The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-06
Mining Notes and Personals.

me Macintosh sampler yesterday re-
ceiFed ia tons of Silver King ore.
. Hon. c. V. Wheeler, treasurer of the
south swansea mine. will leave for Sill
/ yer City this morning for the purpose OF
inspecting this splendid property
Dr. George Haslam of Fremont. Neb
ACCOMPANIED by his wife and child is in
me city. the guest of his father-in-law
manager John Dern of the Mercur mine
Fred Nelson of the Tintic Miner ac-
connoanfed by his wife. is at the Cullen.
Mr.. Nelson states that Tintic is booming.
ana is elated over the future outlook for
! the camp.
Joseph E. Ray of Fillmore is I'm the city
Tor the purpose of negotiating a sale of a
promising piece of property adjoining the
! Sewer mine on Gold Mountain, known
as the Jake Miller mine.
F. B. Cook and C. F. Seyler will leave
this morning for Silver City. Tintic. for
the purpose of making arrangements for
the resumption of work on a valuable
group of claims near Treasure Hill.
Word has been received from the Cen
fury mine in Box Elder county that the
property is looking better than ever. A
ione tunnel is being run in this ground
10 tap the vein at a considerable depth.
GIL S Peyton was out to the mouth
OF Little Cottonwood yesterday for the
purpose of making an examination of the
O,pper NINE; on which he recently Sc
cured bond. 1t is the intention to be-
GIN at once the systematic development
of this property with a good force of men.
1t is stated that the Morgan Mining
company of Hardscrabble has sent some
of its ore to Swansea Wales. to he
testec- and that it IS expected the re-
suits of the experiment will be received
before the end of the month. Meanwhile
development work is being vigorously
pushed.
The Diamond Coal company of this city
has just let contract for an automatic
round rope steam hoist with capacity
OF sinking to depth of G,000 feet z. P
All.s & Co. of Milwaukee secured the
contract, and the plant is to be erected
at the company's coal mines az Diamond
vile. Wyo
The Austin New Mining company will
soo1 solicit bids for cross compound
300 horsepower Coriss engine for the
new mill that is being erected on its prop
erty. Besides the engine the company will
put in four boilers of a capacity of 125
horsepower each, with Fleming purifier
attachments.
Hon. Thomas G. Merrill is pushing work
in the development of the Vanderbilt
group OF claims, on the west dip in Camp
Ftovd district, and he informs The Her
work progresses. NJ. Merrill is also peg
ging away in the development of the
Pocahontas group, near Silver City.
z. E. Crooks and Clarence Mccormick
the two well known mining experts will
leave for Silver City this morning for the
purpose of making an examination of the
Rabbit Foot mine. Upon their return it is
natural to suppose that their yellow
TONED boots will be we'll covered with
mud. and that there will be any amount
of candle grease on their corduroys.
It is stated that G. H. Schue has Sc
cured a bond on the May Queen group of
claims at the mouth of Clay canyon
about mile and half above Fairfield |
and that it is his intention to begin the
development of the property at
an early date Mr.. Schue has other prop !
critics adjoining the May Queen, and he !
is very favorably impressed with this 10
cality.
Fred w. Bush, who was formerly con-
rected with the Connecticut Reduction |
Works of this city, is now putting up |
mills in the Black Hills. A F. Holland, /
who was in the employ of Mr.. Bush while .
here. will leave tomorrow for the pur- I
pose of joining him, as he has been as
5ured of a good layout there in the same
inc of business. Messrs. Bush and He'll
md made many friends in Zion during
heir stay here.
George H. Gillett of New York, a for
ne- resident of this city, is just in from
Mercur, where he has been for the pur-
pose of examining the Sage Hen group,
which was purchased by himself and as
;ociates last fall. Mr.. Gillett is also in
crested in valuable properties in Ne
ada At one time he was an owner in
he Golden Star group. in Gold Mountain
district, but. owing to circumstances over
which he had no control, he was obliged
o part WIN the same MT. lTllleJI VIII
cave for the east tomorrow.
J. H. Marriott of Osceola New, who
las been in the city for several days. left
or home last night. Mr.. Marriott states
hat there hass been more snowfall at
)sceola this winter than has been the
2se for number of years, and he pre-
lets that this great gold placer camp
viii be more than usually active this sea-
on. He also says that we may look for
he arrival of gold bars from the camp
his year. The recent rich finds at Osce-
IL have had the effect of attracting at
ention to the mineral wealth of the dis
ret. in consequence of which a large
mount of development work will be done
here as soon as the sluicing season
pens
Judge j. H. Wolcott of this city writes
olonel c. A. Henry from Clifton mining
istr;ct that he has opened uD some fine |
odies of rich ore on two of his proper
es. and that since. the colonel left the
amp some time ago several valuable dis
overies had been made there. He fur
.e- stated that the outlook for the dis
-;ct was a bright one, taking it all in
II. and especially so since it begins to
,oI- as if the Oregon Short Line was :
kelly to extend its line into the Deep
reek country. The petition for the
mango of the mail route from this city
, Ibapah has been sent in to the depart -,
ent. The petition contained 1,50O sigma
Tres.