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county, an old property. after much work in
barren ground. has opened into s-foo,
casce. IN n sSa S5s set by as,ay aSg' s. ten TO
II b now known that negotiations for the
San Juan Chief near Siyerton have been COM
James L. .oh H has s0ld fhs mne ads
son, expending about 10000. and are now to
proceed G With It's dsvslSPmenTt Ts,n,r,de working
upon the tailings, Of the concentrating hlas ,h,,
OF that camp will double It's capacity 'rh as ,he me
'"iRS TSe II TomicS nsia'l Valley Smelling Company,
operating at White Pine, has begun operations
and run Of 100 tons Of ore from the Norm
satisfied with the showing and orders have been
issued TO Increase the capacity OF 'he pant
| matte furnace will also be added.
well Mountain. Routt county. Claims have
| been staked out where copper ore running
20 per cent. has been found. ,-,.
! The Ekhead Anthracite Coal Company
| owning 1000 acres Of coal lands on Elkheau
/ Creek. has begun active operations,
The camp Of St, Elmo, Chanee county, ac- @
work again this season. A. cyanide process
| Is in operation working on the tangs ol the
early mills. handling eighty tons daiiy, % Sev-
! eral enterprises are active in efforts TO redis-
! cover leads known to have been worked In the
| early days Of the camp.
SOUTH DAKOTA
DEApwoop, May 5.-The Cleopatra Gold
Mining Company has about completed the new
Creek, in the phonolite district The company
has ore which will run about $40 per ton gold.
The Omaha Mining Company has decided 10
| put In a turbine at the Whtewood Falls, seven
! miles below this city. which will be used for
| generating electric power for running the min.
! Ing machinery of the Hills. There is fall OF
100 feet. which will be sufficient to furnish 1000
horse power. The company has taken lease
! of several million tons of old placer diggings
! and concentrate deposits above the falls ana
work will commence this month slnicng the
| Is about - per ton gold The product VIII be
shipped TO this city, where II will be stored
| until the company gets the Ogden magnetic
process In operation,
MINNESOTA.
DULUTH. Mimi, June Sin digging through
| the debris of the abandoned Ropes gold mine,
which they had bought for s2,oOo, Corrigan.
| the copper plates Of the tumbledown mill.
| Some OF these plates were covered half an
. inch thick with gold amalgam The entire
RssdeSs sssis o. Of tho the neish6orhood had Intended
| to use these copper plates for roofing their
cottages, but had found them too heavy and
ODs Besdes snde~ this e picFap % Of y oSS in amasam
most of which has already been sent to the
mint, the buyers have found eo.OOO tons Of
that assay 5, to the ton, and they are now pre-
pairing to treat this by cyanide' There is also
valuable machinery in the mine.
The ESBs s9d Sed @s %ssr on aa and al
Marquette. and they were led TO think their
property valueless They had been assessed
time and again for its operation and finally
when the hard times came on and employees
got judgment against the mine for 5000 they
threw up their hands After year of idleness
they sold for so0uSh & pay TIE claims and
iron mining and smelling firm, The buyers
had no knowledge Of value except In the old
machinery and possibly the tailings from the
the property over, He had experience in the
substitution of gold for copper IN battery plates
and of the absorbent character OF copper foI Ger
tain ores of gold, and before he tested the
talngs he tried the plates. Two tons OF old
plates some still in the batteries, some worn out
and thrown away. were found. and from the flrst
simply scrapn9 the plate; All were then
shipped east and are at the mint Several
sacks of dust and sweeplngs, worth $1,000
or more, have also been found around the Old
mill Then the great pile OF 900 tons Of tall
ings was bored into, found 10 be worth nearly
SlOO,OOO net, and its treatment was ordered.
fore this new find Of more than 100000, proof
enough that there was gold in the rocks
OF the district but IL had never made any money
Co. intend, to sink the old shaft. make another
and mine the property heavily. for It is now
evident the ore carries sufficient gold 70 make
only gold producer on the south shore Of Lake
Superior, famous for copper and iron.
IDAHO CITY, June 3.-Operations on Snake
River placers are now being pushed with great
vigor and the results are, good This mining
had been carried on with little success for over
thirty years, the gold being -four" and diff
cult to save. Two years ago new methods were
used and the work made profitable new
ago is proving very successful, rs has one
one that has been working steadily for several
months, saving IS per cent; OF the gold, The
new dredge Is owned by Baker City. Ore, men.
and they have devised an entirely new plan
for gold saving. The sand is brought from the
bar 10 the dredge by means OF buckets on an
after passing through a grizzly. The slnices
are horseshoe shaped. extending around the
inside Of the boat. At intervals are slides on
the black sand and hne gold. while the coarser
material Is caught In the ordinary way. At
the back Of the boat Is an arrastre. and into
The arrastre is exactly similar TO those 40 COM
mon In the early days. excepting that larger
amount Of quicksilver is used and II has been
demonstrated that this saves great portion
| OF the gold. For 600 miles along tho river the
| placer ground is good and within the next two
or three years many more drsdses VIII be con-
| structed to work the rich SANDS.
The company that lately, purchased the
Monarch and four other mines at Atlanta.
on Middle Boise River has put up $4,000
| are from sixty TO eighty feet wide and the ore
! good In both gold and silver.
| UTAH.
| SALT LAKE June 4.-The American Smelt-
! ing and Refining Company Is about 10 build
a mon-dollar smelter in this valley. The
! plant will have capacity OF 10000 tons per
| month which can be doubled on short notice,
The site has not yet been chosen. but Vice Presi-
dent Barton Sewell has announced that the
smelter will be erected within fifteen miles OF
operation by the end Of the year.
The Mercur Mining Company and the De
Lamar Mines Company have consolidated.
The capitalization is placed az 5000. .ooo with
msnt the De Lamar Company is ab.
sorbed by the Mercur, and the name
| of the new concern Is the Consolidated Mercur
Gold Mines Company. One Of the first things
TO be done is the CONSTRUCTION OF power plant
are situated in Toole county, about thirty miles
west Of Salt Lake. The total surface improve
ments on De Lamar's Mercur mines alone have
cost Ss75,0OO
MONTANA.
HELENA, June A. NJ. Ester has returned
to Helena from the recently opened Blackfeet
reservation with samples from several claims
| owned by Helena capitalists, Assays on these
show gratifying returns-the average being
8 per cent. copper. The orc also carries gold
and silver.
According to the report of Fred D.. Smith
director Of the Montana Geological Survey.
the coal product Of the state in 1890 was i&l9.'
S32 tons valued at 81, 22s 5Si; also So. 072 tons
| Of coke valued at s40l, ,779.
A large body Of what Is believed to be plati.
nun was discovered last Saturday near Red
Bluff The metal has proved an eTsgma TO the
local assayers, and samples have been for
warded to the Smithsonian Institution for a
correct analysis.
Several Virginia City capitalists have To-
a ,k,an tan Ntl.aa Ja1T