The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-06
Mining votes and Persona1s.

|
about the 10th or 18th.
Colonel E. ]. Carter, has returned
from visit to his Montana cattle
ranch.
The lessees of the Brooklyn, at Bing-
ham, are running a tunnel to catch the
ore body.
man of Blackfoot, Idaho, is in the city
on business.
c. P. Bunker ard S. P. Mesick, of
San Francisco, Cal, were in the city
yesterday ON minin g business.
Isaac Brockbank,. president of the
Vanderbilt Mining company, is expect
ed home from HALEY, Ida, today.
! The Swansea dividend of cents a
share will be paid on the 18th. The
| transfer books will close on the 10th.
The Horn Silver Mining company
yesterday received seven cars of Horn
Silver ore and two cars sf Austin ore.
George Cameron has just made a
forty-ton shipment of good ore from
the Utah Queen mine, in Dry canyon,
Ophir district.
The board of directors of the Galena
and Utah Mining companies will meet
tomorrow and declare the regular
monthly dividends. $4,000 and $1,000,
payable on Sept. 10.
Frank N Briggs, manager Of the
Daily Record, of Victor, Colorado, one
of the lively towns embraced in the
great Cripple Greek district, is in Salt
Lake enjoying a vacation.
Hon. Allen G. Campbell returned yes
terday from his southern trip, and lit
is rumored that he has discovered a
new camp in Lincoln county, New, that
!, fe-a i'm, "a f11
The two lots of Four Aces ore, re-
ceived in the city yesterday, assayed
as follows: Lot No. 1, 1873 per cent.
lead, So ounces silver and so cents in
gold; No. 2, ~ per cent. lead, 81 ounces
silver and 81 in gold.
c. E. Angel, who is just in from Dry
canyon, Ophir district, states that this
famous old camp is beginning to get a
hustle on itself once again, and that
within another year it will be a heavy
and regular producer.
The surveyor general has ordered
patent surveys made on the City of
Edinburg lode, in Blue Ledge mining
district. Application made by David
Fisher through his attorney, T. G.
Bailey. v. P. Strange, surveyor.
DR.. H. j. Faust, the we'll known
mining man, is out for county commits
Democratic ticket. Doc is a. gentleman
of staying qualities and says that ne
would never issue bonds in times of
peace"
VIII Hatfield, superintendent of the
Swansea. mine, at Silver City, was in
the city yesterday on business. Mr..
Hatfield informs The Herald that the
Swansea is looking way up" and that
he is now getting the mine in shape SO
that work can be carried on on a larger
scale.
The quotation on lead yesterday af-
ternoon was $3.50; being an advance of
10 cents. The quotation made elsewhere
in these columns is based on the morn
ing transactions; SO that by Monday
the readers of The Herald may look for
a raise in the market.
Hon. r. C. Chambers, Hon. Richard
Macintosh, Charlie Reed and C. H.
Schue will go out to Mercur this morn
ing for the purpose of inspecting the
Hillside NINE adjoining the Mercur.
1t is expected that the lower tunnel
being driven on this property will break
into ore almost any day now.
William Walker and j. NJ Wood have
taken a lease and bond on the Copper
company lode, in Bingham, near the
Starlus and expect within a short time
to class this ground among the other
shippers OF the Old Reliable. There is
q 65-foot incline shaft ON this property
in the bottom of which is a good
showing of lead ore in an iron gangue.
F. W. Muhlenbruck, of Eureka, who
was in the city yesterday, states that
development work ON Godiva, mountain
is disclosing some great ore bodies.
Mr.. M. is interested in the Mayday
mine, adjoining the Humbug, in which
a magnificent strike has recently been
made, and he is confident that 1t is
only question OF time before the
Mayday tunnel will cut the same rich
ledge.
John Rhodin, the efficient superinten-
dent of the Creole mine, at Park
City, reports that he has just opened
up new and rich body Of ore in the
workings of this property. A shipment
of good ore had been taken out just
before the heavy slump in lead, but
it was decided to hold it until quota
tons should advance, and in the mean
time an additional force will be put
on SO that by the time the market has
resumed more buoyancy the property
will be in condition to make regular
Swansea said gentleman to
Herald representative yesterday,
should pay 10 cent dividends here
after, which it can easily do, as the
company is now shipping about car
load of ore day that brings from $500
to $500 a car The South Swansea will
be the next mine in that locality to
come to the front, as it has to sink
only about so feet more in order to
get down to the fine ore body on which
the Swansea is now working There |
are other mines near Silver City that
will soon be paying producers, and L
must say that that end OF Tintic dis
trict is strictly in it,"
The Mono mine. in Dry canyon, Ophir
district, was sold under execution a
few days ago to H. L. Driver, of this |
city, for the sum of $3.50. The Mono |
was at one time considered as one of |
the greatest producing mines in Utah. |
The ore was horn silver in Character. |
and so pure and rich that it could be |
Whitfield like lead, or stamped with a |
brand as easily as if it had been bullion |
instead of ore. The Mono has produced |
its thousands, or its millions, and is
still most valuable piece of property. |
The engine, steel cable and buildings /
are worth all Of $4,000 or So 900. and |
A;r. Driver got a snap when he bought
it in for $3.50.
Foreman Biddlecome, who has charge
If the Lawrence mine in Columbia min
ing district, Tooeie county, informs The
Herald that he has driven a hundred t
foot incline shaft on this property, and
that he is now working in a nice BODY
Of lead carbonates that carries values