The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-20
Mining Notes and Personals

Two carloads of ore from the Humbug
mine Were received at the sampler yes
terday.
N. W. McChrstal, the well known
Eureka mining operator, was in the city
yesterday.
W. G.. Van Horne ana Matt Lyon will
start four men out this morning or to-
morrow for the purpose Of reSuming work
on the old Pelican mine. not far from
Stockton.
The Mackintoch sampler yesterday re-
ceived 10 tons of ore from the Checkmate
mine in Willow Greek district Idaho 1t
Is stated that the last shipment of ore
from this mine averaged four ounces
Union Pacific. and F. L. Chaplin. of
Ogden, are among the heavy owners in
this bonanza producer.
The Silver King Extension Mining COM
pany has just had some assays made
from the large boGIes of low grade ores
in its Big Cottonwood mine with the
following results: No. 10 ounces silver
and $50 gold. No. 2-6.5 per cent lead.
3-1.5 per cent lead, 10 ounces silver and
SAP in gold. This is a showing in the
way of Milling ore, and II is understood
that in the mine there are good bodies of
firSt-claSS ore uncovered and ready Tor
shipment
1t is learned that a New York company
is negotiating for the purchase of the
Surprise mine, near the Sewer, in Gold
~ l.
is contaminated a large combination
amalgamation and cyanide mill will be
erected at the mine in the spring. 1t is
the general impression that Gold noun
tain district will receive a great deal OF
attention from capitalists this season.
and that before the year is out some i'm
portant improvements and deals Will be
made there.
found an article on the continuity of
the mineral lodges on the west dip, and
the statement was made that the ore
bodies had been traced and partially de-
Veloped for a distance of $4,000 feet. The
writer has since learned that good values
have been obtained on n group of claims
that are being worked by the Walker
Bros and G. II. Schue Just north of
Colonel Wallis Cedar Hills group. and on
the north side of Ophir creek. This
shows the continuation of the ledge for
the distance OF 5000 feet further. and It
is believed that it will be proven that
the vein still goes on.
Prof. NJ. z. Jones. the manager of the
Sunbeam mine, near Silver City, Tintic.
who arrived in the city last night. states
that work in the sinking of the Sunbeam
shaft is progressing at the rate of about
two and half feet = da,T and that the
indications at the present time are Very
encouraging. to the say the least. The
shaft is now down TO the 395-foot level
the bottom being in 1O-foot -ein of
pyTiteS mixed with quartz and the indi-
cations are that lead ore is now coming
L.
couraged OYER the outlook and is salts
fled that IL is only Il question of time
before the Sunbeam will be making regu-
lar and heavy shipments again.
Colonel Charles Hart of Oregon. who
is at the Knutsford. has been interested
for some time in the placer diggings
along the banks of Snake river. in Ore
gon. and he states that he has been sue
cessful in treating the fine gold in these
deposits b. the cyanide process. The
colonel works the gravel and gold in a
sort of combination process. In the first
place he washes the black sand or gravel,
and the water used for this purpose.
loaded as il is with flour gold. is run into
the tanks charged with the cyanide So
luton. where the gold is acted upon Just
the same as if. the gold-ladened water
had been pulp. The solution takes up the
flour gold in the water and it is then
precipitated upon zinc shavingS just the
same as in any cyanide mill. Another
tank is filed with black sand and the
solution turned in and the remaining
gold which IS coarser, is then acted
upon most successfully. This process
might be brought into use by others in
their endeavors to save the gold so
abundant on the shores of the Snake.
A gentleman who arrived in Salt Lake
from Silver City, Tintic, last night, con-
firms the report given elsewhere on this
page regarding the strike in the Swansea
mine He states that it is on the 45O-foot
level north. but that it is much richer
than generally known, and that it is the