The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-08

by the Hanauer smelter.
George S. Page Of the Consolidated
Kansas City Smelling and Refining COM
pany, is in the city accompanied oy his
wife.
A fifteen ton lot of Four Aces, COM
prising fifteen tons, which was on the
market yesterday, assayed 30S per cent
lead, IS ounces silver and $1.20 in gold to
the ton.
Thmere has been considerable talk of
of La Plata northeast of Ogden, and
The Herald IS informed that several Salt
Lakers intend visiting this district at an
early day.
Messrs. Woods. Walker and clampitt
viii 60 out TO Bingham this morning for
the purpose of beginning work on the
CopLer company lo0e which is located
near the property of the Bingham Copper
company and the Copper Queen.
Will Hatfield, superintendent of the
Swansea mine, at Silver City, who was
in Salt Lake yesterday, informs The Her
aid that the mine is holding its own in
excellent shape and that the outlook for
the property is all that could be desired.
j. w. Cory, manager OF the Gladstone
mine, at Mercur has just returned from
the east where he has been making silver
speeches. Mr.. Cory states that after the
election the people of the east will take
more interest than ever in mining mat
tiers and that a large amount Of eastern
money will find investment N the west
The New York Engineering News con-
tains a beautifully illustrated write up
by w. ?. Hardesty, NJ. E.. entitled The
Water Power and Electric Transmission
of the Big Cottonwood Power Com
pany." This is an exceedingly interest
ing and instructive article, and will show
to the world that Utah stands in the
front ranks in the way of gigantic enter
prises.
C. F. Davis. who has been working
the upper levels of the Crescent mine,
at Park City, on lease, has discontinued
operations and has returned to salt Lake.
The Crescent company, he says, is now
jigging about COO tons of base ore, and
when this is completed, this Will about
wind uD work on the Crescent for the
season. Mr.. Davis denies the rumor that
a boarding house is to be built at the
Crescent mine this year.
Dick Middleton, of Cedar City, is in
the city looking after live stock inter-
ests. Mr.. Middleton is a large stock raiser
and states that in the southern country
there are a. great many fat cattle reaoy
fer market and that the range this sum-
mer and fail has been unusually Gcod, and
that stock men are feeling greatly en-
pie of Cedar are heavily interested in
the State Line district and that the devel-
opinent Of the camp means much for Iron
county.
c. P. Richards, deputy mineral sur
veyor, returned recently from Frisco,
where he made preliminary surveys of the
Kate Sackett and Wild Cat groups of
claims in Beaver Lake mining district for
=. H. Bentz and other interested parties.
There are three contacts Paraaleling eac1
other through one of these groups which
form a juncture at right angles with
assure vein that cuts the formation in
the other group. Both properties have
been shippers and Mr.. Richards was
highly impressed with the showing made
on both of them.
There has been considerable talk OF
in the sale of the Henry NJ. group of
mines in Carr Fork. Bingham, and who
now has full charge of the property, is al
ready making arrangements for the cree
ton of a large mill which Will embrace
the cyanide, amalgamation and concen-
tration processes of ore reduction. The
in every detail. Experiments on Henry NJ.
ores on a small scale have resulted most
satisfactorily and very close saving has
been made. The building of this mill
means much for Bingham.
S. F. Mount. who is in from the hex
mine in Detroit mining district, has just
received a letter from his foreman stat
ing that the face of the tunnel is heavily
mineralzed, and that from all indications
the main ore body will be encountered
within 20 feet more. On one of the claims
being worked by the hex company a
recent washort has uncovered a foot of
azurite Of copper ore that is distant only
about $50 or 400 from the mouth of the hex
tunnel. There is some doubt, however
whether this discovery is ON the ground
owned by the hex company or on
claim owned by Feed Redmond and
Robert Guyles.
George ST. Clair came in from ophir
last night with thirty-ton shipment of
ore from the Chloride Point mine, on
Lion hill, that will carry values of 100
ounces in silver to the ton. This is the
last consignment that Mr.. st. Clair will
make from this property, as his lease
has expired. With his associates, how
ever. Mr.. St. Clair is now sinking a
double compartment shaft on Monogram
property, which is located between the
Chloride Point and Northern Light
mines. This ground is owned by Mr.. St.
Clair and his partners, and they expect
to strike ore at depth Of $50 feet.
We are Informed that the Anglo
Mexican Mining company, whose
camp is at San Jose de Gracia, on the
west coast of Mexico, has about 75,GoO
tons of ore or sand that has been work.
ed already, but the company intends to
erect a cyanide plant and work all this
sand over again, estimating the value OF
the gold in this dump at from $25 to $40
ton. The engineer for this company,
Henry NJ. Batcheller, was at Kalamazoo,
Mich, recently, to examine cyanide watts
twenty feet in diameter and five feet-
deep The tanks must be made so as to
permit them to be packed in bundles not
exceeding five and a half feet long nor
weighing over $50 pounds, as they are to
be carried from the coast over the IilOuH-
tains by mule trains.-Ensineeri News.
who is we'll known in mining circles
the west, is in the city on
mining business. Mr. Slatterly informs
The Herald that there is considerable
activity in mining in the Salmon City
at the present time and that by
next spring gold galore will be taken from
the mines of thst region. The Yellow
Jacket mine, which is the largest pro
IN.
closed down for no other purpose than
to throw the men out Of employment so
that they would scatter and so lose
their votes this fall, as they are all Bryan
supporters, while the nina owners are
Mckinley men. This action on the part
OF the Yellow Jacket management is be-
ing severely criticized throughout the
west but do what they NAV the goldites
will not make votes for Mckinley by pur-
suing such a course. The Gold Stone
company according to Mr.. Slatterly, is
pushing work in the building of its mill
and will soon be ready to turn out gold
bullion.
The Gold Queen mine on Gold noun
tain at present promises to be one of the
best things in that district. There is a
tunnel there now 100 feet long on four
foot ledge of nice looking rock whose last
ASSAYS show So in gold and 81 in silver.
Unless all signs fail the vein will con-
tinue TO widen and its value to increase.
The Gold Queen Is the property of II. W.
Ramlose. G. T. Bean and other Rich
field gentlemen who also own the Handi-
cap, a very fair proposition in the same
district Some time ago good groupings
were found on top of steep hill. A
shaft was sunk a short distance and
then this was abandoned for a crosscut
about 100 feet lower down. Hans Wilson
was given the contract of driving the
Handicap tunnel and he has just finished
the Job, having struck the looked for
ledge at a distance of lightweight feet
The vein is a beauty, about five feet