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

The Horn Silver reported yesterday
with six cars of crude ore.
F. NJ. Taylor of the Taylor & Brun-
ton sampling works is in the city from
Aspen.
The South Swansea was in with five
carloads of ore yesterday, which will
be sampled today.
r. H. Terhune of the Hanauer
Smelling company has returned from
a business trip to Denver.
L. H. Hardy has made a shipment
of ore from the Alice mine on Connor
creek, in southeastern Idaho.
The Mercur was in yesterday with
it's usual semi-monthly shipment of
cyanides, amounting to 81 pounds.
]. D. Keifer, the well-known Mercur
mining operator, is expected back
from an eastern trip within the next
few days.
L. E. Ritter of the South Swansea
and several other valuable Tintic pro-
ducers has returned from his Califor-
MIA trip, accompanied by his family
Manager John Dern of the Mercur
is at the mine, and upon his return he
expects to make visit to his old home
in Nebraska, accompanied by Mrs.
Dern.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Utah Loan & Building association
will be held on June 10, at which time
a new directory will be elected to serve
for the ensuing year.
The Midas company has sent out to
their gold claim in Clifton district men
and supplies, with the intention of do
ing extensive work this season in the
development of the property.
c. E. Buck, who graduated from the
eighth grade at the Fremont school
last week, is getting ready for an out
ing in the mountains, it being his in
tention to do considerable prospecting
this summer.
has been doing work on his several
claims in the Horse Heaven district
for the past several weeks, departed
for Richfield last Monday to visit his
family for few days.
Work is progressing finely in the
development and operation of the Pic
mic, at Silver City. The incline shaft
has been Strengthened from the 60-foot
level to the surface; the building for
the new hoist is now nearing compile
ton, and the machinery for the hoist
has been shipped.
At the adjourned meeting of the
stockholders of the Beaver Lake Cop
per company, held Saturday afternoon
of last week, a committee was ap-
pointed and empowered to raise funds
for the purpose of putting in a 12-ton
water jacket furnace at the mine. 1t
is understood that it is the intention
of the company to secure a second
hand plant from Colorado.
A. H. Mayne, who is in from Mer-
cur states that work is progressing
finely in the erection of the Daisy mill
on the west dip, although the starting
of the plant may be delayed a little
longer than at first anticipated, as the
company will now doubtless put in an
pipe line of its own. The
mine continues to show up better and
larger as development work progresses
1t is reported that in the Eagle mine,
in the Horse Heaven country, just
above Marysvale, the pay streak is
gaining in size as work progresses.
Frank Dalton, who has charge of the
of this promising gold
has written for ore sacks,
and it is more than likely that a con-
signment of high grade mineral will
be made from this property in the near
future.
John Nicholas, a prospector of many
years experience in Utah, and who has
been operating in Camp Floyd district
Of late, arrived in the city yesterday
from the west dip, where he has been
employed for the past four months by
the Daisy Mining company. Mr.. Mich |
0las reports that the Daisy mill will |
be ready to make its initial run within |
another month, and that exhaustive |
have demonstrated it's excellent leach |
ng qualities by the cyanide process of |
reduction.
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