The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19
Mining Notes and Personals.

Mining Notes and Personals.
S. B. Miner of the Geyser mine IS
back from his Idaho trip.
The Macintosh sampler yesterday
received IT'S tons of Silver King ore
The Dalton and Lark Mining COM
pany yesterday received $50 tons OF
concentrates.
A. Popkus of Cedar City, who is
identified with the development OF
southern Utah. is in the city visiting
relatives and friends.
Tom Valley OF the Yankee Girl mine,
near Silver City, Tintic, is now taking
out ore that runs from 400 to 45O ounces
in silver to the ton, and quite high in
lead
Hon. George W. E. Dorsey of the
Overland and Malvern Mining COM
panies left last night for Omaha, Neb.,
where he will close UP two big mining
deals.
j. S .Templin, the successful mining
expert and promoter, is in Tintic for
the purpose of making an examination
of the many bonanza mines in that
district.
C. E. Hudson and R. L. Colburn have
Just purchased a Silver City, Tintic,
prospect that shows ore at the grass
roots that carries values of twelve
ounces silver and 24.5 per cent lead to
the ton.
The gentlemen who are getting up a
mining float for the grand carnival pa
rade intend to make grand display.
and subscriptions for this purpose are
coming in freely from our leading min
ing men.
The Mayday Mining company is
working two shifts on its Eureka prop
erty, located near the Godiva mine.
The tunnel on this ground is now in
sixty feet, and the showing made is
most encouraging.
B. L. Olson, president of the Mer-
CIR Deep Mining and Milling company,
who, has been in Aspen, Colorado, on
the new steam hoist for this property
has been shipped, aid that he expects
to be in Salt Lake today.
A ditch three miles in length has
just been completed for the purpose of
carrying fresh water into Saltair Cot
tage City. This nicely located lake
side townsite is to be planted with
trees. and at no distant day this spot
VIII be a popular place for summer res
| licences.
B. F. Thornberg, who is developing
some promising prospects near Silver
| City, Tintic, expects to leave for that
camp tonight. Mr. Thornberg says
! that Silver City is making a most cred
| liable showing at the present time, and
that it has a most brilliant future in
sore for it.
The new Line district in the western
part eff Iron county, is not only holding
its own as development work
progresses. but it is reported that it is
almost daily adding new laurels to it,
wreath of fame. the latest find being 6
deposit or ore almost at the grass roots
that assays 1,150 ounces in silver to ths
ton.
Major ]. E. Jackson, the affable anc
efficient agent of the CONSOLIDATED
Kansas City Smelling and Refining
company, who has just returned from
a business trip into Montana, informs
The Herald that there is now a grea
deal of activity in mining circles il
that state, and that a number of ricl
strikes have been made there of late.
In the Bullion-Paris mine, not IA
from Ephraim, a tfree-foot body of or
has been encountered, the characte
and value of which for a long tim.
puzzled the owners of this property
and also the assayerS to whom it wa
submitted. Finally, however, a. sam
pie of it was sent to the assayer at tn
Mercur mine, who says that it is lea
therdte, a substance well known in Ger
many, where 1t is worth S125 per tor
L. w. Clark, the we'll known miner
who is more familiarly known a
'Buckskin" Clark, has returned fror
his Bingham trip, where, with his as
sociates, he is interested in the Over
land group at the head of Carr For
gulch, just above the Stewart No.
mine. Mr.. Clark informs The Heral
that he is now working a force of fou
men on the Overland, and that in tn
d workings of the mine there is a fou1
= foot ore body, two and one-half fet
of which is shipping mineral A tel,
: gram received yesterday from Bins
ham stated that another fine body {
: ore had just been uncovered in tn
: property.
A Among Salt Lakers who nave recent
7 visited the property of the Farmingt,
: Gold Mining. company. P. J. Carney
: most enthusiastic as ne says that ave
!. age assays of ore from the face of a fort
, foot tunnel in this ground show values
: S2l-S6 in gold to the ton. The ore body
) this tunnel is five feet wide, while t
J. ledge gives every evidence of permanent
e Walter James, the merchant, postma
It ter, mayor and general utility man
n Black Rock, on the southern branch
d the L. p. road, who is in the city, stat
J. that at the new camp of Leadville, eig
r teen miles northwest of Black Rock,
l. heavy galena ore played out at depth
n nine feet, and in its place there came
n heavy body of iron carbonates runni
d about 20 per cent in lead. After sinki
= in the carbonates about four feet t
e character of the ore again changed, a
N now the galena ore is coming in aga
/: and the outlook is most favorable
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