The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26
Mining Notes and Personals.

on hsh1ng trip.
H J. Young, manager of the Salt LAX,
cieaTing house, is taking a we'll earnet
vacation of a day or two
D. z. Wertheimer, of De Lamar. New.
ana w. V. Rice, of Park City, two well
known mining men, are at the Walker
charles Crisnon, superintendent of tn.
!Ialena and Titan mines, at Fish Springs
IS expected home about the LIST of August
The shaft of the Crescent mine q,
Park City, is being re-timbered, with &
view to the early resumption of work il
this fine producer.
The last lot of Galena ore, 1870 tons
winch was sold on the open market yes
lof ounces in silver to the ton.
Messrs. Guique, Brockback and Whit.
erS, OF this city, are visiting the Wander
Dit mine at HALEY, from which another
carload OF rich ore was received in this
city yesterday.
at MaTysvale, has just completed four
miles OF wagon road up Cottonwood can
yon to its mine. and is now employing
a good force of men IN Gre extraction
John Kelley. foreman of the Amazon
mine, in Carr Fork, Bingham, who was
III the city yesterday, states that the prop
erty is in a most promising condition
and that the outlook is very encouraging
The Petro company will make ship
ment OF four carloads of ore from its
|
DAYS This mine, according to Manager
S. B. Miner, never looked better than
1t does at the present time.
| 1t is reported that F. A. Virtues
bonanza mine, in main Bingham can
yon, is improving as development work
progresses, and that now there is a
showing of from four to six feet of ore
That averages about $40 to the ton.
The shaft in the Buckeye mine. near
Silver City, I1ntic, is in solid body of
ore on the S00-foot level that averages
from 10 to 20 ounces silver, $19 10 $50
gold and a good percentage in lead and
iron. The mine is shipping regularly and
promises to develop into a great pro-
Queer.
5, sg PEI ]. A. Kirby, of the
cousin, Ed. Kirby, who has charge of
the Builion-Beck mill, are in the city
for the purpose of attending the funeral
services today of the late A. H. Cannon.
These gentlemen state that both the
mine and the mill are running in O. most
satisfactory manner.
A directors meeting of the Sewer Gold
Mining and Milling company has been
called for August g. for the purpose of
considering the proposition of IeVying an
assessment on the capital stock of the
company, and for the transaction of other
inpor. ant business. Charlie Lammersdorf,
president, treasurer and manager of the
company, left yesterday for the NINE but
he will return in time to attend the meet
ing.
Encouraging reports continue to be re-
celVed concerning the Creole mine, at
Park City. In sinking the new working
smart body of ore was encountered last
week that assayed % per cent lead. Is
ounces silver and S1.60 in gold and so
per cent lead, 81 ounces silver and $3.50
in gold, and stringer of black
emf ore bodies of the camp, was en-
countered.
Work is being pushed in the sinking
of the Red Cloud shaft in the Sunshine
country; This shaft is, but 10 feet from
the workings of the Overland mine. The
formation is identical with that of the
Overland, and when greater depth is OBJ
tanned, it is believed that the same ere
body will be encountered. The Red
Cloud shaft is now down 100 feet, and it
is expected that at almost any time now
the Overland gold zone will be broken
into.
Quite a number of the members of the
mining stock exchange are advocating two
calls daily when the board re-opens on the
1st. They state that it frequently hap
pens that, under the old style of only one
call day, quite number of stockholders
would not sell until quotations were made
on the board, and that then they would
go out on the street and transact business
on the strength of these quotations; and,
to back up their demand for two calls,
they claim that the morning quotations
afternoon business would be lively.
A M Grant, agent for the Colorado
Iron Works company, one of the heaviest
and most reliable manufacturers of min
ing machinery operating in the west has
opened a temporary Office at room Is, |
Morelan block. Mr. Grant has figured ex-
tensively in the putting in a large plants
in nearly every mining camp in this coun-
try, and is too well known to need an
to Herald readers in this |
region. He is the right |
man in the right place, and the company
could not have chosen better or more |
suitable man to represent their interests |
In this locality.
The Buckeye Mining company which !
IS doing some extensive developments on |
It's group located in Camp Floyd district |
is feeling highly elated over the recent |
strike in this property, mention of which |
mas been previously made in these col !
umns. In developing this ground, a tun- {
nel was driven a distance of forty feet,
when a fifteen foot drift from its face cut
INTO an ore body that carried values of
from 81 to 50 per ton. This drift has been
continued a distance of twenty-siX feet |
further, all the way in a solid body of
,re and as work progressed the ore values
nave increased. 1t is estimated that the
rift will have to be extended forty feet
more before the hanging wall of the ore
body is reached. The company has Just
ct 6. contract to Robinson and Marshal for
O0 feet more of work.
Manager j. Schenck, of the Dalton and |
ark mine, left for Bingham yesterday for
he purpose of investigating into the loss
by the company the day be-
ore by the destruction of the old lead
Mill by fire This plant, the estimated
'alue of which was about $4,000, was in
perfect working order, as it was but re-
emily overhauled, refitted and repaired.
is loss, however will not interfere for
he present with the working of the mine.
S 1t has been idle for several weeks oW-
ng to the fact that the company has been
Utilizing it's hosting capacity almost en-
rely OF late in the raising of first-class
hlpping ore, in consequence of which the
Milling ore has been left in the mine.
dJusted, 1t is more than likely that new
nill will take the place of the old one
Salt Lake has long needed a board of
erik and Chicago markets could be re-
elved and traded upon. This need has
cen supplied at last, as j. C.
)ougherty. the correspondent of the ,
chm G.. Morgan Brokerage company of !
Denver, has opened an Office at 43 West
econd South, in the room occupied by ,
he Iowa Cigar store where New York
nd Chicago market quotations are re-
eived daily from a. m 10 D. m. ,
ne call. Mr.. Daugherty has had many .
ears of experience in this line of bust {
ess, and those wishing to deal in op-
ons in wheat, corn and pork and other
1lnIno ODDITIES, can do so just as well in
ait Lake as Ii they were in New York
Chicago.
e. E. Crooks, stock broker Il West
econd South street. Telephone 81.