The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31
Mining Notes and Personals.

Victor Heil1es, assayer at the Sunshine
mine and mill, is Knutsford guest.
News, Price, Utah: NJ. K Parsons, the
cattle king, was in Price last Saturday,
looking to the shipping of some 600 head
of feed cattle to the east.
Independent, Springvilie, Utah: r. T..
Marshall. the erratic bohemian, has re-
turned, having spent the past week in the
mineral zone of Spanish Fork canyon. He
returns with valuable specimens OF ore
from some locations he has made. Mr..
n. Packard has been making assays that
indicate some rich properties.
Transcript Tooele. Utah: Prospecting
1 is booming on Look Out mountain, ore
taken from there having gone as high
as $13 in gold when assayed. AT present
there are about twenty tents there and
about forty men are prospecting the
mountain. We are informed that new
district is to be formed there some time
next week
Advocate, Richfield, Utah: Manager
John Menedue, of the Breckenridge mine,
was in the city a few days last week.
Work is progressing rapidly on the big
tunnel and everything seems TO appear
/ in good shape. a boom is coming to the
Gold Mountain district this year if pres
ent indications count for anything.
A regular water spout occurred in
American Fork canyon few days ago
and the road was washed out in several
places Repairs are now going on, how
! ever, and it will not be long before ore
shipments will commence. Samples from
the Wild Dutchman mine, on which as
say tests were made that showed values
of AZ per cent lead, thirty ounces silver
and so cents in gold to the ton.
Pyramid, Mt. Pleasant Utah: ]. H.
Erickson has received word from A A.
Cahoon bringing the most favorable report
concerning their mining property in San
Juan county. Mr. Erickson viii go down
in a few days with a civil engineer to de-
eide upon the best plan for mill. The
advent Of a railroad into that section
would develop one of the greatest gold
fields Utah has ever known.
Frank Hardness has returned from his
Mercur trip and expects to leave for the
west on Tuesday or Wednesday of this
week While in Mercur Mr.. Hardness
visited most of the principal mines of the
camp, and he says that Camp Floyd is
q wonderful mineral district. While there
he secured bonds on several choice groups
of claims, and before he returns from the
capital in the development of these prop
critics.
Superintendent John Rhodin, of the
Creole mine, at Park City, who is down
for the purpose of purchasing timbers
and mining supplies for this property, in
forms The Herald that this is the making
of a great producer and that the mine is
looking a l. Mr.. Rhodin is a successful
mine manager and has superintendent the
development of some of the best mines in
the state. He is now employing fourteen
men in opening up the Creole and is con-
fident that it will make an enviable re-
cord for itself this season.
The officers and stockholders of the
Illinois Mining company are feeling much
elated over the recent strike made in
their Bingham property. The Illinois
mine is located in main Bingham canyon
near the Old Jordan, and a good deal of
work has been done on this property with
more or less success. Recently, however,
sinking was begun in new place, and
what was supposed to be the footwaH of
the vein has turned out to be a body of
ore that assays $3.50 in gold TO the ton
at a depth of only three feet
Arthur O'Brien. a leading citizen of
Helena, Montana, is in the city on his
way home from visit east, where he
has been on business connected with the
perfecting of patents of his invention re-
lating to sanitary plumbing. Mr.. O'Brien