The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-10

1t is reported that two big deals are
pending on MercUr properties.
w. s. Fugate will leave for Mercur
this morning on mining business
I'll. Dee, agent for the Sullivan Ma
chinery company of Chicago, IS at the
Walker house.
w. B. LawIer, the we'll known Ne
yada mining operator, is now IN Lon
don negotiating the sale of big min
ing property located in Oregon.
Work began at the ella Monster
mine on Sunday, and the ten-stamp
mill was again started to run perma-
nently.-Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona
Messrs. Preble and Murphy will be-
gin the construction this week OF a
two story 40x60 feet store and office
building in Mercur, just west of Spoon
ers new block
The mining excitement is still raging
east of town on Cedar bench. An Item
representative will visit that To-
cality next week and see what it
amounts to.-American Fork Item.
S. L. Radon of Park City, one of the
publishers of the Park City Record,
is a Cullen guest. Mr.. Radon speaks
in the highest terms Of the outlook for
Park City's mines, and is confident
that the camp will hold it's own with
any in the west.
A load of ore from the Brush creek
mines was shipped to the Sandy smelt-
erS this week for @ test of its value.
Good reports are coming in every week
from the mines, and when the snow is
gone it is predicted there will be con-
siderable activity shown in their de-
velopment.-Vernal Express.
George Hannahs, who has the con-
tyNra n+ fv.6, L TnII Frv.4 t,1
sinking of the shaft on the Brickyard
group at Mercur is in the city. The
first hundred feet contract Is finished
and the bottom of the shaft is in fos-
SLICED shale. Work on the second hun
dred feet will begin this week.
His many friends will be glad to
know that Albert Green has struck it
rich at Mercur. He has a number of
claims in the camp. and has refused a
handsome figure which he was recently
offered for one of them Albert has
been IN that camp for several months
and evidently staked his claims in the
right place.-Price Times.
There was a great deal of kicking
yesterday because Mercur could not be
reached by telephone. 1t seems that
on Sundays the Office at Mercur is
closed, which causes great inconveni-
ence, but we understand that there will
De change this week, when the new
central office will be opened under the
charge of Miss Carr of this city.
An authentic report comes from De-
troit that S. F. Mount, who has a bond
ana lease on the hex, has made a
Inagnlhcent strike in that property.
Ihe flnd was made in the lowest work
ingS OF that valuable mine, and if it
holdS out, as there is every reason ~
believe it WILL Detroit viii catch az
least one end of the boom that is so
rapidly swinging in toward Utah-Ne-
phi Blade
Hudson & Stombel have inst com.
pIeted their contract for 100 feet Of
smart on the Free Policy group. and
tne owners are so well pleased with the
showing made that another contract
VIII probably be let to the same mar
ties. The Free Policy consists Of .
group OF seven claims and is owned nv
LOUIS Bamberser, Louis SchweftzeT
James johnson, Mr. Fitzhugh and Ben
Hoge.-Sunshine Sun.
People here will be pleased to learn
OF the good luck of J. c. Hill, who left
Welser a couple of years ago for Boise
and surrounding mining country. He
recently traded his Relief mine at Neal
Tor residence property in Boise worth
$4,OOO. He has also just sold the Fri
day claim at Willow creek to Duluth
parties for $4,000 and was to receive
the first payment of $4,000 this week
Signal, Weiser, Idaho.
While Graham was excavatine rho
foundation for his bakery on a LOT mr.
chased of the Red Cloud, he ran info
a BODY Of ore that goes 81 in gold. And
now ne can get his money hack for the
lot too quick if he wants it. Of course
Graham only bought the surface. but
it isn't everywhere that a man can
run bakery on top of a gold mine
The bakery is just next door to the Sun
Sun.
Among our exchanges in Utah there
are none that are more able or sub
stantial than the Park Record, which
has just entered upon its seventeenth
year. The Record is an able exponent
of one Of the greatest mining camps in
the west, and its mining columns are
always reliable. With the remonetiza-
ton of silver the Record will be strict
ly in it once again, and The Herald
hopes that that day will speedily come
The richest piece of gold ore ever
seen in Globe was shown by John
Chambers on Tuesday, says the Silver
Belt. The specimen, about three and
a half inches long by two inches thick
is full of wire gold visible on every
side. Il value was estimated at several
thousand dollars to the ton In
gold. Mr.. Chambers was dumb as to
where the rock came from, but said IT
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