The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
Mining Notes and Personals.

! Western Mining World: ]. w. Young.
/ the general western manager OF the
| Fraser & Chalmers company. is in Butte
from Salt Lake.
Western Mining World: A. ". Mcclure.
of Salt Lake. stopped over in Butte this
week or his returh trip from British
Columbia, where hetis heavily interested
7 in mining.
The Bulletin. which is an able represen-
tative of the great camp of Bingham will
enlarge this week 10 a seven-column folio.
probation that is pleasing to see.
Nephi Republic: John w. Pike repre-
sentins big syndicate of mine owners,
came into Nephi Thursday evening and he
and H. ID. GOldSbrough took trip down
the Sewer. We hope some more syndi-
Gates VIII soon show up and help work
the IDLE prospects which we have in the
adjoining hills.
Cone. Woodbury. and Cain at the Eureka
mill. on the Comstock. will have daily
capacity of 80 tons. 1t is designs ted 10
work the taiings they have purchased.
gan mill tailings and those of the Nevada
or Chollar mil, aggregating about 10000
tons.
VernaI Express: The Victoria mining
property. more commonly known as the
Dyer mine. is TO be sold on the 18th of
June. Probably some one will get hold
Of the property that will do something
with it. as it has been idle for some time
The mine has plenty of ore in sight and
it is rich in copper and carries both gold
and silver in paying quantities.
Already the demand for copper for
electrical uses IS enormously Ialte So :
an exchange. but calculating IS years
ahead on the basis of the experience of
ten years Just past it is seen that the
demand of today is still close to a mini
num- 1t is rot unlikely that in a few
more years the earth will be searched al
most as closely for copper as for gold.
That this search is being vigorously
the fact that the production of copper in
this country for 1896 was 81 go 900 pounds
greater than for 1895.
Avalanche. Silver City Ida: The Black
Jack company continues to suffer from
the de2redations of concentrate thieves.
losing six sacks from its last months
The sacks were checked onto the cars all
right. and it Is the opinion of the COM
pany taat the concentrates We're stolen
after reaching the yards at Denver Sew
eral sacks Were stolen this spring be-
tween the mine and the railroad but the /
culprits were apprehended. Clark serving
a term n the Canyon county jail. and |
Sanders held for trial at this term of !
court
san Francisco Chronicles: This revival !
Of interest and activity in Meadow Lake /
-g-ows out of the belief that /
the ores or the many lodges partly ex- |
olored niany years ago in the district can
pc ,snelted prohtably. AT ali events. Salt /
Lake capitalists are putting their money .
into the venture 1t win |
le a great thing for that section of Ne
rada county if the rebellious ores OF
Meadow Lake can be made to give up
heir wealth. The gold is there and that
act has been known for ever so long.
'ut the difficulty which wrecked the camp
md forced miners TO desert 1t presented
tself when an effort was made TO
separate IT from its associations in the
ock in which it is imbedded. No process
# gold reduction then known could be
Dphed TO It successfully. The men who
AVE row undertaken to revivify the old
amp claim that they have DEVELOPED a
process that cannot fail