The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-20
Mining Notes and Personals.

The last lot of Ajax ore went nearly
$40 in gold to the ton.
R. Macintosh yesterday received $50
tons of Silver King ore.
There is talk of another assessment
for the Himalya at Park City.
VIII Griffith is in from Mercur and
states that the camp is booming.
The Alliance Mining company has
levied an assessment of 10 cents per
share.
Colonel Nick Treweek leaves for
Park City this morning on mining
business.
George Naylor and party will start
this morning for a prospecting trip
into Skull valley.
d. Gurnsey and Harry Kinkaid star
ted man out this morning to prospect
in the southern country.
The Eureka Democrat is now issuing
a semi-Weekly and is devoting consid-
cradle attention to mining matters.
Good for the Democrat
Two shifts of men are sinking on the
Searohlight, near the Sunshine, and
the company is now putting in a whim
The Searchlight ground is looking very
encouraging.
D. Gurnsey is back from his Mer-
cur trip. Dan says that no one who
goes out to Camp Floyd with q little
money escapes without experiencing a
violent attack of mining fever
Colonel ]. w. Donnellan was busy
yesterday signing the coupons at
tached to the Big Cottonwood Power
companys bonds, mention of which
was made in yesterdays Herald.
E. C. Clowkey of this city, formerly
mining man il the Ouray district,
Colo, has returned from there after a
months sojourn in that camp Mr..
Clowkey says that while times are
lively about the Colorado camp, they
are talking of the Mercur district, and
some of them are already headed this
way.
The Utah and Montana Machinery
company have the contract for the
new Mercur hosting plant consisting
of a fifty horsepower boiler and a
thirty-five horsepower link motion,
post-brake hoist, embellished with the
latest improvements. The new plant
will be shipped at once.
c. R.BothweH of the Geyser and Sac
ramento leaves for Mercur this morn
ing. The Geyser mill started up Mon
day, and it is expected that the Sac
ramento will soon be in shape to make
its initial run. The Sacramento mine
is showing up fine bodies of ore, and
it is expected that the Sacramento
owners will be walking on velvet by
the Fourth of July.
Letters received from Detroit min
ing district report another important
strike in the Ibex mine The directors
of the new hex Gold Mining company
met yesterday and made arrange
ments to continue work in the tunnel
in this property A block of the treas
ury stock of the company will prob
cents a share. Ore shipments from
the hex are expected daily. This
mine has made a wonderful showing
during its short history.
1t took two coaches yesterday morn
ing to accommodate the crowds that
we're headed for Mercur, and if the
rush continues, which it surely will,
and at a ten-fold rate the railroads
will soon have to increase their rolling
stock The Herald would suggest that
both the Union Pacific and the MerCur
g. Salt Lake roads would do well to
put on tourists cars during the sum-
mer months as the scenic attractions
all along the route from Salt Lake to
Merour are hard to surpass.
Where will De Lamar build his Gold
en- Gate mill at Mercur? This is the
question that many would ike to have
answered, and while Manager Robin
son has been very reticent on this sub
ject, it seems that a leak has occurred
along the line somewhere. for it is
whispered that the new mill is to be
located about 200 feet above the upper
shaft on the Golden Gate property.
and that a short distance further up
the hill De Lamar will sink his new
working shaft. If this is a pointer to
any one. he is welcome to it.
George E. Blair is busy on a "Camn
Floyd Handbook" which will contain
a synopsis of the opinions of geolo-
gists who have visited the district. a
write-up of the camps in the district
engravings of the leading mines and
pictures of the men who are prorni-
nently identified with it's history. He
will issue about 10000 copies of the
book, 10000 of which will be taken bv
Salt Lake people. while the balance
will be distributed free in the leading
cities of the United States. This is =
stroke Of enterprise that should meet
with the appreciation and encourage
ment of every citizen of Salt Lake
and Mercur.