The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-05

mime where thQre is no ore, but 50 far
without success. Drifts have been run
| every way, and it is still ore, ore, ore.
The vein has been cut seventy-fve
feet and no footwall yet Ut is getting
monotonous and the owners think it is
about time ito develop something which
will enable them to form an estimate
of the size of the body. The mill is
ready and waiting for water when the
Sunshine will become the centre of
great activity.
Murphy and Preble will soon have
the Bonanza group patented.
Hudson Smith was in camp this
week, looking after his mining inter
ests.
a. hundred-foot shaft on the ElmWoOd
| property.
Surveyor Joseph was out this week
finishing the patent survey on the
! Search Light ground.
The Northern Light on Lion Hill,
shipped twelve tons of 200-ounce ore
the first of the week.
B. Christensen is over from Eureka
doing some surveying on the Golden
Gate property.
The Salt Lake & Mercur company
is extending it's road up Elkhorn gulch
TO the Matte No. 4.
The Mercur company is adding eight
tanks to its mill, which will increase
the capacity to two hundred tons
daily.
We are Informed that the ore recent
ly struck in the Golden Gate working
shaft goes 500 per ton, or better.
Attorney Street, who IS interested
with General Penrose in the Gold Dust
group, was in camp Sunday and Mon
day.
! 1t is probable that the De Lamar
company will soon commence the de-
velopment of the Tough Knot group,
on which they hold bond.
The Hecla shaft is now going down
rapidly and the new pumping plant is
working to perfection. The contrac-
tors are making about three feet a
day.
Drifting was commenced this week
from the 225-foot level of the Cannon
shaft, and from reports we are inclined
to believe that the prospects for ore
are growing bright
w. S. Fugate this week let a con-
tract on the Song Bird group for a
hundred-foot shaft. to Sidney Black,
Pete Erickson and partners. The
ground lies in the country east of the
Tough Knot group.
George Leighton, who are operating
the Old Fred and Sir Victor groups,
were over from the Sunshine country
Saturday. They report a good showing
IN both properties.
F. A. Wiswell, representing the
Brown Milling company, Of Boston,
who is the inventor and patentee of
several processes for the treatment CT
difficult ores, is in camp, accompanied
by B. H. Hickman, mining man of
Osceola.
A peculiar thing has been developed
in the Golden Gate working shaft, in
that arsenical ore was first encoun-
tered and under it a large body of oxi-
died ore. We rather think this will
make the theorists and experts
scratch their heads.
Since the purchase by the Mercur
company of the Matte No. the stock
of the company is climbing rapidly.
Since the Brown stock was withdrawn
from the market there are not so many
floating shares, and it takes a good
piece to induce holders to part with
any,
The Geyser is now operating very
smoothly under the SUPPLEMENTARY of
Ed. Stewart There is more than
enough water to run the mill to its full
capacity on the day shifts. and a large
tonnage of ore is being put through.
In the mine much smaller force of
miners are employed than formerly.
but they seem to have no trouble in
keeping the mill supplied with ore.