The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-07
Mining Notes.

Roundup. Randolph. Utah: Articles
OF Incorporation of the Randolph Mining.
Milling x Smelling company were filed
with the secretary of state for Wyoming
on Monday. The company is Incorporated
with capital stock of 100000, with head
quarters at Evanston, Wyo. All the in
terested parties are residents of Ran
dolph.
Wasatch Wave: Tuesday the small
force remaining. at the Ontario drain tun-
keetley, who is the only one left TO look
after It. 1t is said most of the boys who
nave been at work there will soon leave
for the Klondike. The electric power
plant located near the tunnel will con-
tinue TO run as usual
Keystone. Ketchum. Idaho: William
johnson met with a painful accident last
Monday while working in the IndeDend-
ence mine A large rock fell and struck
him on the left shoulder and finally
landed on his right foot. Billy Melon
Old. his uncle. sent to Ketchum for a
sleigh and brought him to town For
tunately no bones were broken. but the
I bruises the young man sustained are very
painful: He IS being cared for by his
aunt. Mrs. Joseph RothwelI
Vernal Express: W. II. Gagon and r.
5 Collett have returned from their trip
10 the Douglass mountain mines. They
encountered about IS inches of snow on
the level and some neavy orifts, but had
no difficulty in getting through. The trip
was satisfactory to them, the mines are
in good condition and work will be re-
sumed as soon as possible on the Bromide
and some other promising PROSPECTS
which the above gentlemen are Interested
in. one of which shows a siX-foOt vein OF
copper
Huntington, Idaho. Herald: The New
York x Idaho Smelling company has Sc
cured by purchase and location six miles
of river front on Snake river. near Bal
lard's landing. to be used for townsite
and other purposes. The grounds extend
from within two miles of Billiards. house
a = hive ~ (frtr -.
will be surveyed and plated. and wharves
provided for the landing of boats at
once The company has also appropriated
o,GO0 inches of the waters of Pine creek
FOR townsite. smelter and milling Dur-
poses.
Avalanche, Silver City. Ida: It is ru-
mored that very rich strike was made
a few days ago in the Rising Star at
Flint. The rich chute of ore was encoun-
tered in the 400-fOOt level. presumably q
continuation of that met with in the 300
FOOT level some few years ago. ASSAYS
are said to run from 500 to .0C0 ounces
in silver and as high as Slo0 in gold. This
certainly is a very encouraging find. es-
Decially with the greatly increased value
IN gold over that OF former values. Time
and ca Dital win demonstrate that in the
Flint district there are large and valuable
deposits of the precious metals
Statesman. Boise. Idaho: Charles w.
Gardner of Boston. representative of the
New England Dredge company. which
has a bond on about nine miles of placer
ground on More creek. near Idaho City.
is at the Overland. Mr.. Gardner is daily
expecting the arrival Of machinery which
is to be used in drilling u the prospect
ing work on the property. He says
they have not yet DrOSpected the virgin
ground on the property hut will begin
active operations as soon as tho ma
can be put in place. The york
he says will be pursued with the view of
the feasibility of Placing
dredges on the property.
NarnaI E,xDraSS- l. L Whitney nd vii
liam Warthen. with several other Maple
ton and Vernal parties are feeling very jul
bilant over the outlook of some mining
property they discovered and located in
Browns Park. near Nernal They have
been doing some development work with
very flattering returns On their claims