The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-25
Mining Notes and PERSONALS

o. X. Young, one of the officers of the
Dalton Mining company, left for Marys-
vale yesterday for the purpose of making
an examination of the property.
The New York Mining and Engineering
journal announces that the Ontario Min
ing company will pay its usual. 1900
monthly dividend on the Both inst.
The Herald is informed that in the
Daisy, south of the Omaha mine in the
western foothills, Camp Floyd district
Dody or ore has been uncovered that
assays from IS to Sc in gold to the ton.
1t is reported that a strike of S35 free
gold ore has been made on the Jumbo
claim. at DeLamar, New. This valuable
property is held under bond by j. c.
Grffiths, J. R. DeLamar and Ralph
Nichols.
W. A. Spooner, the enterprising subject
of Queen Vic. who is interested in Inc
Creole mine at Park City, has returned
from his trip to England and it is his
intention to make a visit to the mine
the latter part of this week
Judge Henry Rives, DeLamar's western
attorney, will take a ran out to Mercur
this morning. The judge seems to have
considerable business in Mercur to attend
10 OF late, in consequence of which the
people of that camp are expecting that
something will drop" before great
while.
Messrs. Weaver and Johnson, the Ne
braska legal lights of whom mention was
made in these columns a few days ago,
have opened an Office in the Scott-Auer-
bach block. where they will engage in
the practice of their profession, and it is
ialty OF mining litigation.
j. w. Power left this morning for Dry
canyon, where he will let a contract for
the assessment work on the Ella. a
Bingham. After completing this business
ne will go to Mercur. where he will begin
work on the Aurora group and Superin-
tend the assessment work on the G. n.
r. group
Judging from the Mining and Metal
lurgical Journal of Los Angeles, Cal, c.
L. Dignowity of this city took a very
active part in the miners convention re-
Gently held in San Francisco, and in look
ing over the pages of the Journal it was
easy to see that Mr.. Dignowity was well
loaded with zeal and enterprise as far
as the mining industry in Utah was con-
cerned, as he limbered out his gatl1ng
guns and fired some hot shots concerning
the mines of this state.
Dave Teachenor. the we'll known min
ing man Of Bingham, who was in the
as one of the creditors of Bacon's bank
he was glad of the chance to take
Dalton and Lark stock at dollar share
in settlement for his account, and he
further says that he considers that the
Dalton and Lark is one of the greatest
properties in the west with its half
dozen or more big mines to draw from:
Mr. Teachenor is one of the best posted
miners in West Mountain district and mis-
estimation of the Dalton and Lark mines
is on a par with that of others that
have examined this property.
II have some interesting news to tell
YOU" said Ed Airs of the Mercur mine
to The Herald reporter yesterday. The
scribe thought that he was about to
learn of an important strike in the Mer-
cur mine and was interested accordingly.
book and pencil in hand. Why, said
Airs, 1.-THE wife of well known family
at Lander, Wyo.. has presented her nus
band with triplets, and what do you sup
pose they have named the kids?" That
is a hard question to answer" replied the
reporter. Perhaps they We're named
Mckinley, Hobart and Dorsey. NO.
said Mr. Airs, they were named Nc
Kinley, Hobart and Hanna. And, he
continued, 81 want you to put this in
the paper, as it is as good as mining
item. So here it is.
Councilman B. T. Lloyd, no is the
owner of the Gold Coin group of claims
in Camp Floyd mining district, has can
celled the bond on the property and
has just let contract for the performing
of development work on the group. the
contractors beginning work yesterday
The Gold Coin group is composed of IL
claims including three or four fractons,
of the Golden Seals. at Mercur. Consid-
cradle work has already been done on the
Gold Coin. and it is considered as one
of the best surface propositions in that
numbers have been obtained from top
rock ranging from $40 to s6.sl in gold to
the ton Mr. Lloyd expects to show up
what is in this ground and he is of the
opinion that it will not take him very
long to do So
Hal d. Brown, of the Suffer Creek Gold
Mining company, has just received let
ter from Manager j. A. Brent. who is
now at the company's properties in
Amador county California, in which Mr..
Brent states that he is Just letting a
contract for the sinking of zoo feet on the
quartz ledge owned by the company.
The shaft on this ground is now down a
depth of 80 feet and in the bottom the
rock assays $3.50 in free mill gold to the
ton On the same ledge mile and a
half from the Suffer Creek properties is
the Macmillan mine, which was sold a
short time ago to San Francisco capital
lists for $4,000 The purchasers are now
putting in a 40-stamp mill and making
arrangements for extensive operations.
Besides the quartz proposition the Suffer
Greek company is the owner of virgin
placer diggings which will be worked