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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

The Bloomfield Freeman has cnapg-
ed it's size from q seven column follO
TO q six column quarto.
The gold bug democrats are pow
erless to stem the advance of the sill
yer bugs within party lines.
The Lewistown Democrat and
Sentinel is being issued as Q semi.
weekly. 1t is a newsy paper.
Western papers are criticisiDg
Common Pleas Judges for exchang-
ing benches as frequently as they
do.
Boss Bryan is lining the demo
Gratis up for his old time silver plat
form with himself al the Presiden'
tial candidate.
A certain cure for the sting OF the
kissing bug is the application OF .
thick plaster of mud. Clay mud II
best, If 1t can be had.
1000 Democrats gave q dollar din
uer for Bryan at Columbus, Ohio
Last Friday There was q silver I'm
inc about the whole affair.
A Clearfeld county man plant'
The same variety of potatoes that h'
began planting on his farm 80 year
ago, the long John Potato.
The site for the location OF nation
al government buildings in Altoona
ia at the northeast corner OF Ohest
nut avenue and Eleventh streets
Mrs. Lewis. who won't with no
s.Ahar and mother Dr.. b. F. Ackie.
and wife TO Oearfeld county. ~
snr;no. has returned to AiMintown.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

D. 4KIN0s Prssideus Asd Maaagss
C. K. MnLER, GeneFss Agent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

70
Trains Nos. I and 2 connect 1t Port Royal
with Way Passenger and Sesshors Express
onP. R. R., spd Nos. 3 end with Nail east
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

Creek, and demanded bis money.
He had left his pistol at home 80 he
handed over the SIG he had in his
pocket. He wanted to give them
his watch, but they refused to take it.
He invited bim to 60 with him to
Selinsgrove and have q drink, but
they declined.
The first nights din of the 4th of
July carousal is best described by
the effect that q citizen said it had
on his dog. The dog began TO bark
when the noise of explosives began.
The explosives kept going and the
dog kept barking. The dogs bark
was vigorous till midnight, but BY
that time his bark grew less vigor'
Gus, and gradually from that time
IL grew weaker till daylight, when it
had gotten down or up just IS you
please to faint squeal. On the 4th
and 5th the dog looked as if be was
suffering from the effects OF an at
tack of acute sore throat.
A dsy or two since while Stewai
Horrell was in the act of hitchiDg q
team of horses to q grain binder, be
was kicked by one of the horses. The
beast was induced to kick by another
horse blteing the kicker on the neck
Both bind feet struck Stewart On
foot struck him near the middle o
the breast. The other foot strucl
him ON the ribs on the left side: HI
was knocked onto the platform OF ths
binder, and was for short time un
conscious. When he revived Har
r;sou Oasnsr took him to his hom'
at Mt. Pleasant. Walker township
The next day Horrsll wes again o!
deck % an efficient hand - be a
ways is on the farm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
SILVER KING SHAFT.
Work of Sinking Was Completed
aturday-Anchor Mill.
lSpecial Correspondence.

Park City. April 1.-THE work of
sinking the Silver King shaft was COM
pleted yesterday and station will be
cut on the 1000 foot level as soon as the
air pipes are run down to that level.
The air engine used for hosting from
the shaft viii be set up on the LOO
foot level, where a Wine is being sunk
on the ledge. a drift Will then be run
on the 1900 to strike the bottom Of the
Wine, and will open up a vast amount
of ground for prospecting the big prop
eTty at a greater depth.
That the Anchor company will build
a new mill this summer seems to be an
assured fact. Three sets of plans have
already been drawn up for it, but as
yet none of them have been accepted.
The work of removing the snow from
the Ontario road is expected to COM
mence. tomorrow, so that hauling over
the road may be resumed. The people
of Park City are confident that the
mine will resume operations on large
scale soon, and are anXiously awaiting
the arrival of Superintendent Cham
bers, who is expected every day.
It looks as if the Silver King would
have to suspend operations entirely for
a short while. on account OF the scar
city of coal. If it does the entire force
Of men will be put to work on the new
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
Bingham Mining Briefs.

