The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-30

on the floor of the exchange until
after the meeting of the governing
board tonight.
j. L. Lawson came in from Mercur
Tuesday and is making arrangements
to erect hoist on the Gold Coin and
Hornet mines in Mercur.
Word has been received from the
Gold Dust mine at Leesburg, Ida, that
the drift from the bottom of the shaft
is in a fine body of ore that shows free
gold all through it.
Thomas ]. Barbour, who is travelling
for the Risdon iron works of San Fran
cisco, who has been in the city for a
few days, left for the coast last night
Mr.. Barbour has placed several Bryan
mills in Park City and Tintic, aud says
that Utah is one of his best customers
for mining machinery.
A San Francisco gentleman, in
letter to one of our mining men, de-
sireS to know what the outlook is for
putting in a new water system in
Mercur. The Golden Gate or Geyser
and Sacramento people might be in
position to answer that query, and the
letter could we'll be turned over to them
for answer.
In the Antelope mine, near the Dali
ton and Lark, at Bingham, a three-foot
body of pyrite ore has been uncovered
on the footwall that goes from 40 to SO
ounces in silver. Manager Schenck
of the Dalton and Lark who has Visi-
ted this property, predicts that 1t Will
develop into a great producer.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Hercules Mining company held last
Tuesday. the following board of dl-
rectors was elected to serve for the en-
suing year: James Hegney, president
and general manager; Joseph b.
Crooke, vice-president; Henry Shields,
secretary; w. 1. Snyder, treasurer; ana
Joseph Geoghan. The Hercules adjoins
the Ajax in Tintic district, and work
will be resumed in the development
of the property at an early day.
The West Sunshine Mining company
who filed their articles of incorporation
yesterday own a group of four claims
about half a mile west of the sun
shine mine, and it is the intention OF
the manag cement to begin extensive
development work at once, under the
superintendency of j. c. Weeter. From
five to eight men will be employed, ana
it is the intention to open up the prop
erty in great shape, especially as they
have most encouraging surface ind1ca-
lions to sink on.
Word was sent in from Stockton yes
terday that eleven feet of ore had been
cut in the ST. Louis claim in Skull
valley, which is embraced in the group
of claims owned by the Skull Valley
Mining and Milling company. j. H.
Bennett president of the company, in
forms The Herald that samples of the
ore are expected to arrive today, and
that the value of the new strike ill
at once be determined by an assay of
the rock.
H. A. Fyler has completed his plans
fa, HI
The structure will be 50xS0 feet on the
ground floor; it will have plate glass
front and will be fire proof. 1t will be
the finest structure, and when COM
pleted, which will be about March 10,
it will be stocked with the finest as
sortment of goods ever exhibited in a
mining camp. The new store will be
located just east of the postofice.
The East Golden Gate management
is negotiating for hosting plant, and
Mr.. DIETRICH, who has put in several
hoists in Tintic, left yesterday to look
over the ground and make plans for
the new plant, which will be in place
so as to enable a continuation of the
sinking of the double compartment
shaft as soon as the 100-foot level is
reached. A cage will be put on the
new equipment, which will be the first
one to be used in the district.
A letter from Washington county
contains the information that good ore,
going from a trace to $40, can be
found almost anywhere in the vicinity
! of the Grapevine Springs; also at Sill
yer Reef, that a S. in gold assay had
been obtained from a ledge just back
of Woolley, Lund & Judds store in
Silver Reef, and that this limestone
belt, carrying gold, had been traced
as far south as st. George. The only
| thing now necessary is to open UP a
mine along this mineralized belt
The Free Coinage Mining company,
the Incorporation of which was noted
in yesterdays issue of this paper, is the
owner Of a group of four claims be-
! tween Stockton and Skull valley, in a
district of which it is namesake A
strong ledge of from fifty to seventy
five feet in width cuts through this
property, from which an average value
of So in gold has been obtained, while
picked samples going as high as $50
have been taken from this mammoth
ore body. A contract has been let for
the prosecuting of this ledge to the
hanging wall, and also for the sinking
of one lhundred-foot shaft. The ore
is characteristic of the Mercur ore,
and the shale and formation is almost
identical to that found in Camp Floyd
district. The company intends to thor
oughly develop the property.