The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-04


Silver City Star: VIII c. Higgins. wht
presides with dignified grace over tn,
mining department Of The Herald. wa.
down Sunday looking over the district.
Work IS being pushed in the develop
ment OF the West Cable ground Eureka
and two shifts are engaged in running a
level to the north from the 500 level in
the shaft.
TIL Germania is in receipt of two car
ioads OF Magnolia ore from De Lamar
New. This is the promising gold property
in which Hon. T. R. Jones of this city
is interested.
The Sawyer boys. sons of Judge A B.
Sawyer of this city, are meeting with
considerable success in the development
of the old Tip Top mine at Stockton. and
there is reason to believe that il will not
be long now befire they begin regular
ore shipments.
Joe Moss left for MarysvaIe yesterday
for the purpose of starting up work again
on the property of the Aurora Mining
Heaven country above Marysvale Mr..
Moss will also put three men at work on
the Eagle, which is a new gold discovery
OF promise adjoining the Aurora.
From a private letter received from W.
{. Dodge from Gold Mountain. it is
learned that the camp is rocking exceed
flngly well. and that from the rapid man.
ner in which the snow is going it will be
50 tnat prospectors can get around in the
hills by the 18th inst. Mr.. Dodge is the
owner of the Fit Dodge group OF. claims
on eIold mountain and he is hard at work
IN its development.
G. r. Boutwell, and G. G. Hall. accom-
panied by q number of other gentlemen,
went out to the Congor mine at Bingham
yesterday for the purpose of making an
| examination of this property with the
view of resuming work on its develop
ment The Congor Is located in Pine
gulch, in the Dalton & Lark country, and
II is stated that in its workings a fine
body of gray copper ore is exposed.
Colonel o. B. Hardy will leave for Lyon
court.F. New, tomorrow. where ne will
direct the operation. of a promising cop
per proposition in Mason valley This
ground Will form the basis of an incor-
poration within p few days when work
Will begin in the erection of a 40-ton
snelter. Colonel Hardy states that there
is enough 20 per cent copper blocked out
In the mine TO run a Smelter of the above
specified capacity for a period of four
years.
News. Gold Creek. is4ko County. New. !:
Sunday. Charles Hyer gave the boys
an exhibition of what Tuscarora quartz
VIII do when put into q mortar and
pounded up. He, had about two ounces
of rock and obtained a string of coiors
that would give one the yellow fever.
He has shipped carload lots that Melted
500 a ton. The ledge is from three inches
TO three feet. Like many good mine,
his claim is now tied up with litigation.
Tuscarora.i part of the Gold Creek min
eral belt.
The Herald is Informed that the In.
dustrial Reporter has purchased the sub
Scription list and good will of the Utah
MAN of this city. and that the Utahnian
will be consolidated with the Denver
publication. the subscriptions to the
former being filed out BY the latter con-
Germ. The Reporter already has quite
large list in Utah and this consolidation
will give 1t larger circulation than ever
The Reporter IS an able and liable
sheet. and now it will pay more attention
to the interests of this state than ever
Statesman. Boise. Idaho: The board of
directors of the mining exchange have
determined to call meeting of the mem
purpose of the meeting is to determine
upon the future of the organization One
plan is to close up the rooms and dis
band: the other to effect some reforms
and put the institution in the way of
greater usefulness. 1t is felt by a great
many that the exchange is capable of
being made great power in the devel-
oDment of our mining resources and
these hold that itswould be unwise to per-
nit it to die.
]. =. Peterson of the Boss Tweed. near
Silver CITY. while at work in the a jax
mine last Saturday fell from a stc.e a
distance of 40 feetrand lodged on tim
Der. from which he was rescued in an I'M
conscious condition. Had ii not been for
the cross-Diece which arrested his fall.
ne would have dropped to the bottom of
the stope, depth of 30 feet further,
which would have meant instant death,
and as 1t was. he met with miraculous
T..
only injured and bruised about his back
and hips. Mr.. Peterson was brought to
Salt Lake Sunday and is now at his
nome on Twelfth West.
Recorder. Salmon City Idaho: A. A
Smith is in receipt of a letter from Will
lam Taylor, who was injured by the ex-
piosson of giantF powder at the Copper
queen mine on March .: He went to
Salt Lake about two weeks ago for sur
Sical trea tment. He is at St. Mark s
hospital and has undergone a severe OPP
GRAFTON in which his right eve was re-
moved. his fingers again amputated and
the. wound in his forehead reopened and
treated His physicians say his left eve
VIII be all right. He is in good spirits
and sends regards to all his friends here. |
The Recorder will reach him every week
during his absence.
Ike Jennings. who has been at HALEY, !
loa-, for the past six months in charge or |
the Vanderbilt rnne, has resigned that |
position and is now in Salt Lake AL |
though he may return to the Wood River |
country in the near future for the pur- /
pose OF engaging in mining On his own |
hook: In speaking of the Vanderbilt Mr. |
j jennings states that it is looking well !
with good ore bodies in sight. The com, !
pany is now shipping in the neighbour /
hood of 100 tons of ore month that will |
traitor is running regularly on the low
grade ores. Dan Ferguson the we'll |
known Utah mining man. is now running
the property as superintendent
CndrleS Or. BorSfall and Otto Saunders
who are the principal stockholders in the |
Silver King Extension mine in Mineral
Fork. Big Cottonwood canyon made the
property visit the first of the week in
company with Mr.. Dean. who made n
careful examination of the mine and his
report was SO favorable that il is the in
tention to resume work in the operation
Of the property within the next few dav,
In the face of the tunnel in this ground
there are three distinct ore bodies of orr.
and soon after the RESUMPTION of vo-l.
regular shipments will begin. There is
some talk OF erecting a gasoline hoist al
the mine. and also of doing some deveIon
nent on other claims embraced in the
group further down the canyon
Miner. Butte Mont: Judge LINDSAY
made two rulings yesterday in regard to
The pending litigation between the Non
tara Ore Purchasing company and the
Boston and Montana. In one he over
-uled the motion of the Boston and Mon
-ana for removal of the United States
curt of the suit of the Montana Ore
Purchasing company for 81. 1922 900 for ore
alleged to have been taken from the
Ra-us by the Boston and Montana In
he other he ordered a new sale on Nav
Q of the sixth interest of the Griffith es-
ste in the Harris lode. This is the in
crest for which the HeinZe people bid
4, GEO. Their bid was afterwards raised
~ the Boston and Montana TO "a, 500 The
ieinze people later raised this to ST. $50.
The Herald is informed that in the
frisco mine, in Carr Fork gulch, Bling.
lam important strike has been made
within the past few days In this prop
.rty VIM has been sunk from the 400