The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-23
Mining Notes and Personals.

! The Macintosh sampler yesterday re-
ce,ved 10 tons Of Altoona and 175 tons of
Silver King ore.
/ Captain Hugo DePrizen, of Eureka.
who has been in the city for several DAYS
on mining business, left for home last
night.
The Eureka Hill Mining company
marketed 222 tons of concentrates yester-
d@. that were sold on controls showing
values of 2O7 per cent lead. 56.4 ounces
silver and $40 in gold to the ton
One of Salt Lakes leading brokers is in
receipt of an inquiry relative to the Utah
consolidated Gold Mining company,
limited Any information regarding this
company will be thankfully received at
this office.
Harry Joseph made a visit to Tintic on
the lirst of the week for the purpose of
making an examination of the Lower
mammoth, and he reports that this prop
erty IS looking in a most encouraging
condition.
The Sacramento Mining company made
Shipment 81 cyanides yesterday valued
regular weekly shipments and it is be-
i1eved that it will not be long now before
II VIII resume the payment OF dividends.
! will not be very long now before
nearly al OF the mining camps in the
state will be accessible when il is ex-
oected that a number of important dis
coveries will be reported as there will be
more thorough prospecting this season
than ever before in the history of this
country.
Roy Mayne, who was in from Mercur
yesterday. states that he never saw the
west dip looking as well as it does at the
present time and he looks upon this as
the coming portion of the district. Strange
as 1t may seem, there is but little snow
on the west dip, and there is great deal
of activity there in mining matters.
Petitions were being circulated yester-
day. and We're being largely signed ask
ing our United States senators to use
their vote and influence for the passage
OF a bill increasing the duty on lead in
foreign ores to ~ cents a pound Tele-
grams were also sent to Washington by
leading citizens making the same request.
Mammoth was somewhat stronger on
the curb yesterday afternoon than ii was
during the morning call in the pit while
there was good demand for Galena and
Utah, the latter being wanted at S1.0l12.
during the afternoon sales of Mercur
were reported at S7.15, Generalization at
81. 49, Little Pittsburg at 21s cents and
Ajax at 64 cents.
Pat Ryan, the manager of the Crown
Point. at Park City, vino returned Sun
day night from q visit to this property,
brought down with him some samples of
rock from the mine which were strongly
impregnated with pyrites and stained
with copper, which would indicate that
the drift from the shaft is in close proX-
unity to the ore body.
Gazette, Phoenix, Arz.: President
Hughes of the council was not a little
pleased yesterday to receive from Tucson
se"e-al assay sheets on ore taken from
his mine near AFRO Blanco, Pima county
that show IA ounces of silver TO the ton.
The best of it too. said the president
between smiles. lis that the assays are
reaily only samples of the ore that we
have piled up on the dump. and there is
plenty more of it in the ground
Superintendent Hines, of the Northern
Light, who was in the city yesterday, in
10, ms The Herald that in the trial run |
Of the new mill. made a few days ago, |
he never saw any plant start off better. |
IL fact, the machinery worked as |
as if it had been run for a |
regular operations within the next few
lays and it is believed that it will not be |
ong now before the Northern Light is a |
paying proposition
Hon. G. E; Allen, the manager, of the
who returned Satur- |
lay night from a visit to the mine, |
states that the new strike on the SEQ level !
n this property is holding out in most
manner, ana that since its
discovery it has been drifted upon for
distance of over 80 feet and that it gives
very indication of Dermanency. At one
,lace where the deposit was cross-cut it
vas 10 feet in width and the average
-alues were 20 ounces silver and IS in
'old to the ton, besides some copper.
A gentleman who is just in from Mercur
las satisfied himself that it will not be
ong now before De Lamar begins active
York in the erection of mill for the
iolden Gate mine, and as a clincher as
o the feasibility of this conclusion he
tates that the portion of the Spooner
lr. Cohen. is being fitted up in elegant
lyle. The gentleman also states that Z:
understood in Mercur that the ma
hinery for the proposed electric plant
as been ordered, and that it will not be
ong before the system is in working
rider.