The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-02
Mining Notes and Personals.

me swansea Will pay its regular
monthly dividend of 5000 on the 10th.
The Mammoth and Geyser-Marion Min
| ing companies disbursed their reguIal
! dividends yesterday.
H: E. Zerbe of the Hercules and othe,
ctah mining properties, has returned
from his Nebraska visit.
"A SHIPMENT OF ore from the Queen Of
the Hills mine near Stockton was re.
celVed at the sampler yesterday
Fitzpatrick Bros. of Beatrice, Neb., who
are heavily interested in Mercur minine
properties, are in the city en- route home
from Idaho. where they have been or
mining business.
Mrs. Rippeto, the wife of H D. Rippeto
the well known mining expert, leaves to-
morrow for Kansas City and st. Louis
where she will visit relatives whom she
has not seen for % years.
Word was received yesterday that the
station had been cut on the 600 level in
the double compartment shaft of the
AJAX, at Mammoth, and that sinking for
the 700 would be resumed at once.
B. B. Mann returned home Wednesday
from visit to the Clara NJ. mine in
the south fork of Big Cottonwood can
yon, and he states that the property con-
tinues to improve with development
A force of men will leave for the
Albion in Little Cottonwood canyon this
morning. 1t being the intention to make
shipment of good ore at an early day,
after which supplies will be laid in for
the winter.
The Eureka Hill at Eureka, has Just
made a shipment of bullion valued in the
neighborhood of S125000. Besides its
bullion output the mine is shipping crude
record for itself.
S. ]. Kenyon and John j. Daily are
arranging for a visit to Stateline dis
trtct in Iron county, but before doing so
they Will make another visit of inspec-
ton to Tintic, where they made an exami-
nation of the leading mines and prospects
a week ago.
Alex HysloD, who is back from a visit
of inspection of the districts of Beaver
Lake and Rocky in Beaver county, is of
the opinion that several heavy producing
copper mines will be opened up in those
localities and he was well pleased with
what he saw there.
Argonaut Elko, New: A new mining
camp has been established near Death
Valley. 1T has been named Cotton. Al
though discovered only a few weeks ago
it has already a population of 100 and is
still growing. The find which created the
excitement is an eight foot ledge assay
ing $40 in gold.
Major Daley the treasurer of the Star
Mining company operating in Pine can
yon who has Just returned from an in
spection of the property, states that the
tanks are now all under cover and that
Manager Moffat is making excellent
progress in getting the mill ready for an
early run. The major is we'll pleased with
the showing made in the mine.
George o. Bradley. the resident agent
Of the Gates Iron Works company, has
returned from Sunshine where he has
been looking into matters pertaining to
the erection of the Overland mill. as his
company has the contract for the ma
chinery for the plant The Gates COM
pany has also secured a contract for a 90
horse power balanced electrical hoist for
the mine, and it is expected the works
will be installed within four of five weeks
j. c. Conklin left yesterday for Yreka.
Siskiyou county, in northern California
where he is interested in a valuable min
ing property in which fine bodies of a
good grade of gold ore are exposed, and
as there is mill in the near vicinity of
the mine one of the objects of his visit
TO the property is for the purpose of
for the treatment of the ore.
Ben Conklin. Jerry's son, is at the mine
and is directing work in its operation and
development The many friends of Mr..
Conklin in Salt Lake and elsewhere are
hoping that he will make a ten-strike in
this California mine.
After a closedown for few hours for
its regular monthly cleanup the Mann
moth mill started UP again last night at
midnight. During the month of August
200 tons of ore were shipped from the
mine to the mill, 4.5O0 tons of which were
treated. the ore being of a better grade
than the mineral handled at the works