The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-02

Of placing that gentleman in the lower
house of the state legislature.
Professor Nelson, of the 3. Y. A.,
has somehow got the enmity of the
Enquirer and they are trying to see
how mean and dirty they can write
about him. The voters usually look
upon these attacks as just the reverse
from the truth, and the harder the En-
qulrer lashes, the nearer perfection a
man is thought to be- Nelson is a
Democrat, otherwise the great Poo Bah
would slobber all over him.
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS.
James Seaman, w. D. Wilbur and W.
F. Brewster returned home last Thurs
day after a prospecting tour of two
months duration. They brought with
them $38 in gold dust, or rather little
nuggets about the size Of a pin head,
which had been washed from the pla-
Ger ground they have located in the
Bear creek mining district, in Gilmore
county, eight miles from the celebrated
Rocky Bar placer mines. They locat-
ed Jointly with A. H Porter, William
Corlett and Lewis Corder, of Ogden,
four claims, or 600 by 5000 feet of
ground, and in doing assessment work
washed out the amount of the yellow
metal above stated. They had no tools
suitable for anything else than pros
pecting, but with those they had made
a discovery that will yield $1.25 for
every yard of dirt washed. The boys
feel highly elated over their find, and
next spring will return to their camp
prepared TO placer mine in the latest
style of the art Their Ogden associ-
ates will push development work until
cold weather sets in. In the same dis
trict company of English capital
lists are operating on ground that cost
them an even 500, 000.-Poeatello Trib-
une.
Henry Miller is out from Florence,
and brought us out samples Of rich
gold ore from Smith & Fishers Bios
som mine, situated one-haIf mile from
Florence in which the proprietorS have
driven 125 feet Of tunnel, showing good
ore all the. way. Our samples show
free gold, and plenty of it. Dan Dwight
also sent out samples of ore from his
ledge near Florence, (which, while not
showing free gold, is fully as rich.
Charley Cone has struck another chute
on his claim, which IS said to be big
ger and richer than anything he has
previously found. Fitzgerald has near
~ completed his big tiune enterprise,
and only had nine more bents to put
in. The water is all gone, the bitches
are dry and the placer season is over,
and the boys are striking out into the
hills to prospect for quartz. We hope
that John Day mountain will come in
for a good share of attention this fall,
as in our opinion that range will be
found The heart of a good mineral
zone. The country between the head
of Slate creek and old Buffalo Hump
and around 10 the Mud lakes is also
a very inviting one for quartz pros
pectors, as rich float has been found
in interchangeable Free Press.
Surveyor General Straughan, Of Ida
no, and wife, are in the city and ex-
pressed themselves as much pleased
with Spokane They have visited Yel-
lowstone Park, Butte and Helena
and are now on their way to Portland.
General Straughan says that the Of
fetal maps and other papers referring
to final surveys within the Nez Perez
Indian reservation. required for al
lotment of lands in severalty, have
been approved by him and will speed
lily b acted upAn at the general land
Office, Was mgton City, after which
selections can be completed by the In
dams and patents thereto will be duly
issued.
From recent Geographic and other
correspondence with the interior de-
partment expressing a desire to close
up these necessarfes dependent upon
the survey. General Straughan feels
assured there will be no unnecessary
delay in throwing open the Nez Perez
Indian reservation to settlement. This
result, he feeA confident, will be
brought about in the very near future
Spokane Review.
Last week we were shown several
specimens of ore from the big copper
mines recently located by o. E. Pen
we'll and his partner on North Fork
in Lenlli county. These are very
promising claims, although very little
development work has been done on
them. The ore runs very high in cop
per, and the lodges are immense; be-
sides the mines are easy of access.
Mr.. Penwell is high pleased with the
outlook, and we are of the opinion
that he has just cause to be.-Challis
Messenger.
Judge Shurtlfff, of Ogden, Utah, will
visit this valley some time in October.
The judge was one of the hardy pio-
neers who settled in this valley when
the country comprising Montana and
Idaho was almost an unknown wilder
ness. He was only seventeen years OF
age at that time. He remained here
three years, after which he settled in
or near Ogden, where he has since be-
come a man of wealth and influence
No doubt most all of our people will
be greatly pleased to meet one of Lem
HIS first pioneers, and will, with their
usual hospitality, make his visit a
very pleasant one.-Lemhi Republic.
The Haley papers report a strike
Of the miners of Camas No 2 mine.
They strike for So day. Heretofore
they have been paid a scale of wages
at both the mine and mill, ranging
all the way from $3.50 to 81. The min
ers did not object TO a low rate of
wages, as, long as the mine was being
worked at a small profit to the own
ers, but now, it is stated, with the
mine paying a profit of over $4,000
a month, they want the ruling wages,
SO a day.
A Rocky Bar correspondence to the
Mountain Home Bulletin, says there
has recently been quite a big mining
deal consummated. The placer mine
known as the Big Bar, on the Middle
Boise river, eighteen miles west of
Rocky Bar, has been bought by Mr..
Butts, of Salt Lake. A survey for a
big ditch to convey water to the bar
has been made, and the work of con-
struction commenced. This ditch is