The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-23
MERcUR MINING NOTES.
A Gist of Interesting Camp Floy
Notes From the Mercury.

| G1St OF Interesting camp FlOyu
Notes From the Mercury.
A party who visited the new strike
on the Gold Dust Wednesday, and
through curiosity had an assay on a
small piece of ore, secured returns
of SIS.
Captain Egan, who with Burton and
Creighton, is developing the Orc group,
has been in the district this week. 1t
is reported that there is an excellent
showing in the workings.
Ben Olsen of the Mercur Deep Min
ing company came in yesterday to
measure up the work on the last con-
| tract, pay the boys off and let an
other contract for furuher development.
The Wonder shaft has attained a
depth of 24O feet, and according to
the opinion of experts and those who
have made the formation a study, the
bottom will be in pay dirt within the
next LOO feet.
J. c. Wilcox will sink a shaft fifty
feet on the Eastern group of four
claims, owned by Timothy Morerty,
and survey the property for patent for
an interest.
The contractor on the Backyard
shaft has been making a pump this
is down between 240 and $50 feet, and
the bottom cannot be far from ore.
Henry Osterholt is laid off with a
manned hand. He was timbering in
a shaft when the timbers on which he
was standing gave way, and in at
tempting to save himself one of his
fingers was almost stripped of flesh and
several tendons cut. 1t will be some
time before he will again be able to
labor.
On the ground of the West Mercur
company the shaft is now down ninety
three feet and the company will pros
ecute the work steadily, as there are
sufficient funds in the treasury to put
it into the vein. The management is
confident that at a depth Of $50 feet
they will encounter, the ore, and that
it will be of milling value.
C. A Voght has purchased ]. c..
Jones' interest in the Charlie group of
claims, over near the Badger, and Sc
cured a bond on the other interest for
Chicago people. The purchasers will
at once commence the development of
the property.
Dr. Woodruff of the Northern Light
Mining company took party through
the property Monday, composed of
DR.. Norton and Messrs. Black and
Moore of the Union Pacific coal de-
partment, Rock Springs, and B. F. Red-
man of Salt Lake, who were astonish-
ed with the immense showing which
the mine is making. They were shown
through the great Golden Gate prop
erty Tuesday by superintendent Kis-
linghury.
D. L. Thomas was up from Fairfield
yesterday and reports that three shifts
will be put on today in the Bohn shaft,
and that it will be sunk, if it is neces-
sary to enlarge the shaft, and put in
another pump. Mr.. Thomas also says
that the company has encountered ar
tesion water at several points in the
valley. Their operations have resulted
in good times for Camp Floyd as the
people there are given the preference
in the work.
The Gold Dust strike, reported last
week, continues to improve, and the
vein proves to be strong and the ore is
of milling value. This strike proves up
large area of country, and is conse-
quently of great Importance to the
camp. The company operating the Gold
Dust is a strong one, and they will
undoubtedly develop it speedily and a
milling plant of large capacity will
quickly follow.
The Golden Bar group of four claims
adjoining Colonel Walls Cedar Hill
group on the north and the Northern
Light on the west, was sold this week
by Murphy and Preble to the West
Mercur company 1t is very prom
Using group and covers both the silver
vein and the gold vein, and the pur-
chasers expect to tap the big gold de-
posts in which the Northern Light is
now working. In the early days $4,000
worth of silver ore was shipped from
the Golden Bar group.