Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-08
G. NJ. PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE.
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MINING NOTES.

In the Klondike today the sun rises
at 4:24 and sets at 1886. In four months
from today it will rise at 1913 and set
at 1:47
George Loomis of Montpelier, Ida,
made shipment of ore to Salt Lake
which showed A per cent copper and
ia ounces silver.
An English syndicate is considering
the purchase of the Yogo sapphire
fields in the Judith basin, in Montana,
for $9o0,000
Alta, in Cottonwood Canyon, prom
ises to be one Of Utahs lively camps
next year The district promises to
develop several producers.
Reports from the Alaska at Tintic
indicate that the strike which was re-
Gently made is one of the most i'm
portant that has been made in the
locality.
The Denver Stock and Mining Ex-
change has closed its doors and gone
out of business because of the fact
that there was not room enough in
Denver for two boards.
l.. L. Grape has some fine look NO
ore taken from claim he has located
near the Colorado line east of the Bio
Indian district 1t runs high in cop
per and silver.
Jack Edwards and Tom Ellerbeck
OF Sail Lake are interested in a Deep
Greek proposition in which A foot
VEN was recently struck which goes
Sl4 in gold and 81 ounces in silver.
Several years ago the Bullion-Beck
at Tintie shipped several tons of ore
that went $500 in gold Now that sill
yer has gone down the Beck people are
prospecting for the deposit and will
drive tunnel to locate it.
Charlie Parr, who made discovery
ct gold-bearing ore about 100 miles
west of Salt Lake City few days ago,
Is feeling highly elated over the fact
that the rock carries good values in
the yellow metal.
Notice has been posted at Custer
City, Ida, that after the first of the
present month miners wages would be
cut to the extent of 95 cents day,
and the miners say that if board is not
also reduced they will strike.
An important mining deal was closed
recently whereby Edward n. Breitung
OF Marquette, Mich, the extensive
mining operator, purchased the Albany
placer mines on Douglas creek. The
purchase price was $4,000.
Sweetser & Burroughs of Pocate1lo,
recently received slug of gold
weighing thirty y-eight Troy ounces and
and worth about S760-the result of
three days run of their gold dredge
now operating on the Snake river,
near Minadola. Their boat works the
sand from the bottom of the river and
handles about 2o0o yards of dirt in
twenty hours. They say that the sand
OF the Snake in that vieinicy average
from ), to cents per yard.
At Horseshoe bend, on the Carson
river, twenty-four miles above Carson,
an extensive gravel gold deposit has
b4rn more or less prospected for the
last three or four years, but without
paying results, it being very fine float
or drift gold, difficult to save, and with
but little fall for washing and drain
age. A shaft has been started to test
its deeper aspect and possibilities
The Grande Orc placer location of
1000 acres at the mouth of Gold can
yon, at and above Dayton, New, has
been thoroughly tested, yielding over
$4,000 in the last two years, and is
still turning over $1,000 per month. A
shaft forty-five feet deep has been sunk
at Dayton, showing gravel prospecting
from two bits to dollar to the pan,
but very strong influx of water pre-
vents deeper sinking A long bed rock
tail race from an eligible point below
on the Carson river will eventually be
brought up at heavy expense to
effeetually drain the whole country.
A very interesting mining develop
ment is that of the Three Link pro.
perty in the Black Hornet district,
Ida. The claim was recently located
by Mr.. Glenn. It is about mile from
the Hornet. A strong vein of ore was
found at the surface and the owner set
about getting out shipment lie
worked during August and got nine
tons on the dump, This ore has been
worked in the steen mill and
yielded $500 in gold. The total ex,
pense of hauling and milling was $50,
leaving Mr.. Glenn s946 net for his
months work.
The deepest hole in the earth SAYS
an exchange, is the 4a0o-foot shaft in
copper mine in the upper peninsula
of Michigan. As the rock at the bot
tosn is worth IS a ton, the hole will be
continued indefinitely, much to the
delight of geologists and other scien.
lists.