The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-06
Mining Notes and Personals.

Mining Notes and Personals.
Sales of South Swansea were recorded
yesterday at S1.9O.
Another big mining enterprise is on tar
for Lion hill. in Ophir district
J. ]. Thomas will leave for Park City
this morning on mining business.
The Swansea was in the market yes
terday with 142 tons of ore which assayed
3 per cent lead and 60 ounces in silver to
the ton.
Frank NJ. Taylor. the manager of the
Taylor & Brunton Sampling Works COM
pany. is slated to arrive in the city this
morning.
a consignment of Mammoth concen-
trates $50 tons. was received in the city
yesterday. The lot assayed about 7S.5 per
cent lead. 2S.5 ounces silver and $50 in
! gold to the ton.
1t was reported yesterday afternoon
that bids of 81 for Mercur had been re-
! fused, and it is stated that the indica-
| tons that this security will go even
| higher than this in the near future.
Fred Redmond. the assayer at the
Northern Light mine, on Lion hill, who
| has been on the sick list for some time.
arrived in the city Thursday night and
! is now taking care of himself, as the say
/ ing is.
The Mercur Mining company yesterday
ordered a No. 5 Gates crusher for its
mill at Manning, and this addition to the
plant will be installed as soon as posi-
Il
over 500 tons daily.
Statesman, Boise Ida: Peter Poston is
in from Rock creek, where he and his
\ brother have some eight or ten mining
claims on which they are opening up
some good Lodges. On the Dixie and FL
Paso they are driving two tunnels which
will cut the ledge, they think, i'll a few
days.
Walter James of Blackjack and W. F..
Snyder and ]. A Moore of Marysvale are
" business
the application for patent on a mining
lode not far from the Sewer mine, in
Gold Mountain district, Piute county The
case is being fought in the United States
land office.
Messenger, Challis, Ida: The Custer
mill. al Custer, has closed down. and
only a small force of men is left on the
mines to do development work. 1t is
not known when operations will be re-
sumed, but probably not until new
mill is built for the old 30-stamp mill has
almost outlived its usefulness.
]. E. Foot and Frank Burmister expect
to leave for Skull valley within a few
days for the purpose of beginning devel-
ooment work on a promising claim near
the kanaka ranch, which is in the vi
cinity of the property on which a strike
was reported a month or ago. 1t is
the intention to sink hundred-foot shaft
on the property.
The secretary of the Buckeye Mining
company of Tintic received a telephone
message ITOD lIe Oh the
mine yesterday. in which it was stated
that the body OF ore lately disclosed in the
lower workings of the property had wild
ened out to two feet of solid high-grade
ore. A shipment of this ore is being load
ed at the mine.
1t is now definitely understood says the
Spokane Chronicle, that F. August HeinZe
VIII Immediately have the plans drawn
I'D for refining plant to treat the out
put from his Trail creek sme.tcr in British
Columbia. 1t will be similar to the plant
1T Butte and will make product that
will average about 9S per cent. This prod
uct is known as blister copper and car
ries, aside from copper. gold and silver.
Recorder, Anaconda, Mont. 1t is expect
ed that fully 5000 MOntanianS will go to
British Columbia this spring. Every day
Anaconda people are pulling out and
more preparing to leave. AT present the
hotel accommodations are limited. A man
who just arrived from Rossland says men
pay Is cents for the privilege of sleeping
boom is now on and everybody who can
drive a nail is put to work.
A mine is not made in a day, says an
exchange. 1t is long distance between
prospect and mine. and the distance must
be bridged by skill, energy, hard work and
capital. When the mine IS reached, how
ever everything is repaid many times
over. Good judgment and experience are
required to tell when the prospect may
be properly developed into a mine. Min
ing is safe and profitable when carried on
with the same amount of judgment as is
used in other successful business enter
prises.
There is an ore producer in this city
who is of the opinion that the smelling
combine is well organized. q he bases
his opinion on the eXperienc has had
with them during the past few --ys. T >
gentleman had lot of ore on The marker.
for which the local buyers were kin.
enough to offer almost nothing, outside
of their working charges. Hoping to re-
II. IA4t T1s1 ID oh J. fA1A
graphed his controls to two of the ore
buyers of Denver. One of these answered
that he was well supplied. while the other
wired that he had submitted a bid
through T. R. Jones &c CO. of this city.
According to the United Press quota
lions, lead made a great squirt yesterday
and closed strong at $3.40Q$3. IS The
Western Union quotations. which. it is
were the same as usual-s3.O5. The West
ern Union is the quotation on which the
smelters buy their ores and sell their
bullion. so it is claimed, but there is a
'nigger in the woodpile' somewhere. and
TIE miners and producers are the suffer-
ers. With the lead trust split wide open,
there might be some chance for the mine
owners of the west to get fair price for
the output of their mines. Down with
the trust,
who is in the city, informs The Herald
that it is his intention to take u course
in assaying either in Salt Lake or Eureka |
and that as soon as he mas mastered the I
science of determining the mineral value /
Of ores. ii is more than likely that he will I
open an office in Line City. as he has /
great confidence in the outcome OF the Z
new camps of State Line and Eagle val
ley. In speaking of the proposed mining
legislation. Mr.. Higbee states that it ]
would work great hardship on the min
ars and prospectors Of State Line district |
# the notices of location had to be re- /
corded at the county seat. rs this would /
require journey of 90 or 40 miles over a I
desert TO Parowan. which is the county 4
seat of Iron county. If this bill passes,
said Mr. Higbee. lit Will retard the /
of the district and prove a set /
back to its development.
Stock Broker.