The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-03

streak about twenty inches wide running rs high
Is 2 500 per pound, and the owners S are sacking
claims at a0 sannyside Tor $4,000. The Morn.
ine H,sr a S1%s rs sso S5e's0' The fsr' Hftio ea0 nine HGns ' at
Ward. which has boon producing ore to the
y ysapsd Of s ses sspi Ss' at % q SsptS sh oi z zso ia has s ri
200 feet from the shaft, The ore is pyritic
undeveloped claim in Ward for 9 few dollars.
and now he has n %six.foot vein with ore assay
Ground has been broken In Aspen for. the
intcre sSne' OF the M TSfks q GIBSON pc run and n the tSe 'o an.
gentum.Juniat mines, to cost $4,000, with
The & ss dn%ps Will Fl Boz Be- worked sShsi up apf By IG tSis nff. orc on
II
SEATTLE, Dec. 25.-An effort is being made to
interest capital in the rebuilding Of the Monte
be Impossible for the canon streams to wash It
out;
Northern Railroad. are becoming productive,
and a number of them have recently made salts.
factory shipments Of carload lots to the Ever.
There is a rich copper belt here, from thirty to
forty miles In extent, fanked on the south and
west by the Great Northern Railroad, and with
IN easy distance of tide water and smelling
facilities.
ALASKA.
SEATTLE, Dec. 25.-The Unga Island mines,
which are owned by San Francisco men, have
boen turning out a large amount Of bullion
the production being only second to that OF the
have caught tho Klondike fever. and contem.
plate leaving early in the spring.
Greek mines on ,Berner's Bay. for $l25,ooo arc
sending in a large amount of mining. ma
The Sfrcadweil Company has just contracted
vii Puget Sound sawmill companies for
s siqSeiG1o d 1ee the IF i neM s6o to pe ps %ili In tho con-
sorTTI DAKOTA.
.DEApwooD, s. D.. Dec. PA second double
dividend for the Homestake is announced this
S4s.o6o. e on twice ice the %5n %.u has am a61s week paid
The new Belle Fourche Smelling Company
has surveyed a site for a large smelter at that
Soon. The Golden Reward Mining Company is
alsE on the point Of erecting Tbng 3 smelter on 1.-THE the
will be extended to the sites.
Telluride ore has been struck In new ground
n uein az aea iirst w Hes' narrow 9S of but PfG Is now tho ffnniHl
width of the shaft, and is getting richer. As
yet 1t runs only about So In gold and some cop
A sale of the st. Elmo in the Southern Hills
htSol been n m sde ito to capt ni Marsh tSrs t Of 9m na6a and md
mine. Included in the deal is O ten.stamp mill.
BRITISH
SEATTLE, Dec. 25.-Fivc concessions have
been taken up on Tom Greek 2 nh tributary OF
Of two miles and a half and prospects from 81
10 Sl.CO y lne pail i u 10 u HsuEdullC puOlo-
sition, only requiring the construction Of q
ditch three miles in length to afford plenty of
water with a strong head.
In the Centre Star mine, Rossland, a new
strike has been made on the War Eagle vein.
which passes through this property near the
Iron Mask side line. The strike shows twenty
feet in width.
of $50 gold and copper ore In the bottom OF the
ninety-foot shaft. This property embraces six
claims.
A ten 4tamp mill Is being packed in over the
snow to Forty-nine Mile Creek. 10 be used on
the ores of the Referendum group. At New
Denver q three.eighths interest in the Califor-
MIA mine has been sold for $4,000 to Marks &c
Co.
The Fidelity is making another shipment of
sixty tons that will go 100 ounces silver and 90
per cent. lead to the ton. This ore Is being
rawhided down the mountains from the mines.
In Whitewater district the Peoria Company
has made some important strikes, the ore go
ing from $112 to 1882 to the ton in silver and
gold. One carload, shipped recently, gave re-
turns of $3.50 per ton. |
MEXICo. |
GUAYMAs, Dec. 25.-The sale of the In.
guaran copper mines to Rothschild and Mira.
beaud of Paris for several million dollars has
been the result of prolonged and thorough inves-
tigation of this great copper deposit. The ex-
perts have all agreed that there is an enor-
nous quantity of ore of fine quality in the
mines. Messrs. Rothschild and Mirabeaud
will build two lines of railroad, one to connect
Nth tho xyaat cnaat and the other with the |