The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17

Hon. George w. E. Dorsey left last
night for Nebraska on business.
William H. Trourman- the well known
mining operator, is corvalescent, after
a serious illness.
Captain Timothy Egan has received
word from the Grasshopper mine, in
Gold Mountain district, that in the face
of the Blue Bird tunnel a four-inch
streak has been uncovered in the ore
body that assays from S400 to $500 i'll
gold to the ton. Another shipment Of
Grasshopper ore will be made next
month.
The Aurora Mining and Milling COM
pany, of Marysvale, VIII resume work
within a few days under the manage
ment of Henry King. The Aurora has
been developed by ninety-siX-foot tun-
mel, in the face of which there is a
streak of mineral ten or eleven inches
in width that assays "a ounces silver
and $lf in gold to the ton.
j. D. Shaffer is back from "Trip
into Idaho, where he made a careful
examination OF some Of the leading
mining camps of the state. Beflre re-
turning home, however, he arrived at
the conclusion that Utah was good
enough for him, and he says that he
would not advise mining men TO leave
the mining CAMPS of this country in an
endeavor to find better ones elsewhere.
From all accounts the Wedge mine,
on Brigham Peak Marysvale is des-
tined to become one cf the richest pro-
ducers in that region. This is COM
paratively recent discovery, and it is
stated that in the face of the seventeen
foot tunnel in this properly five-foot
M Of h hot
says Sc ounces in silver and 800 in
gold to the ton. The Wedge is owned
by w. H. Lyon and Jake Sargent.
The Mount Nebo Land and Irrigation
company has placed a fine exhibit of
the product of Mount Nebo lands in its
office in the Atlas block. The collection
is most interesting one. comprising
as it does, corn in the ear, wheat, oats,
sugar beets and radishes. The ears of
corn measure twelve inches in length,
while samples of beets were all of six
teen inches long and one radish meas
ured nineteen inches, and all of these
were raised on land that was broken
for the first time during the present
year. There is quite rush to oIount
Nebo this season and many settlers are
/ finding happy homes there. During the
week several sales of Mount Nebo real
ty has been made, and yesterday David
Graham, Butte miner purchased a
twenty-acre tract under the Mount
Nebo reservoir, which he will plant
with fruit trees.
The Silver State Mining and Milling
company of this city SEM out "a force
of men yesterday for purpose OF
resuming work on the Uncle Josie
mine in Dry canyon, Ophir district
When work was discontinued in this
property short time. ago the face
OF the 170-foot tunnel had broken into
a six-inch vein of ore that carried val
ues of 52.2 per cent lead, $3.50 ounces
silver and $7.44 in gold to the ton, and
ii is the intention to continue work on
the lead, and also to do some develop
ment work on the Magnolia East and
Magnolia West claims, two properties
recently bonded by the. company and
which adjoin the Uncle Josie and also
the old Mona mine, which has been a
famous producer in days gone by. The
officers of the Uncle Josie company
which was incorporated on June 10 OF
this year, are c. E. Angel, president
H. j. Hayward, vice-president, and w
]. Wolstenholme, secretary and treas.
urer. There is considerable activity al
present in Dry canyon, principally by
lessees. IL H 81
near the Badger mine, in Camp Floyd
district, has just let a contrac. to
James McElvoy for fifty fee. Of tunnel
work The tunnel of tile Oro group of
eight claims is now in a distance of i40
feet. At 1874 feet the tunnel broke into
a cave that, was from three to five
/ feet in width, several hundred feet or
more in length, ma its depth has never
yet been ascertained. After crossing
the cave the face of The ore broke into
within six feet that assayed S1.60 in
gold to the ton, and it now the inten-
/ ton to drive it still further with the
/ belief that values will increase as work
/ progresses. 1t is believed that the cave
/ is a result of a slip in the formation
/ and Captain Egan, the manager of the
company, intends soon 10 explore il
thoroughly with the hope that some
where within its -ecessas he may dis
cover a body of rich ore
E. E Crooks, STOCK broker Al West