The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-08
Mining Notes and Personals.


A. L. Jacobs has been admitted to full
membership in the mining exchange.
The Silver Shield of Bingham was in
the market yesterday with three cars of
good ore.
The Mercur reported at the Consoli-
dated Kansas City sampler yesterday
with its usual bi-monthly shipment of
cyanides.
j.. C. Lynch, the well known stock
dealer and ice man, has returned from
visit TO the Park, where he has been on
mining business.
j. E. Bamberger, of mining fame has
returned from his extended eastern visit
and is looking as if he had had a. most
enjoyable time while away.
Encouraging reports continue to come
in from the La Refine at Eureka, and
some very flattering disclosures are look
ed for in this mine in the near future.
Professor w. H. Tfbbals, accompanied
by L. H Curtis and Mr. Huntsinger left
inspecting the Picnic, the Frankies and
other properties in the southern end of
the district.
Major George w. E. Dorsey has re-
mines. He was accompanied on his re-
turn by John Sullivan, one of the solid
men of the camp. Mr.. Dorsey is en-
thusiastic over Tintic and the wonderful
possibilities of this great mineral district.
Messrs. ]. ]. DAILY, John Dern and w.
5. Mccormick, who spent Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week in the inspection
of some of the leading mines of Park
City, stopped over Tuesday night at the
Silver King, where they were entertained
with the hospitality for which this great
company is so justly noted.
Superintendent J. H. Stallings of the
ice Bowers, who was in from Tintic yes
terday, brought with him & beautiful
specimen of galena ore from this promis-
ing property and he says that the mine
is in splendid shape, with fine bodies of
shipping ore exposed in it's workings. An
other consignment of Joe Bowers ore is
en- route to the sampler, while another
shipment is piled UP on the dump.
John Chiatovich was in yesterday from
Nevada with a consignment of ore and
concentrates from the ]. c. mine below
Carson City, the two carloads Of ore
values of SO per cent lead, % ounces silver
and $50 in gold to the ton, while the car
of concentrates was valued at 10 per cent
lead, 10 ounces silver and $3.50 in gold to
the ton.
William Nesbit, the veteran mining
man who has charge of exploration work
at the Bullion-Beck Tunnel near Eureka,
who was in the city yesterday, states that
this property is looking well and that he
is driving the tunnel around the big cave
recently disclosed by q croSS-cut from the
tunnel, his intention being to penetrate it
from the other side so that it can be eX-
plored TO better advantage
Joe Dederichs, who has charge of the
building of the additions to the Golden
Gate mill at Mercur, states that the same
will be in a completed condition within
two weeks more and that the new tanks
are already being put into commission
The new Mercur mill at Manning is also
beginning to assume goodly proportions
and it is believed that it will be ready to
begin operations by the first of the year
Word was received from Mercur yester-
day to the effect that the bottom of the
shaft in the Hillside was in fine body
of ore which gave average assay values
of $7.20 in gold to the ton. The ore body
is Streaked with cinnabar and the show
ing is excellent, the mana cement of the
company being confident that this
property, which joins the Mercur mine
on the south and east will develop into
one of the heaviest producers of this
great gold camp.
At a meeting Of the Midnight Bowers
held in this city yesterday some changes
were made in che official roster of the
company, Clarence Mccormick being in
stalled as president, and w. +. Smith vice
president and general manager, J. E.
Hosmer of CoalVille being given a place
on the directory to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of j. T. Hold
son. The company starts out with the in
tention of pushing work in the extensive
development of this valuable Tintic prop
erty and the manager was authorized at
the meeting to Let contracts at once for
100 feet of development work. The Mid
night Bowers promises to soon occupy
on the Salt Lake market.