The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-01
Mining Notes and Personals.

! merclal center.
Mining Notes and Personals.
Frank T. Davis. of Mercur, is in the
| city on an important mining deal. Mr.
/ Davis has great faith in the future OF
this great gold camp.
w. F. Mitchell, of Acme Flour Gold
amaleamator fame, is spending a few
! wee,-s on the Colorado river, where he
! has placer mining interests.
The Ontario Mining company has paid
It's regular dividend of $4,000 for January.
This brings the total paid by the company
IN dividends up TO the magnificent sum
of AS37c, 900.
Robert Walker, who spent Friday and
Saturday in an examination of properties
on the western slope, in Camp Floyd dis
trict, VIII have assays made today on ore
bror-ht in with him.
The Ontario mill shipment yesterday
was 20 bars, containing 161S9.57 ounces
nne silver The receipts at the sampler
yesterday were: Silver King, 15S $50
pounds; Daly-West, $3.50 pounds; Stafford
concentrates. 0,220 pounds.
F. NJ. Franks, the well-known Nevada
and Utah mining man, who spent the
greater portion of last season in Salt
Lake, is now in the new Randsburg gold
district in the Mojave desert, California,
near Death Valley. 1t is reported that
tie camp is having a wonderful boom.
The recent shipment of low grade ore
from the Swansea mine and the an
nouncement that has been made that
the company would pass its dividend this
the stock of the corporation, which has
been steadily falling in price during the
past few days.
Western Mining World: Several SLOGAN
mine superintendent have been of late
looking into the gasoline engines with
view of putting them in at their mines
Tor power purposes. a 12-horse-power
gasoline engine was recently received
Troy fNr- Go Dow
1t is said that several other mines will
soon be equipped with these engines.
Recorder. Salmon City, Ida: Don
Mcguire arrived from Utah on Monday
accompanied by an English expert sent
out from London by the Rothschilds to
examine the group of mines at Shoup
now under bond to his company. If this
deal is consummated it will mean the
opening of one of the largest mining en-
terprises in Idaho.
Butte Miner: The mill at the Hope
mine in Basin. with a capacity of $50
The mine is now in splendid condition and
has been brought to its present. good
shape under the personal supervision of
DIR. P. A. H. Franklin. A short time
ago the Hope Mining company secured
a bond on the Deer Lodge lode and has
struck a 10-foot ledge of ore that runs
from so to $40 in gold and silver.
George A. Emery, the Cripple Creek
mining operator, VINO recently OBTAINED a
bond and lease on Concord, Windsor and
Hurt groups of claims on the west dip,
and who is also president of the Chicago
Mercur Mining 6S Milling company, which
claims on East mountain. west of Utah
Lake, came in from Camp Floyd Satur-
day night. Mr.. Emery is well pleased
with the showing made on the properties.
which he represents.
Judge w. w. Wallace, of Richield, is
in the city. Judge Wallace recently be-
came the possessor of the Butler Beck
mine by sheriff's sale. The Butler-Beck
located on Gold mountain, and is con-
Sidered as one of the most promising
properties in that locality. In the various
workings of the different claims COM
prising the group some fine bodies of ore
have been uncovered. the gold and silver
values of which average over $50 to the
ton. while assorted lots run as high as
S129. There is n five-Stamp mill on the
Iactorily adapted to the treatment of the
ore. One of the objects of the judge S
visit to Salt Lake is to make arrange
ments for the successful operation of the
mine.
Now that the War Eagle mine is
finally disposed of to British capitalists,
says the Spokane Chronicle. the Canadian
papers are daily springing a new yarn
about the LIE Roi having passed out of
the hands of it's American owners. From
Toronto west to the coast there is not a
paper of any size that has not had the LIE
Roi sold in the past week. the price being
anywhere from 100000 to $1,000, co., The
which is near enough to
SPOKANE to know better, comes out this
weel. with a definite statement that the
lie Roi had passed into the hands of a
no truth in such statements as the LIE Roi
has not been sold. 1t may some day pass
into the hands of the Englishmen but
tl.a time has not yet come nor has the !
Ia wi mine hppn
offered.
William Morgan. more Familiarity |
known as Billy is in from State Line
district in Iron county, where he has been
pector of many years experience in this |
western country, and he states that al |
though he has been in nearly every min
ing camp in this inter-mOuntain region. |
vet. never before has he seen better sur
face indications than are shown in State |
Line and he further says that some OF /
the claimholderS there Will have wealth |
forced upon them with but little work, |
rs a number of the prospects are GER |
.ainly bonanZas in an embryotic state. |
Mr. Morgan brought in samples of ore |
which assayed 11.32 ounces in silver and |
1885, go in gold to the ton, while the other
gave values of 774.20 ounces silver and |
1.2e~in gold. With one or two mills IN
operation in the camp MI Morgan is
confident that it will develop into great !
producer.
When Thomas Edison began expert
nenting with electricity as a means of
extracting iron oxide from rock says an
exchange. Shiver ran through the |
spinal columns of iron mine owners. Then
he matter was forgotten and the public
heard nothing more about magnetic
operators until a few days ago when the
Jews came out that the method was not
)nly perfected, but that by 1t 1900 tons
If Bessemer steel were being turned out
very day at Edison, n. J. Mr.. Edison
las been developing his new discovery
luietly and now his smelling works and
heir appurtenant buildings cover many
.cres among the Jersey mountains. The
ock is blasted out of open quarries, 5000
ons at time, and carried by enormous
electric cranes to rollers which crush the
argest boulders as If they were lump
ugar. After passing through a series of
,ese rollers the fine rock falls past 700
magnets, which extracts the ore, send
ng it along to the furnaces almost free