The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS BRIEFS
Matters of Interest Relating to
Mining Affairs.
MINERS WAGES RAISED
Quicksilver Prod uction OF California
The Dexter's Fine showing-More
Miners at the Calumet.
Dividends.

The Salt Lake Herald intimates that
there may be combine of number of
big properties at Bingham, but the
names of the properties are not given.
Prominent Salt Lake men are said to
have become interested in valuable
properties in the Seven Devils district
Of Idaho. Among them are H. D. An
drews, representing A. McCune. Fl.
Green and others. They are said to
have bonded some eight or ten prop
critics besides having locations Of their
own.
The Denver Republican reports that
George Ferris has completed negotia-
lions for the sale Of his sheep holdings,
amounting to 1900 head, to Cosgiff
brothers, who have also leased the Fer
ris ranch for number of years. Mr..
Ferris will give his personal attention
to the management of the Ferris Hag-
gerty copper mine.
The quarterly report of the vindica-
tor company at Victor, Colo, shows
that for the last three months the mine
has produced 1883 tons of ore of a
gross value of s24O,5 .46, the net
smelter returns being $172,736.39. To
the company after deducting all ex-
penses profit of sSO,325.s1 was given.
A raise of % cents a day has been
made in the wages at the Ontario, TAX
ing effect, we understand, from the list,
says the Record Of Park CITY, Utah.
Everybody will rejoice at the fact that
general raise Of % cents day has
been made in the wages at the Ontario
mine. Nothing indicates the prosperity
of camp so well as the wage scale, and
when wages are voluntarily increased
It has an important meaning.
Local mining regulations determine
the width of quartz lode locations, but
in the United States they cannot ex-
coed 800 feet on each side of the mid
die of the vein, nor can local law make
them less than rs feet on each side of
the middle of the vein. All placer loca-
tons are 20 acres, and local law cannot
ter how rich they may be.
California has furnished about one
sixth of all the quicksilver production
of the world, says the Mining and
Scientific Press. In that state the ores
occur chiefly in a form of mineral de-
post peculiar to the ores of that metal,
and which have been described by
George F. Becker as chambered veins,
being found along complicated systems
of assures and zones of fracturirg,
often of a great extent, These deposits
usually occur in the vicinity of eruptive
dykes; at New Alma den, rhyolite; al
Sulphur Bank, with basalt.
The snow and rain storms that have
been raging during the past two weeks
in the mountains around Idaho City are
said TO have driven the most of the
prospectors from their operations into
the town. Upon the developed prop
critics work is proceeding steadily and
favorably, with excellent showings in
many mines.
The Dexter mine of Tuscarora. New,
Is making a splendid record of late on
account of recent rich strikes, and has
been sending down to Salt Lake gold
bars and cyanides sowing an average
output of nearly 81, 900 per day.
Colorado will have a very valuable
mining exhibit at the Paris exposition.
The collection has been made by the
Colorado college. DR.. Rufus M. Bagg,
instructor in geology at the college, be-
ing in immediate charge of the work.
The collection embraces 270 specimens
Of sulphides, the most of them from
Colorado, also many of pyrites and
some fine crystalizations.
In Utah as well as in Colorado the
smelters are crowded to their utmost
capacity. The old mines have largely
increased their output and many new
ones are coming to the front. There is
much talk of either charging the old
smelters or building new ones. Salt
Lake is becoming great smelling CEN
ter. Ores are taken there for treatment
ha ct al "a q
west as Eureka, New.
A report from Deadwood. S. D., is
to the effect that Otto P. TIL. Grantz
has just shipped a carload Of ore to
Denver for which he received $4,000
cash. The ore was taken from the
Hidden Fortune claim near DeadWood
and is said to have been the richest
carload ever shipped from the Black
Hills Mr.. Grantz Is said to have sew
eral more carloads of the same kind of
ore.
1t is reported that there is soon to
be a large addition to the working
force of the Michigan copper mines in
the vicinity of Calumet. The addition
to be made during the year is said to
be no fewer than $500 men, of whom
the Calumet & Heela will employ about
1,500. If this prove true, it strongly
negatives the idea of that great mine
deliberately cutting down its output.
The Denver Mining Reporter says
that work has begun on a new auto
matte, up-to-date sampling mill, which
is being built by Taylor & Brunton
near their other plant at Sandy Utah.
The new mill will cost $4,000 and will
have capacity of 80 tons per hour.
Alexander Sutherland is the construct
ing engineer, and whose name alone is
a guarantee that the plant will work
successfully. Mr.. Brunton has been to
Denver in connection with the work,
but returned to the property last week.
Should the war in the Transvaal con-
tinue, the probability is the United
States will become the leading gold
producer of the world, says the Den
Yer Mining Record. The estimated
output of 1899, from the Transvaal, is
about sl0o,O0o,oo0. as over s62, 900, 900 was
produced in the first eight months. The
output of the United States is show