The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-18

Mining Notes and Personals.
C. V. Wheeler, the we'll known Silver
City mining operator, is in the city
George T. Henry, the popular Marys-
vale assayer, is a guest at the Walker.
Bishop R. C. Lund of st. George, who
is noted mining manipulation IS "a
Cullen guest.
j. A. Cunningham, president of the
Mercur- Mammoth Mining company,
was out to the mine yesterday.
Sid Frailey's interest in the Pen
rose group, below the Gold Dust, at
Mercur, has been sold to Mr.. Hin
kle.
Jack C. Taylor and NJ ]. Phillips
have opened a tasty mining stock Office
in the basement of the Bank of Salt
Lake.
P. j. Quealy, superintendent of the
Wonder at Mercur, is at the mine get
ting ready for the new steam hoist,
which will soon be shipped
1t is reported that strike has been
made in the Pacific group in the Sun
shine country. We hope that report
is true, and so will all of George Null
let's many friends.
j. D. Shaffer, the pushing Mercur
liveryman, was in the city yesterday
and when asked concerning that camp
said: Its all right" Jack is doing
a good business and has unbounded
confidence in the future of Mercur.
Will Dennis, of this city, who has
been south to the new mining dis
trict of Line, in western Iron county,
is back again, and reports that this
will grow into a great camp, and that
a good many people are going there.
T. A. Wickersham of the Red Cloud
leaves for Sunshine this morning.
Wick. has been waiting long time for
the promised sign of success, but it
begins to look now as if things were
coming his way.
David Bulloch of Cedar City, one of
the largest cattle raisers in Iron coun-
ty, is in the city Mr.. Bulloch says
that the people of the south are very
much excited over the mineral discov-
cries in the western part of the county,
and that they are focking there by the
hundreds.
The Importance of the strike in the
Badger mine. in the Sunshine country,
can only be appreciated by those who
are acquainted with the lay of the
country in that locality, but its value
is fully appreciated by the initiated, as
it more than doubles the mineral area
OF that region.
President E. H Airs of the Little
Pittsburg says that the property is all
o. K. and that force of me1F will be
put to work in the mine at once. 1t is
more than likely that the L. P. direc-
tors at their meeting next Friday will
levy an assessment of half cent on
the capital stock of the company
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the DAILY Mining company, held yes
terday, the old board Of directors was
reelected as follows: r. C. Cham
bers, president; R. Macintosh, vice
George NJ. Scott and David Keith.
Thos. J. Amy was retained as the sec
rotary for the company.
P. A. H. Franklin is interested in
mining properties in southern Norway,
where twenty-one miles of groupings
show values of IS per cent. lead 3.42
ounces silver and % cents in gold to
the ton. When asked yesterday re-
garding his Utah mining operations,
he skilfully parted the question by
saying: The weather in Bingham is
excellent"
The Mercur King people are jubiIant
over the showing made in that prop
erty. The twenty-five foot shaft on
this property is now down in black
shale, in which punches of ore occur
carrying values of from s2.46 to s7.22
in gold. The Mercur King is destined
to surprise some of the boys along the
line.
j. r. Richards of Kanarra, Iron
county, arrived in the city yesterday,
bringing with him some good-looking
samples of chloride and gold ores
from the range of mountains west of
that place. Mr.. Richards is an old and
experienced miner, having been in
Phoebe and Silver Reef in their best
days He believes that there is "a great
future for Iron county in the mining
line.
]. w. Searles writes from Sunset
camp, in Arizona, that in his mine the
body of rich ore is now growing wider
until it is now two feet in width, and
that old miners say that he, has the
biggest mine in the territory. He also
adds: Il sacked two sacks of ore to-
day, averaging 200 pounds, that goes
better than 81 to the pound" Jimmie
will be hot tomato" when he returns
TO Zion.
The Grant Brothers yesterdty re-
ceived $1,000 as a result of twenty
day mill run on ore from their (2ue-
bee mine, located about forty miles
from Baker City, Ore These gentle
men have a sixteen foot body of free
milling ore opened up in this prop
erty. The outlook for the property is
excellent and regular 'divys" from
now on are expected from the property.
C. H. Jacobs, manager of the Sun
shine mine, at Sunshine, was in the
city yesterday. Charlie is the most
contented man in Utah. He won't say
why; but visitors to this great prop
erty say that contentment serene
would reign within their souls if they
were only the Dossessors of a few
thousand shares of Sunshine stock. If
our readers also want to know why c.
II. is happy, we would advise them to
take run out to Sunshine.
superintendent ]. G. Logan, of the
Winnemuck mine at Bingham, informs
The Herald that the contract has been
let to the Utah and Montana Ma
chinery company for a complete hoist
ing plant for the mine, consisting of
a 3 horse power engine, minimum. and
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