The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-22
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turned from the Deep Creek country,
and report locating a, fine ledge, which
assays so ounces silver and 500 gold,
and it is putting it mildly to say that
they are feeling rich these days.
E. W. Prescott, cashier of the Stra-
Observation-Disclosures Commission COM
pany, of Chicago, is in the city, and
while here is posting himself on the
mining resources of Utah, and in do
ing this has made visit to the Mer-
cur mine, which he says is a wonder
Mr.. Prescott has also BEEN in Idaho,
and is loaded down with specimens of
ore from one of the bonanzas of that
state.
Bulletin. Hawthorne, New: John
Landers, Joseph Mallon and Joseph
Fisher are going to erect a new quartz
mill at Silver City to work custom ore
and ore from their own ground, the old
Mount Hope property. The mill will
be erected in the canyon opposite A
A Pollard's residence, and viii be
roller crushing mill. 1t will be run by
a fifteen horsepower gasolina engine
and will be able to reduce twenty tons
of ore per day.
Times, Moab, Utah: Thomas Daley,
who is developing his copper mining
properties in the Big Indian district,
came in for supplies this week Mr.
Daley, who for years was a. superin-
tendent on the Comstock, and VINO
superntended the Anaconda in Mon
tana, after the big fire in that property,
is very enthusiastic over the copper
prospect in the Big Indian district. He
has tunnel in now about 200 feet, and
is at present sinking on the vein
World, Idaho City, Idaho: Edward
Pierce has made several locations of
quartz claims on Big gulch, a short
distance below the Cold springs and
half a mile west of the stage road. He
/ has had several assays made, one of
which gave returns of $42O per ton.
The average of four assays was 1882
Mr.. Pierce has built an arastra, which
will commence crushing today. The
quartz is of a live, honey-combed char
acter and the gold free.
The work of placing the hydraulic
plant in working order at South Pass,
says the Rock Springs Miner, still CON
tinueS. -Messrs. Quealy and Edwards
were up Saturday from Rock Springs
and returned the same day. Whether
they left us for the purpose Of attend
ing to other and more pressing bust
ness or 10 escape the excitement Incl
dent to the coming boom is a mystery.
There is little doubt but what they
have big paying proposition in the
placer mines when once everything is
in working order.
Ogden Press: Don Mcguire says he
believes the Richter property in Ogden
/ canyon is a good proposition. He mas
assays from samples clear across the
! vein, which is ten feet wide, that
average S4.05 in gold and 1920 in sill
YER, while picked samples have run
as high as $500. Mr.. Mcguire says the
ore is easy free milling and would cost
/ only about $1.75 to work. The owners
| have sent a wagon load down to Salt
Lake for a thorough test. In the
meantime development work is going
right on.
]. S. Templin, who returned Satur-
day evening from Silver City, Tintic,
! informs The Herald that with his as
sociates, MeSsrs. Windsor and Hudson
and r. L. Colborn, he has acquired
title to the Stemwinder lode, on the
west side of Treasure mountain, near
Silver City. This property is most ia
vorably located, and shows a four-foot
vein of ore at the surface. Mr.. Temp
lin has let a contract for the sinking of
2OO-foot shaft on this ground, the
work to commence tomorrow, and from
all 1ndica tons this property will be-
come a producer at no distant day.
Ogden Press: President Smith and
c. w. Harte, of the Chieftian Mining
: company, have just returned from an
inspection of the scompany's property
near Sunshine, ina the Peepstone dis
! trict. They express themselves highly
pleased with the 9fshowing already
made. A contract was let for so feet
4 Of tunnel on the claim which is now IN
: thirty feet and is in vein matter which
shows much better values than were
obtained al twenty feet which assayed
! SO gold and IA ounces silver Another
contract viii be let on the completion
of the one now working.
E. D. Boyle and w. D. Tobey arrived
! in town last Wednesday, says the
Hawthorne New, Bulletin, and in
company with John Forbes visited the
Big Indian mine. Messrs. Forbes,
Boyle and Tohey are the owners of
this property. Mr. Boyle informs us
that the mine is looking very we'll AT
present the ledge is five feet wide and
the ore will average $25; near the hang
ing wall is streak of about eight
inches that will go 500. The present
lease runs until July, 1897, after which
the company will work the ground On
a large scale A mill in the ravine near
the North Star mine and a tramway
to the Big Indian are among the con-
templated improvements.
A dispatch from Caliente, Kern
county, California, says there is an in
tense excitement prevailing on Pluto
mountain over the recent discovery OF
! what may be one of the richest mines
in the United States. DERRICK, Bohten
one of the five brothers who owned
the renowned Bright Star mine, has
struck thirtyfour foot ledge of free
milling gold quartz which is con-
sidered to average $50 per ton the en-
tire width of the ledge and length OF
the claim. Free gold, so it is said, car
be seen sticking out of the quartz in
large-sized pieces and specimens Of
the quartz will run up in the thous-
ands. Even in the walls gold is OBJ.
tanned and shows to be good
Avalanche, Silver City, Idaho: The
Boonville has long been recognized as
one of the very best properties in
Owyhee but even the most enthusi.
astic were unprepared for the remark
ably rich Developments being made ev.
cry day at this property. The drift,
from the lower cross-cut BLACK Jack
has cut an immense chute of ore, the
vein being nearly ten feet in width Of
solid ore of high milling value, to say
nothing of a big streak of ore which
assays nearly $4,000 per ton No stop
ing is being done, yet the ore taker
out in running drifts has piled every
thing up and an ore blockade is tn
result. Work on the new mill is beins
pushed as rapidly as possible 1t viii
have a capacity of eighty tons per day
Tribune, CALDWELL IGaho: Distric
Clerk Dunbar spent Saturday and Sun
day examining and surveying his min
ing properties in the Willow Creek dis
trict. Surveyor Hedden accompanied
him. Mr.. Dunbar owns two very
promising properties, the Utah and tn.
Basque. The latter is the west exten
sion of the celebrated Checkmate
Through Mr.. Dunbar the Tribun