The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-05
Mining Notes and Personals.

Ontario sold in New York yesterday
at 81 per share.
Broker Hill sold 100 Mercur on the
curb yesterday at $500.
w. A. Fowler has made an applica-
tion to join the mining exchange
Fifty shares of Ontario stock sold on
the New York exchange last week at
S11.
Messrs. John Dern, E. H. Airs and
E. E. Crooks leave for Mercur this
morning.
The meeting of Mammoth stockhold-
ers. held yesterday, was adjourned un-
til February 20.
e. McCarrick was in yesterday from
the point of the mountain, seventeen
miles west. He brought in more sam
pies of ore from that locality.
The membership cards for the mem
beers of the mining exchange have been
prepared under the supervision of Sec
rotary Hill, and are now ready for dis
tribution.
The Annie mine of Mercur was reg
ularly listed with the stock exchange
yesterday. The Annie is managed by
good people and has all the earmarks
of developing into a big mine.
The Taylor 6, Brunton sampler han
died $500 tons of ore during the month
of January. The company is thinking
of putting in an assay office for the
assaying of the ore it samples.
1t was reported on the streets yester-
day afternoon that Sam Mcintyre had
sold out his interest in the Ajax mine,
but this can hardly be So as he left
last night for the mine to install the
new foreman, Ed Stewart.
The flyers on Mercur, the Johannes
burg of America" published under the
supervision of the stock exchange, were
distributed yesterday among the mem
ibers of the exchange their friends and
anyone who could use them.
The lot of Mohawk ore sampled yes
terday assayed 29.6 per cent. lead, 1858
ounces silver and $1.20 in gold to the
ton. The shipment consisted of low
grade ore and concentrates and went
much higher than expected.
Colonel Hebron is back from his visit
to the Niagara mine at Bingham. He
reports the formation as very encour-
aging. General Manager w. H. Thorn
as, of the Niagara, is expected to ar
rive from New York this week, Friday.
H. Carlston, of Fairview, Sanpete
county, is in this city and as usual,
with our mining friends, his pockets
were heavily loaded with ore. The rock
that Mr.. Carlston had with him was
hot stuff" but he absolutely refused
to state where it came from.
At the meeting yesterday afternoon
of the committee of arrangements of
the stock exchange, Fred L. Hill was
continued as the official and RESPONSE
BILE secretary of the exchange, and w.
E. Vigus was appointed assistant sec
rotary. Mr.. Hill has given excellent
satisfaction so far, and we agree with
others in saying that these gentlemen
are the right men in the right place.
A miners meeting will be held in the
Peepstone district today for the cleo
ton of a recorder, and we understand
that there are several applicants for
the position, including woman, and
that a warm time is anticipated at the
polls. Peepstone is coming rapidly to
the front as a mineral camp, and al
ready several companies are making
arrangements to do some extensive de-
velCpment work there.
The Gold King Mining company, who
own a group of nine claims Shree-quar-
tiers of a mile northeast of the Mercur
mill, are now working three shifts in
the development of the property. The
group is being developed by means of
tunnel, which is now in 20 feet, from
the face of which rock has been taken
that ranges in value from $1.90 to $3.50
in gold. The claims are being sur
veyed for patent, and the company
means business.
Howard Schock returned to Salt
Lake yesterday from the Colorado river
where he has been doing some work on
placer claims above Dandy and Halls
crossings. He. reports that cold wea-
Their has put a check on mining in
that locality, but that in the spring
there will be a great deal of activity
there When Mr.. Schock left Salt Lake
last fall he was in poor health. but
now he is in robust health and as hear
ty as need be. His many friends here
are glad to see him looking so we'll
The Paxman Mining company is To-
Gated just north of the town of Eu-
reka, Tintic, and joins the Colorado
Chief. The property is equipped with |
a ho1sting plant, and the shaft, which
is now down 400 feet, is well timbered. |
and everything is in readiness to start |
to sinking. The Paxman was called |
at the stock exchange yesterday among
the unlisted stocks, and it might be |
well to state here that the company
has decided to place 5000 shares of its !
treasury stock on the market at so |
cents share in order to develop the =!
mine, which is very desirably located |
in the vicinity of noted producers.