The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-22
Mining Notes and PersonaIs.

G. H. Griffin, of the Golden Gate ex-
tension, expects to go out to Mercur in
the morning and make an examination of
the new strike in this property.
E. r. Field and w O. Norrell expects
to leave this morning for the Dugway
district, in the Deep Creek country, for
the purpose of doing work on their syn
dictate claims.
John Skews. who is just in from the
Line, district. in western Iron county,
speaks very highly of this new camp and
says that, in his opinion, it will develop
into a bonanza district.
The officers of the Shoebridge Bonanza
company are elated over the fact that
the old Shoebridge dump, from average
sample taken from the same, shows val
ues of 80 per cent lead and 46 ounces in
silver to the ton.
C. T. Harte, the able editor and pub
Usher Of the Inter-Mountain Mining Re
view has been on the sick list this week
but during his absence from his sanctum
the Review has not suffered, as Alex
Hyslop came to the rescue, mounted the
editorial tripod, and got out a very cred
liable number.
Colonel j. L. Anderson, special agent
of the Interior department. left last
night on a thirty days leave of absence
Tor his home in Georgia. The colonel has
done efficient service for the government
friends on the Pacific slope, who will
be pleased to learn that he has been
granted a vacation.
Colonel Nick Treweek left last night
for New York City, from which place it
is more than likely that he will go on
to London. The colonel is a hard and
persistent worker, and the word fail"
is not to be found in his vocabulary. 1t
Is given out that the. trip is being made
for his health, but If he does not close up
some important business transactions
before returning home, The Herald
misses its guess.
The Swansea mine, near Silver City,
will make a shipment of five carloads of
ore this week, three of which have al
ready been received at the samplers. The
bottom of the winze in. the Swansea is in
a fine body of high grade ore that widens
with every foot. In sinking this winze
took out 5000 in ore, and as yet no
stopping has been done in sinking the
shaft to it's present level.
The Rio Grande Western is out with
a very attractive booklet descriptive of
the wonderful resources of Camp Floyd
mining district. The publication is en-
titled ''Mercur, Utah, The Johannesburg
of America 1t is beautifully printed,
is elegantly illustrated, and besides Its
description Of the camp contains a cnron-
ological reference to the important events
attached to the early history of the
camp. The booklet IS right up to date
in everything, and IS credit to the
-ushing and energetic management of
the R. G. W.
S. B. Miner, G. R. Boutwell, and G.
G. Hall, who came in "Wednesday night
from a visit to the Petro mine, on Pc
tro hill, Carr Fork gulch Bingham, are
more than pleased over the promising
condition of the property, which now
shows up more high grade ore than
ever before. The Petro company is now
working five men, and will begin ship
ments today of ore that will run so per
cent. lead, to Is ounces silver and 81 in
gold to the ton This mine is in con-
dition to make regular and heavy ship
ments, but the policy of the company is
to wait until silver is remonetized be-
fore parting with their ore.