The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-15

mas held its meeting, as announced in
The Herald, and it is now the inten-
ton to get down to business and de-
VeIop the mine, which is one of the
most promising properties in Bingham
canyon.
Henry Collins of Frisco is in the
city. Mr.. Collins is the recorder for
Beaver Lake district, and owns
number of valuable claims there, in
Guiding the Skylark. the High Point
and the Copper Bottom. in all of which
he has good ore.
Dr.. G. w. Shores located two aban-
doned claims in Bingham on the first
OF the year They are the Little
Ralph and the Shores lode, and are To-
Gated on the ridge above the Dalton
and Lark. They are in a good To-
cality, and the doctor expects to do
some heavy work on. them in the
spring.
Jack C. Taylor. local general agent
of the Pennsylvania Mutual. has de-
cided to open UP a mining bureau in
Salt Lake and to run the same in con-
ection with his general insurance bust
ness. Jack will undertake to handle
all sorts of mining properties located
anywhere between the borders of Brit
fsh Columbia and Old Mexico, but will
pay more particular attention to the
mines of Utah.
The pumps were started yesterday
in the Honorine mines and the new
machinery acted finely. The work of
drilling is now going on, and It is
expected that the shaft will be sunk
to a depth of 300 feet within ten
weeks more. 100 feet of which has al
ready been excavated. Upon reaching
this depth drifting the ore body will
commence. when P. A. II. Franklin
and his associates will be Strictly
in it,
George Barrack of Leesburg, Ida.
was a guest at the Knntsford yester-
day. Mr. Barrack has been engaged
in mining for many years, but is now
on his way to Cripple Creek, where he
will investigate the merits of that
camp. In speaking of the Gold Dust
mines near Leesburg, mention CT
which has been made in these col
umns, MI. Barrack said that the
property was all and more than had
been claimed for it.
E. E. Crooks, who returned from the
east yesterday, states that today the
articles of incorporation of the Straight
Shot Gold Mining company will be
filed. The Straight Shot lode, owned
by Mr.. Crooks and e. G. Rognon, will
form the basis for this incorporation.
This claim is located east of and adj
joining the Dalton mine. at Marrys-
vale, and is valuable piece of prop
erty. A large block of this stock is al
ready spoken for by eastern parties.
Walter James. of Black Rock, on the
Milford branch of the Union Pacific
road, came in yesterday and says that
they have a full-grown mining boom
in the mountains sixteen miles south
CT Of hot
able-bodied man and boy for miles
around hos left for the new dis
coveries, which consists of copper ore
that goes 40 per cent. pure, and sand
carbonates that show a value of S32 in
gold to the ton. Surely, this is
mining epoch, and Utah is gradually
being transformed into a great mining
camp.
Mr.. n. A. Robertson, the well-known
young lawyer and mining operator
who for the past six years has been
associated with the law firm of Ben
nett, Marshall & Bradley, and who
during that time has had charge Of
their varied outside practice, has sew
cred his connection with that firm and
commenced bushes for himself, and
has opened suite of Offices in the
Atlas block, this city. Nick is well
grounded in the law and the boys will
be sure to look him I'D when needing
the services of a lawyer, especially
in mining matters.
W. E. Hubbard is back from a trip
to his properties in the Camp Ffovd
district and reports that in the shaft
Of the Annapolis, which is now down
to a depth of so feet water has been
encountered. The Annapolis adjoins the
Rover, ana the shaft was located in
the gulch from which the main tun-
mel of the Rover was driven, and it is
this fact that is assigned for the
presence of the water 1t is expected,
however, that the water will be over
come in the next few feet. and that
work can be prosecuted without inter
ruption or delay. The Annapolis is
owned by Mr.. Hubbard, and Messrs.
Holmes and Notorious, of this city,
and it is the expectation that in
twenty feet more the vein will be
tapped, the shaft now being in the
black shale that overlays the ore in
the Camp Floyd district.