The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24
Mining Notes and personals.


Hill, came in from Eureka last night.
He reports that the mine is looking we'll.
j. c. Conklin and his son Ben are on
the western slope. Camp Floyd district,
looking after valuable properties they
own there.
Yesterday the northbound Eureka train
was SO heavily ladened that it pulled the
drawhead out of a car loaded with ore,
and the car had to be left at Fairfield
siding.
NJ H Hennesy came in from Sunshine
last evening and will remain over here
for a day. Mr.. Hennesy is interested in
the Jumbo near the Sunshine group, and
is feeling highly elated over what he has
in sight.
VIII Ross who is working the Peabody
mine in Bingham under lease, is in Salt
Lake disposing of a lot of carbonate ore
that runs 70 ounces silver, 40 per cent.
body is one of the properties belonging
to the Stewart No. in Carr Fork.
Hank Barnes came in from Mercur last
night, where. with Perry Arson, he will
soon have a large, ffrst-class hotel in
full blast. Hank says it will be impos
water over TO Mercur but he begs us to
assure his friends that he will have his
annual clam bake, all the same.
c. NJ; Hansen, who is operating a por-
ham under lease, is in Salt Lake dis
posing of a two-car lot of high grade
silver and lead ore. He reports that
every leaser of the Old Telegraph is TAX
ing out ore and that the returns in
nearly every case are much better than
wages.
Archie McSparran, who is operating
the Cuba mine in Carr Fork Bingham,
for S. Z. Watson of this city, is in Salt
Lake. He reports that the tunnel being
run on the property is now in about six
ty-hve feet, and that the formation is
showing every evidence of proximity to
the vein which has been worked in the
upper workings.
the Eighteen Eighty-Nine mine in High
land gulch, Bingham, was in Salt Lake
yesterday. He has been operating all
over Bingham since early in the seven
ties and states that the largest body of
pyrites of iron he has ever seen is one
that he has recently opened UP in the
Eighteen ighty-Nine.
The, group of claims in Bingham
owned by Frank and Jay Harris and E.
W. Wilson of this city, which is being
developed by tunnel run on the Daunt-
less claim, is showing up well. The tun-
mel is now in about seventy feet and has
already cut through one vein of ore. but
is being pushed for the foot wall of the
vein on which the group was located.
1t is said that Colonel E. A Wall has
100 claims in Camp Floyd district, and
that he has expressed a Willingness to give
one to any man who is not in the swim
proposition of this character. 1t is also
claimed that nine out of ten men in the
district, is asked who they We're work
ing for, would reply, for Colonel Wall"
NJ NJ. Johnson, superintendent of the
New Tintic Mining and Smelling COM
pany stated yesterday that within a
week work will be resumed on the sink
ing of the Hororine shaft in Stockton.
The new air compressor and the addi-
tlonal pumps are now about set up, and
but few details are necessary to put
the plant in condition for work
A great many came down from Camp
Floyd last night for the purpose OF eat
ing Christmas turkey in Salt Lake. The
the rush is not over, for a great many
more will arrive in the city tonight
Among: those who arrived last night
G we're IA ! p Young PeIon Joseph Wilkinson
D. Shafer, a. H. Mayne, f. l.. McIn-
tyre, E. W. Rose, NJ. II. Hennessey and
E. E. Stewart.
Mat Gisborne's lease on the Geyser
mine at Camp Floyd expired yesterday
and tthe property was turned over to the
company. S. B. Mines went out to look
after the change that was to take place.
and continued l.. N. Smith in his posi-
ton as superintendent of the GeySer
mill. and H. L. Benner as foreman Of the
mine. They are both good men and will
make a record for the property during
the coming year.
AS an illustration of the f1abby condi-
ton of the local stock market at this
holiday season, yesterdays transactions
of one broker may be quoted. De Witt
3. Lowe reported the purchase of 4000
shares of Dalton at cents; 5000 Natural
Gas at 10 cents; and 200 Mercur at $6.25,
a price that stock has not seen since
the day the November dividend was due
and passed. In his transactions Mr.
Lowe reports the sale of 800 Mammoth
at s1.50
One of the most promising properties
IN Carr DIRK, Bingham, is the Minnie
group now being operated by A. T. Law
renee under bond. Six men are at
work on the property, four in the tunnel.
which is being driven past where the
vein of the upper workings was cut, and
two are engaged in STOPPING ore from this
vein. 1t is the intention of Mr.. Lawrence
to drive this tunnel ahead to a. point
where it will intersect some of the veins
that out-crop on the upper claims of the
group.
Mr. J. F. Woodman yesterday arranged
with the other owners and directors of
the Segregated Gold Mining company
one of the recently incorporated compalA-
les of the Camp Floyd district, to par
chase the entire block of 10000 shares of
the treasury stock of the company at 81
per share. The payment is not to be made
in lump, but as the company needs
money for development work, Mr. Wood
man will supply it and take his pay out
OF the treasury stock.
Captain James Black, who is operat-
ing the Jones Bonanza group of claims
lying east of the Golden Gate IN Camp
Floyd district, is so we'll satisfied with
the showing made in the tunnel that he
has recently driven under the groupings
to a depth of eighty feet, that he now
proposes to run lower tunnel. Accord
ingly, yesterday, he arranged to start
this tunnel at point 80 feet lower on
the mountain side, and from the dip of
the vein he figures on tapping the vein
$50 feet below the upper Workings.