The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-14
Mining Notes and Personals.


The Geyser will take it's place with
the listed stocks on the exchange
board tomorrow.
w. R. Busenbark, vice-president of
the East Golden Gate. leaves for Mer-
cur this morning.
James O'Brien, a Park City miner, is
in Zion taking in the stock exchange
and other sights
The shaft in the Pacific group, south
of the Sunshine, is now down 800 feet
in good looking lime.
The Taylor and Brunton sampler re
ceived two cars of ore from the Austin
mine at Austin. New, yesterday.
R. D. Mcdonald, the pioneer black
smith of Bingham, is in Salt Lake lay
| ing in additional stock for his business.
R. L. Graves, assayer for the Mer-
cur mill, who has been visiting in Salt
Lake, leaves for Manning this morn
ing.
Tom D. Pitt of Corinne, who is operat-
! ing the Corinne and other mines in
/ Camp Floyd, is back from a trip to
Mercur.
J. A. Clark, deputy sheriff of Lincoln
county, New, who also is largely inter
ested in mining matters, is visiting
friends in this city.
| Loren Morrison. the well known
Frisco miner. came in from that camp
last night for the purpose of making
arrangements for the sale of a shipment
of good ore from the Mountain
Queen mine, in Pruess mining district,
owned by himself and brother Charlie.
Mr.. Morrison says that Frisco is a
magnificent camp and abounds in vast
! Il Of T1yloi q IUd
| the quickening influences of capital
and labor to give UP its store of
wealth
The Centennial Eureka Mining COM
pany will pay its regular monthly divi-
dend tomorrow of 81 share, or 100000.
/ 1t is reported that the Malvern
| shaft, at a depth of 40 feet, has
tapped the upper crust of the Sunshine
! ore BODY.
Word was received from Mercur
yesterday that G. r. Boutwell, had sold
the Seals group of claims, the con-
sideration being $4,000.
The keystone mine in Pine Gulch,
West Mountain district, under lease
TO Hill. Motherwell and Knox, will
make another shipment of 100 tons of
good ore on the goth.
The Dalton and Lark is making reg
ular daily shipments of fifty tons of
concentrates. This Bingham bonanza
is a wonder. and the ore bodies there
are found with the big end down.
A NJ. Spooner, the grand mogul of
Mercur, who was in the city yesterday,
states that he is getting on finely with
his new building and that he expects
to have it finished within two weeks.
Jack Edwards, Pat Quesley and
Banker Kendall, of Rock Springs,
Wyo.. who own some claims on the
western slope in Camp Floyd district,
have just let contract for their de-
Velopment.
James Larsen is in from the Sewer
| country where he has a fine ledge
of coal three miles west of Elsinor.
He can trace the ledge for four miles
and claims that the coal is of excellent
quality.
Charlie Jacobs, manager of the Sum-
shine mine. is home again, after a
visit to this bonanza which he says
is looking extremely well. 1t was pay
day at the mine last Saturday and
the boys were all made happy.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the York Mining company, will be held
tomorrow at 10 a. m. at the office OF
George Sutherland. in the Hooper
block It is probable that the direc-
tors will soon declare dividend.
Doc Faust and Mat Cullen are max
ing arrangements for a prospecting
trip into Death valley. Doc will ship
his team and leave this morning, while
Mr. Cullen will leave tomorrow. They
will make their final start from Mil
ford.
Elias Johnson. a timberman en-
ployed by the Centennial Eureka Min
ing company, while putting in guides
in the shaft last Friday fell a distance
of nineteen feet and sustained injuries
in his back. which, however, were not
serious.
P. j. Carney, who is becoming heavily
interested in the mines of Camp Floy6
district, has opened up a mining bureau
in Mercur, and has fitted up handsome
offices. He will follow a general min
ing and brokerage business, and viii
engage in the buying, selling anG
manipulation of mines.
A. H. Mayne, who is in from Mercur
states that the camp is thriving anC
that it is no condensed milk youngster
also that the strike in the Hecla is al
right, and that this new discovery has
stiffened up the bone and sinew of the
camp wonderfully.
Reports come from Park City tha
the great Ontario mine is in excellen
shape and that in shaft No. 3 large
bodies of fine ore are blocked out from
the thousand foot level UP. The drair
tunnel is great success. and not {
pound of steam is used in pumping
1t is the general impression that the
Ontario will soon pay a dividend.