The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01
Mining Notes and Personals.


S. B. Miner will make $1,000 shipment
of cyanides today from the Geyser mill.
c. C. Higgins, of the Mercur Mercury
and recorder of Camp Floyd district, is
in the city.
The mining exchange re-opens today at
II 80 a. m in the b. Y. T. building on
Commercial street.
C. L. Dignowity will start up his churn
drill today on the Moonshine lode south
Of the Mercur mill
H. A. Cohn, manager of De Lamar
mines, left for Chicago and New York
last Thursday on business.
j. s. Templin and C. E. Hudson re-
turned last night from Ogden, where they
have been on important mining business.
The owners of the Century and Lizzie
groups of claims, in Box Elder county,
are making arrangements to incorporate.
Colonel E. A. Wall came in from Mercur
! last night. The colonel is much pleased
with the developments being made in the
Brickyard property.
Manager ]. Schenck. of the Dalton and
Lark, was out to the lead mill, at
Bingham, yesterday, in company with the
insurance adjusters.
Hon. George w. Z. Dorsey returned
from Sunshine last night bringing with
him samples of ore from the new strike
in the Overland mine.
Jack Clawson, the well-known mining
operator. will leave today on a visit TO the
est of w. II. Dodge, of Park City.
William Hatfield, who is in from Tintic
states that the Swansea is showing from
three to four feet of solid ore in the bot
tom of the shaft. The South Swansea
has the engine and boiler in place for it's
new hoist.
Colonel H. G. Hebron is in from Bing-
ham with a shipment of cyanides from
the Spanish mill that carry. $50 to the
pound in gold. The lessees on the Niagara
% SHINING a of
good ore monthly.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil com
pany has half dozen or more experts
in the west picking up mining properties,
and that when it has secured all that it
desires TO, it will inaugurate a thorough
system of development on a large scale.
The contractors on the Sterling mine,
south of Sunshine have reached the go
foot level in the shaft, and are expected
in today to make a settlement. At this
depth the shaft was in the porphyry cap
ping of the vein, which is well miner
allied.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in mining circles over the fine showing
made of late in the Johannesburg mine,
on the west shore OF Utah lake. The shaft
on this property is down thirty feet and
drift is being run on ore that carries gold
values ranging from g to $3.50 ton.
Work is being pushed in the construction
of the Great Sioux working tunnel at
Mammoth. The Old Ajax tunnel forms the
opening for this tunnel, which is SxS feet
in the clear. When completed this enter
prise will give a working outlet for the
Sioux Consolidated mine, which is being
so ably managed by George H. Robinson.
In yesterdays Herald mention was made
of a large deposit of mica in Idaho. and it
was stated that there was but little, if
any known Lodges of this valuable COM
modify in Utah Since then, however, it
is learned that deposit of mica has
been discovered within twenty miles of
Salt Lake that will cut a foot square,
and that is entirely free from iron stain.
George st. Clair who, with his asso-
ciates. have been hard at work at the
Chloride Point NINE on Lion hill, for the
lotion shipment of ore from this property
yesterday that assayed 1928 ounces silver