The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-01

Inc sunbeam MINING company has
secured an extension on its $4,000 OPP
ton on the Mediation ground. which
expired last Saturday, and will con-
tinue the development.
Fred G.. Leonard. who is heavily in
terested in Mercur. was out Wednes-
day looking at some of Silver City S
bonanzas and we are pleased to learn
may become interested here.
The leasers on the Alaska are pre-
pairing to put in a steam hoist and
pumping plant. In the meantime but
little is being done at the property,
owing TO the great flow of water.
Work was commenced on the Gov
| ernor Monday, a force being employed
in cleaning up around the property.
In few days active development work
Will be commenced in the new shaft,
which is now down about 100 feet.
There seems to be a misunderstand-
ing in regard to the amount of ground
| owned by the Murray Hill Mining COM
pany. and the company has commits
stoned S. Fechheimer to ascertain ex-
actly the amount of ground owned.
Another new strike of shipping ore
was made Monday in the Buckeye. in
the bottom of the shaft at the 350-foot
level. We are at this writing unable
/ to ascertain the value of the ore, but
it is undoubtedly of a very good grade.
Will c. Higgins, who hustles the
elusive mining items for The Salt Lake
Herald, came down on a special min
/ ing excursion last Sunday Wits de-
partment is a credit to himself and TO
The Herald and many Tintic friends
are proud of his success.
! George Adams advises us that he
/ expects to let a 100-foot contract on
the Tennessee Rebel group today. so
/ that the contractors can commence
work tomorrow, the 1st. Work on the
ousIy and the shaft is now down 100
feet.
f. J. Yard. resident engineer Of the
Rio Grande Western. came out Monday
and is engaged in the survey of pro-
posed switch to the Swansea and South
Swansea mines. The new track, if
built, will be used jointly by the Rio
Grande Western and Oregon Short
Line.
Jesse Knight advises US that his tun-
mel in the Slate Contact group in North
Tintic is now in over 20 feet. Mr..
Knight proposes to send this tunnel in
at least 200 feet and prove whether or
not the ore exists in this contact He
also states that he will at once push
the ground TO patent.
superintendent W. j. Lawrence re-
ports a great Improvement in the
Morning Glory. The ore body on the
265-foot level has widened out and is of
much better quality. An average assay
from the face of the vein shows values
of 80 ounces silver and $1.20 in gold.
The Morning Glory is going to prove
winner.
w. S. Fulgate advises us tHat the
patent survey of his Cliff group will
be commenced this morning by Frank
Anderson. deputy United States min
eral surveyor. This group consists of
the Gift, Franklin. General Jordan
and Emma claims, lying near Diamond,
and embraces the property commonly
called the Susan claim.
J. c. Marx returned Sunday from
several DAYS visit in Salt Lake. He
reports the ore holding out we'll at the
Black Dragon, but says that no ship
ments will be made until the wagon
road is completed. A temporary ore
house is being constructed to hold what
ore is necessarily being taken from the
mine in the meantime.
William Hatfield has resigned his po-
sition as superintendent of the Swan
sea mine, which he has held since the
incorporation of the company We I'M
derStand that, as least for the present,
no successor Will be appointed, Fore
man S. E. Ware taking charge of the
property Mr.. Hatfield has numerous
other interests, to which he will devote
his attention.
Work on the new Eureka Hill pipe
line is being pushed and connection
will soon be made with the Mammoth
Cherry Creek line. We understand that
the Eureka Hill company has closed
contract with the Mammoth company
for So. 900 gallons of water daily, which
will be ample for all the needs of the
Eureka Hill people until the line is nm
ished to the Shoebridge mill site.
Captain W. II. Smith of the Centen-
NAL Eureka visited the Lucky Boy
group. south of Diamond, Wednesday,
in company with the owners, and made
a thorough examination of the ground.
The DEVELOPMENT of the property so
far. has been eminently satisfactory
and we understand that work Will be
resumed at once. The proposed incor-
poration will be held in allegiance for
the present.
The stockholders of the Big Four
Mining company held their annual
meeting at the Union hotel on Wednes-
day night A satisfactory report was
rendered and it was agreed TO sink the
shaft another 90 feet The following
were elected as directors fer the coming
year: William f. Racker. Mosiah
Evans, Henry Lewis, E. A. Goodwin
and 5. ]. Goodwin.-Lehi Banner. The
Big Four company owns promising
group of claims about a mile west OF
Eureka and have done considerable de-
velopment.
Shipments from the district for the
week are as follows: From the Bull
lion-Beck mine 10 carloads, from the
Bullion-Beck mill 10 carloads concen-
trates. from the Centennial Eureka
carloads ore. from the Eureka Hill .
carloads ore, from the Uncle Sam
carloads ore, from the Clarissa 4
carloads ore, from the Ajax carloads
ore. from the Mammoth mill carloads
hn
carloads Ajax concentrates, from the
South Swansea carloads ore, from the
Dragon Iron mine carloads ore daily
At the time of the construction of the
Bullion-Beck concentrating plant 1t
was announced as the intention OF the
to add to it an analgamator
The visit of the Bullion-Beck directors
last Sunday has given rise to the
report that it is the immediate inten-
ton of the company TO change the
present plant into a combination mill.
after the order of the
Hill mill. 1t is doubtless fact
that a large part of the value of the
ore is lost under the present concen- {
trating process, and also a fact that
the Bullion-Beck has large bodies of (
low grade ore which do not admit Of /
successful reduction by concentration. |
The contemplated change in the mill /
would be a great saving TO the COM !
pany and the improvement would very |
soon pay for itself.
Jesse Knight advises us of new |
strike Of ore made Monday in the up
per level of the HumbuG mine. This /
new discovery is about 200 feet from /
the old rich ore body which made the |
famous, but we are unable at /
this time to state it's extent. Work |
0n the wagon road 10 the new lower :
tunnel on the Humbug is being pushed I
and will be completed by the time that