The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-24
smelter Is buying considerable ore. paying for

orc was taken out In earlier days. but the re-
in the Chisholm mine has caused the present
excitement
John Harnan Of the Portland Company has
on Globe Hill. Cripple Creek district. AZ the
40 i9ot leyei on the Morning GioTy r Owned by
been discovered assayinE $50 per ton. II IL
believed to be the greston vein. which made
Another sensational strike Of hieh-grade
ore e reported in the I,abelIa. A parallel vein
sovsred lat at 'S depth of ito feet Showing ten
inches OF sylya1ite on exceeding richness; Inc
tory Sei MS woTEed by lessee Ss 0 .ssees on the
Burns Of the Acacia COMPANY have struck a
new and very rich streak which they are sort.
ing and sacking for shipment. They think
The reduction works handling Cripple Creek
| ores are running full time and have enough
| ore IN bins to keep than busy for sixty days.
The AmyRdaloid Mining and Milling, Com
many has been formed with capital Of 81 300
Mile. Cripple Creek district whers, eehty;;2ne
acres of land have been secured. Free m ling
| gold ore running about 50 n ton Is said to
exist on tho tract IN en9rm GUS quantities; and
| Chicago capital will endeavor TO make OF the
| property a second Homsstake.
The famous Sylvanite mine at Got hic has
been working, and about five or six caronds OF
hteh-Rrade ore are now ready to be shiIped "a
| soon as the trail can he used. The Sylvanite
rado for the richest specimens ever discovered
borhood located at an altitude OF 12.500 feet.
is to be reopened this year.
- Cornish pump on the Gunnell property at
Central City has begun the great undertake
| Of unwatering the deep workings Of that old
mine; This is the outcome OF the recent sale
ani INCORPORATION OF the new Gunnell Gold
| Mining Company.
The Blue River Excavation COMPANY has
miles north Of BrecEcnrldce, extending from
the state bridge across the Blue 70 the placer
inc compan ~" on the s swan am The company Ms
| HEADQUARTERS IN Franklin. Pa. where new
device for working placer beds has been de-
rick and other placer working machinery
operated upon movable car instead OF on 2
American Dredging Company, This latter
company Is building two more dredges. The
and Summit county promis.s y aea Great "a eod
;. The Ajax mine. adjoining the smuegIer-
The N NeT England Exploration Company for
THE LAKE REGION.
Duluth. MINI, July 2oLsome time ago
mining companies were asked to submit bids
FOR the deposit. under the town site Of Eyeleth.
son and Flynn. pine land owners. Neither Of
the three largest companies entered the COM
erty Of T. Kimbersy OF Sharon. Pa. who viii
open 1t very soon. The mine is a large one.
but Mr. Kimberley has paid large price for II:
tract OF eighty acres in the townste OF
IIibbng has been found to contain mu,h ore.
The lease has lust been sold for $4,000 cash.
RECEIVING 20 cents ton for all ore taken out
New miners are are arriving on the Mesab aba
as ' fast as thev Apply. Many men are coming
from the coal fields Of Pennsylvania where
they have been bic to earn only bare sui
from So day upward.
As coal freiGhts advance ships for the car
riage Of ore. grow more scarce. and there is
such difficulty in getting al ore that has been
sold delivered that new sales are almost I'M
- The Lake Superior Iron Company. for the
Carnegie Company. has secured an option on
the Hartford mine. near lshpemng. and will
explore it1or continuation OF the Cambria
and Lille vein. II this vein is found the mine
will he an important one. The Carnegie Com
Mcdonald Forty. mart Of tho famous Section
60 on the Vermilop range which. thought 1t
pound OF orc. has been fought over by rival
mining companies until the legal and other
fees fees Of The oG contes,s have amounted to more
courts for tho rast fifteen or twenty years.
and one branch of the hearing is still on in this
city.
In the past NINETY DAYS the Minnesota Iron
COMPANY has secured leases and opticns on
Menomlnse range. ali Of which it is to explore
for ore az once. Until its control by the Fed
eral Stoel COMPANY the Minnesota had never
gone outside this State for mines.
The stream Of immigration OF prospector
and miners to the Rainy Lake gold country is
gro wing steadily and is taxing the caraclty of
rerts for large Eastern and foreign houses
have been in the, country this year for the first
nents and by the important sales Of proper
ties recently made In London. More Of these
than during all the previous history OF the re-
gion.
In stripping The vein and sinking at one OF
the SawbilI mines II has been found that what
was supposed 20 DO the footwall was not such.
and that the vein, insteG! Of being twelve feet
low grade proposition. but there seems to he
an ENORMOUS quantity Of ore. 1t Is the prop
very large wnter.p2wer at Sturgeon Falls
has been bought hy an English syndicate and
is now under survey 5y hydraulic engineers
mines OF the district.
The Ontario Government has issued an
order modifying materially the m ethois OF
stalking mineral claims in the Rainy Lake.
Lake Of the Woods and Thunder Bay districts
and making the costly services Of a provincial
land surveyor unnecessary Tor the securing OF
forty acres OF quartz or twenty three and half
from he o as
has been 30 great as to stop much develop
ment This will now be changed,
UTAH
SALT LAKE. July IL, Tho amount paid in
dividends for the month has already reached
S2+7JOO. the latest being the Petro mine at
IA the b dF9 wh
kets sett!ein9nt1 Tor tho week reached to-
Work is being prosecuted on tho Ophir at
bingham. vein Of galena has beeh.discov-
cred that ASSAYS 81 per cent. lead and over
SDO Nulus per ICn.
For the entire holdings Of the Star Consoll-
dated Mining Company at Tintlc an Eastern
syndicate, REPRESENTED by local agents, has
made an offer Of S5OO.OO6 or 81 a share, Tor
the stock. Tho bid has been referred to the
shareholders. with the prospects OF an accept
ance.
A big boulder OF high. orc has been re-
ceived from the Dixie Company group, near
st. George. Washington county. 1t has had
marked effect in stimulating prospecting in
southern Utah
A number of rich strikes are reported from
the Deep Creek mines The Midas. it is said,
will soon take its place among utah's great
producers.
The samplng rooms OF the Kansas City
Smelling and Refining Company contained
three tons Of gold dust, Of the value of nearly
Sl5uOOO, Thursday might. Three armed mon
were stntioned within the rooms TO protect the
gold. The nlinclpa contributor was the Col
den Gate OF Mercur. with over two tons OF
aurO-cyanides. valued at about 100000
Col. Theodore Burback has purchased the
holdings OF the Morgan Mining Company for
100000. He denies that 1t has been con-
veved TO the DAILY Company.
A strike has been made on the property OF
the Fissure Mining Company. located near the
Susan. about two miles south OF Diamond,
Tintic. A large body. of silyGr-lead ore has
been encountered in the shaft at a depth OF
400 feet.