The Dewey mill resumed running
through Redwing second-class this
week and will continue on that ore I'M
til Markham mill is ready to start up.
The Stewart property has twenty
men on development work, blocking cut
ore for the new smelter, and operations
will be confined to this until treatment
works are running.
Fortune group in Pine gulch contin-
ues development and shipments of ore.
Fifteen men constitute the present
force, and win be increased shortly.
The showing here is most promising,
and fine ore bodies are being opened UP.
Several of the new Bingham COM
panies represent property in good To-
calities at present making fair show
ings As they are starting or intend
ing to do active work, important strikes
may be looked for.
Markham mill improvements are
nearing completion, several new water
supply tanks are now installed and a
general overhauling of machinery is
about finished. Next week may see
the stamps dropping on Redwing ore.
Our public concentration mills have Il
supply in sight and contracted for Of
several thousand tons of milling ore
which the spring breakup of roads is
holding back. Hauling is proceeding
slowly, but continuing fine weather will
soon render roads more passable.
Work started on the Argus in March
last is being continued and the owners
are hopeful of soon running into good
mineral 1t has tunnel in eighty-five
feet, a sixty-foot incline and nearly
eighty feet of drifts, and is on large,
well-defined vein. The directors came
from the city last Sunday and visited
the property.
The Bingham tunnel is now in 1850
feet and has encountered a new strata
of porphyry. An air blower will be in
stalled next week, and a set of electric
drills have been ordered which Will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17

numbered and will soon be swinging in
place and begin on the 10000 tons of
ore reserve which is now piled up at
the mines The saving of teaminS. eX-
pense alone on this quantity Of ore will
pay for about half a mile of tramWay.
Jeffrey & Lee have just made clean
up of copper precipitates from their
sluice and have about 1900 pounds
averaging so per cent ready for ship
ment, that, by reason of the extreme
simplicity of the process, is practically
clean profit. All there is to the process
is to run the water from their tunnel
which is strongly impregnated with
copper, into sluice boxes containing an
assortment of old tin cans. etc. which
precipitate the copper. The tinware
costs nothing. and the only expense is
the labor. The experiment was only
tried here last fall and was the result of
an accident. but has proven entirely
successful and will be another source
of revenue to tre camp, without doubt.
Negotiations for the sale of the York
property, which is considered one of
the best in the district, have been going
on for a week past The price asked
is stated to be 10000, and about the
only obstacle in the way of consumma-
ton of the deal is said to be the price
asked by the leasers, Messrs. Grow,
Taylor and Pugsaey, for the relinquiSh
ment Of their lease, which has about
fourteen months yet to run. 1t is eX-
pected, however, that the deal will
be closed by tomorrow.
Drifting continues at the Showall
placer and every dav disloses new pay
gravel. If West Mountain placer oper-
atoms, being higher up stream, cut off
a major part of the underflow water,
as is hoped will be the case, work on
the Showal viii be much facilitated.
This summer bids promisingly to see
Bingham's placers lifted to the prom
inence their showing merrt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
STRUCK DAISY VEIN.
West Mercur Company Makes An
Important Discovery.
(Mercur Miner.)

The West Mercur Mining company
made an important strike a day or two
ago which proves that the Daisy vein
extends in nearly a straight line south
of Lewiston canyon. At a depth of 345
feet Bert Keifer got through the wash
on the Kansas Boy claim and struck
the exact apex of the vein. If he had
known exactly where the vein was he
could not have hit it closer, but it was
not guess work. An Outcropping ledge
which crosses the foothills back of his
ground also crops out back of the Daisy.
He simply measured from this outcrOp-
ping to the vein on the Daisy and then
sunk his shaft the same distance west
of the outcropping of the same ledge
back of his ground. The vein has the
same characteristics as the Daisy ore
and is undoubtedly the same vein.
While it is not expected that the vein
carries high values at the apex the COM
pany viii sink and drift on the vein for
the values that are uniformly found at
greater depth.
The Romney shaft is about 1900 feet
west and south of the West Mercur
shaft and if, as is claimed they also
have the vein at a depth of $50 feet, it
proves the correctness of the theory
held by many, that the vein fiattens
out as it extends westward. me strike
has greatly encouraged holders of
ground in that section of the West Dip
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
TINTIc MINING NOTES.
Sale of An Interest In the Licking
ton Group.
CTintic Miner.

