The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-22

OLD mining camp of Ely, in White PIN
county, Nevada, was joined to life part
ner in this city yesterday. the lady of hi
choice coming from Chicago.
Inc Mercur company reported at thu
Con- *. c. snelter yesterday morning
with its regular semi-monthly shipmen
of cyanides, the consignment weighing IL
the neighborhOod of 1000 pounds.
Boise Statesman: Hon. Charles Crane
mas arrived from Salt Lake to look after
MS Idaho mining interests. He will &c
to Pine to attend to some matters anC
VIII then visit a property he has secured
In Custer county.
A j. Moore. one of the leading mining
W. F. Snyder in the Holland and several
other promising Gold Mountain mines
will leave for home today, after spending
| several days in Salt Lake.
The South Swansea paid its regular
monthly dividend of $500 yesterday
| bringing the total paid to date by the
company up to the handsome sum of SOC,
10 and II will not be. long before the
100000 mark will be reached 1t is report
ed that the mine is looking better now
than ever before in its history.
Newton Leonard, the well-known min
ing man, went out to Blue Bell district
yesterday. for the purpose of making an
| expert examination of the international
mine, from which such favorable reports
nave been received of late. NJ. Kopp, the
candy man. who is president of the In
ternational company, will go out to the
property on Sunday next.
World. Idaho City, Ida: Garden gulch
placer ground, one mile below Centerville,
ment last Monday owing to the biggest
find on the claim of Curry & Granger
Tom Curry unearthed 15-ounce nugget
that fairly glistened with the yellow stuff
me golden find was in white quartz, and
Is said to be worth exactly SIP.
Simpler. the photographer, who was out
TO Silver City the first of the week. took
a number of fine views of several objects
interest N hn4 a,I Of h. T;,,t;4
tr1ct, including photos of Silver City, ORA
gon City, the iron mine, the South Swan
sea moist and the surface workings of the
swansea These views which are Sx10 in
size. are works of art and would we'll en-
bellish any mining office in the city
Hon. Dave Evans and c. Z. Loose are
expected in today from Detroit Mining
district. in Willard county where they
have been for the purpose of making an
examination of the hex mine, in which
they are largely interested Connections
nave been made in this property between
the lower and upper workings, and before
Messrs: Evans and Loose left for the
south it was expected that the force at
the mine would be increased. and that
day.
G. G. Hall is in from his Congor cop
per mines in the Dalton and Lark coun-
try, above Bingham. Mr.. Hall states that
pushing, work in its extensive and
development. Mr.. Hall also
says that Elmer Hill is taking out ship
ments or very fine ore from the Key
stone and that in this bonanza some beau
tlfui samples of native copper are being
taken out. The Congor and Keystone
are in great copper region and the
showing there is so encouraging that the
spot is taking on new life, and there
promises to be a great deal of activity
there this season
Word comes from Bingham that in the
driving of the lower tunnel in the Liberal |
mine, up Markham gulch, a winze in the |
Montezuma, adjoining, had been drained |
by the Liberal workings to such an ex- |
tent that work could be resumed in it |
again, and that in prosecuting operations |
N the winze q fine body of mineral had ;
been disclosed, from which one man is
now taking out eight tons of ore daily. |
80 ton. The Montezuma and the Lib |
eral adjoin each other the road up the
canyon being the dividing line between I
he two properties. and it is fair to pre-
Liberal will in time make as famous a
producer as the Montezuma is reputed
o be-
A dispatch from Ouray. Colo. SAYS: An
strike in the Jesse a mine
coated just above the depot in this city,
las Just leaked out. This mine is the
property of Mrs. Alice Brown, of Ouray,
icing worked under lease by B. w Chad
wick and Harry ONeill. The strike was
made about two weeks ago. but the
easers would not give any details until
quay, tilliihlIS lHty COuld get a DOnQ on
he property. The richness of the strike
'ecan1e too generally known, and they
ould not buy the mine. The property is
'eing worked by tunnel and the men are
n about 145 feet. The ore will run about
l9.cOO per ton. Shipments will net the
assessors very satisfactory returns. Peo-
lie here are jubilant over the find and
re flocking to the tunnel by hundreds.
Fred Crowton and associates who have
ust completed contract in the develop
1ent of the Florence mine. IN Skull val
~, are in the city, with the expectation
returning to the mine within short
ime. to begin work on another contract, /
S 1t is the intention of the company to
pen up the property in a thorough man
er this summer. 1t is stated that the /
florence is mine of more than usual
lerit the ledge of gold-bearing rock be-
lg magnificent in its proportions. as it
as been cross-cut from the bottom of the {
haft for distance. of 50 feet. and the
Torkings are still in fine body of good :
lilling ore; small cyanide plant was !
rected at the mine last summer. and re-
Gated tests have demonstrated the fact
hat the ore teaches well, and that the
re carries good gold values.