The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-21
Mining Notes and Personals.

Mining Notes ana feFschdiS'
1t begins to look as if the old-time
Mercur excitement would be on again
in full force this winter
J. D. Kendall of the Centennial-Eu -
reka is in Chicago and Rockport Wis
iting relatives and friends
]. w. NeilI. the local manager of
the Tayler & Brunton sampling works,
is in Denver on important mining busl-
hess.
The Prospectors' Gold Mining COM
pany has a force of men at work In
the development of its Centervllle can
yon property.
John McCabe, formerly of this state
but now of Colorado, where he is IN
terested in mining, is in the city VS.
iting friends.
Gill S. Peyton has moved his ONCE
from the Atlas block to 46 East Sec
ond South. where he is now very con-
veniently located.
The Macintosh sampler yesterday
received IFS tons of Silver King ore,
three tons of Parsons ore and two tons
of Girard concentrates.
The Frisco Mining company hopes to
be able to announce the arrival or TWO
or three carloads of ore from its Bing-
ham mine within the next few days
John Lacon has returned from his
trip to the west, and he has some
interesting stories to relate concerning
placer properties out there lns winch
he is Interested.
Joe Bush. of Bingham fame, who has
been laid IN with an attack of la
grippe, is able to be out and around
again. and although he is slightly dis
figured, he is still in the ring.
W. E. Jermaine of the Bingham Cop
per company is out and around again
after being confined to his home for
several days with an attack or pneu-
monia, in consequence of which ne is
receiving the congratulations of his
friends.
Glenn R. Boutwell,, one of the own
ers of the Hecla mine, at Mercur, tel
ephoned in yesterday that punches of
arsenical ore were being encountered
in the Hecla drift. and that the out
look for the outcome of the property
was now more encouraging.
Work is being continued in the devel-
opment of the Gypsy Blair mine in
Day Fork, Big Cottonwood canyon,
but as the snow is getting deep in the
vicinity of the mine it is not expected
that any more ore shipments Will be
made until some time next spring.
Ca16ain T. NJ Bishop, the we'll known
assayer, yesterday received and sold
in She open market a lotion lot of ore
from junction, Ida. The mineral was a
fine carbonate and assayed 80 per cent
lead and 20 ounces in silver to the ton.
This consignment will soon be followed
by several others.
Hon. George w E. Dorsey is eX
pected to arrive in the city this morn
ing from his home in Nebraska The
major has been absent for sometime,
but it is stated that during his alb
he hos S11nCaSSf1Il
esting capital for investment in the
mining resources of this state.
w. w. Jacobs of Chicago, who is in
terested in the promotion of Utah in
dustrial and irrigation enterprises, is
in the city, and informs The Herald
that he regards the Mount Nebo irri-
cation project one of the best in this
western country, and he is now spend
ing some time in looking over its adj
vantages-
Statesman, Boise, Ida: The mining
exchange received yesterday three fine
SAMPLES of ore from the Pioneer mine
near Centervilie which assay S9S in
gold, Sc ounces in silver and Is per
cent lead. A large specimen was also
received from the TriX mine in the
Bodie district near Horse Shoe Bend,
which came from an S-foot ledge.
The officers of the Creole, at Park
City, are in receipt of a letter from
Superintendent John RhCdin stating
that the new working tunnel is nearly
down to the 300-foot level, and that
when this level is reached a drift will
be run for the vein. The bottom Of
the shaft is now in a good formation
that is full of stringerS of mineral.
Dr. G.. w. Shores and J. J. Thomas.
officers of the company, expect to take
a run up to the mine tomorrow.
United States Marshal Nat Brig
ham, who is interested in the new
camp in the Wah Wah range of noun
tains, concerning which there was
correspondence from Richfield in these
columns yesterday, informs The Her
aid that he had not been informed by.
his partners that a strike had been
made in the ground in which he was
Interested vet he was glad to hear of
it even in roundabout way. The new
camp. according to Mr.. Brigham, is
located about 20 miles northwest of
Frisco in Beaver county.
Lode, DeLamar, New: John Horton
was arrested and appeared before JUS
tice DeFriez today After the test
mony was in the judge bound the de-
fendant over to the grand jury under
a $500 bond. 1t appears that HoIeon
sold, and gave a deed to Pat Bonner /
for a fifth interest in the Reliance
mining csaim in the month of ADr;l
last, and did on the 5th Gay of this
month, deed the same interest in the
same mining claim to DeLamar's Ne
vada Gold Mining company.
L. M. Scott, one of the guards whose
duty it is to attend the De Lamar
bullion coach on it's tri-monthly trip
from De Lamar, New, to Milford, Utah,
was in the city yesterday, and al
though he is shy when approached for
news regarding the details of his bust
ness as to the transportation of gold
bullion from the mine to the railroad,
he was free to state that the camp of
De Lamar was in a most fiourishing
condition and that the outlook for the
district was most encouraging. Mr.
Scott is one of the best men on the
road and he is standing up well under
the strain of his position, which is not
the most pleasant occupation in the
world.
Tom Wooley was down Yesterday
from his prospect in Pennington can
yon, and states that there is every
reason TO believe that in time that por-
ton of the state will come TO the front
with it's producers of the precious met !
ais, and this belief is strengthened by |
the fact that in his own property in J
the face of a 20-foot tunnel, he has
uncovered a two-fOot vein of ore that |
looks as if it would carry we'll in sill |
Yer and copper, with little gold Mr.. /
Woolley's claim is located near the I
group owned by the Pennington Gold /
Mining company, most of the officers of /