The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-20

Jim, was In the camp this week SHOW
ing a party over his group Of claims
| just above the Anchor. The group is
a valuable one and we would like to
! see it developed.
/ Work at the jigging plant of Kearns
i & Weber, who have a lease on the Sill
4 yer Kings second class dump, goes on
merrily, and the scene about the works
/ both night and day presents a lively
appearance. The ore being made shows
g very high average and looks just
as good as it samples.
The Park City people who hold a
/ lease and bond on the independence
! Tesora group of mining claims at Dia-
mond, Tintic district, took the initial
steps this week looking towards the
/ incorporation of the property. Some
i very good ore is now in sight and the
property has a promising future be-
fore it.
4 Superintendent James McGregor of
/ the Crescent was in the Park Wednes-
day and Thursday, and in company
with Secretary Cole paid a visit of in
spection to that property to look after
some timbering that is being done to
keep the mine in proper repair. Mr..
Cole says there is no news to give out
other than what the Record has accur-
/ ately given two or three times
Tom Clark has taken the interest of
F. j. Lake in the Alice claim, near the
mouth of Woodside canyon, and has
/ changed the method of working the
/ property. He is now sinking a shaft
near the mouth of the tunnel and has a
good showing of iron quartz that is
most encouraging. Mr.. Clark expects
to sink the shaft $50 feet deep and is
now down something like sixty feet
Fred Flindt, who is working over the
old May Flower Dump has his steam
jogging plant in operation and is en-
pioy1ng a force of six men. He has not
yet got everything in as good shape as
ne desires, but is making some fine ore
just the same. His greatest drawback
IS lack of good water, his only sup
ply being the muddy water coming
down from the Kearns & Weber plant
above, which he catches and settles in
large tanks before using.
We learn from the Phoebe Record
that James Stafford has made a COM
! plete success of his effort to handle the
tailings from the mill running on the
Old Timer ore, which property is being
operated by Messrs. Rice and Farrell
of Park City. The jigs proved so sue
cessful that carpenters are at work
building half dozen more machines
The same paper says the Old Timer ore
is proving of higher value than an
ticlpajted, all of which will be good
news to the many friends OF Messrs
Rice and Farrell.
The hosting machinery for the Nor
gan has been taken to the mine, but a
visit to the property Tuesday showed
that the work of preparing a founda-
ton for the same has not yet been in
augurated. Not a soul was to be seen
about the big new works when the
writer was there Tuesday. When the
machinery is placed, however, the
plant will be further addition TO the
districts enviable reputation for per-
feet hosting plants. The writer was
informed that the work of placing the
machinery would probably begin next
week.
The Putnam, being operated by
Colonel William M. Ferry, is greatly
troubled just at present with bad air,
so much so that one shift had to be laid
off last week, or rather refused to
work. There seems to be plenty of air,
but the big incline is so damp that the
powder smoke refuses to move out, but
clings to the timbeEs and concentrates
into deadly gas. The men that quit
were Frustrated several times before
they finally gave up. Two shifts, how
ever, are still at work and the big in
cline is down about 175 feet The prop
erty is well equipped, and were it not
for the bad air rapid progress would be
made.