The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-12

| day, states that the camp is forging
to the front in great shape and that
with the Highland Boy in successful
operation and the other mines of the
district increasing their shipments the
outlook for the odd Reliable is very
| fiattering, to say the least. Mr.. Heas-
ton has a jigging plant in operation in
the canyon which is an invention of
his own. and it stated that it is one
of the most successful machines of this
class ever operated in any camp.
Another lot of copper from the High
land Boy mine at Bingham is now en-
route to the Valley sampler. This ore
! carries good paying values in copper,
as well as some gold, and while no
Stopping is being done the company is
obliged 10 make about two shipments
week to get the mineral out of the
way While development work is being
pushed. The Highland Boy, with its
cyanide plant in full blast, and regu-
lar shipments of copper ore, is destined
to rank as one of the heaviest pro-
duceTs to be found in this intermoun-
tain region.
The story of the "salted mine as
published in The Herald, caused quite
a stir in mining circles in this city and
Mercur, and the facts as stated have
been we'll authenticated and it de-
velops that the game was very skill
fully played, although it is stated that
the officers of the company were not
implicated in the bunco game, it be-
ing manipulated by one of the stock
holders who had a control of the stock
of the incorporation. The publication
of ell the details in the matter would
make intensely interesting reading,
for the scheme was deeply laid and
well carried out.
Colonel Andrew Cory, one of the
foremost citizens of Iron county, who
is in from Cedar City on mining bust
ness, states that all is life and activity
in State Line district on account of the
assurance that a quartz mill will soon
be installed in the camp. The colonel
is connected with the Big Fourteen
Mining company which owns valu-
able group on Rice hill, in State line,
on which r. G. Nugent is now doing
some development work and taking his
pay for the same in the ore that is
extracted. With a mill in the district
the merits of the camp will be amply
demonstrated within the next few
months so that capital will join the
mad rush for investment there.
Colonel r. D. Woodruff, who came in
Wednesday night with the regular
monthly shipment of cyanfdes from the
erty is looking in fine shape, and that
within about 20 feet more the incline
upraise connecting the Woodruff tunnel
with the lower workings of the mine
viii be completed, when the plant can
begin operations on fine class of mill
ing gold ore. Twenty-Five out of the
IS tanks at the mill are now in use,
and as soon as the mill is run to it's
full capacity on the large bodies Of
high grade gold ore exposed in the
lower workings of the mine, the COM
pany will undoubtedly be able to make
a showing of which every stockholder
will have reason to feel proud.
Mining is often given a black eve
through the operations Of people who
fail to use the same precaution in min
ing matters that they would give to q
trifing business affair, and then the
mining industry is cursed and called
illegitimate. An instance of the care
lessness with which some eastern peo-
pie do business in the mining line is
illustrated by a circumstance which
came to the notice of a representative
of this paper a few days ago 1t seems
that some people in the east, who have
more money than brains, in some way
became possessed of some Utah pros
poets which they had never seen, and
in order to develop the same they sent
81. 900 to q mining man whom they did
not know and had never seen, and now
they are making inquiries regarding
the property, the man and the money,
and cannot find either Another in
stance of the wisdom of Solomon when
he said: "A fool and his money are
soon parted