The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-13
Mining Notes and Personals.


H. a. Jones of Line City is at the Gull
len.
Dan Ferguson came in yesterday from
the Dalton mine at Marysvale to attend
to some private business.
A car load of Sunbeam ore from Silver
City came in yesterday and will be sold
on the open market today.
Word was received from Mercur yes
terday that the Hecla shaft was down a
depth Of $50 feet. the formation in the
bottom being blue porphyry
Major j. E. Jackson, resident agent of
and Refining company, left for Helena,
Montana, last night on business for the
company. Mr.. Jackson expects to be abb
sent week or ten days.
A Mitchell Flour Gold Amalgamator
was sent to Milford yesterday for the pur-
pose OF treating the tailings of the old
Buckeye mill for the recovery OF the me-
tallic values it contains and also the
Toured quicksilver and amalgam that es-
capped the batteries.
Colorado Iron Works company, left Sat-
urday night for Phoebe and De Lamar
Nevada, on business for the company.
Before returning he will probably take in
Eureka and Silver City and come in on
the Southern Pacific.
Messrs. Pat Ryan and Pat Conley re-
turned Saturday night from a Esit to
the Golden Star mine on Gold mountain
Piute county. They were much pleased
with the showing made, and are con-
WINGED that it is the making of big
producer Of the precious metal.
The Pleasant Valley Coal company re-
ports that the season is opening up in
a most encouraging manner, and that the
demand for fuel is increasing. The COM
pany has over 1000 tons of lump coal
stored in this city, and is employing the
usual number of men at the mine
Martin Hardness. who many years ago,
was heavy operator in Little Cotton
wood properties, has returned to his old
love. and is now engaged in the develop
ment of the once famous Frederick mine,
which, from all accounts, is showing up
in most promising condition Mr.. Hark-
l..-... c... a.,w'u ron a - las. -alJ,.iav
after provisions and supplies, returning
yesterday morning.
A corps Of trusted employees of La
Fortuna Gold Mining ano Mining COM
pany came in Sunday evening in charge
of a bar of gold bullion aggregating So
600. 1t is the product of a thirty days
run of the twenty stamps at La For
tuna, and is next to the largest bar of
bullion ever brought to Yuma Wells,
Fargo & Co. took charge of the gold at
this point. La Fortuna is today the best
producing gold mine in the west, accord
ing to its stage of development-Y Yuma
Arizona. Times.
A. Mikesell was outfitting yesterday for
the purpose of resuming work on the
Aluminium group of claims in Dry can
yon, just east of the city. When Mr.
Mikesell first located these claims he
did so for the deposits of aluminium they
carried but upon doing some work upon
them he found that the ledge carried
good gold values. and now he is deter
mined to thoroughly develop the property,
as every indication goes to show the ex-
istence of large bodies of ere that can
be treated by the cyanide process.
J. Schencll. manager of the Dalton and
Lark Mining company, who was out to
Bingham last Sunday for the purpose of
examining the property, reports that the
fair price for silver and lead the mine
could keep up regular and heavy ore
shipments. but that as 1t is, the output of
the property is limited to what is being
taken out in doing development work
Mr. Schenck was very much pleased with
the Developments now going on in the
Brooklyn mine. one of the Dalton and
Lark group. On this ground a valuable
lind has recently been made on the sur
face. where in three different places from
one 10 two feet of fine carbonate ore have
been uncovered. a tunnel is now being
run in on the ledge to tap the ore body
in about twenty feet, and in its face
there is a two-foot body of good pay
ore. At 80 feet il is expected that the
tunnel Will attain a depth as stated
above.
e. E. Crooks, who was out to the North
turned home more pleased with the show
ing made IN this property, and one or
two OF his friends VINO accompanied him
were highly impressed by the magnificent
bodies Of ore exposed in the mine, In
speaking OF the work now going on in
the construction of the mill, Mr. Crooks
stated that at least thirty men were en-
ployed N making the excavation for the
foundation, and that within a short time
the edifce would soon begin to make
quite a showing. During the past week
an effort has been made TO increase the
water supply of what is known as Box
springs. which is owned by the COM
pany. The effort has been most success
full. and yesterday word was telephoned
in that the supply had been more than
doubled. and that now there was every
reason to believe that there would be
sufficient water for all milling purposes.
DR.. E. d. Woodruff, the manaFer of the
company, will go out to the Zine this
morning.
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