The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-05
from silver city yesterday in order to

A representative of the Chairman
Mining company. operating in White
Pine county, Nevada, is in Utah in
vestigating into the merits of the cya-
hide process of ore reduction.
From a gentleman just in from Mer-
cur it is learned that the citizens of
that place are hot after Sacramento
stock, and that this security is a great
favorite with the people of the camp.
Three employees of the Copper Noun
tain Mining company of Beaver Lake
Messrs. Phillips, Jones and Lloyd. who
are in the city. report that this prop
erty is in a most promising condition
The assessment on the Dexter was
delinquent yesterday, and out of the
$4,000 about $24.000 has been paid, and
it is believed that on the day of sale
the assessment on but a few shares
will remain unpaid.
Messrs. Frank Knox. James A. Pol
lock. A. F. Holden and H. NJ. Ryan
made visit of inspection to the Ajax
at Mammoth on Sunday and returned
home well pleased with the condition
of this valuable property. AS the boys
say. Il. ]. j."
Miles Lund, after recreating in Salt
Lake for a month, left last night for
Eagle Valley district. where he will re-
sumo work in the development of prom
Using properties owned by his father,
Hon. r. c. Lund, Allen G.. Campbell
and Ben Johnson.
The sudden death of Hyrum Beck
yesterday was a shock to his many
friends in this city. Mr.. Beck was a
son of. John Beck, and was quite large
~ identified with the mining interests
of the state. He was a bright young
man and full of promise, and his loss
will be felt in more ways than one.
Silver City Star: 1t is reported on
the quiet that the Mammoth mine has
discovered some high grade ore on one
of the lower levels The ore is being
sacked in the mine and will be shipped
some time during the present month.
Its value is reported as anywhere from
10 to 10 ounces gold.
F. r. Cook returned the first of the
week from the Treasure Hill, near Sill
Yer City, and he reports that the prop
erty is in a most promising condition
and that arrangements are being made
to sink q Wine on a seam of very high
grade ore on the 600 level at a point
about $50 feet south of the shaft.
A. ]. Spencer of Toano, New, is in
the city. Mr.. Spencer is engaged in
the forwarding business at TOano, and
has just sent out $4,000 feet of lumber
for the North Mountain Mining COM
will forward the new set of rolls and
other machinery for the North Noun
tain mill.
w. E. Hubbard, A. S. Day, H. H.
Green and George Clark were in Bing-
ham the first of the week and made
an inspection of the Cuba mine in Carr
Fork gulch, in which they are inter-
ested, bringing home with them some
fine samples of ore from the body of
mineral recently disclosed in this prom
Using property.
Republican, Rawlins, Wyo.: Ma
chinery has been shipped from Chicago
for stamp mill in the Cummings dis
trict in Albany county, costing $4,000.
1t is stated that a smelter will be put
in during the coming summer. The
American Gold and Copper Mining
of Laramie and Chicago is
behind the enterprise.
J. c. Dugan, the well-known Bing-
ham mining operator. is in the city.
Mr.. Dugan was quite badly hurt a
short time ago by a cavern in the Jer-
sey Blue mine in Bingham, but is now
able to get out and around again. He
states that the Jersey Blue is looking
well. and he is confident that it is the
of producing mine.
Charles Buffers, the noted South
Africa mining operator who has a
branch experimental office in this city,
and who keeps mining experts on the
go continually in this western coun-
try, is booked to arrive in the United
States about the first of May, and one
of his first visits after his arrival to
Uncle Sans domain will be to Salt
Lake, when it is expected something
Of interest will transpire in mining cir
cles.
Bert Kimball arranged to leave last
night for the camp of Nelson, in Eagle |
Valley district, where he will assume
the management of the Eagle Valley |
and Mountain View properties. Mr.. |
Kimball states that while Eagle Valley
and Stateline offer inviting induce |
ments for investment, that the labor |
market is glutted and that until the |
mills of the two camps are in active op- !
Grafton the men looking for work had /
better stay away. Mr.. Kimball is i'm |
pressed with the magnificent minerali- |
cation of Eagle Valley and surround !
ing country and believes that in time |
this will be one of the greatest gold |
producing sections in the west.
Noble Jones, the efficient assayer at /
the Geyser-Marion, was in yesterday ,
with a $1,000 shipment of cyanides, |
which are being sampled at the Con. X (
:. works. Mr.. Jones states that the /
mill, with its increased capacity. about .
I55 tons daily, will be in operation .
within a week. The former capacity +
IF the plant was in the neighborhood
IF 80 tons a day, so it viii be seen that
with its recent additions it can handle
nearly double its former output. Mr..
Jones also says that some very on
developments are being
made in the West Geyser, while there
s more good milling ore in sight in
he mine today than ever before in it's
history.