The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-16
Mining Notes and Personals.


is paid by the miners for his labor.
Mining Notes and Personals.
A 6O-ton lot of Caresa ore was received
d from Silver City yesterday that assayed
silver and gold.
The Macintosh sampler yesterday re-
ported the receipt of 20 tons of Silver
King ore and 10 tons of Varcoe and
F1indt concentrates.
Fred Redmond, the assayer for the
Northern Light, met with a loss yester-
day, as some sneak thief stole his new
office .
Charlie Crane, who has been chasing
| mines in Idaho for the past year. has
returned from the Boise Basin, where
ne succeeded in tying up some valuable
.n Times na Cassia County Ida: Mr.. Hardy
ahG one or two mining experts of Salt
L21e City. are now on Conner creek in
speeding the mining interests. He is well
a.eased with the outlook of the Conner
! c. L. Preble, the Mercur miner and
merchant, was in the city yesterday on
business Mr.. Preble states that the out
,Iok Ior Mercur is most promising and
mat ne looks for great activity through
out the district in the spring.
On account of the magnificent showing
tnat the producers of Utah have been
making this month in the way of dividend
49, II Is DtleNeO IN mining circles
that this will be a prosperous wear in
tne state as far as the mining industry is
concerned. "
The company operating the North Star
IN Fast hootenay, British Columbia has
large number of men at work There
are about 1000 tons of ore on the dunn
and about LOCO tons at the landing. The
company will have three and possibly
-FOUR steamboats, transporting ore TO Jen-
nings, Mont.
1t is rumored on the streets that there
Is nkely to be serious difficulties in the
near future between some of the owners
OF the Napoleon mine. near Mammoth
and the Ajax Mining company. as it is
claimed that the Ajax management is TAX
ing ore out of the Napoleon ground Be
sides this there is liable to be a law suit
lode
=, The Humbug mine of Eureka, was in
the market yesterday with a shipment
OF to tons OF ore that assayed 10.5 per
cent lead, l5S ounces silver and $3.50 in
gold 10 the ton. The lot was sold to the
Germahla smelter at the rate of 5000 a |
ton f o. b.. Tintic. The Humbug has |
made wonderful record since the dis !
covery OF ore IN this property a few |
months ago and its fortunate owners |
have-made stake out of it.
News. Blackfoot Ida: A new mineral |
belt has been discovered near Sheridan
remont county. The information is |
gwen the News by Mr.. Spencer Harwood.
ne states that a number of DrosDectors |
c. Justly engaged on locations recently !
n..de that promise great things for the
owners Assays made from specimens
OF rock taken out indicate bodies of high
grade ore. 1t is thought this NAV prove
|" De the Montana mineral belt extend
ing west
Ed Loose, the grand mogul of the
Grand Central mine at Mammoth. was
IN the city Yesterday for the purpose
which has troubled him considerably of |
"a te. According to Mr.. Loose the mine
Is looking fine, and although he has not
been able to give it his personal atten-
tlon during the past few weeks, the re-
ports from there are of the most en-
couraglng nature. The Grand Central
soon De IN a position to enter the list as
4 heavy shipper.
Keystone. Ketchum, Ida: Nels Weaver
;ar,e down from Boyle mountain We'd
lesday and brought some very fiattering
news from that section. The Ben Harri. ;
son mine. owned by Johnny Miley. will
peat its former record this season as a
PRODUCER of silver The men emDlOved |
n the mine have struck fine bodies or
re in both the upper and lower tunnels
md they are knocking down chunks that
velgh 400 and 500 pounds. James Lowery
md Nels Weaver who are working the
win mine, are taking out ore right ,
long. also Joe Byers and Joe Carne.
there will be about 500 tons of ore
hiDDed from Boyle mountain the COM
nS spring. {
Chronicle. Spokane Wash: New dis
overies of mineral are daily being made z
! close proximity to Spokane. The latest {
eport comes from Mill canyon. five miles t
orth of Mondovi, where a large body of / a
re has been uncovered. assays from
1hich give as high SIS in gold. Several {
rominent Big Bend citizens, including
saac H. Minnick. Charles Hughes and
harles Minnick, have become interested l.
that section and have bonded three a
Iatms which they are having developed O
IN one of the claims they have % foot b
,dCp which fheN cin
haft- They are only five miles from 9
Iondovi on the Central Washington. and !,
hey expect to ship ore sometime during i
lie coming summer. n
Roundup. Randolph Utah: The mines p
n our lake shore between Laketown and p
arden City are attracting much atten- &
on lately Splendid assays of free mill s
8 ore have been made. and the owners {.
some of the properties have succeeded y
getting capitalists interested. We may !.
-oect big results from the mines this u
EAR. The new gold strike in which c. E b
nderson, j. R. South. William Brough | o.
Id Levi o. Pead are interested. situated b
Old canyon, BIDS fair to become the r,
'nanza- As result of the assays made II
Salt Lake City, work has been resumed -
it'll increased vim, the parties interested u
wing made preparations to work on ei
e mine all winter. The exact figures of 1t
e assay will not be diVulged at present
It we understand they are very en- nv
uraging and far exceeded the expecta- m
ms of the interested parties. -,
inter- Mountain. Butte. Mont: Prepara- ~
us are being made TO resume active -
o-l- on the placer ground in the Lost pr
lild district, north of Walkerville this We
ason- For number of years past sew al
I'll placer miners have been working m
ere in 4 small way, ground-sluicinS. but te
ring the coming season hydraulics will
put in at the Belvidere, Comet and tr
ne-ican placers. The Belvidere viii be :;
,rked by David Johnson, the Comet by 70
I'm Cooney and George Freere ana the ga
nerican by Callahan and others. These m
ODerties are all in the vicinity of the vi
zee ground owned by the Ruby Cold tn
Sapphire company. in which a great On
mber of shares were sold some years -,
o. The gold obtained from these placers -
the finest of any found in the state
ts:de of the Highland placers- The IN
lund, however, is very shallow, ii be- Eel
only about six feet TO bed rock. tel
,. J. Donohue. the manager of the re:
eX mine near the Mammoth who was Du
the city yesterday. informs he Herald mi
It the property IS in most promising fey
ldition. and that there seems but little of
Ibt but that with depth a fine body of ~,
will be encountered. The shaft is - -
" down to the 250-foot level the forma- tn'
n and manganese. Already values are sid
ng found, as assays of from two to the
zee ounces silver and 81 in gold are de,
ng obtained from the rock in the bot inv
1 of the shaft. Captain Hank Smith
of the Centennial Eureka =
q is a stockholder in the Opex states the
/ he will stake his reputation as mo
Ter that the OpeX workings will I'M ito
err the extension of the Centennial ing
reka vein. If this theory proves to be oyy
ret i ne opea WIN 10 n oecone ha'
ers in Tintic district in time. Work III
the development of the property is TO
lg pushed as rapidly as possible with