The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-08
Mining Notes and Personals.

trict, Deep Creek, is in the city.
]. H. McChrystal superintendent of the
Godiva, at Eureka, was in the city yes
terday on business.
B. D. Hamill, with the city office of the
Hanauer smelter, is taking in the Omaha
exposition, and having good time.
A suggestion has been presented to the
governing board of the stock exchange
that the, fee of so for the transfer OF
memberships in the exchange be abol-
ished.
The Rowe boys, who are in from the
Star mine in Pine canyon, Tooele county,
state that the mine continues to improve
with development, and that it. is looking
exceptionally well.
The semi-monthly shipments of Mercur
cyanideS about 1000 pounds in weight
was received at the Con. K. c. sampler
yesterday. Manager Dern, who brought
them in, states that the product is high
in grade.
B. F. Caffery of Castle Gate, who is one
of the officers of the Badly Mining COM
pany, owning the promising Annie Laurie
yesterday on business pertaining to this
enterprise.
Sam Trimmer. the efficient foreman of
working IN most satisfactory manner,
and that a high recovery of gold values is
being made.
The directors of the Lower Mammoth
4hiHlilS company QelQ a meeting yesterday
and levied an assessment of . cents a
share on its capital stock. Dave Evans of
Ogden was given a place on the board to
fill a vacancy.
Lehi Banner: Elisha Day is exhibiting
some very good samples of ore from a
claim he has just located over the ridge
north of the Bullion-Beck, ~ Tintic. The
claim is known as the Buckhorn, but no.
tice of location has not yet been filed.
Drifting for the vein from the bottom
of the 1S2-foot shaft of the Triumph mine,
in Tintic district, has begun, and it is be-
lieved that the workings will be in ore
within so feet, unless the vein Straightens
up on its dip as it goes down.
Captain Am. Grant, the resident agent
of the Colorado Iron Works company, has
returned from quite an extended tour up
into the northwest, where he succeeded in
doing considerable business for his COM
pany. The captain states that the mining
business is picking up in Montana camps.
w. L. Dykes, who has been in the en-
ploy of the Glasgow & Western at Cherry
Greek, Ney:. for the past two years. is in
the city. Mr.. Dykes now has employment
at Mercur and Is assisting in the erection
of the big cooperative store being built
by a number Of the big mining companies
of the camp.
Mike O'Meara, who is in from the Nc
Hatton-Carisa, which promises to develop
into one of Tintic's heavy producers of
high grade ore, is in the city and corrob-
crates the favorable reports received from
this property. which he is working on q
lease. Mr.. O'Meara has two cars of rich
rock en- route to the sampler.
E. P. Kitchener, the well-known mining
man is in from Stockton with a carload
shipment of Hercules concentrates Mr.
Kitchener states that strike of i'm
portance has recently been made in one
of the mines of this old camp, consisting
of a two-foot ledge of solid ore that will
carry average values of 1923 per cent cop
per, $1.90 in gold and a little silver to the
ton.
]. NJ. Davis, who is developing the gold
belt group of claims. near Haley, Ida,
in the near future. In speaking of the
mine Mr.. Davis states that he has I'M
covered large quantities of ore running
from S. to SIS in the yellow metal to the
than likely that a mill for the treatment
of the ore will be erected on the property
in the spring.
W. w. Chisholm, one of the officers of
the Centennial-Eureka Mining company,
left yesterday for Pelican Bay Lodge on
Klamath lake Oregon, for a few weeks
outing. Mr.. ]. D. Kendall, who has been
at the lodge since early spring, has sent
down photograph of 22-pound trout
caught in the lake a week or ten DAYS
ago, and Mr.. Chisholm proposes to beat
the catch or perish in the attempt and it
is safe to wager that it will be the for
mer.
Democrat. Baker City, Ore: Manager
w. 70. Zwickey came in on Sunday from
the Baisley-Elkhorn mine, where mining
operations are proceeding very satisfac-
torily. Mr.. Zwickey states that about 40
Skillful employees are at work and labor
proceeds vigorously day and night. The
shaft IS now down $50 feet from the sur
face, where strong vein is uncovered.
The mill is crushing from 80 to 40 tons Of
excellent rock every day, the ore mainly
coming from two points in the mine one
of which is about 100 feet lower than the
other