Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
MINING NOTES.

oulilOn shipments, are Delng mau'
regularly.
A rich lead mine has been struck OF
Main street at Joplin, Mo-, within I
few blocks of the business center O.
town. IL. d. Graves and Sam Vaughn
the two miners who found it, took out
at depth of seven feet over ton o.
ore in day. Machinery will be put
in and the mine will be in operation
right in the heart of the city.
After a long wait, a party of Califor'
mia prospectors who two years ago
went into the Yaqui Indian country
west of Hermosillo, Mex, and discov-
cred rich placers on the Batepito river,
have secured title to the property and
have begun TO work it, Four mem
bers of the party have alreauy taken
out $40, 900 worth of gold
The DeLamar mines, in Nevada, are
in good working order and are furn-
ishing the mill with all the ore neces-
sary to keep il trimming to its full capa
city. A large number of men
were put on the past month, and
everything was in good shape for
Captain De Lamar's inspection recent
ly.
Several eastern capitalists have ar,
rived at Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
during the past week and are making
thorough examination of the various
prospects in the district, with view
of furnishing money for development
purposes. These people have large in
terests in Cripple Creek and Leadville.
They are so well satisfied with the
made from the development work al
ready done, that they have associated
themselves with several of the claim
owners and arranged to furnish the
necessary capital to determin the val
ne and permanency of their properties.
Dillon and Myers, who hold bond
and lease on several of the best mines
in the Seminole district, some forty
miles north of Rawlins, Wyo., are
meeting with good success in their
new undertaking. The cleanup from
the last run made was entirely salts
factory. Several new bodies have
been discovered and opened up that
are much richer than any heretofore
known to exist A New York syndi-
cate has raised the money to build a
railroad from some point along the
line of the Union Pacific to this dis
trict, and is now engaged in making
the preliminary survey.
The people of Roanoke, Va, are
very much excited over the reported
discovery of a cave on Tinker noun
tain which is claimed to be very rich
in silver ore. The discovery is said to
have been made by james Riley, a
farmer, residing on the
He claims to have acct
dentally discovered the opening to the {
cave, which was closed with rock 6
cut exactly to fit it. He removed the |
rock and explored the cave, and the 8
visions of the shining white metal all
,ver the room nearly dazzled him. Be
ides being scattered all over the in
tide of the cave, there was near the
enter a solid column of nearly pure
liver, six inches square, extending
rom the floor to the roof, specimens
# which have assayed 90 per cent
,ure silver. Riley took neighbor in.
o his confidence and the riches they
ell of have set the people wild with
xoitement.
Gen. Charles Warren has this to say
f Klondyl1e: "All this talk about
londyke being the richest country
he world has ever known is bosh.
.lder gulch, in Montana, produced
100, 900, 900 in gold and was probably
ne greatest placer country ever dis
overed on earth, Virginia City, the
Id capital of Montana, was located
lere. 1t was discovered in 1868, and q,
30, 900, 900 in gold were taken out OF cl
lie sands the first year the mines were to
orked. In 1866 the Archie McGreg We
: company secured 1900, 600 in nine
: days off of Montana gulch. They tn
ought all the beer kegs there were in n'
lie country, put the gold in the hegs, en-
red twenty men with Henry rifles, TO
iilt Macllinaw boats and floated down Al
Ie Missouri aver Last Chance tn
ilch, where Helena is situated, for pc
any years never failed to take out as ne
uch wealth as the entire Alaska On
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