The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-31
Whining Notes and Personals.


A car of Montezuma from Bingham,
was marketed in this city yesterday.
Jesse Knight marketed four cars of
Uncle Sam ore yesterday from Eureka
The Northern Spy, one of Tintic's pro-
ducers, had a car of ore at the samplers
yesterday
Attorney VIII Ford and Ben Haywood
are in Chicago, the latter on important
mining business.
II. E. Zerbe was given the privileges of
the floor of the mining exchange yester-
day, to represent G. d. Gardanier, one of
the regular members.
1t is reported that a foot of very fine
gold quartz has been exposed in the face
of the tunnel in the Gold Point mine. at
the mouth OF Big Cottonwood canyon.
James Clark. who is in with a small
lot of ore from the Ophir mine. Statelina,
reports that it was sold on controls show
ing 134.7 ounces silver and 81 in gold to the
ton.
The South Swansea was in yesterday
with i've carloads of good ore. The opera
ton OF this property will be resumed on
the LIST, after weeks lay-off for the
holidays.
Ben Johnson and Hon. r. c. Lund, of
Deer Lodge, Nev., who are interested with
Green Campbell in valuable properties in
this promising gold camp are expected to
arrive in the city this morning.
Manager G.. r. Boutwell, of the Sacra-
mento, who has just returned from an in
sDection of that mine. states that he is
more pleased with it than ever before, and
that new bodies of good milling ore are
constantly being disclosed.
The Highland Boy, at Bingham, will be
able to report shipments of copper ore for
December to the extent of about 500 tons,
which is fine showing, considering the
fact that when the company purchased
the property it had not the slightest idea
OF the existence of such fine deposits OF
this character of mineral in the mine, the
ground hnjT1Cr fnT ire, of
low-grade teaching ore.
Judge w. A. Sherman and Gill S. Pey-
ton have just returned from an inspection
of the Overland at Sunshine, and the lat
interest in the capital stock of the com
pany, was well pleased with the showing
made. and the first of the week will be-
gin active developments with two shifts,
while later in the season it is more than
likely that mill will be erected on the
ground.
Ed Magner, the chief mogul of the Gold
i lint mine, near Leesburg, Ida, will leave
the first of the week for the purpose of
directing DEVELOPMENTS at this promising
gold proposition, where force of six
men is now at work in the extension of
two tunnels. in the upper one of which
body of mineral. Both tunnels are equip
ped with car and track, and in the spring
a mill will be erected on the ground.
1T is an old saying that gold is where
you find it. and this truism has again
been illustrated by the accidental dis
of an old farmer a few days ago
on his Tooele country farm while sinking
we'll, cut through ten-inch ledge Of
mineral, which, upon investigation, proved
to be tellurium ore which was Drofusely
faxed with the yellow metal. The exact
location of the find has not been made
public as yet, but mining man in this city
have seen the ore and declare it to be the
pure quill"
Ogden Standard: A. Van Patton. of
this city, drove into Ogden day before
yesterday with a wagon load of bullion
taken from the Cottonwood Friend and
Silver Zone in Morgan county, Argenta
mining district. Mr.. Van Patton has built
a ten-ton smelter at the mine. The ore
averages 40 per cent in lead, Sc in gold
and 62 ounces in silver, and thousands of
tons of this ore are in sight. Mr.. Van
Patton will operate the ten-ton smelter all
winter, and in the spring will put in
50-ton smelter. Mr.. Van Patton will leave
again for the mines today. He is as
happy as lark and is now looked upon
as small millionaire.
In speaking of the Gold King mine, near
Mountain Home, Ida, in which number
of Salt Lakers are heavily interested. the
Republican of that place says: Cy Doom
of Dixie was in town Thursday. Mr.
Doom is working at the Gold King nina
for Dan Reber He talked Interestingly
about the future of the Dixie camp. In
the course of the conversation he said
he believed the camp would be the larg-
est and most prosperous OF any In ldaho
in a few years. His reason for believing
this, he says, is that there is more pay
ore in the camp than any camp he was
ever in. 1t is estimated that there is now
5000 900 in sight in the Gold King. The
building to be erected for the mill at
this mine is rs by "a feet and 80 feet high.
The mill viii be increased to so tons ca
pacity day in the spring. 1t is thought
everything will be in readiness to start
the mill by Feb. Is
Dan Mcleod, whose arrival from Deer
Lodge, Eagle Valley, New, was mentioned
in yesterdays Herald, is highly elated
over the conditions prevailing in his Char
lie Ross lode. where he has uncovered two
feet and a half of tale which will carry
average values of $1,000 in gold and 1500
ounces in silver to the ton, while in this
deposit there are chutes and streaks
which will go $1,000 in gold and over 200
ounces silver. Besides this, in cross-cut-
ting the vein. Mr. Mcleod states that he
has exposed 40 feet of solid quartz, which
carries excellent milling values in gold.
Mr.. Mcleod and his associates expect to
make shipments to the Salt Lake market
at an early date and in the spring it is
more than likely that a mill will be built
near the mine. Mr.. Mcleod reports that
Deer Lodge is lively with numbers of val
liable and promising properties to hear
from. besides which there is considerable
activity in Stateline, Just over the line.
where the new Popkees mill will soon be
grinding away on good gold ore The ore
from the Charlie Ross. as mentioned
above, is impregnated with sylvanite, and
looks good enough to eat