The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-19

of his associates he has sent a mining
man to Alaska. This gentleman left for
the coast last Saturday with 81, 500 in his
jeans, and he can draw for as much more
as he may need. 1t is his intention to stop
at Dyea this winter and in the spring he
! VIII go on to KlondiNe.
a. L. Morris, the president of the Bea-
yer Lake Copper company and the Yellow
| Jacket Copper Mining company, left for
the east last night in the interest of these
and other propositions. Mr.. Morris is
pusher and is well informed as to the
naturalization of the state and knows
what he is talking about when present
ing meriforious projects to his clients find
patrons.
Ely, Ney News Several men were put
the work on the Southern Cross mime,
Robinson district. A within is now being
put up and other improvements being
made preparatory to making further de-
| lies contiguous to that of the chairman
Mining company and large bodies of
good pay ore have already been un-
covered.
A. NJ. Grant of the Colorado iron Works
company. who has just returned from a
! trip to Montana states that the decline
IN silver quotations is not being severely
| felt in that state as yet, because of the
1act that most of the mines there are
either gold or copper producers. Mr.
! Grant also stated that mining matters
were more than usually active in Mon
! tana camps and that the people there are
feeling good over the outlook
Charlie Stebbins. formerly of Salt Lake,
must be prospecting in Leadvtlie, as
dispatch from that camp says he has
just let a contract for 800 feet of prospect
! ing work to be done on the Grace Arthur
of the Chicago Mining & Water Power
company, located at the foot of Rosebud
given the contract, which is for 100 feet
| OF drifting both north and south, and 100
feet cross cutting west from the bottom
OF the 100 foot shaft.
(fontair1 T.71,o1IoV ECo-a11 has made an ex-
detrimental shipment of a carload of gold
ore to the Denver market. This lot runs
higher in gold than any consignment yet
made. The men at the mine are breaking
down more ore but it is the intention of
! the management of this Blue mountain
bonanza ITO devote more time to the de-
velopment of the mine rather than to the
extraction of ore. The Golden Star group
has just been surveyed for patent by ]. T..
Breckon. the well known mining engineer,
and Captain Egan speaks very highly of
| his work
g. @. Saunders of st. Louis. Mo-. and
were in the city on Tuesday of hhiS week
ON their way home from the Bull Run
mounytains, in Elko county, where they
nave a mountain of mineral with the
Showing of which they are SO we'll pleased
that it is their intention to erect a large
conceutrator ON the property at an early
day These gentlemen are convinced that
the future of the country at large depends
| principally upon the mining industry and
they propose to get in on the ground floor
! as soon as possible.
e. N. Jenkins is making good headway
| in the organization of his proposed syn
dictate for Klondike exploration Out of
the 20 members required he has secured
13 names, and most of the subscribers are
men of means. The company will send
TWO men out in the spring fully equipped
for prospecting in the Klondike country.
Mr. jenkins believes he will find no DIFF
fculty in filing up the vacancies, in tho
I(eor3 Jo,lo He
TO Silver City this morning for the pur-
pose of examining property there in
which he is interested
l.. M. Bernheisel of Chicago, who has
made fame in this western country as
bridge builder, returned home last night
after spending several days in looking
over the great gold camp of Mercur.. Mr.
Bernheisel is quite a heavy stakeholder in
the Northern Light, and he was highly
| impressed with the value anF u mise of
this property after giving il = thorough
examination. Besides going tL- ugh tine
workings of this Lion hill mine Mr.. Bern.
heisel spent some time in an inspection O.
the Mercur, and he was astorished at the
magnitude of this magnificent property.
w d. johnson. of Sunshine, the genial
manager of the Crown Point who is in
the CITY, is feeling greatly encouraged
over the favorable showing III this prop
ertg and he is sanguine that within
| Sunshine and Overland ore zone VIII be
exposed in this ground. The shaft on the
| Gold Point Is now down 325 feet. while
the formation is so regular as to leave
no doubt as TO the continuity of the ore
deposits of that locality. Mr.. Johnson
states that fine ore bodies are being
blocked out in the Overland and that it
is reported that the Electric will soon be
gin operations on a much larger scale
than at present.
Charlie Hudson is feeling elated over
the fact that in the inchne of the Silver
Cloud, near Silver City, Tintic, the forfna-
tton is becoming spotted with native cop
per, and II is now the intention of tho
company to drift for the ore body, which
1t is believed is not far distant, and if
expectations are realized the stockholders
of the concern will have cause to mourn
over the steady decline in silver quota
tions. In the Valley View. Just south of
the Silver Cloud, it is reported a pronis-
Ing gold strike has been made of late
There is a good body of copper ore ex-
posed in the Homestake and the other
mines Of that end of the district are find
ing mora gold and copper than formerly
on account of which there is a better fest
ing IN the camp than there was a month
or six weeks ago.
In accordance with an item that
appeared in these columns few
days ago relative to the action of
tho railroads and snelters of Colo
rates and smelling charges to mine
owners. 1T has been suggested that
the mine owners and producers of Utah
meet ait an early date to see If they can
NOT. by united effort, prevail mon f51a
railroads and smelters of this state to
make similar reductions This is Soma.
thing that concerns nearly every mining
man ma; in this western country One pro-
| queer cannot do much in this direction
alone but by concerted and united az
ton # is believed that much can be ac-
compished; Some of our leading mining
men men saould issue a call for a meeting Of
TINS character. say at the ChamnaT of
commerce and there is no doubt but tg,et
" YOU'D Pc well attended and that r1n 1lrI'
so2d would result tlerefron. - Ao'i
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