The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-05
Mining Notes and Personals.

The Generalization was in yesterday
with its usual shipment of cyanides.
The Old Telegraph OF Bingham dis
! posed of four carloads of ore yesterday.
| The Magnolia mine still continues to
! improve and the regular monthly ship
I ment is about ready, says the Lode, De
Lamar. New.
! The owners Of the Washington, the new
bonanza near Frisco, will send in another
consignment of high grade ore within the
next few days.
The Hercules of Stockton was in with
a carload shipment of high grade ore
yesterday and another consignment is eX-
pected to arrive tomorrow
Herald. Wells New: Copper ore is be-
ing hauled to Wells from the Salmon
country nearly every day and shipped
west on the Southern Pacific.
Bingham's output of ore and concen-
trateS for the month of May amounted to
3463 tons, being d decrease from the
usual tonnage on account of bad roads.
R. E. McConaughy. the secretary Of the
Sacramento, who has returned from an IN
SpectiOn of the mine states that the prop
erty continues to improve with develop
ment.
G. R. Boutwell,. who has been confined
to his home with an attack OF scarlet
fever. is on the road TO recovery, as are
also his two children, who have been laid
UP with the same disease
NJ r. Hunt for the Last Chance Mining
company of Bingham, has contracted the
TO Scott & Anderson, representing the
Aurora Smelling company.
Charlie Ford, the we'll known and sue
cessful mill builder. is in the city from
the Overland and he states that work Is
progressing finely in the erection Of the
mill for this valuable property.
The last shipment of ore from the Cal
lena mine of Fish Springs. the arrival of
which was mentioned in these columns a
day or two ago, was sold on control as
says showing metallic values of % per
cent lead and 159 ounces in silver TO the
ton.
Pipe and blower for the Redwing were
sent out to the mine last week and it is
reported that the showing in the lower
tunnel Of this property is most encouraS-
in. and it is believed by the manage
ment that it will be but a short time be-
fore the Julia Dean ledge will be encount-
cred.
Sydney L. Smith left this morning for
Salt Lake, Park City and other Utah
points to examine the various concentrate
ing methods in operation in that section,
with a view to making some improve
ment in his jig plant on the Indepen-
dence dump, says the TimeS-Review, TuS-
carOra. New.
w. E. Hendrie, the efficient chemist and
millman at the Northern Light, on Lion
hill. has resigned his position with the
company for the purpose Of accepting a.
similar one with a mining company in Old
Mexico. Mr.. Hendrie is now in Salt Lake.
but he will not leave for his new field
of labor until the 18th of the present
month.
Professor NJ. E. Jones, while in Marys-
vale last week. discovered a new metal
for Utah. The mineral is a. telluride of
gold and is called calverite, as it was first
found in Calaveras county, Cal. Calverite
closely resembles iron pyriteS and has no
crystalline structure The specimen eX-
amined by Professor Jones came from the
Horse Heaven country.
VIII Lawrence of the Star Consolidated,
who is in from Silver City, states that
the hoist at the mine is to be reset, this
time in cement This work will occupy
several days. after which operations will
progress as usual and ore shipments will
be resumed. The Star is spoken of in min
ing circles as having all the earmarks
of a great mine, and it is believed that
with a mill for the treatment of its low
grade oressit would make a record as one
of the best paying propositions in Tintic
district.