The Anaconda standard., 1899-08-08
TOLD IN A LINE OR TWO.
Odds and Ends Gathered From
Many of the Districts.
TOLD IN MINOR MENTION
Items OF Interest in Regard to Progress
at Some of the Important Min
ing Centers OF the
West

The controlling interest in q big cop
per mine at La Cananea district of
Arizonapie. Sonora, Mexico, has just
been sold to a New York syndicate for
$1,50OOOO.
1t is said that some of the famous
Mariposa gold mines are about to re-
sumo operations after having been i6le
for nearly 80 years.
A recent storm at Park City, Utah,
is said to have caused a loss of $40, 900
to the Ontario company by the washing
away of tailings.
w. b. Holmes of Madison county,
with his mining partner, Mr.. Anderson
of New York, was in Anaconda last
week. Mr.. Holmes expects to have 10
stamps dropping soon at his mine near
Meadow creek, in Madison county.
Among the noted mining camps re-
ported as recovering is Silver City, New
Mexico. Many of the properties are
said to be yielding handsomely, and
new developments looking exceedingly
well. The Last Chance and the Texas
mines are receiving especially. favor
able mention r
Colorado advices strongly confirm
what was said in the STANDARD some
weeks ago, as to the greatly improved
outlook for placer mining as a result
OF new and more effective machinery
being brought into play. From all
parts of that state word comes of old
placers being reopened, yielding good
returns and bringing high prices.
The Baker City (Oregon) Republican
reports the discovery of two veins of
gold-bearing ore almost within the linn
it's of that city. These veins are be-
lieved to be the source of the old
Auburn placers, once famous for their
richness.
1t is said by those who ought to
know that in proportion to size there
are no better reduction works in the
country than those of the Glass Broth
ers at Basin. The cencentrator and
smelter are both said to be equipped
with the most effective appliances. no
effort having been spared to combine
the very best features of all that are
now in operation throughout the West.
The Pony Sentinel reports that con-
siderable additional force is being set
at work in the b. & l.. mine at Bald
Mountain; that first-class 50-ton
cyanide mill is to be built for the Mad
isonian Mining company, to be COM
pleted in three months, and that there
is a fair prospect of the Old Joe mine
being sold to Salt Lake parties. In
short, that the Pony section of Madison
county is getting itself into good shape.
1t is stated by the Dillon Tribune, on
the authority of the Independent,
that II new dredges,, each costing
in the neighborhood of $4,000, are to
be installed at Alder Gulch as soon as
the work can be advantageously done.
They will be owned and operated by
the German Bar and Conrey Placer
Mining companies, which are said to be
really one concern. Thus the work of
developing the grand old placer goes
bravely on. .,...t....4
Mr.. Grey of Butte, who bonded the
Bass Bros copper mine on Lolo, has
made big strike within the last week,
says the Bitter Root Times. From w.
Z. Bass We learn that there is now ore
enough in sight to pay the $4,000 bond
on the mine. The ore is high grade and
much of it will run so per cent in cop
per.
Some exceedingly rich copper ore,
says the Madisonian, has been taken to
Dillon by people from the upper end
of Big Hole basin. 1t is the freely-ex-
pressed opinion that some great copper
mines will be opened in that section
within a year or two.
Parties recently returned from Bing-
ham, Utah, bring very favorable word
from that camp. Rich copper finds are
reported in some of the mines, many
deals are said to be on, with experts
galore looking over the field.
1t is claimed by Utah men that the
smelters' strike in Colorado has been of
advantage to Utah by transferring bus
iness to that state. Such an advantage,
however, must of necessity, it seems,
be temporary.
Some of the later stories concerning
the gold find at Marysville, Utah. are
little short of fabulous. One assay is
reported at $4,000, 1t is entirely safe
to believe that there is no very large
amount of that kind of ore. Still, the
prospects of the old camp are no doubt
good 1t is not a handful of $4,000 ore
that makes a mining camp, but large
deposits that will pay fairly for work.
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The Salt Lake Herald: The. old shaft
at the Tuscarora Chief mine at Tus-
carora, New. is being retimbered to a
depth of 100 feet to open up a drift from
which some high-grade ore has been ex-
tracted. The mine is an old producer,
and in the early days was one of the
most valuable propositions in that
camp. The property is being prepared