The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-19
Mining Notes and Personals.

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Mining Notes and Personals.
Charles Crismon of the Utah and
Galena mines arrived last night from
Fish Springs.
for Captain ]. r. DeLamar, who was
in the city yesterday, left last night
for DeLamar, New.
C. H. Wilbur is in Central district.
New, pushing work on the Ophir Con-
solidated and Golden Eagle mines,
which are owned by Salt Lakers.
Major w, P. Busenbark and Colonel
E. ]. Carter of the East Golden Gate
returned to the city yesterday, Mr..
Busenbark from the east and Mr.. Car
ter from Oregon.
The Dalton & Lark yesterday re-
ceived 1913 tons of D. & l.. ore and Y
tons of Brooklyn. This is the first
shipment of Brooklyn ore, the mineral
being high grade galena.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has a carload Of material at
Fairfield, in Camp Floyd district, and
will begin at once the construction Of
a line from that place to Mercur.
Hon. A C. Cleveland came in from
San Francisco yesterday, and expects
to leave tomorrow for his home in
eastern Nevada. In speaking of the
proposed Deep Creek railroad, Mr..
Cleveland says that it would open up
the greatest unoccupied country in the
west"
Judge C. S. Bowman and Frank
FNoltz of Newton, Kan, old-time friends
of T. A. Wickersham, are in the
city, having arrived just in time to
miss the gentle zephyrs that swept
over the Sunfower state last week.
These gentlemen are greatly taken
with Salt Lake and will most likely
locate here.
The delinquent natural gas stock was
sold yesterday afternoon, as adver
tised, but out of 252, 900 shares, at
which the company is capitalized, only
1900 shares were sold, the prices rang
ing from to cents, according to
the size of TIE blocks. Quite a large
number of buyers were present, and
the bidding was active and spirited.
Elmer B. Jones, j. M. Stout and
Frank Hardness, the owners of the
Yankee Girl mine, near Silver City,
Tintic, have just purchased an adj
joining claim and secured a bond on
another one. Mr. Hardness leaves for
Mercur this morning, where he will
spend two weeks in looking over the
district, after which he will go east in
now pending.
Hon. R. c. Chambers is in full ac-
cord with the new eight-hour law, as
the Park Record says that he has Civ
en- orders at the Ontario and DAILY
mines that all underground men should
be put on eight-hour shifts at the old
pay. According to this, it is evident
that when the new law goes into eff
feet there will be no trouble between
md in al 10 INT a rin
and Daily mines.
The accident in the Hecla shaft last
Saturday night, as reported in yester-
days Herald, was not as serious as at
first stated, as happily the injured
men are on the road to recovery in
stead of succumbing to the terrible
blast, as The Herald was informed had
been the case. How they escaped
death, however. is miraculous as five
sticks of dynamite exploded under
them while they were in the shaft.
The officials of the Hecla company are
delighted over the fact that the men
escaped in safety.
Edward A Simpson, one of the own
ers of the Gold Queen group of claims
in City Creek canyon, made quite
valuable discovery on Sunday last,
when in looking over the ground he
found a strong ledge of agotized onyx.
mental purposes, and also in the manu-
facture Of penholders, paper-weights.
ETC., and if II can be quarried in large
blocks, without flaw or fracture, the
Importance of the discovery will be
more than doubled.
The Pennington Gold Mining COM
pany, of which Judge LIE Grand Young
is president, is working a force of men
in the development of its group of
fifteen claims located two miles east
of Pennington. The ledge on this pro-
perty is very strong and carries values
of $3.50 up to $57.27 in gold to the ton,
besides copper and other metals. At
forty feet the vein is eight feet wide,
and at this depth the ore values in
crease. Some Of the ore shows gold in
it's native state, and from indications
the group will warrant considerable
expenditure in it's development.
The Herald is in receipt of the pros
pectus of the Mercur Gold Production
company; which is the owner of the
Transvaal and Golden Reward groups
of claims in the western foothills in
Camp Floyd district. This is an
Omaha (Neb.) mining company and
comprises in its personnel the names of
several weil-known citizens of that
place. The officers and directors Of