The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-05
Mining Notes and Personals

A G. Bast is in from Stateline.
Sacramento was strong on the curb
yesterday afternoon at 90 cents in the
| bidding.
Yesterday was legal holiday in New
! York, on account of which there were
no metal quotations.
The last issue of the Mammoth Record
publishes an Interesting lecture on min
! Ing by Captain George Ryan.
! Grand Central is still on the upgrade.
and it is claimed by those who claim
/ to be in a position to know. that the out
put Of the mine this month will reach
! 500 0G0.
+ T. J. Stewart has made an application
! for membership in the mining stock ex-
/ change, ard pending the vote on the ap-
/ plication he has been extended the priv
ilege of the floor.
George Dern, who brought in with him
some samples of ore from the Hercules
mine from Lion hill a short time ago,
| informs The Herald that one of the sam
pies aSSayed $50 ounces silver and 81 in
gold to the ton
Arthur and Ed Witcher brothers of
the Witcher boys of this city, write from
Dawson City, in the Klondike country,
that they have made a number of desir-
able locations and that they believe they
have found something good.
In the Wine in the Resolute incline in
the Mercur mine. sinking in good milling
ore still continues, and il is learned that
the company Will soon begin drifting on
the ore body towards the Wine in the
Ruby workings, where the third vein is
also exposed.
American Fork World: w. C. Clemens,
who has just returned from Vernon
creek, reports that Frank and David
Williams have struck it rich in their
mine located 10 miles south of Vernon.
They have a vein u feet wide. which
carries SAC TO the ton in silver and lead.
The lower tunnel in the Redwing in
Markham gulch, Bingham, is now in
distance of 300 feet, and the showing in
the face would indicate the near pres
ence of the vein, as the formation is
heavily mineralized Work in the de-
veioDment OF the property will be ener-
getically pushed.
E. o. Lee, who has returned from an
inspection of the Four Aces at Silver
City, states that the property is looking
well and that as development work pro-
crosses the men are taking out about a
ton of high-grade steel galena ore daily.
and it is expected that a shipment will
be reported at the sampler in the near
future.
James Long, jr, will return to Rich
field this morning and as soon as the
mountains are accessible he will resume
operations in the working of the Mann
moth mine in Gold Mountain district, it
being his intention to begin the shipment
OF high-grade ore at an early day. with
the expectation of keeping UP regular
consignments.
afternoon from Tooele county, where he
mas been for the purpose of making an
examination OF the Star gold mine, just
over the divide from the mines of Bing-
ham. James MQffatt is interested in this
property, and it is understood that it is
the intention to put a cyanide mill on it
sometime this summer.
1t is learned that Attorney c. S. Kinney
has purchased the interest of ]. A FitZ-
gerald in the Mckinley group on Lion
hill, and it is understood that it is the in
tention of the owners TO incorporate a
company on this valuable property at an
early day, when it is presumed ship
ments Will begin, as there is a nice show
ing of high-grade ore in the workings of
the mine.
Rome Wheeler. superintendent of the
South Swansea, will return to the mine
TINS morning, after spending several |
days in Salt Lake. Word was received |
from Silver City yesterday that the shaft |
had reached the 750-foot level, where a |
station has been cut, and now it is the |
intention TO drift north and south on the |
fine ore body that has been exposed |
nearly all the way down.