The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-02

total amount to date paid in dividends up
TO the sum of SS2.5O0-
Work is still being pushed in the Sun
beam in the running of the drift from the
go level into the Woodmansee ground.
At the Hercules. on Lion hill. winzs
is being sunk from the face of the 265-
foot tunnel 10 expose the rich chute of
ore exposed in the Chloride Point work
ings.
John L. Delaney, of this city, will start
for the Klondike this morning. Mr.. De-
Laney will 20 in the interest of a Salt
Lake party, and as he is an experienced
miner and a hustler, he will get there if
any one will.
It is reported that L. c. Trent has sold
his 24.000 shares of Dalton q Lark stock.
taken on account of the Bank of Salt
purchaser. the price being placed at 6l1
cents share.
Messrs. Weber and Kearns, of Park
City, yesterday equipped John r. Nc
him to Klondil1e. Mr. Mcdonald has been
head jig man at the Silver King work
ings for some time past. and is a capable
man to send into the frozen north.
j. B. Anderson. of the Worlds Fair
mine in Big Cottonwood district, resumed
operations today in the development of
the property with an increased force. 1t
is stated that this is very promising
prospect and that Mr.. Anderson has a
fair showing of mineral.
Prof Mills of the City of Mexico who
was in the city yesterday with S. W.
Traylor of the Colorado Iron Works COM
patent rolls now embraced in the equip
ment Of the Pennsylvania smelter. with
the view of adopting the same in the cree
ton of a similar plant in old Mexico.
William Whitehead of the Snake Creek
Copper company. operating not far from
Park City, who is i'll the city, states that
the mine is looking well, in fact, better
than ever before. The property of the
- A.r4ne s.E~
ented claims owned by Colonel Nick Ire
week and also ground owned by Bert
Kimball and his associates, which has
recently been examined and faVorably
reported upon by George E. Lee, the cop
per expert of Bingham, who is negotiating
for bond and option on the property.
A telegram from Tuscarora, New, re-
celved yesterday morning by the Dexter
Mining company, stated that the mill had
been started up and that the rock
breaker was grinding away, but that on
account of the bursting of pipe of the
city WaterWorkS, the operation of the bat
teries was interfered with, but that 1t
was expected the whole works would be
in operation by last night or this morn
ing Ii was demonstrated that the cleo
trio power plant was complete success,
however.
Denver Republican: II the Checkmate
mine, at Willow Creek. Ida, which has
been under development by Superinten-
dent Joe Young of the Oregon Short Line.
Charlie Henry of the Central Pacific. and
q number of other Salt Lake and Ogden
gentlemen, a second chute is being devel-
oped that is found fully as good as the
Chaplin chute, from which so much rich
ore was taken year or so ago. This new
chute is found 40 feet west of the other.
1t was opened in drifting on the tunnel
level. The drift has penetrated it IS feet,
with no indication yet of the limit having
been reached. The ore in this west chute
appears as rich as that taken from the
other. There is some eight inches of ship
ping ore on the foOtwall. Over this is
eight inches of lower grade mineral, that
carries some of the base characteristics
Of the shipping ore. Next to the hanging
wall is a streak of free-milling ore that
varies in width The vein all told is three
and one-half feet wide In the rich ore
Of this new chute there is less zinc and
anthony than in that from the Chaplin
chute. the percentage being so much
smaller that the treatment charges will
be about 80 a ton less.