The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-04
Mining Notes and Personals.

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nual meeting this morning and Will elect
officers who Will serve for the ensuing
year.
Signal. Weiser. Ida: 1t is reported that
| there will be over % gold saving ma
chimes operating on Snake river next
/ spring.
G B. Askew. who has been in Port
land for the past month. trying to in
terest capitalists in the Boise gold belt
is expected home tonight.
Charles Staley. the foreman at the
! Centennial Eureka. who has been with
! the company for number of years and
! is considered as most-trusted en-
pioyee, is in the city on u short vaca-
! ton.
AS an instance of the goodly sums that
! the mining companies distribute in the
Wy of wages to its employees the DAILY
! West. at Park City. is Il good example
I as this company paid out $50 1872 during
/ the year 1896 for labor alone.
Times. Albion, Ida: J.. G.. Hardy the
mining operator from Salt Lake. came in
on Wednesdays stage to look after the
and Black Pine. Extensive work will be
done upon the Alice during the coming
! season.
Censor. Richfeld, Utah: Tom Purge
son has returned from Salt Lake City
and having had some good assays from
Fairs mine northwest of the valley he
at once went out to see the location.
which will be valuable thing if as good
/ as is reported.
George kellogg. who has been operating.
in Mercur the past season with his pros
pecting drill, is in the city on business
Mr.. Kellogg speaks Observation-Disclosures
OF the future outlook Of Camp Floyd dis
trict and says that il will yet develop
into the greatest gold camp in the world.
Pioneer. Marysvale, Utah: Reuben and
Eone Dewitt nave begun work on the
Boulder claim with view of opening up
the property to q credtable showing The
no all ind NJ o.,
valuable property. and it is TO allow an
accurate idea of its true worth that the
work is being done
Tooele Transcript: The Silver King
mine is working a few men and il is
rumored that a large force viii be en-
Dloyed there in the near future. We
hope the rumor will prove correct The
king" is a well equipped mine. as TO
machinery, etc. and those who profess
to know say that there is lots of ore in
it yet
Tooele Transcript: r A. Dunshee of
Salt Lake, is just finishing a 100-foot
contract on the Humhug mine extension
in the Timpay canyon He told your
correspondent that he would put up ST.
600 in developing the mine if the other
owners would cover it. He is confident
about the property being good invest
ment.
Mining Journal. Grants Pass. Oregon
J. w Virtue has u me placer mine on
Harris Flat which he is rapidly develop
ing. Mr. virtue son IS superintendent
of the mine and is running big cut TO
strike a large body of blue gravel. Mr..
Virtue expects to bring on a ditch next
summer that will carry 5000 inches of
water. He also has interests in the
Applegate district.
Statesman. Boise. Ida: Senator-elect
George Coryeli of Custer county brings
reports of good mining properties IN the
Bayhorse mining district. The Ram $
Horn mine. owned by o. J. Salisbury OF
Salt Lake City. is said TO have over
S1.0OG.O0O of silver and lead in sight. The
present low price of these minerals pre-
vents paying work on the property.
It IS almost impossible for the average
man to conceive OF the vast amount of
workings that is required to open up
really large mines. and it is generally
considered that one or two miles of drifts
and tunnels in mine is something ex-
traordinary- The combined workings of
the Ontario and Daily mines. at Park
City. however. embrace so miles of tun-
nels shafts, drifts. wines and upraises,
whic. would be more than twice the
distance from this city to the Park
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