The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-21
GOLD MOUNTAIN INTELLIGENCE
The Richfield Advocates Review of
the Gold Camp


Saturday afternoon the Bolitho-Hess
group of nine placer claims was sold
/ to Captain D. w. Davis and Willes
Rout, for $4,000. Davis is an Omaha
and Salt Lake capitalist and Rouff
halls from Rock Springs, Wyo. The
former is now on the ground. in Gold
Mountain district, and the latter will
j shortly remove hither with his family.
! twenty-five pans of the Bclitho-H Hess
/ sand made last week showed it going
soc yard from top TO bottom. There
! is at least four years of it in sight.
Eight men will at once be put to work
on two hydraulic plants and it is
inquired that each man can net SO per
day. Messrs. Davis and Rouff guaran-
tee to pay the $4,000 in monthly install
nents of $500 at least. and if 75 per cent
Of the net proceeds per month shall ex-
. ceea ms amount, they pay the exces
10 apply on the original purchase price.
1t is appropriated that rs per cent of
the net proceeds will amount to about
$1,400 month, so that it viii require
only some seven months to pay the
50, 900.
South of the Butler-B Beck Messrs.
Hess and Bolitho own the Grant, Lin
coin, Garfield. Clipper, Golden and
Savage, silver propositions, going from
S6 to SO in gold. Hess goes to work
there at once to add to the length of
three tunnels on the vugs.
Moore and Snyder'S. Holland placer
has been under operation two weeks
now. Seventy feet of sluice boxes have
been set, 200 feet of piping is in place
ana bedrock is laid bare. Two eight
hour shifts are burrowing through the
all pay dirt.
just below the Holland is another
placer wheel bearing the name of Pop
ulist. Recent encouraging develop
ments on the Populist show there is
nothing in a name. 1t is owned and
operated by w. c. Dodge, Charles
Voigt, ]. H. Van Pelt and A. 1. Rowley.
the Sewer has dug a trench from its
mill along the road to dry ground be-
low, the object being to carry off the
melting snow. The indications are that
President Charles Lammersdorf means
business this season.
Its usual force is drifting on the
Miller's vein
Work is being steadily prosecuted on
the new S00-foot tunnel of Longs
Breckenridge.
yer King is going to ship all kinds of
ore this summer
Ore is being blocked out at the upper
workings of the Blue Bird, and $50
feet lower down a new tunnel has been
started. About June 1 a quantity of
ore, now on the Blue Birds dump and
in its bins, Will be sent north.
The Annie Laurie's board of di-
rectors Will come from Castle Gate on
June 10 to take a peek at the diggings
ana arrange or immediate operation.
Four men. paid by Moore and Sny-
der. soon start sinking on the rich
ledge of the Advocate, running-mate of
the Miller
Bill Cummings was over from
Kanosh the first Of this week negoti-
ating for an option on the Congress,
owned by Billy Johnson. Tom Ross,
Snyder and himself. Depth is all. the
Congress needs to make of it
bonanza.
Next week Gus Holmes, the Knuts-
ford hotel man, and Joe Ray begin
making fur fly on their bonded Trap
per's Pride.
The cold season was spent in Arizona
by NJ. ]. Higgins. VINO has returened
10 while away the summer on his Pea
Ridge and War Eagle.
Bill Jones and Charley Medley are
photographing Gold Mountain mines
and scenery. That field of art is hard
to heat.
Willard Snyder has 81 button made
of gold from every mine on Gold noun
tain. 1t is to be made into a bauble of
jewelry.
Miners say it is all off with the snow
the first proximo.