The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-25
MINING GOSSIP.

day. The site is to be on the eastern
shore of Lake Washington.
Word comes that r. w. Correll and
II. A. Canters. two Utah operators.
have bonded silver-lead properly
near Osceola, in the state of Nevada.
1t is reported from Utah that 20 more
men have been put on at the Ontario
mine. 1t begins to look as if the great
Park City mine might again take on
it's old-time form.
The La Refine mine at Tintic, Utah,
is said to be showing up magniliCently,
a vein of As feet impregnated with high
values having been disclosed in the
workings.
Reports from Loomis, Wash, indicate
that very rich strike has been madc
in the Palmer Mountain tunnel. The
values are in silver and gold. Assays
in one instance. so it is said, reached
a total of S17543 per ton.
The Tom Thumb, the Insurgent and
the Bodie mines at Republic are all re-
ported as looking exceedingly well and
giving great promise of future returns.
The ore improves in quality with depth
and seems to be abundant in quantity.
A Mexican company is working the
Cat Creek mines in the Hawthorne dis
trict, Esmeralda county, Nevada. There
is a large body of ore in sight which
mills $50 to the ton. Don Caesar de
Jesus Salazar is the manager of the
| company.
The Pony Sentinel, in a pleasant COM
ment upon the mining pages Of the
| Standard, expresses the hope that Pony
| will be given the showing she deserves.
| 1t is the purpose of the Standard to do
| that with every mining district IN the
| state and II is hoped that the local
press will lend a helping hand.
| Compressed air, delivered by an cleo
| trio power plant at Jack creek, % miles
| distant, will be used to run the pumps
| at the Dexter mine in Tuscarora. Forty
| stamps are continually crushing good
| ore and with cOncentrators 100 tons of
rock are handled daily. A large cyanide
| plant has been put in.
| In it's bid to supply power to the Com
| stock mines, the Floriston company
| agreed to erect a plant to cost between
| 100000 and 100000. and to furnish
| power to the mines at the following
| rates: IS per horse power for 1,500
! horse power, or So per horse power for
| 5000 horse power per annum.
The Empire quartz mine on War
Eagle mountain, near Silver City,
| Idaho, which was bonded last summer
| by Senator Pettigrew and associates of
| South Dakota, has been closed down,
as after an expenditure of several thou
sand dollars the bonders We're con-
rant the expenses necessary to work the
| mine.
The Arizona & New England Mining
| company, which recently purchased the
| Sheep Trail mine in Mohave county,
| Arizona, 40 miles north of The Needles,
has erected a 40-stamp mill and is now
| shipping in a large lot of machinery
| and supplies preparatory to the COM
| mencement of active operations.
ha phi
per City, Shasta county, has been sold
| to Captain De La Mar by the owner,
! James Salee, for $4,000 A smeter will
| be erected Immediately. The ores of the
| Bully Hill carry greater percentage
| of copper than the Iron Mountain mine
| Development work has been done to
| depth Of 5000 feet. and a very large
body of ore is in sight.
| The Madison County Monitor pub
| fishes a column or more of interesting
notes on sundry small mining proper
| ties in that county from which it is to
| be inferred that "Old Madison" IS
| long way from being dead. 1t IS a
pleasure to hear of these small develop
| ments for it indicates that a number
! of poor men are getting a star: in life.
| Besides, the little mine sometimes
| grows.
The Denver News says that Gilpin,
| the pioneer gold district of the state,
| has more important development We rk
| on hand this season than at any prev
ious time in the past 80 years. The
| steady output of this SeCtion-as yet
! but partially eXplored-Shows the LAST
! ing nature of the true fissure veins. \
| manufacturing or smelling plant, owing
to changes and improvements, must
| practically renew itself once in 10 years,
and is considered fortunate if it lasts
so long. But the mines of Gilpin have
been operated since 1860, and are better
| to-day than at any previous time.
1t is stated by the Denver Mining
| Record that the Hardwick copper mine
near Horcasites, Sonora, Mexico, was
sold last month by the owners, J. Y.
| Hardwick & Co, 10 an English Syndi-
| cate for So, 100000. though last February
| the mine could have been bought for
100000 A ledge of high grade COPPER
has been uncovered at this mine 60 feet
wide. The new company is shipping
| selected ore.
In the Silver Peak district, Esmeralda
county, Nevada, several lodges of silver
and gold ore have been discovered.
The largest discovery was made by
| James Couts and II. J. Bell, who To-
Gated Is claims, which they bonded for.
| 60 days for 500 900 to H. A. Cohen. The
| groupings on their claims can be traced
for three miles, and their claims are
crossed by a plainly defined gold ledge.
The correspondent of the Spokesman
| Review states that the surface indica-
tons in the Buffalo Hump district of
Idaho compare more than favorably
with the SLOGAN, the Occur d'Alene,
| Rossland, Republic and even the Dig
| camps of California, Montana and
| Utah. He wakes enthusiastic over
| veins and lodges anywhere from eight
to forty feet in width and carrying $40
to 800 ITO the ton in gold. He makes
| special mention of the Big Buffalo,
Monte Cristo. Fortune and San Fran
| cisco. If these mines become perma-
nent producers at anywhere near his
estip'ates they will certainly be great
pr HrtieS.