Messrs. II. Barnett and DR.. Thee.
Myers Of Salt Lake were out Tuesday
and Wednesday. and in company with
r. G. Wilson visited the Mollie Gibson,
South Sunbeam, +. G. w. and Yankee
| Consolidated, in which they are inter-
ested. The gentlemen report the show
! ing in these properties as excellent, eS-
pecially in the South Sunbeam, where
there are several small streaks of high
grade ore in sight.
Z. O. Lee of the Four Aces was out
to the mine again Saturday. Speaking
Of the new strike Mr.. Lee said thera
was about two feet of clean galena in
sight. Two carloads were shipped from
the mine ON Monday.
superintendent Kirby of the Beck
mine says there is no truth in the re-
port published recently in one of the
Salt Lake papers that the water on
the 1900 level had increased to such a
volume that it would serve all the needs
of the mine and mill.
]. NJ. MURRAY has sold to James A.
O'Brien his one-eighth interest in the
Lexington group, which lies a short
distance east of the Uncle Sam, and
in which there is an excellent showing
Active development of the property will
soon be resumed.
Harry Joseph visited the Lower Mann
llOlu ldSI II IlUdN, ldhlIl8 Ddth Will HIN
a big boulder of galena that assays
about 20 per cent in that metal to-
gether with $50 ounces in silver. This
new strike is on the 500 level. From
above good assays in gold have been
secured.
A force of men is rapidly preparing a
site for the Victoria hoist, and in a few
days the work OF sinking the shaft will
commence Until the installation of the
hoist a windlass will be used.
The Cleveland Mining company has
elected William Harker president. B.
NJ. Harmon, vice president; r. &. Mil
Ter, treasurer ann J. r. Lewis, secre-
tary. These with Henry Harker make
up the company'S directory.
The May Day Mining company has
let a contract to a. H. Scott & Sons
for a wagon road. upon which work
Will be commenced at once. Upon its
completion shipment Will be made.
In the ore body a big breast of high
grade galena is exposed, and stopping
Will begin in few days.
Contractor owens has the Crusader
shaft down ninetY-fiVe feet. The COM
pany has purchased a Buffalo whim to
facilitate sinking.
things in shape at the Bullion Beck
mill. and the start viii probably be
made Monday.
The showing in the Yankee tunnel
continues to improve. Wednesday a
cave was broken into. and all the in
dications point to an early strike.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
A BINGHAM sWINDLE.
Bulletin Threatens to Expose Fake
Mining Scheme.
bingham Bulletin

bingham Bulletin.)
It is we'll known that since the upper
hills went under deep snow last winter
a group of claims has been located in a
certain Bingham vicinity by parties OPP
Grating in the city, company organ
lied with a catchy name, and pretense
made that large amount of develop
ment is in progress and showing good
results. We are assured by parties in
position to know that the ground
claimed is all, or nearly all, covered by
old locations, and that the enterprise is
a cheap swindle that could land only
the rankest kind of sucker. Yet by
smooth methods the promoters" have
succeeded in selling considerable stock
at good figures. People who make in
vestments blindly deserve to be taken
in. Nevertheless, it is to be deplored
that Bingham is likely to get a black
eye from sharpers. The Bulletin will
make thorough examination of this
transaction, also other cheap ones said
to be formulating, and give the facts.
The Commercial group continues to
Increase its force, and an extensive de-
velopment campaign is we'll under way.
An incline shaft is down eighty feet be-
low the east drift and has obtained a
depth under the surface of 175 feet. 1t
is now past the oXidiZed zone and in a
fine body of copper-gold-iron sui
phides. a tunnel to cut this ore at a
depth of several hundred feet is con-
templated, but in view of the careful
and conservative policy of the manage
ment the dtpthattaining character of
the ore body will first be proven up in
shafts. The air raise of $50 feet was
knocked through to the surface this
week. A body of copper ore carrying
rs per cent of that metal, with good
gold and silver values, is d feature of
this mine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17

