The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-12
MINING Notes and Personals.

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Sacramento was traded in on the
curb yesterday in lots of 500 shares at
81 cents a share.
Colorado capitalists are getting a
foothold in the promising camp of
| Springer, New Mexico.
Yesterdays Mercur Mercury contain
ed an interesting description and illus
trated write<up of the Golden Gate
mine and mill.
It is expected that Mt. Nebo will be
heard from this summer in the mining
way, as a number of very promising
lead properties have been found there
during the past year.
Lode, De Lamar, New: The reports
of new strikes at Deer Lodge and
Stateline every few days are very en-
couraging, and if the veins continue
down, as they have every appearance
Of DOING, the camps will be a second
Cripple Creek.
Considerable activity is noticeable in
the vicinity of Sunshine at the present
time, and it is understood that in the
Sir Victor, at that place, cross-cut
is being run from the 250-foot level to
cut the ledge. which, it is expected,
will be encountered within 60 feet.
w. S. Brown of the Mercur and
North Mountain Mining companies,
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terday, and is now busy receiving bids
for a new set of rolls which are to be
added to the equipment of the North
Mountain mill, which is located at the
mine at Cherry Creek, New.
Morris Bamberger, the efficient as
sayer at the Mercur mill, who was in
the city yesterday, states that every
thing is all o. K. with the Mercur,
and he also states that there is de-
cided improvement in the Geyser- Mar
ion, an inspection of which he made
just before leaving for Salt Lake.
Active developments are in progress
in the exploration of promising prop
critics on Granite mountain, in Tooele
county. and it is believed. before the
season is over, that a number of regu-
lar producers will be listed in that To-
cality, from which several consign-
ments of good ore have already been
reported.
A. P. Senior. who is a plunger in
mining stocks and who holds shares in
number of Utah's leading mines, is
branching out little and has just pur-
chased a SO-acre tract near Springville,
which he is planting to fruit trees of
which he Will have several different !
varieties, including 1,600 peach, $50 APP
pie and 2,O4O pear, all of the choicest |
stock.
There is more war talk in mining |
circles at the present time than there !
is regarding mining ventures, and ii is !
believed, in the event of hOStilities be- |
tween the United States and Spain,
and the complications With other ma
tons which will surely ensue, the price
of silver viii be affected, with the al
most certainty that the quotations on
the white metal will advance.
Fillmore Progress: D. c. Reed of
Smith station was a visitor to our
sarctull last Tuesday. He reports 4
everything in his section of the coun-
try as being favorable. Mr.. Reed is an
owner of the Moody mine, located
about six miles east of Antelope
Springs, and states L,lat the same is
being actively worked. A 30-foot tun-
mel has been dug, and the work will
continue until it is extended to 100 feet.
The ore contains copper and gold, and
the prospects for the property are
bright.
]. V. Lane, who has driven his
stakes so as to clean up a fortune in
Eagle Valley district, has packed his
household goods, which have been
shipped to Deer Lodge, and on Mon
day he will leave with his family for
this new Eldorado, as it is his inten-
ton of taking up mis- residence there
this summer. Mr.. Lane has great faith
IN the future of Eagle valley and pre-
diets that the Charlie Ross mine, in
which he is interested, will make
name in time as being the greatest
gold producer in the state of Nevada.
The Amelia Gold & Silver Mining
company will file it's articles of incor-
1oration today. the basis of it's organ
cation being the Amelia group of
claims in old Star district, Beaver
formerly owned by ]. H. Du-
oaix, who, in years gone by, used to
operate the property himself bringing
n bars of silver from his little stamp
mill near Minersville, in Beaver can
yon. The Magnolia is a promising
piece of property. and if it is handled j
light should make money for the new
company, which is capitalized at 2O0,-
100 shares of a par value of 10 cents
ZACH.
The Tintic Miner states that. on Mon {
lay and Sunday of this week a survey
If the underground workings of the !
Grand Central mine was made Jointly
~ the Grand Central and Mammoth
G. L. Brooks NJ E. acting