The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-14


N. A. Robertson returned yesterday
from the Hot Stuff group of claim:
in North Tintic district.
Fred Nelson, the able and obligine
editor of the Tintic Miner, was in the
city yesterday on business.
Colonel S. T. Pearson of the Marion
leaves for New York tomorrow on bust
ness and pleasure combined.
Some very fine looking ore from the
Four Aces mine at Silver City, Tintic
was received by the company yester-
day.
The Dalton and Lark will pay its
regular monthly dividend of $4,000 to-
morrow The company yesterday re-
ceived $40 tons of ore.
The Herald was informed yesterday
that one-third interest in eleven
claims in Peepstone district had beer
sold to a Salt Laker for $780,
c. B. burst, accompanied by his
! brother, D. P. burst of Wheatland
Cal, spent Sunday and yesterday in
! hooking into the merits Of the camp OF
Mercur
Don. H. Ferguson, superintendent
of the Vanderbilt mine at HALEY
Idaho, who has been visiting his family
in this city, returned to the mine Sun
! day afternoon.
w. H. Thomas and w S. Mccormick
have returned from their visit to Cali
forn'a, where they have been on min
ing business connected with properties
on the Mother lode.
c. F. Rathbone, of Pomeroy. O., an
old-time friend of c. E. Hudson, who
is visiting acquaintance in this city,
was visitor on the floor of the min
ing exchange yesterday.
The secretary of state for Colorado
received S52,S00 in payment of the reg
iStration fees of new mining companies
for the month of January this year.
Mining and Scientific Press.
Inasmuch as the r. G. w. is talking
OF building from Provo to Park City,
the Taylor e Branton people are reviv-
ing their scheme of establishing samp-
ling works at the latter place.
E. D. Turner, captain; Walter Scott
and Pat Devlin, messengers, and w. H.
Perry, who escort Captain DeLamar's
bullion coach from DeLamar to Mil
ford, were in the city yesterday
The report came from Denver yes
terday that a movement was on foot
to consolidate the Silver King and
Anchor mines, at Park CITY, when
they were to be sold to an English
syndicate.
General Manager H A Cohen, OF
the Golden Gate, is expected home
from New York, and upon his return
it is believed that active work will be-
gin in the construction of the Golden
Gate mill.
Mr. David Kennedy, accompanied by
his wife, has returned from his Cali
fornia trip. Before going on east, how
ever, he will go out to Tintic, where
he is largely interested in the Centen-
nial-Eureka and Mammoth mines.
E. S. Catch, of Omaha, Neb., an old
acquaintance of Hon. Hoyt Sherman,
is in the city Last week, in company
the mining camps of Eureka, and was
much pleased with what he saw there.
The Evans boys came in yesterday
with a small shipment of ore from their
Gold Hill property, located in the foot
hills between Big and Little Cotton
wood, south of this city. The ship
ment, it is stated. Melted over $1O0 in
gold to the ton.
L. c. Trent e Bro. have received a
contract for mill for the Last Chance
mill az Bingham, to be in running
order by June 1. The plant will have
a capacity of forty tons a day and will
comprise a mill on the Huntington
plan, concentration and vanning ma
chine.
A. Murphy, of Mercur, is again in the
city. and while the camp of Mercur is
quiet at the present tine, he says that
a great deal of work is being done
throughout the district and that before
long large ore bodies are sure to be
opened up in a number of prospects in
the near Vicinity of the great Mercur
mine.
E. L. Godbe, of Buliopville. New.
who was in the city Sunday, left for
Denver yesterday with a ton of Ad-
vance ore and three or four tons of
Bullionville tailings which are to be
tested by the new Palantan-C lercl pro-
cess Of ore reduction, which embraces
teaching and electricity
The suit of Steve Hays and others
against the Northern Light mine. of
was dismissed yesterday in
Judge Streets court, the possession of
the property being retained by NJ Fitz-
simmons and George MERRIAM Mr..
Merriam will leave for the mine this
and resume regular ore ship
ments.
1t was stated in these columns yes
terday that Ernest Williams. the pop
ular salesman for Tootle, HOSEA &
Motler, of st. joe Mo, had purchased
some valuable Eureka properties for
the company, but now it transpires that
this was an error, and that the pur-
chase was made in his own name and
for himself.
Messrs. Ames, Chute and Hicks have
moved their mining offices from the
Knutsford hotel building to 100 Main
street. The office formerly occupied
by them and also the adjoining room.
in which ]. W. Hamm has leld full
sway, are being connected and fitted
up for Merrill & Conrad, who will have
one of the finest suite of office rooms
in the city when all is complete.
The Golden Gate Extension Mining
company, of Mercur, has ordered
shaft and gallows frame that is to
cost 81, 200. Work in it's erection will
begin at once and it is expected that
the structure will be up and ready for
use within two weeks. The company
will soon let a contract for a 500 foot
shaft, and means to develop it's valu-
able property in a thorough manner.
The group of claims owned by the COM
pany is almost surrounded by De
Lamar holdings.
The West Mercur Gold Mining, Mill
ing and Development company has
just let contract for 100 feet more in
its shaft. The shaft is now down a
depth of sixty-five feet, and it is be-
lieved that when the contract is COM
pleted the underlying ore body will be
exposed. At the present time a large