walked to the wall took hold of the
sign that upheld the lulu at beating
anything in the deck. and turned it
over. On that side was printed this:
The lulu can only be played once
at a sitting
THEN THERE WAS SHOOTING.
The stranger no sooner saw this
than his eyes blazed like a wildcats in
a hollow tree. [ thought that was about
q good time to get away from there.
and l did. So did all the rest of the
lookers-on. l had no sooner got out
side the door when the fusilade began,
and when 1t was all over George Mel
len came out and asked us to give him
a lift with the victims. The stranger
had two bullets in his left shoulder and
one had grazed his scalp. He lived, and
by the time he got out of the Cheyenne
hospital the lulu had been so thorough
ly explained to him that he admitted
that he had been in the wrong in sit
tins in game that contained kinks of
which he was ignorant. Denham had
bullet in his stomach. and the other
sheepman had a hole in his right breast.
They both got well, toe, and I've played
q lulu with the two of them in the
game on a number of occasions since.
The only case on record of two
lulus being held on the same deal hap
pened in Cheyenne four years ago. 1t
was a game between a sergeant of in
fantry from Fort D. A Russell and the
assistant warden Of the Cheyenne Jail.
The sergeant had to call when he had
put in his last dollar of his months
pay. and ne only Won $50 when he
showed down his lulu with queen on
top. The warden had a ten-high lulu,
and the top heart took the money"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
Strike at Baker City.
Baker City Democrat.l


The news was brought to the city
yesterday that another rich strike had
occurred at the Collateral mine, oper-
ated by the Virtue Consolidated Mine
company, this time in the south chute,
about 100 feet from the main crosscut
tunnel and at depth from the surface
of about 500 feet.
The ore body was run into day or
so ago since which time the ore has be-
come so rich that Superintendent Burk-
head is sacking the greater portion of it
for shipment. An amalgamation test
made by the superintendent showed
that the ore will yield between $4,000
and 50 900 per ton.
The Collateral is now developed in
such a practical way that as soon as
the roads, win admit of wood being
delivered at the mine the twenty-stam
mill will have a continuous run for
many months and be a dividend-payer.
Above the ore chutes just uncovered
there is 5O0-feet of backs and other ore
veins, too that show an average of
about $50 to the ton.
The old Virtue mineais also to be
opened up and in a short time this
property will be turning out its quota
of rich ore.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
The South Swansea.
(Tintic NLiner.)


With enough ore in sight to work a
force of 100 men at the mine, the South
Swansea directors have decided to sink
a vertical shaft 1000 feet deep and close
up the crooked hole from which sew
eral dividends have been hosted in
buckets since Tommy Croxall first
struck pay dirt" a trip through the
mine in company with Superintendent
Rome Wheeler and Foreman Bob
Marry, Wednesday, was a revelation
to q Miner man. 1t was literally a case
of "ore everywhere" and lots of it.
The South Swansea vein is one of the
strongest and most regular in the dis
trict, and the management has been
able to follow it down from level to
level in almost a straight line. From
the 250 level to the surface south of the
shaft is virgin ground, besides which
there are generous sized bodies of rich
galena on every level both north and
south of the shaft, awaiting stopping
operations.
Deputy United States Surveyor c. 2.
Brooks will make an underground sur
vey at once, and locate the new shaft,
which will probably be about 500 feet
west of the present one. A siXty-hOrse-
power hoist and a pair of boilers of the
same size will furnish the equipment
which will enable the company to more
than double it's present shipments. A
resefve fund of $4,000 has accumulated,
and will be ample for the expense in
Cured The development of the mine
and the hosting of ore will continue as
usual, also the dividends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
WEST MOUNTAIN PLAcERs.
Company Will Soon Be In Shape For
Steady Production.
bingham Bulletin.)

