The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-22
Mining Notes and Personals.


Hon. John Dern was on the sick list yes
terday.
The Mercur company paid its regular
monthly dividend of $4,000 yesterday.
The Grand Central was in yesterday
with another three-carload lot of ore.
The Liberal company of Bingham, has
a shipment of fine concentrates at the
| Germania.
]. B. Driscoll, the Nasty of Eureka.
who was in the city yesterday. states that
the outlook for the camp this year is
most promising.
Albert E. Green, the efficient assayer
at the Northern Light, was in the city
| yesterday for the purpose of attending
the annual stockholders meeting of the
] company.
| H H. Green, the well known mining
/ operator. will go out to Bingham tomor-
row for the purpose of directing work in
the operation of the Cuba and Washing
ton mines.
Frisco, at Bingham, who has been in the
city for the past few days on account
of the illness of his wife, will return to
the mine this morning.
l.. NJ. Bernhsel of Chicago. who is with
the Lassig Bridge Works company will
return home this morning. the object of
his mission to Salt Lake being to attend
the annual stockholders meeting of the
Northern Light.
w. K. Lee the mayor of Rock Springs
Wyo., and chief clerk Of the coal Depart
ment of the Union Pacific, who is a
Northern Light stockhOlder, was in the
city yesterday for the purpose of attend
ing the annual meeting of the company
In letter received from Silver City the
statement was made that in the Martha
Washington another strike had been
ounces in silver to the ton. buL rs the
deposit had just been broken into it was
too early to ascertain its extent or size.
Colonel H. G. Heffron, who has been
making experimental tests on Old Jordan
and Galena gold ores at Bingham. has
finished the same and has returned to
Salt Lake. The colonel states that while
the final assays have not yet been made
he is satisfied that the experiments were
successful.
Superintendent Frank Hines, of the
Northern Light. who was in the city yes
terday in order to be present at the an
nuaI stockholders meeting of the COM
pany informs The Herald that there has
been gradual improvement at the mine
and that in the Mcqueen stope. the south
drift and the Golfer drift the showing is
better than ever. while the values are
holding their own in excellent shape.
Captain Timothy Egan, of the Golden
Star, in Gold Mountain district, is in
receipt of a letter from the mine in which
the statement was made that one day last
week, while going from the Grasshopper
to the Blue Bird claim. embraced in the
Golden Star group, James NJ. Ross had
been caught in snowslide and given q
free ride of 30 yards down the steep and
rugged hillside. Fortunately. however
Mr.. Ross managed to grasp the branch of
a tree and succeeded in getting behind its
trunk, thereby escaping serious injury.
Encouraging word comes from the
Emerald at Mammoth and it is stated
that on the 700-fcot level in this property
the drift is now in distance of 203 feet
from the shaft, the expectation being that
in 10 or 20 feet more the ore zone will be
cut which WAS encountered on the 900
as the formation is changing rapidly and
400 a pipe of mineral was disclosed a
week ago that carried values of 81 20 in
gold to the ton, and it is expected that
at any shift a body of ore will be cut
into.