The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-08
MINING Notes and Personals,

STOCK WIS on the uD2TdQ
= yesterday afternoon.
: A carload of ere is in from the Aus
tin mine at Austin, New.
Judge Sherman of the Overland wen
out to the mine yesterday.
e Swansea took a Jump on the curl
2 yesterday afternoon, and sales were re
ported at sos to $2.071s
, Charlie Crane, who always has a bis
| mining deal on the string, will leave
5 for Idaho the first OF next week on i'm
: portant mining business.
1t is stated semi officially that the
directors of the Bullion Beck will NEE:
; tomorrow and declare a dividend of al
least 10 cents a share, and possibly
more
1t is reported that the showing in
the Columbia on Lion hill is such as
to lead to the belief that this is the
making of a regular producer of high
grade ore.
1t is stated that the GaIena gasoline
hoist will be started up today, and
that within a short time the company
viii begin regular shipments of a fine
grade of ore.
Dexter stock to the amount of 500
shares changed hands on the street
yesterday afternoon at s1.20, and it is
stated that it could not have been had
al Ills uSuTe DuI IOr a promise made
sometime ago TO this effect.
Manager OMera of the Carisa of
Mammoth is loading another lot of
three or four carloads of good copper
and gold ore for shipment. The Caiisa
! has made an excellent record during
the past year, and is counted as one of
the regular wealth producers of Tintic
| district.
Charlie Bradd writes Senator Dorsey
from the Alpha mine at Granite noun
tain that the showing in this property
is most encouraging. He also states
that there are quite a number of new
corners in the camp, and that mining
matters there this summer promise to
| be lively.
Piute Pioneer: Otto B. Amsden,
mining expert of Colorado Springs, and
representing a large mining syndicate
of Colorado, arrived here last week.
He went out and examined and sam
pied property near this vicinity Sun
day and started back Monday morn
ing. Time will tell the results.
At meeting of the newly elected
directors of the Century Mining COM
pany. held Wednesday night, the
board was organized by the election of
officers as follows: DR.. John White,
president and general manager; p. w.
Madsen, vice president; and T. B.
DuSDys secretary anu treasurer.
1t is understood that the long
neglected silver, lead and copper camp
of La Plata, northeast of Ogden, viii
receive more than usual attention this
season, and it would not be at all
surprising to hear good reports from !
this wonderfully mineralized district /
before many months /
World, Idaho City. Ida: Ed Fralick. |
who has been at work for the Portland !
company that holds bonds on Plow-
mans Golden Fleece and Golden Star /
mines. at Centerville, was in town Fri
day and went down to Boise Saturday.
Mr.. Fralick says the company is sink
ing shaft on each of these claims. A
hVe-stamp mill, with power for ten,
for these properties, is now in Boise
Luke Hickman, the superintendent
OF the Dragon Iron mine, near Silver
City, who was in Zion yesterday TAX
ing in. the sights, states that another
order for five carloads of iron ore for
huX has been received from Montana
smelters. Mr.. Hickman also says that
in Silver City it is reported that a four
foot body Of pay ore has been uncover
ed in the Treasure Hill mine in which
there is streak of very high grade
truck.
Jesse Trimmer, the millman at the
Mercur mill at Manning, who was in
the city yesterday. states that free
gold has been found on the Nelden and
Griffin property all right, and is of the I
opinion that this is a most promising
prospect, and worthy the expenditure l
Of time and money in its development
In the work already done in this prop /.
srty a streak of tale a few inches wide !
has been disclosed, in which there is {
free gold, and the indications are very
Gill S. Peyton, who returned Wednes-
lay night from the Chloride Point, on c
Lion hill, states that the holes for the 5
poles for the electric line from Mercur
o the Chloride Point mine and mill will {
De completed today, and that it will ;
lot take long now to set the poles and G
string the wires, and as the mill is a
and all ready to start up it I
,annot be very long now before the ,
liant is in operation. On the 18th of n
he month brother of Superintendent V
edwards of the Mercur mine will be f
placed in charge of the Chloride Point v
IS superintendent.
Word comes from Tintic that in the f
Iartha Washington, near the Dragon C
ron mine, a body of ore has been I'M $
overed that is from Is inches to two Il
eet in width, portion of which runs =,
Yer 200 ounces in silver to the ton
esides carrying well in the other o
leldlS, NUlle the SGGOilQ-CldSS VIII 90 Il
n the neiohborhood of so ounces in g
liver. A carload shipment of high
rade ore from this property is d d.
cheduled to arrive in this city about +,
he 18th instant Martha Washington f,
in this city are feeling
lated over the splendid showing in this y
rOperty. II
George Hirsch has returned from a
isit of inspection of Stateline and II
.agle Valley mining districts, and he b;
-ates that he was most favorably i'm u
ressed with the naturalization of both II,
amps, and he ventures the prediction ~
nat in time that portion of the west m
i'll be able to boast of the possession in
some of the greatest gold producers III
this intermountain region. 1t is no &c
lace for poor men, however, as it will ~
,quire the expenditure of capital to
ACE the mines on a paying basis, not al
outstanding the fact that the lodges sii
'e large and nearly all of them pan st
zee gold at the surface. d;
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