The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
MERCUR MINING MENTION.
Items of General Interest From the
Iercur Mercury.

Charles Reed and H D. Andrews
were in camp this week locating the
site for the shaft on the Hillside group,
work on which will commence forth
with.
The Herschel people are at workAthis
week locating the site for their main
development tunnel, work on which
will be pushed continuously until the
vein is developed.
The Mercur Gold Production company
has issued a neat folder, containing a
description of the property of the cor
poration, which consists of the Trans
wall and Golden Reward groups, COM
prising thirteen claims, we'll located in
the western foot hills.
Arkie Warren reports a great deal Of
prospecting and development work now
going on on the gold belt east of the
camp of Ophir and average value are
being obtained. Mr.. Warren also re-
ports that Ophir is liveBing up, the con-
cenItrator is about to start and new
men are being put on at the mine.
H B. Windsor has had his digging
clothes on for some time prospecting
the Buckeye group, lying between the
Sunshine and Badger, owned by him
self and C. E. Hudson. Having salts
fed himself as to the proper place to
sink he this week let contract for 100
feet eff sinking to Marshall and Robin
SON. We hope the boys will strike it
rich.
Manager Davis of the Henrietta COM
pany reports that he is drifting on the
vein from the bottom of the Gixty-foot
shaft The vein is four or five feet
wide and carries fair values, and looks
so lively that the operators feel con-
ident that drifting will develop a body
of pay ore. The company have ample
capital for the thorough development
of the ground and work will be con-
tinuel until the ground is thoroughly
explored.
The Sacramento property is flourish
ing. The mill is running nicely and saw
ing large per cent of the gold. In
the rhine mineral is being developed
which will do to mill, which previous
ly has carried small value. a force is
at work developing the property. All
the ore has previously been found on
the west dip, but this week force was
put On to develop the ore on its east
dip. The Sacramento is great prop
erty.
Shioley. Mills and Quirk took a con-
tract this week to furnish ore to the
Sacra mento mill for so much a ton. IL
is the first time in this camp, and
probably in Utah, that miner mas
taken a contract to break ore under
such conditions.
The Mercur Gold Production COM
nanv having under bond the Valley
view group. made the first payment
this week to the original locators,
warren and Bethel. The main mover
in the company is Millionaire Benson
of Omaha who proposes to actively de-
yelop the property
The Lincoln company is pushing work
on their shaft house and other neces-
sary buildings, and are putting the
shaft down rapidly. A fine plant OF
hosting machinery is now en- route,
and the Lincoln will soon be one of the
hest equipped prospects in the district.
force of about fifteen men are now
employed.
The parties who have been operat-
ing the Mollie Gibson for some time
past, and who quit work about two
weeks ago, have secured new ar
rangement with the owners, and re-
sumed work this week. On this prop
erty some good assays were recently
obtained. and it is hoped that paying
bodies will. soon be developed.
Although the camp is quiet more
work than ever is being done in the de-
velorment of prospects, and number
of these are now just at point where
they are on the verge of being trans
formed from prospects to mines. Ex-
citenents do not make mines, nor
boomers nor single blanket capitalists;
it takes work, and that is the basis on
which this camp is now working. We
do not fear for the result.
Jim Hogan spliced his within cable
this week and commenced work on his
third contract on the Golden Seals. The
bottom is looking exceedingly good and
a strike any day now would not sur
prise the management much.
Manager Bird, who, with T. Ellis
Browne and others, are developing a
promising group over at Peepstone,
reports that after considerable pros
pecting he has definitely located his
ledge, and is running a tunnel for it.
He expects to tap the ore somewhere
in the next fifty feet, but ON account
of the extreme hardness of the ground
rapid progress is not being made.
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