The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-30
MINING NOTES and Personals.

! Colonel S. 8. Miner and G. r. Both
well were out to Mercur yesterday.
Gill S. Peyton. of Mercur fame, will
| go out to the Overland and Chloride
| Point mines this morning.
The Nevada Mining company of Pr
| Oche, New. is at the Con. K. c. sampler
with about $50 pounds of cyanides.
B. F. Redman, who has the contract
| for all the hauling for the Dexter Min
/ ing company, leaves for Tuscarora this
morning.
The Sunbeam, of Silver City. is in
with a carload of good ore, and the
stock of the company, which has been
/ in the dumps for the past six months
is beginning to look up"
A H. Bergman, of the Sears Paint
company. who has long been identified
with the mining interests of Big Cot
tonwood mining district, will leave next
! Saturday on a mission to Sweden.
Charles Beringer. jr, representing
the Leschen & Sons Rope company of
/ ST. Louis. the manufacturers of the
patent flattened strand" and the Her
/ cules wire rope. was in the city yes
terday interviewing the managers Of
mining companies and implement deal
ers.
The Niagara, of Bingham, has mar
keted ten carloads of good ore this
week and is now getting out another
consignment. The company has shipped
over 1000 tons since the discovery of
large chimney of high grade mineral in
the mine two months ago, which is an
excellent showing.
A. F. Holden, the manager of the Old
Jordan & Galena, at Bingham, will go
out to the mine this morning. The re-
cent heavy snOwstorms have delayed
the work of putting in the foundations
for the new cyanide mill for this prop
erty, but as soon as the weather be-
comes settled work will be pushed in
this direction.
Captain Timothy EgaH informs The
Herald that ore has been received from
the johannesburg, on the west shore of
Utah lake, that aSsayed S1.SS in gold
TO the ton. This ore was taken from the
bottom of the shaft now being sunk,
and the captain is so encouraged over
the outlook that II is his intention to
visit the property sometime next week.
The Four Aces Mining company, of
this city, is feeling in excellent spirits
over the report received yesterday from
Superintendent Ledgerwood, in which it
is stated that the property is looking
better than 1t ever has since he took
charge of the development, and that the
pyritic ore in the drift had given way
to a fine body of steel galena. while
conditions are steadily improving in the
bottom of the shaft.
Nick Robertson. the city attorney of
Eureka was in the city yesterday for
the purpose of consulting with the Off
GERS of the Hot Stuff Mining company
relative to the future operation and de-
velopment of this promising North Tin
tic property. which, from all accounts,
can already he classed as a mine. 1t is
believed that the Hot Stuff will make a
record for itself this season as pro-
ducer and paying proposition.
Returns have been received from the
initial shipment of ore from the Edo
RADIO mine at main Bingham canyon.
the controls showing values of 10.S per
cent lead. Is per cent copper and lis
ounces in silver to the ton. and the
owners of the mine are feeling elated
over the outlook for the future, as there
is a nice body of ore disclosed in the
property. which can now be classed
among the grass-root producers of the
camp. Charles B. Tuckfield, of this
city. who is interested in the Edo
RADIO, is confident that it has the max
ing of paying proposition with more
development.
Messrs. Loveless and Ferris. the con-
tractors, who have been pushing de-
velopment on the Free Coinage mine in
Little Cottonwood, who came down for
supplies and provisions a few days ago,
are unable to return to the mine on
account OF the heavy snowfall of late.
These gentlemen report that the prop
erty is in excellent condition. and that
in the face of the 130-foot tunnel there
is a vein four feet in width, in which
there is a pay streak of from II to 16
inches that assays 6 per cent copper
80 ounces in silver and from $12 to SIS