The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-21
Mining Notes and Personals.


J. w Neill was in Bingham yester-
day.
The Ajax is producing about 100000
in ore monthly.
Manager ". H. Thomas of the Nj
agara at Bingham was out to the mine
yesterday.
George H. Williams, of Bullionville,
New. and F. NJ Hughey, of Marysvale,
are at the Cullen.
The Tempest mine, in Clay canyon,
owned by James Chapman ct al. is now
tied up by litigation.
Colonel e. g. Garter. secretary of
the East Golden Gate Mining compa-
ny, expects to leave for New York on
business tomorrow.
S. P. Moore, of Provo, president Of
the Peru Mining company, who own
the Peru ground, just north of Eureka,
was in the city yesterday.
1t was reported yesterday that ore
assaying $3.50 to the ton in gold had
been brought in from the Mercur King
mine, just east of Mercur.
c. M Miller, conductor on the
| Union Pacific road. reports the report
of strike of $40 ore in a claim in
the fiat just below the mouth of Clay
canyon.
1t is stated on good authority that
the new owners of the Winnamuck
mine, at Bingham, are contemplating
the erection of mill with a daily ca
pacity OF 200 tons.
The Mercur Mining company paid it's
sixteenth regular monthly dividend
yesterday, amounting to $4,000, which
now brings the total paid to the hand
some sum of 100000.
.o-4oLIo .o... $4,000 1,
in great demand with the irrigators of
the west. as already the rights. for
seven counties in Utah have been sold
and agencies have been established in
California, Idaho and Wyoming.
George Arthur Rice left yesterday
for the Sewer country to make an
examination of the Sewer mine The
new owners of this great property will
build a larger mill as soon as the snow
goes so that the machinery can be
hauled up to the mine.
The Herald solicits correspondence
from all the mining camps on mining
subjects. The mining interests Of Utah
are in the lead, and in order to keep
i these interests before the people, every
camp should send in its quota of min
| ing news Address The Herald Min
ing Department.
Captain D. B. Slower of Stockton,
who is in the city, informs The Her
aid that nearly every abIe-bodied man
| in that camp is out looking for gold
! He also says that it will not be long
now before the Honorine will be in
| the big ore body that it is sinking for,
! and that the East Argent is making
regular shipments.
The Clay Canyon Gold Mining com
! pany let a contract yesterday for the
running of an incline shaft 100 feet
| Two shifts will be employed in doing
| this work, and, as $4.19 rock has al
ready been encountered, it is believed
that when the contract is finished the
bottom of the shaft will have opened
up a good body of pay ore.
Charles Van Pelt, formerly of Racine
| Wisconsin, brother of Attorney Var
/ Pelt of this city, is now located il
1 Sunshine. He is engaged with forces
of men at the Sterling group, and als(
has charge of the work on the incline
/ for the Clay Canyon company. He
expects to have diamond drill a.
work in that locality next month.
The new Merco company, who have
/ locations nine miles across the val
ley southwest of Cedar Fort, received
assays yesterday from a 15-foot ledge
of ore on the property that went from
81 to SIS in gold to the ton. mar
was sent out yesterday to locate al
vacant ground, and development Worl
will be begun at once on the group.
Yesterday we stated that the value
of the average samples of ore taker
from the Northern Light mine. a
Ophfr, was S61,S4 It transpires, how
ever. that this was the value of tn,
silver, and that the $3.50 in gold hat
not been added to the silver, whicl
would have made the total value foo
up to S70.44.
Colonel H. c.. Heffron Oh the Magyar
Mining company informs Ths Heralt
that there is some talk of again start
ing up the Niagara teaching plant fo
the treatment of the oxidized ore
found in that property. which run
about three ounces in silver and $5. )
in gold to the ton. The colonel use
the Kendall cyanide process, and mad
q very successful run last summer
John Green and Jim Williams cam
in yesterday morning from Eardscrab
BILE, and they were two very sorr,
looking pilgrims, as for two days the.
have been struggling IN from FIVE t
ten feet of snow. During their absence
however. they located three groups O
claims, of five claims each, three mile
from the Morgan mine. They wen
out for George e. Blair and r. w
Sloan.
The Chicago mineral and .minin
board chronicled the sale of $3.50
shares of stock on the 18th; but in look
ing over the list we find that the high
est priced stock on the board does no
exceed 1914 cents, While the other nine