The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-25

via England. The many friends of Mr..
Humphrey IN Utah will be pleased to
learn that he is strictly in the swim. -
Mining is still at a fever heat in
Colorado and last Wednesday no less
than twenty-three mining incorpora-
I ton papers were filed with the county
clerk of Arapahoe county.
/ 1t is estimated that the Rand min
ing district in South Africa will pro-
duce 100000 ounces in gold per month
this season. When our Johannesburg
Of America is more fully developed we
expect that this output will then be
discounted.
Sam King, the foreman of the Dag
mer mine, near Eureka, was in the city
yesterday on ais way to Missouri
where he has been called to attend the
sickbed of his sister. Sam is very en-
thusiastic concerning the Dagmer, and
says that it is in elegant shape.
w. F. Harbke is in from Skull Valley
with samples of high grade silver ore
in his grip Mr.. harbke and his part
ner. ]. W. Wilson, are located -four
miles from Tempest SPRINGS, where
they have located a group of four
claims. The ledge on this property is
four feet wide, and carries good values
at the surface.
| Big Barney Coleman, one of the best
known mining men in the west, is laid
UP under the care of DR.. Pinkerton at
the Holy Cross hospital with a piece
of steel in his left eye. He received
the injury in the Horn Silver mine one
week ago last Thursday, and his con-
! dftlon was SO far improved yesterday
that he was out on the streets for a
| few hours.
Con Driscoll and Captain Timothy
! Eagan are opening up a placer deposit
at the head of Carr Fork gulch, Bing.
ham. They have run an open cut q
distance of $50 feet and will now have
to tunnel about hundred feet more
before they cut the basin that they are
driving fo1. When they get into this
| they hope to take out gold nuggets by
the basketball. They have already
taken out coarse gold as large as peas
J. E. Jackson, agent for the Kansas
! City Smelling and Refining company
| informs The Herald that ores are now
coming IN more freely than has been
the case for the past month or So and
that Bingham is helping to swell the
increase. At present the demand for
sllicious ores is greater than the sup
ply, and until silver makes a gain this
| condition of affairs is likely to continue
for awhile. Mr. Jackson estimates that
! this year he will purchase about 81, O0C
tons of concentrates in the Occur
d'Alene country, Idaho. These concen-
trates will carry from 60 to SIS per
cent lead and from 40 to- 50 ounces in
silver to the ton.
Judge j. w. Burton and ]. C. Creigh-
ton, who own the William Penn, Fri
day and Gold Bug claims in Mercur,
which john the Rover on the west and
south, and which are located between
To o-1o
thinking of forming a company at an
| early day for their development. This
group is one of the best undeveloped
properties to be found near Mercur,
! and offers an excellent opportunity for
investors to get in on the ground floor.
In their deepest shaft assays Of 81 are
obtained at SO feet, and at least so
feet Of the shaft is in ore that goes
SO in gold to the ton. These claims are
squarely on the gold belt. and the
groupings on the group are large and
heavily mineralized.