The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-27
and now everything is working smoothly

again.
Some good ore is being taken from the
Washington lode up City Creek canyon,
and Tuesday afternoon some of the rock
was brought down that assayed $1,000 in
in gold and ounces silver to the ton,
assayer Hodges making the test.
George Romney, jr. and Moses Taylor,
who were out to Mercur last Wednesday,
are to be seen on the streets of Zion once
again. The boys are better pleased with
Mercur than ever and say that it is des-
tined to develop into the greatest gold
producer in the world.
Supt. w. r. Dillon. of the Cold Dollar
mine, located in the foothills between the
two Cottonwoods. came down Tuesday
bringing with him some fine samples of
ore. In his opinion the tunnel in the
Gold Dollar property will soon cut the
main ledge, when the mine will come to
the front as a paying proposition.
Joe Bush. the unterrifed, who is in
from Bingham, informs The Herald that
in his mine, the Jenner, the Indications
are excellent, and that in the Pacific
foot and a half of good ore has recently
been struck, while the Antelope shows up
mountain of high-grade mineral.
w. G. B. Allen, though a quiet and I'M
assuming gentleman, IS a pusher and a
rustler, all the same, in proof of which
assertion we need only to state that
within the last sixty days he has nego-
tiated important deals which involved
the sale of 800, 900 shares of stock in some
of the leading mining companies of Camp
Floyd district.
a large number of the leading attor-
neys have passed upon the constitution
aity of the eight-hour law and pro-
nounce it unconstitutional. Among the
attorneys so deciding were Dickson, FL
lis & Ellis; Bennett. Howat Hardness &
Bradley, W. C. Hall, H. P. Henderson,
Rawlins & Critchlow; Williams, Van Colt
& Sutherland, and other eminent attor
neys. This law has also been held as I'M
constitutional in Colorado, Illinois Ne
braska, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chuSetts Arkansas and West Virginia.
The Dalton and Lark mining company
will start up it's Brooklyn mine today The
hoist has been put in order and another
producer will thus be added to the com
pany's cornucopia of paying mines. Inc
lead NH is being run on keystone ore,
which is turning out two carloads of
daily. Another shipment OF
crude ore will be made today, and from
all indications the company will soon be
in readiness to declare its regular month
ly dividend. Twelve hundred shares OF
d. and l.. treasury stock found a purch-
aser yesterday at fifty cents a share.
The Union Pacific railroad officials who
visited Mercur Tuesday were more than
pleased with what they saw there, and
came back to the city greatly impressed
with the great mineral wealth of Camp
Floyd district. During their stay there
they visited several portions of the dis
trict, including the western foothills,
where they made an examination Of the
Badger and Lillian Russell claims bring
ing samples in with them from these
One of the officials stated to
a Herald representative that Camp Floyd
had a most excellent name among the
people of the east, and that it was to
be hoped that the camp would maintain
this excellent reputation by a conserva-
tive a=,d truthful course, as Cripple Creek,
in Colorado, was now feeling the evil
effects of exaggerations and misstate-
ments regarding it's merits