The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-29
Mining Notes and Personals.

P. S. Martin, one of the veteran miners
of old Star district. is in from Milford.
4 car of Tiewaukee. and also one of
Sampson. was in the market from Bling
ham yesterday.
The delinquent stock of the Richmond
& Anaconda Mining company is TO be sold
today at pm
Colonel H. C. Hefron has returned home
from his Idaho trip, where he has been
inspecting mining properties.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Little PittSburg company is called
for Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1898, at 1880 pm.
Dave Midgely has taken a contract for
100 feet of work in the continued devel-
oDment of the Fissure mine. near Dia-
mond, not far from the Buckeye.
w. E. Hubbard and w. H Irvine will
go out to the Chloride Point this morn
ing Another consignment of hgh-grade
ore from this property is now being
loaded at Mercur.
1t is reported that the Snowflake. at
Eureka, is looking extremely well and
that the vein is growing in size as devel-
opment work progresses, while the metal
lie values are also improving.
1t is reported that the Hercules, on Lion
hill, is looking in a most encouraging
condition and it is believed that within
the next two or three weeks a fine BODY
of mineral will be encountered.
Encouraging news continues to be re-
ceived from the Frisco mine, at Bingham,
the latest report being that the company
bottom of the winze on a three-foot vein
which is rapidly making ore.
The New State Mining company. operat-
ing at the mouth of Little Cottonwood, is
now doing assessment work on some of
its unpatented claims, and as soon as this
is completed will resume operations in the
main workings of the property
At the South Swansea, at Silver City,
a station is being cut at the IOO-foot
level while drifting to the south is in
progress in some of the upper levels,
where the showing of ore is excellent.
1t is understood that the stock OF the
company sold recently goes to fill an
eastern order.
The directors of the Skull valley Mining
company have passed resolution giving
stockholders of the company until March
l in which to redeem stock sold as de-
Hnuuent under the recent assessment 1t
is rumOred that the property of the com
pany is possessed of considerable merit
and that il has the earmarks of develop
ing into a second Mercur.
Loren and Charlie Morrison have re-
turned from Copper gulch. in Beaver
county, where they have been doing the
annual assessment work on their New
Year group of claims, and in doing this
they have uncovered large ledge of cop
per-bearing ore, which. at water level,
carries from % to Is per cent copper, be-
sides well in silver and gold.
In the recent suit tried at Nephi. in
volving the title to the Napoleon mine,
adjoining the Ajax, at Mammoth. the
court rendered decision in favor of
Frank Knox and found that the title to
the property is vested in this gentleman
The court also exonerates Mr.. Knox from
any completely in alleged frauds in con-
uection with the matter.
The Niagara at Bingham. has already
shipped u carloads of ore from the new
strike recently chronicled in these col
umns while another 5-carload lot is now
on the way to the sampler, all of which
has been taken out in doing development
work only John Montgomery. who is in
charge of the property. is well pleased
with the showing and states that drift
ing on the vein is in progress. the whole
face of the workings being in a fine body
of pay mineral