The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-06

Dalton stockholders are paying in thei
asseSSents in good shape and from presen
appearances net very many shares Will b
sold as delinquent. The delinquent lis
viii be published in the Mining Reviey
next Thursday.
Considerable prospecting work is nov
being done in the vicinity of Brigham
City, and developments so far are of til
most encourag ing nature.
Ed Mayner writes from Leesburg, Ida
no, that arrangements are being made t.
push development work on the Gold Film
and Gold Dust properties, near tina
place.
a great many mining men were in tn
city the first of the week taking ad
vantage of the cheap conference rates Il
visit friends and TO attend TO bushes.
affairs.
George F. shurtliff Of Ogden was in the
city yesterday on business connected
+ with some valuable copper properties To-
Gated southwest of Tucson, Arizona, or
which he has a bond.
r. r. Tanner, of Beaver, is in the city
attending conference. Mr.. Tanner states
/ that good many Bectver citizens are in.
! terested in mining in State Line district
which he believes is the coming gold camp
I Of the west.
/ Jesse Knight, of Provo, who. with his
/ sons, IS the owner of the Humbug mine
on Godiva mountain. at Eureka, is in the
/ city attending to the sale of the first
shipment of ore from this property. The
Humbug is a most valuable mine, and is
/ on the shipping list to stay.
Louis Leasing, OF Minervine, is taking in
( tho sights OF Zion this week. Mr.. Leasing
states that mining matters are very quiel
around Minersville just now. bur that 4
great deal OF interest is being taken in
the recent discoveries made in the State
Line district. and that quite a number of
people from Minersville have good claims
in the new camp.
Franklin Farrell left yesterday for Salt
Lake, says the Butte lntermountain Mr..
I Farrell is one of the largest stockholders
IN the Parrot company and is also largely
/ interested in Utah mines being one of the
owners of the Sioux Consolidated, group
of silver-gold properties. Mr.. Farrell will
return to Butte befors he leaves for his
home IN Ansonia. Conn.
The Mall, of Boise, Idaho, says Harry
/. Timmins is in today from Willow
Creek and says that he expects to begin
the shipment of ore from the Bodega
claim in a few days. He also says that
the town of Pearl is building UP rapidly
and that there are ten new houses now
in process of erection in the upper or De
Levan portion of the town.
A syndicate of wealthy Pittsburg gen.
tlemen have taken hold of an electric
light and power plant proposition for Sill
yer City, and have secured water rights
and ground on Boulder creek for the
same. 1t is designed to have the plant in
operation next season to provide power
for mills and lights for this city. Let the
good work go on.-Avaianche Silver City,
Idaho.
Superintendent lesson of the Gold Dust
mine, who was in the city yesterday,
states that this Mercur property is no
longer prospect but mine. Before
whim on the Gold Dust, and is now rails
ing ore from the main 110-foot shaft,
from the bottom of which an incline
shaft makes connection with an incline
frnrl hssc ,,.fa
Hudson Smith will leave for Eureka
this morning where, for the past six
months. ne has been engaged in the de-
velopment of the Brooklyn lode, a short
distance north OF the keystone mine. Mr.
Smith has been running d drift from the
bottom OF a shallow shaft-from the fall
OF which a croSs-cut has been run into
the ledge, which is very strongly mineral
lied. and it is expected almost any day
now that any shot viii break into a fine
body of ore.
Nate Sears will go to Willow Creek dis
trict within few days in order to inspect
the work now being done on the old Lion
group of claims in which he is largely
interested. Six men are now at work on
this property on which there is an eX-
celient surface showing. a tunnel is be-
ing run TO cut the vein. This is now in
a distance of $50 feet and it is expected
that the ore will be encountered within a
few feet more at vertical depth of about
125 feet. Willow Greek is located in What
is known as the Deep Creek country.
The Butte Intermountain says: A min
ing man who arrived in the city yesterday
from Rochester basin, IN Madison county.
reports that there is considerable excite
ment in that section owing to the discov-
cry of a rich body of gold ore in a claim
adjoining the Marshal about three miles
southwest of the town of Rochester. The
Marshal mine IS owned by Henry Elling,
Fayette harrington and others and was
under lease and bono until recently to
ITO. = l. Il hot n 80
OBTAINED from the new discovery went
81 ounces in gold to the ton
Camp Floyd district, besides its great
reputation as depository of the precious
metal, is gaining some notoriety for its
fossils gem stones ard, it might be adj
ded. for its live frogs entombed in the
solid limestone a hundred feet or more
below the surface of the ground. In the
Intrinsic mine not long ago a live frog
was released from its little cell in which
it had probably been imprisoned for u
thousand years or more. Upon being
brought 10 the surface the animal if such
it can be called, at once expired, but the
mon at the mine have preserved it in
alcohol.
September has proven banner month
for the Trade Dollar mine, the output
being two carloads Of concentrates and
fifteen bars of bullion Besides this, g
carload of rich smelling ore. which has
been accommodating, WIS shipped, of an
estimated value CT fifty or sixty thou
sand dollars. While not authentic, we
feel safe in placing the combined output
is proving a wonderfully valuable prop /
erty, and is looking exceptionally well at
every point. complete electric light |
and power plant will be put in at once
Avalanche. Silver City, Ida.
1t was reported on the streets today
that the Parrot company had acquired |
the option on the Minnie Healy mine at /
but the report could not be
confirmed up to the hour of going to !
press. 1t has been learned, however, that |
the deal with the Colorado company for |
the purchase of the ground is off. In
The event Of the Parrot company failing |
to secure it, it is likely that the present !
essees viii develop il another 200 feet. |
Of almost solid copper glance and it IS be- |
ieved that at greater depth it Will |
widen out.-Miner, Butte. Mont.
William Orr, of Salt Lake city, who
the Gold and Silver Extract
ng COMPANY of Denver, returned to Boise !
Mr.. Orr visited Boise county for the pur-
pose of getting samples of ore which will |
be taken to Denver and tested in order to
determine the best method of extracting
Down numerous samples from the Iowa
mine near QuartZbursF, the Pioneer and (
Hogem at Centervile and from other
Mr. Orr will go to Willow
~ ttA lOlltOIlOM anu --.Jiii tlANiO " wal
district. 1t is his intention to get samples
IF rock from every mining district in
Boise, Idaho.
Salt Lake city is soon to have new
publication which is to be called The
Industries. This work is
o be published monthly, and VIII be
devoted to the interests of mining, mill
ng, banking, agriculture, live stock,
smelling etc. of the Pacific slope. 4
company viii be incorporated within a few
lays for the purpose Of engaging IN this
work., the capital stock of which will be
placed at $4,000. Twelve editors viii be
employed on the staff of the Industries