The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-16

There promises to be a rush to State
Line district this fall.
Macintosh yesterday received fifty
tons of Golden Opportunity ore
H. j. Deter is down from the Ma
rion Consolidated, at Alta, with twenty
six tons of very high grade ore
C. A. Armstrong. one of the owners
of the famous Bachelor. mine, at GU
ray, Colo, is visiting friends in the
city.
The Four Aces mine is shipping
about two carloads of ore monthly,
and the shaft is going down on good
ore.
r. d. Millett, one of the heavy stock
holders of The Mercur mine, was out
yesterday inspecting this magnificent
property.
The Taylor & Brinton sampling
works company has just put in a new
engine which will double the capacity
of that plant.
The Gold Queen Mining company,
operating in the Blue mountains, has
just levied an assessment of 80 cents a
share, delinquent Oct. II.
1t is reported that a fine strike of
high grade sand carbonate ore has
just been made on a. prospect near the
ti,anway between the Lead Mill and
the keystone mine, at Bingham.
A shipment of fine copper ore from
the Congor mine, in Pine canyon, Bing-
ham, will soon be made to this city.
The Congor is one Of the coming bo-
nanzas of Bingham, from all accounts.
The plans and specifications for the
Northern Light mine, on Lion hill, will
be submitted today>and it is expected
that the contracts will be let within a
few days. 1t will take eighty days
to put up the mill after the contracts
are let.
J. H. Dupaix will leave for Star dis
trict tomorrow for the purpose of be-
ginning operations on the Amelia mine,
one of his properties in which he re-
Gently found a strong ledge of good gold
ore. 1t is his intention to install a
small stamp mill at the mine and be-
gin at once the production of gold bull
lion.
William Hurst, the efficient and af-
fable county and district court, of
Beaver county, is a guest at the Walk
er. Mr.. Hurst believes that Beaver IS
one of the richest mineral counties in
the state, and that the day will come
when it will again rank as one of the
greatest producers of the precious
metals.
Hon. L. Holbrook, of Provo, who has
just returned from a visit to the IDeX
mine, informs The Herald that this
property is in a most promising condi-
ton. The long tunnel has already cut
two good lodges of ore, and the face
is now in highly mineraHzed ground,
the main ore body for which the tunnel
is being driven.
c. H. Palmer j. A. Coram and J. w.
Moffet of the Butte and Boston COM
pany, made an examination last week
of the Bonanza mine near Baker City,
Ore, and it is said that an offer of
sS5O,600 was made for it's purchase. The
property, however was not for sale, as
the stockholders, who are Salt Lake
people, believe they have a good thing
themselves, and will work it.-Inter-
Mountain, Butte, Mont.
The three Margetts brothers and Mr.
Pugsley have a promising claim on
Ensign peak from which they have OBJ
tanned good gold values The claim
has been developed by a twelve-foct
incline shaft, in the bottom of which
samples Of ore have been taken that
gave assays of $3.50, $500 to the ton
in the yellow metal. The boys will re-
sumo work on the property this fall
and believe that they have the making
of mine.
The Butte Inter-Mountain says: A
contract was awarded this week by the
Anaconda company for the erection of
a silver mill at Anaconda The mill
will be erected in front of the old re-
finery between the upper and lower
works and will be used to treat the sill
yer shines which come from the re-
f1nery. The building will be 146 feet
long, Is feet wide and Is feet high and
will have a capacity of 100000 ounces
per month. There will be four fur
naces and two dry pans each contain
ing ten tanks. The old mill will be
torn down.
Dan Call, Tracy Fairchild and T. C.
Plunkett, jr., Of Tuscarora, New, are
in the city on their way home from
Kansas City, where they have been
with a shipment of live stock Mr..
Call, who presides over the leading ho-
tel of Tuscarora and who is one of the
veteran miners Of the camp, informs
The Herald that the Dexter mine at
that place, which is owned by a Salt
Lake company, is the best and most
promising gold property ever opened
in that locality; and he further says
that the action of the Salt Lakers in
opening this property in thorough
manner and the putting in Of reduction
works at that place by the company,
is infusing new life into the camp, and
that now several other properties
there are being actively developed