The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-05
LATEST FROM MERCUR.
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AT
THE GREAT GOLD CAMP.
Geyser- Marion-The Northern Light
-Searchlight Mine-Crown Point
The Great Eastern.

Mercur, April Am conversation
with superintendent Hines of the
Northern Light, your correspondent
learned that work on the Little Pitts
burg will be commenced inside of six
weeks. The work so far has not been
on the ore vein at all, but in most
cases below it. Money is now in the
treasury sufficient to drive tunnel
far enough to cut the ore vein and de-
termine whether the property is equal
to its near neighbor, the Chloride Point,
or not. There is every indication tha-
the property contains a very rich BODY
of ore and should it prove that the
prospectors who have examined the
property are right in their conclusions
there will be a rise in the value OF
stocks such as no other mine IN the
district has experienced.
The work on the Chesapeake is being
steadily prosecuted and every foot
shows up more encouragement for the
owners of the property. There is but
little doubt that the incline is approach
ing the great Lion Hill ore body, and
any shift may break into the vein.
The Gold Dust employs two shifts
in prosecuting the vein in the
incline The incline is now about 400
feet from the mouth to the lowest
workings 1t was at the latter point
where water was struck Few days
ago The stream was large enough
to fill four feet of the incline every day,
and it was found necessary to close the
incline tightly above the water to pre-
vent it rising and flooding them out.
They are now prosecuting the incline
and blocking out the ore. The site for
the drill is at the mouth of the incline
and only awaits the coming of spring.
1t will be of 200 tons capacity with 100
tons tanllage and the directors of the
company believe they have enough
water to supply their needs, which VIII
make a saving of several thousand dol
lars yearly They have large quanti-
ties of cinnabar ores and also some lit
tie arsenic.
The work at the Geyser- Marion is
going along nicely, a large force of
hands being employed, and according
to Superintendent Benner, every Shift
is showing UP greater values than be-
fore. In other words, while many have
supposed that most of the ore in the
big Hill'' was in sight the work is
showing that the ore bodies are as yet
scarcely touched.
For some time the Hecla has been
finding highly mineralized matter, and
it is reported that the morning shift
broke into ore of good quality. No
assays have been madey ct, but there
is reason 10 expect something WlpillH
the next few days.
A few days ago Mr.. Beauregard of
the Pacific, about a mile and a half
southwest of Sunshine, found a little
free gold. The grains were in some
cases as large as pin heads, and, al
though there was not a great deal of
it, it is causing considerable excitement,
and a great many of the claim owners
are looking for the yellow particles.
Matters at the Sunshine are not i'm
proving, no men being employed ex-
cept the Waterman.
The Searchlight seems to be an I'M
fortunate mine. Not long since Bid
dlecomb. the contractor, had a serious
fall, and yesterday a circumstance that
reads like fairy tale occurred. Tom
Steinway and Lew Nielsen were at
work in the bottom of the shaft, and
one of the workmen left his candle
burning near the top, and went down to
the blacksmith shop to sharpen tools. In
a short time the men in the shaft saw
fire above them, and the roar of the