxe ques-
tion in all its branches is most ably
handled in an exhaustive manner,
among the subjects touched upon, be-
ing "The Klondike," "What and
Where Klonnike is 'Incomputable
Riches of the Klondike," 1.-The Cli-
mate of Klondil1e," THE Necessary
Outfit for the Klondilse, "and Portland
the Best Quitting Place" Accom-
panying the folder there is fine map
of Alaska, which shows the location of
Dawson City and the streams on which
The Klondike bonanzas have been
found.
ha T aN1nn 70 let n 1Nf, h tohaH ar<
article on the worlds gold production
since 1850 "With the article chart
is given showing the variations in pro-
duction in each year from 1851 20 1896,
from which the first striking fact TO
be gathered is that the production of
1896, compared with the average pro-
duction of the years 1ss1-90, is prac-
tically double the value. Approx
mately the yield of gold for 1896 may
be stated as e45 100000 against an
average of f21, ,73s, 900 for the period
of 1ss1-O0. For 1896 the production by
fields was az follows: United States,
$40, 800, 900; Australasia, 1858, 900;
Transvaal, es,604 900; India, e5, Oh 900;
Russia and other countries, e1O, ,697, 900;
or total of e45, ,O00, 900. The grand
aggregate of the gold production since
1850, inclusive, in round figures, is
81, 1913, ,o0O, 900, or approximately 3o0,-
600, 900 ounces of gold"
A. E. Mininm is said to have diseoN,
cred on Casper mountain, Wyo., well
defined fissure of white and blue gold
hearing quartz, between granite walls
sixty feet wide and traced over 500
feet At places it shows an iron-stair
auriferous quartz, and is situated thir
teen miles east of Casper, Wyo., neal
Hot Six canyon. 1t is free milling
and pan test from surface sample
gave in the neighborhood of 81. Th'
claim is made of million tons il
sight. There is nothing on the YukoI
that can teat this very much