The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04
Mining Notes and Personals.

Sl,VJ; cyanides, $S,SOu
Mining Notes and Personals.
Superintendent Price. of the Alaska
mine. at Silver city. was in the city yes
terday.
The Dexter company yesterday re-
ceived bar of gold bullion and a lot OF
cyanides.
Word was received from Mammoth yes
terday that the Mammoth mine had been
closed down.
a shipment of cyanides from the
Generalization was received by the COM
pany yesterday.
G. NJ Garland the well known Bing-
ham mining man, was in yesterday for
the purpose of celebrating the Fourth
The Mammoth mill will start UP tomor-
row with the usual force. winch VIII
necessitate an increase OF men IN the
mine
The Hercules mine, at Stockton. Will
make a TWO car load shipment of high
-tade ore this week. 1t is reported that
the mine is looking exceedingly well.
W. II. Lawrence left yesterday for
Meadow Lake district where he is filter
ested in the construction of the toll road
from Cisco TO the camp with A. B. Card
well.
discovery of a deposit of nickel on the
south fork of the Cache La Houdre, the
ore from which carries values OF 500
ton in this metal
The entire day force of the Mollie Glib
son mine at Aspen, Colo, mas been nred
because of the fact that some or the men
had given publicity to the recent rich
strike in that property.
Manager White, of the Black Dragon,
at Stockton. who arrived in the city FRI
day night, states that the mine is in
most encouraging condition. with the
bottom of the shaft full of good ore
]. c. c. Glanfield has made an applica-
ton in the surveyor generals office for
a no
TantamounI lodes in Snake Creek dis
trict. G. w. Parks, surveyor; c. p.
Brooks. surveyor.
Manager Jones. of the Little Jessie
city yesterday. The Little Jessie is now
furnishing ore for a 20 stamp mill. and
it is stated that there is a million in
sight in the property.
The National Bank of the Republic has
just paid its semi-annual dividend of 81
coo. and the share holders in this inst1tu-
ton are happy. The bank is in an excel
lent financial condition, and these semi
annual dividends are being paid with
pleasing regularity.
The Imperial Paint Manufacturing COM
pany has started up its works at North
Salt Lake on an experimental run II
now has four car loads of mineral paint
at the works, which were obtained from
the deposits of this commodity at Mon
roe. Park City and in City Creek can
yon.
Captain Timothy Egan has returned
from Gold Mountain district where he
has been superintending the shipment OF
two cars OF high grade gold ore from the
property of the Golden Star Mining COM
pany which Will soon be followed by an
other consignment. The captain states
that he is troubled in getting cars for his
ore and that this has caused him con-
siderable delay. 1t is the intention to in
crease the force at the mine.
Journal. Reno. New: The Gold Creek
made a
the United States land office Tor y patents
for placer mines. The patents cover 44SO
acres, which. at SOD per acre, VIII cost
81. 200 The government charges A.5O per
acre for placer ground ana - per acre
for quartz claims. The Cold creek com.
pany will have a whole territory TO ltselr
and if its mines are one-hdlf as rlch
as reported they Will add several mililonS
10 the gold product of the country Al
any rate Uncle Sam will be $1,000 gamer
by the operation
Silver City Star: The owners of the
Picnic are still working on the cross cut
from the bottom of the shaft and expect
10 cut a ledge within the next ten or 10
feet. II is expected that pay ore IN iarse
quantities Will be opened up and the
WORKING force Immediately increased ana
shipping commenced In the south DRIFT
from the shaft is a small body Of line
siIyer-Iead ore on which work OF eXtrac-
tion will shortly be commenced. There is
no question but what the perseverance
of the owners will shortly make hne
producing mine of the Picnic
Inter-MDuntain. Butte Mor.; Mnai
came near proving a catastrophe occurred
Yesterday al the Snohomish mine, Wnch
is under lease to Casey. Lynch ana OtheIS-
The old Silver Bow. or Butte q Boston
ditch runs through a large pOrllon Oh tle
ground and yesterday the water in me
ditch found an entrance into some OF the
old workings and began tlling up the
shaft through an unused dTlft. Inc
water was nearly a foot above the station
al the 35O-foot level before the discover
was made the water having hlled the
shaft to the 100 The leak was soon dls-
covered and boxed and it was only the
work of a few hours 10 get the surplus
water out
A special from Loveland. Colo. says:
W. r. Alexander one OF tne cary carr -
pleted an experimental plant for reducing
ore that promises TO be a success. ne
uses an ordinary crusher, only ne crushes
the ore to the size of grain OF wheat.
THE ore is then run through burs, s,Inl-
lar to the ones used in plaster mills.
which he claims will do the work petlec
and faster than the ordinary stamp
mill. He then proposes to run the pulp
over copper plates. The tailings thus Sc
cured VIII be roasted and returned TO
the vat for a second run over the copper
plates An experimental run was made
Saturday with satisfactory results AS
soon as sufficient ore can be secured from
thorough trial and Mr.. Alexander is con-
fident his process will work.
A Wallace Qda.) dispatch says that f.
Reaudette a jeweler at Murray. claims
to have discovered an entirely new pro-
cess for extracting the gold from base
ores a.d back sands. He has been eX-
perimenting for more than year. but
only in the past few weeks has he been
successful. His process, he says, is pure
ly chemical. He claims that it will ex-
tract every particle of gold, giving as
good results on a working scale as an
assayer will get from a sample. A
caveat has been applied for. and ne will
soon commence the construction of
plant large enough to handle several tons
a day, or all the present output of the
gold belt. From experiments made so
far. he Will offer to reduce the concen-
trates and ores for $40 per ton, and hopes
soon 10 make the charges not more than
So At present they are shipped to Ia
coma at a cost of $50 for freight and
smelter charges.
Eureka Democrat: Dr. NJ A. Hughes
and Fred Simon were out from Salt Lake
last Saturday perfecting arrangements for
a new mining Incorporation TO be known
as the Minnie and Argentum Gold and
Silver Mining and Milling company. The
group of claims which will become the
property of the new company consists Of
the Minnie Golden Treasure, Argentum.
Junietta and Annie Hurley claims, sit
uated 1000 feet east of the Uncle Sam,
and adjoining the Maggie s. No. 2. This
is d very promising group of claims,
located in a promising portion of the dis
trict and a we'll defined ledge can be
traced in the lime for 5000 feet across
the property. Articles of Incorporation