The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-27

panied by Mrs. Chisholm. from their
visit TO Colorado Springs and Denver.
II is reported that Prof. Wedelin who
was formerly connected with the smelter
at Trail Creek, B. G.. is talking of put
ting in another smelter in Salt Lake val
ley.
1t IS reported that the Martha Wash
ingtOn near Silver City, shows four feet
OF good ore, and the owners of the prop
erty are feeling in excellent spirits over
the outlook for the property.
J. T. Breekon, NJ E.. has just com
pleted making surveys for patents of the
Il claims embraced in the group owned
by the Red Butte Mining company in
Ophir and Rush Valley districts.
Democrat Baker City, Ore: George ks
nngburg. expert in the employ OF Captain
De Lamar, arrived from Salt Lake City
last evening and Will leave this morning
for Sumpter and Gable Cove district.
The committee appointed at the stock
holders meeting of the DAILY Mining COM
pany for the purpose OF auditing the ac-
counts of the company has performed its
duty and reported that everything was
correct.
The machinery for the 20-stamp mill for
DR.. Nelson's Eagle valley properties has
been shipped from Denver and ]. w.
Steohens. the mill man, left last night
for the purpose OF beginning the grading
for the plant.
John r. Clark and six or seven other
gold seekers will leave this morning for
Portland from which point they viii
Journey on to the Klondise. 1t is under
stood that prominent Salt Lakers are
backing the enterprise
Lode. De Lamar New: At the April
Fool mine and mill everything is running
smoothly again and two large tanks are
being filed every day with $50 gold rock
This company Is now laying aside neat
little sum as clear profit
Elmer Hill of the keystone and For
tune mines. at Bingham, who was in the
city Yesterday, informs The Herald that
he is shipping quite heavily and that an
other lot from both mines is being loaded
and will soon be on the market.
In making mention yesterday of the
important strike in the Cannon ground,
at Mercur. an error was made IN the
statement that John Treweek at one time
had had bond on the property, as II was
Colonel Nick TreeWeek who secured the
option, associated with A. Hanauer.
I Messenger, Challis. Ida: The Lucky
Boy mine is producing plenty OF ore 10
keep the mill running and does not lessen
the amount in sight, but under the man
agement of a man that understands his
business like Superintendent Norman,
there will always be ore reserves to draw
upon.
Many of the leading mining men of Salt
Lake were highly pleased yesterday TO
hear of the fine strike in the cannon
property. at Mercur, and the concensus
of opinion is that the company is desery-
ing OF its good fortune 1t IS also regard
ed as important in that it proves the
existence of an ore zone or belt in that
locality and owners of property in the i'm
mediate vicinity are corresDondlngly
elated.
Democrat. Baker City, Ore: The dis
covary of rich placer ground about one
mile south of the Gold Ridge mine is re-
ported The locators and owners are
Charles Durkee and Charles Nichols TIE
gravel is three and one-half Ieet IN depth
and will average two cents to the pan.
The ground can be worked with 100 inches
of water for at least three months IN me
spring and when water 1alls VIII ylelu
e.
drifting.
Lode. De Lamar. New: A large num-
Der of men have been put to work the
past week on the surface at the, cave OF
the De Lamar mine, clearing on the waste
and making preparations to quarry out
large quantities of ore that is now eA-
posed TO within few feet OF the surface.
A large part of the surface mad peen
cleaned off for some time before the first
cave occurred and the De Lamar company
viii now be able TO extract hundreds OF
tons every day.
John J. Daily of the Daly-West mine, |
returned yesterday from the east, where
he has been on business connected with
the company. Tomorrow the company
will hold its annual stockholders meeting |
in this city, at which board of directors
will be elected to serve for the ensuing
year, besides which other business VIII
come w for consideration and action, |
among which will be the proposition TO
take in the half of the Daly-West ground
not included in the Incorporation.
E. S. Catch. the secretary Of the Salt !
Lake & Boston Investment company,
with headquarters in the latter city, is IN
Salt Lake on one of his semi-annual Wis
its. Nh Catch states that there Is
good demand and market in Boston Tor
Utah mining stocks and that the people
of that place are very favorably disposed
towards this state and its mining secur-
tiles Mr.. Catch will visit several OF our
leading mining camps before returning
home
Bingham Bulletin: A party who came J
over from Copper gulch Tuesday reports |
that important bodies of shipping ore
and that it Will soon be making con- |
siderable output. In the south drift a
cross cut toward the hanging wall has |
been run 10 feet in ore and is sun IN II, |
while the north drift is showing a 2-foot |
streak AT the face. Among new properties !
that have rot reached the producing !
stage, the Antelope seems to be as prom |
Using as any in the district and il is liable |
to make a record for itself this season.
J. S. johnson. one of the mining mag |
mates of Alta, is down from this old camp |
where he has spent the last month in the
working of his Regulator mine, in which
there is a showing of from three to four
feet of copper ore running from II TO 70
per cent in this metal, besides some sill
yer. gold and copper. Mr.. johnson has
a 25-tOn lot of this class of mineral on the
dump. which viii be consigned to the
smelter as soon as the roads become pass
able. which Will not be Tor two months
yet, although there has been very light
fall of snow IN that locality the past win
ter. Mr. Johnson states that the miners
of Alta are all doing well and that the
coming season will show more than usual
activity in the mines of this old wealth
producing district.
Superintendent II. L. Benner of the
Geyser-Marion, who was in the city yes
terday states that the mine is now look
ing better than ever before. In this con-
nection it might be well to state that the
additions being made to the GeySer mill
will increase the capacity of the plant to
200 tons daily, which is greater than the
previous aggregate capacity of both the
Marion and Geyser mills. and the cost of |
making this Improvement will not ex-
coed g. 600. The last shipment of cyanideS
from the Geyser-Marion, covering only
run of IL days, was over So 100 and is the
largest yet made by the company for a
similar period, while the battery tests are
running much higher than formerly. The
stock of the company was very strong on
the curb yesterday afternoon at 80 cents
in the bidding, with but very few trans |
fers reported at this figure.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.