Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-25
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

IL
ore IS immensely rich in copper.
The dividends paid by Cripple Creek
mines during July. including dividends
10 private companies not publishing their
/ business, amounted - nearly S1.OU0OnO.
Ivan Moore. the half-breed desperate
who murdered Tin Cup, an old Indian
woman. near Pierre. $. n. about
month ago, entered plea of guilty anO
/ was given life sentence.
-four strikes are reported on the
southeast slope Of Bull hill. Crirplc
/ Greek. They are in the Trachytc. Tittl,
/ Pearl, Hull City and Deadwood Nc. -
mines.
Two Indians recently reached Rapid
City, ). d.. with gold ore which asSayt7i
SiuQo per ton. They refused to divuigc
the location, but II Is thought to be in the
Bad lands.
IL new VEIN mas been encountered in
| he ninth level ef the 'iutliC5ftur. Il rip.
/ pie Greek property. that is asSaying all
the way from FIVE TO 300 ounces OF gold
To the ton.
-0re has been encountered in the Tc-
sora company properties AT finite.
Utah. which assays lS.S per cent. copper.
4l.a ounces silver, with fractional values
in gold per ton.
According to passengers on a steamer
from Cook inlet and Copper river Il cop
per strike has been made on Virgin bay,
$40 to the ton.
-In Central Camp in Boundary Creek
district, Il. c., the City of Paris has
| made an important strike on the 2a0-
ieFel, the ore going over S11u0 III gold.
silver and lead.
The properties of the Last Chance
Mining company at Bingham. Utah. have
been sold to an Eastern syndicate, of
winch l.. III. H0gle of Chicago is the
head for $4,000.
The find in the Pharmacist, Il Grin
PIE Creek property. Is larger than at first
given out. The vein is II inches wide.
and samples taken across it gave returns
up to $4,000 Il ton.
Gold ore running $3.50 per ton has
been encountered in the Piegan mine.
Marysville, Mont. The vein is foot in
width and i'll addition there is six feet
OF low grade ore running about SIG per
: ton
According to the Colorado Springs
Gazette the Argentum-Junia has made
two siXty-t0n shipments of ore recently.
The first shipment returned ia ounces
and the second $50 ounces in silver t,er
ton.
In the Palmer mountain tunnel
, Wash. an inch-wide strike has widcned
to feet Assays from across the face
are running from S31.15 to S97.65 in gold
and every shot seems to show more and
better ore.
--Robert +. Harrison has an option on
all the property of the Ratcliff Consoli-
dated gold mines. limited situated near
Ballarat. Iny0 county, Cal 1t is ru-
mored that the purchase price is $500
600, and that 100000 tons of ore is in
sight.
"A good strike is reported in the RAJ
mona claim, on Bull hill, Cripple Creek.
The discovery was encountered in a drift
/ IN j..
inch vein which runs from $50 to $50
q ton.
: "A dispatch from Helena says phe-
nomenally rich strike has just been made
in the Bald Butte mine at the GOO-foot
, level. The ore assays $1,000 in gold The
! mine is owned by close corporation.
, which has paid nearly million in divi-
f dends
} "A rich strike in the Little Giant is
E reported from Wagner, Ida. In speak,
[ ingsaf the strike, General Manager Hill
says that he has had a thorough milling
test made on the ore. and finds that il
j is so rich that it will have to be shipped
5 crude to a smelter. 1t assays $1245 per
ton in gold and silver.
The recent strike i'll the Bobtail mine
or Red mountain district, Ouray county,
Col, has proved 10 be of the greatest i'm.
p0rtance. The mass of the ore body is
2 Of low grade, but there is streak of bis
lUuIH SILVER ore ABOUT y lnCneS WluC run
ing through the vein which yields from
2000 to 5000 ounces of silver to the ton.
The Temescal ranch of over 1900
acres. situated partly in Ventura and
partly in Los Angeles counties. Cal, and
: which has been for long while the prop
r erty of David G. Cook, the Chicago pub
Usher, has been purchased by syndicate
i of Los Angeles oil men The price was
! in the neighhorhood of 81 ,500,01U.
ID &. -
made another notable strike in their
mine, the World, ON the top of Gold Hill
IN Blue River district Oregon. The
] rock is honeycombed with gold in many
places. The average quartz assays
1920 to the ton. The ledge at II depth
of Is feet from the surface is q feet wide
There is considerable excitement in
: Helena, Mont, over the rich showing
5 made IN the copper discoveries just west
5 Of the city limits. The vein has been
. traced for two miles on the surface and
. with the sinking Of shafts, the ore grows
2 richer until assays show over 20 per
| cent, copper and about SO in gold and
t silver.
A phenomenaly rich gold strike is re-
: ported at the Bald Lutte mine. west of
2 Helena, Mont. One assay showed a
. value of $I10O per ton while another,
I which is believed 10 ho an average sam
pie of the pay streak. ran S21OO per ton.
The vein is about > feet III width and
from actual development 300 feet in
: length.
Dix w Smith. a prominent attor.
ney of Elmira, ~ y. who has with cN.
pert talent just completed an exhaustive
= examination of the Chairman group Of
mines at Ely \ev. reports the purchase
of the property by himself. associated
with New York and Pennsylvania in.
: Vestors. Tue price paid is said to he