The Virginia enterprise., 1898-09-16

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}WR3TERN MINING NOTES
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AN Illinois syndicate has purchased
four mines on Bull hill, in Cripple Greek
The, Mountain Lion, Republic camp
WASH, is III 90 feet of ore and no wal
IN sight yet. Assays show $50 in gold
per ton. - ,gs,ss ss@TSS.$.
The output of six mining companies
Qperating in the Sierra Mojada, Goa,
holla. Mex, amounted during July Il
$8S6sQ00s a5 - :
The various mining schemes in Colo
RADIO which were interferred with by the
approach of the war, are now developing
with grea ter, energy &y-s<z>>
One mine in Creede, Col, the Com
modores is paying dividends at the rate
OF SSoOO per day. 1t has vein AZ feet
in width, all in mineral Is s.3>-'F
The Yellowstone valley gold craze is
now well-developed. q landslide uncQv-
cred rich pocket and prospectors have
been hocking to the -scene.Y~ u y ~
An assay Of rock from the Black Dia-
mond mine on, North fork of Crazy Wom-
aa'creek. Utah, shows in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000 gold to the ton. :,
-Fhe Sonora (Cal.) Union Democrat
announces, great strike. Of gold in the
Brewer and Adams mine, some of the
ore extracted showing value Of SIS 900
per ton.
The Granite Bimetallic mine at Phil
hpsburg, Mont, 4 silver producer owned
by st. Louis parties. has been closed III
definitely because of strike Of en-
gineerS.
"A new strike is reported from the
county, Cal, which is said to excel any
thing produced in the palmy days of this
property.
Ore which shows 12h ounces in god
and hfty-eight ounces in silver. with a
valuation of $276.54 per ton is being
taken from the Blue Bird mine of Gold
Mountain, Utah. - ..as,
The Mountain Chief. the oldest copper
mine in the Butte camp Mont, is now
abandoned and will probably soon be sold.
Its first shipment of ore was made to
Swansea, Wales.
An assay of ore from the Smell group
of mines in Box Elder county, Gtah.
shows valuation of $5775 per ton Of
course ore of this character: generally
comes in small parcels.
In the South Carolina mine of the
Melones5 group. near Robinson's Ferry.
Cal, the development shows 100000 tons
of ore worth from So to $40 per ton, which
can be milled at $3 per ton.
Reports from Bear Gulch, Mont, con-
tinue to bring information of fabulously
rich returns from the regent placer loca-
tions in that district. and veritable
stampede to that camp has resulted.
On Cooks inlet the Polly company
will clean up $4,000 in two months run.
In July they took out from the best pay
ground along rim rock as high as S14 to
the pan, and IS to the pan was not unusu-
III.
For several years the revenue tun-
mel has been pushing into Mammoth
depth Of 1000 feet, a body of ore was
discovered carrying $33 to the ton in sold
value.
The Commodore quartz mine at Bark
house, Siskiyou county, Cal, has been sold
to San Francisco men for $4,000 The
GoOtlenough group of mines has been sold
to the London Exploration company for
$4,000. - 80. -,
I'm his report to the stockholders the
Superintendent of the Ajax Mining COM
pany at Mammoth, utah, gives a de-
scription Of a cave 20 feet wide, the
sides and bottom of which both show a
hne quality of copper ore.
The Republic mine, Lemhi county.
Ida. produced about $4,000 worth Of
orc in July. The shipments to the smela
ter were 293 tons, averaging Sta to the
ton, making about $4,000, and the prod
uct of the mill was $12, 1000.
"A rich strike is reported in the Lit
tie Maud mine in Maggie gulch, Col. A
2OO-foot ore chute has been opened up,
varying from 1S to 26 inches in width,
and some OF the ore; runs as high -as
sixty ounces gold and 1000 ounces sill
ver.
-''P. F. p" Bertha, 20. IL and Wild
Horse. They were bonded for $11OOO
The price paid exceeds this by $4,000.
The 10: X has yielded considerable
i'll pay ore at SO feet depth. All are good
prospects.
Private letters received recently
speak encouragingly of the KotzeDue
Sound gold fields and deny that the gold
fields are myth. The natives who spel k
English say there is lots of gold. Several
discoveries are reported on the Nootals
and kowak rivers.
The New Mine Sapphire syndicate has
ganized to purchase and operate sapphire
mines. The company already has the
sapphire fields formerly known as the
HObson-H Hoover group, near Utica, the pur-
chase price being 100000. -
In Miller river district, Wash, the
Coney and Cleopatra mines have uncov-
cred rich bodies of ore and are preparing
to ship it to the Everett smelter. This
goes from - gold and $50 ounces silver
to So gold and 700 ounces silver, but the
average is about 500 per ton.
With over 100000 to his credit, AL
exander Tarnet, one of the original own
CTS of the big Center Star mine at Ross
land. B. c., reached Salt Sake city ell
route East. This constituted his share of
the sale of the Center Star for s., 600,
600 to syndicate in Toronto, Ont &
The Ruby mine at Weston pass, Col,
has been sold to J. w. Henney of Free
The purchase price was in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. The Ruby is a new
lead producer and wonderful strike of
ore was made in the claim a few months
ago. -
The Ruth group near Sandon. B. c..
IS giving employment to seventy-iv men
and has shipped 5000 tons Of ore that as.
sayed 12O ounces silver and 62 per cent
lead. TheAnain working tunnel is now
in 500 feet'at vertical depth of 300 feet
The net profits of the mine are about
100000 per year. :
"A big strike has been made IN the
Good Hope mine, Riverside county, Cal
where the workmen have run into an
ore body fifty feet wide at depth Of COG
feet. The ore is low grade. but tic!
enough to be crushed at a profit, while
the great extent of it guarantees that Il
can he worked for long time. =
The Center Star, adjoining the L.
Roi, has been sold to Il London and Mon
trea1 syndicate for $2,OO,OOO. The rn;ne
is in the heart of Rossland, B. g., :,nt
has been among the most noted IF the
camp, although it has not held Dositio,
as a big shipper by reason of the owners
preferring to develop it thoroughly firsl
and. then make shipping record.
The story comes from Mercur, Utah
that within the next few hours the doors
Of Capt. De La Mars mint at the
Golden Gate will reopen. and that from
it will issue shipment of gold bullion OF
the value vf not, less than $4,000, thus
representing the ''mintage" for July, not
withstanding number of brief Interrupt