The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-14
Mining Notes and Personals.

Bullion-Beck dividend checks will be
sent out today.
The Grand Central is in with another
shipment of good ore.
Superintendent Rome Wheeler, of the
South Swansea, is in the city.
Northern Light stock was somewhat
! nrmer on the curb yesterday afternoon.
The Northern Chief, of Bingham. re-
ported yesterday with a carload shipment
of ore.
Settlements were received yesterday for
a shipment of Golden Opportunity ore
from Bingham.
President Theodore Bruback of the
Sterling Coal company, will go out today
to make an inspection of the company s
Sanpete property.
Professor W. H. Tibbals, who has been
appointed a director to fill a vacancy in
the Little Pittsburg directory, has quail
ltled, and is now full-fedged officer of
the company.
Word comes from Bingham that excel
lent progress il being made in the lower
/ tunnel in the Redwing ground, and that
the indications of, the near presence of an
ore body are very promising as the men
at work in the Julia Dean mine can be
plainly heard in the Redwing workings.
Arrangements are being made for the
Incorporation of the North Swansea COM
pany on a group of claims adjoining the
Swansea on the north. This is valuable
property and, with development, ii is be-
lieved 1t Will in time rank as another
producer and dividend payer for Tintic
district.
The regular monthly dividend of half a
cent a share or 5000 has been declared
by the Sacramento company. payable on
the 31st inst, and it is believed that the
dividend for the next month 'xin be dou-
bled. Very favorable reports continue to
come in regarding this magnificent piece
of property.
Work is progressing finely in the erec-
ton of the 1e0-ton cyanide mill at the Old
Jordan and Galena, at Bingham, and Mr..
Holden states that it is believed the plant
will be ready to make its initial run by
the 18th of June. The mine is shipping
steadily and the mill is sending out con-
centrates with pleasing regularity.
Charlie Ford the well-known mill
wright, was in from the Sunshine country
yesterday, where he is supervising the
erection of the new mill at the Overland
mine. Mr.. Ford states that work is pro-
crossing finely in excaVating for the
foundations for the structure, and that
the lumber for the building is beginning
to arrive.
Butte Intermountain: General Manager
Leslie of the Maud S. mine has purchased
a Beers ore crushing mill and will at once
set it up on his property in the foothills,
about four miles southeast of the city.
The mill is one which has been in use in
German gulch and has "a capacity of be-
tween 20 and 30 tons per day. Transfers
left Butte on Saturday to bring the mill
in, and were due TO return today. The
Maud S. has been under course of devel-
opment for several years, and has a vast
quantity of free milling, gold-bearing ore
ready for the mill.
Judge Green of the Buckeye, near Sill
yer City, states that arrangements are
being made for a shipment of first-class
ore from this property by the 1st of next
month, and that the men are stopping on
some good ore from the 270-foot level.
while the drift IS being extended on the
ore body, which is very large although
the bulk Of the ore is low grade, running
from to 10 per cent lead, Is ounces in
silver and about $500 in gold to the ton
The judge also states that the showing
in the Pacific is. very encouraging, and
that in this property the men are follow
ing a 14-inch streak of ore that ASSAYS
SO per cent lead. 139 ounces silver and Sl4
in gold TO the ton.