The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-11
Mining Notes.

The Macintosh sampler received
yesterday forty-six tons of Northern
Chief ore and four tons of Yosemite
No. 1 lease ore.
Martin McGrath, of Park City re-
nown, is in the city.
Silver fell off a point again yester-
day and was quoted at Sc cents.
Mrs. c. c. Higgins, of Mercur, is
visiting relatives and friends in this
city.
Gay Lombard is back from his visit
to southern California where he has
valuable mining properties.
de Lamar" Robinson, of the Golden
Gate, at Mercur, was among the ar
rivals in the city last night.
D. w. Teschenor, a, well-known Bing-
ham mining operator, came in last
night and is registered at the st. Elmo.
George Dern left for Mercur yester-
day with checks and the payroll for
the men working at the Mercur and
Rover mines. About $50 men are work
ing at the Mercur now.
Mr.. E. E. Crooks will leave next Sun
day for his old home in Minnesota to
be absent two or three weeks on bust
ness. He has made some heavy in
vestments in Utah and expects to in
Utah mines and irrigation enterprises.
The Pan-American Mining and Mill
ing company received q remittance for
its bi-monthly shipment the other day.
This company has been a steady ship
per from Sonora, Mexico, for nearly
three years, not having missed ship
ment every two weeks during that
period. N
A. Burch has just completed a sur
vey for the Bullion-Beck Tunnel COM
pany, which is operating on the east
side of Godiva mountain, in Tintic
mining district. The company has al
ready tunneled a distance of 400 feet
and has recently let a contract for
forty feet more.
The town lot squatter has invaded
Mercur and for mile down the can
yon stakes and notices are like the
growth of a young forest. Now, how
ever, the rush is in another direction,
and the squatter has squatted all over
the Golden Gate property The man
agement of the mine, has warned the
lot jumpers not to build on thenn-and
the end is not yet.
Mr.. E. Caffall, formerly of this city.
who is superintendent of the Free Gold
Mining company, the stockholders of
which all live in Salt Lake city, writes
from Pine Grove, Nevada, the scene of
the company's operations, that the
work is being pushed on the property
with the expectation of soon cutting
the new vein recently discovered in the
Wilson property, which adjoins
J. G. Jacobs, manager of the Mercur
railroad, arrived in the city last night,
and although the story has been oft
repeated, he confirmed the report that
the road was doing Gland Office bust
ness" and was taxed to it's utmost ca
pacity. If this keeps up, and there
seems to be no indications to the con-
trary, the rolling stock on the line will
have to be increased. When J. G.. gets
electric street cars running in Mercur
and the streets illuminated with cleo
trio lights, he will have made the
desert to bloom as the rose" or words
to that effect.
Marcus Daily tells the Anaconda
Standard that the Anaconda Mining
Mining company has paid out S72. O0O,-
600 in Montana since its organization in
1878. The original Anaconda was
bought for $4,000, and yet after all this
immense wealth has been taken out a
quarter interest was sold in London a.
few weeks ago for $7,5OO0OO, since
which time the shares have advanced
till the whole property is worth s37.-
100000. When DAILY began work it wa
with hand windlass and he supposed
he had a silver property Johannes
burg will hardly have a. mining story
that will SurpaSs this.