The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-16
Mining Notes.

World. Idaho City, Ida: Work has be-
gun on the boat for the dredge to be
operated near the Warm Springs. The
work of prospecting the creeks with a
drilling machine was resumed yesterday.
The machine is now at work on Ashby
Turner's ground. b,t~ l...-
Piute Pioneer: Henry B. Rhode of San
Francisco. and Albert Munzebrock. of this
city, owners of the Palmetto mine in
Gold Hill, are making perfect progress in
the work of development. Something as
tonishing will be heard from their prop
erty in the next two weeks.
Grand Valley Times: Edward Loose of
Provo visited Moab and his copper prop
critics at Big Indian this week. Work
is being steadily pushed on the mines
there in which he is interested under the
of ore is improving with depth.
keystone, Ketchum. Ida: Charles E.
Crane. the Salt Lake capitalist and min
ing man. was an arrival in Ketchum on
the Sheep Mountain mining district,
where he VIII soon commence operations
on several large mining properties.
World. Idaho City, Ida: The work of
charging and fluming the Twin Springs
company's Christie ditch is proceeding
rapidly. About GO men are employed. The
flume work, under charge of John Nc
Carly. is nearly completed. The fume
across Thomas gulch was finished We'd
nesday. There is only one other fiume
to construct and this is a small one a
short distance this side of Thomas gulch
Keystone Ketchum, Ida: Chris Kohier
came down from West Fork last Sunday
after ore sacks. Chris worked the Bis
marck mine the past winter, with varied
success. and as soon as the snow disap-
peared from the hills he found some
Groupings about 400 yards from the Bis
marck which he proceeded to develop
He now has about eight inches of first
class ore. which is quite an inducement
to continue development work.
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turned Wednesday evening from Paradox
valley. where he had been to, consider
the taking of a contract to burn charcoal
for use in the smelter to be put up there
to reduce the ore from the Estey-AngelI
copper properties. Eight men are at pres
ent employed in the mines and the force
is to be increased to 80 at once The
work on the smelter is to be rushed and
it in blast within 80 days. Mr. Mcbride
of OwOSso. Mich, is on the ground and
will direct the work
Signal. Weiser. Ida: There will be in
the neighborhood of 10000 pounds of min
ing machinery go into our northern ter
ritory this season and the attention be-
ing turned hither is astonishing. Mining
men are becoming enthusiastic over oar
tributary mineral belts and representa-
tives of many hundreds of thousands for
investment will examine the country from
Weiser to Warren this year. 1t is but
short time now until we begin to reach
the place TO which we are entitled and one
of the greatest mining countries ever
known is opened to the world.
World, Butte, Mont: Hon Thomas G.
Merrill. the eminent bimetalIist and min
ing man, was in Butte the first of She
week, en- route to Helena from Salt Lake
City. He is heavily interested in the
Mercur district in Utah. but has arranged
his affairs to devote his attention to his
Montana interests Years ago. when a
humble prospector, he discovered the
famous Liverpool mine in Lump gulch,
from which several fortunes have since
been taken. Work will be hesumed on
this property on a large scale and the
shaft sunk to the 600 level