The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-21
Mining Notes and Personals.


T. G. HAnford the heavy man on the
Star, published at Silver City. was in the
city yesterday.
Another car load OF Chloride Point ore.
valued at about 81. o0c was on the market
yesterday afternoon.
John a. Kirby the ef1clens suHerinten-
dent OF the Bullion-Beck was in the city
yesterday on business
It is learned at the office of Ule com
pa1y t..Ht car load of high grade Utah
ore is en- route to this city.
VIII Hatfield, through whose efforts the
Swansea has made such an excellent
showing. was in from Eureka yegter-
Gay.
The Eureka Hin Mining company yes
terday had a consignment of about 10
large bars of silver bullion on the mar
ket.
The contract for the erection of the
North Chance mill, at Bingham. has
been let to j W. Evans. late of Colo
RADIO.
The Rio Grande Western railway viii
run an excursion to Tfntic mining camps
next Sunday. The fare for the round
trip has been placed at 81.
c. II. Schue, of the La Cigale, VIII
leave for Mercur this morning with the
intention of taking trip over into Rush
valley where he has some properties
which he believes are well worth looking
after.
Work has been resumed in the devel-
opnent of the Annie mine, between Nler-
cur and Sunshine, and II is learned that
the company IS now erecting a steuzn
hoist on the ground for the purpose OF
facilitating operations.
E. ". Center the president of the
Frisco mining company will go out to
Bingham this morning for the purpose of
steam host that has just been erected
on this promising property.
F. Christensen of the Finite Mercantile
company, was in the city yesterday. Mr..
kar-fe- rtear1 -t~l-1- } nh
vance in silver and the good price com
manded by lead is greatly encouraging
the mine owners of Tintic district
Ralph Nichols. the well known mining
expert, who has been making u careful
examination of lote of several OF the
leading mining camps of the state left
the first Of the week for New York with
the intention of continuing his journey to
London
NJ R. Hunt, the manager of the Alaska.
al Silver CITY, has some beautiful sam
pies of ore from the mine on exhibition at
his Office. These specimens are we'll
state and indicate tho existence of large
bodies of this character of mineral at a
greater depth.
T1mes-Review: The Jig plant in course
of construction at the independence dump
Will probably start cary next week All
that is now OBTAINING them is the lack of
a few fittings for the boiler, when are
expected to arrive today or tomorrow An
is ready to steam up as soon as the fit
tings arrive.
Mining men were patting each other on
the back yesterday when IT became
cents and II is freely predicted that this
metal VII reach 81 cents today. The
strong attitude Of the lead -fdr1et is also
causing congra-ulatton, and The producers
of the west are feeling in excellent spirits
over the outlook
The Mercur and Geyser-AIarfon were
both IN with their senni-monthly eA1n-
T19ents of ctrar.des Yesterday wh1cn were
lmnlod at the works of the Con. K. G.
Smelling d Refining company The Mer-
cur mad six boxes of a total we:gst of
J. 1913 pounds, Wsnlle the Geyser- Madictl
, consignment consisted of seven boxes
weighing 1rl0l pounds.
Charlie Reed has returned from Eureka,
New, where he has been for the purpose
of making an inspection of the Diamond
and other properties in which he is m
teregted and over which Re mas gerercl
mana cement According to Mr.. Reed this
section is feeling the stimulating effects
of the advance in silver quo tatiors, and
he adds that the Diamond is shipping
regularly.
Bert Holden, who has the mana cement
Of the Old Jordan & Galena 1l4ne. ut
Bingham. states that the property is now
being worked to its full capacity and
that the present output is about 1900 tons
of ore a month The O. j. & G. IS
and it IS expected that this grand Old
producer will make a splendid record for
itself from this time on.
Another shipment of rich gold ore from
the Golden Star mime, Gold Mountain dis
trlct viii be made about the 15t of Octo-
some time, as the company 4 considering
the feasibility of the erection of mill,
as it is estimated that with g plant on
the ground the expense of SIS for freight