The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-28


poets to be absent at least five months
A letrer from j. w. Searles, now op-
| Grating his gold mines in Arizona,
! states that he had the misfortune re-
! Gently of having an explosion at his
! mill, the boiler blowing out at both
! ends. He is now about in shape to be-
/ gin work again, and feels encouraged
1 over the fact that in working his mines
! the ore bodies are constantly increas-
! ing in size and value
/. Captain George Ryan was in from
i Eureka yesterday The captain is de-
| vcloping a group of mines in Dragon
! Hollow, near Silver City, and informs
The Herald that on the Eastern lode
! the face of the drift being run from
+! the bottom of the 2O0-foot shaft. This
| drift is being driven west and is now
/ in a distance of 135 feet.
A private letter from Elk states that
snow on old Badly is twelve feet deep,
three feet in town and nine feet in the
gulches Some days the trail is closed
for horses by the softening of the snow.
The miners are gathering in to be pre-
pared for the first rush of water for
use in the placers. There will be
plenty of work for while in the
spring A number of locations were
F. w. Rose, who is acquiring quite
an enviable reputation as a promoter
of mining enterprises left last night for
California, accompanied by Ogden and
Wyoming parties, the object of the
trip being to close up two big mining
deals affecting Mercur properties. Be
fore returning, Mr.. Rose will work up
and superintend an excursion of Cali
fornians to Mercur, and he expects to
land in the Johannesburg of Amer
ica'' with at least 200 capitalists and
mining investors Fred is all right and
knows how to cut ice.
The Cleveland World says: MIR.
Perry S. Heath has retired from the
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette and
will look after his stocks and brick
blocks. An Ohio journalist with stocks
and brick blocks is certainly to be con-
graduated. Mr.. Heath is a competent
newspaper man and his friends all over
Ohio will regret his leaving the ranks"
Mr.. Heath was in Salt Lake City in
1889 with Hon. George w. E. Dorsey
and party who were then touring the
great northwest. He is brainy gem
tleman, and genial, and if any news
paper man deserves the opportunity to
retire to look after his stocks and
brick blocks he does, although it is
rare thing for a journalist to get such
a chance.
J. B. French, N. e. Livingston and
Bert Martin have struck fine ore on
Deer creek, Idaho, in an old ledge
worked in early days. and known as
the New York. They have prospected
along the surface a distance of 1900
feet. and found gold all the way. They
sank three holes and in each found
ore that will run $100 a ton. The vein
is eighteen inches wide. The discovery
was made by Bert Martin. The rich
ore they struck is some distance from
the old works. A porphyry belt about
one hundred feet wide cuts across the
ledge in the old works, and the pre-
sumption is that the original owners of
the claim ran up against it, and not
understanding the freaks Of porphyry
belts, became discouraged and aband-
oned the claim without doing any
further prospecting. Livingston,
French and Martin expect to begin de-
velopment work on their new find in
about week.
Timothy Egan and ]. H. Paris are
back from visit to the Horseshoe
group of mines near Fairfield station,
or Central City, in Camp Floyd mining
district. The Horseshoe incline is now
down thirty-five feet, the bottom be-
ing six feet into a body of low grade
ore. Before returning to Salt Lake
Messrs. Egan and Paris let a contract
for another fifty feet of work in the
incline, and 1T is believed that when
this is finished the property will be in
milling ore and on a paying basis At
Goshen Pass these gentlemen are also
interested in the Johannesburg group
which is property of great promise,
as $12 ore has been found ON 1T almost
at the grass roots. Both the Horse
shoe and Johannesburg have been
stocked and Messrs. Egan and Paris
are president and vice president of
both properties. Mr.. Paris left yes
terday for the Bullion-Paris mine at
Ephraim with the intention of making
an ore shipment from this property at
an early day.
The Wasatch Consolidat ted Gold and
Copper Mining company, recently in |
corporated at Evanston, Wyo., but OPP
Grating in Mercur and Pennington
Utah, has issued the most attractive
prospectus that we have seen. There
is one thing about this company, how
ever that is more attractive than it's
prospectus, and that is the fact that it
is the owner of a most promising group |
of claims adjoining the Lion Hill bo- |
nanzas and the Utica and the Mark !
ham mines. This group is called the /
Gold Bug group, and at a depth of a
few feet shows twenty-foot ledge
that carries from 1852 ounces silver to
S6S ounces in silver to the ton, and
this ore zone can be traced distance
of 800 feet; while above it there is the
regular gold ledge of the district, from
which values of 1920 have been OBJ |
tanned at twenty feet. We understand
that the company is now shipping from
IFS silver deposit, and that it intends
doing some extensive work this sum-