The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1896-02-13
Mercur Mining Noes.
Gathered from Varlosis Int.
Tor our Roa.

C ~. Srhcu has let q contract for o |
hundred foot shaft on the Lillian Rus
svl.
r II Hart II corresponding with
MICHIGAN man Who walts to come 10 !
with diamond Dim.
Jack Hickman has secured the con
tract to sink the IIolca shaft down loi
ore and do 800 feet OF d'ii,ipg.
T.. @. Wood, n mining engineer from
White Pine, New, visited the camp This
week and was surprised to find that it
had not been ovetrated.
Johnny Cries was out from town thi
week, taking look AZ the work ON the
Don, Hal AMI Flo The shaft Is row
in very favorable formation
A lot Of Geyser pipe line was torn u,
last wcek, and the managers Of theprop-.
erty are seatching Tor the perpetrators
Of the outrage with blood in their eyes
SGpt. Treweek says that the .rce gold
found in the Mercur comes from a Wine
between the Ruby and Rosoato tun
nel', where there is O. l2-iolt vein
streakcd and spotted with 1t.
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The first hundred feet OF work ON tie
Seal was completed on Thursday OF last
week, and the company at once let The
contract for another hundred feet. 1t
is the ambition OF the management Co.
build the next mill in the district.
viii Grifiths reports the sale OF u
one-sixth interest N the Northern and
Southern Cross, and the Northern eud
Southern Light lodes, in Camp Floyd
district, near the Bonanza group, &C.
James Il Hickey for 5000 cash.-
Herald.
The Herald states tina, q large body o
ore has been struck in tue Utica, and
that an assay showsa value OF 800. The
Utica lies in the western ioot-hills and
is being actively developed by some of
the most euterprising young men
in the camp.
The East Golden Cute people have
let the contract for their machinery.
which will consist OF sixty-borse
power boiler, one 1Orl2 NJ. Davis
hosting onsiue, 5tsx3jsNs Duplex
Snow feed pump. and. otner necessary
machinery which is to be ready for bus
mess 10y Ike 20,h The double comT.art
ment shaft is down 10 feet and is bein.
) sunk rapidly.
, The Electric Gold NJ. An Co., hal
1 liel articles OF incorporation, will
500, 900 shares OF a par value OF Is each
The officers sre w. l.. -Nicol, president
. II. d. Bsstian, yice-president; II. w
Nicol, treasurer; S. j.. Weiged, secre
tar,. The other incorporators are JoI
Burton and X. Morrison. There is {
working oapilal ofIO0 900 shares. Worl
has been prosecuted on this group, com
pridng / g claims, and development viii
be actively continued The group com
prises some OF the best ground east o
the Sunshine.
Ed. Senior, one Of the greatest rust
ers who ever operated on Utah soil, an'
W. T. Ladd, OF Leadville, have secure,
lease and bond on the lots remainin,
J unsold in the Mercur townsite and Tn,
mineral right to the Junebug and Bah,
Elephant, on which the tOwnsite is 10
, Gated. They believe there is minera
under the surface and will go after 4
In the promotion of public enterprise
Senior is without a superior, and ia
camp can congratulate herself on hay
ing them become interested in Ler pros
periiy and progress.
:
| The Silver ledge OF this camp doe
> not carry lead aud we do not suppos
, a pound was produced by the district
A little was found IN the Rcd Cion'
: shaft, above the Sunshine and nov
a vein or deposit Of it has been cncount
, cred In the Fairfield group just aboy
, the Red Cloud, and the peculiar pert O
it is that it lays fifty or seyruty-dy
feet above the gold vein, while hereto
lore the goll VEN mas been supposed &
be the cap sheaf II is galenu carrying