The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-03
Mining Notes and Personals.

A two-carload shipment is on the mar
ket.
The Golden Gate began hosting and
crushing ore yesterday.
Northern Light was somewhat firmer on
the curb yesterday afternoon.
The sale of delinquent Crown Point
stock has been postponed for 20 days.
Judge A. w. Sherman has returned from
the Overland, at Sunshine, and he states
that work is progressing finely in its de-
veloDment.
There will be more than usual activity
in mining circles at Alta this season, and
it is hoped that the old camp will enjoy
some of its old-time boom days.
VI. II. Hennessey has returned from
Cache county, where, few miles north
east of Logan, he made an examination of
mining properties, bringing back with him
some samples of ore, which were being as
sayed yesterday.
Times, HALEY. Ida: George o. Walker
writes from Mercur Utah, that there are
quite a few HALEY people in that part
of the world. and that Utah is a plum
pudding of a country" He expects 10
stav there until June.
+. 3. Coleman who has been mining at
Little Salmon. not far from Wells, New,
is home again, after an absence OF several
months. He reports that he has been do
ing well, and that he is opening up some
valuable copper properties.
A movement is on foot in Oregon to be-
gin extensive placer operations with
dredger on the Powder river. near its
juncture with the Snake, where. it is
stated, the gravel and sand Yields from
% to 50 cents in gold to the cubic yard.
a whim has been sent down to the Pa
cific, naar Silver City, and Judge Green.
the Superintendent of the mine, has sent
up for 100 ore sacks, as it is his intention
to make q consignment of high grade
mineral to the market in the near fu-
ture.
The regular annual stockholders meet
inc of the South Swanea Mining COM
pany will be held on the 18th Of April next.
for the purpose of electing a new board
of directors and for the transaction of
come before the meeting.
Don Mcguire, who is collecting minerals
for the Omaha exposition, was in the city
yesterday and will leave this morning for
Bingham. Mr.. Mcguire has secured
splendid collections from Tintic, Mercur
and Park City, and after doing Bling
ham, he Will leave for the camps in the
southern portion of the state.
The Herald is in receipt of neatly
printed and profusely illustrated pamphlet
entitled The Gold Fields Of Eastern Ore
gon." The work Is gotten up in most in
teresting form and describes in detail the
mining interests Of the locality mentioned.
1t is published and circulated by the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company.
c. D. Gardanier, of the Extra Session,
who was in Bingham the first of the week
for the purpose of taking look at the
finely. in its development. a. d that the in
cline shaft is now in q distance of .125 feet,
while there is a favorable chance in the
formation. as punches of galena ore are
encountered.
f. II. Airs and wife returned Thursday
night from their California visit. Mr.. Al
ris states that in Los Angeles and San
Francisco he met with L. S. De Golyer
and other well-known mining men who
operated in Utah few years ago.. and
they were seemingly doing well, Mr. All
ris left Colonel S. B. Miner and family OF
Los Angeles. but 1t is expected they viii
rsturn home within week.
p. ]. DonOhue. who has returned from
a visit to the Sunshine and Lion hill
mines. states that at the Overland the
showing is excellent and all that could
be desired: while he was well pleased
with the appearance of the Columbia, on
Lion hill. which, he believes, is the MAX
ing of big mine and dividend-payer with
development. and he says that work is
being pushed as rapidly as possible. Mr.
Dopohue also thinks well of the Hercules.
and is satisfied that in the Wine being
sunk from the tunnel level in this prop
erty the Chloride Point ore zone will be
within % feet more; while. as
to the Chloride Point. there is no ques-
ton as to the outcome of the enterprise.