The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Mining Notes and Personals.

The Horn Silver reported yesterda,
with six cars of crude ore.
J. NJ. Booth. an employee at the High
land Boy mill, at Bingham, was in th'
1 city yesterday on business. ~
The Sacramento will pay its regular
monthly dividend on Tuesday of thi:
week. while the Mammoth will distribute
its velvet money on the day following
1t is learned that the Sunbeam, of Silver
Citl, will most likely be in the market
this week with a carload of high grade
ore, while it is understood that the mine
continues to look well.
Times. Haley. Ida: w. H. Watt
Thomas Bremen, Lyttleton Price, H. K.
Thurber and p. M. Bruner have been APP
pointed as delegates to the international
Mining congress. tosbe held in Salt Lake
July 9Th. 9Th and Sth.
The Centennial Eureka marketed an
other two-carload lot of its shipping ore
yesterday on controls showing values of
per cent lead, per cent copper, Y
ounces silver and $40 in gold to the ton.
Other consignments from this famous
producer and dividend-payer will be dis
posed of this week.
At the special meeting of the stock
holders of the Eagle Mining company, of
Mercur held Yesterday the by-laWs of the
association were changed so as to in
crease the capital stock of the company
from 10000 shares to 10000 shares the
surplus to be placed in the treasury for
development purposes.
company will hold their regular monthly
meeting on the 4th or 9Th or June, when
IL is expected another assessment will
be levied. The usual assessment is half a
cent a share, but it is understood that
there is some likelihood that it will be
raised to a cent this time.
Lode. De Lamar. New: J. Eisenman
was over from the Magnolia yesterday
and he reports that he has another car
of the high grade ore ready for shipment
to Salt Lake market. He saws the i'm
proVement in the lower workings are Turn
ing out very satisfactory and the prop
erty never looked better than at the
present time.
An exchange says that w. Piper, of
Silver City. slipped from a ladder in
mining shaft and afterfalling several feet
OF the ladder and he escaped with no
more serious injury than a dislocated
shoulder. Had he not caught the ladder
IN the manner named he would have
fallen several hundred feet.
Jim Kennedy, the successful mining
operator, IS in from Rocky district, in
Beaver county, where he is managing the
operation and development of the Old
and Baker, of Michigan. Mr. Kennedy
states that during the past two weeks ne
has opened up fine bodies of high grade
ore in this old producer and that about
the Bird or 4th of next month he will be-
gin ore shipments.
a gentleman who is in from Mercur
states that in the workings of the Mat
tie No. claim, embraced in the hold
lngs of the Mercur company, the drift has
been run in on fine body of S16-gold ore
up to the end line of the Jessie Lakin
claim owned by the Sacramento company,
and as this body of ore is 500 feet distant
from the regular Sacramento workings it
is fair. to presume that the intervening
space is one unbroken body of good pay
mineral.
A force of seven men left the city yes
terday for Frisco for the purpose of work
ing in the Washington mine, the new bo-
nanZa on the east side of Horn Silver
mountain, owned by Hon. p. T. Farms
worth. Phil Bentz and others. 1t is stated
that the Washington has fine bodies of
high grade ore exposed in its workings
and that it is undoubtedly the making of
another Horn Silver. Another shipment
Of mineral is expected in from this new
producer some time this week.
Democrat, Baker City, Ore: The old
humboldt gravel mines on Canyon creek
Grant county, are ever to be relied on to
send in liberal cleanItps during the min
nS season to add to the circulating me
tium. Yesterday Mr. Ira Sproule one of
he owners of these claims, brought to
Baker City the first cleanup from these
iiggings this season, amounting to about
'2,OJo. Last year Mr.. Sproule brought in
TOUR cleanupS and this year he expects
% do the same thing.
D. c. Williams. one of the EMPLOYEES of
he International Mining company, oper-
iting IN Blue Bell district. who was in
he city last week. states that for Is feet
he workings OF the mine have been run
IN solid body of galena ore which will
larry average values of 80 per cent lead.
ounces silver and go cents in gold to the
on, the mineral being a splendid concen-
rating product and the showing is so
lattering that it is quite probable that
he company will have a mill in operation
IN the ground before the summer is over