The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-13
Mining Notes and Personals.


d. c. Mclaughlin and W. v Rice
well-known Park City mining men, are
at the Knutsford
The Checkmate mine in Willow Creek
district, Idaho, has been sold to r. l..
Chaplin of Ogden, Utah, for S6'OOO cash.
1t is reported that the Cedric lode, in
the western foothills, Camp Floyd dis
iris. is showing UP in. excellent shape,
and that drift is being run from the
bottom of the shaft in good ore.
SUPERINTENDENT H. V. Carter, OF the
North Fork Placers, in Trinity county
cal. will leave for the diggings this
morning. and upon his arrival there
will begin work on a large scale, and a
most successful season is anticipated
F. l.. Clark was exhibiting ore sam
pies yesterday from a new discovery
in the West Mountains, twenty miles
south and a little west of this CITY
that assay certificates showed carried
values of SO in gold and $50 ounces
in silver.
General Manager George Kislingbury
of the East Golden Gate sent in word
by telephone yesterday that the new
hosting plant would be ready to start
tomorrow. when sinking would be re-
sumed with machine drills, driven by
compressed air.
Jack Bolton is in from Skull Valley.
bringing with him 500 pounds of good
looking ore from the strike in the prop
erty owned by the Skull Valley Cold
Mining and Milling company. Frank
Burmister, one of the directors OF the
company. came back with Mr. Bolton,
as also did ]. E Foote and John Rob-
erts. A mill run test on the ore will
be made today.
A telephone message was received
Yesterday from Sunshine stating that a
good body of ore had been opened in
fhe workings of the Ontario claim,
which lies just south of the Buckeye
group. 1t was also announced that an
important discovery had been made
lust west of the Ontario. and that
strikes were being made all around the
vicinity of the Ontario, Buckeye and
Badger properties.
L. c. Miller, president of the Official
Gold Mining company, recently incor-
porated, received some ore samples yes
terday from the company's property,
located a short distance west of the
Sunshine mine, in Camp Floyd district,
that showed assay values OF $2.40 in
gold to the ton. This ore was taken
from a depth of only about eight feet,
and for surface rock gave very encour-
aging results The company is sinking
a. shaft, and in this work is employing
three or four men.
Colonel Nick Treweek returned home
Wednesday night from a four days in
spection of the mineral wealth of Mer-
cur. and to a Herald representative
the colonel states that Mercur is a
"great camp" During his stay there
Mr.. Treweek went through the Mercur
and Golden Gate mines, and he says
they are magnificent properties. He
will return to the district within few
days and take in the Sunshine mine
and other portions of the camp.
W. T. Rives and James Covington,
who have been employed at the Gold
Dust. near Leesburg, Ida, came down
from the mine yesterday and report
that in the face of the forty-two-foot
drift being driven from the bottom of
the seventy-five-foot shaft, the vein
has been cross-cut from wall to wall,
a distance of seventy-two feet, in
which there is a twenty-foot body Of
pay ore. some of which is very rich,
showing free gold all through it. The
new mill for the Gold Dust is to go
in about May /.
The Sierra county, N, NJ, Ad-
vocate calls attention to a trick, not
uncommon in these days OF leasing, to
cover up an ore body or pocket while
the mine is in the hands of the noviti-
ate owner, report the mine as mo
good too low grade or played
out" and afterward get a lease on the
property. and stope out the ore which
was clandestinely hidden. This is US