The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-18
Mining Notes and Personals.

Monroe Bush, one of Mercur's represen-
tat1ve citizens and a member of the Mer-
cur city council, is in Salt Lake on bust
ness.
Robert Boyle, miner working in the
High Ore mine at Butte, Montana was
so seriously hurt Thursday by a falling
rock that he died soon afterwards.
Denver capitalists have recently leased
the Keystone mine at De Lamar, Nev.
Ihey Will pay off the debts owed by the
property and develop the same in a
thorough manner.
Miner. Butte, Mont: The Mercur mine,
at Mercur, Utah, still continues to at
tract the attention of capitalists. At the
meeting few days ago a May dividend
of $4,000 was declared.
When the mines at Taylor, Nevada.
were in full operation there were 500 men
in that camp. Today there are two
men and about fifty empty buildings. The
decline in silver knocked the camp out
The Bullion-Paris mine at Ephraim is
showing up in a most encouraging man
ner and will soon be on the regular ship
ping list. The ore runs from 70 to SO per
cent. lead and a few ounces in silver.
Grading is now going on in the con-
struction of the road bed for the spur
from the depot at Mercur to the town,
and when completed passenger trains
will be run into the heart of the camp.
Judge G. j, Walker, of Mercur, who
was in the city yesterday, informs The
carry the bottom of the Golden Seals
shaft into ore. He also says that the
camp is looking exceedingly well and
that in the business line the outlook is
most encouraging.
E. n. Kestillo, of New York, who was
in the city yesterday, left last night for
the coast. Mr.Kestillo is one of Captain
]. R. De Lamar's representatives, and it
is believed that his visit here has some
thing to do with the building of the
Golden Gate mill at Mercur. Mr. Kestillo
expects to return to Salt Lake within a
week or two.
The West Mercur Gold Mining Milling
and Development company consummated
a deal last Saturday whereby it acquired
title to the Gold Bar group of claims in
Ophir canyon adjoining Colonel Walls
Cedar Hills group. The Gold Bar was
originally silver producer, and has pro-
duced in it's day over $4,000 in the white
metal. Like the mines on Lion Hill. this
property is underlaid with a deposit of
gold ore, which is now being developed
Democrat, Boise Ida.: Capitalists TAX
Crane and Remington, OF Salt Lake, will
sink one hundred feet on the Bankers
Alliance claim, half interest of which
is owned by H. Thompson. If it meets
their expectations they will accept an
interest in the property for the work done
and continue its development. The ledge
is between five and six feet wide at the
present depth of twenty-five feet The
SHAT lIlty are SlnhlIlS Is not on the ledge
but they expect to strike it at forty or
fifty feet. when they will run an incline
on the vein.
Judge Presley Denny of Beaver, is in
the city on his way home from a visit
to relatives and friends in Oregon. The
judge is taking home with him several of
the Chinese pheasants. now SO numerous
in some portions of Oregon, it being his
intention to introduce them into Beaver
county. This is a beautiful bird and
affords great sport for the nimrods of
Oregon during the hunting season Judge
Denny is interested in the December
mine in Lincoln district, Beaver county,
and informs The. Herald that soon after
his return home he will begin ore ship
ments from this property.
Avalanche, Silver City, Idaho: M. M.
Getchell has purchased Steve McElmeep S.
one-half interest in the Northern Light
claim on the north slope of War Eagle
mountain. S. T. N. Smith owns the
other half, and they will put couple of
men at work at once to prospect the