The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
Mining Notes and Personals

Mining Notes and Personals.
The Utah was in yesterday with car
load of high grade ore.
Charlie GRANGE is closing up the details
of big mining deal in the Boise Basin,
Ida.
A board meeting of the directors of the
Alliance Mining company viii be held in
this city today at $3.50 p. m.
Sam Gordon, who is interested in valu-
able properties in Dugway, has returned
! home from this promising camp.
viii Hatfield, the well known Eureka
operator. is laid UP at the Cullen with
an attack of sciatic rheumatism.
Frank Burke, ex-city treasurer of Du-
luth. Mimi, an old friend of Prof. A. l..
| Morris, of Beaver Lake fame is in the
city on business and pleasure bent.
Harvey j. Jones, who is with the Conk-
] lin sampling works as chief assistant is
/ able TO show up at the office again after
! several days tustle with a severe cold.
! Superintendent Rome Wheeler of the
SCUM swansea, who IS in from Silver CITY
J states that the NINE is in excellent shape
While ore shipments are being regularly
maintained.
Advices from Bingham state that the
recent strike IN the Niagara is holding its
own well and that a Notion lot OF ore
from the same is now on the dump ready
for shipment.
Word comes from the Sacramento that
Tie mn Is running most Satisfactorily
OIL oxlolEed ores and that less than 80
cents to the ton is to be found in the tail
lnss, which is close saving.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Cumberland company, billed for
THURSDAY of this week, has been post
poned subject TO the call of the president,
IN order TO await the completion of pres
ent contracts in the development OF the
company property at Park City.
Colonel Nick Treweek went up TO Ogden
Yesterday (NQnfaln Tom
Couch, OF Butte mining fame, who was on
his way TO San Francisco from New York.
What passed between the two gentlemen
is not known, although 1t is rumored that
they are ON a mining deal of i'm
portance.
Major w. A. Stanton and P ]. John
son returned yesterday morning from the
Raft river country in Idaho where they
have been making ans examination of
some copper properties. The trip was a
cold one and the two gentlemen look a
little the worse for the wear and tear
of the trip.
Don. c. Robbins will make Shipment of
Hobble Greek marble to Chicago in the
spring. He has been working force of
six men on this Utah county quarry for
the past two months ana has nice lot
of marble out ready for the market;
the deposit improves in quality and the
size OF the blocks taken out increase as
depth is attained.
Jesse Knight of the Humbug and Uncle
Sam. at Eureka. who was in the city
yesterday, informs The Herald that ten
carloads of high grade ore from these
two mines are now en- route to the Salt
Lake samplers. The Humbug and the
Uncle Sem are both looking well with
large bodies of ore in sight from which
TO make future consignments.
r. c. Berkeley, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
arrived in the city yesterday and will
make it his future home, as he will
act as assistant to H. A Fitch, the repre-
sentative of the Gillette Herzog. Manu-
tabhshed an otI1ce in the. Dooly block. The
Oh. company is furnishing the struc-
tural steel for the Golden Gate mill at
Mercur
A letter from Gold Mountain district to
Captain Timothy Egan states that the
Golden Star is looking well and that an
upraiSe has been started from the lower |
tunnel on a fine body of ore. 1t is ex-
become passable, a nice shipment of
high grade stuff will be ready for mar
ket. Rumor has it that the company will
put in a mill next summer.
NJ. Kopp president and Fred Mueller, !
of the International Mining |
company, will leave this morning for the I
purpose of making an inspection of the |
property, which is located in |
Blue Bell district, Tooele county. force !
of five men is now employed in the de- !
veiopment of the mine. in which there is |
a most encouraging showing OF good ore, |
and if there is room for more men, they |
will be put on.
Dugway district, in the Deep Creek |
will be the scene of unusual ac |
tivity this season, and large amount of |
work has been planned out for this prom |
ising camp. Messrs. Thompson, Schue, |
Nelson and others. who have valuable |
there. are making arrangements |
to do $50 feet of work on one group. con- !
sisJic- of 50 feet OF shafting and a 100 |
foot Drift which is intended to cut the
ledge at a considerable vertical depth.
William Quigiey. president of the Chi
cago Pumice company, who has been at |
the company's Utah mines, near Black I
Rock, for the past two weeks is making /
a three-carload shipment of pumice to !
Lne factory at Chicago The company is
working a force of II men in the opera
ton OF its quarrles, and new contracts are
being let. while several buildings have
Just been put up at the mine. Mr.. Quig
ley viii leave Tor home some time next
week.
George Clark. superintendent of the
nil yesterday, states that the mine is
growing in size daily and that in the
face of the tunnel, which is in about 1,050
feet, he has appraised 70 feet in ore to the
hanging wall of the vein, while it is not
znown as yet how far below the tunnel |
evel the ore extends. According to Mr..
Clark, another carload of high-grade c.
?. ore is now en- route to this city. Good
Roadway is being made in the erection
IF the mill
Colonel s. B. Miner and G. R. Both
veil have returned from Bingham, where
hey made an examination of the Petro
nine uD Carr Fork gulch. While there
hey made another shipment of 100 tons
II high-grade orc to the sampler, where
he lot viii be piled up on the platform
o wait for better prices In speaking of
he condition of the mine Colonel Miner
states that ii is looking fine and that on
he 800 level the men are working on a
nree ana a ha:I foot body of solid ore
hat is first class. while in other portions
II the property there are fine lodges of
mineral exposed.
j. S. Johnson, the veteran mining oper-
Ltor. IS down from Alta with a small
hipment of ore from his Regulator mine
II which he has fine bodies of ore ex-
POSED ready for extraction, besides which
lc has a good-sized shipment broken
Town ready for the market, but which
will not be sent down now until next
pring. The ore goes high in copper and
aries values also in lead, silver and
rod. Alta has been quite active during
he past six months, and Mr.. johnson is
anguine that during the coming summer
here will be more life than ever. for the
'ast few years. in this famous old camp.
Eureka Democrat: j. H. Chapel was in j
he camp yesterday and spent several
dining the Humbug. Mr.. Chapel was
cry much pleased with the prospect of
his property and says that depth is all :
hat is needed to make it paying mine
he shaft is down p feet and the vein is
oW about four feet wide. having two. well
made from the grass roots showed Al per
ent lead and 10 ounces silver. 1t is the .
Intention to add another shift and push {
he work more rapidly. The new shaft
djoins the Humbug dumN and the rock
eing taken out very much resembles its