The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-03

has begun to haul some high grade
ore into Mercur for shipment.
The Grand Central will not post its
next dividend before next Friday, when
a meeting of the directors will be held
| in Provo.
! 3. F. Redmond has returned from
| TuScarora, Nevada He has completed
arrangements to start his steam trac-
ton between Tuscarora and Dexter.
Reports from the Gold Treasure at
Tintic state the shaft on the property
| is down fifty feet and the men work
| ing there are cutting into the hanging
wall.
! W. E. Worrell reports a strike in the
| Yuma mine near Silver City at depth
of 100 feet, which shows up well in
values and indicates the making of a
| big property.
Reports from the Gold Treasure at
! Silver City. state that the hanging wall
/ of the upper ledge has been cut into
and assays taken from it shows very
encouraging values.
| G. A. Duncan, managing director of
| the Gill s. Peyton syndicate, goes to
Mercur this morning on a tour of in
spection to the Chloride Point, Over
land and other properties.
The directors. of the Cedar Valley
MlHlHS company VIII meet DIT the Eagle
pharmacy tonight to ratify a contract
which has just been let for another
100 feet of work on the property.
General Manager Weir game in from
Bingham yesterday, where he has been
giving his personal attention to opera
lions at the Highland Boy. Nothing is
yet known as to when he will be re-
leased OF the management of the pro-
perty by the company.
1t is stated that the Telluride Power
& Transmission company of Provo,
which furnishes electrical power for
Mercur and other camps, expects to in
crease the capacity of the plant at an
early date and that an order for ma
chinery has been placed with an east
ern manufacturing concern.
William Began, the veteran mining
man of Park City, has just returned
from the Snake Creek district, where
he has been developing a group of
claims for the past year. Mr.. Began
says he has a fine showing of copper
ore and has begun running a tunnel to
cut into the ledge, where he has hopes
of finding enough pay-Ore to call his
present prospect a mine.
The Silver Shield mine, one of Bing-
nam'S producers, will be Incorporated
soon. Among the incorporators will be
Josiah Barnett, A. Hanauer, A. P. May
berry, A. X and John Herman, j. w.
Langley and a. Hanauer, jr. At the
present time the mine is being worked
by leasers, who have shipped $4,000
worth of ore within the past five
months. Two cars were in the market
yesterday from the property.
Edward Mclaughlin, one of the
principal owners of the West Ontario
group of twenty patented claims at
Park City, came down from Boise City,
his winter home, yesterday and left for
the Park this morning. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin thinks the owners of this valuable
grounud, being unable to develop it
themselves. should get together and
sell out, but getting them all, or ma
jority of them, to agree to such a pro-
position, he says, is a hard job.
Charles II. Schue, general manager
of the, LaCigale on the West Dip, will
leave today via Denver for Arizona.
Mr.. Schue has been attracted to the
neighboring territory and has secured
mining interests about fifty miles
north of Phoenix, and in the locality
of Congress, one of Arizona's best min
ing camps. While away Mr.. Schue ex-
poets to acquire other properties which
he has had in view for some time past.
He will be absent about a month.