The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-23
MINING ACTIVITY.
Big Sales Among the Placers May
Occur Before Long.
Especial Correspondence)

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Especial Correspondence
| Price, Feb. 21-Sam Whitmore, man
ager of the Whitmore estate at Salt
! Lake City, and a. Ballinger, manager
of the Price Trading company, bank
Srs and merchants of this city, leave
within the next few days for the Colo
RADIO river, some fifteen miles below
Dandy Crossing, where both are heav-
| lily interested in the Good Hope placerS,
and where, il is said, they have a sale
on for the property. Bert Seaboldt.
superintendent. is now in Denver and
viii join them there. When The Her
aid correspondent asked these gentle
men the direct question as to a sale,
they looked knowingly and said it was
as yet a trip of inspection of the prop
erty. 1t is known, however. that there
are many inquiries in that direction,
and the trip of the three at this time is
believed to have some significance.
Some substantial improvements have
recently been put in at the property.
II Is no longer a prospect or a guess,
but pays, so that it now becomes de-
sirable to the investor, who, like the
poor, is ever among us, if there be
dollars and dimes in sight. The Good
Hope has lately put in a big wheel of
fOrJy-two feet dimensions that lifts the
water by buckets on to the bars, and
VIII begin sluicing by the 1st of March.
There are 400 feet of fumes. There is
in sight on the property by actual
measurement 100000. The gold is
fine, but easily saved.
From parties just up from there it
is learned that the Hoskinena COM
pany, of which Columbus 90 capital
lists are at the head, will resume work
about ten days hence. They have LOCO
acres of as good bar as there is along
fbe. river These Daorla are y 6rado
ing the river bed, and expect to make
a big thing the coming summer. Work
is going on in a small way. but there
viii be no fOolishneSs afte. the river
is fairly free of ice. Their operations
are betw ssn Dandy Crossing and Cali
fornia bar, and to the north of the
former.
Bennett & Ryan, on California bar,
have a cleanup every two weeks, and
get good retorts every time. Theirs
is gunpowder gold. but is easily saved.
Near the mouth of the San Juan
river Butler & Bright were working
up to a few weeks age, but have now
suspended and will not do anything
more until spring is fairly opened.
fer winter work than any of those
enumerated. They last fall worked
ninety feet Of gravel that went from
cents up, the greater portion Of it bet
ter.
Tom Nichols of Price and associates
have lately received proposals of vari-
Gus kinds for their !. 900 acres, more or
less, which is above Dandy Crossing
some twenty miles. This was at one
time sold for $2S5000 to a Colorado
syndicate. and q gOodly sum paid down,
but the panic came on, and, like many
other deals that were then pending, it
was knocked higher than Gilderoy's
kite.
John P. Hite a brother of Cass and
Ben Hite, recently made a sale on the
Colorado for a few thousand dollars,
and went east in the hope of Riding
himself of rheumatism. He expects to
return in the spring.
Rumors and reports of wonderfully
rich copper strikes in Emery county OF
late are generally discredited here by
well-informeG miners ana experienced
who have been over every
foot of the ground where these rich
finds are said to have been made. There
are small veins of copper ore all
through the Cedar mountains, but
those well informed say the sheepman
VIII never be replaced there by the
miner.
Considerable interest is shown here
in the Blue mountain discoveries, and
once the weather opens up and the
snow is off the ground, there will no
doubt be an exodus in thst direction.
but the most favorable reports ;
have SO far been brought in, and these (
in most every instance by men whose !
word can be relied upon. Arthur /. !
Johnson, the New York powder manu- (
facturer, VINO has been on the ground !
for q week, WAS here this week on his /
way home, ana as soon as he can ar /
range business matters, he viii re- (
turn. He is working several prospects
that are looking well, and, in reply TO
questions, said, It's good enough fer /
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