The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-29
Mining Notes and Personals.

Preston Nuttar, one of the largest cat
tie buyers of the south, arrived in the
city last night.
The Horn Silver company yesterday
received seven cars of ore and seven
| cars of concentrates.
Manager George H. Robinson, of the
Sioux Consolidated. returned last night
from visit to the mine
Herschel seems to have good standing
abrc-d, as yesterday 10000 shares of this
stock was ordered by telegraph
George Kislingbery, superintendent of
the Golden Gate and East Golden Gate
mines, came in from Mercur last night.
c. F. Seyler of Chicago, is in the city,
and it is his intention to take a flyer in
Mercur properties if they come up to his
expectations.
A. NJ. Spooner will take another run
out to -Mercur today to look after his
many and varied building interests in this
rapidly growing camp.
Col. r. A. Hawkins has severed his
/ connection with the Utah Mining supply
store which institution will hereafter be
conducted by NJ. NJ. Johnson and Howard
Carpenter.
c. F. Hathaway. a well-known Chicago
capitalist, will arrive in the city today,
the object of his visit being to investi-
gate into the merits of mineral resources
of Mercur.
Mrs NJ. NJ. Johnson, the wife of Mr.
Johnson: of the Utah Mining Bureau,
arrived in the city yesterday from Hell
ena, Mont. Mr.. Johnson expects to make
Salt Lake his future home
The surveyor general has ordered sur
veys made as follows: No. 3,203, for the
aogg lode in West Mountain district.
Picnic lode in Tintic district. Application
made by E. H. Buchanan, A. Bierch,
surveyor.
1t was reported on the streets yester-
day that the Rothschilds, through their
st. Louis representatives, had pur
chased the Salt Lake copper plant, to
owned by the company.
H.. Eldridge of Boston. is in the city
in the interest of the Bradley pulver-
izers. These crushers are used at De-
Lamar's mill at DeLamar, Nev.. and
they will probably enter into the con-
struction of his new mill at Mercur.
The Telluride Power company, which
is now putting in an electrical power
plant on the Provo river, at Provo, eX
poets to start its plant within ninety
days. 1t is the intention of the company
TO furnish power for adjacent mining
camps.
James and John Sharp and F. w Jen-
nings feel considerably elated over I/:ent
discoveries made by them about ten miles
north of Frisco, where they made several
locations. from which they obtained sur
face rock going as high as $12 in gold
to the ton.
Prebe & Murphy expect to have their
Mercur completed by April 10. This will
be one of the finest buildings in the
camp H. A. Fyler, so we learn, has let
the contract for his Mercur store build
ing, which will be pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible.
Phil A. Turner has secured an option
on the Placerett group of twelve placer
claims, comprising 40 acres. situated on
Silver Creek, Lemhi county, Idaho, on
which he has about consummated a
sale. This gravel runs 81 to the yard in
placer gold, and as the deposit is three
feet deep, the estimated value of the
same runs up into the millions.
Captain H. c. Snyder expects to leave
the first of the week for Blue Bell min
ing district in Tooele county, for the
purpose of looking after the effects of
the late Judge w. S. Barbee, and also
him are properly recorded. Yesterday,
after reading The Herald, a. party was
organized for the purpose of prospect
ing in Blue Bell district.
We are informed that man named
Henry Heldt was aecidently killed in the
gone to get some blocking for timbers
TO put in on the 200 foot level, and met
his death. Other miners instituted a
search for him and found him under
small pile of dirt with large boulder
about 200 pounds weight on the back of
his head and neck. Heldt was about %
years of age unmarried Beaver Uton-
ian.
Tom Coe returned yesterday from
Omaha, where he has been with q ship
ment comprising fifteen carloads of cat
tie. He reports that the market was good
on feeders, but slow on beef cattle, and
that the "only way to make money now
on cattle was to buy fat stock out of
the yards and take them out into the
country and shrink them" Tom is coin
ing a good many mining phrases of late
and we should not be surprised to see
him launch out into the mining business
before long.
Hon. P. T. Farnsworth who recently
returned from an inspection of the Horn
Silver mine at Frisco, informs The Her.
aid that the mine is looking more than
usually well. as of late they have opened
up large bodies of good ore on the 900
foot level, on account of which this
magnificent property gives promise of
paying regular monthly dividends in the
on, and under Mr.. Farnsworth's super
vision large area of new ground is be-
ing opened up and a large amount of
prospecting is being done. Mr.. Farms
worth expects to resume work on the
Rob Roy mine, near Beaver at an early
day A large body of low grade gold ore
has been opened up in this property, and
during the season several test runs may
be made with the old mill.
Our reporter who wrote up the 40
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