The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-07
Mining Notes and Personals.

Chloride Point stock was in good de-
mand on the curb yesterday afternoon at
46 cents.
Manager John Dern, of the Mercur and
Generalization, will go out to Mercur this
morning.
A. L. Heaston, the we'll known Bingham
miner and millman, was in the city yes
terday on business.
C. H. Schue, the we'll known mining
operator, will go out to Tintic district to-
day on mining business
1t was reported on the streets yesterday
that another strike has been made in the
Grand Central at Mammoth.
Two carloads of Kearsage ore from
Dry canyon, Ophir, were sampled at the
Conklin sampling works yesterday.
A carload of ore from the Midland, at
Bingham on which r. H. Gable has a
lease, was on the market yesterday.
The quotation on silver yesterday
touched 60 cents. which is the highest
point touched by this metal for six
months or more.
A. D. Ferron. NJ. E.. has returned from
| State Line district, where he made a
patent survey of the Gold Haven lode,
adjoining the Creole. Mr.. Ferron is well
pleased with the district and is of the
ductive and paying gold camp.
Gill S Peyton. of the Chloride Point,
has returned from Lion hill, whare he
made an inspection OF this promising
property. and he states that it is opening
out in excellent shape with mammoth
bodies of ore in sight. The company will
make two carloads of high grade ore this
week.
f. NJ Taylor of the Taylor & Brunton
sampling works, is in the city from
Aspen. Colo. Mr.. Taylor states that only
about 10 per cent of the newspaper re-
ports relative to the recent fire in the
Smuggl5r mine were true, and he thinks
1t is ridiculous the way the eastern pa
1afs h.lxr inDya 1a1 Ia q Il
one of them the statement was made that
so miles of the underground workings of
I the mine were on fire.
Jesse Knight of the Humbug mine, at
Eureka. was in Yesterday with two car
loads OF ore from the property which
was sold on assays showing values of 5
per cent lead, 14S ounces silver and S2.50
in gold to the ton. The HumbuS greatly
bellies its name, as it is considered as one
[ of the bonanza propositions of the camp.
while the Uncle Sam, adjoining. also
owned by Mr.. Knight, is not far behind
! it in point of productiveness.
1t is reported that the Cedar Valley
ground, in Peepstone district. is showing
up in q very encouraging manner, the
workings being a blocky shale impreg-
mated with pyrities of iron and carrying
about dollar in gold to the ton, the in
dications being that the ore zone will
soon be uncovered. and if the company
meets with the success anticipated an
other Mercur excitement will be on, as
:
from Mercur
w E Hendrie, the capable and eff
ficent metallurgist and millman of the
Northern Light. was in the city yester-
day, returning . the mine this morning
Mr. Hendrie states that the mine is look
/ ing well and that it will not be long now
before the men will be rushing out ore
from the lower workings of the property
through the Woodruff tunnel He also
says that a considerable quantity of fine
milling gold ore is being taken out of the
Kelly ore pipe while at the mill an aX-
cellent extraction is being made. nearly
every particle of the gold values being
| recovered.
Joe Obendorfer and E. A Vail. of the
Searchlight, who made visit to the prop
erty the first of the week, report that the
indications are very favorable for the
opening uD of q body of pay ore in the
near future The shaft in the Search
light is now down TO a depth of 56l feet.
the bottom being in what is believed to
BE- the footwall of the vein. and now
drifts are being run north and south in
order to find where the pay streak is.
| During their stay in Sunshine Messrs.
Obendorfer and Vail made an inspection
of the Sunshine mine the Overland and
the Red Cloud, and they express them
selves as being well pleased with the APP
pearance and conditions in these prop
critics.
On Sunday The Herald made mention
of the fact that in the mill tunnel at the
Geyser- Marion, the face of the workings
was in the blocky lime that generally
overlies the lower vein in that section,
and yesterday it was reported on the
streets that the ore zone had been en-
countered and thTt fine body of mineral
has been exposed in this portion of the
property. While there has been a scare
over Generalization, parties who are
thoroughly posted as TO the true condi-
ton of the mine are quietly corralling all
of the stock of the company they can at