The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-06
MINING Notes and Personals.

Abner Grooves of Denver, a delegate to
the mining congress, has arrived.
F. r. Page of Colorado Springs, a well
known Colorado mining man. is in the
city.
]. B. Stevens and wife have conveyed
to E. A. Wall an option for the AIS Well
lode in West Mountain district.
D. H. Morris, one of the prominent citi-
zens of st. George, is in the city as a
delegate to the International mining con-
gress.
Noble Jones, the efficient assayer at the
600 pounds of cyanides from this valuable
producer and dividend payer.
Hon. John Dern yesterday placed on
exhibition at the Hall of Relics some fine
specimens of native gold from the West
Mountain placerS at bingham.
Charles I. Moore of Cripple Creek, and
]. w. Corbin. of La Sale mountains,
delegates to the mining congress, are
stopping at the Walker house.
NJ. A. Lathrop. a prominent citizen of
Omaha, who is quite heavily interested in
mining enterprises in Utah, is in the city
and will take in the mining congress this
week.
c. S. Graham, the original locator of the
Copper Mountain properties in Beaver
Lake district, is in the city and will likely
remain over in order to attend the min
ing congress.
yesterday placed on exhibition at the hall
of relics some fine specimens of copper
ore from the Big Indian mine in the La
Sale mountains.
cient metallurgist at the Golden Gate
mine and mill, is in the city on business
connected with the proposed enlargement
of this magnificent plant.
Work is being pushed in the construc-
ton Of the plant of the Salt Lake City
Electric Power company at the Jordan
narrOwS, and Allan G, LamSon, the pro-
moter OF the enterprise, states that within
or civ he Will hax oil r r.ir
for power and lighting into the camps of
Mercur and Bingham.
During the call of the mining exchange
yesterday it was announced that a tele-
gram had just been received from Provo
which conveyed the intelligence that the
board of directors of the Grand Central
Mining company had just held meeting
and declared dividend No. of 1212 cents
a share, payable on the 18th instant.
Hon. c. V. Wheeler, president of the
South Swansea, who has just returned
from visit to the Omaha exposition. is
IN the city as a delegate to the mining,
congress. Mr. Wheeler states that the
South Swansea continues to improve with
development and that the management
is well pleased with the condition of the
mine.
A gentleman who is in from Frisco
states that heavy shipments of high grade
ore are being made from the Washing
side of Horn Silver mountain, and that
Phil BentZ, the genial and popular rail-
road agent at that place, who is inter
ested in the prospective bonanza, is now
feeling that his Lines have been cast in
pleasant places"
During the festivities at Mercur on the
Fourth the men from the Mercur mill
took first prize in the tug-of.war contest,
while the team from the Mercur mine
secured a like trophy in the double
handed drilling contest, the team from
the Sacramento mine taking first prize
in the single-handed drilling bout. An
interesting time was experienced and the
men at the drills made excellent time,
disclosing the fact that they were miners
and men of sinews and muscle from way
back.
At the stockholders meeting of the Cop
per Mountain Mining company, held yes
terday, the board of directors for the en-
NJ. N Buck, president; a. j. Mcmillan,
vice-president; L. II. Beason, secretary;
G. F. Weaverling, treasurer, and c. S.
Graham. the election of two more di-
rectors to fill the board being deferred
until some future time. 1t is reported
that the Copper Mountain is in excellent
condition with large zones OF ore in sight
and that the showing continues to i'm
prove as development work progresses.
Superintendent NJ. Flynn, the able sup
erintendent of the Sacramento, at Mer-
cur. who is in the city as a delegate to
the International mining congress, which
today, states that the mine is
holding its own in elegant shape and that
in the lower tunnel on the third vein, al
the way of drifts and other workings,
neither top. bottom or sides of the de-
post have been disclosed as yet, and Mr..
Flynn is satisfied that this mine will yet
develop into one of the wonders of the
camp as regards the size of it's ore zones
and its productiveness.
Colonel S. B. Miner has returned from
quite an extended trip into the iron and
coal regions of Iron county, and he states
that the trip has been revelation and an
education to him, as he never before had
any adequate idea as to the immensely
Of the coal and iron deposits of that re-
gion Previous to this visit he had made
4 casual inspection of the mountains of
iron in Pinto Iron district, but this was
his first visit to the big coal measures
above Cedar City and Kanarra, and he
IS now satisfied, with this combination of
coal iron and the abundance of lime |
stone for fiux, that this region is des-
tined in time to attract widespread at
-ention as a center for the manufacture |
Of iron and steel, together with other |
kindred industrial pursuits.