The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-26
Mining Notes and Personals.


W. B. Andrews of the Young America
has returned from San Francisco.
The Treasure Hill of Tintic is in with
another two-carload consignment OF good
ore.
The Bullion-Beck received settlement
yesterday for a ten-carload shipment of
silver-lead ore.
The Mammoth Mimi. company will pay
its October dividend On $4,000 on the first
day of November.
A 1.oOO-share block of Lower Mammoth
changed hands on the curb yesterday
afternoon at 20 cents.
The Idaho Recovery company of HALEY
has box of cyanides at the Consolidated
Kansas City sampler.
Hatfield & Sons and the Albion Mining
company have moved their offices from
the Atlas to the Walker Bank building.
C. II. Schue of the La Cigale and other
West Dip and Mercur properties Will leave
this morning for the purpose OF inspecting
these prospective wealth producers.
Investors are keen for good prospective
stocks of late, and anything which will
bear investigation is being readily
snapped up and taken in out of the cold.
Lead quotations took another tumble
again yesterday the latest adviceS in the
afternoon stating that this commodity
had dropped to $3.50 being with one eX-
ception the lowest point touched during
the present year.
As W. W. Chisholm and J. D. Kendall
of the Centennial Eureka. who have been
taking an outing at Pelican Bay lodge, on
Klamath lake, Oregon, We're reported to
be in San Francisco the first of the week,
their early return home may now be
looked for.
At meeting of the directory of the
Little Pittsburg Mining company, held
yesterday afternoon. the board author
lied George Dern. one OF the oHlcerS OF
the company. to settle the conflicts to
certain portions of the Little Pittsburg
group. and this will be done today.
James McGregor has returned from
visit to Bayhorse. Ida. where he has
been to inspect two mines at that place,
the Pacific and the Old Cabin, which are
owned by him. Both properties are being
a lot of Ito tons of high grade ore on the
dump which will soon be marketed.
The Juab Mining company has given
bond and lease on its Tinttc group of
claims to j: II. Whalon and G. S. King of
this city. The property of the company.
which embraces the Stonewall Jackson,
November and Silver Aleck claims. is
located east of and in the immediate vi
cinity of the Eagle and Blue Bell mine at
Eureka.
Prot. W. Il. Tibbals, with several as
sociates has outfitted D. ]. Huntsman,
who will leave for the La Sale noun
petition The La Sales have received
a great deal Of attention of late at the
hands of mining men and big boom
for that section, which has more than
spring.
Word was received from Bingham yes
tsrday to the effect that the lower tunnel
in the Cuba mine, which has been driven
into the mountain a distance of 2e0 feet,
has disclosed a three-inch streak of high
grade gold and copper ore which is so
rich that il is not necessary to test it by
fire to prove that ii is shipping mineral.
This pay streak is in a vein of several
feet in width and it is believed it viii
lead to a large deposit of the precious
metals. The officers of the company are
well pleased with this encouraging show
ing.
F. B. Cook of the Treasure Hill mine,
who recently made an inspection of the
Star Consolidated mine near Mammoth
is enthusiastic over the magnificent show
ing in this property, which, he predicts.
is the making Of one of the greatest
producing and paying mines in Tintic dis
trict. and he is of the opinion that the
officers of the company have no adequate
idea as to the magnitude of the property
or the immensely of its ore deposits,
which are assuming mammoth proper
tons as work in its development and eX-
plOration progresses.
Even B. Jones, well known in Mercur
mining circles. has returned home from
the South Pass country in Wyoming
where he has been the past season en-
gagged in the operation Of the Empire State
mine, which has now been closed down for
the winter Mr.. Jones reports consider
able activity in mining in that section and
he says that at the CaTiSa the owners of
this valuable property are adding ten
more stamps to the little two-stamp mill
with which the ore from the mine was
formerly worked, and he adds that there
are large bodies of good ore blocked ont
in the property, some of which runs high
in the yellow metal a piece of which,
carried by him as a pocket piece, being
fairly lousy with gold nuggets. At Lew
iston. u miles from South Pass. accord
ing to Mr.. Jones. a Montana company
will put in big mill this fall or early
in the spring.
IL z. Cary, secretary of the Daisy mine
on the west dip OF Camp Floyd district.
who has just returned from an inspection
of the mine land mill. is highly Aeiated
over the condition of the property and the
excellent record being made by the mill
and he states that the new additions to
the tankage capacity of the plant are
so that the mill will now be
able to handle $50 tons of ore daily and
that work was begun yesterday in the
filling of the new tanks. Mr.. Carey is
also well pleased with the showing in
the new discovery made while making the
excavations to the addition to the mill
and he saws that this new ledge or CIe
BODY has been sunk upon to q depth of %
feet. the mineral showing assay values
of from Sc to 81 in gold to the ton. Every
thing is now il ship-shaDe at the Daisy
for the winter. and il will not - long
now before the regular shipments of
cyanides from the mine will be materially
increased.