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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25

Dubuque. Ia. May 24-The whole
sale grocers of Iowa who have been
caught on the short side of tea. have
sent a delegation to Washington to
see what Senator Allison can do for
them. Before the tariff of 10 cents a.
pound on tea was publicly suggested
by the senate committee, these gro
GERS sold for future delivery in such
quantities that one Chicago firm stands
to lose 500, 900 if compelled to furnish
taxed tea, and Iowa business houses
will also lose heavily.
The importers have discounted the
future and have sold their stocks at a
liberal advance on former prices. One
Chicago and New York house is re-
ported to have cleaned up $3.50 900, and
other importers are supposed to have
done equally well. The>grocers tried to
cover, with the result that the demand
for immediate shipment raised prices
in Japan AZ cents Some of the gro
GERS, rather than stand this, decided
to countermand their orders and take
their chances on securing q. modifica-
ton Of the tariff bill.
The delegation sent to Washington
was appointed at a conference in Chi
cago last week, and is headed by F. A
Hancock of Dubuque. They will ask
that the tariff bill be amended to pro-
vide for a rebate of the tax on all tea
imported to fill orders taken before the
senate bill was reported.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25

been formed in Salt Lake for the DUR
pose of handling the amalgamator and,
now that the news from Mr.. Mcclellan
is of such a satisfactory nature, it is
the intention of the company TO push
tine machine and make arrangements
for their installation behind the bat
teries OF stamp mills all over the west.
While the Little Wonder Amalga-
mator differs in its construction from
nearly every other gold saver, it is
simple in its construction, and mining
men who have seen il were very IA
vorably impressed with us merits: and
row that il mas been proved that il is
a complete success in the cheap and eff
fective recovery of the yellow metal,
there is reason 10 believe that it VIII
attract q great deal of attention in min
ing circles and that many of them Will
come into use this season in the placer
digginss of the wese. and that they will
be generally utilized behind gold mills
all over the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Mining Notes and Personals.

Montana 5 output of the precious metals
for the year 1896 was over S50.090. 900.
Manager John Dern.. of the Mercur,
went out to the mine and mill yesterday.
Dr. Z. D. Woodruff, of the Northern
Light. expects to go out to the mine this
morning.
]. Eaton Hendrie. the special agent OF
the Royal Exchange Assurance company,
was in the city yesterday.
1t VIII not be long now before active
operations will begin in the working OF
the mines of Little Cottonwood canyon.
A car of good gold ore from the Dexter
mine vas shipped from Elko Yesterday
and will arrive in Salt Lake today or to-
morrow.
Sacramento stock was in good demand
on the curb yesterday afternoon at 20
cents. while sales of Northern Light were
reported at 81.
The directors of the Malvern Mining
company held q meeting YESTERDAY and
made arrangements 10 obtain patents on
their Sunshine property.
Leadville is greatly excited over the dis
Govern of 2 third contact vein in the
Basin properties, and it is believed that
this great camp has a new lease on life
Allan P. Senior is interested in valuable
gold properties in Mohave county. Ari-
IONA, and it is his intention to make that
region visit within the next few
months
The directors of the Utah Mining COM
pany held meeting yesterday to consider
the question OF a hoist for the mine.
Nothing was done, however, and the
meeting adjourned TO meet again today
c. II. Wilbur is back from the Golden
Eagle mine. in Central district. Nevada.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
M'KELLAR's LITTLE WONDER.
The Gold Amalgamator Working
Very Satisfactorily

Word was received Saturday night
from Angus Mcclellan, the inventor and
patentee of the Little Wonder Gold
Amaleanaator. that the experimental
runs just made with this machine have
been eminently satisfactory.
Mr.. Mcclellan is now located IN what
is known as the Dry Wash, in the
Henry mountains, so miles south of
Green river station, where his amalga-
mator has been in operation for the
past week, and in his letter he states
that the machine has performed ali
that he claimed for it. and that not a
color of gold is to oe found in the tail
ings.
Mr.. Mcclellan also states that the
gold is coarse and that the diggings
carry good values: the only drawback
encountered being that three men with
shovels could not feed the machine to
its full capacity. Now. however. he has
secured teams, scrapers and plows, and
ii is expected that the next report re-
ceived from the diggings viii be of a
most encourag ing nature
While Mr. Mcclellan is the manu-
facturer of these machines, a private
company, composing men of means, has
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, May 24.-Wheat during the
morning kept the advance going which
was under way as Saturdays session
came to an end. July. which closed
Saturday at p. started with buyers at
from that up TO 721s. and for about an
hour and a half 72c. was the lowest it
sold at. 1t rose to 1888 before it had
any serious setback but by 11:30
o'clock it had declined to 71H. Before
noon il had advanced again to 72%.
The market hung around re. for near
ly an hour. The bulls became very
almost total lack of shipping demand.
This and confidence with coming
domestic crop will be at least 100000,
600 bushels more than that of last year
gave the bears confidence to press their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
CAMP FLOYD ORE BODIES.
Seemingly No Limit to Their Extent
and Size.

