The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-10

Century Mining company, who has just
returned from a visit to the mine,
which is located in Box Elder county,
states that the foundations are in for
the mill being installed at the mine,
and that the bunk houses and other
buildings necessary for a successful
winters run have been erected, and
that everything is in good shape and in
apple-pie order for future work.
c. E. Loose of the Grand Central, at
Mammoth, was in the city yesterday
with another consignment of high
grade ore from this promising prop
erty, while another o-carload lot is
now on the dump ready to be loaded
into the cars. Parties who have recently
made an inspection of the Grand Cen
trail state that it is a wonder. and that
there are large bodies of high grade
mineral blocked out in its workings.
The Phoenix company, operating in
Bingham, is getting ready to pay it's
stockholders a Christmas dividend and,
consequently, regular shipments of
high grade ore are being made from
the mine, while it is stated that in the
lower workings of the property large
reserves of ore have been disclosed of
late, some of which is first class, while
the balance is a good milling PROPOSE
ton to test which about rs tons will
be run through the Rogers concentrator
this week.
The West Mountain Gold & Copper
Mining company, Which is developing
piece of property located almost in the
heart of Bingham, has rea-on to feel
encouraged, as, in the face of it's 20
foot tunnel, the formation indicates
that the works are in the casing of the
vein. The ground being operated by
the company is located across the
gulch from the Bingham postoffice, and
the mountain is so steep at this point
that in driving the tunnel a foot in
depth is gain for every foot that the
tunnel is pushed into the mountain.
Grand Valley Times: Charles H.
Stinson, formerly of Grand Haven,
Mich, an inventor of a placer machine,
has been for the past two weeks ex-
perimenting with his machine on the
Grand river above town in company
with W. w. Fox. Mr.. Fox says it is
the best and simplest contrivance he
has seen. Arrangements have been
made to build the machines here. Mr..
Stinson has spent the past Is years in
northern Canada and for the past two
years on the upper Yukon. He is not
very enthusiastic over life in that re-
gion.
Hon. John Beck of the Bullion-Beck
will leave for Eureka this morning for
the purpose of making a thorough in
spection of the mine in order to ascer-
tain the amount and grade of ore in
sight. Mr.. Beck will submit his report
to the board of directors of the COM
pany, which will this afternoon at
o'clock hold a meeting, and it is limited
that the result will be that the mine
will soon be started up again with a
full force of men, and that heavy and
regular ore shipments will be resumed.
A RI xyirA Of
feet that in the operation of the prop
erty of late the ore zones have held
their own in size while the metallic vail
ues are increasing.
Word was received in the city Tues
day night that the shaft in the Search
light, at Sunshine, had broken into ore
and yesterday morning Joe Obensder-
fer, one of the officers of the company,
went out to investigate into the merits
of the reported find. Mr.. Obensderfer
returned home last night and stated
that While the workings at the mine
were not in ore, still the formation was
heavily mineraliZed, indicating the near
presence of a chute of ore, which, in
appearance, was similar to the rock
taken from the Golden Gate at Mercur,
as 1t was strongly impregnated with
arsenic. AS it is, the indications are
very encouraging and the company is
quite hopeful of ultimate success.
Denver News: Colonel George W.
Cook of Denver has made an invest
ment in the Basin country, in Idaho,
and is preparing to spend a large sum
of money in developing some gold
properties there that give promise of
being very rich. Colonel Cook is at
Boise City. He went into the Basin
country with ]. F. Horner, manager of
the CrescentC atalpa, mines, at Lead
vile, and spent some time looking over
properties at Placerville The indica-
tons were so promising that Colonel
| Cook and Mr.. Horner took a bond and
lease upon a group of properties and
started development at once After
having made a careful examination of
the country, Colonel Cook predicted
that it would become a great quartz
mining region. He will sink two shafts
on the property he has secured, and
run tunnel this winter to explore the
property. He expects to find large
| body of milling ore, in which case he
will put in a large milling plant