The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-28
Mining Notes and Personals.

The Ontario Mining company made a
Shipment last week of 26,681 fine ounces of
silver
The Mammoth Mining company is get
ing ready to pay its regular $4,000 divi-
7dend on July l.
James A, Cunningham and Sam Nc
Intyre of the Mammoth mine are in Can
ada on live stock business.
The Pioneer sampler yesterday received
1O0 tons of Anchor crude ore and 173 tons
OF Silver King concentrates
President Theodore Broback, of the
Marion Mining company, returned yester-
day from visit to San Francisco.
Hon. Richard Macintosh, proprietor Of
the Pioneer and Park City samplers, was
in Park City yesterday on business
Geo. st: Clair of the Chloride Point
mine, on Lion Hill, accompanied by A o.
Evans, are registered at the Walker
The Horn Silver Mining company yes
terday received returns from six cars of
ore.
Geo E. Johnston. proprietor of the
Walker house, returned yesterday from
American Falls, Idaho, where he is in
terested in placer mining.
A trial shipment OF ore will be made
within few days from the Big Four
mine, in Uintah county, not far from
Vernal. Price, on the Rio Grande West
ern, is the nearest shipping point for this
ore.
The reported proposed sale of 10
Lakln 100000 shares of Sacramento stock
to Z: A. Benson and Thomas Barker of
Omaha; 0. H. Hanna of Fort Wayne. and
an Iowa banker, is still pending and
may not be contaminated for several days
yet.
James Miles, assayer for the Northern
Light mine at Bingham, who has been
recreating in the city for few days,
left for home yesterday. Mr. Miles states
that the Northern Light is in excellent
shape, and in the future, AS in the past,
will maintain it's reputation as a great
producer.
e. W. Center, president of the Frisco
Mining company, was in Bingham last
Sunday inspecting the mine, which shows
fifteen inches of ore in the new workings.
besides good bodies of mineral in other
places. The Frisco is working eight men
and will ship twenty tons of ore about
the first of the month.
Henry Buhring is in from Bingham,
where he is working the U. and /. and
the Union mines, both of which have
good records as shippers. In the U. and
l. there are eighteen inches of good ore
exposed, while the Union shows three
the Alamo, on which a large amount of
work has been done with satisfactory re-
suits.
G. K. .Southworth, one of the proprietors
of Castillo Springs resort, and director
in. the Frisco Mining company, operating
in Bingham, was in the city yesterday
The Southworth brothers are making a.
very attractive resort at Castillo, and
this romantic spot is becoming more
and more popular with the pleasure-seek-
ing public every year.
The Gold Reserve Mining company
which recently acquired title to a group
Of claims just east of the Overland mine
in the Sunshine country has lust LET p,
contract to Frank Morehous for the sink
ing of a 700-foot shaft. Mr. Morehous
will push the work as fast as possible
with two or three shifts, and it is be-
lieved that before the contract is com
pleted a fine body of ore will be uncov-
cred
John Roberts, who left a few days ago
to complete a contract on the group Of
claims owned by the Skull Valley Mining
company. met with quite serious ac-
cident while there, the shaft having caved
in on him. and he is now home again,
laying up for repairs. The Skull Valley
shaft is now down to the S5-foot level,
mineral a party of three will leave in
the morning to timber the shaft and con-
tinue the work.
Messrs Brown, Hedges. Heinrich and
Higgins, who have returned from White
Pine county, New, where they have been
experimenting on the ores of the San Jose
mine. in Egan canyon, report fairly salts
factory results. While there they treated
about fifteen tons of gold ore by the cy-
anide process, and succeeded in saving
about SO per cent. of its value. The ore
ranges from $40 in gold to the ton up
wards, and there is plenty of it in sight
The Dalton Mining company is solicit
ing bids for the hauling of four carloads
of ore from the mine at Marysvale to the
railroad at Richfield. The Dalton vein
is strong one, and can be traced for
over three miles. E. G. Rog1on, who
visited the mine recently, made placer To-
cations in Bullion canyon below the Dali
ton mill. The gravel at this point shows
several colors of gold to the pan, and if
1t is demonstrated that the deposit will
pay to work, the water from Bullion
will be fiumed and hydraulics put in.
The directors of the Sunshine Mining
company will hold an adjourned meeting
tomorrow for the purpose of receiving
bids for the proposed enlargement OF its