2
and Size.
Mercur, Nav 24-The discoveries
made in tire camp during the past ten
days only confirm what has been sus-
pected for some time in relation to the
Mercur ore bodies. In the Mercur mine
il was believed that the workings were
being run on the footwall until for
sorae reason a Wine was sunk, When
il was discovered that the "footwell
was only thin sheet of limestone. and
below it was a body of rich ore. Sinking
, through this another footwan was
reached, and below this another VEIN
Whether the Mercur people have
reached the actual footwall or still have
other GRE bodies below them is still
an unsolved problem. The company,
during the past winter, made number
OF uDraises, and go feet from the bottom
of the hanging wall broke into vein
of ere apparently as extensive as any
of those found below.
The Marion Geyser is working a vein
right on the silver ledge, and there
good values are found; and the bulk Of
ores at present being worked come from
this part OF the nine, Wine above II,
rising layer over layer, are large bodies
OF ore of good milling value.
The Sacramento had similar ex-
perience and is now working what has
been called a 'three-story mine the
workings. covering depth of 81 feet, 80
of which is the layers Of lime between
the different veins Here also it has
been determined that bodies of ore ex-
ist above the hanging wall, and
whether they have really reached the
footwan will be a question for future
solution.
The La Cigale falls in line with the
others in the discovery of a body of
ore 100 feet thick. lying below the foot
wall and separated from the workings
by a layer of lime rock. In the Daisy,
nineralized rock has been discovered
as Tar as 200 feet back of the present
foctwall, with good indications of the
existence of ore at that point.
In the Gold Dust a few days ago. in
sinking the main shaft, vein of %
feet in thickness and showing higher
values than the vein on which the COM
pany sunk an incline and run num-
Der of drifts has been discovered Up
towards the summit of the hill the
company has another vein, in which
a great deal of cinnabar has been
found, and the ore is different in all
three of the veins.
In the Backyard the development
work has shown that two distinct veins
exist, in one of which there is consid-
cradle cinnabar, while the other has
none.
Again. from the Overland the word
comes that a large body of ore has
been found below what has heretofore
been considered the footwall, and the
further information is given that the
ore is richer than any previously found
in the mine.
The fact that so many Of the mines
have made the same discovery proves
that there are a series of veins extend
ing throughout the district, and that
with all the ore at present in sight in
the camp a beginning has only been
made in the exploration of the ore
bodies. and that it will take years to
demonstrate just how large they are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Meadow Lake District.

w. II. Lawrence, who is interested
with Messrs. Adams and Cardwell of
this city in the construction of a toll
road from Cisco, Cal, into the once
noted Meadow Lake mining district,
returned home yesterday from a trip
up into that country.
Mr.. Lawrence states that work has
already been begun in the making of
the road and that it is believed that
it will be completed by the 1st of July,
when it is expected that there will be
great deal of activity in the district,
as even now quite a number of people
are on the ground waiting for the dis
appearance of the snow in order to be-
gin operations, and it is stated that by
the 1st of next month the mines and
prospects of the camp will be accessi-
bic.
Mr.. Cardwell and his associates have
purchased the old smelter at Reno,
New, which is about 35 miles from the
Meadow Lake mines. and upon the
completion of the road it is the inten-
ton to blow it in and begin work on
the ores of the camp.
Meadow Lake is renowned for its
immense deposits of gold and copper
ore. Some of the mineral carries free
gold, but the ore is so base that it is
nothing If not a smelling proposition,
and with this mode of treatment in
vogue there is good reason TO believe
that the district will soon retrieve lost
prestige and that Meadow Lake will
regain lost ground and come TO the
front as one of the most productive
and best paying mining camps in the
west
There are quite a number of Salt
Lake people who are interested in
Meadow Lake, and upon the opening
of the toll road they expect to begin
active operations there.
Roy Bemis. an old Bingham miner,
is now in Meadow Lake, where he has
valuable properties, and he states that
the only thing that he regrets is that
he did not visit the camp two years
sooner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY.
One of the Most Promising Camps
of the West