Our placers begin to assume a divi-
dend promising appearance. With COM
pletion of the general drainage plan of
tapping underfiow water from drift
run in solid bedrock under the channel
and at right angles to the stream,
things at West Mountain placer will be
in shape for steady production of fine
free washing gravel, of which there is
some six feet in depth that averages
$3.50 gold per yard. The main west
shaft is down 100 feet and mostly in
blue lime At ninety feet what is be-
lieved to be Dry Fork canyon channel
was struck and some $50 feet of drifting
has been done with excellent showings
Work on the east shaft was abandoned
at a depth of 100 feet, as the water in
creased beyond the capacity of two
1O0-g gallon pumps and drift was run
from the main shaft and is now
twenty-five feet under it. A connect
ing raise will be completed shortly
bringing the east shaft water to the
main shaft, where a 1900 gallon Cornish
pump will handle it. No large nuggets
have been reported, but pieces of gold
worth 81 are not uncommon. The gold
our reporter saw was mostly flakes,
about the size of pinhead. 1t is
caught with quicksilver in riffled
sluices a force of about twenty men
are employed and demand for eXper-
fenced gravel miners exceeds applica-
tons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
Eureka Hill Affairs.
lTintin Ninnr.l

A report which appeared recently in
one of the Salt Lake papers that the
Observation-Disclosures company had leased
the big Packard mill is denied by both
Manager Allen of the former company
and Secretary Ritter OF the Eureka
Hill. superintendent Macomber of the
mill departed Tuesday for Chicago,
which is taken as an indication of an
indefinite cessation of work there, and
a Waterman keeping his vigils is the
only scene of life around the big struc-
ture. AT the mine a force of sixty men
is at work, in the shaft and various
drifts, searching for new ore bodies.
Sixteen Burleigh drills are at work
every hour. and a week or ten days
work may at any time disclose enough
ore to Justify a resumption of work
The shaft is now down 1900 feet, the
lowest point yet attained in the district
at which point station is being cut.
The auxiliary mill bin has been filled
with ore, and occasional shipments are
being made from the mine, two car
loads now being loaded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
The Old Dominion.

The Old Dominion Mining company,
which owns the Black Jack and Trail
claims lying Immediately south of the
Phoenix and between the Star Console
dated on the east and the Lower Mann
moth on the west, is grading site for
a shaft and hoist, under the direction
of Director John T. Sullivan. On Sun
day a contract will be let for 100 feet
of sinking, the company to furnish a
whim and timbers. BY the time il is
completed the company will have a
steam or gasoline hoist installed, and
will probably continue the shaft an
other 100 feet and crosscut to the ledge.
George Silks, W. S. Mccormick, Judge
Dickson and a. w. McCune are all in
terested in the property, from which
some good ore has been shipped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17

greatly increase speed of tunnels ap-
proach to the Yosemite, Brooklyn. Lead
Mine and other veins. Ten men are
employed at present working three
shifts in face.
The new boiler and 25-horse-power
engine recently installed at the Rogers
mill is d great Improvement. Last
Sunday the first of 500-ton lot of
ore was put through and it is expected
the mill will continue steady operation.
The Whitley concentration with jigs
make this d modern plant and will add
a capacity of sixty-five tons per day
to Binghams milling facilities.
The new Mammoth mill is being
pushed to completion and June l may
see it ready to run. Twenty-Five men
are on the payroll. Drifting continues
on lower levels, work being confined
to blocking out ore and driving mill
tunnel in to cut main incline 200 feet
lower than present depth. The new
mine Office and superintendent head
quarters is finished and is the finest
building we have seen hereabouts of its
kind.
The Maxwell group is employing ten
men and drifting in ore body on 200
foot level continues and a richer chute
of ore is opening out in present face.
This property has partly developed
body of native copper bearing ore,
which is one of the finest showings on
Bingham's wonderful copper belt. This
ore was opened up in north drift on
140-foot level and is destined to become
famous chute when it is developed.
The material purchased by the New
Mammoth company of the Highland
Boy consists of thirteen cyanide tanks
and a rotary dryer. There are two car
loads of new machinery now en- route
for the New Mammoth, including a
Gates crusher and two sets of Gates
high-gra rolls, and 5O-horse-power
electric motor. This will be the first
electric motor to arrive in Bingham.
Manager Rognon, visiting the mine and
mill yesterday, reports operations pro-
ceeding very satisfactorily.