The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-11
Mining Notes and Personals.

A. H. Mayne of West Dip fame is
in the city ON mining business.
The Carissa, near Silver City will
soon send in shipment of good ore.
Geyser- Marion was in active demand
on the street yesterday afternoon and
sales were reported at $1.121a.
Geyser- Marion was in excellent de-
mand yesterday, while Northern Light
was also a favorite on the curb.
The Mammoth has loaded another
four-carlOad lot of high grade ore which
will probably be on the market tomor-
row.
Broker W. H. Tlbbals was out of the
city yesterday making examinations of
mining propositions in the vicinity of
Centerville.
The monthly shipment of cyanides
from the Northern Light mill was
made yesterday and the lot, consisting
of two boxes, will be sampled today
or tomorrow.
The regular monthly directors meet
ing of the Northern Light company
was held yesterday afternoon, but
nothing but routine business came up
for consideration.
Captain Hank Smith, late superin-
| tendent of the Observation-Disclosures, has
the Klondike fever and he expects to
I n
some time in February.
Jim Anderson, a son of Judge Ander-
son of this city, was caught in snow
at Alta, day before Yesterday, but it
1 is learned that he escaped without
serious injury.
Mammoth Record: A switch of the
New East Tintic railroad track is being
built on trestles over the Sioux mill in
order to facilitate the unloading of ore
! The arrangement will be similar to
that of the Mammoth mill.
The first regular cleanup of the
Highland Boy mill has been made and
yesterday eight boxes of high grade
product were being sampled at the
Salt Lake Office of the Con. K. c..
Smelling & Refining company
DR.. Ross, the manager of the Hazel
Bess, which is located on the divide
at the head of Emigration canyon,
states that active work in the devel-
Cpment of the property will be re-
sumed the first of the week, when ma
chine drills will be brought to bear in
the conglomerate that overlays the ore
body.
The special stockholders meeting of
the Four Aces Mining company, which
was held yesterday afternoon, was we'll
attended and it was decided to amend
the articles of incorporation so as to
make the capital stock of the company
assessable, and this will probably be
done as soon as the amended articles
are filed. In the meantime the com
pany is taking out some ore and it is
/ reported that the property is in an
encouraging condition.
w. S. Godbe of Bullionville and
Phoebe, New, is in the city on mining
business. Mr.. Godbe states that the
Peck brothers, who purchased the Bull
lionYille reduction works in the spring,
are now at work transforming the
plant into a concentration, the intention
being to work over the Bullionville
tailings and shines and later on crude
low grade ore. According to Mr. Godbe
everything is rather quiet in and
around Phoebe, although more is now
going on there than for the past few
years.
/ At meeting OF the governing board
OF the mining exchange, held .yester-
day, an assessment of So a member
was levied for the purpose of fitting
! UP the exchange room and making
necessary improvements, a committee
composed of E. H. Airs, r. l.. Col
burn and c. f. Hudson being appoint
ed. An effort is to be made to induce
! the Chloride Point, Swansea, South
/ Swansea, Dexter and Sacramento com
panies to list their properties regularly
on the board.
| At the meeting of the directors OF
| the Bullion-Beck Mining company
/ held yesterday afternoon, it was de-
| cided not to increase the force at the
mine or to begin regular ore shipments
unless concessions We're made by the
shelters and railroads, and this is an
| indefinite proposition, although I. r.
Jones of the Germania, who was re-
quested to be present at the meeting
| expressed a Willingness to do what he
could in the matter as far as his com
pany was concerned. The reports as
to the condition of the mine disclosed
the fact that large bodies of low grade
ore were uncovered in the property
which could be mined like coal pro
vided more reasonable rates were made
by the railroads and smelling COM
panies.
Denver Republican: Henry Farms.
worth of Decatur county, Kansas. who
has been prospecting in Park COUNTY
during the past summer, has no reason
| to complain of his summers work. He
| was an absolute tenderfoot who ha6
never seen hill more than 100 feel
high, but drove UP the South Platte tc
Democrat mountain, about II miles
north from Alma, and made six loca-
lions, for half interest in one of which