Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-27
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

Or, recently. In ten days they took out
$1,000, and the rich quartz was holding
out at last accounts.
"A company of Colorado Springs oper-
ators have secured the King group of
mines on the southeast slope of Sultan
mountain, Silver district, Colorado, for
consideration of 100000.
The Tintic Mining and InveStmen.
company, a West Virginia corporation.
has paid S1S0,00O for the Yampa and six
other patented lOdes in the West Noun
tain mining district, Utah.
A nugget worth $1,000 was found in
the Henion and McCauley placer claims.
Swank district. recently. This is the
largest ever found in Washington. the
largest previous one being worth $500
An important strike has been made in
the South Winnie shaft of the Fanny
Rawlins territory. in Leadvile Col There
IS SIX feet of solid ore which averages
500 to the ton in gold. silver and copper
One of the richest finds of copper
ever made IN Wyoming was discovered
a few days ago in the Horse Creek cop
per district Zoe miles north of Cheyenne.
Samples of ore from a assure vein as
Sayed 10 per cent pure copper.
-Corda E. Everett of Cambridge,
Mass. has transferred to the Alma Min
ing company for $4,000 the Standard
CopperopOliS and Mammoth copper min
West Mountain mining district. Utah
The largest mining company working
in the placer districts of South Dakota is
the Big Bend company of New York city,
which Is operating on Rapid river. Pen
nington county. Last fall the company
took out $4,000. a large steam plant is
used.
-Deadwood reports that the Home
stake company has paid dividend of
NIL, y psf on Yt np If
year, ending March 81. This is the larg
est amount by nearly one-half paid by
any, Of the gold-producing mines of the
world.
Capt. Joseph Delamar. millionaire
mining man of New York and Paris. has
transferred his copper property. known as
the Bully Hill mine, and his smelling
plant at Copper City to the Bully Hill
Copper Mining and Smelling company for
81 ,249.000
A well-known mining engineer who
has Just returned from trip to old Next
co brings word of the opening of Il new
copper mine in Sonora, about sixty miles
south of Bisbee, Ariz.. which. it is said,
Will be worth seven such mines as the
United Verde of Jerome, Ariz.
The Black Hills Copper company has
just encountered large ledge of copper
pyriteS i'll Il crosscut at a depth of 100
feet from the surface. The strike is con-
sidered of great Importance, for it is real
~ the first time that copper ore has been
found at that depth in the Black Hills
A rich strike has been made at a
depth of thirty five feet in an old gravel
pit near Columbia, Cal. One nugget
weighing three and half pounds has
been found. Up to April ) over $4,000
had been taken out. Estimates as to the
extent and value of the strike range from
$4,000 TO 100000.
A ledge rich in gold and silver has
been uncovered in the Mineral Point dis
trict Arizona. The average of ore re-
moved exceeds 200 ounces. whereas the
pay streak runs up into the thousands.
This, together with an average of S6 gold
output looks as though the prospect0rs
would be repaid.
Rich placer diggings have been found
in Idaho, on Santa creek, about twenty
miles from TekOa, Wash. Three farmers
ground 4Gx150 feet they took $30S in
coarse gold. Their appliances were crude,
and it is thought that they got less than
third of the gold, as the bedrock was
not cleaned at all.
DR. Caleb Whitehead, aSSayer of the
mint bureau at Tacoma, Wash, predicts
that i'll ten years Alaska will be produc-
ing one-half the worlds supply of cop
per- and Tacoma and Seattle Will be the
cities through which the rest of the Unit
ed States will transact all its business
with that great mining region.
From Dawson comes Il report that Il
renewal of the old time mining excite
ment has been caused by a strike made
on No. above Ell Dorado. owned by
Halstead and Mills. The bedrock there
was rotten and new bedrock was found
twelve feet deeper This held a gold
gravel that is turning out as high as SO
to the PAN
A rich strike has been made in the
Red Oak mining property on Democrat
Hill. near Georgetown. Col. Heretofore
values have run $50 in gold and 100
ounces i'll silver aud 60 per cent. lead.
The ore now shows Il large amount Of
ruby silver which undoubtedly VIII run
several hundred ounces higher than ever
before.
The Salt Lake Tribune states that at
depth OF 1000 feet in the Mammoth
the management is reyeling in the pres
cnce Of ore that at first glance shows
! Il valuation of $50 per ton in gold, while
copper ores of line quality are occurring
III lunches in the same body, not to mem
ton an average of eight ounces silver
shown in the assays.
The Monarch Mining and Leasing
company, operating on block i of the
Wor' Is Fair of the Gold Nnnd company
Cri 1ple Greek district. has broken ont
Al-lb d SAituh VI pIt curry lil4 ldDulhGN
values. 1t is stated that streak aver
! aging about half an inch i'll width gives
values as high as 100000 per ton. The
vein is Do feet wide, with an average
streak Of inches, and runs $400 to the
ton.
The following analysis has been o.
tanned by New York experts of oil dis
covered recently near Evanston in the
extreme southwestern part of Wyoming
Gasoline. Ill per cent; white iIluminat-
ing oil. 33.4 per cent; yellow Illuminating
oil, 2I.1 per cent: parattine, 14.1 per
cent; worthless residue, > per cent: pure
oil, Oh per cent. This is regarded here
as the highest grade Illuminating oil ever
| discovered in the world
The Grants Pass (Or.) Journal. men
tioning the rich strike of George Bour
and I. I. johnson at Josephine cree. Il
SiSkiyou tributary of Illinois river n .To-
Sephine county. says the rock found was
| literally scanned with gold. and gold pro-
| jected ont in plain sight. One specimen
as large as saucer contained about $50
worth of gold. Not only is the rock
scanned with gold. but the face of the
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