The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-24

company has secured the order for a
100-horse-power boiler, with a steam
pressure of 125 pounds, from the Salt
Lake Ice company. This boiler will be
made to order and will be a daisy"
A contract will soon be let for the
sinking of 200 feet in the Dagmar shaft
at Eureka. Inquiries for Dagmar
stock still continue TO come in. and the
outlook for the property is most favor
able On the Free Coinage. on the
north, the shaft is now down forty
feet and work is progressing.
Captain Timothy Eagan left yester-
day for Salina for the purpose of in
specting some of his prospects in the
mountains east of that place The
captain took grip along with him,
and upon his return will probably have
it well filled with good-looking rock.
II. A Fyler will soon embark in the
mercantile business in Mercur, and his
40 X 100-foot store building viii be ready
for his opening about the middle OF
March. The structure will be fire
proof frame, and when completed will
be one of the best blocks in MercUr.
G. R. Potter, secretary of the Utah
| Onyx company, is in New York figur
/ ing on contracts for furnishing onyx
for the establishment of several large
I construction there. 1t is expected that
he will return home about March Is,
with several contracts in his pocket.
Sven Nelson of Fairview is in the
city on business. Mr.. Nelson is in
terested in big irrigation enterprise
in Sanpete county, in the construction
of which a mile and a half of tunnel
work viii have to be done. Mr.. Neil
son says that considerable prospecting
for coal is going on in the vicinity of
FairvieW.
H. Platt, manager and proprietor of
the Ogden Wooden Mills. was in Salt
Lake for a few hours yesterday. He
brought with him a sample of the
blankets that, under his direction, has
made the output of the Provo Deseret
and now the Ogden mills famous, and
| closed a large order for blankets with
one prominent local dry goods house.
Fount G.. Robertson, who has been
/ operating in the Deep Greek country
| for the past four years, came into Salt
1 Lake last evening from Ibapah, having
been four days on the road from Iba-
pah to Terminus Mr. Robertson de-
clined to talk on his propositions last
night, but from his actions and reti-
cence it was easy to see that there is
ga hen on
G. E. Mudd, of Cripple Creek, Colo,
is in the city. Mr.. Mudd has just nego-
tiated a sale of two Cripple Greek pro
perties in which he is interested, one of
which is the May-Be-So. on Globe hill
which sold for $4,000, and the other
the Crown Point, on Mineral hill, the
consideration for which was placed at
$500. He will leave for Colorado the
first of the week.
A two foot six inch body of high
grade ore has been cut in the Van
derbilt mine, at Haley, Idaho. The
Vanderbilt, which is largely owned by
Salt Lake people, was formerly known
as the Starr mine, and old Starr stock
holders can now get into the Wander
bilt by putting up % cents a share for
stock the same as the present stock
holders have done.
To show what merit there is in prin
ter's ink it is only necessary to say
that Fred ]. Leonard Of the Colder
Seals company yesterday received {
check and an order for 200 shares OF
Seals stock from San Francisco gen
tleman who said that he saw the no
tice of the incorporation of the Colder
Seals company in Sundays Herald
Comment is unnecessary. The shat
in the Seals group will be down 100 fee
by tomorrow.
w. E. Hubbard feee1s greatly elateC
over the outlook for the future as IA
as the realty business is concerned, anC
informs The Herald that a gentleman
living in Wheatland California, ha
written him that he intends removing
to Utah, and that he will also Undue
several of his Alabama friends to 10
cate in this city. Three families will
soon move into Zion from Montana. am
Mr.. Hubbard says that the inquiry 70
homes and building lots is on the in
crease.
a specimen of the ore in the vein o.
the Sweet William mine, in the Ere
Coinage district, to the northwest o
Grantsville, was yesterday laid along
side of a sample of ore of about tn
same size from the Geyser mine il
Camp Floyd. The only apparent diff
ference lay in the entire absence of an,
trace of cinnabar in the Free Coinag
rock. The assays on the latter run t