The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-14
Mining Notes and Personals.

Mining Notes and Personals.
]. ". Burnett, of Logan. would like TO
! know the address of parties who are
thinking Of going to Alaska this month or
next.
Times-Review. Tuscarora, New: The
! Dexter is keeping both OF its mills run
ming on ore. The new mill is dropping
20 stamps and the Kinhead' mill has. ITS
four mullers running. The next snip
ment of gold bullion viii undoubtedly be
| a good one.
Record. Phoebe, New: Jimmy Clark.
| who is largely interested in the mines at
Stateline. will leave for the k1ondike
country in ten days or So His interests
| at Stateline are tied w in bonds for a
year and he goes TO the gold fields IS 4
representative of Salt Lake parties. His
brothers will look after mis- Stateline IN =
! terests during his absence. 1t viii &c
pend on developments whether he re
turns within the year or not.
| William NJ. Brewster. the well known
mining engineer stopped over in salt
| Lake yesterday. while en- route to Vic
toria. B. c., where he is going on min
| ing business A year ago Mr. Brewster
was on the point of making an examina-
ton of the property owned by the BinS-
ham Tunnel company. for Buffalo syn
dicate, and he is of the opinion that with
in year he may be called upon to ex-
anime Utah mines for his people.
Silver. City Star: Messrs. Hupfer and
Johnson, who have been working the Joe
Bowers No. . on a lease for several
week, and held up q shipment of ore that
was being loaded. 1t is understood that
Showers Consolidated Mining company
claim the ground, and notified the leasers
to relinquish it. The matter was az
justed temporarily, and a shipment of
carload of ore was made on Tuesday.
Lode. De Lamar. New: The tunnel on
the Cold Eagle is now in 100 feet with
cross-cuts. one to the south 50 feet and
one to the north 20 feet. The rock in the
cross.cuts assays from SIS to $40 in gold
seem to strike the ore body found in the
shaft that aSsayed as high as 500 ounces
In silver and 1924 in gold. The three
eight-hour shifts are pushing the work
and have made big showing for the
time they have worked.
Silver City Star: Messrs. Whitmore,
PaXman and ThOrHberg have let 4 con-
tract for 80 feet extension of the tunnel
on the Elgin Lead mine. which IS al
ready in $50 feet The property lies south
of Diamond and joins the Fissure and the
celebrated old Susan It consists of four
claims. the Elgin, Blue Jay, Eagle and
galena ore on the property which carries
value of Is per cent in lead. and fair
value IN silver me completion or the
contract viii, ii is estimated, tap the vein.
World. Idaho City Ida: The shaft
sunk near CenterVille 10 prospect the
ground on Grimes creek. was sunk 10
bedrock. a distance of 26 feet. The pros
poets obtained We're satisfactory. The
company IS now moving the shaft house
and machinery further out into the creek
bottom and will begin the work of sink
ing another shaft. The World is in
formed that this company expects 20 have
d dredge in operation in B0yle'S guich, at
Placerville. by July l. They VIII put up AN
electric plant It is mora than probable
that this company will also purchase the
ground of Grimes creek owned by S. X.
Goldtrap.
Statesman, Boise. Ida: Daniel FeOur,
who is in Boise from Silver City. saws re
OnWqd activity in the (lxy-7-lpa ca will
come with the advent of spring. Mr.
Feour IS interested in the Buoue NINE
upon which operations have been tenn
porarily suspended. He says they have
driven 500 feet of tunnel and have a large
body OF good ore at depth Of about
200 feet. shaft $50 feet in depth has
also been sunk on the property Pros
pecting on the Banner group. says Mr.
Feour. has been progressing rapidly and
some splendid lodges are being developed.
While no startling discoveries have been
made recently. ne said. number of new
prospects have been opened up with most
satisfactory results
Butte Western Mining World: Ten
inches of ore valued at from $40 10 $500 per
ton is the New Years present made by the
Home Rule mina, near Colorado Springs to
its operators. 1t has been known for soma
time that there was a streak of ore in the
wall but sinking was in progress and il
was allowed TO stand. Friday of last
week superintendent Wyatt put his men
TO taking down the ore preparatory 10
found TO be ten inches thick The char
acter of the ore is peculiar. Il resembles
red brick dust as much as anything. and
viii neither pan nor bubble ont in a fire
test Yet the assays says that it will
run high in gold. which is the main point.
a shipment viii be made from thu find
in very short time.
Republican. Baker City. Ore: a 10
stamp mill and all the other equipments
necessary have been purchased for the
Badger group Of mines near SusanviIle.
Hughes. the McQuade, the King of the
Hills. and the Steamboat gold quartz
lodes. and is situated on the south side
OF Elk creek. in the Elk Creek mining
district, in Grant county. 3S miles from
Sumpter the nearest railway point
1t IS the intention to ship IS carloads
of ore while awaiting the arrival of the
machinery, which is not expected until
May 1st. The shipping ore averages So /
per ton, and the pay streak in the veins
from is inches to seven feet. and none of
the ore mills less than so per ton. The
ground has been opened up by over 400
feet of tunneiing and will be fully de-
veloped by spring.