The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-11
Mining Notes and Personals

Mining Notes and Personals
Broker Z. G. Wooilay jr.. is confined t
his home with a severe cold.
]. B. Thompson, the well-known mining
investor, has returned from visit tC
home folks in the east.
/ Professor w. H. Tibbals yesterday pur'
! chased 1900 shares OF Chloride Point
stock on the curb on orders.
1t is reported that another rich strike
! has been made in the Julia Dean. al
Bingham, ana that the ore is of very higf
grade
Nels Youngberg, the efficient book-keep-
er at the Old Telegraph, at Bingham, was
in the city yesterday on business Tor the
company.
Manager John Dern of the Mercur went
out to Tooele yesterday to attend min
/ ms case being tried there against the
company
| The directors of the Bullion-Beck COM
pany held u meeting yesterday, nothlhS
but routine business coming UP for con-
sideration.
Two cars of Grand Central ore were
marketed in this city yesterday on con-
trois showing values OF 20 ounces SILVER
and $37 in gold to the ton.
With clcck-work regularity, the Mercur
company yesterday declared its usual
monthly dividend OF Is cents a share, or
So, 900, payable on the 2lst of this month.
II. II. Green, one Of the incorDorators
OF the COlumDl4 MllllS COH4itilN- -
heavily interested in mining in Utah, and
is associated with several heavy opera
tors in this line.
E. L. Talbot, superintendent of the
Frisco mine, at Frisco is in the city. Mr..
Talbot states that good progress is being
made in cleaning up after the caVe-ln
which occurred in the mine a week ago.
Joe II. Young, of the oregon Short
Line, expects TO learn soon that another
carload shipment of high grade gold ore
has been made from the Checkmate mine,
in Willow Creek district, Idaho, in which
he is interested.
A day or two ago one of the leading
members of the stock exchange purchased
a small piece of gold quartz from pros
pector for 49, which, after being submit
ted to fire, produced a gold button that
is valued at 5000
The Silver King paid its regular monthly
dividend OF $37,5O0 yesterday, making 4
grand total of Sl,2Sl, 500 paid to date by
the company. The Swansea also as
tributed 5000 among its stockholders, us
total dividends amounting to SS2,5O 10
date.
A A. Brim expects to leave on the first
of the week for his Hurley Burley and
Jim Crow mines in Star district. Beaver
county, with the intention of reSuming
active work in the operation of this prom
Using gold property, and before the season
is very far advanced he intends to Inquire
on the market as shipper.
Word comes from Tuscarora, New. that
ping at the Dexter mill are handling over
thrae tons of $40 ore TO the stamp daily,
instead of two and a half tons. as at hrst
reported, and everything is running IN a
most satisfactory manner The other 20
stamps and the concentrators Will be IN
operation within the next few days.
Independent, Helena, Mont: The Sen
ate mina near Cable Mont. has recently
made such a strike of gold, silver and Y
per cent copper ore that the owners have
refused 100000 for the property Two
hundred thousand dollars is not much
money for a good mine. but 1t IS enough
money to purchase all the red calico
smiles between Greater New York and the
sandy chrysanthemum beaches of the
Pacific SLOPE.
Hon. A. c. Cleveland is in from Nevada
and. in referring to the mining interests
of White Pine county. he states that thu.
are brighter than usual, while at OSceold
it is reported that in drift mining on bed
rock from the bottom of shafts, gravel is
being taken out which runs over 81 to the
wheeibarrow load in gold. Mr.. Cleveland
is OF the opinion that some time. if not
soon. the mother lode of that section viii
be found. in which event there will be
great mining excitement there.
NJ. I. Osborn informs The Herald that
he is making arrangements to incorporate
on the Red Butte group of claims, on the
divide between Ophir and Rush Valley
districts. The Red Butte is not far dis
tant from the noted Queen OF the Hills
mine, and is located at the meeting OF the
AlOIlO ItuSt ana the west Up. anu II -
believed that it is undertake with Il large
body of low grade ore, which can be sue
cessfully treated by the cyanide process.
NJ. Osborn has a force of four men at
work in the development of the property.
and it is proposed to open IL up in
thorough manner.
]. H. Dupaix, the veteran miner is
making arrangements to incorporate his
Amelia group of claims in the old Star
district in Beaver county In doing the
assessment work on the Crown claim last
fall. which is embraced in the Amelia
property, three-foOt body OF ore was
encountered at a depth of five feet that
carries values of "a per cent copper, 81
per cent lead. $50 ounces silver and S1.3f
in gold to the ton, and it is believed that
with greater depth, this body of mineral
will increase in size as well as in value
In the old workings of the Amelia. in the
past, ore has been shipped that netted
$50 to the ton in the precious metals. and
the property is doubtless good for many
years to come.
VIII and James Kelley, of the Ophir
are in the city on mining business. Mr.
VIII Kelley. il speaking of the mining in
tereSts of that section, states that Sny-
der and Worthing are working the Utah
Gem, on Chloride hill, on a lease, and
that they are taking out ore for shipment
that carries silver values ranging all the
way from 800 to 100 ounces and SO or 81
in gold to the ton, and that the boys are
making all the way from 80 to $50 a day
each Mr. Kelley also says that it is ex-
Ophir Hill mine and mill about the 1st of
April. while it is the intention of Dr.
Sykes to resume operations at an early
date on the Little Hope. adjoining the
Northern Light. on which ne made an i'm
portant strike Lass fall as mentioned at
the time in these columns.
Mammoth Record: More shipping ore
today IS being taken from the Grand Cen
tral than from any working mine in Mann
moth gulch . Shipments have been in
creased until now a car is being loaded
and sent to market every day. The show
ing in the workings is most excellent and
sufficient development has been done to
demonstrate the permanency of the ore
body. So fully has this been shown that
Mr.. Cunningham has decided to extend
the track of the New East Tintic rail-
road from its present terminus at the
Mammoth mine to the ore bins of the
Grand Central in order 10 facilitate the
handling of the output and carry freight
up the mountain side. Work is TO be
on the grade as soon as the
frost has disappeared and the ground is
in condition to be most easily handled
The track will be laid as soon a possi-
BILE thereafter. and thes early Spring
months will find the Alice" putting up TO
the Grand Central. ~
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for perfect health. Hoods Sarsaparilla
is the one true blood purifier. and great
health giver.
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