The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-04
MINING NOTES.

From the Southern Utah Times:
Work at the Bullionville, New
smelters is temporarily suspended.
Rebuilding will be inanguraSed at
once upon the Godbe smelter, the
material having nearly all arrived.
Supt. Cove infoms US that only
two car loads of ore have been deliv
cred TO the smelter from the Horn
Silver, during the past week, owing tc
the incspscity of the locomotive now
being used on the railroad. There is
no danger of the smelter being shut
down, however, as teams will be en-
ployed to transport the ore should il
become necessary.
Work on the Carrie Lucille, in
Pine Grove district, is progressing
finely and a large quantity OF ore is
out ready for smelling as soon as the
Godbe smelter is fred up again.
The iron mines. 1T Iron City, upon
which Prof. NeWberry passed so
favorable a report net long since. are
being visited by Mr.. fischer and d
party of Frisco and Beaveri.es whom
we mentioned last week as being
about to contest the legality of certain
claimants to several valuable prop
critics.
The Champion. in Frisco district,
will boom again scon. During an
interview yesterday with its able
manager, Mr.. Charles E. Bruce, q
Times commissioner learned TIA.
about the middle or latter part OF
next month work would be resumed
with renewed vigor, and a shaft of
200 feet in depth begun at the end oil
the $50 foot tunnel, and directly
underneath the $50 foot shalt already
sunk upon that tunnel, making
tot Al depth of $50 feet.
The Hickory, in S.sr district, about
which We bIieied 8 valuable strike in
our last issue was visited during the
early part OF the week by ]. NJ.
Burke and Allen G. Campbell. who
report that while the find was not go
large as they had expected, it was
milling ore of high grade, the assay
being 42S ounces silver. The ore
which had been taken out was OF a
yellow chloride formation resem bling
carbonate.
From the Park City Record:
Ire Ontario vein has not yet been
entirely cross cut on the 700 level. Il
has, however, been cut into over five
feet. The assays show ten inches of
s750o.e and the rest averaging $125
The Great Basin Tunnel is 10 200
feet, and lsst Thursday a cross-cut of
eighty ieeI was commenced from the
lace. At that distance it is expected
70 strike the White Pine ledge.
Work on the HsWkeye in sinking
he shait was suspended Tuesday,
lwing to striking a body of water,
which came in on the men at the
-ate of sixty gallons to the minute.
Another sinking pump was put in
and work resumed, and |
ne shalt Is now down about 100 feet.
At 200 feet station will be cut out |
or a pump. and sinking then pro-
iced.
Stopping commences, Mr.. O'Riley |
Informs Us, at the Empire tomorrow
N the 100, 200 and 500 levels. The
Runway to the ore house is COM
,leted, and the superintendent tells
Is that it will be filled at once, az
lso the ore house at the mill. which
} to be built Immediately. At the
nine, during the last week, the 400
nd 800 levels have been bsrricaded
D keep back the water. Drifting on
be 400 has not yet been resumed.
he vein on that level has not yet
cen reached.
Johnny Daily is having his group
I prospects surveyed in q block.
lie now has over sixty claims which
Gowns either by location or purchase.
ONE Of them he has bought IS
lsny as three times, that there
lay be no possible chance of an
xpensive Law suit after he has de.
sloped them. He believes that an
lnce OF prevention is worth pound
cure. Already he hes had between
fteen aud twenty claims surveyed
7 patent, and 8 number Of them
ave been secured. All this has
zen going on very quietly, but We
-pect to hear the noise next spring.
9 is not the man 70 do what he is
ing for nothing.