The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-01
BRIEF BITS FROM BINGHAM.
Mining, Personal and General Notes
of the Week just Passed

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The Markham mill has been run
ming on Peabody ore this week
A shipment of nice ore will be mace
from the Miners Home in few days.
Mr.. Thomas Venard, of Salt Lake,
has been looking after his mining in
terests in Bingham this week.
The West Mountain Placer company
are enlarging their shaft in order to
make room for another pump.
NJ. P. Boag made a consignment Of
the yellow metal from his gold mill IN
upper Bingham this week.
Mr.. Castro. owner of the Idaho group
of mines, reports development work
with good force of men.
The Stewart mill is again running full
time on ore from the Bonham, one of
the properties embraced in the Stewart
group.
Preparations have been made for the
hauling down of a nice lot of ore from
the Henry M. mine, at the head of Carr
| Fork, for shipment.
/ A. M. Spooner, one of the chiefs of
| the West Mountain Placer company,
was out from Salt Lake last Sunday
taking a, look at the company's works.
| Mr.. George Hirsch continues to crowd
development work on the Rosa lode.
and is driving the tunnel ahead on that
property at a lively rate.
| A new and quite valuable strike is
reported to have been made recently
on the mining claim operated by Henry
Weiss and partners, in Dry Fork cam
yon.
Garland and Harrington have sub
| leased the Yosemite - Morrissey
and Burt, Jangraw and Mann, Ormond
and German, and Moore and Austin
are among the lessees.
! Lambert, Ricketts, & Hoster feel quite
encouraged in their work on the plac-
ers above town by the finding of some
nice colors one day this week. Glad
to hear of your good luck. gentlemen.
Mr.. James Warden and partners
opera tors of the Miners Home. one oil
the big gold properties at the head OF
Carr Fork, are steadily prosecuting
the work of extracting and shipping
ore from that property.
Mr.. George Norman who has super
intended the running of the long Nj.
agra tunnel for year past, will mex
week return to Park City again, where
he has accepted a position with the AL
lance Mining company.
Steady work is the order of the day
on the Mohawk properties, and tht
tunnel is reaching farther and farther
into the mountain every day. John A
1 Van Pelt, one of the owners of thi!
group of claims, was out from Sal
Lake this week inspecting the worl
being done on the same.
Superintendent Welby, of the Rit
Grande Western was in Bingham thi!
: week, not to make arrangements 70
the erection of a much needed depo
at this place, as our citizens had hoped
but, we understand, to make arrange
ments for extending the tramway. t.
the site of the gold mill, to be erected
i'm upper Highland gulch.-Bulletin.
The cruel and unnecessary custom O
. docking horse tails should be prohib
i lifted by law in every state in the
Union. 1t is a barbarous practice an(
the one who INDUCES in it should b'
made to suffer a severe penalty.
Farming combines both art and sci
ence A farmer without an education
is as badly off as the man who bets OF
a horse race: he may win, but ther
! are a good many chances against him
We know farmer VINO told US tn
r other day that the bicycle he bough
2 for his boy had more than paid for 1t
self That boy thinks farming is no
: such a bad kind of life, after all
! The bicycle had something to do wit
, this opinion.