The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-16
Mining Notes and Personals.

Geo. st. Clair, of Ophir, and Jos. Eric
son, of Stockton, are in the city
S. T. Pearson. of the Marion mine, left
for Sanpete yesterday on business.
Broker Lowe sold Hardscrabble Nor
gan after call yesterday, 491 shares, at
20 cents.
Another shipment of Pan American
cyanides. amounting to $1,000, was made
on the 11th
Two cars of ore from the Utah and
Galena mines, at Fish Springs, arrived
at the sampler yesterday.
Broker Hill sold $50 shares of Mercur,
after call yesterday at Sc. Later in the
day it was wanted at $500
Ontario, $50 shares, sold in the New
York exchange last week at $7.506$9 co.
One hundred shares of Horn Silver sold
at $3.50.
Fraser & Chalmers, of Chicago, have
notified its Salt Lake house that it has
sold 2O-stamp combination mill to par
ties in Silver City, Idaho
Samples of ore from the Wasatch No.
lode. in Beaver Lake district. have re-
50 per cent lead, 6S ounces in silver and
All in gold TO the ton The ore body
in this mine ranges from eighteen inches
to two feet
Frank Hines, who owns the Lulu No
2. fraction. between the Mercur and the
Sacramento mines, intends to put in a
whim at an early day and fully develop
the property, the forty-foot shaft in
which is already in mineralized ground
that goes from 81 to Sc in gold to the ton
The Mammoth is to add twenty stamps
70 its mill, which will bring it up to an
50 stamp proposition, and thus greatly
increase the working capacity of the
plant. which will in time enable the COM
pany to enlarge its output and dividends.
L. c. Trent q Co. have the order for
the machinery.
Yesterday Jack Williams and Frank
Black bonded the Lucky Boy claim to
The life of the bond is six months, the
consideration being $4,000, of which 81 600
was put I'D as forfeit. The Lucky Boy
adloins the Bonanza and Cannon pro-
perty at Mercur.
pany held it's annual stockholders meet
ing on the 18th and reelected the old
board and directory, as follows: j. r.
Walker, president; M. II. Walker, vice
president and treasurer; /. H. Farms
worth, secretary. Directors: Boyd Park.
s. f. Walker, J. R. Walker jr c. K
Gilchrist. H. w. Lawrence and W. L.
Packard.
The Deseret National bank held it's
annual stockholders meeting day before
yesterday, which resulted in the re-elec-
ton of the old board of officers and di-
rectors for the ensuing year, as follows:
vice-president; VIM w. Ritter, James II
Little, James Sharp, John R. Winder,
Frank W. Jennings, Geo. Romney. John
r. Barnes, John c. Cutler, Henry Din
woody, David H. Peery and E. r. Ell
bridge.
President DonnellaD, president of the
Mining stock exchange, is in receipt of
a telegram from the chairman of the list
ing committee of the Chicago mining ex-
change, acknowledging receipt of his in
VitatiOn to visit Utah, and stating that
it would be impossible for them to do
so. M j. Sheridan. the chairman of the
committee, has invited the members of
the Salt Lake exchange to be present at
the opening of the Chicago exchange on
the 21st.
The Independence Gold Mining and Mil
ing company is the first organized com
pany to begin operations in the New
Mercur district. in Skull valley. The Of
ficers of the company are w. H. Penrose.
Moffat. The operations of the company
will be watched with interest, for, if
the new district is to come to the front
as great wealth producer, it is more
than likely that the independence will
be the first company to prove it,
John Rhodin is just in from a trip into
Cherry creek, Nevada, where he has been
for the purpose of examining some min
ing properties for Salt Lake capitalists
He says there is considerable activity
in mining in White Pine. Elko and
pected there in the spring. P. H. Cannon
is working fifteen men on the Mont
gomery property, in Cherry Creek and
has four feet of ore that will average
70 ounces silver and 40 per cent lead.
Preparations, according to Mr. Rhodin,
are being made to resume work on the
Eagan mines, in the same district.