The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
Mining Notes and Personals.
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J. E. Bamberger left for New York
last night on mining and other bust
ness.
Captain H. c. Snyder is in from
Blue Bell district and, reports that con-
siderable work is going on there.
w. W. Chisholm, of the Centennial
Mining company, returned from Cali
fornia yesterday accompanied by Mr..
! Chisholm.
w. H. Burke, the popular travelling
agent of Keyser, Fisher & Co., of
Philadelphia, wool commission mer-
chants, was in the city yesterday.
George Kislingbury, superintendent
of the De Lamar Mercur mines, came
in ON last nights train. Mr.. Kisling-
bury says that Camp Floyd is all o K,
and will make a great showing this
summer.
Colonel S. T. Pearson, of the Sterling
Coal company, returned yesterday
from the mines. The proposed 2.100
foot tunnel is now in distance of
hundred feet and is being driven at the
rate Of seven and one-half feet day.
The Dalton & Lark started up its
Brooklyn mine at Bingham yesterday
Alre ady 100 tons of shipping ore have
been broken in this old producer, and
good. ore bodies have been uncovered
The Dalton & Lark received $50 tons
of ore yesterday.
H w. Naisbitt, jr., superintendent Of
the American mine, on Willard hill,
writes that the mine is looking well,
and that the long tunnel now being
driven viii soon cut the ore body. When
This connection is made this mine will
be on a paying basis.
C. c. Higgins, mining recorder of
Camp Floyd district, and editor of the
Mercur Mercury, is in the city Mr.
Higgins reports that a large amount of
work is going on all over the district,
and that the outlook for the camp
was never more promising.
Messrs. Lawson, Fox and Shelton
have made arrangements to drive
$50 foot tunnel on their Waterloo
groups of claims in Camp Floyd dis
trict near the Gladstone property.
Some little work has already been done
on this group and surface assays show
values of $3.50 in gold.
The Gold Belt group near the North
ern Light mine, on, Lion hill, shows up
a good face of ore in it's 65 foot tunnel,
samples of which, from an assay test,
show values of 80 cents gold and AZ
ounces silver, and $6.1S gold and So
ounces in silver to the ton.
The contract for thirty feet of work
in the property of the Skull Valley
Mining company was completed few
days; ago and yesterday the company
let another contract for an additional
thirty feet There is now thirty-five
feet of ore IN the shaft and the future
outlook is encouraging
The Eureka Wolf-Tone Mining COM
pany held a directors meeting last
Thursday and raised its capitalization
from 100000 to $1,000 The shaft on
this property is now down 100 feet, and
it is the intention to sink it to the 300
foot level, work on which is to begin
the first of next week.
Gill S. Peyton will leave this morning
for Mt Nebo with some Iowa gentle
men representing a number of families
living in that state who desire to
change their place of residence and if
the irrigation enterprise of Peyton and
Rognon meets with these gentlemen,
they will doubtless decide to locate
there.
The directors of the Annie Mining
company met yesterday and elected
board of directors as follows: A. D.
Cash, president; DR.. McCurtin, vice
president; H. F. Thomas, secretary;
Herman Martin, treasurer; S. A. King,
r. D. Swansey and F. e. Wood. j.
NJ. Davis was retained as superinten-
dent. The property of the company
continues to show improvement as
work progresses.
C. 1. Moon and c. Twftchell are feel
ing much elaIted over the fact that in
January last they located three claims