The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-14
Mining Notes nnd Personnls.

last year they were Sl72,6S9
Mining Notes and Personals.
A carload of ore from Austin, Neva-
d., came in yesterday
L. j. Clark and ]. A. Bard will leave
for Mercur this morning on missing
business
The Dalton & Lark mine. at Bing-
ham, sent down 12O tons of carbonate
ores yesterday
Is. B. Laville will go out to Five Mile
pass this morning to see how the ore is
growing in his claims.
1t is reported that recently large
blocks of Insley stocks have changed
hands at fair figures.
The North Star group of two claims,
near Lion Hill, in Camp Floyd district,
was sold Thursday by E. P. Sears to
Felix Starks for $1,000 cash.
L. S. Marshal Nat Brigham is in
Beaver Lake mining district, Beaver
county, inspecting the work being done
on the Wasatch group of mines, in
which he is interested.
George Z. Blair. who is getting out
hand book on Utah's mines and min
ing, informs The Herald that already
he has received numerous inquiries re-
SdrdlnS IL from the east.
J. a. Bard has resigned as one of the
directors of the New State Mining com
pany of Camp Floyd, and John Dubie,
a well known business man of this city,
has been elected to fill the vacancy.
The Gold Dust Minin0 company, who
own a fine gold proposition near Lees
burg, Idaho, have just let contract
for a hundred feet more of work in the
extension of the Gold Dust drift on
the ore body.
Henry Newell, who returned Thurs
day night from trip to Park City,
reports that the mining outlook
for the camp is very bright especially
since the Ontario, the Daily and the
Daly-We report new ore discoveries.
Judge B. B. Quinn, of Bingham, was
a Walker guest last night Judge
Quinn predicts a big year for Bingham
mines this season, and wants to give
warning that his camp will not take
the side track for any district in the
state.
G. w. Jones, G. H. Blakely, H. L.
Driver and others interested in the Seq
regated Gold Mining company, expect
to leave for Mercur this morning for
the purpose of inspecting the companys
property and in starting development
work upon it.
E. P. Sears reports the sale yester-
day Of the Lucky Boy and Eddy groups
of ten clainhe each, to eastern parties,
the consideration being $4,000. These
groups are located east eff the East
Golden Gate and Jones Bonanza prop
critics, and north of the Gold King.
This was a cash deal.
A big deal in mining stocks was
chronicled yesterday, being nothing
more or less than the sale of 10000
shares of treasury stock of the hex
ing $4,000. With this amount in the
treasury the company can now go on
with the development of the property
as proposed.
Charlie Farnsworth, who is an old
timer and one of the substantial citi-
zens of Green River, Utah, has located
a claim about six miles below that sta
tion that abounds in manganese of iron,
and is even now preparing to develop
it. and that means the immediate ship
ment of the ore. He already has a
three foot vein in sight, and it carries
with it both gold and silver.
A party of capitalists have just re
turned from Gold Mountain mining
district, in Piute equity, where they had
been for the purpose of examining some
placer ground owned by Hon. j. NJ.
Bolitho Unfortunately the snow was
so deep that the examination was I'M
satisfactory, but it is the intention to
return again as soon as the weather
becomes more settled.
owen Greenan, one of the lessees of
the Crescent, was seen in the city last
week. Owen does not say much about
the quantity of ore he is getting out,
but the writer learns from another
source that he has as nice a lot of ore
ready for shipment in the spring as
was ever taken out of any other mine
at Park City. This is news that will
be relished by Owens friends, for no
man deserves success better chan he
does. He is every inch an honorable
Record.
A letter was received yesterday from
Five Mile pass. Camp Floyd district,
stating that $50 gold ore had been
struck in the group OF claims owned by
the Camp Floyd Mining company and,
according to the writer, prospectors are
fiocking to the south side of the rail-
road and jumping everything in sight. !
South of Sunshine, on the Sterling
ground, the workings, which are in
black lime, show encouraging indica
tons; while the Bradford, which joins |
the Sterling on the south, shows $40 !
ore at depth of only twelve feet.
The Herald representative was shown |
some fine ore yesterday from the Morn !
ing Star mine in Markham gulch, I
Bingham The ore asSayed 100 ounces |
silver, So so in gold and 16 per cent cop |
per, and came from an eight inch body |
exposed while doing the assessment |
work in the mine last December. Ad- |
joining the Morning Star on the south |
is the Nancy Hanks lode. in the face |
Of the 12S-foot tunnel of which there is
a small vein of carbonate ore showing I
l22 in gold to the ton. Markham gulch /
is rich in minerals and has a great fu-
ture before it.