The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-10
Taz NORTHERN LIGHT MILL.
New Camp Springing Up on Lion
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Fill.
MERCUR, Oct 9.-At the Northern
Light everything is stir and hustle, for
the season is short and the sooner the
open air work is completed the better
for the company a road from the top
of the hill to the mill site has been. com
pleted in the last few days. Colonel
Moore has surveyed the mill site and
set the grade stakes, and the work of
level1ng has commenced, r. NJ. Lear be-
ing the contractor. The timbers for the
building viii be brought from Baker City,
oregon, and some of it is now on the
road. Mr.. White. who is in charge of that
part of the work, is on the ground, and
as soon as the timbers begin to ar
rive will commence the work of framing
Inc grading viii take, at the least, two
weeks. The materials viii come via
Mercur and from there will be freighted
10 Lon I'LL WI the hos r. oa,i-
agement it viii be almost impossible to
complete the work before January l.
The building of the mill at the North
ern Light will make some difference in
the population there, and a small town
will be the result Frank Boyle has just
finished the erection of a building to
be used as store, and is now busy erect
ing dwelling house. Within easy reach
are the miners on the different proper
yon. and it is proposed TO have a mail
service for the accommodation of the
new camp, which will no doubt be ac-
complished at an early date
Work on the Golden Gate extension
will be commenced at an early date, and
it is reported that the prospecting VIII
be done with a diamond drill.
Ben Johnson, formerly OF Mercur. but
now of State Line, has been paying his
old friends here d short visit. He has
some fine specimens of ore with him, and
is loud in his praises Of the camp. His
locations are on the gold belt and he
1~l+ Ia hos ff11- -
VIII fix him for life. He was quite i'm
patient to return ana dig out the for
tune he feels sure is hid q little distance
below the surface.
have been doing some contract work on
the Sacramento, left here this morning
for Deep Creek. The boys own some good
property adjoining Gold hill, and every
load that sells for $500 or $500. They ex-
pect to be gone about a month.
MI r., a j: White one OF the contractors
for mill at the Gold Dust.
Your correspondent was shown some
fine samples of ore today from the in
cline at the Bismarck. The Bismarck is
about half a mile from the Mercur MILL
going on for some time. The incline is
in about sixty feet. A well defined vein,
about two and one-half feet thick, con-
sisting of lime, black quartz and yellow
are assured that the assays show good
values the company decline to say any
thing more definite. Work on the prop
erty will be continued all winter.
A visit to Sunshine convinces the writer
that tina. prosperous camp is keeping
up its past record. While there is moth
ing specially new at the Sunshine mine,
they ere sta iucree sing the words
stock of gold at the old rate
The Sesrchlight is putting up new
twenty-horse power hoist with which to
continue their search for the yellow
metal. The Overland, Glencoe and Elm
wood are keeping the work going and
everything looks prosperous in the south
ern annex.