The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-25
RUSHING THE IMPROVEMENTS.
Golden Gate Properties Are Being
SpIendidIy Equipped.


Mercur Mercury: Many improve
ments are going forward at the Golden
Gate. The pipe line has been compile
ted and a reservoir of capacity of
10000 gallons is now being built just
above the mine. The company office
and temporary residence is completed.
1t contains besides the offices a commo-
dious dining-room and kitchen, and
several roomy bed chambers, all nicely
furnished and connected throughout
with the water main. The house is
surrounded by an ample porch, and the
sloping ground in front will be con-
verted into a lawn. The assay office
adjoining is equipped with the finest
furnace, scales, etc., in the market,
and no city office will be better
equipped for accurate work. Near the
south shaft an open carriage and Wa
gon house has been constructed and
near it a two-story stable of a ca
pacity to accommodate all the horses
the company will use and ample room
for the storage Of hay and grain, will
soon be erected. North Of the shaft
some distance an excavation is being
made for a powder magazine, which
will be of sufficient capacity to contain
several tons of powder. Under ground
there is even greater activity. During
the week two contracts were let and
the contractors are now working
thereon. One of them is for a hundred
feet of drifting from the bottom of
the north shaft in a southeasterly di-
rection, following the ore under the bed
Of the gulch, over which runs the
stage road. The other is the first
hundred feet of the incline which will
connect the north shaft with the new
working shaft. The boys who had the
contract for sinking the shaft last
mentioned the first hundred feet fin
iShed it Wednesday, the actual work.
ing time being less than thirty days.
The second contract of hundred feet
will be let at once. In the Maybe shaft
the contractors are down $50 feet and
superintendent Kislingbury expects to
encounter the ore there any day now.
In that event the drift just started
from the north shaft, as above men
toned, will, after running up the high
gulch about a thousand feet, be ex-
tended to the Maybe, connecting it
with the other workings. Superinten-
dent Kislingbury is preparing to place
the ores of the mine on the market,
and will soon commence shipments in
car lots. How extensive these ship
ments will be cannot at present be
determined, but they will be sufficient
at least to determine the value OF the
ore in the various markets and also
the treatment charges. Taken as a
whole the Golden Gate presents the
appearance Of a swarm of bees when
honey is plenty, and superintendent
KislingbuTy is the busiest member of
the colony.
Saturday, June 1. the annual miners
meeting will be held in Mercur. A
recorder is to be elected to serve the
ensuing year and other matters of i'm
portance will probably come up for
action. To date Judge E. B. Shoe
bridge and the present recorder are the
only candidates Cor that office, but
there will probably be others.
c. H. Scheu and a Mercury reporter
visited the Sunshine Wednesday. The
working incline is down 220 feet and
has 20 feet yet TO run before connecting
with the workings. A trip through the
latter revealed ore in limitless quanti-
ties. George Garnick is now foreman.
vice G. H. Leighton, who resigned in
order to look after his own property. A
visit was also paid to the Pacific and
groups. both now in process
of development, and in which excellent
showings are being made.