The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-15
Mining Notes and Personals.

c. V. Wheeler, president of the South
| swansea, went out to the mine last
| night.
w. NJ Nesbitt, the well-known mining
man, is in from Eureka, accompanied by
| his wife.
D; H. Peery jr., one of the leading
| brokers. of the exchange, has returned
| from his visit east.
| brokers office at No. West Second
| South, under Walker Bros. bank.
Salt Lake assayers haze been very busy
during the past week, while the valley
samplers have been full of business.
Harry S. Joseph, manager of the Ga
lena, who has returned from Fish
Springs, states that the mine is looking
| well.
j. ]. Bamberger has been accorded the
privileges of the floor of the exchange
| pending the vote on his application for
membership.
An important deal is on touching the
future of promising group of claims
near Mercur, the details of which will be
made known later on.
Encouraging reports have been received
from the Hope mine near Silver City in
Tintic district, formerly known as the
Cleveland Consolidated
Bob Mulhall, formerly successful Park
City operator but who is now doing h1s-
mess in the mining line in Nevada, is in
the city with carload shipment of ore.
The stockholders of the Copper Noun
tain Mining company will meet today for
the purpose of approving the bond given
on the property by the directors to G. A.
Duncan.
Hon. Richard Macintosh and Charlie
Read were out to Mercur yesterday for
the purpose of making an inspection of
the Hillside, just above and adjoining the
great Mercur mine.
]. H. Dupaix, manager of the Amelia
in Star district, Beaver county, shipped
a lot Of provisions and supplies to the
min -Ior A@f- L.
work this old producer this fall and win
ter.
1t is learned that the Lucky Boy mine
at Custer City, Ida, which is owned by
salt Lake capitalists, is shipping gold
bars and concentrates regularly and that
the property is making money, with
brilliant outlook for the future.
The Dexter high grade ore shipment,
which arrived in the Salt Lake market
few days ago, was sold yesterday on
control assays showing values of 20.S5
ounces silver and 1858 in gold to the ton,
the lot of 111a tons being valued in the
neighborhood of $500.
The Martha Washington at Tintic start
ed up again yesterday, after the fatal ac-
cident which occurred in this property a
few days ago. Mr.. VIII Hatfield, who has
just returned from Silver City, states that
the Snowflake will be a producing and
paying mine after the November cleo
ton.
The Statesman of Boise. Ida, reports
the discovery of another gold bonanza at
the head of Grimes creek, and about five
miles from Idaho City. The ledge is %
feet in width. while some of the ore runs
Sl,5OO to the ton in the yellow metal. The
owners of the new find are Jake Welch,
Andy j. Fassenden and Ernest Dickin-
son.
Judge o. w. Powers is much encour-
aged over recent reports from the Orient
in West Tintic dictrict, as it ~ stated that
the bottom of the shaft IS breaking into
a good quality of lead carbonate and
chloride of silver ore. As the company is
tinued in the near future until next
spring.
A ID. Mayne, manager of the Daisy, on
the west dip of Camp Floyd district, who
Is IN from the mine, states that il is in a
most promising condition and that more
ore than ever before is being disclosed as
development work progresses. The new
addition to the capacity of the mill will
be ready within the next few days Syhen
the tonnage treated will be materially in
creased.
Tintic Miner: Frank II. Peyton of the
Sioux mill has been making a test run on
low grade swansea ore, from which he
sent In a car of concentrates this week
If the test demonstrates that it can be
handel to advantage, the Sioux mill will
run hereafter on Swansea ores. The ore
tested is very low grade, pyrites of iron
predominating. Both ten Swanseas are
said to possess large bodies of it.
Froma gentleman who is just in from
Bingham it is learned that there is an
excellent and fiattering showing in the
Cuba mine in Carr Fork gulch. The lower
tunnel being driven in the DEVELOPMENT
Of this property is now into the mountain
a distance of 1856 feet, the face being i'm
ground that is highly mineralized the in
dications being that the workings are not !
far distant from a fine body of ore.