The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03

Mercur, Aug. 2.-Mr. Searles, of the
telluride company, is in Mercur, having
surveyed the line from the power plant
site, in Provo canyon. He will easily
complete this work and be ready t.
deliver the necessary amount of cleo
tricity at the Golden Gate by the time
/ specified. Dec. 1.
The mill and mine Will use 500 horse
power, and II motors will be put in the
various departments. All the hoists.
crushers. rolls and teamwork will be
driven by electricity. and about 400
nights will be required to light up the
mine and mill
The wire will be carried along the
north end of Utah lake, and will pass
close to the sugar factory There is a
PROBABILITY that this institution will be
run by the same motive power At.
Fairfield a substation will be estab
lished, and line carried from there
over TO Tintic
The highest point on the line to Mer-
cur viii be at the summit east of the
Golden Gate, and this is not subject to
rapid changes of temperature. and will
be easy of access, as it will be close to
the road No trouble is likely to occur
with the railroad company in Provo
canyon, as an amicable arrangement
has been arrived at.
The furnaces will be put in by the
H. +. Brown company of Chicago, the
senior member of the firm being the
inventor of the roasting furnace
The contract for enlarging the east
shaft will be let on Tuesday. The con-
tract calls for a shaft five feet ten
inches by II feet inside the timDers.
10 will u Go
there will be three compartments in the
SHAFT
Superintendent Mcvichie has COM
pleted his arrangements for putting the
mine in shape, and large force of men
will be put at work in a few davis.
In the mine all the ore viii come to |
the bottom of the main shaft, by gray
ity, as this is the lowest point in the /
mine. From the top of the shaft a |
tTamway will be constructed, along |
which the ore cars will be taken to the |
upper part of the mill.
The work of grading the millSite is
rapidly, and there are indi-
cations that the contractors will be
able 20 complete the work before their
time expires. A large force of masons
are at work putting in the foundation
walls.
Wick kaufman, one of the employees
1t the Sacramento mine. had a carload
# ore tip over on him last night. break
ng his right leg. He was taken to Salt
lake CITY today for treatment.
The Sacramento made its regular
emi-monthly shipment of cyanides to-
lay. The mine is in first-class condi-
ion and good work is being done there.
J. H. Conrad is inviting bids for sink
ng two shafts, 300 feet. One of these
S on the Double Standard. one of the
laims recently purchased from Jack
rev ON Lion Hill. The other is On the
group on the west dip,
orth Of Ophir canyon. There are IS
laims in the group, and they join the
Id Baltic. Considerable work was done
here last winter, and it now is pro-
osed to thoroughly develop the prop
-.G-
1t is probable that the Mignon. near
tanning, Will be taken hold of by east
m capitalists before many days. The
roperty is a very promising one, and =
ssays from S. to $3.50 have been OBJ
lined.
1t is said, by parties on the inside, Z
lat work on the Chloride Point mill I
ill be commenced within the next ten 1
avs. T
Two carloads of heavy timber two e
,rloads of brick and carload of ma
linery are being hauled from the de- t
ot by Jenkins 6 Smith to the Glad v
one mine, and the material is being
;ed up nearly as rapidly as it is be- t
e delivered d