The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
Mining Notes and Personals.

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Mining Notes and Personals.
J. B. Thomson. the well known stock
broker and mining promoter, returned
Tuesday from a visit TO home folks
in Iowa.
At the Treasure Hill lease, near Silver
City, a station is being cut on the
3o0-foot level and Z pump will be in
stalled in the shaft within the next
few days.
Secretary R. E. McConaughy of the
Sacramento, who returned Tuesday
night from Mercur. stated that the mine
is looking well and that the mill is run
ming nicely.
1t is understood that it is the inten-
ton of the Monte Carlo company to
begin work at an early day in the oper-
alton of its property which is located
in the old Star district. in Beaver
county.
John W. Young, the president of
the Bingham Placer company. viii
leave for Lemhi county, Ida, this
morning, where he will join President
Theodore Bruback, who is now at the
diggings.
It is reported that a rich strike has
ole, in State Line district. and that
recent developments have uncovered q
fine BODY of ore that shows free gold
through and through it.
Sacramento was q ready seller on the
curb yesterday at 32i2 cents and Gey
ser-Marion was in good demand at
s1.35. Northern Light was also quite
active at the quotations made at the
morning call on the floor of the mining
exchange.
The Dexter was in the market yester-
do -s-fr 11t 90 ;3ae-
that showed asay values of 5000 ounces
silver and s1,265, which. at present
prices would make the consignment
worth over $4,000 TO the ton. The lot
brought S1.4o0.
Superintendent Dean of the Silver
King Extension will try TO get q load
of provisions and supplies up Big Cot
tonWood to the mine the first Of the
week. and if the attempt is successful
work Will be resumed in the operation
of this promising property.
The Scotia, which has been idle for
( years. is starting up again and will
! probably soon start shipping ore. Over
j., 600 tons have been marketed from
! this west Tintic property in years gone
/ by. y contract has been let for the
/ further development of this mine
Mammoth Record.
! State Line district is slated for a
owners of the camp are putting in
arastras. II has been demonstrated
/ that these can be successfully oper-
ated there and this being the case there
is no reason why a custom mill should
not also prove a success.
It is stated that the Hercules mine,
at Stockton, is looking better than ever
and. that the men are stopping on a
large cnute of fine ore. The Hercules is
owned by Messrs. Zerbe, Benton, and
others, of this city. and another con-
signment of mineral from this property
I is expected to arrive within a short
time.
Attorney E. G. Rognon will leave
I today for Redding, Cal, where he has
: been retained as associate counsel in
a case between a railroad corporation
and mining claimants. After the case
/ IS tried he will make a visit to the
property of the North Fork Placer
Mining company, in which ne is heav-
lily interested.
Bishop L. G. Hardy, the superin-
tendent of the Jennie mine. on Conner
creek, Cassia county, Ida. in speaking
of this property, says that the men at
work in The mine are breaking ore from
a two and a half foot body of solid
mineral The shipment of ore received
from the mine yesterday was sold on
controls showing values of 4S per cent
lead, u ounces silver and 81 in gold to
the ton.
The Flagstaff mine yesterday sent in
a neat cleanup, being the second during
the past month. The outputs from
this new producer are not made public
at present. bur it is to be hoped that
this viii not continue long to be the
practice as the products of our mines
are their hest recommend ton and
they do much to advertise this promis-
ING district.-DemocraI, of Baker Clly,
Ore.
Richfield Advocate: One of the Hol-
land placer force, T. F. Gillian. has left
Gold mountain for one of mis- quartz
propositions in the Horse Heaven frac-
ton OF the Marysvale country Mr.
Gillian and J. L. Sargent own the Out
of Sight. a 16-inch well defined ledge
OF ore going $50 in gold and showing
Sl2 in silver. 4 20-foot shaft is all the
work done there to date. and this is to
be extended on the vein.
What gives signs OF proving a new
gold district of moment is 2. tract of
ground between Goshen and Santa
quin. near the Rio Grande Western
railroad. Rich quartz specimens, from
a lime country rock. We're shown the
writer. said to be taken from the first
vein, discovered on May II. Three days
later there was q stampede, and all
the nearby region was SIaked. The
samples quieely shown in Salt Lake
carry rusty free gold and. il a tenth of
what is reported proves true. Utah has
another geld camp.-Salt Lake Cor. n.
Y. Engineering and Mining Journal.
Jesse Coulter. manager of the Syden-
ham syndicate, owning the largest ny
draulic mine in the state al Murray,
was in town Monday and left for the !
north Tuesday. Mr.. Coulter has been
locking over Florence, Elk City, Big !
Greek and Dixie for investments for |
his associates and was surprised at the !
exten. CT the mineral wealth ne saw in |
the Bitter Root country. He said 10 US
that Elk and Dixie would eventually |
prove the greatest source of revenue |
to this country and state and promised |
TO invest III quartz in Dixie as soon as |
the wagon read to the camp is built. |
Free Press. Graneerville, Ida.
Word was received the first OF last |
week that a pipe or chute of ore had |
been encountered in the Hot Stuff |
ground in north Tintic. and yesterday /
the officers of the company in this city /
received word from the superintend-
ent thai he had croSs-cut the chuteS or /
ore body for q distance of so feet and |
had not yet found the other wall. 1t |
is stated that the mineral is a heavy |
copper ore carrying encouraging gold !
values. A big chunk of the ore will /
arrive in the city today or tomorrow.
The company is feeling highly elated |
over the discovery, and il has good
reason to believe that the Hot Stuff is
the making of z heavy producer of the
precious metals.
The directors of the Dalton Mining
company held a meeting yesterday af-