The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-08

and ex-newspaper man OF Deseret. Ia
in the city.
The mines of Bingham shipped 7,45i
tons of ore last week
The sale of a block of South Swansea
stock at $1.25 share is reported.
superintendent Marks of the BLACK
Dragon mine near Silver City, Tintic
was in the city yesterday.
A. w. Perego is in Cripple Creek.
Colorado. inspecting some mining prop
critics for eastern capitalists.
w. l. Higgins of Mereur. who is in
the city, expects to start for Cali
fornia within few days on mining
business.
Detroit mining district is receiving a
good deal of attention this season and
the properties there that are being de-
veloped are showing up we'll.
r. C. Lund of ST. George is a Gull
len guest. Mr.. Lund is Interested in
the scheme to rework the old dumps
and tailings at Silver Reef. and he is
confident that the enterprise will prove
a success.
c. C. Higgins, the recorder of Camp
Floyd mining district, who was re-elec-
ted Saturday to the office ne now holds.
is in the city. Mr.. Higgins is much
pleased upon being his own successor,
and says that the district has a most
promising future before it.
Sid Crismon, assayer at the Utah
and Galena mines, at Fish Springs, is
in the city being called home on ac-
count of the sickness of his little
daughter. The Utah and Galena are
now employing twelve six-horse teams
in hauling ore from the mines to the
railroad.
Milward correspondence Vernal Ex-
press: W. G.. Reynolds and party left
Thursday for their mine at the head
of Brush creek, with plenty of powder
and fuse this time One of the men
remarked to the reporter: I'VE will
have load of ore shipped this time
before we return" Good enough.
A. H. Mayne OF Mercur arrived in
the city last night, accompanied by
Messrs. E. II. Benson and John T.
Hopkins, who are identified with the
Gold Producing company, now operat-
ing in Camp Floyd district, and who
are also interested in the Valley View
group of claims in the same district.
Milward correspondence Vernal Ex-
press: A dea! in mining stocks was
consummated last week. Bob Reynolds
traded his cowboy outfit, consisting of
horse saddle, bride, rope, quirt etc,
to Billy Thomas for his interest in the
big Four" a claim joining the great
Victoria copper mine on Brush creek.
The mining fraternity in this city
and Mercur are greatly interested in
! the reported negotiations between an
English syndicate and Captain j. r.
DeLamar for the purchase of the Col
/ den Gate mine, as exclusively an
nounced in these columns, and the hope
! is frequently expressed that the deal
will be contaminated.
/ According to the Bingham Bulletin
/ Standish and Jimpson have opened up
/ a fine body of ore at grass roots on the
I Merrimac, lying between their Native
/ and Ruby claims, and on which they
have bond and lease. They began an
open cut Wednesday and the vein is
not yet fully exposed. The truck is
carbonated and heavy with lead.
Avalanche, Sioux City, Idaho: James
Inglis, mill foreman at the Black Jack,
was in town Wednesday and gave this
office a pleasant call He says that
the new six-foot Frue vanner is now in
operation at the mill. This machine,
! together with two new pans and a. new
settler, has added nearly one-fourth to
the capacity of the reduction works.
Thomas Killeen of Fremont, Neb.,
came in Saturday night from an in
spection of Camp Floyd district. Mr..
Killeen, John Dern and E. H. Airs are
the owners of one of the largest cattle
ranches in Nebraska, to stock which
they have just purchased 600 three
and four-year-old steers from B. F.
Saunders. The cattle will be shipped
from Juab on the 10th or 18th of this
month.
A gentleman Just in from Detroit
mining district says that work is be-
ing pushed in the driving of the hex
tunnel under the superintendency of s.
F. Mount. This tunnel is large one.
being 6xS feet in the clear. Three
shifts are employed in the work, and
about eighteen inches a day is being
made in hard lime. The tunnel is now
in about 325 feet and in about $50 or
100 feet more i will get under the old
workings of the mine.
Recorder, Salmon City, Idaho: E.
L. Whitmore, secretary of the Ameri-
can Developing and Mining company,
came in from Gibbonsville today with
four bars of bullion valued at about
$11, 900, representing a ten days run OF
the chlorinatlon plant The average
fineness of the chlorination bars is 1874
and the plate bars sos fine. Mr.. Whit
more reports the mine looking well.
large body of ore having been opened
up at the bottom of the shaft
Two Bingham men have struck it
rich after months of hard work, as.
according 10 the Bulletin. John Mel
son and partner, Bill Eckman. have
made a great strike in their lease on
the Old Telegraph, and are assured a
rich reward for their perseverance and
industry After nearly year OF bar
rem work they started a croSS-cut from
grass roots end in a few days ran into
the vein, tapping it about two weeks
: ago. In ter days, working three men,
. up to last Tuesday they had shipped