The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-02
Mining Notes.

Miner, Gibbonsville. Ida: Colonel S. T.
Pearson, secretary of the Bingham Placer
company, came in from Salt Lake last
week and will look after the company's
affairs here this season.
Iron County Record: A part of a load
OF machinery was unloaded here Tuesday
for Colonel S: B.. Miner which will be
property near Iron City.
Silver City Star: Daniel P. McCaughn
has leased for is months the Trip and st.
George Consolidated, which adjoins the
famous Carisa- on the west, and will at
once begin work. The ground is owned
by Frank McHatten, superintendent of
the Sunbeam.
Vernal Express: ]. H. Black and Al
bion Beatty left yesterday for Jessie
good copper prospects. Mr.. Beatty prom
ised to locate the whole of the Express
force. down to the office cat, on good
piece of property in the locality of their
mines.
Recorder, Salmon City, Ida: Emerson
Hill. of Red Rock, arrived in town on
Sunday. He was accompanied by George
City. Mr.. Hill is interested in the Queen
of the Hills mine, where a new mill was
recently erected and began crushing ore
yesterday.
Miner. Gibbonsville. Ida: Charley Ber-
nard finished a run of ore through the
Anderson arastra last week that netted
about $40 to the ton He is making an
OIner Oh ~ tons IndI ne expects TO
go $40 to the ton, and has some ten tons
of very rich base ore that the intends to
ship to Butte. All of this ore is taken out
of Percy Anderson's property.
Miner, Gibbonsville, Ida: couple of
weeks since, while V. j. Mcpherson was
working on the night shift at Hughes
creek, on Ramsack bar, for Lewis &,
Smith, rock fell from overhead in the
drift and struck the handle of a pick
which he had in his hand in such way
as TO cause it to strike him in the mouth
Several teeth were knocked out and his
mouth badly cut so that he was obliged TO
come to town and have the doctor dress
the wound.
Democrat. Baker City. Ore: A good
report comes in from the Sherman group
of mines at Elkhorn mountain. a short
distance northeast of the Well-known
Baisley- Elkhorn mine. and owned by r.
| o. Deming. o. +. Symmes, James Cum
mings and L. Mahan. This group is I'M
der the bond of Mr.. j. r. Burns, propri-
etor of the Hotel Warshauer of this city
and who is carrying on extensive devel-
opment. a crosscut of 226 feet has been
run and there remains so feet more to run
to get $50 feet of backs, making a cross
cut 3O6 feet long. The crosscut will tap
all the seven claims of the Sherman
group at a depth of 500 feet.
World. Idaho City, Ida M II. Jacobs of
the New York mine. who came up from
Boise last Monday, returned Wednesday
He says the tunnel that tapped the ledge
short time ago was run in a distance
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of $50 feet, on the dip. The ledge was
struck at the end of the chute and the
ore was better Than was expected, run
ming about $12 Directly above this point
the ore carried but very little gold. but
by driving on the ledge ore was struck
running so per ton. The ledge in the
lower tunnel is four feet wide. The New
York has been bonded to an English
company.
Avalanche. Silver City. Ida.: The Wag-
ener arrastra started up last Monday on
Cumberland ore and is reducing about
seven tons daily. Brown & Sampson have
the ore hauling contract and are deliver
ing it in quantities sufficient to keep the
mill running steadily. The roads are in
fair condition. having been cleared of
snow around Cape Horn. The mill is
equipped with two large arrastra beds,
pans and settlers. At the mine develop
ment work is progressing favorably and
Superintendent Easton is confident that
the mill can be kept grinding to it's fullest
capacity from the ore already in sight
Sinking operations were discontinued
about three weeks ago on account of the
strong flow of water from the melting
snow, but will be resumed shortly. Stop
ing is in progress in the 200 north and
both stopping and drifting in the 100 south