The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-08

at the Vanderbilt mine, at Haley,
Idaho, and he says that this property
is now looking we'll with fine ore
bodies uncovered.
The Phoenix Mining company, of Big
Cottonwood, yesterday received re-
turns from its last shipment of second
class ore which assayed 81 per cent
lead, Go per cent copper, 1924 ounces
silver and $1.40 in gold to the ton. The
directors OF the company will go up to
the mine next Saturday and increase
the working force to sixteen men. The
property is locking well and stock
holders feel much encouraged.
Work in the development of the
Overland, near the Sunshine mine, is
progressing favorably, and the drift
from the bottom of the shaft which
has been driven north ON the strike OF
the ore zone for distance is in the
same quality and value of mineral as
that encountered in the shaft. The
Overland may now be classed as a
mine, and in all probability it will not
be very long now before the company
begins to talk mill.
R. W. Sloan's Hand Book of Utah
mines is now in the hands of the printer,
and the 10000 copies ordered will be out
about August l. The title page of this
work, designed by II. W. B. Cantner,
is a beauty. 1t is entitled Mines,
Miners and Minerals" which will be
printed in gold letters on black leather.
This book will be a valuable acquisi-
ton to the mineral literature OF this
state, and should be in the hands of
every miner, mine owner and mining
investor.
Judge Pressly Denny, of Beaver, who
has been spending the Fourth in this
city, will leave for home this evening,
where he will attend the special term
of court, which commences there on the
10th. The recent sale off the old Lin
coin mine to Hon. z. Z. Farnsworth will
be one Of the matters to be passed on
by the court, and if the sale is con-
firmed, as anticipated, mining matters
will soon take a turn for the better in
the long neglected Lincoln district.
Judge Denny will also put in some time
in getting the December mine into
shape and in locking after other in
terests generally.
DR.. H. w. Warren left for Beaver
last night for the purpose of prospect
ing for several weeks in Newton min
ing district; after which he will spend
some time in the vicinity of Mt Badly,
after which he will go on to Marys-
vale, where he has number of mining
interests, including the Julia Dean, in
Horse Heaven, on which he has several
men constantly employed The doctor
will be absent about three months, and
upon his return it is expected that he
will be loaded down with good mining
stories
Frank Wilson, of the April Fool mine,
at DeLamar, Nevada, who came in a
few days ago with a bar of bullion
fl1.a 1af- 70,
Mr.. Wilson informs The Herald that
his new mill is giving excellent salts
faction, and that now, instead of ship
ping ore to this market, he is sending
in the pure stuff" which is a great
saving in expenses. He is now treat
ing about twenty tons of ore daily and
the mine is looking we'll He will make
another shipment of gold bars next
month.
The mining float cut prominent
figure in the late carnival parades, and
il not only served as an interesting
feature of the procession, but was also
quite an educator in its way; SO much
SO that II is now proposed to use the
hoat for campaign purposes this fall,
and 1T has been suggested that similar
floats be introduced into the middle and
eastern states during the campaign.
where they can be used with good eff
feet in educating the people in mining
affairs, and in showing them that,
While the enduring wealth of the word
comes from the mines, that it takes the
hardest kind CT labor to get it out.
l. A. Benton, of the Rio Grande
Western ticket Office, who is one of the
stockholders OF the Lemhi Placer COM
pany, which is the owner of the Iowa
placers near Salmon City, Idaho, is in
receipt of samples of gold from this
property that is good for sore eyes"
The gold is quite coarse, and from all
accounts, the gravel is very rich.
Work in the gold extraction however.
has been greatly hindered this spring
by high water. The English syndicate
in the same locality, has a system of
reservoirs, by means of which it is
enabled to work without interruption.
and is taking out about $4,000 a day in
the yellow metal