The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-21
Mining Notes And Personals.

The Mercur company PAID us regular
monthly dividend of $4,000 yesterday.
J. ]. Common, the veteran Stockton
miner, was represented in the market
yesterday by a carload of ore from the
West Argent mine.
Owing to the departure of Utah volur-
teers yesterday business was thrown
to the four winds and good mining
news was at a premium.
W. D. Johnson, secretary of the In
ternational Mining congress will leave
for Denver this morning on business
which it is believed. will be of material
benefit to the convention.
F. B. Cook, the manager of the Treas
ure Hill. who has returned from Silver
City, states that the mine is looking
well and that regular shipments of a
good grade of ore are now being made
from 1t.
George Moore, the efficient assayer
and metallurgist for the Kansas City
Consolidated Smelling & Refining COM
pany, has returned from his Kansas
City visit, bringing with him his bride
of a few weeks. The happy couple will
soon go to housekeeping.
c. c. Higgins. of the Mercur Mercury,
left yesterday for the Raft mountains,
in Box Elder county, this state, where
he will visit the Century and AshbrOok
mines and mills, and also take look
around the country with view of see
ing all the good things" reported as
being in that section.
1t is reported that the Rio Grande
Western road will run a switch from
its main line at Eureka to the Godiva
mine mountain, and that the surveyors
are now laying off the line. With the
building of this spur the GOdiva. Uncle
Sam and Humbug mines will have ev-
cry railroad and shipSing advantage.
Hon. John Dern of the Mercuc and
Geyser- Marion will leave today for
Tuscarora, New, for the purpose of
making an examination of the Dexter
mine. in which he is quite heavily in
terested. From Tuscarora Mr.. Dern
will probably go on to Cherry Creek.
in White Pine county, where he viii
inspect the workings of the North
Mountain mine. in which he is also a
shareholder, and it is likely that he
will be there in time to witness the
starting UP of the mill with it's in
creased capacity.
Attorney ]. NJ. Thomas has returned
home from Pocatello, Ida, where he
has been attending to business invOlv-
ing the title to the Swan Lake group
of mines. in which, he states, he WAS
successful. while the damage suit
against him for the sum of $4,000 was
dismissed. Considerable work has been
done in the development of this prop
erty and now that all law suits have
been settled concerning it it is the in
tention to resume operations on a larger
scale than ever, and it is more than
likely that the group will be graced
with a mill in the near future.
c. F. Spillman of the Tintic Miner,
was in from Eureka yesterday on bust
ness for his paper. Mr.. Spillman is
greatly interested in the success of
the excursion to Eureka over the Den
yer & Rio Grande Western on Sunday,
May 90. This will be a baseball excur-
sion, the players to be the Eureka nine
against the Elks of this city, and as
five of the crack Park City players,
who made such a record during the
jubilee last summer viii play with the
Eureka team it is anticipated that the
game viii be hot number The excur-
sion win also be patronized by tour
lists who wish to investigate into the
merit of Tintic mines.