The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-10
Mining Notes and Personals

A 170-ton lot of ore from the Uncle
Sam mine. at Eureka, was marketed in
this city yesterday.
The West boys yesterday sent out an
other lot of supplies to the Copper King
mine in Beaver Lake district.
Hon. A. NJ. Grant came in from Tusca-
rora, New, yesterday, where he is putting
up the new Dexter stamp mill and power
plant.
E. NJ. Weller and Scott Crismon have
returned from Nevada, where they have
been for some time on a prospecting eX-
petition.
John Dewey went out to Mercur yeSter-
day for the purpose of making an inspec-
ton of a piece of property on which it is
proposed TO do some development work.
1t is understood that the Detroit Min
ing company, operating in Detroit mining
district, has a force of men at work and
that it is expected important disclosures
will be made in the near future.
Manager John Dern, of the Mercur and
Geyser- Marion, who returned Wednesday
night from Mercur. informs The Herald
that both properties are looking well,
while the camp and district at large are
enjoying steady and substantial growth.
1t IS learned that the Chloride Point
company has just placed ll,OO0 shares of
its treasury stock at SO cents a share and
that with the proceeds of the sale it has
paid the balance due on it's new mill and
the machinery, which is now on the way
to the mine from the east. No more of
the treasury STOCK, however, is to be had
at this figure.
Democrat, Baker City, Ore: A. w Nc
Cune has let a contract to the Mcpherson
brothers for sinking 100 feet and drifting
200 feet on the Morley mine. This prop
erty is situated in the Greenhorn district
and since falling into the hands of Mr..
McCune has been christened the Green
horn mine. The Mcpherson brothers eX-
pect to complete their contract in 60 days.
j. ]. Trenam, manager of the Ben
~ q I q q lie
trict last night with the pay checks for
the men employed in the development of
the mine. f. Eberhardt the president OF
the company, accompanied him and to-
gether the two will make a careful in
Spection of this promising piece of prop
erty, in which rock containing native sill
yer was recently disclosed
]. H. Robinson. of Pennington, who
was in the city yesterday, states that
considerable mining is going on in Farm
ington canyon and that some very fine
gold prospects are being developed there.
Some of the finest specimens of native
gold that the mining scribe of The Her
aid has seen came from this locality, and
the indications are that in time some big
producing mines will be developed there.
Times-RevieW, Tuscarora, Ney.: We
learn that work on the power plant across
the valley is progressing nicely. The "a
inch pipe to convey the water to the
Pelton wheel is nearly completed, the
building enclosed ana everything is about
ready Tor the installation of the genera
tors. Workmen are framing the poles and
putting on the cross arms and bands on
the tops, and the work of setting them in
position will commence shortly.
Through an error in yesterdays issue
the value of the ore shipment from the
Mammoth mine was credited to the
Bullion-Beck, which was natural, as both
properties were in with big consignments
of mineral The Mammoth and Bullion
Beclz are doing we'll at the present time
and it is believed that it will be a
race between the two to see which will
be the first TO resume the payment of
dividends.
Ben Olson, the superintendent of the
Treasure Hill, near Silver City, who ar
rived in the city Wednesday night,
brought in with him some fine specimens
of rock taken from the face of the drift
that is being driven on the vein. The
samples are heavy iron associated with
red oxide of copper, and it is expected
that within few feet more the iron will
give way to copper silver and gold. The
officers of the company are feeling elated
over the outlook.
Bulletin, Rocky Bar, Ida: James
Downs came down from his mine on Lime
creek and spent Sunday in this place. He
and mis- partner, Mr.. Clark, have Splen-
did property in the President mine. They
sent 20 tons of ore to the HALEY sampler
a few weeks ago which yielded them
about 800 per ton. Mr.. Clark having
gone east on q visit Mr.. Downs and Nels
Nelson will extract ore from the President
all winter, ana IN the spring they nope TO
be able to erect q small quartz mill at the
mine.
]. e. Bamberger and David Keith re-
turned yesterday from Baker City. Ore
where they made examinations there of
mining properties in which they are in
tereSted. In speaking of one of these, the
Gold Ridge, Mr.. Bamberger stated that
it was looking well and that in pushing
development work ii was expected that
vein No 4 would be uncovered within the
next few days. At the Virginia Con-
solidated all is looking well and the men
at work in the mine are drifting and up
raising on a good grade OF mineral Ac-
cording TO MIR. Bamberger thsre is con-