The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-09

and H. H. Sowles It lies at the head
! OF Mammoth hollow, and at right an
giles 10 and adjoining the old original
Mammoth lode location. P. c. Burke.
Frank Salisbury, Gus Howe and Hugh
Jameson afterwards secured interests
IN the property for work performed,
and all interests were transferred nearly
three years ago to the Ajax Mining
company, who purchased the Cham
plain No. and Champiain fraction for
S5z,OoO The ChamDlain is patented
ground, and forms a valued portion of
the Ajax Mining company's property.
The Paxman lode was located June
Z, 1880, by George A. Paxnaan and Sam
H. Nelson. The property is situated
north OF the Colorado Chief, and is re-
Sarded as one of the best properties
north of Eureka. 1t is Incorporated IN
der the name Of the Paxman Mining
company, and the control is owned by
l. z. Ritter. G. ". Wheeler and George
Paxn1an. There is a shaft on the prop
erty about $50 feet deep and very fav-
orable indications are shown
The Alabama lode was located Sept
Is, 1880, by A. ]. Hampton. The prop
erty adjoins the Northern Spy and the
company operating the latter property
discovered ore IN the Alabama and
took out considerable before the owner,
Hampton, discovered the fact An i'm
pending lawsuit was settled by The
purchase of the Alabama by the North
ern Spy Mining company, AMI thar
company at present owns the ground.
The Martha Washington No , was
located Jan. l. 1881, by George c. Scheil
and II. c. Haiaes This is a ralocs-
ton of the southern half of the orig
inal Martha Washington, and together
with the June Rose forms part Of ine
Martha Washington mine, of which
ne have already made extended notice
The Snowflake lode was located jan.
l, 1881, by William Hatfield. Samuel
Nelson and Peter Reedy. The property
lies south of the city Of Eureka. ana
has record of about 500, 600 IRE produc-
ton. It was Incorporated in 1892 ar
IS patented ground. Tt is az present
being worked under q contract and the
shaft is down 250 feet
The Jim Fisk lode was located March |
3, 1881, by w. W. Hinch and The Jim !
Blaine April 5, 1881. by Il. Sanhorri. J. |
". Roundy and Alexander Graham I
Both locations. adioined the Northern /
spy mine and are now part IF that (
property.
The iron Cloud lode was located May
%, 1881, by William Hatfield, Charles |
Field, Heber Field and George Kings I,
ley The property lies north OF Eu-
reka and has never made any record /
although it shows what is regarde as |
frst-class indications. 1t is chiefly re-
markable for the figure it cut in rela-
ticn to one OF Tint;c's famous mines. |
William Hatfield, one of the Cloud To- /
Gators, offered mis- interest in the prop
erty to John Beck for three months
lease on the Bullion Beck mine; this,
at a time when the Seek was regarded I
as played out" Beck accepted the
trade, and during the lease Mr.. Hatfield
took out out which netted him a clear
profit of $4,000. He wanted a continu-
alton Of the lease, but was refused 1t
is worthy of note that since Mr. Hat
fields lease the Bullon-Beck has been
q paying proposition. John
Beck is now the sole owner of the Iron
Cloud lode, which, however, is not a
producer.