Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-24
MINING NOTES.

Negotiations are in progress for the
purchase of the Kennedy group of
claims at Park City. The price is fixed
at $50, 900.
Thirteen bars of bullion were ship
ped from the Marsac refinery, at Park
City, few days ago, which weighed
in the neighborhood Of 5000 ounces.
There is said to be an ore body In
the Tiptop at HALEY, Idaho. that as
says ten ounces in gold per ton. The
mill will be ready to start by the first
or May.
Placer mining in the eastern part OF
Wayne county goes steadily on, with
very encouraging reports. The out
look Is said to be more promising now
than 1t has ever been before.
A big deal involving ownership OF
about a million dollars worth OF min
ing ground east Of Butte is now being
contaminated, and from present indi-
cations will be carried to successful
termination.
1t is said that when spring opens the
DAILY West, at Park City, will undoubt-
eddy build a sampling mill OF it's own
and transport its crude ores and mill
product from the mine to the railroad
without the use Of wagons, by means
of a tramway.
The putting in of roasters at the
different mills in the Camp Floyd dis
trict promises to be quite an industry
during the present year. Most OF the
companies have concluded that the
roasters are q necessary attachment to
every cyanide mill, and steps are being
taken to put them In as soon as pos
sible.
That gold ore in paying quantities
will some day be found near the mouth
of Big Cottonwood, q few miles south
of Salt Lake, is believed by quite
numb Der of mining men who are familiar
with the naturalization and formation
of that locality, and some rich strikes
are confidently looked for in the near
future.
At depth Of sixty feet in the prop
erty of the West Morning Glory com
pany, adjoining the old Morning GloY
and Homestake at Silver, a fine
quality of ore has been uncovered, and
1t now looks as if the search was to be
rewarded at an early day. The ore
shows as much as per cent copper In
addition to 81. 40 in gold and Ia ounces
silver.
S. P. Barron, manager for the ST.
Louis Gilsonite company, reports that
he has eighty tons of gilsonite now In
;he bins near Ducbesne, and that heavy
shipments will begin in a short time.
the demand from the team
tiers for an advance In the tariff, Mr..
Barron says it will not be granted, and
if necessary the company will put on
its own teams.
Captain Timothy Egan of the Golden
Star in Gold Mountain district, states
that the men at the mine are working
On two and half foot body of gold
ore, and that a considerable quantity
Of pay dirt is piled up on the dump and
broken down and stored In tho mine,
the expectation being that mill will
be erected on the property this spring,
The plant to have machinery equipment
Tor ten stamps, although the battery
It the start will be limited to but FIVE
stamps.
The Nevada Mining company, oper-
lting near Battle Mountain, Nevada,
,as sent out force of men for the pur-
pose of beginning operations in the
development of its promising
which has been shipper Of
1igh-grade galena and silver ore in the
past and in the workings of which
good showing of marketable ore is still
exposed. A new shaft will be sunk by
The company, and when completed it
S anticipated the mine will take rank
Is a regular producer.
John F. Bohnstedt of Hartville,
Wyo., has received large order from
Chicago firm Of marble workers for
,nyx from his mines near Hartville.
IN Iowa firm is negotiating for a big
upply of onyx which will be used in
he construction of monument in
lonor of Iowa heroes who fell in the
var of the rebellion. The onyx mines
ere are attracting widespread atten-