The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-05
SILVER CITY JoTTINGS.
Mining Items of Interest Clipped
From the Star

FROM the Star.
A steam hoist is being put up on the
Valley which joins the Cornucopia.
Phil Richards secured the contract
for sinking the Rabbit Foot shaft an
additional 100 feet and commenced
work Sunday with two shifts.
The new pump at the Buckeye is in
place and was started Thursday. 1t is
said to be giving good satisfaction, and
sinking will commence at once.
George H. Robinson, W. ]. Craig and
| W. H. Johnson are working the famous
Joe Bowers. The shaft is down 142 feet
and considerable ore is coming out.
1t is rumored that negotiations are
pending between W. H. Donnell and
Messrs. Mccormick and Wilson for the
purchase of the Geneva lode near the
Undine by the former gentleman.
Shipments from this end of the dis
trict for the week are as follows: From
the South Swansea ) carloads, from the
Iron mine / carload daily. The Buck
eye is loading a Potion car which will
probably go out Monday.
c. W. Midgley, who is one of the par
ties who have taken bond on the Sea
! Swan, was out last Sunday to let con-
tract for sinking the first 100 feet on
that property. Bids are now in and the
contract will be let in a day or two
The board Of directors of the Home
stake Mining company has advanced
the selling price of the treasury stock
from 10 to Is cents per share. The new
steam hoist is giving very good salts
faction and the way the mine is look
ing justifies the raise.
E. n. Jenkins came out last Saturday
to look after the Home Rule property.
which he is working under a lease and
bond. The property is looking very IA
vorable and small streak of galena
ore is in sight. Mr.. Jenkins advises us
that the drifting will be continued un-
til the Sunbeam ledge is reached.
We are advised that the Alaska peo-
pie are contemplating putting in a
steam hoist and pump on that claim at
once. The boiler will be 40-horse power
and the engine 25-horse power. The
pump will be large enough to handle
the flow of water. Work on this prop
erty has been shut down for the past
few days, owing to the inability to
handle the water with a whim.
Adam Leichter and DR. Kjos came
down from Park City Saturday even
ing and spent Sunday looking over the
camp. 1t was hoped that the gentle
men would take 10 the bond on the
Independent which is due but such
was not the case, and the independent
reverts back to the original owners.
The machinery has been sold to Ercan-
brack and others and is being put up
on the Valley. The Park City company
was forced to abandon their workings
on account of the immense flow of
water encountered in the shaft. which
is 225 feet deep.
Ex-Governor Merrill of Montana is
applying for a patent on the Pocahon-
tas, Justice and Marion lodes south of
Silver City. 1t seems that a patent
survey was made on this ground about
20 years ago, but the patent was not
completed and the ground was after
ward abandoned The abandonment
was clearly shown by the new appli-
cants and the patent will issue without
further trouble. Governor Merrill ex-
poets to put force of men to work on
the ground at once and steam hoist
for the property is said to be a GER
tainty.
A. L. Morris. assistant managing
editor of the Industrial Reporter of
New York and London. will be in Silver
City the greater part of the coming
week. Mr.. Morris is making an ex-
animation of the principal properties
of the district and writing descriptions
of them for publication in his journal.
Mr. Morris has examined Park City,
Bingham and Mercur, and his de-
scriptions of Utahs camps cannot fail
to place Utah mines prominently be-
fore the people of the east. Mr. Nor
ris is accompanied by E. NJ. West, the
travelling business manager of the
same paper.
1t has recently come to light that a
strike of fabulously rich ore was made
on the 300 level of the Undine some
time ago. The streak is said to be
about four inches wide and the value
in gold and silver is said to run higher
than anything which has been struck
in the district in recent years. Owing
to the immense body of water in the
shaft it is impossible to do any work
on the ore until a pump is put in, and
we are advised that within q very short
time activity on the property will be
resumed. Machinery to handle the
water will be put in and a pipe line
laid from the mine to Silver City and
Mammoth and systematic development
of the ground continued more vigor-
ously than ever There is no property
in this end of the district that has
better prospects than the Undine and
there is no question but that it will
make a record if the water can be kept
out of the way.
H. c. Bacorn and z. H. Peyton have
taken a lease on the Sioux mill at Rob-
inson and will run it as a custom mill.
cleanup and will be started up in a
few days The value of such a plant
in Tintic cannot be estimated. as it
will be the means of enabling prospect
ors to work many claims which are
now lying idle. There are a number of
low-grade properties in this end of the
district which will turn out a fair
grade of milling ore and net the own
ers fair margin. when, without the
mill, the ore would have to be thrown
over the dump and be a dead loss to
the claim owners. -
Theodore Won Gestel, accompanied
by o. r. Young, came in from Lean
ington last Sunday evening. The gen.
tlemen were very reticent in regard to
their mission. but we learned that Mr..
Won Gestel is interested in a company
that is putting in a large dam on the
Sewer river and that he and Mr..
Young were looking over the country
between here and bennington and es-
timating the cost of laying pipe line
into Tintic from that point for the
purpose of supplying the district with
water. We also learn that in connec-