The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
900 tons of second grade on the dump.

900 tons OF second grade on the dump.
FRISCO.
The Frisco is just in the door as
producer, having this month completed
a shaft and drifts which give needed
circulation and open up $50 feet of
stopping ground, carrying a fine body of
good pay ore. The Frisco company,
with E. w. Center as manager, and
Mr.. Talbot as superintendent, has eX-
pended nearly $4,000 in developments,
machinery and improvements, in such
a manner that it is all in evidence.
The Improvements are good and every
thing about the premises betokens
thrift. The Frisco holds out the prom
Use of taking a prominent place among
the steady producers from now on
NIAGARA.
Important developments are in pro-
gress on the Niagara company's prop
erty Connection is to be made with
the long tunnel, from above which will
ultimately make the whole group trib-
utary to it The Spanish, during the
latter part of the year has been
steady shipper, and also has good
prospects.
PHOENIX.
The Phoenix is among the mines that
have latterly more than paid their way,
and after a long siege of preparatory
work, is in shape to make a good re-
turn. Its shipments have of late been
steady, its ore is of good grade. and
the property has now reached the level
of a dividend payer. The f1attering
condition of the Phoenix (Which in
cludes the CoramandeD is due largely
TO the staying qualities and close at
tention of Manager Andrew Gebhardt.
OTHER PROPERTIES.
Bingham is so prolific Of properties
that have made regulations, and new
ones in shape to output as the result
of improvements made and in progress,
that it is impossible to even mention
them in anything less than a review
much too lengthy for the purposes of
this article. High on the list in this
class are the Northern Chief, in But
terrified canyon, steady shipper since
March, the Last Chance, at the head
of Muddy gulch, with immense low
grade ore bodies awaiting completion
of mill now under construction, re
placing the one destroyed by fire early
in the fall; the Giant Chief, with it's
shipments of nearly 1000 tons since the
strike in May; Montezuma and Julia
Dean, in Markham gulch. with new ore
bodies opening; the Golden Opportun-
ity, Yosemite No. 1, Tiewaukie, Nep-
tune, Sampson, PetrO, York, Storey,
Greeley, Red Wing and many others
that need but a little time to make
regulations or renew old ones. So we
conclude that with a fair market, the
Old Reliable is likely to duplicate in
1888 it's performance of 1896 in output
tonnage
WEST MOUNTAIN PLACERS.
A feature among Binghams fair
prospects is the resuming of develop
ments by a strong company on the
West Mountain and contiguous placers,
recently referred to in these columns.
That bedrock work in any part of the
main canyon would prove profitable, is
a fact demonstrated by the result of
surface and rim washing carried on in
the early days of the camp. Fortunes
were made then. Large capital, owing
to the underflOw, was needed to go
down to bedrock, and it is now en-
listed.
Half a dozen or more mills are to be
added to the local reduction capacity
of Bingham in the coming year They
include the Last Chance concentration,
to be completed in January; remodel
ing of the old Markham mill plant.
now in progress, to be run in cOnnec-
ton with the Giant Chief mine; Gus
tom mill, planned by a new company
and to be located in the main canyon
above the Markham; mating process
for the Dalton & Lark, and concentra-
tors for the Fortune and Mammoth
mines, to be operated by electricity. a
line for which is now being run from
Jordan narrOws. This line will also
furnish power for extending the Bing-
ham tunnel, which is ultimately to tap
at great depth the principal veins on
the Dalton & Lark side.
A hopeful sign for Bingham is that
during the past year quite a large
number of companies have been organ
lied to operate new properties. Some
of them are not heavily capitalized,
but since the easily mined carbonate
has largely disappeared, combined ef-
fort, even in a small way, beats single
handed. The reputation of Bingham
as a poor mans camp" is passing.