The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-25


ounces of silver.
Hon. Frank Harris, accompanied by
his brother, left last night for Silver
City for the purpose of inspecting the
Homestake mine.
j. c. Dugdn of the Phoenix mine, at
Bingham, left for Silver City this morn
ing for the purpose of inspecting some
valuable properties owned by MIN il
that locality.
]. w. Searles, accompanied by his
wife, has returned from an extended
visit east. After short stay in Salt
Lake Mr.. Searles will leave for Ariz-
ona, where he has valuable mining in
terests.
superintendent Tucker of the Ger
mania slmelter, who was in the city yes
terday, states that the plant is now
working about $50 tons of ore daily,
and that every stack at the smelter was
in full blast.
Word was received yesterday from
Mercur by telephone and also by tele-
graph that a very favorable change
had taken place in the Hecla mine, and
that from all indications the shaft in
this property would soon be in pay
ore.
H. w. Horne, who has a lease on
the Nancy Hanks mine, at Bingham.
expects to resume operations on the
property after the election. The Nancy
Hanks is a valuable piece of ground,
and in it's lower workings shows from
six to eight inches OF ore to go on.
Hon. Allen G. Campbell of the Brick
Consolidated Mining company, whose
property is located at Vanderbilt, Cal,
informs The Herald that the new hoist
and other machinery for this mine will
be in place within two weeks more,
and that then the mine and mill will be
started up for long and successful
run.
The 100 ton lot or Humbug ore thatwas
sold on the open market in this city
yesterday, assayed 35.5 per cent lead,
It's ounces silver and $40 in gold to the
ton. Two more carloads of rich Humbug
ore are now on the way to the Sanp-
lers, and it is reported that the owners
of the mine expect to make regular and
heavy shipments.
.'Sloans Handbook of Mines men
ton of which was made in these col
umns short time ago, seems to have
made a happy hit, as orders are now
pouring in for the publication from all
over the country, and from sea to
sea. Yesterday orders were received
lIOIn NdIlOIIlld anu dlSO lIOilt IhdlIlC.
This is one of the best works of this
kind that was ever published.
The Frisco Mining company, which is
the owner of very promising group
of claims in Bingham, has just COM
pleted the erection of a boarding house
at the mine and also ore bins and a
blacksmith shop. The company is now
employing force of eight men in the
development of it's property, which is
now showing up fine bodies of ore, and
in upraise No. 2 on the fourth level, the
men are working on a foot of solid
high-grade silver ore. The company
will not ship any more ore until after
the election.
Hints for Gold Reclamation by One
Who Knows" This is the title of
little pamphlet just issued by the own
ers OF the Little Wonder Gold Amalga-
mator, and the publication is devoted
to telling how this machine is adapted
to the saving and recovery of flour
gold. The prospectus of the Little
Wonder is embellished with an Illus
tration showing the machine lust as
it is which, in. the way of simplicity,
durability and practicability, needs but
to be seen to be fully appreciated. A
copy of the prospectus can be obtained
by calling on A. Mcclellan, jr., at SO
w est Second SOutn street.
r. w. Sloan, who has just returned
from Wyoming, where he has been
speaking in behalf of the silver cause,
informs The Herald that go miles be-
low Fort Steele, in that state, some
immense deposits of copper have been
discovered of late, which promise to de-
velop into the greatest producers of this
metal to be found in the west. Ore
from these deposits, after standing the
long wagon haul and then the railroad
charges to Chicago, nets s35 to the
ton, which proves the richness of the
ore. Mr.. Sloan also states that the
placer deposits of Wyoming are being
developed this year and that shis state
gives promise of developing into one
of the richest producers of the yellow
metal to be found in the west
w. l. Plumb of Mountain City, Ne
vada, and William Harris of Bruno,
Idaho, were in the city yesterday with
a trainload of cattle billed for the Chi
cago market. Mr.. Plumb is brother
in-law of A. NJ. Grant of this city, who
is the resident agent of the Colorado
Iron Works company, and also
brother of the late Senator Plumb of
Kansas. Besides being engaged in the
cattle business, Mr.. Plumb is inter-
ested in mining, especially in the Bull
MHSIt nt is
work in the development of the Murphy
group of claims. Mr.. Plumb is an old
Tuscarora, miner, and informs The Her.
aid that he we'll remembers the time
when the Dexter mine was first opened,
when, for II months, this property paid
$4,000 monthly in dividends, when the
Dexter Mining company was organized,
and even then, under bad management,
the mine paid big money. Now, how
ever, the property, under the manage
ment of the reconstructed company, is
making a splendid showing and is
bound to make money for it's Salt Lake
stockholders.
The man with a bonanza that he
wants to give away for a song, is again
in the land fishing for suckers; the lat
est one heard of being prospector
from one of the southern counties, who
approached one of our mining
operators with the story that he had
two-foot ledge of good shipping ore
besides % inches of nigh
grade ore, that, according to assays
made by an out-of-town assayer, car
ried II 900 ounces in silver to the ton
and $35 in gold, and he offered to give
the gentleman in question half of the
find if he would advance enough money
for the erection of a cabin and the
necessary DuiiuliSS SO tHdI lHe mine
could be worked this winter. The gem
tleman said that he would think the
matter over, and in the meanwhile he
took sample of the rock to one of our
well-known assayers, and when the
test was made it was found that the
said-to-be fabulously rich rock only
carried trace in silver and S1.5S in
gold to the ton. The mining operator
had almost made up his mind to go out
and look at the property, but he has
now changed his nllrnnse and will e-i,rn