The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21
the South fork of Big Cottonwood. This
ground is located between the Reed and
Goodspeed and the Baby Mckee.

Ine south fork OF zig Cottonwood. This
Goodspeed and the Baby Mckee.
Times Review, Tuscarora, Nev.: S. U.
Watson. who is experimenting the con-
struction of the new Dexter mill, informs
us that two more weeks viii see the build
ing under cover, and from that time the
work will not be materially hammered BY
the inclemencies of the weather
1t was reported on the streets yesterday
afternoon that in the Snow Storm on the
west dip, Camp Floyd district ore had
been encountered at depth of about 14D
or Or. rs Il, feet The : Snow = Storm is owned
Mayne, and joins the Daisy on the south.
The Badger Mining company, of Bing-
ham, which has just received patent re-
ceiptS for it's group, viii begin active de-
yelopment within q short time. The
Badger has been quite q producer in its
day and the indications are that in due
time it will resume it's place on the ship
ping list.
The New York Engineering and Mining
Journal states that the Eureka Hill Min
ing company has just placed an order
with Fraser & Chalmers for 20 F'rues of
siX-foot pattern. This addition to the mill
VIII VIII MAKE ~ Vahners. All signs point to
this Iintic property continuing operating
as heretofore.
a Geyser- Marion stockholders, who has
just returned from Mercur where he
made careful examination of the mine,
states that the showing is so flattering
that he has decided TO hold on to his
shares in the company, no matter at
what figures thu stock may be handled at
on the local market.
! Generalization was in. good demand on
! the curb yesterday at $1.121s in the bid
ding. and it was rumored that another
strike had been made in the mine but
inquiry at the office failed to corroborate
the report, although it was learned that
there is good reason TO believe that the
ore being taken out of the new mill tun-
mel and milled was increasing in it's gold
contents.
Treasurer George Dern was busy yester-
day paying out the regular monthly divi-
| dend of the Mercur company, in conse-
Guence of which. and also the payment
| of the South Swansea dividend, cash cir
culated freely in the city in the afternoon.
1t is expected that the Geyser- Marion
company viii declare its regular monthly
dividend tomorrow of $4,000.
Word was received from Silver City yes
terdav that in the Treasure Hill mine,
| near that place, the drift had been run in
o nthe Vein for distance of so feet from
the crosS-cut tunnel. and that the face
of the workings was now quite heavily
mineralized. 1t is expected that within
80 days more the drift win be under the
! old WORKINGS, Where fine body of min
eral was found in the early days and that
at this point a large chute of mineral will
be encountered.
Rome Wheeler, one of the officers of the
South Swansea Mining company, was in
the city yesterday from Silver City. Mr.
| Wheeler, who is superintendent at the
mine. confirms all the good reports in
circulation regarding this property and he
states that the property is looking better
and better with development. The South
Swansea paid it's regular monthly div-
oend, No. s, yesterday of $500, making q
total OF $4,000 that the company has dis
tributed in dividends in less than a year.
Arch Miner is back from Mercur, where
he has completed the work of setting the
poles and stringing the wires for the
Mercur Electric Light company, and the
system is now all ready for the electric
fluid when it is brought into the camp.
Mr.. Miner reports that the district is in
most promising condition and that all
of the mines of the camp are looking we'll
He also states that the Golden Gate mill
Will be a mammoth structure and that
one can hardly conceive of it's magniff-
cent proportions without first seeing it.
The Milford Index, in speaking of the
recent discovery in the Burning Moscow
mine. in Shauntie district, mention of
which was made in these columns a few
days ago. says: A rich strike is reported
in the Burning Moscow in the South Star
district, the property of Messrs. Cullen
and Barrett. This is a lucky strike of
Mr.. Barretts years of toll. Although he
has been able to maintain his family for
years, he has been unable to unearth
anything very valuable until the recent
strike
Mt. Pleasant Pyramid: Hans Brown
and and the Gunderson brothers went over to
the Nebo country near Nephi Monday
morning to begin operations on a mining
property there owned by them. The mine
has been prospected at different times,
but not sufficient to give q definite lxnowl-
edge as to its value a shaft has been
sunk TO a depth of about 70 feet and as
says made at various depths average s.
per ton in gold. The owners have hopes
ola good thing when it is fully developed
and expect to push work rapidly until
satisfied as to what they have.
Times Review, .Tuscarora, New: Work
at the electric plant, across the valley is
building for the machinery has been
raised and a few wagon loads of slaves
Tor the big pipe are on the ground. The
ditch is finished, and the Workmen are
engaged in opening up the big spring and
putting in pipe to defect the flow to
the pipe. So far, the machinery has not
been received. but it is all in Elko, and
Will not be shipped until everything is in
readiness for its installation
Cyanide tests are being made in this
Guy on ore from the Robust mine at
Ely, New, and if it is found that the ore
works we'll by this process the property
which is owned by Mr. Chase, OF Salt
Lake is as good as sold to parties who
will at once put UP a mill on this prop
erty. The Robust is just across the gulch
from the famous old Johanna mine and
also in the near vicinity of the noted
Chairman, on which mil lis now in
course of erection. There is large
amount of ore in the Robust which will
assay $40 and over in gold and with a
mill on the ground that will effect a good
saving it would soon be on a dividend
paying basis.
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