The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

the "Old Walker trail" in Ophir dis
trict, west of the Northern Light mine.
distance of 100 feet. and in the face the
formation is beginning to carry encour-
aging gold values.
Assays of ore from the Gold King dis
trict. Lincoln county, Nevada, mention
of which was made in these columns yes
terday, gave values of 22.S per cent and
ga per cent copper to the ton.
E. H. Airs, of the Mercur company
who returned Monday night from a visit
of inspection to the mine. informs 1 ne
Herald that the property is looking fine
and that ore bodies are being constantly
disclosed in various portions of the mine.
". W. Chisholm. of the Centennial
Eureka, accompanied by his wife. re-
turned a few days ago from their visit to
the gulf and to points of interest in
Florida Mr. Chisholm states that they
had a very pleasant visit but that he
was glad to get back to Salt Lake again,
where he could breathe the bracing and
invigorating air of the mountains.
Prof. Charles LaBelle. who has won
manufacture of an excellent quality of
rubber from elaterite and mineral wax. is
out with a new invention, which consists
of waterproof crayon, which is also
product of the mineral deposits of the
state, the component parts of which are
believed to be mineral wax or elaterite.
The crayon is very useful article in
many ways, and is an ingenious inven-
ton.
Robert Sterling, who assisted in making
the United States geological survey of
Tintic district last year, was in the city
yesterday: Mr.; Sterling informs The
Herald that although the commission
made a survey of II square miles of the
district that it has not as yet completed
its work and that in the spring operations
will be resumed, when it is more than
nkely that the whole district will be gone
over and large map made of the camp,
which will be on scale of an inch to
the mile. A report of this character will
be an invaluable acquisition for the dis
trict.
Democrat. Baker City. Or: Colonel
James Painting, manager of the Brunt
River Mining company, with scene of
operations at Gold HILL came in last
evening over the o. r. & n. and is at the
Hotel Warshauer. Colonel Painting
brought with him a number of samples
of ore from the underground workings
OF one of the mines in course of oevel-
ooment and they have attracted consid-
cradle attention from mining men. The
samples are extremely rich and give
most favorable indication of the merits
of the properties his company has been
so fortunate in securing.
correspondent from Grand Forks
British Columbia, in writing 10 the Butte
Miner. makes mention of a rich strike
in r. Bell property, owned by Salt Lake
people, as follows: A big strike was
made at Summit camp last week in the r.
Bell property, owned by a Salt Lake
company. A vertical double compartment
shaft was being sunk 90 feet to the north
of the vein, which is on an incline. At
depth of so feet they struck into the.
ore body and barely had time to get out
With some of the ore before the mine
was flooded with water. 1t is the finest
sulphide ore yet found in the country. I
speak OF this property because ii is near
the famous Emma mine, owned by the
Parrot company of Butte.
There was an air of great activity in the
Office of the Highland Boy Mining COM
pany yesterday, as the company was
busy in the opening of the bids for the
of the mill. which is soon
to be erected at the companyS Bingham
mines. There were about ten machinery
on the anxious seat during the
day, nearly all of which had representa-
tres on the ground, among the number
being l.. c. Trent e. Co., The Utah e
Fraser & Chalmers of this city.
the Risdon Iron Works company of San
Francisco and the F. NJ. Davis Iron
WORKS company, the. e. P. Ellis com,
pany, the Denver Engineering Works and
the Colorado Iron Works company of
Denver The contract for the plant was
let TO the Mine e Shelters Supply COM
pany of Denver.
F. H Peyton and H. C. Bacorn, of
Mammoth. who are officers of the ODex
Mining company, were in the city yester-
day for the purpose of attending the an
nual meeting of the Mammoth Mining
company. When seen by a representative
Of The Herald, these gentlemen stated
that the outlook for the Opex was most
and that they were strong
in the belief that it was only question
of time before the workings in this prop
erty would tap the extension of the Cen
ore zone. The shaft in
the ODeX IS now down to the 325-foot
level, the bottom being in a cherry lime,
which. in that locality, is considered as
a very favorable indication. The COM
pany is pushing development work with
a force of eight men, and at the rate at
nj oh no < n
not be long before there is a change in
the formation. Messrs. Peyton and Ba-
corn speak very enthusiastically of the |
growth and future outlook for Mammoth |
and are of the opinion that in time it /
will make one of the most progressive /
mining camnS in the west.