The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-20
Mining Notes and Personals.

lar monthly dividend of s25,O today.
w. 1. Higgins. the well-known mining
operator. has returned from Montana.
George Kisltngbury, one of De Lamars
tana On e BUSINESS for for the captain IL
a. NJ. Grant, of the Colorado Iron
Works left Monday for Tuscarora, New,
where he will superintend the conStruc-
ton of the Dexter mill.
The South Swansea Mining company VIII
pay its usual monthly dividend tomoriow
of $780, which will make eight dividends
paid by the company to That date, or a
total Of S59,960,
A shipment of high grade ore from the
Biesinger-Beck mime in Montana will
arrive in Salt Lake within day or two.
This valuable property is owned by Salt
Lake people.
Word comes from Bingham that large
bodies OF high grade ore have been dis
closed in the lower workings of the Phoe-
nix mine and it is understood that the
company is shipping heavily.
Morris Bamberger, the efficient assayer
at the Mercur mill came in Monday night
with the seni-monthly shipment of cya-
hides from the mill. the consignment being
OF the regulation size and value.
Frank b. Cook, of the Treasure Hill, is
at the mine. near Silver City and it is eN-
pected that he will soon be able to give
out some good news regarding this prop
erty, in wnich big pump has just been
installed
James Russell. formerly foreman of the
Mercur mine under Superintendent John
I TreWeek, IS down from Alta With some
fine SAMPLES OF ore from a mine in this
! famous Old camp, on which ne has a bond
I and lease.
Tha Horu Silver was tn yesterday with
I six car loads OF taigl grade concentrates.
/ Besides its volume OF concentrates the
NINE Is shipping large arnouots of first
/ c.aSs ore. some of which carries good
/ copper and gold values.
} The present force of men at the Ontario
! WIFI continue taking out ore from the
Slopes until the mill closes, in about ten
days Tnfs VIII be followed by q clean
! up. The force at the mine, 20 to % men,
4 may be continued taking out base ship
( ping ore for an indefinite time.
Hca. P. T. Fa1nsWorth is expected home
{ from AUSTIN New tomorrow II is
l learned Uldt ule Austin NINE and midi are
/ beng operated in q most satisfactory
! manner. but that there is 4 scarcity of
! miners al me mine, and CnaL 30 good men
/ could readily lind employment There
A report was 9n circulation on {Gle
: street Yesterday 70 Ghe effect that am
/ i1ngcrlta,r,t strike had been made ia Vne
] Ctd Memo mine, ia Dry canyon, but NJ.
/ T G.sb0ul. Jne of the heavy owners of
( cle property. siJaess ,1lsre is nothing N II,
[ and chGt 50 far only a few SurtngeCS have
4 been encountered
DR.. z. d. woodruff, the manager of tine
( NongAegn LiSAt, has returned from a
= .
J where dla made an examination Of several
| gold propositions. The doctor brought
! hack viii rim q number of ore samples
/ and states Ghai- he was faVOrafoly i'm
| pressed " "a tLlat section.
j. e Daggnar, one of the directors of
clle Free Coinage Mn11g company VIII
go up To the cOmp2my's mine this morn
7 ing for the purpose of increasing the
/ force and also to contract for 300 feet of
/ tunnel work The Free Coinage is To-
Gated IN Big Cottonwood canyon. and in
hts Development a long tunnel is being
I run ON the VtJa ~ Which there is a foot
of good SILVER org.
Professor H. Hirschlng is considering
the subject of delivering Il course Of even
ing lectures in this citlr, his topics being
chemistry, mineralogy, geology and metal
hurry, actual experiments and demon
STATIONS 10 be made before the class IN
connection with the lectures considerable
time VIII be given to the subject of the
reduction of low grade gold ores by the
cyanide process.
Arrangements are being made for the
incorporation of a company Tor the man
unacture and operation OF the Little Won
der Gold Amalgamator, the invention OF
Angus Mcclellan of this city. The cap-
itanzation OF the new company win be
placed at 100000 shares OF a par value oil
81 each, 10000 shares of which Will be SET
aside as treasury stock, The Little Won
der, as its name implies, IS a great gold
saver and can he uti4i2ed as Vel beninc
a stamp mill as IN placer mining opera
tons.
The officers of the New State Mining
company, whose property is located al
the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon
are feeling encouraged over the showins
in the mine as work progresses IN thu
sinking of the incline shaft on the body
! of ore disclosed near The mouth of tn,
/ lower tunnel This incline is nov dowI
a depth of o. feet and a gradual improve
ment is noticeable. as the values ar,
growing and the walls are becoming NOR,
distinct and better defined. The vein il
now three feet in width, the mineral bear
) ing rock being white quartz, which car
ries gold and copper.
Mr. CiessmGn. representing Fairbanks
Morse & Co.. of Denver and Chicago
Inz9,rGfa c,a1rs95 of gaxl9i1s i0izs. is IN ia
!, city figuring WITH the Galena and Utah
) MINING eior1ra1ias for ths Installation 0
a e,o!st on lle.r Fish Springs mines. Som
of fhe officers of be9a companies ar
{ favorably ,Hcl.ned 10 igie proposition. a
= this would solve the water problem tha
has been confronting them, and JOIN
meeting of rle two corporations are 4
meet with Mr.. CllessHan on Saturday o
, this week TO go into the matter nar
5 fully as it is high dtnls that soneth5nI
Y was done i'm this direction
e gentleman residing in this city VIII
| Is interested in several claims in the oil