The indications are that there will
be a great deal of activity this sum-
mer in the Blue Mountain district, and
already arrangements are being made
for the development and operation of a
large number of properties in the camp.
The Gold Queen company will start
UP its mine and mill within a few
days, and Ben Haywood states that
the condition of this property is such
that there is some talk of putting in
a steam shovel for the purpose of ex-
tracing ore. The reason for this is
that the ore exists in immense depos-
its and can be mined much in the
same way that the Mercur mine is
worked. The mineral, however, is diff
ferent in it's characteristics, inasmuch
as it is a free milling quartz, in which
the gold is often found in its native
state.
Mr. W. Bayster, who is largely inter-
ested in the Blue mountains. is now
visiting with his brother in this city,
and from him it is learned that this
bids fair to open UP into one of the
greatest gold camps in the west, and
he states that a large number of Col
orado people are getting foothold
there. and that they are wild over the
showing made, both as to surface in
dications and by what work has been
done in the Gold Queen, the Dream and
other properties in the district. as wher-
ever the caprock has been displaced,
good gold values have been found.
Mr.. Bayster is enthusiastic over the
district and believes it to be the COM
ing gold camp of the west.
In fact. he is so much impressed with
its future that with his associates he
has laid out a townsite in a desirable
location which has been christened
Springfield. this name being bestowed
upon the embryotie town for the rea-
son that within its limits there is a
mammoth spring of excellent water
which flows so strong that it presents
or geyser-
With its heavy naturalization Blue
mountain is a genuine prospeetors'
paradise, and especially so as the coun-
try is we'll wooded and watered and
coal is plentiful.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
More Gold Goes Out.

New York, May 24.-Further gold
shipments are announced for tomor-
rows steamer of 5000, 900 by Won Hoff-
man & Co., and 81, 100000 by Lazard
Freres.
Washington, May 24-The treas
ury department received a telegram
from New York stating that $1,150,00O
gold had been Withdrawn from the
sub-treasury for export; also that ST.
225,000 gold had been obtained from
the banks, making the total shipments
tomorrow So 400,0 900.
OF the total amount of gold. 81. 400 coo. to
be shipped to Europe tomorrow, 81, $50 900
was obtained by the shippers from
private sources and was consequently not
Withdrawn from the subtreasury.
The steamer Trave will take out to-
morrow 10000 ounces of silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
TO TREAT zINc-BEAR1Ne ORES.
New Plant in Course of Construction
at LeadvilIe.

The work of erecting the new fur
mace at the old Elgin smelter is pro-
crossing rapidly. says the Leadville
Herald Democrat. and it is probable
that it viii be ready TO blow in by the
middle of next month. The construc-
ton of this new plant has excited much
interest and no little curiosity both in
mining and smelling circles, for ii was
realized that the work. though on a
comparatively small scale. was of much
Importance TO the camp. Through the
the inventor, the Herald Democrat is
in a position to give its readers some
idea of the work now under way.
The proposition, in a nutshell. is to.
handle the zincous ores OF the camp.
The inventor OF the process is Marcus
Ruthenburg. prominent electrical
engineer, who has been for many years
in charge of electrical work at the
government navy yard at Philadelphia.
Mr.. Ruthenburg has interested some
capitalists in the enterprise. and ar
engagements were made some time ago
for erection of a furnace here The
Elgin smelter was selected for the site
and Mr.. Ruthenburg, with a small
force of men set TO work to construct
his apparatus. There is a mistaken
notion that the process is a wet one.
but this is not the fact. The fire proc
ess is used, the furnace being a COM
binati0n of the cupola blast and settler.
For very obvious reasons the details of
the process are not made public. but
the results are said to be such as 10
almost effect a. revolution in ordinary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
STOCKS ARE INACTIVE
The Mining Share flarket Dull
ard Sluggish.
M'KELLAR LITTLE WONDER
GOLD AMALGAMAToR WORKING
VERY SATISFACTORILY.

