Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-09
WESTERN MINING NOTES.


A Boston syndicate has bought the
Mammonth group of copper mines in
Shasta county, Cal, for $250,000.
In the Magnetic mine, near Tucson.
Arr, quantity of nickel has been found
| and New York company has secured
possession of the property.
Promising gold discoveries have been
made in the Cone Butte country, Meag
her county, Mont, and many claims are
being located and filed for record.
Edward Stanton, a Calhoun county
farmer. harvested 260 bushels of clover
seed and at once made sale of it for
$5.25 bushel, or $1365 for the lot.
The Upper Peninsula seems to be
good for something besides "copper" iron
and timber. An Ontonagon farmer raised
AZ bushels of potatoes ON a half-aere of
ground.
1t requires more than a half mil
hon tons of coal annually to operate the
mines of the copper country, beside a
considerable quantity of wood used as
fuel at some of the mines.
Two sensational strikes have been re-
ported from the Annie Laurie, southern
Utah. An S-foOt body of ore was I'M
covered in tunnel No. 4, and it gives
valuation of $50 ton, Of which as much
as S17S is in gold.
A dispatch from Helena, Mont, says
the group of iron mines on Bull river
Just across the Canadian border, near
Fort Steele, has been bonded for $120,-
600. 1t is said that over a million tons
of ore are in sight.
The cid village of Greenland, in On
tonagon county, has taken on new
lease of life of late and there has been
quite building boom there this season.
One of the improvements to be made at
once is a new hotel.
Paul Tanpoll apyoarS 70 have a.
an old overlooked gravel channel near
Mokelumne hin, Caiayeras county, Cal
He sunk a shaft only nine feet deep and
from it took sos in nuggets in six days,
working only with pan.
The gold commissioner at Dawson,
in recent report on the output of the
district places il at $1S643,000 for the
months of June, July and August. These
figures are shown by the export certifi-
Gates that miners are compelled to take
out when they ship their gold dust.
The Charlotte board of supervisors
has adopted a motion stpulating that aft
er November l all persons convicted of
vagranCy, drunkenness or diSorderly con-
duct shall be denied the freedom of the
Jail and given only bread and water. The
purpose is to put stop to the wholesale
tramp business.
Capt. Hoatson, underground suparin-
| tendent of Calumet and Hecla, has re-
turned from Arizona, where he made a
thorough investigation of the Calumet
| and Arizona Copper company's mine
which he pronounces the biggest new
| mine started in years. Calumet village
| holds about 100000 of the stock of this
mine.
At Pontiac the other day a Touring
mill, operated by water, came to a stand
still. An examination revealed the fact
| that the cause of the stoppage was the
nf "a n toJs.x han NV,
cells, which, when taken out and counted.
were found to number the unlucky thir-
teen, and ranging from three feet in
length upward.
A big copper strike has been made on
! the Tolt twenty miles east of Seattle,
the vein being 40 feet wide and traceable
through five claims. The ore ASSAYS from
10 to 20 per cent. copper and from So to
| 81 gold. The property is about eight
miles from the SnOquaimie branch of the
| Northern Pacific railroad and is compara-
lively easy of access.
One of the important discoveries in
| southeastern Alaska this season is an
in width and traceable over several thou
sand feet. San Francisco capital has OBJ
| tanned control of this deposit and vii
soon convert it into merchantable arti-
| Gle This is the first discovery of the
kind that has been made in Alaska.
| Inc discovery near hlngman of what
| is to all appearances a large deposit Of
| tin ore, and the discovery simultaneously
of tin deposit in the Grand canyon. have
caused much excitement in northern Ari-
IONA. On the property of William Roe
| of Kingman finch vein OF tin ore
running about 50 per cent. to the ton,
/ has been uncovered ana aside from the
! tin the ledge is heavily filled with copper
| Near the Western end of the Grand cam
! yon fne lot of tin has been found. 1t
| is said TO be there in great quantities and
the ledge is nearly 1000 feet in length.