The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-29
Mining Notes and Personals

copper, casting, S10.1255-
Mining Notes and Personals.
Hon. R. c. Lund OF ST. George is regis
tered at the Cullen.
The Phoenix company. of Bingham,
marketed 75-ton lot of ore yesterday
The Utah was in the market yesterday
with a load of ore that assayed u.s.
! the ton.
VIII II. Farnsworth and W. J. Wolsten-
nolrne made a visit 10 the New State
mine at the mouth of Little Cottonwood
A line body of ore has been found in an
old wei at Cheney, Washington. and
cute mining craze in that locality is
the consequence.
Felix ]. Stark is working a small force
/ of men in the development of a low grade
gold proposition near Promontory. and
ne believes that with depth the values
will increase.
The Dexter company received another
me bar OF gold bullion from its Nevada
1niI yesterday, valued at $2,l00 The re-
.o-ts from the mine are of a most en-
couraging nature
The Mercur fire department will give
grand benefit bail in the Mercur Opera
house on Monday evening next the
PROCEEDS OF which will be presented to
William Flowers, who was recently in
Jured by an explosion in the Golden Gate
mine.
O.. H. Hardy is back from Eurkea where
ne mas been making an examination of
the work being done in the development
OF the properly owned by the Bullion
BECK tunnel company, on Godiva noun
tam: The tunnel is now in a distance of
500 feet, the face showing a fine body of
mineralized quartz and iron.
Tooele Transcript: Sam Serrine. who is
working four men on the old Mono mine.
was IN town this week. He says there is
nothing in the report that he has made
q rich strike in The He no
mine IS looking well and has hopes of
striking IL. but when he does he will an
nounce il.
Statesman, Boise. Ida: Robert Woodin
is taking party of men up the river for
the purpose of building ditch for work
His d piece OF ground ne is interested in
about nine miles above the scene of the
operations of the Twin Springs COM
pany. The ditch will be short and 1t is
expected good run can be made yet
this year.
Fillmore Progress: Last fall Mr. R. A
Mcbride and Joseph Payne discovered in
good looking rock. and a few days ago
those gentlemen took Mr.. ]. NJ. Hanson
and John Mcbride as interested parties
in the claim, and a small amount of de-
VeioDmeEt work was done; an average
sample or the ledge. which was uncovered
about three feet below the surface was
SeEt to Mr.. Seckles, an assayer at Salt
Lake. and returns show the value of the
rock to be $3.50. All the parties are quite
eiated over their good fortune and con-
siderable development work will be done
at once.
A l.. Norris the manager of the
Beaver Lake mine. in Beaver Lake dis
trict came in from Frisco yesterday and
he is more enthusiastic than ever over
this new camp. He will start in with
force of men on Monday next and IL is
his intention to make consignment of
ore within a week or so. Mr.. Morris
states that this old district is attracting
great deal of attention this spring and
that within the past two months more
than % locations nave been made within
its boundaries. Mr. Norris brought back
with him some very fine samples of ore
from the companys property and he pre-
diets that the camp has a great future
before 1t.
Statesman. Boise. Ida: c. B. Rustin.
who is interested with Charles Balbach in
the Homestake mine at Neal, left yester-
day on his way back to his home in
Omaha Mr. Rustin is an old miner and
was engaged in the smelling business for
a great many years. He says he is much
terest in, and thinks ii will prove very
rich. Development work will be pushed
on 1t as fast as possible, and when new
machinery is needed it will be put in.
Nothing will be neglected that will serve
to bring the best out of the mine that
there is in ii. He did not pay any atten-
tor to the other properties in the dis
trict although there was. he said. a gen.
He expects to return again during the
summer.
Harry Ford of Dean p O.. near Battle
Mountain. is in the city on business Mr..
Ford states that there is a revival in
mining matters in that section this
spring. and that a large amount of de-
Velopment is being done in what is known |
as old Lewis district. Dean is the home
of the Morning Glory mine. a gold propo-
st:on in which a force of 80 men is en-
olo.-ed and on which a 10-stamp mill is
in operation, treating from 80 to 40 tons
of good ore daily There are also several
silver properties in that locality, and on
one of these, the Eagle mine. there Is q
40-stamp mill, as the ore is free milling.
II some of the mines of the camp. how
ever, II is believed that the ore could be
handled to better advantage by concen-
tration and to determine the matter eN-
periments are now being made with this
process.
Dr.. E. D. Woodruff. who has just re-
turned from a visit 10 the Northern Light
mine, on Lion Hill. states that the prop
ert.- is looking well and that the new
mill IS running in a most satisfactory
manner Ii will not be long now before
the additional 20 tanks will be in place
when the capacity Will be materially in
creased The doctor states that the Little
Pittsburg ground is being surveyed for
patent and that within the next few days
contracts will be let for development
work on both the gold and silver veins
The doctor was named by the Little Pitts
burg company as one of the committee to
look after the selection of the site for
permanent work on its group OF claims,
and upon looking the ground over care
fully he states that he is more pleased
with the property than ever. and he is
sanguine that ii is the making of a
productive and paying mine, and as he
has charge of the work in its development
he PROPOSES TO see that ii is done in
thorough and effective manner
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