The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-25
WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT.
The Bingham Bulletins Review of
The Camp.

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The Bingham Bulletins Review of
The Camp
The Bingham Bulletin, in its review |
of the mining interests of the camp, |
says:
The leasers running the 400 level of |
the Winnamuck mine are making about |
five feet each way daily. and have |
each run about so feet, so that leo of !
the 500 feet under contract are already |
completed. They have been working
less than three weeks. and at the pres !
ent rate will finish much sooner than
anticipated. The ground is compare
lively soft. but it is a wet nasty job
Other development work in progress |
includes a Crosscut running from the
500 to the footwan, distance of over
100 feet Ore is coming from the
slopes, and the October shipments are
likely to equal the September output.
BRIEF SHUT DOWN.
The Highland Boy mill started I'D
last Thursday night after a shut down
of two days, during which two ten foot
revolving screens were substituted for
the four Berthlott double screens form
erly used. The change was neces-
STATED by failure of the discarded
screens to do the work required, and is
proving very satisfactory. The new
screens viii soon be housed to reduce
the dust nuisance. at present a dis
agreeable feature and other measures
viii be taken to overcome it as far as
possible. The mill has not yet been
speeded I'D to it's 100 tons daily
capacity, but Superintendent BEETLES
says he is in no hurry to put the new
machinery to full test and that it
will easily meet all expectations when
required
BEGGING CAPITAL
Though less than a year under active
development, the Highland Boy is to-
day one of Bingham's great mines. 1t
is marvel that there are many claims
within the copper belt, supposed to be
on the same vein as that property and
with equally good surface indications.
vainly inviting capital to take hold of
them. To the assertion that the IN
developed claims are held too high we
reply with the prediction that within a
year every one will command q better
price than that for which it may now
be had. Bingham is the coming Utah
copper camp.
DIPS AND SPURS.
About six car loads of ore are daily
leaving the depot.
The Giant Chief is this week ship
ping several car loads of crude ore
The waste dump of Winnamuck is
growing like a mushroom as a result
of the large amount of dead work in
progress.
Heber Case. co-owner with Gov
ernor Wells in the LeVant was out
from the city on Monday and visited
that promising property. on which
development work is progressing
The working shaft of the Frisco has
now reached 60 feet depth below tun-
mel level, and 400 below apex Of vein.
The mine will soon be in fine condition
for production.
On Wednesday II. L. Mygatt began
operations under contract to run a
( working tunnel for the st. Patrick
group of claims, owned by the West
Mountain Cold & Copper company.
e. Mcfarland has Just completed a
contract for T. +. Jones. sinking an
! incline on Argonaut ground. It is a
promising copper prospect, and further
! development work is likely to begin
very soon.
j. H Brown of the firm of Brown,
Terry & Woodruff, was out from the
city Monday and visited the Alice
claim near the Frisco, for which him.
/ self and co-owners have applied for a
patent.
It augurs we'll for the future activ-
ity and prosperity of Bingham that
companies are being organized to open
up its idle properties and those that
have heretofore been worked at d dis
advantage. Capital and combined eff
, fort will soon make paying mines of
what are now prospect holes.
/ Last Saturday night the tunnel of
( the Fortune mine had reached LOO
( feet in length and there was every in
! dication at the face that it VIII soon be
I in a good body Of ore. Manager Hill
( is steadily pushing work on the Key
stone and Fortune, and Will make
/ about the usual shipments this month.
4 A company has Just been formed to
( develop the Belmont lode claim in this
district. The capital stock is $50, 600
and the officers are Joseph z. Oglesby
/ president; ". P. Lynn, treasurer. and
| Lilburn P. Palmer secretary-these
with NJ. b. Brown, constituting a board
J of directors.
The Highland Boy company is ship
( ping 200 to 800 tons of crude ore
monthly as the result of development
work in the sulDhide areas of the
{ Highland Boy vein. The product car
ries good pay in copper, silver and
/ gold, and is much wanted by smeIters
/ Immense Slopes are being blocked out
! and as cIosscuts show the vein to he
/ over so feet wide. one can dimly con-
ceiVe of results that will follow Wher
the company decides to turn loose fol
active production. The day the work
begins will be one of the most impor-
! toTt i'm rho history Qf Rim nhaul