The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-29
Mining Notes and Personals.

The Hecla shaft, at MerCur, is again
flooded with water.
Work will soon be resumed on the
South Swansea in Tintic.
Dan Gurnsey is out taking in Mer-
cur, Eureka and Mammoth.
Another shipment of ore is expected
in from the Swansea next week.
The East Golden Gate is soon to be
listed with the Chicago exchange.
George z. Blair leaves this morning
for the Mercur Boy group, in Camp
Floyd district.
1t is reported that ore has been found
in the Fairview group. just northwest
of the Annie in Camp Floyd.
Dave Edwards of Ogden, who is
largely interested in the Grand Central
in Ogden, was in the city yesterday.
The Gold Dust shaft is now down
ninety feet in talcish ground, which is
believed to be the Gaping for the ore
body.
Ed Johnson, who deals in hats, is
nome again after making" all the
mining camps in Montana, Wyoming
and Utah.
A big strike of ore in virgin ground
is reported in upper Bingham canyon,
the face Of the tunnel being in ore in
front, above and below
The Pollock boys, Of this city, are
rejoicing over reports of a strike in the
Mountain Green lode, which joins the
Rover and Annapolis properties in
Mercur
Judge kentucky Smith, who was
conversant with Mercur ores, always
maintained that free gold would be
found in the high grade rock by using
powerful magnifying glass.
Franklin Farrell, G. H. Robinson,
William Mcintyre and Frank Peyton
are the officers of a new company
which is about to begin the erection of
an opera house at Mammoth, which is
to cost $1,000.
The stockholders meeting of the Lit
tie Pittsburg will be held on February
Ii, at which time it is highly probable
that an assessment will be levied on
the stock, or a certain amount of stock
replaced in the treasury for working
capital.
Work in the Annie mine, in Camp
Floyd district, is being pushed, and
drifts are being run west and south
from the bottom of the 210-foot shaft
in shale, which shows up occasional
punches Of rich ore.
Some good looking truck has Just
been brought down from the mines of
the Norway Iron company, in the
Hardscrabble country, and from all ap-
pearances it is a gold bearing quartz
that should assay well.
A deal is on tap whereby Kearns,
Keith ct al. of Park City may acquire
title to the Reindeer group of claims,
in Camp Floyd district, the property Of
j. NJ. Davis, 7. A. Wickersham and S.
B. Miner, but now under bond to E.
J. Raddatz.
Tim Driscoll of the Elko, left for
Camp Floyd yesterday. The shaft in
the Elko is now down 100 feet, and an
other contract for a hundred feet of
work is to be let at onse. 1t is expect
ed that the ore body will be tapped be-
tween the 200 and 800 foot levels.
w. E. Hubbar doing some tall
hustling this spring for Salt Lake, and
already his efforts are beginning to
bear fruit. as he has received word
from Dr. T. P. Crismon of Anaconda,
that it is his intention to remove his
family to this city, besides which five
other parties from Kansas City will
soon land in Zion looking for invest
ments.
Before the call of unlisted stocks yes
terday the question was raised whether
or not the brokers could deal in flu
lures, the caller Withholding his de-
cision until today. In nearly all ex-
changes the buying or selling for flu
ture delivery is one of the main fea-
lures of the call, and this class of
business can hardly be eliminated from
the floor of our exchange, as it is legit-
innate and in accordance with business
methods.
H. A. Cohen of Delamar New. dur
ing his recent trip east, stopped over
a few days in Colorado and acquired
an interest in paying Cripple Creek
properties. H. A. is a flyer on wheels,
and never takes hold of anything I'M
less it has a gold eagle tackled to it.
Mr.. Cohen says that the Delamar mill
at Delamar, New. which is under his
SUPPLEMENTARY will soon be increased
from so to 200 tons capacity.
The account of the new discoveries
of gold ore few miles west of Salt
Lake as given exclusively in yester-
days Herald, has created quite a stir
among mining men, and next Friday
a party COMPOSED of j. Strong and A.
Brownlow of st. Louis and Frank EIar-
ris, ]. K. Gillespie, George H. Leigh
ton and Mr.. Anderson of this city, I'M
der the guidance of Mr.. McCarrick,
will take run out there for the pur-
pose Of carefully examining the new
finds.
he w dlkOr mouse register was
adorned last night by the signatures OF
the recorders of three of the largest
mining districts in Utah, viz: c. III.
Blanchard, of Tintic; B. B. Quinn, of
West Mountain, and c. c. Higgins, of
Camp Floyd, who are in the city for
the purpose of doing what they can
in the way of securing a revision of the
district mining laws in the interests of
mining men. They report everything