The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14

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$500 and $500 per ton. Silver City is
| about three miles from Virginia City,
| and 10 years ago was considered to be
q pretty well played-out mining camp.
But there are several good little mines
| there yet.
Some fine reports come by way of
| MOSCOW. Idaho, rela tive to the richness
| Of the Mascot mining district Of that
| state. Ore of remarkable richness is
SAID to have been found there lately,
and some who profess familiarity with
the conditions declare it to be as good
! as the Buffalo Hump district or better.
The new Anchor mill at Park City,
| Utah, is about ready to begin opera
| tlons. 1t Is regular concentration, pro-
v1ded with Cornish rolls, trommels,
| Wilfeys, Huntington mills, jigs and all
| the appliances of such a mill. 1t is
| said to be 1870 feet front and 81 feet
high, with the machinery arranged in
seven stories and to be model of mill
| construction.
| The Times of Haley. Idaho, reports
| that the papers transferring the Hope
group OF mines on the HALEY gold belt
to l.. S. Mcclure and his COMPANY have
peen signed, acknowledged and deliv-
cred. The transfer is by bond on two
years time, and the price to be paid is
stated at $4,000. None of the money
was paid down. During the tendency
of the bond Mcclure and his associates
Will operate the mine. Mr.. Mcclure will
| set miners at work and, it is said, build
a mill without delay.
Opal mining is one of the latest AUS
| tralian mineral industries. The princi-
| pal opal mining center in White Cliffs,
| where the gem has been found in high
| ly payable quantities and of the richest
quality, within a radius of 10 miles, and
population of 1900 or whereabouts is
settled there.
| With the week ending Saturday, Oct.
| Fl, the lead and zinc output of the Mis-
| souri-Kansas district since Jan. i has
| passed the 100000 mark The value
of last years sales for the same length
of time amounted to 81, 34S, 242, showing
| 1884,
Australia is producing more gold to-
| DAY IMAM 1t has ever done, and it is
very likely that the discovery of teliu-
ride ore bodies will lead to further
| prospecting, resulting In continued in
crease In Australia's gold output. Last
year 1t amounted to the very respecta-
BILE sum of $62,294, 4SO
The Payne mine. in the SLOGAN dis
! trict, British Columbia, is the largest
and most profitable in that section. The
| lead carbonate produced there contains
Sc 70 100 ounces silver and IS per cent
1 to 40 per cent lead per ton, and the ga
lena runs about ITS ounces silver ard 10
1 per cent lead. 1t has paid over 81 000,-
900 in dividends.
| The discovery Of placer mines in Brit
ishe Columbia attracted attention to
| that country as a mining region in 90,
| and a rush OF Adventures followed, but
| 1t was not until Is years ago that atten-
ton was given to the great sulphide de-
| postts There We're American engineers
| in the Kootenay country in 'S7, who al
i that time declared it was destined to
| become an important mining section.
| The Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs
| has been driven nearly 5000 feet, and is
progressing at the rate of six feet per
diem, says the Denver Mining Record.
| 1t is designed to cut the large gold bear
! ing veins of Gilpin county at great
depths and to furnish complete drain
age for all the territory penetrated.
Another excellent vein of mineral was
cut last week which shows iron carry
| ing gold and silver in liberal quanti-
ties This.ds one of the most extensive
and costly tunnel enterprises ever I'M
dertaken in Colorado. but will be of
incalculable benefit to the mining in
dustry of both Clear Creek and Gilpin
when completed.
The Mining and Scientific Press says
that prospectors should take careful no.
tice of every iron cropping, vein and de-
post Many veins are capped with
iron, which is simply the oxidized pro-
Ia, p{ re No ,1tob nr-1iy will
| when the iron sulphide in its normal
condition contains gold, the oxidized
outcrop will prospect in free gold. There
are exceptions to this, however, but
| an assay by fire will show the presence
| of gold Silver leads are also often
some important and valuable deposits
! of copper ore have the iron gossan,
though there may be no sign Of copper
| appearing in the iron groupings, that
| metal having leached out.
| The Mining Record of Denver says
| that there is no district either in the
| United States or in the world where ore
| is of so high a metallic value as in the
zinc mining district of Southwest Mis-
| souri,, and no place where high grade
| ore can be produced so cheaply. The
methods of cleaning ore in this country
| are far superior to those employed
! abroad and the shallow depth at which
ore is found in this district, the low cost
| of preparing it for market, with its high
| grade makes it formidable competi-
tor to the ore produced abroad.
The machinery in the Economic EX-
traction mill in Eclipse gulch is all in
| position and fires have been laid under
| the great boilers. During the next FIVE
| or six weeks the process and the plant
will be thoroughly tried and the sue
! cess or failure of the project demon
strated. At the very first the mill will
bs subjected to a severe test-nameiy,
the treatment of low-grade rock from
| the dump of the Gold Coin mine. If
this rock can be successfully and profit
ably handled the success of the enter
prise will be assured and the popularity
| of the process immediate This dump
contains about 5000 tons of ore assay