The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-09

/ after an absence of several months Dur
! ing his absence Mr.. Lombard has in
| stalled mil on the property, and be-
! fore leaving everything was working
| nicely.
James McGarry of Beaver, the old time
miner, is in the city. Mr.. McGarry states
| that there is not much activity in mining
circles around Beaver just now, but that
many of the mining men of that place are
now prospecting in the State Line coun-
try, where some of them have made good
strikes.
Scott Hamilton of this city has been
| doing some effective prospecting OF late
| in Little Cottonwood canyon, and rumor
has it that he has found some very good
| ore. Mr.. Hamilton is also interested in
the Mayday mine in Tinuc district, adj
joining the now noted Humbug bonanza.
Messrs. Pat Ryan and Pat Conley left
last night for the Golden Star mine on
Gold mountain, Piute county, the inten-
ton being to look over the property with
the view of starting up extensive devel-
| opment work. The Golden Star is now
showing up some fine ore bodies carrying
good gold values.
The news was received in this city yes
terday that the diamond drill had been
recovered from the drill hole in the East
| Golden Gate mine, and that now work
in sinking is progressing finely. The drill
hole is now down depth of S25 feet from
the surface. and it is believed by many
that ore has been encountered.
a gentleman who has just returned from
Alta states that it is understood that the
Flagstaff and the Emma will work all
winter. Already a number of operators
are laying in a good store of supplies and
| provisions and from now on there will be
| a great deal of activity noticeable in this
famous but long deserted camp.
The lower tunnel in the New State mine
at the mouth of Little Cottonwood is now
J in a distance of 800 feet, and its face is
well mineralized. Within few feet now
the ledge of gold ore exposed in the upper
! ho
almost any day now the company expects
to hear that this connection has been
made.
Last week the mining brokers of Spo-
kane, Wash, held a meeting to plan for
the organization of a mining exchange in
that city. They say it is needed to place
the legitimate. properties properly on the
market in order TO discriminate against
wild cats and in other ways to establish
| the prominence of Spokane as a mining
| center-Miner. Butte, Mont.
E. W. Center. one of the officials of
the Frisco mine at Bingham, will go out
to the mine this morning. The Frisco,
from all accounts is the making of a
fine property, and is bound to make a
great record for itself in the near future.
AT present the company is putting in a
fine steam hoist and making other i'm
provementS on the property.
Colonel A. G. Ellis of the Dexter mine,
who left for San Francisco a few days
ago, is now stopping at the mine at Tus-
visit to this property He is expected
home by Sunday or Monday. The last
shipment of bullion and cyanides from the
Dexter was made on the 3rd inst and
was very satisfactory to the company.
During their sojourn in the mountains
near Pine Grove, Frank McWilliams and
c. e. Boyer discovered a. gold ledge about
twenty inches in width, that prospects
| exceedingly well from the grass roots
down as far as they excavated-only a few
| feet. They made q location and will do
further development work next spring
| Bulletin, Mountain Home, Ida.
| A deal was consummated yesterday by
which John Elliott Condict secured a
| lease on a number of properties in the
Little Cottonwood district at Alta. The
consideration was S20,OO0 Mr. Condict
begin at once and intimated that the deal
was the forerunner Of larger and much
more important one to come in the near
! future.
Australia, says an exchange, but reports
come that discoveries Of cinnabar have
| been made on the Clarence river, and the
Cinnabar Prospecting company claims
that the existence OF lodes has teen proved
| for q, length of $3.50 yards in the property.
and that some of them were large and
had given high percentage of metallic
mercury.
w A. Stephens, who is associated with
| Colonel Hebron in the operation of the
! Spanish mill at Bingham, who was in the
city the first of the week, returned to
the "Old Reliable" yesterday morning.
| The Spanish mill is treating thirty-five
tons of ore daily, and the monthly out
! put of gold cyanides amounts to about
| $1,000 1t is the intention to run the plant
until winter weather sets in
Broker Felix Stark must be under the
! protection of the goddess of mining as
everything he touches in the way Of min
| Ing seems to turn out well. Herald readers
are familiar with his success in Big Cot
| tnnVnRd "a q
| oped the Bryan lode and after doing only
! 10 feet of work uncovered a fine body OF
! high grade ore. Now, however, Mr.. Stark
| is turning his attention to another d.
rection, and from the south he has just
received surface rock that assays 10
ounces in silver and s. cents in gold,
which he considers as a very favorable
showing for top rock.
"A mining company. recently organized in
| California, is now operating extensively
! in OWyhee county, and has taken control
of the Cod Bug group of mines, in Silver
| Cord gulch, belonging to c. B. McKinnon
and Ed Grant. The company has deposit
! ed money in the bank at Silver City and
development work is being prosecuted
vigorously. The claims are of a promising
character and are being opened up in
! excellent shape. The ledge is now open
for length of 40 feet, showing a contin-
uous ere chute and regularity which
| is highly pleasing. During the past week
the drift has been pushed by three S-hour
shifts, opening Is feet of new ground.
| The face shows nearly three feet of ore,
all good milling value, with T-ch streaks
on the foot and hanging wails.-States-
man, Boise City, Ida
E. H. Airs returned from Mercur We'd
nesday night, bringing with him the reg
ular tri-monthly shipment of cyanides
! from the Mercur, which is valued at about
$4,000 Mr.. Airs states that the mine
never looked better than at the present
time and that although there are eight
or nine places in the mine where the men
can stope out large quantities of ore,
that most of the men are engaged in do
ing development work in ore. in doing
which the mill is kept running to its
fullest capacity. In certain portions: of
and just before Mr.. Airs left for Salt
Lake an assay was obtained from ore
values of SAL in gold to the ton. Mr. Ed
wards. the supe ,rata is szorking the
work progresses the ore bodies Increase in
size and value.
z. E. Crooks stock broker. Al West
Second South street Te,erbone 81