The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-24

While the two mines mentioned are
the only ones whose product is being
treated, yet there are many fine and
promising prospects with more or less
development, from the Little Pittsburg,
two miles north of camp to the Sun
shine, three or four miles south, and
from the Golden Gate east Of town to
the Colonel Wall properties on the west
distance of mile. The Golden Gate,
owned by Messrs. Butts and Hallister,
has ore on the dump and in sight,
which averages we'll but is rendered
somewhat refractory by arsenic. The
B B and Surprise, east of town., are
owned by the Vicking company, in
which Mr. Hagerman, of Colorado
Springs, Mr. Hayes, a son-in-law of
Jeff Davis, and others, are interested;
there are ten men at work here, with
excellent prospects. The adjoining
claims are the Ingot and Cannon,
owned by the Cannon company; there
is good ore in sight and what is of it
self valuable, there is a shaft full of
water in the Ingot. The Matte No. 4,
Thompson and Captain Mcfarland, of
the Sixteenth infantry, adjoins the
Mercur south and west the vein has
been entered and the indications are
fiattering. The Sacramento and Pan
Handle group, owned by Colonel Wall
and Mr.. Lakin has developed good ore;
six men are at work here. The Her.
schel group, owned by Messrs. Keifer,
Ike Jennings, Nebeker and Sid Hooper.
have done considerable development
work; there is ore in the mine and the
showing is good. The Matte group,
which joins the Herschel, is owned by
MeSsrs. Kiefer, Scheu A. E. Smith and
others; the Eagle is owned by Messrs.
Derge and Raditz and others. These
groups are showing well. In the Glen
coe country, two miles south, Messrs.
Raditz and Derge are prospecting and
Andrews & Co., are working a group
owned by w. A. Sherman. Next in the
march southwark is the Sunshine
property, which Messrs. w. A. Sher-
man, Charley Jacobs and the Officer
Brothers have under a $4,000 bond,
good for another year. These claims are
making a most excellent showing; the
gentlemen interested in the bond feel
| that they have mine and it may be
set down as certain that the prop
erty will be bought at the expirat ton
of the time.
1t seems certain that there is a great
blanket deposit of ore POSSIBLY two
strata as appears from the latest de-
velopments at the MercuD stretching
north and south for a distance of six
miles and east and west for one mile.
1t is certain that anything above So to
to the ton is a paying assay. The in
dic9tionS point to the conclusion that
this average will prevail over large
stretch of the six miles and possibly
away and beyond in places not yet
! prospected. The camp is dull now. 1t
is dull because at its present status
there are only two mines at work, The
claim owners are signing for capital
they feel that few thousand dollars
spent in the development of the many
claims around the camp will newt
! ably show that the Mercur ground is
no better than the general run Of the
district, and with that fact developed
that Mercur will be the central point
| of not merely two but of dozens OF
paying properties. Even mining camps
suffer from dull times. The only draw.
/ back to the prospective happiness OF
the Mercur citizen is the fear that thew
may develop gold so plenteously that
Congress may be led to demonetize il
and leave it to rustic along as best ii
may as shirt stud and cuff button
metal.
| VIII Higgins. the editor of the Mer-
curry, having become too prosperous
| to longer publish a red hot paper in a
! freezing cold tent, is building an ofTice
after the prevailing style of archftec.
ture and will soon present to the Mer.
cur view that spectacle of luxurious
environment without which every
newspaper man feels lonesome