The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-02

ed. The South Swansea has two big ship
ments of high grade ore on the road to
this city.
h NJ Bacon returned yesterday from
a trip to Illinois, where he accompanied
an invalid sister.
Jim Kennedy and son will leave to-
morrow for the purpose Of locating a
ledge of free gold not $50 miles from this
city.
Ben Conklin, who is in from. the west
ern foothills, in Camp Floyd district,
states that the indications there are ex-
cellent.
The Dragon Iron mine, at Silver City,
Tant:c, is now shipping 1O0 tons of ore
daily to the Pennsylvania and Germania
for fluxing purposes
General Isaac Coe, Of Omaha, Neb.,
who is a stockholder in the Overland
mine, at Sunshine, returned Friday night
he is much pleased over the outlook.
Superintendent ]. D. Kendall, of the
tennia-Eureka who is taking an out
ing on the shores of keamoth lake, in
Oregon, writes that ne IS having great
sport in catching ten and fourteen-pound
trout.
Silver City is improving rapidly of
late. John Leyshon has his new hotel
building nearly under roof, T. D. Sui
Ivan is putting up a saloon, and nearly
! every inhabtant of the place is giving
his establishment coat of paint
D. L. Dunyon, John B. Gordon and T.
| John Gundry, all of Tooele, have leased
and bonded their Undine mining properly,
Tooele mining district to SAT- Lake par
| ties for the sum of $10000.-Tooele Trans
cript.
| NJ. c. Smith, A. F. Abbott and Francis
Aggett have obtained bond and lease
on the Undine Nos. and lodes in Pine
canyon on which they will begin opera
lions this week with the expectation of
! beginning ore shipments within thirty
| days.
Word was received by telephone yester-
day from j. NJ. Davis that a good body
! of pay ore had been encountered in the
| Annie property, between Mercur and
! Sunshine. This is good news, indeed,
and Annie stockholders are in excellent
! spirits over the showing made.
| J. A. Brent has returned from the
! Suffer Creek placers, in California, where
| he made a cleanup after short run the
| output running about $3.50 per day to the
man. On account of the low water ac-
| tive work has been suspended bur Mr..
Brent will leave for the mines Monday
and will devote sometime in developing
/ a gold ledge on the company's property.
The new shaft in the Backyard, which
is now down seventy feet, has uncover,
ed a body of ore that assays $40 in gold
to the ton. This shaft is 100 or 500 feet
south and east from the main shaft, and
pay ore has been uncovered there. The
main shaft is now down 40 feet, and
the dirt in the bottom runs from 50 to
| 60 cents to the ton.
We understand that a, valuable vein
of coal has been discovered in Pleasant
Creek canyon by James Lamont of this
city. 1t is reported as being most excel
lent coal, the vein being about four feet
/ in size The location is at point of easy
access on the wagon road, about six
miles from town. The discovery is due
to the recent floods exposing the vein.-
Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
The Desere National bank is the pos
SCISSOR of one of the new silver dollar
certificates, just issued by the. govern
ment This is a beautifully designed bill.
and on one side. in the border, there APP
pears the names of number OF
Americas leading statesmen, authors and
inventors. while on the other appears
vignettes of George and Martha Washing
ton. The certificate states that in the
United States treasury there is silver
dollar for its redemption. 1t is stated
that these bills are very popular in the
east.