The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-21
Mining Notes and PersonuIs


y. "A. Pollock is expected home from
the east Saturday or Sunday next
j. H. Morrow, of the Colorado Iron
Works company of Denver is in the CITY
on business and pleasure combined.
me Mammoth Mining company yester-
day declared its regular monthly div4c ind
OF cents share, or $20,OO0 payable
September l.
T. L. Dlgnowfty has returned from his
Trip to Frisco, where he examined mining
claims in the vicinity of the Horn Sill
yer mine and in Copper gulch.
A. NJ; Grant, agent for the Colorado
iron Works company, OF Denver, has
returned from visit to Tinttc and Camp
Floyd, where he has been in the interest
OF the company.
Hon Tony WINS, of St. George, is in
Wins visited State Line district, and he
is much impressed with the future pos
sibilities of this new camp.
Hon. Orville L. Thompson Willard
connty's able representative, arrived in
the city yesterday from Scipio, bringing
With him samples of gold, silver and lead
ore from a new find in the mounta ms
five or six miles south OF Scipio Mr.
Thompson does not know what values
the ore contains, but he states that the
deposit is large one.
Mr.. j. w. Campbell, of Leadville, Colo,
VINO. in connection with George II. Rob-
inson opened up some OF the greatest
d,
has been appointed superintendent of the
Sunshine mine, in Camp Floyd district
Manager c. II. Jacobs, who returned
from Sunshine Wednesday night reports
that the mine and mill are running most
satisfactorily.
Regarding the strike in the Herschel
mine, at Mercur, concerning which con-
siderable has been said of late, The Her
aid is informed by President Theodore
Bruback that the report is utterly with
mn n hn of +l1es
company, which would be much pleased
if the runlors were true. AS it is, the
company expects to have to drive it's
tunnel at least 100 feet further before
the ledge is encountered
H. W. Horn, who has been operating
in Mercur for sometime past, has just
secured a lease and bond on the Nancy
Hanks mine, at Bingham, which has al
ready established a reputation as a pro-
Queer. There is a hundred-foot tunnel
on this property, near the face of which
a true fissure vein has been cut that
carries gold, silver and lead. 1t is Mr..
Horns intention to sink winze on this
ledge. and he will begin work as soon as
possible
w. C. Gregg. the wellknown mineral
ogist, returned yesterday from a trip
through White Pine, Elko and Lander
counties, Nevada, where, he says, the
mineral resources are truly wonderful
but that, unfortunately, an account of a
lack of railroad facilities, the country is
tU enty five years behind Utah In these
counties there are exhaustless deposits
of ore running from 20 ounces in silver
to the ton upwards into the hundreds,
but the 70 ounce ore cannot be handled
on account of high freight charges, and
only the very richest mineral can be
handled at a profit.
Work on the Caprice group of mines
four miles northwest of Frisco is pro-
crossing very satisfa ctorfly. The shaft
OH this property is now down 100 feet,
and wfim is being put in preparatory
to going down another hundred feet,
and from the 200 foot level the ledge will
be cut by a series of drifts. Already a
fair showing of copper, lead, silver and
gold lead has been obtained, and it is
believed that in this property the Horn
Silver ore zone will be encountered. The
Caprice is owned and is being developed
by Hon. T. P. Farnsworth, the Sharp
Bros. and Phil Bentz. the latter gentle
man being the obliging and efficient sta
ton agent on the Union Pacific at Frisco.
E. E. Crooks, stock broker, Al West
Second South street. Telephone 81