The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-04

hold. and at the present the company is
shipping from 60 to 70 tons. of good ore
daily.
Don. c. Robbins. who has returned from
his marble quarries in Hobble Crack
canyon. above Springville, in Utah county,
states that work is being pushed in bring
ing this enterprise to the front and thar
outside capitalists. The marble is beau
tiful chocolate brown in color and is filed
with animal petrifactions- giving it an
establishment that is very attractive and
desirable, besides which il is susceptible
to a high polish and finish,
Henry Ogren, one of the contractors at
the Golden Star, on Gold. mountain, writes
Captain Timothy Egan that in the 40-foOt
uprafse sro-n the lower tunnel in this
property a 14-inch body of fine grade of
ore is exposed. while in the face of the
tunnel. which is being extended into the
hill. there is a four-foot body of good
mineral in which there are streaks of very
high grade gold ore. The company Will
not ship until the roads become passable.
but a large amount of 'hot stun is be-
ing piled up in one of the cross-cuts of
the mine
The enormous size of the ore bodies in
the Yahk was illustrated the other day in
the south drift of the keystone when a
shot brought down a solid piece OF ore IS
feet long. eight feet wide and four feet
thick, says the Sylvanite, Mont, Miner.
Mine Foreman Anderson estimated it to
weigh at least 30 tons. The ore chute in
the big Slope of the south drift is about 60
feet wide, with one wall yet to be uncov-
cred. 1t is great blowout of ore. the
extent of which can only be determined
by further exploration Townsite Agent
Patterson says if he had that 30-ton piece
at the Omaha exposition, he wouldn't take
SEQ for the company S poorest lot in Syl-
vanite.
Eohn Condron has returned from Salt
Lake. While there. he, in conjunction with
his partner. ]. B. Black, completed ar
rangements for the sale of their property
m he Taf1s holt CIV IA
Statesman. The property consists of the
Hattie No. l and the Hattie No. 2, for
merly the Trump group. located some
eight miles from Haley. The purchaser
is John NJ. Davis of Mercur. He will put
a force of men at work at once, and will
prospect the property extensively before
May /, when his option viii expire. he
came up with Mr.. Condron as far as Sho-
shone. and told him if the property held
out as well as ii now shows there would
be no doubt about the option being taken
up
David Keith and Thomas Kearns. two
prominent Utah mining men. and the
largest stockholders of the famous Silver
King mine at Park City, Utah, came i'll
or Sunday evenings stage. says the
Times-Review of Tuscarora, New. They
were en- route to San Francisco, and took
advantage of their close proximity to stop
over at Elko and pay a visit to this dis
trict. which is just now attracting con-
siderable attention IN Salt Lake mining
circles They were the guests of w. H.
Dickson. president of the Dexter company.
and spent yesterday in inspecting the new
mill and underground workings of that
property. They renewed old acquaint-
anceship with the Times Review editors,
and expressed themselves as highly pleas
ed with what they had seen and confident
ly predicted a bright future for this camp
as evidenced by the enormous amount of
ore which they saw exposed in the Dex-
ter workings They continued on their
way TO San Francisco this morning.