The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-13

puIpOStt OF examining the lily NINE
mine near that place, in which he has
recently secured a bond and lease. If
the property shows up according to
reports made concerning it, the cap
tain will at once begin work in its de-
YeIopment. The ore from this mine
carries gold, silver and copper.
Word was received from Mercur yes
terday that the shaft in the Tramway
claim, one of the Silver City group, was
down in good looking ground, and that
the rock had strongly mineralized ap-
pearance. The TramWay is down on
the fiat, in Johannesburg, just below
and adjoining the town of Mercur, and
from all Indications it will be found
that the Mercur gold belt extends way
down the canyon.
Parties who came in from Mercur
last night state that sinking has been
resumed on the Hecla, that the water
has been turned into the GeySer pipe
line, that the whim has arrived for
the Golden Seals that work is being
pushed on the East Golden Gate, that
good-looking stuff is being found in
the Tramway shaft in johannesburg.
that the Mercur is looming up bigger
and bigger every day and that the
camp is growing like Jacks beam
stalk in the night
A gentleman just in from Ashley
says that the officers at Fort Duchesne,
under pretence of hunting bear, go out
on snowshoes, and instead of looking
for bruin, thoroughly prospect the gold
lodges embraced in the Uintah reser-
walton, bringing back with them sam
pies of quartz that is fairly lousy with
gold 1T is intimated that they stand in
with the commission, and that as soon
as the reservation is opened the min
ions Of the government rather than cit
izens, will secure the most valuable
mineral lands therein.
Mayor L. Holbrook of Provo arrived
in the city this morning from Nam
moth, where he made an examination
of the Grand Central mine, on which
work is being pushed as rapidly as
possible. The shaft on this property
is now down $50 feet. At the 2OO-foot
station drift has been run 800 feet
east, the face of which is in ground
that looks very encouraging. From
the self=congratulatory appearance
maintained by Mr.. Holbrook we should
judge that he expected to receive good
news from the mine at almost any day
now
The latest from the Utica mine, near
Mercur, are of a. most encouraging ma
ture, as an ore body has been opened
that assays from $40 to $3.50 to the
ton in gold, and as the company's group
Cf nine claims adjoin the Gold Dust
and Eagle properties and the company
is out of debt. the future outlook for
the mine is certainly a promising one.
AT a recent meeting of the board of
directors of the Utica it was decided to
place another block of 10000 shares of
this stock on the market at the usual
price-25 cents share, and Herman
Hill was designated as the official bro
ker for the company.
Edward Dalton, one of the original
locators of the group of claims in Dry
canyon, just east of the city, feels
very sore over the attempt of P. w.
McCaffery and Dan Dunn to jump the
same. According to his statement the
claims were all properly staked, but
one, and he claims that the thirty days
in which he was privileged to stake and
record the claims had not expired when
McCaffery attempted to make his loca-
ton on the group. Mr.. Dalton says
tSiat McCaffery had the selling of the
group and that he betrayed the conf
dence reposed in him. which resulted
in an attempt to steal the property
and the arrest of Hessler for perjury,
and the end is not yet.
George Dern returned from Mercur
Tuesday night, bringing with him a
nice lot of ore samples from the Mer-'
cur mine. with which to adorn the
oomEany's office One of these is from
the new strike in the Resolute tunnel,
which shows a 12-foot face of ore, car
ries an ounce in gold to the ton. An
other sample from the bottom of the
Wine III the big Ruby incline tunnel
on the Mercur vein shows a value of
an ounce and a half in gold, while from
the new strike in the mill tunnel Mr..
Dern obtained beautiful samples of
cinnibar ore which always carries high
values. Besides this, he brought in
some of Maguire's green gemstones
from the Ruby tunnel and some lovely
pieces Of sulphuretted arsenic.
The owners of the hex NINE Messrs.
l.. Holbrook, S. F. Mount and Allen G..
Campbell, were busy yesterday getting
ready for the incorporation of the IbeX
group of mines in Detroit mining dis
trict and it is expected that the ar
ticles of incorporation will be filed to-
day under the title of the hex Gold
Mining company. In Mondays Herald
a description was given of the hex
property, which gives promise of de-
veloping into one of the greatest gold
and copper mines in the state. Men
ton was also made of several of the
most promising mines in that district,
and from all Indications that portion
of Utah will yet make brilliant rec
ord as a wealth producer In the for
nation of the Ibex company it is more
than likely that Mr.. Holbrook will be
named as president.