The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-23

markedly profitable experience in the
Cooigardie gold fields of West Australia
I One year ago they left England for
Australia under commission BY q svndi-
cate TO examine the fields The Hursts
erected ten-stamp mill on one of the
| properties Inspected by them but had NO
means OF saving the gold, so they shipped
| several snip loads of ore to Swansea.
Where 1t averaged II ounces of gold TO
! the ton AT one place where they ex-
I ploded a dynamite blast they picked ONT
IT, 800 IN gold in less than a day They
say that some of the fabulous stories of
sudden wealth in the Australian diggings
mances.
CYRUS E: Babb, chief western hydro
Srapher OF the United States geological
survey. has come to Utah for the purpose
OF carrying on his annual inspection of
the water supply of the principal streams
in this state. MF. Babb reached the CITY
Wednesday evening, and will leave this
morning TO begin his work on the Provo
Weber. Ogden, Logan and Bear rivers
and at Titan lake.
Ex-Congressman Lafe Pence of Colo
RADIO returned yesterday from a trip of
examination among the mining districts
of Silver City and Mammoth. where he
went to pass judgment on some proper
ties that may be sold TO eastern investors
he was accompanied by mis- brotner
Charles J. Pence, and George II. Middle
ton. a well known mining engineer of
Denver. Mr.. Pence said that the investi-
CATION was altogether in the embryo
stage, and therefore declined to speak
about the matter.
He did not impart any important piece
of information in connection with some
of the most celebrated properties in Colo
RADIO. this being the first occasion upon
which the sale of these groups has been
made public. A New York syndicate,
with Mr.. Pence and Mr.. Middleton, com
pleted last week the purchase of the Iron
Mask grouD, the Crown Point-E.ureka
group and the Polar-Rocky Point group at
Red Cliff for Sl,400.000. The sale embraces
an area of over $50 acres of mineral ter
ritory. and includes shaft houses, ma
chinery and tramways, worth $500, 600 the
mines contained in the purchase control
three contacts in lime, quartzite and gran
lite. and embrace three distinct geological
varieties of veins. known the car
bouiferous deposit, the blanket vein and
the fissure- Over S2.000,009 worth of ores /
have been extracted from the groups
since 1889.
Mr.. Pence's report on the properties |
examined at Mammoth and Silver City, !
Utas may witness another deal of like |
Leonard Glover, the San Francisco the
atricai manager-actor, was in the city |
yesterday looking for an engagement for !
his company to fill in some unlocked
time. The company is now at Ogden.
samuel NeWnOuSe, one OF the best
known agents for European nnanciers
who seek mining Investments in America,
arrived in the city Wednesday night. di-
'ect from London. from which metropo-
is, il is said, he comes TO make an exam
nation of property at Bingham. Mr.
Newhouse went out to that camp yes
erday morning, returning in the evening
With his usual bland smile and hearty
greeting. but without any information fit
or publication. He was accompanied by
he Hon. c. c. Parsons of Denver, at
orney for the corporation which Mr..
Ieyhouse represents. This company was
he purchase of the Highland Boy and
dr. Newhouse explained that his visit
lad more to dc with that proposition
han with any later undertaking.
For several years back Mr.. Newhouse
IS been the reputed financial agent of
he Rothschilds in this country, but he
as always denied the imDutation. Some
ine ago he made an investigation OF
BUTTE properties for the Rothschilds and
his strengthened the rumor.
John Mcguire. the Oldest living theat-
ical manager in the United States. has $
ee2 in the city for several days trying
D arrange a stock circuit which will :
mbrace his houses at Butte and Ana
o7da. the Grand Opera House in Salt
AXE and the Broadway theater. Denver.
Incident to the effecting of this plan he ;
forming stock company to play Butte
no AndcOnud ana ALTERNATE with an
Their company to be placed at Salt Lake
nd the present Broadway theater stock
)mpany in Denver. The latter company
i'll appear in Butte and Anaconda for G
hort season after its engagement ter q
lsrates at the home house. There Is n =
reliability that it will also appear here.
Mr. Mcguire Is opposed TO the Froh- =
AN Hayman trust and is one of the !
anasers who refused TO. place himself 2
nder the control of that gigantic amuse- c
ent monopoly. \