The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-11


A bright Montana man is expert
menting witch the cathode ray and ex-
poets soon to be able to discover ore
bodies by it's means.
Colonel S. T. Pearson, secretary of
the Marion Mining company, will leave
this morning for the Sterling coal
mines to inspect the progress made in
driving the long working tunnel.
The Boise, Idaho, Democrat says: DR..
Powers and George Nesbitt went out
to Neal one day last week and brought
to Boise some specimens of rock from
the Minnehaha, a mine owned by their
wives. The rock was as specklad with
gold as q. robins egg and yet the fair
owners are not goldbuggers.
A M. Grant, agent for the Colorado
Iron works has moved his Office from
the Morelan block to the third floor of
the Scott-Auerbach block, where he
now has one Of the finest suites of
rooms to be found in the city. Mr..
Grant is doing most satisfactory
business and it is growing steadily.
We had the pleasure of looking at
some of the richest ore ever taken from
Florida mountain last week. It was
in big slabs and came from the Florida.
Mining company's group. This COM
paGly is having an ore blockade very
pletion Of the new mill.-Avalanche
Silver City, Idaho.
F. W. Rose, who is interested in a
dump Of tailings near South Pass, Wyo-
ming, and who met with a loss on &C
count of the burning of the mill with
which he intended to treat the dump,
is now making arrangements to send
a Bell concentrator to South Pass and
instead of sending gold bullion to the
.o,-l-n hi
stead.
Mr.. Tim DriscoM has a force of four
men consisting of Arthur McClosky- d.
r. Page, r. R. Page and Robert Page
at work on his mine, the Portland, IN
the vicinity of Iron City. Mr.. Driscoll
is an old experienced mining man and
generally knows what he is about,
which leads to the conclusion that there
is something worth handling there
Iron County Record
From recent reports it would seem
that the new strike in the Ajax mime
was more important and valuable
than at first supposed, as recent adj
vices state that the ore body, three
feet in width, carries 2 per cent cop
per. Is ounces silver and S95 in gold
to the ton. The Ajax is a steady ship
per and four carloads of ore are now
on the market.
a large crowd of eastern people and
residents Of Butte, Montana, will go
out today to look over the advantages
offered by the Mount Nebo Land and
Irrigation company. They will be &C
companied by E. G. Rognon. Mount
Nebo is receiving very encouraging at
tention from homeseekers of late, and
improU ements are being made that will
eventually make it the most charming
spot in Utah county.
Quite number of Salt Lakers are
overjoyed over the strike in the At
lantic at Bingham. This property is
being prospected by means 0f
the intention being to cross-cut three
lodges that para4lel eac- ~.
but a few feet intervening. It is the
first ore that has been uncovered and
the showing is SO good that the COM
pany feels greatly encouraged and will
now push work harder than ever.
Felix J. Stark and Alex Mitchell are
doing considerable work this summer
in the Wautunka group of four claims
near the Reed and Goodspeed mine in
the South Fork of Big Cottonwood. This
group shows a, strong and we'll defined
ledge, and near the surface the ore
carries values of twelve ounces silver
and $3.50 in gold to the ton. The prop
eT4ty is being developed by means of
tunnel, and, from all indications it will
open out ira@o a. paying producer.
Alma Greenwood and Joseph e. Ray,
prominent citizens of Fillmore, are in
the city on important mining and ir-
rigation business. According to these
gentlemen, there is considerable inter-
est manifested just now in mining in
Antelope mountains, in Willard, and
they corroborate the report Of the re-
cent rich find in that locality, but were
reticent when pressed for details. The
new find, it is understood, is principal
" confined 80 high-grade silver-lead
ores
George E. Johnston of the Walker
House has returned from American
Falls, Idaho, where he is sluicing for
placer gold. Mr. Johnston is washing
with sluices and burlaps, and with
four men and a team is saving $25 a
day in the yellow metal. He states
that a gentleman from Salt Lake,
named Mcclellan, is experimenting with
a new machine on the river, which it
is claimed will save all the gold con-
tanned in the sand.
Silver City is quiet but prosperous.
There are enough miners here to fill
all demands, and but few idle men.
More and better prospecting is beng
done this season than ever before.
About 400 men are now on the pay-rolls
of the various mining companies, MAX
ing a monthly disbursement of about
$50, 000 Timber and wood contracts,
freight and miscellaneous expenditures
of the mining companies will raise the
amount to nearly double these figures
Avalanche, Silver City, Idaho.
1t has been absolutely impossible of
late to obtain inside information con-
corning the progress now being made
by the eight-inch drill in the prospect
ing of the East Golden Gate mine at
Mercur, but enough has been learned
on the outside to justify the belief that
the work so far has given excellent
satisfaction, and that the great ore
zone peculiar to that locality will be
encountered sometime during the pres
emit week. Much interest in these de-
velopments is being taken by parties
portant news may be received from
there at almost any day now.
Thomas Ewing of San Francisco,
who has been general manager of the
Diamond Hill mine, In Jefferson coun-
ty, near Helena, is in the city today
and is registered at the Butte. Mr..
Ewing says that the Diamond Hill
property has been sold to an English
syndicate for a sum amounting to very
nearly 100000 Mr.. Ewing holds a.
large interest in the company, and most
of the old owners have retained stock
in the new company. The deal was en-
gineered by n. F. Cleary of New York,
who accompanies Mr.. Ewing east for
the purpose of making arrangements
for the erection of a 600 ton cyanide
mill. 1t is expected that the big plant
will be in oneratiOn early next spring