The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-30
Work to Begin In the Operation of
the Commercial.
(Bingham BulIetin.1

The Bingham Copper & Gold company
is actively preparing for extensive op-
! eratiCns on the Commercial group.
About fifteen men are employed, and
the old lower workings will soon be all
clear, retimbened and in good condition.
/ a a-w hoist and all tools necessary
for present use have been put in.
! There are SeveTal hundred tons of ore
already on the dump ana in the bins,
mostly milling grade, but including also
! a considerable proportion of handsome
! high-Srade copper. Z. II. McCree, late
with the Old Telegraph, is now super
| intendent Of the Commercial.
| An assay made Tuesday by Billy
/ the Julia Dean, showed 123 ounces of
| gold, Is per cent lead ad twenty-three
/ ounces silver per ton. Other assays
! from lower down in the stope give an
average of 10 silver, 60 per cent lead
and So gold. Tests viii be made this
morning on ore knocked down yeSter-
! day that is lousy with free gold or very
! deceptive. The mine is looking I'M
usually we'll at present. y shipment
will be made about Feb 10.
Harkers, a gulch about three miles in
! length. running SouthwesteTly and
forl1ing with the main canyon at the
ShowaU placer works, was this month
located as placer ground its entire
length, barring patented land at its
mouth. 4 theory is that this gulch
may have been the course of a part
of the main stream when the latter Oc-
c.upied its ancient bed, and that the
L nd intervening between il and the
p resent creek was then an island. Col
is are found in every pan of Harkers
top dirt.
The Dewey mill shut down Tuesday
nj ght, after a steady one-shift run since
November. The bins are empty, haul
ers- having been obliged to suspend
owing 10 bad roads. There are a num-
Der of orders ahead, however, some OF
Wllirh will be delivered between now
and Monday. The Dewey has had a
busy existence on custom work, and ap-
pears to have been a lucky thought.
Tire Highland Boy tram will be de-
layed in completion a number of days,
owing to miscalculation in heighth of
som p of the towers. One is being raised
ten feet and several others will be
built up more or less. Probably two
wee ks viii be required to make every
thing complete. Considering that the
line is over two miles in length. the
work has progressed with creditable
pre- cdsion-
The No. 10 and 90. owned by Heas-
ton Bros. is under bond and lease to
w. .. Carbis. and work is about to be
resumed on them after years idle
ness. The 80 is showing nine inches of
COOL, clean ore at shaft bottom. Care
ful retimbering is necessary On the
property is boiler engine and hoist,
read Y to run.
Til e new finds Of rich copper ore in
Pine gulch, home Of the Fortune, Key
store. Congor, Illinois group and other
mir es is attracting much attention to
that locality, and there will be lively
times in the gulch this year.
q. ". Johnson and Charlie Rundberg
have begun work on their MonteZuma
lease They will extend main tunnel
now in $50 feeO to hanging wall of
vein, a distance of seventy-five feet,
and are confident of running into a
large body of ore.
Among shippers this week are the
Spanish with eight carloads of galena;
Burning Moscow and Red Wing-the
latter sending cut two carloads and
last of its Dewey mill concentrates.
Work was started this week on grade
Of road to connect New Mammoth mill
site with Keystone road. A bunk and
boarding house was completed this
week at the New Mammoth mine.
Soft weather during the past two
weeks has played havoc with the roads,
and excepting patches of must" ore
hauling by team is practically suspend
ed.
Good progress is being made in free
ing the West Mountain placer sump of
sand. and it is expected that the big
pump viii resume work in day or
two.
A number of properties are ready to
q nip and awaiting transportation. The
OF haulers will do little until roads are
better.
Very fine samples of native copper
are coming from lower workings of
the KhediVe (MaXweH grOup)