The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-14
Mining Notes and Personals.

OT. k. boutwell, OF the sacramento WAS
at the mine yesterday.
Captain George Ryan, one of the lead
ing mining men of Eureka. was in the
city yesterday.
The Observation-Disclosures. had three cars
of gold. silver and copper ore at the
sampler yesterday.
A gentleman just in from Eureka, states
that at the Eagle & Blue Bell high-grade
ore is being sacked for shipment
1t is reported that strike Of good cop
per and lead ore has been made in the
Treasure Hill mine in Tintic district.
George Kislingbury, one Of the experts
in the employ of Captain j. r. De Lamar,
has returned from the west, where he has
been for some time engaged in examining
mining properties.
carload of Golden Eagle high-grade ore is
being loaded for the Salt Lake market:
Advices from this Nevada, producer are of
a most pleasing character.
It is learned that the Walker Bros.
will send out a force of men this morning
for the purpose of Fesuming extensive
work in the development of the Showers
Consolidated property near Diamond in
Tintic district
An exchange says: For the first time
holders this week got dividend-$1.5O
per share-the result of successful ltiga-
ton. The dividend amounts to $l6S,O00, a
total of $5,776,20O.
machinists and mill builders of Utah, has
just returned from the Park, where he
has been employed in overhauling and re-
pairing the hoist and other 9TH works at the
Mr.. Gray will go out to Tintlc for the
purpose of installing the new air COM
pressor at the Star Consolidated mine.
Word comes from Bingham that in the
DEVELOPMENT of the Cuba, up Carr Fork
gulch, the lower tunnel has cut into a
strong vein in which there are a few
inches of fine shipping ore. The course of
the tunnel has now been changed and a
drift is being run on the vein to it's con
nection or junction with the main leuge,
the disclosure of which, it is believed, will
take the workings into a fine and large
body OF high-grade mineral.
The assessment of two and a half cents
a share on Sunbeam did not cause the
slump in the stock of the company that
some expected. OnIthe contrary, Sun
beam was strong and a favorite with
that this comparatively heavy levy will
be used to good advantage in the extern
mine, which, without doubt, will rank
as a heavy producer of high-grade ore
when depth is attained in it's operation.
f. r. Wilson. vice president of the Joe
Bowers Extension, who has returned from
a visit of inspection to this promising
I1ntlc property, states that an improve
ment is noticeable in every foot of work
done in the DEVELOPMENT of this en-
the further statement that in the north
drift from the bottom of the shaft the
ore body is gaining. in size and at the
same time the metallic values are in
creasing. The company, on account of
doing annual assessment work on several
of the claims embraced in it's holdings, is
not operating the mine as extensively as
it is proposed to do in the immediate
future, and for this reason progress in the
development of the mine is not as rapid
as some could wish. as
C. c. Higgins who has returned from
one of his semi-nontfay visits to Mercur,
states that the camp is fiourishing like
unto a green bay tree'' and that the resi-
dents of the district are much interested
in the recent strike in the Hillside just
above the Mercur it. having been given
out that in this ground six or seven feet
of good milling ore has been exposed. The
camp is also excited over the Snowstorm,
on the west dip, adjoining the South Daisy
on the south, and on the strength of the
recent disclosures in the south Daisy.
and the fact that work is to be resumed
at once in the development of the Snow
storm, 10000 shares of the stock of the
latter company were sold in Mercur the
first of this week. Stockholders in the
West Mercur, whose property adjoins the
Snowstom on the south, are also feeling
in good spirits, as it begins to look as if
the vein grows larger and carries higher
values the further south it is followed