The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-24
Mining Notes and Personals

Mining Notes and Personals.
The Alice dividend of $4,000 is payable
today.
has returned from a business trip to San
Francisco
Work is being pushed in the Wonder,
at Mercur, and drift is being run on the
65O level to the south, where there is no
doubt as to the eXistance of large bodies
of ore.
II. c. Bacorn will go out to Mammoth
this morning. for the purpose of making
an examination of the OpeX on which
development work is being vigorously
pushed.
A carload of West Argent, from Stock
ton was on the market yesterday while
lot of firSt-claSS truck from the Star
Consolidated of Tintic was also dis
The Herald is Informed that in the
Kickapoo claim. embraced in the Nc
kinney group, on Lion hill, an 1S-inch body
OF 2S-ounce silver ore has been uncovered
in the face of the tunnel and that the
property is looking well.
1t is understood that George H. Robin
son, who is so well known in mining cir
Giles IN the west, is now al Bullionville,
New, where he is making ARRANGEMENTS
to work over the great pit of mill tailings
there by concentration, using the Peck
process.
Deputy City Treasurer P. o. Perkins has
secured the agency for the Elmore hand
rock drill, a machine which possesses
many excellent features and which is
endors9d by many mining men. A sample
drill is on exhibition at Korty's assay
office on West Temple street.
,, G. w Sawyer, a son of Judge A. B.
Sawyer, is in from Stockton, where he
mas been hard at work for the past IS
months in the operation of the old Tip
Top mine, in which the showing at the
present time is quite favorable. 1t is
Mr.. Sawyers intention to return to the
mine soon after the holidays.
Instead of declaring dividend as an
ucipated, the Phoenix Mining company. of
,B 5II paid back the money advanced
organization for the development of the
property. BY this means the company
starts out the new year with a clean
balance sheet and with a nice little sur
plus in the treasury.
Denver News: James Healy, formerly
IS a guest at the Albany hotel Mr.
Healey is still in the employ of Captain
De Lamar as a mining engineer, and is
engaged in examining mines presented to
the millionaire mine owner for invest
ment, He is in the city for the purpose
of visiting old friends and making his
Christmas purchases.
1t is learned that Dubrontz. the savant
who transmutes antimony into pure gold
the Salt Lake rival of Prof Brice of
Chicago. is so well satisfied with his ex-
periments that ne has enlarged and i'm
proved his furnace with the intention of
engaging in the manufacture of gold
from anumony on larger scale. 1t is
understood that tests have been made on
the metal produced by this gentleman,
and that it is sure-enough gold.
Charlie Van Alstine and Harry Joseph
have returned from Fish Springs district
where they have been making an examin-
alton of the Utah and Galena mines both
of which are being equipped with gasoline
hoiSts, the lumber and machinery for
which is now either on the ground or en-
Galena are both looking well and it is
understood that the latter mine has a
carload of good ore on the road to this
city.
Charlie Ford. who has charge of the
construction of the Chloride Point mill
and was in the city yesterday. states that
the machinery that is arriving at Mercur
is as fine as was ever put into a mill
in any country. The equipment for the
plant is now either at Mercur OF on the
ground at the mill. and Mr.. Ford states
that he expects to have the plant in run
ming order within a month. Mr.. Ford
also states that the mine continues to
show UP in excellent shape and that
marked improvements in the property are
noted daily.
Democrat, Baker City. Ore: The news
was received in the city yesterday by
telephone from Sumpter that in the cross
struck in the PyX mine in Robinsonvile
district. The report is authenticated and
may be relied on. The Pyx is owned by
Mr.. Albert Geiser, one of the owners and
manager of the great Bonanza mine, only
a few miles distant from the PyX. In this
latest development the Pyx is beyond any
question a valuable property and it may
be expected TO soon send in regular
monthly outputs.
Charlie Blythe attained his majority
yesterday ana celebrated the event by
pocketing $15,GQ9, being the sum paid by
CT. S. Holmes, OF the Knutsford for
fifth interest III the lot at corner Of Second
South and State. where the old Singer
building was a land mark for so many
years AS Mr.. Holmes was already the
owner of four-fifths of this valuable prop
erty the deal of yesterday gives him title
to the entire lot, on which he has made
marked Improvement during the past
summer in tho way of buildings which
have changed the appearance. of the cor
ner greatly for the better. A few years
ago the east side of State from Second
South to Third was hardly more than an
apple orchard, but through Mr.. Holmes
enterprise and effects this has been trans
formed into one of the busy portions of
the city with the magnificent Hotel
Knutsford on. one corner and the Wey
hotel on the other. Besides the hotel and
real estate business Mr.. Holmes is quite
heavily interested in mining and holds
interests in a number of valuable prop
critics.