Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-12-01
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MINING NOTES.

Two Sacramento citizens have
brought suit against j. S. Lake and
members of the Sacramento Mining
company for two-thirds interest Ia
the Sacramento mine at Mercur.
A Denver expert is at Ashland, Ore.
making an examination with view to
erecting cyanide mill equal to 500
tons per day 1t will be located at the
Ashland quartz mill and will com.
mence work on 1000 tons of tailings.
Reports from the Seven Devils, Ida,
are to the effect that the mines are
developing wonderfully The smelter
will soon be ready to blow in. There
is renewed talk about the railroad and
there is an impression hat it will soon
materialize
Word has been received from Gold
Creek, New, that the Gold Creek 81
Nevada Mining company, in recent
placer working at Gold creek, uncov-
cred vein, the assay of which shows
1898 in gold aud 1853 ounces in silver
This is one of the richest discoveries
made in this section of Nevada.
Considerable interest is being taken
at Soda Springs over the recent un-
earthing of choice mineral A gold
ledge of twenty miles in length is said
to have been discovered and is being
taken up rapidly. Assays made from
the rock are said to run as high as
S40,0 to the ton
A force of men is employed in the
development of the Grunter group of
mines near Shoup, Ida, in which the
Waterman brothers of Salt Lake City
are interested. 1t is reported that this
is the making of a splendid gold pro-
ducer, and it is more than likely that
within year it will be equipped with
mill.
Henry Bratnober, the mining expert
who recently made a trip to Dawson
City in the interest of the London Ex-
ploration company purchased num-
Der of claims for his employers, the
aggregate price paid being 81, 200 600.
MIR. Bratnober's operations is thought
to be additional evidence of the value
of Klondike's gold fields.
A. c. Yost, one of the survivors of
the ill-fated expedition from Colorado
to the gold fields of Bolivia and Peru,
has returned to Denver. He says the
stories of terrible ravages of fever in
those countries have been greatly
exaggerated. He says the gold fields
consist of rich placers which give rich
returns for machine mining, but poor
men have no chance there.
1t is said that the mining district
surrounding Baker City, Ore, is a
great country for gold, and that in
nearly every camp there are several
mills in operation, the number OF
stamps dropping, with contemplated
additions, amounting to over 300. This
is an excellent showing, and it is be
lieved that in the near future this will
rank as one of the leading gold re
gions of the west.
The Gypsy Queen Gold Mining com
pany, composed of Chicago busines,
men, and headed by Percy d. White
head of that city, have closed con
tract with the Missouri Dredge com
pany at Kansas City for an elevated
bridge, an immense affair which is t,
be attached to the bow of steambos
now building in Chicago and which
is intended to ship west within thir.
days, to be sent into the Klondike.
The richest gold mine in the world
according to the New York Tribune
is located under the thriving town O
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. TIL
town has about $4,000 inhabitants
nearly all of whom are employed in tn
mine. There are more than 100 mile
of tunnels under the city, some c
them being at a depth of 1000 fee
The entrance to the mine. which is cor
trolled by corporation and is know
as the Band, Barton and Albion Conn
ellis, is outside the city.
The department of mining and geo
ogy of the Wyoming State uniyersit
has just given out ten remarkabl
assays of surface gold ores from I'll
Grand Encampment mining district !
southern Wyoming. These ASSAY
were Of ore from widely different par
of the district, no two samples bein
from any one prospector or mine
The phenomenal average of S461 SO r
suited from them, The best ore ra
s1,516. 35 per ton, the lowest grade b
ing Sl366. These assays were mac
in the university and conducted
Professor Wilbur C. Knight Of Il
chair of mining and geology. Th'
were of ores sent to the university
be tested by ranchmen and prospecto
in the newly discovered gold distriC
and were in every case taken fro
quartz and deeomposed oxidized ir'
ore showing atmospheric action, al
thus indicating that the samples we
all from the surface.