The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

Mercur, Dec. S.-When ]. P. Soren
son began to locate claims at the
mouth of Lewiston canyon a year ago
many thought he was crazy, and some
have scarcely got over that feeling
yet. He and his friends hold some
the district, and he is in Mercur to-
day looking over the ground to sec
what is necessary to be done. When
asked what he thought of the west dig
he said: L located II claims there;
that ought to be proof that I believed
it was all right, and 1 have not yet
changed my opinion" The property
is held by Auerbach, Romney, Madsen
Dinwoodey, Wallace and others. Work
on the properties will be commenced
in few days.
G. C. Lee has taken contract to do
5000 worth of work on the Auerbach
group of six claims which lies west of
the Daisy. The work VIII consist OF
sinking a shaft to cut the vein found
in the Daisy which dips towards the
west.
shaft on the P. w. Madsen property,
which lies west Of the La Cigale and
below the Omaha.
Mr.. Sorenson will let a contract for
the assessment work on the Free Coin
age and the Legal Tender. Both of
these claims join the Sacramento and
are supposed to be on the apex OF the
Herschel.
Mr.. Cory is in Mercur making ar
re nrlY he
and Brooklyn. a bunk house, shaft
house. etc, will be erected at the
main shaft OF the Gladstone and the
tunnel will be run to catch the vein
which crops out on the hill a short
distance west of the shaft. There are
three well defined veins on the prop
erty and assays have shown gold at
east to strike the Mercur vein, but
there is evidence that Mr.. Cory will
be successful in his search for a gold
bearing zone.
On the Brooklyn, which lies north
of the Gladstone, tunnel will be
driven to explore the property. The
work will be in charge of James Hagin.
Jack Green came over from Ophir
today with some fine samples of ore
from his tunnel in the North Star,
which is located on Lion Hill. The ore
seems to be full of some mineral, but
of what character we will not say for
a few days, as it has been consigned
to one of the assayers in Salt lake
City.
The shaft at the Anderson is now
$50 feet deep and the work of sinking
is being pushed.
Castleman and Hunt have two men
at work sinking a shaft on the Sego
Lily, which joins the Daisy on the
east. The work has just been COM
menced, but the ground looks we'll. 1t
is expected that the ore vein will be
reached at a depth of about 25 feet.
Another conflict promises to be a
feature in mining circles in the west
dip. Sorenson located a number of
claims under the name of the Snow
storm" and did his location work
thereon. Later on another party 10
Gated the same claims and called the
group the Big Flat. Sorensen has let
a contract for doing $1,000 worth of
assessment work on the property, A.
H. Mayne being the contractor and
the consideration being one-third in
terest. AS Mr.. Mayne has the prop
erty under bond from the Big Flat
people it looks as if he would be able
to hold it under any condition. The
work will be done in exploring the
property and in sinking a shaft in the
most favorable place. Workmen are
busy on the property, and from its To-
cation the development work will re-
veal the hidden treasure before the as
sessment is worked out.
Hon. Thomas G. Merrill was in Mer-
cur today on business connected with
his mining interests. He is interested
in the Vanderbilt, where development
work has just been commenced. There
are five claims in the group which is
located between Colonel Wallis Cedar
Hill property and the Omaha. The
bunk house has been completed on
The ground and snug winter quarters
and the work of develop
nent is proceeding rapidly. The
claims are in a good locality and
values can be obtained on the surface.
It is the intention of the company to
winter and demonstrate just what it
contains. Mr.. Merrill is interested
also in the Minnie Lee and Lucia
claims which lie south of Lewiston
canyon and on which some work will
De done. He has some other property
North Of Ophir canyon. Mr.. Merrill
says he was always favorably i'm
surprised to learn of the strikes in
La Cigale, the Omaha and the Daisies. !
and he thinks the possibilities are that
more rich mines will be discovered on !
he west dip than are at present oper- I
ating in Mercur.
Work is. being done on the Cederic
group lying about a mile west of Sun 4
shine. a shaft has been sunk 100
eet in this ground and it has
cached the ore body and q drift has
oeen run 100 feet on the vein Samples /
# the ore have assayed as high as SIS. +
'ut the average CT the ore is yet too
ow Tor milling. With more develop
nent the boys think they will vet
each ore of sufficient value to war /
ant the erection of a mill.
The decision in the Song Birds and
Tough Knot case is causing some little
excitement among, locators. Many of
he claims are not described with re-
ard to any permanent Or natural OBJ
ect and in a number of cases this
will be rather difficult, as the bluffs
nd washes are not generally known
y particular names. There will
be but little jumping of
laims, as the locators will have a
God chance to amend their locations.
| number of new names, such as Dead
iorse gulch, and Coyote peak will
robably appear on future maps. of the
istrict and all trouble will be at an
nd.