The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-14

The Dexter Mining company, OF this
city, which is the owner OF valuable
gold properties at Tuscarora, Nevada,
has recently added more rich ground
to its already large holdings, and to-
day it can boast of having one of the
largest and best gold propositions in
the west.
A few days ago, as mentioned in The
Herald at the time. Colonel A. c. Ellis,
of the law firm Of Dixon & Ellis, de-
parted for San Francisco on important
business, which was nothing less than
the purchase of the Napyas and Cop
It's mines, adjoining the Dexter on the
east, for which a cash payment of
$4,000 was made.
Colonel Ellis returned home Monday
night, and when seen by a, Herald re-
porter, was in high spirits over the
success that had crowned his trip, and
also over the acquisition that had been
made by the company, as, according
to all accounts. these two mines, COM
prising 6O0xl, 500 feet of ground, are
as valuable in every way as the DeX-
ter, which is now one of the largest
gold producers in the state of Nevada.
Iaines had been incorporated upon by
ompanies bearing these names, and in
a years gone by they were both heavy
d producers of the precious metal and
U have over $780, coo TO their credit, a
large portion of which found its way
into the pockets of the stockholders
in the way OF dividends. The NapyaS
and the Coptis are n shape so that the
Dexter company can at once begin the
4 extraction Of ore from them, as the
lower workings of these mines show
III up large ore bodies that carry values
of from $40 a ton up into the thousands
in gold while the average values are
from $50 to $40, besides which there is
a large amount OF ore on the dump,
which viii either pay to ship or to mill,
and also a large tailings dump that will
pay well to work over by the cyanide
process, and as soon as the tailings at
the old Dexter mill have been treated
the plant viii be moved to the pit on
the Coptis ground and the values eX-
traced.
While in San Francisco Colonel Ellis
ordered additional machinery for the
Dexter mill by which the capacity Of
the plant viii be more than doubled.
The addition consists Of Two hincaid
mills with q greater capacity than the
two mills recently put in by the COM
pany. which are now working in a
most Satisfactorily IlduLt-, DIS Is dlSO
the cyanide plant at the old failing
pit.
On his way home, Colonel Ellis
stopped off al Tuscarora, and he was
more than pleased with the showing
made at the Dexter mine and mill and
also with the appearance of the ground
just acquired by purchase.
The Dexter mine" said the colonel
s'has paid from the day that we took
hold of il, and now the monthly re-
tpa-7S are handsome. Since the pur-
chase of the Dexter mine the company
has put in a mill and a cyanide plant
which have all been paid for from the
product of the property, besides which
the company has been enabled to pay
cash for the new ground Just pur-
chased by II; and the regular weekly
output Of the mine in the way OF
cyanides, gold bullion and crude ore is
something to boast of. but I do moi
care to make the exact figures public
c. NJ. Fuller, the superintendent ot
the mill and the cyanide plant, who
Is an old Salt Laker, is an efficient mil
man, and is giving us excellent salts.
faction. Since our company began ope.
radiors at Tuscarora there has beer
quite a stir in this old camp, and now
there is renewed activity Throughout
the district.
The Dexter mine, with its added
ground. which includes a stamp mil
and several buildings. is one of the bes
pieces OF property in Nevada, and from
Ill indications the company viii be il
a condition to pay dividends by tht
y first of the wear.