The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-04

found in the Cedric group below and
south of the Sunshine, on which G.
A. Graeber has secured a bond.
A. V. Taylor, who will be a member
of the next legislature from Salt Lake,
and A. Stewart. of Sandy are looking;
after mining interests in the camp
The new hosting plant for the Brick
yard-or the interest represented by
Colonel Wall, arrived this week, and is
being placed in position.
H. e. Whipple, who is putting up the
Spooner building. mas also taken the
contract for the construction of the
new hotel building for Arson & Barnes.
1t is to be BOXES feet, and will contain
about fifty rooms.
Quite a block Of stock of the Eldora-
do company has recently been sold and
the money is being used to further de-
velop the property which gives promise
of great things.
Sheriff Mcclellan, Milo Clark, w. e.
! Stevens and others, have just bonded
a group of their claims, located in the
foothills, wost of the Sunshine, for a
good round sum.
P. j. Quealy, d prominent mining and
stock man of Wyoming, is IN camp.
looking up good investments. He is
being shown the wonders of the dis
trict by Frank Morehous.
c. H Scheu has returned to camp.
he Is cOInpSllSu " ~ OAl u OSOiACS' DNL
could not stay away from the district
during New Years, with the rush and
excitement among mining men.
A w. Perego. president of the Samp-
son Mining company, at Bingham, was
in camp this week looking after the
locations of j. H. Carpenter, who
prospected the district in 1888
The miners union have elected the
following officers: President, Henry
son; financial secretary, " ). BAN
baziand; recording secretary, j. c.
Clayton.
Cries and others have secured a
bond on the Hal, Don and Flo, owned
by G. a. Duncan, and located in the
northern part of camp. A contract for
a shaft, to cost $500, was let Monday
thereon.
R. w and W. L. Nicol, who are In
terested in the Electric group, were in
camp during the week. They have
done a large amount of worn on this
group, which comprises seventeen
claims, and is still toiling on.
H. N. Benner. who now has charge
of the Geyser mine, reports the dis
covery of the largest body Of ore,
Saturday, yet uncovered In that
ground. 1t is found thirty to forty feet
thick and all of an average grade.
A. lessen, who has taken the man
agement of the Gold Dust property.
and is making survey Of the same
this week, in order to thoroughly ac-
quaint himself with the lay of the
ground and prepare some of it for
patent
There were few left in Mercur to
watch the old year out and the new
year in. The resorts and hotel lobbies
were almost deserted and the streets
were as quiet as a grave fifty years
old. Most Of the mining population
were out in the hills, camping on
claims previously acquired. waiting
for the prospective jumper, or else
awaiting the stroke of Il to set their
stakes in promising ground, located
by prospectors who, long before the
camp attained such renoWn, attained
for other fields in their quest for gold.
Promptly at midnight the recorders
Office was opened and Jack Green, who
prospected these mountains when they
were but hills. stepped to the front
and at 12:01 a. m. placed on file five
locations He was followed by
Weary" Walker with one, j. A. An
son with another, p. J. Fennell, who
is something of a rustler himself, with
six. and SO on, until 1915 a. m. when
there was a CHATTER and a crash like
the passing of a snoWslide, and I. B.
Haslegrove, of the Rover, slid into
town Iashing his horse at every jump.
and not taking time to tie the animal.
rushed into the Office and fled the
papers on which he relies for a big
stake.
And thus they came until about
a. m. when the rush subsidized and few
more filings were made until after z at
which hour about fifty filings had been
made.
So far as we know there were no
personal difficulties, the rights Of those
who had properly represented their
claims were very generally respected.
and the CORY corpse of the jumper,
served up as a horrible example, of
which we have heard SO much of late,
did not appear in it's regular place on
the programme