The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-23
Mining Notes and Personals.

! Tom Kearns of the Silver King will go
out TO the mine this morning.
The Buckeye assessment. which is be-
ing well paid in, will be delinquent next
week Wednesday.
John Beck president of the Bullion
Beck. has returned from Denver. where
| he has been on business.
The last issue OF the Denver Mining Re
! porter contains an excellent illustration OF
the Golden Gate mill at Mercur.
Hon John Dern and wife and sister.
| and Carl Hahn, will leave this morning
| for few DAYS outing at Brighton.
| A trade OF Mammoth and 2. C. NJ. I.
stocks was reported yesterday on basis
u. c. NJ. 1.
The little Jackson stamp mill is pound
ing away on ore from the Gold Dream
mine, in Blue Mountain district, and ii is
stated that the property is looking well.
A. 5. Day, of the Italian and Columbia,
left Thursday night for the Italian mine.
near Leesburg, Ida. 1t is expected that
the Italian will make a fine record in the
near future.
shipment of Golden Star ore, from
Gold Mountain district. will be made to-
day, to be followed by others at regular
| intervals. It is learned that the mine is
in a most encouraging condition.
1t is reported that the Grand Central
Mining company. operating near Nam
moth. has secured a lease on the Sioux
mill at Robertson for the treatment of
the large zones of low grade ore exposed
in the property
1t is reported that railroad surveyors are
at work in the vicinity of Granite noun
tain, in Tooele county. Advices from this
locality are to the effect that the mines
of that district are showing up in a most
encouraging manner.
Bert Seaboldt has returned from a trip
east, and he reports that it is strictly
hot back there and that the people are
more excited over war news than are the
will
leave in a day or two for the Duchesne
asphalt mines.
J. H. Conrad, well known in mining cir
cles in the west. and who made the sale
of big coal mine short time ago, is in
the city on business and pleasure COM
bined. Mr. Conrad states that mining is
quite brisk in Montana, and that the state
is in prosperous condition.
Another shipment of Sunbeam ore will
reach the Salt Lake market before the
first of the month. The mine is looking
well. and in the stope the men are at
work on foot of good ore. while in the
face of the drift the rock Is streaked with
mineral. indicative of the near presence of
another ore body.
o. S. Holderman, of the Crystal, in Cot
tonwood canyon, a few miles south of
Marysvale, is in the city on business for
the company. Mr.. Hoiderman states that
a boarding house is being constructed at
Deer Trail, between the Crystal and
Marysvale, and that Hon. o. ]. Salisbury
is completing arrangements to work this
mine on a large scale in the near future
In remarking about the history of the
Northern Light mine, veteran mining
man cited his listeners back to the time
when Colonel Shaughnessy took $4,000 net
out of the mine in a very short period
from a small chute not over 10 feet long
and six or eight feet in width and Il is
the impression that other similar bodies
of mineral wealth will still be tow in
this property.
new and Important discovery has been
made near Ogden, according TO the Stand
ard. which says: News comes of a rich
strike of galen2. Just east of Ogden City,
the exact location of which is as yet a Sc
only work done as vet is breasting. An
assay showed 81 ounces silver S150 gold
and 65 per cent lead, and the claim is
named Admiral Dewey" a mill run
will be made before any further an
nouncements are made.
The Denver Mining Reporter, in reply to
an inquiry regarding the uses of anti
mony. says: The useful form in which
antimony occurs in nature is that of a
sulDhide. known as stibnite. 1t is, how
Its chief value is its usefulness
as an alloy with other metals. 1t is used
to a large extent with lead in the manu-
facture of type metal, to which il gives
that it possesses the popularity, when
used as an alloy. of expanding at the mo-
ment of solidification, thus giving to the
types a clean, sharp impression. 1t is also
used in making britannia metal, babbitt
metal and pewter. and as an alloy with
aluminium to which ii imparts hardness
and elasticity. The well-known medicinal
preparation. tartar emetic. is a tartrate
of anthony and potassium. The SulDhide
was used by the ancients as a pigment,
at the present day for darkening their
eyebrows.