The indicator. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1894-1911, 1897-08-07
GENERAL MINING NOTES,

| a contract for the erection Of n smell
ter nj Ccrrillos, New Mexico, for Cap
tain Ralue has been let.
From the Juneau mine, in Silver Bow
basin. ALASKA. $4,000 in gold was tax
en- out in the first twenty days of the
| season.
| Exports of copper in .Tunc amounted
10 l3.129 tons and from January LIST.
G2.223 tons, against S.103 tons of the
same time last year
AT the Golden Gate mill at Mcrcur.
Utah, which is 10 have a capacity of
500 tons daily. the Kendall dioxide cy-
anidc process will be used.
| Thomas kcarns, representing the Sill
Yer King. has secured an option on the
Union mine at Park City, Utah. for
eighteen months at $4,000.
The Novel; g. NJ. Co. writes that
good rock miners can find employment
in and around Juneau, Alaska. The
| klondyke excitement is making min
crs scarce there.
| Phil. Armour and other capitalists
of Chicago have purchased Il large
tract of placer land on the Snake river,
Idaho. and it is said will operate it by
means of Il dry process.
The number of silver dollars coined
ut the United States mints during the
last fiscal year was 2l.2037O1. on
which the scignioragc or profits TO the
government amounted 10 SG,336, 10i.
| The silver yield in Mexico last year
was estimated mt SOL, 800. 900. and it is
claimed that there is n larger output
being made this year. which prom
iscs TO increase the total TO S60,O00,oOo.
company has taken up, under the
placer law, the Islands in Great Salt
Lake. for their guano deposits. The
first shipment will be made to Califor-
mia for sugar beet fields.
Recent discoveries of gold-bcaring
quartz Mt Hall City. in Trinity county,
| California. near the Harrison gulch
mines, have caused considerable ex-
citement and many people have gone
in TO prospect and locate.
A copper ledge is reported to have
been discovered an the shore 400 miles
west of Sitka, which is said to he
eighty feet wide and 800 feet in
length. 1t has been located for L. G.
Dillman of Spokane and associates.
Up to July 10th for 1851. the value
of ore and matte exported from the
kootenay mines in British Columbia.
was S3,91G, 2SG.S0. OF this 2T.37S tons
was in ore valued at S1,933.2l5.70 and
S1,9S3,0i010 in produce of smcltcrs.
There has been an unavoidable delay
| in getting the pumps started at Lead.
vile. since necessary castings had to be
secured in Denver. 1t is now expected
that all the pumps will be working by
the 18th
Some of the best gold properties of
! ',t,., n
| hands. Foreign stockholders are even
reported TO have displaced recent
president of the Victor mine of that
camp.
A cut in wages ut Park City, Utah,
in the Ontario and DAILY mines, has
been announced to go into effect Aug
ust LIST, which is under discussion by
the men rs TO whether they will submit
or not.
| The Drum Lummon mine mt Marys-
VILE, Maintain. was year ago report
ed worked out. To-day the force en-
ploycd by the Montana Mining Com
pany, the owners. is as large as 1t ever
was. and in few days when the six
ty-stamp mill will be crushing ore
again. the number of men in the com
pany's employ will be larger than ever
before in its history. There are now
about $50 men on the pay roll of the
company. Until last year the Drum
Lummon mine was n steady producer
almost from the time the English COM
pany bought the property from Thorn
as Cruise. Less than year ago. both
mills were closed down. as 1t was
found rhey were keeping ahead of pro-
duction. Since the development work
has shown mp large ore bodies and
within short time 100 stamps will be
dropping again. In the meantime Il
cyanide plant has been put up to work
over an immense quantity of old tail
ings. All this means much for other
mines all over the West. for the his.
tory of the Drum Lummpn is the his.
! tory of other mines In Nevada, Cole.
rndo, California, Idaho and Arizona.