The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-28
Mining Notes and Personals.


yesterday on mining business.
The Utah of Fish Springs has a car
load of high grade ore en- route to the
city.
1t is reported that in the lower levels
| of the Bullion-Beck the metallic values
are increasing, while the ore bodies are
steadily growing larger.
A good-sized block of Dexter was
curbed on the streets yesterday at s1.5O.
and there were many Inquiries for the
stock at near this figure.
The Marsac mill, at Park City, is still
| undergoing repairs on account of the
recent fire, and will hardly be started up
again until about the first of the month.
Colonel H L. Pickett of this sity will
J leave the first of this week for State
/ line and Eagle Valley districts, in both
/ of which he is interested in valuable gold
properties. tt
! of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelt-
! ing q Refining company left yesterday
I for Brighton for day@o or twos outing
with his wife.
/ Charles Buffers of South African fame.
| the well known metallurgist and mining
! operator, is back from San Francisco,
having given up his San Salvador expedi-
! ton for the present ~
Tommy Croxall treasurer of the South
/ Swansea, has returned from his Brighton
outing looking well and happy. The rest
of the party, composed of his family,
c. V. Wheeler and children will return
home next week Friday.
At the meeting of the Dagmar- Eureka
Mining & Milling company last night, the
Hammond, ]. w. Smith, C. e. Blair, s.
r. Marks, Henry Morgan, directors and
j. NJ. Adams secretary and treasurer. 1t
is proposed to push work on the property
at once.
Lee Gibson. who gazed in at deaths
door at the Golden Gate mill last Tues
day, is slowly recovering from the effects
hardt, his companion. VIII have a battle
to pull through. Mr.. ellison is a son of
that veteran miner, Sam ellison, and is
well known in mining circles.
The Herald is informed that work will
begin tomorrow in the continued and
extensive development of the Omaha on
the west dip of Camp Floyd district, it
being the intention to open the property
workings are located. The stock of the
company is very strong in mining cir
Giles.
The Yellow Jacket group of three claims
on Mount NebO is a property that gives
excellent promise for the future and is
now being developed under the direction
of John Fisher. one of the owners. Fred
BerthOlf. of this city, is also interested
couraging showing of good silver-lead
ores. Z.
William Magneau of Denver, a gradu-
ate of the Colorado School of Mines of
Golden. has accepted position with the
GeySer- Marion company metallurgist
and assayer, and will begin his labors
about the first of the month. Mr.. Mag
neau will succeed Noble Jones, who will
soon go east to take a course in medi-
cine.
Harry Bacorn and P. ]. Donohue. at one
time prominent in mining circles in this
city, but who are now in the employ of a
large mining company at San Jose de
Garcia, Sinaloa, Mex write that they
have good positions and that they are
we'll pleased with the company they are
working for, as well as with the mines
and the country.
E. n. Jenkins, the Everett piano man,
who has just returned from Tintic dis
trict states that there is an excellent
showing in the Boss Tweed and that in
the drift to the north from the go foot
level nice body of high grade copper,
silver lead and gold ore has been ex-
posed, while the deposit is gaining in size
as work progresses.
The Sacramento will pay its regular
monthly So 900 dividend tomorrow, and
tonight the usual semi-monthly ship
ment of cyanides will be received al the
Consolidated Kansas City sampler. 1t is
learned that Superintendent Benner is
giving the company excellent satisfaction
and that he is opening up and operating
the mine in a splendid manner. The mill
is running to its full caDacity-150 tons
daily.
Gill S. Peyton has returned from Silver
City, where he made an examination of
the Picnic, which, he states, is looking in
a fiattering condition, the incline working
shaft having reached the depth of so
feet, while it is being deepened as rapidly
panied by William H. Childs of Boston,
who is interested in a number of Utah
mining enterprises. Mr.. Childs is much
impressed with the mineral resources of
Utah and is satisfied that in the various
mining camps opportunities for safe and
paying investments are offered.