Tests Made With the Ma
chine at Dry Wash, IN the Henry
Mountains A High Saving Of
Gold Values Made-Canap Floyd
Ore Bodies-Seemingly No Limit
to Their Extent and Size-Foot-
walls but a Dividing Wall Be
tween Greet Zones of Mineral
Blue Mountain Activity-One OF
the Most Promising Gold Camps
in the State-Colorado People Be
coming Heavily Interested in This
Promising District - The New
Town of Springfield To Treat
Zinc-bearing ores-New Plant IN
Course of Construction at Lead
ville-New Process for the Re
duction of zincous Mineral - The
Meadow Lake District = Work
Being Pushed in the Construction
&C the New Toll Road-ore and
Bullion-silver and Lead-Mining
Notes and Personals.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
DUNHAMS NUMEROUS.
Are Found in Texas, Wyoming and
Alabama

San Jose, Cal, May 24.-Under-
Sheriff Benson received the following
dispatch from La Grange, Texas, to-
Gav:
Il hold one James c. Durham, who
processes TO be murderer, from Cali
fornia. Come at once before he
escapes
Sheriff Lyndon has wired for further
particulars.
Another supposed Durham has beer
arrested and held at Casper, Wyoming
Yet another Durham is in prison al
Alabama, whence comes a letter giving
a description of the suspect and also
photographs. The description is al
right, but the photographs bear no like
ness of the real murderer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
National Educational Association
MEETING.

For the meeting of the National
Educational association at Buffalo in
1896 the excellent service given by the
Union Pacific was commented on by
all those who had the pleasure of
using that line. This year our educa-
tional friends meet in Milwaukee, Wis.
July 20 8, and members of the asso-
citation and others from points west of
the Missouri river, should by all means
take the Union Pacific.
The service of the Union Pacific via
Omaha or Kansas City is the very
best. The equipment consists of hand
some day coaches, chair cars, Pullman
buffet and drawing room sieepers.
dining cars and buffet smoking and
library cars. Fewer changes than via
any other line. One fare, plus $3.50 for
the round trip will be the rate from all
points west of the Missouri river for
this meeting.
For Illustrated matter, folders, etc.,
call on or write, H. NJ. CLAY,
General Agent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
HORRORS OF ALASKA.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson breaches a Sen
sational Sermon.

Eagle Lake Ind, May 24-Alaska' 8
horrors and hopes were aired by Dr.
Sheldon Jackson, the moderator of the
Presbyterian general assembly. in his
discourse Sunday. He said that in
fanticide. witchcrafT. pOlygamy, the
murder of parents and other practices
of benighted and degraded paganism
prevailed to a terrible extent among
three or four native races. Mothers
kill their own babies. DIR. Jackson
found that in some tribes it was the
practice of children to kill fathers and
mothers when they get old. This Gus
tom had become so firmly established
as to be inevitable. The grip swept
the coast of Alaska and carried off
many natives. They attributed the
disease to witches. DR.. Jackson de-
clares scores of people were burned
or buried alive on suspicion of being
witches
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
RINGING BROS.
Worlds Greatest Shows.
POSITIVELY THE LARGEST &
BEST SHOW ON EARTH.
RG OTHER BIG SHOW COMING
Some Western Press Comments.

The brightest and best circus in the
world today.-Chicago Chronicle.
The only criticism possible is that it is
four times too big for one pair of eyes to
see.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Barnum is a back number. His fondeSt
dreams never conjured such magnificent
or huge spectacle as the Ringing show
presents It outclaSses them all--Denver
Rocky Mountain News.
The public of Denver never expected to
see the half of what was promised They
saw it all. and twice as much more. 1t is
uncuestionably at the head of the circus
world.-Denver Republican.
Come again. Messrs. Ringing. You are
Western men and with Western ideas, and
your show dwarfs all others by compar-
ison.-Denver Post.
The city of Denver capitulated to Ring
Iirg Bros. last night. Their show is by
far the largest and best in existence
Denver Times.
The Barnum show was big; the Ring
ling show IS so much bigger and better
that Barnum is not in it.-Pueblo Chief
tain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
ANOTHER DAVIS WILL CAS-
This Time the Scene of the Drama i.
Frisco

