The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-13
Mining Notes and Personals.

Mining Notes and Personals.
The Spanish of Bingham was in the
market yesterday with another five
carload lot of ore.
The Treasure Hill Mining company
operating near Silver City, received
settlement yesterday for an S5-ton ship
ment of iron fiuxing ore.
A shipment of ore from the Utah
Queen mine in Dry canyon was submit
ted to ore buyers yesterday on controls
showing metallic values of IA per cent
lead. Sc ounces silver and $1.20 in gold
to the ton.
p J. Donohue, who is on his way to
Sinaloa, Old Mexico, where he will as
sumo the management of large min
ing property for a London company,
has been heard from at Deming. n. NJ,
and he writes that he will soon be at
his destination.
E. B. Coleman, the well known min
ing man who expects TO be able to pose
I as a copper magnate at no distant day,
has just returned from Contact, in the
Little Salmon River country, Nevada,
where he has been to make an eXamin-
alton of his copper properties.
The Consolidated Kansas, City Smelt-
ing & Refining company, through its
genial resident agent. Major ]. e. Jack
son, has contributed $50 towards de-
fraying the expenses of the Interna-
tional Mining Congress, which convenes
in this city on the 18th of July next.
Frank Harris, manager of the Home
stake at Silver City, went out TO the
mine last night 1t is expected that
ports will be received from this prom
Using property, the indications being
that a fine body of fine ore will soon
be uncovered.
Colonel S. b. Miner, accompanied by
his brother, Charles, expects to leave
tomorrow night for Pinto Iron district,
in Iron county, where he is developing
promising silver and lead properties.
It is quite likely that before his return
the colonel will revisit Stateline and
Eagle Valley districts.
P. ]. Quealy, the chief mogul of the
coal enterprise at Kemmerer, Wyo.,
was in the city yesterday Mr.. Quealy
states that the new camp is lively and
prosperous, and that the company with
which he is associated has opened its
coal measures extensively, put in ma
chinery and is taking out the black dia-
monds galore.
Word comes from the Johannesburg,
on the west shore of Utah lake, that
in the drift being driven on the foot
wall of the vein from the bottom of
the 75-foot shaft, the face of the work.
ings has exposed Sc inches of ore which
. carries fair values in gold, and that as
work progresses the chute is growing
larger, while the metallic values are in
creasing.
Within the next 80 days ]. H. Watts
expects to resume the development Of
his graphite mine in the southern por-
ton OF Montana. Considerable work
has already been done in opening this
property. and in the face of the tunnel
there is a foot or more of graphite that
exists nearly in pure state and which
is the best ever found in the United
States and equal in every respect to the
| imported article.
Henry Ogren, one of the contractors
at the Golden Star, in Gold Mountain
district, is in the city. and states that
the mine is showing up splendid bodies
of good grade of ore. 1t is the inten-
ton of the company to begin at once
the extension of the tunnel into the
HILL and as the upper and lower work.
ings are now connected by an upraise
the mine is in shape to pose as a regu-
lar shipper as soon as the roads become
passable.
/ Sam Pollock, the superintendent Of
/ the Hercules mine. on Lion hill, who
has been in the city for the past few
days, will go out this morning. Mr..
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opment of the Hercules is progressing
finely, and that some ore is being taken
out that ranges in value from 20 to IS
ounces in silver, and from 50 TO 50 in
gold TO the ton, and he is thoroughly
satisfied that this property is the max
ing of a paying proposition
J. E. Bamberger returned yesterday
! from Eureka, where he made a careful
examination of the Centennial Eureka.
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ing highly pleased with the condition
of the property, and states that it is
looking better than ever before in its
history. Besides the Centennial Eure-
ka, Mr.. Bamberger examined other
properties in the camp. and comes
home with the impression that Tintic
is one of the greatest mineral districts
in the west.
At a meeting of the new directory of
the Blue Mountain Tunnel & Mining
company, held yesterday afternoon, the
board was organized by the election of
| officers as follows: Governor II. NJ
Wells, president; c. X. Mccormick, vice
/ president and treasurer; A. Hanauer,
/ jr., secretary, and b. =. Haywood, gen
eral manager During the meeting the
manager made his report regarding the
condition of the property and plans and
arrangements were made and perfected
/ Tor active operations this season in the
continued development of this Blue
Mountain property.
! Very encouraging reports have been
received of late from the property of
the Florence Mining company, which is
located in Skull valley, and ore from the
mine has just been received, taken from
| a large body, which showed assay
values of $500 and $3.50 in gold to
the ton The men who are developing
! the mine on a contract viii be in with
! in a day or two, and the company, at a
meeting just held, has decided to let
another contract for continued work in
the opening of the property, and later
on the mill, with an increased capacity,
will be started up.
Rumors have been in the air of late
regarding dissatisfaction with the en-
pany regarding the Mammoth boarding
house, but it is learned that if they are
discharged from the mine, if they
board elsewhere. il is not with the con-
sent or knowledge of the company. as
there has never been an order promul-
gated by the company to the effect that
its men should board at the company
boarding house unless they are inclined
or desire to do SO. 1t is understood,
however, that there has been COM
plant regarding the board and that a
number of men have quit the employ
of the company on this account.
Catarrh is g Disease
| Which requires a constitutional rem
! edy. It cannot be cured by local ap-
plications. Hoods Sarsaparilia is
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