The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-01-20
Western Mining Notes,

Western Mining Notes.
Nearly all the gold-producing states
of America show an increase in the
output for 1898.
A siXfoot vein OF ore carrying $40 a
ton in silver and gold has been opened
up in the Elkhcrn mine in Cache val
ley, Utah.
Assays from the Whitaker mine at
Mammoth. Utah, give values of III
ounces silver. GO per cent lead and a
small amount in gold. The ore is fine
galeEa.
The gold-bearing region on the west
ern slope Of the Sierra Madras, on 4
tributary of the upper Ya1ui, is in a
fair way to be opened UP for prospect
ing and Development is in the TRES
district, State of Sonora. Mexico. about
eighty miles east Of Hermosillo.
Mariposa county. California. is hav-
ing gold sensation in the Big Betsy
mine, near Groveland. ON the I'uolum-
ne county line. The main shaft is
now down over 800 feet and in Gre all
the way. The average width of the
ledge is thirteen feet and the ore as
says S72 per ton.
Tucson. Ariz.. reports that the Old
Dominion Copper Mine company is ac-
cumulatins copper at the shelter
There will be. probably. 100000 of
copper for shipment as soon as the
railroad is ready to take large Quan1i-
ties of freight from Globe to the
Southern Pacific track at Bowie.
\ rich strike is reported from the
Windy mine, half mile north Of
Randsburg. Kcra county, California. at
a depth of forty feet. The main shaft
is down about $50 feet. but the richest
ore taken out comes from above that
depth. The ore in the last strike runs
as high as $500 per ton.
General.
Illinois Democrats declare for Bryan
and the Chicago platform.
The ]. Wright Tobacco company Of
Richmond. Va, was sold out to the
Continental Tobacco company.
A number of Chicago painters, dec
orators and frescoers have formed q
cooperative association.
The next years naval estimates for
tleshirs. two being of the first-class.
!Arbuckles have reduced granulated
sugar Lice pound below the .Ameri.
can Sugar company and several OF the
independent retiners.
EXGov. Merriam of ST. Paul goes to
West Superior and takes the manage
ment of the Superior Water, Light and
Power company.
The directors Of the st. Joseph &
Grand Island Railroad company have
declared 4 dividend Of per cent on
tie first preferred stock.
The st. Louis Dispatch SAYS ne
gotiations are nearly completed for the
equipment of part of the st. Louis
street railway system with air motors.
Henry Watterson, in an editorial in
the Louisville Courier-Journal, nom
mates Dewey and Lee for the presi-
Dental ticket in 1900.
/ Attorney General Monnett of Ohio Is
going after another company which he
regards as q trust. 1t is the American
Biscuit company, of which b. F. Craw.
ford is president. He is preparing q
petition to file in the supreme court to
GUST the company, which is capitalized
at $55.O0O,0OO, but which he has been
| informed is doing business on $1,000
900 capital. Some of the wholesale
grocers have made the complaint.
The Great Western distillery at Pc
oria, ILL.,, destroyed by lightning last
June, has been renodeled and enlarged
and will resume with capacity OF
15,OOO bushels Of corn daily, which
means an output Of 10000 gallons O.
alcohol every day. This is the larges
distillery in the world and work has
been pushed on repairing it, owing t.
the unprecedented demand for spirit!
for the manufacture of smokelels!
powder by various foreign govern
ments.
The naval cadets of the first elias,
have been Informed that they will b'
graduated after the semi-annual ex
animation in February.
Brig. Gen. John N. Andrews, VIII,
has command of brigade Of volun
teer troops, has arrived to take com
mand of Jefferson barracks at 81
Louis
Superior Judge Coffey of San Fran
cisco has granted Mrs. Jane l.. Stan
ford an order fo1 the final distribution
Of the estate of her late husband. Leg
acies amounting t. $5,155,OOO hav
l,ppn maid