The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-14
Mining Notes and Personals


Mining Notes and Personals
Tho Humbug NINE of Tintic, sent in a
45-ton shipment of ore yesterday.
Sam Newhouse, the we'll known mining
operator, is expected in from Denver next
Monday week.
Harry S. Joseph will leave for the east
the first of the week on mining business
connected with Bingham properties.
A. NJ Spooner, of Mercur fame, has
:rorng miner at his house who will en-
herit his name Congratulations are in
order.
Hon. B. T. Lloyd, who has been in
Camp Floyd mining district for several
days this week on mining business, is
expected home tonight.
Word was received from the east few
days ago to resume work in the develop,
lnent of the Alma mine in Cottonwood
canyon, near Marysvale.
The 19-ton lot of galena ore, mention of
which was made in these columns yester-
day, assayed "a per cent lead and JOG
ounces in silver to the ton.
1t was reported on the streets yesterday
that the boys who are at work on the
Chicago mine in Dry canyon, in Oph1r
district, have been showed in
1t is whispered among dealers in mining
machinery that specifications and plans
for the erection of the Golden Gate mill
will soon be submitted to the franternity.
1t is understood that an attempt will
be made within the next so days TO treat
with the Indians on the Uintah reSerVa-
ton, and that within six months or
year that the reservation will be thrown
open for settlement
s. B. Miner, who came in from the
Geyser Thursday night. informs The
Herald that the camp is making RAPID
advances and that there is now more
work being done throughout the district
than ever before. The Geyser VIII make
its semi-monthly shipments of cyanides
tomorrow.
Paul Rodenhouse came in from Silver
City, Tlntic, yesterday, bringing with
him some samples of ore from one of the
claims on the Stemwinder group that
The shaft on the property referred to is
down to the so foot level, and the ore
zone is all of four feet in width.
The ''Woodman' gas well at Lake
Shore, which has been choked up for the
last two months. was cleaned out last
night, and it now shows 23O pounds pres
sure to the square inch. AT the main
line at the wells last night at o'clock
big wells are now furnishing the supply.
The directors of the Gold King Mining
company met a few days ago and it was
decided by them that they would each
take a block of the treasury stock of the
company and continue the development
of its Camp Floyd property this winter.
When work was discontinued last spring
the showing in this property was very
encouraging.
Colonel S. T. Pearson, secretary of the
Bingham Placer company, is in Idaho
inspecting the work that is being done
in the construction of the fine plant that
the company is putting in at its diggings.
This consists of several miles of ditch
and f1ume and also hydraulics. The plant
will be. pushed to completion this fall if
possible, and it is expected that early in
the spring work will be resumed in the
recovery of the yellow metal.
Hon WIN Neheker and II NJ RYAN
returned yesterday from a visit to the
Ajax mine a. Mammoth, and they bring
back with them the pleasing intelligence
that on the 200 foot level in this property
a five-foot body of ore has been uncovered
that assays 10 per cent. copper, besides
carrying some silver. A shipment of
Ajax ore was received yesterday that
sampled 50 per cent. copper, ten ounces in
silver and "a in god to the tor.
James Hendrie. the Deep Creek mine
and ranch owner, who is in the city, in
forms The Herald that the roa.1s be-
tween this city and the Deep Greek
country are in a bad condition at the
present time. Clifton district, he says,
is attracting a great deal of attention
just now, and the showing made in the
mines throughout the camp is such as
to justify the prediction that within an
other year a, large amount of ore will be
shipped from there.
Tfntic Miner: T. A. Wally and Hiram
ing enterprises at Silver City, have also
some valuable asphalt locations in Uintah
county, upon which they have just com
pieted some valuable improvements.
These gentlemen, with Salt Lake capital
lists, have incorporated several of their
claims under the title of the Utah
Asphaltum and Varnish company, and
with their manufactured product.
Ephraim Enterprise: The Herald has
called attention to the fact that gold
mining may be far more popular as
channel of investment that IS not ex-
celled anywhere and we can attract
large share of the money available for
employment in the industry. If that
business is pushed, all others will be
benefited and property of all description
will be given increased value. 1t can
easily be demonstrated to any :nvesti-
gator that conditions are as herein stated,
and there is no reason why we should not
attract capital and enter upon a new
era of prosperity.
Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical COM
Dany, of New York. is in the city inter-
viewing the mining companies who use
cyanide in the reduction of their ores,
This company has sold cyanide to the
Mercur Mining company and to the Pan
American for number of years, and is
now selling to the Sunshine and several
other Mercur companies. John Andreae,
representing the parent company in Ger
many, is also in the city. The company
has large chemical works at Niagara
Falls, where electricity is the motive
power
The Herald is informed that a gentle
man from Pittsburg has just purchased
a group of nine claims located in the
western foothills in Camp Floyd district,
not far from Colonel Wallis Cedar Hills
property, and that it is the intention of
the purchaser to return home where a
stock company will be formed for the
thorough development of the group. 1t is
stated that this gentleman says that
there are a good many capitalists in the
east who are anxious to buy good gold
properties in this country. and that ere
long we may see a large amount of
eastern money coming this way for in
VeStment.
Ed X. Kirby. the general agent of the
Risdon Iron Works company, of San
Francisco. has returned from a trip to
Montana, and he informs The Herald
that during his absence he sold q B-yan
mill and a lot of Johnson concentrctorS
to the Hope Mining company, whose
property is now under the management
of P. A. H. Franklin, who is well known
in Utah. The Hope mine, according to
Mr.. Kirby, is a magnificent property. but
on account of the disastrous fire that oc-
CURED in the mine some time ago, it has
not been on the shipping list of late. The
the hoist rebuilt at a cost of about S25,-
900. and the new mill will cost $4,000 adj
ditional; but when everything is in GOOD
running order again, the property VIII
be money-maker, as there is an i'm
:-.a,,=e amount of ore blocked out in the
nire.
1T is better to be born lucky than
rich This is an old saying. and there
is no doubt but that e. Burkhardt, who
was formerly connected with the Walker
House curio store, of this city, is salts
fed that this is so, as it was through
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