The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-17

c. The plant is to have a capacity of
800 tons a day.
Time. Albion. Ida: A reliable report
ssnehes us o 81 big mn mining bsod STRIFE e az
of Rock creek. The vein is about Is
feet wide and is said to carry consider
able gold. J. f. Harrington. J. e Bowers
and Lewis Camp are the locators. They
| intend to develop the property without
delay.
Times. Albion, Ida: Rev Charles
! Luckc. who is interested in the Black
Pine Mining district as the manager OF
the interests of a PocatellO mining corpo-
ration operating in that district. was in
/ Albion the first of the week. Property
two locators are claiming the same
ground and are unable to come to an
| understanding.
Times. Albion. Ida: George Burdick
| and Jack Comerford came down from the
Monarch claim. They report that the
raise on the Monarch tunnel has been
| completed. and pay ore Is being taken
out in large quantities. The Monarch is a
the most promising ones in the district.
| Wo-lz is being prosecuted under the SUI
Dervision of Fritz Schwartz
World. Idaho City. Ida: Win Loman.
John Jackson and Peter Gerhart of Boise
! passed through this place Wednesday
morning with pack train loaded with
/ supplies bound for their placer claim near
/ tie head OF Miller creek on the north
/ side of the South Fork of Payette Their
! claim is q short distance above the old
Miller diggingS. They have also located
claim on a quartz ledge that they believe
was the source of the placer gold. The
placer ground was opened last year. They
:.:ll have good supply of water until
late in the fall.
Pcgsn Globe: Quite a stir in mining
has been going on this week up the can
yon and everything indicates that there
is really going to be a mining camp
started near the city. Eleven locations
have been recorded in the past week. and
we are Informed that Tom Coward has
disposed of an interest in three claims
for $500 to a mining man from Eureka.
Several men from Eureka have been up
taking observations and making locations.
Work on several claims is being pushed
and we expect to be able TO give some
thing more definite concerning the out
look in our next issue.
Statesman, Boise Ida: George Wise
has received a letter from Joseph Cooke
~ Deadwood basin conveying the infor-
nation that Hercules Taylor had been
found dead in his cabin there. The letter
was dated May 4. No particulars are
given. Deceased wintered in the basin
and was some 20 miles from any other
miner. He an old timer. having been
in Boise basin in 1867 and returned a few
years ago to resume mining in this state.
His relatives live in California. Mr.. Wise
states that piping has begun on the Cat
lin property. He will soon leave for the
camp, taking John Bledso with him to
WORK in the mine. Mr.. Wise has had
charge OF the work there for several
years.
A special from Santa Fe, n. NJ. says:
1t IS announced from San Pedro today
that a miner named Alexander has made
a strike of free gold quartz valued at 49,.
600 ton in the Gold Coin claim. located
1100 feet from the Carley Amanda work
ings. which have yielded $4,000 after so
feet of development. The ore in the claims
is Identical The same class of ore has
also been found more than mile east of
the Carley-Aranda property. which con-
firms the opinion of mining men that the
adjacent territory for miles will event. !
uail,- be shown to be Il rich and impor-
tant gold field. All the country has been I
located by miners. and there is a lively I
scramble going on among the moneyed |
me-. of Santa F'e, Las Vegas and Albu- |
duercue to purchase interests in the /
claims.
Record. Phoebe, New: Tuesday after
noon at about 4 o'clock John Levan had a |
narrow escape while working in pros /
of town He had charged two holes in .
the face of a 40-foot tunnel. One fired |
all right, but the other hung. and after /
waiting something like ten minutes he |
ventured to re-enter the tunnel. He had |
proceeded but n short distance. however.
when the second shot went off. throw
ing rock in every direction Several
pieces struck Levan on the head and
body but must have lost their force from
contact with the walls and roof OF the
tunnel since though cut and bleeding.
he was able to come to town last night. A
few feet further and few seconds more
time and the result would have been dis
astrous to Levan-