San Francisco. May 24.-The trial of
the contest over the estate of the late
millionaire Jacob Z. Davis, or Dedaker,
commenced before Judge Coffey and a
jury tonight.
Davis died in Philadelphia last Oc-
tober. leaving an estate valued at over
100000. His partner Alexander Boyd
and G.. Mastick, his attorney. made
diligent search among the effects of the
deceased. but were unable to find any
will save an old one. by the terms of
which Davis left all his property to mis-
wife who died before him. Three weeks
later, however, the document now
offered for probate was discovered by
the husband of one of the heirs in the
Theoretically sealed urn containing the
ashes of the late Mrs. Davis.
BY its terms all of the late mil
lionaire's property was left to mis-
nieces. Mrs. Belle Curtis and Miss
Lizzie Muir, who now offer it for pro-
bate.
Other relatives of the deceased con-
test this will upon the ground of al
legged forgery, and some sensational de-
velopments are expected during the
course of the trial
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, May 24.-Cattle-The supply
was well taken at 4.OO@5.25 for common
to prime native beef steers, the bulk
of the cattle bringing 4.30Q5.00; stock
ers and feeders. 4.00@4.50.
Hogs-Sales ranged at 335@34 5 for
heavy packing, up TO 3.75 for prime light
weights, with sales largely at 1850
3.75; pigs sold mostly at 3.00G3.75.
Sheep-Sheep were saleable at 225@
2.75 for the poorest, up to 4.60@4.S5 for
choice to prime natives, with sales
largely at 3.50@450. Lambs sold slow
ly at 3.25@3.50 for inferior to 5.30@5. 80
for choice to prime Colorados.
Receipts-Cattle, 1880; hogs, 1000;
sheep, 1900
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Omaha Live Stock.

Omaha, May Receipts
1900 Market a 10 lower; native beef
steers, $50 a 4.30; westerns. $50 a 46O;
COWS and heifers, 800 a 400; Gamers
051. a 2.30; stockers and feeders. $50 q
AGO; calves, $50 q SIS; bulls and stays,
2.25 q $40.
Hogs-Receipts 5000. Market 5 a 1Oc
lower; heavy, $40 q 3.45; mixed, 345;
lights, 3.45 a $50; bulk of sales, 345.
Sheep-Receipts $500. Market steady
fair to choice natives. $3.50 G450: fair to
choice westerns, $50 a 440; common
and stock sheep, 800 q 400; lambs.
400 q 800
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
The Constellation.

Park City, May 24-W. c. Lyman of
the Constellation inspected the prop
erty today and returned TO Salt Lake.
The formation of the surface gold ledge
now paTtakes more Of the nature of
chlorides, which indicates the presence
of silver. In the drift on the main
ledge running southwest some good
gold values are being obtained and
stringers of ore from the surface ledge
whose strike is east and west, are com
ing in nicely. The two lodges are sup
posed TO cross within a few hundred
feet from the face of the drift
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
In Its Sixth Week Now

San Francisco, May 24.-The sixth
week of the trial Of the Angus-Craven
case, now the main fight of the Fair
case, began today, and bids fair to
prove as monotonously weary as those
which have preceded it.. Expert Max
GumpeI resumed his testimony and al
though the jury has Photographic CO.
pies of each and all the exhibits the
witness was required TO explain each
letter of the various documents intro
duced most miuntely and explain the
innumerable discrepancies which he
claimed to have discovered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City. May 24.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts 5000; best grades steady; others
weak; native steers. 300 a sos: native
and feeders, 1925 q 4.25; bulls, 235 a
400
Hogs-Receipts, 1000. Market sc
lower; bulk of sales, 3.45 @35O; heavies,
$40 q $50; packers, 1856 a $50; mixed,
3.45 q 3.55; lights, $40 a 1855.
Sheep Receipts 5000: market strong
lambs, 3.95 a $50; muttons, $50 a 450.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
Sues Her Father-in-Law.

San Francisco. May 24-Mrs. Mar
garet Moffat commenced suit to-
day in the superior court to re-
cover damages in the sum of $4,000
from her husbands father for alleged
alienation of affection. and also insti-
tuted proceedings against her husband
to compel him to support her She al
leges that she has twice been married
to William Moffat, but that each time
her father-in-law- has induced his son
to desert her.