The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-09
Mining Notes and Personals.


A carload of Dexter high grade gold ore
is at the samDling works.
Sales of Bullion-Beck were reported on
the curb yesterday at $685..
The delinquent sale of Buckeye stock
is advertised to take place tomorrow.
Sam Newhouse. of the Highland Boy,
is expected in the city again during the
last of the week.
j.. w. Young, who is interested in a
number of western mining enterprises. is
in the city again, this time from Wyom-
ing.
Colonel S. B. Miner. general manager
of the Dexter mine and mill at Tusca-
rora, New, is expected home from that
camp this week.
Fifty tons of second-class ore from the
! Star Consolidated of Tintic are at the
sampler. while two cars of first-class
truck will come in today.
Things will look gay at the Chloride
Point and Overland after this, as stream
ers lave been prepared on which the
names of these properties have been in
scribed in Is inch letters so that he who
runs may read"
The shaft at the west mountain placers,
in Bingham canyon, has reached the de-
sired depth and now a station is being
cut preparatory to prosecuting on bed
rock in order to divert the flow of water
to the stump in the bottom of the shaft.
S. H. Fields, jr.. left last night for
klamath lake. in Oregon, where he will
join ]. D.. Kendall, of the Centennial
Eureka. The lodge at klamath lake is
becoming d great summer resort and Mr..
Field could not find a better spot in which
to spend his summer vacation.
Captain Timothy Egan leaves this
morning for the Golden Star mine in Gold
Mountain with the checks with which to
pay the employees of the company for
their time for July. During his absence
the captain will most likely make an
other shipment of good gold ore from the
Star.
Tho ebou,in1 &c axoaIIap+ az tho NTataor
at Fish Springs, the indications being
that in this property a cross %porphyry
ledge has been cut at a depth of about 100
feet, and if this is true an explanation is
given to many things concerning the dis
trict which have puzzled experts for a
number of years.
Bert Seaboldt came in yesterday from
Fort Duchesne and tonight he will leave
for the Goodhope bar on the Colorado
river. Mr.. Seaboldt is president of the
Goodhope Mining impair and he ex-
poets to direct work in the operation of
these diggings for a month at least be-
fore returning to Salt Lake.
The Silver King and the Swansea Min
ing companies will both pay their regular
monthly dividends tomorrow. the former
disbursing s37, 500. while the latter will
make its stockholders happy to the ex-
tent of 5000. Tomorrow, also, it is ex-
pected the Mercur will declare its regular
monthly dividend and that the Bullion
Beck will also drop into line with a pay
ment of at least 10 cents a share.
c.. S. King, of the Associated Mines
Special Service association, of New York,
session of the international mining con-
gress, has visited several of our leading
mining camps during the past week or
two, including Camp Floyd, Tintic and
Gold Mountain. This association is cal
culated to do the mining industry an i'm
mense amount of good and is well organ
lied for this purpose
The case of Pete Peterson VS.. the
,oIo of fha CnnrOp1a- MINING claim
adjoining the townsite at Eureka, is be-
ing heard before Special Agent Mosher of
the general United States land office, the
plaintiffs being represented by Attorneys
Denny, Gray & Scott, and the defendants
by Attorney Edward w. Senior. The
question involved in the case is the min
eral or non-mineral character of the land,
and the trial is being watched with much
interest b. mining men.
1t is learned that H. ]. Deter is in the
Klondike country and that he is interest
ed in Claim No. Al, above Bonanza, which
is held on a bond and lease from the
owner, a man named Curtis, who arrived
in the city from that section during the
past winter. A Chicago omDany has
lease. and Deter. with G.. w. Clay and
are engineering the operation of
the diggings, which, it is stated, is a
piece of property.
Alta has been making a fine record so
far this season and is shipping more
heavily than for years past, while nearly
every prospect hole and old mine in the
district is being examined with the view
of getting the same on a bond or lease.
At the present time the Grizzley is one
of the heaviest producers of the camp
and is shipping some fine ore running q
per cent copper. besides well in the other I
metals, it being stated that a fine body of
this class of mineral has been exposed in
this property. The Marion Consolidated
is also on the shipping list and now has
a carload of good rock at the sampler,
being the third consignment during the
past six weeks.
j. E. Breckon, M. E., who has returned
from Marysvale, informs The Herald that
he has made the surveys for the WACO
from the Annie Laurie mill on Gold
Mountai to the mouth of Mill creek, and
that in a distance of three and a half
the fail was 2,0S5 feet. The road will
connect with the Rio Grande Western
at the Sewer Y. The contracts
for its construction are being let and it
is expected the new t~horoughfare from
the mines of Gold Mountain will be COM
pleted by the first of October next. Mr..
states that a great deal of ac-
is promised in Gold Mountain dis
trict this coming fall and corroborates all
concerning the important and
rich strike in the Annie Tauria nina