The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-20
Mining Notes and Personals.
George Kislingbury, of the DeLama
mines, is in from Mercur.

George Kislingbury, of the DeLamar
mines, is in from Mercur.
Will Hatfield, through whose untiring
energy and good mining ability the
Swansea mine is today one of the most
promising properties in Tintic, is in the
city, and says that the stock of the com
pany is worth twice as much as is now
bid for 1t.
Bingham Bulletin; The Bulletin is in
formed that at the Lark mine during the
past two months crew averaging about
ten has broken down 10 tons Of ore per
day to the man. Some idea can be OBJ
tanned of the great body of ore in that
mine from this statement.
It is reported at Baker City, Ore, that
rich gravel mines have been discovered
at the mouth of Powder river, where
that stream flows into Snake river. 1t
is said that a man by the name of Shaw
is taking out $150 from every Wheelbar-
row load of dirt washed. The ground is
not spotted either, a large area prospect
ing with equal richness.
Keystone Ketchum, Ida: j. G. Forrest
er, of Eureka, Utah, arrived in Ketchum
Saturday under an engag cement from Sup
erintendent Towndrow to take charge of
formerly with the Bullion-Beck company,
and is said to be an experienced mill man.
The Independence mill will be started up
as soon as the weather will permit.
Western Mining World, Butee, Mont:
Carl j. Smith, VINO is representing Utah
in fruit lands and mining interests in
this city, has returned from trip to
Salt Lake and Mercur. He reports that
prosperity and plenty reigns in the land
of the Mormons. While there Mr.. Smith
added several valuable mining properties
to his list, and will no doubt be successful
in interesting Butte capital to develop
them.
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came over from the Custer camp the
forepart of this week. They reported that
both the Lucky Boy and Black mines
were showing finely in gold ores, but that
there is a scarcity of wood for the mills,
and that the Lucky Boy mill was shut
down On that account and would probably
remain so for time. Wood is also short
al the Black. Snow was about five feet
deep III Custer and seven to eight feet deep
on the mountains 1t is expected that the
Custer camp will be a lively one this
season, as will also Clayton and Bay
horse camps.
Western Mining World: Assayers are
too generally the butt of practical jokerS
in new mining camps. Many OF the old
timers will remember how the boys up in
Utah years ago got hold of a piece of a
Mormon's grindstone and worked 1T off
on the camp asSayer. The assayer made
it go $500 to the ton in silver, and he was
run orS of the camp. This is said to be
mons made their grindstones out of what
afterwards was known the world over as
Silver Reef. That cliff was a sand car
Donate and it eventually was discovered
to be wonderful deposit of silver ore.
But that was too late to help the poor
assayer who assayed the grindstone.
Considerable excitement was caused in
Great Falls this week. says an exchange
over the arrival of Scandinavian known
as Hing Elwing, with nearly $500 worth
of gold dust and nuggets. The man zeal
ously guarded the exact location where it
came from, but said that he and his part
ner had washed the gold out in about two
weeks time. 1t is known that all along
the Missouri river that gold is found more
or less, and the sands Of the river bed
contains the metal; nuggets have never
been found. 1t is evident to those who
know this ground along the river that
this gold came from the river bottom and
that Elwing and his partner have evident
ly found rich bar or pocket. The loca-
ton is thought to be about eight miles
from the town of Cascade on the Mis-
souri,. 1t is said that Elwing has suffi-
Gent confidence in the find to go east to
secure some machinery with which he be-
lieves he can work the deposits in a
more extensive manner. 9St