The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-01-07
MINING NOTES.


Ore running $4,000 TO the ton has
been found in the famous Bassick mine
Mt Silver Cliff, Colo.
The past season has been one OF
prosperity in all branches Of the min
ing business in Utah.
Work on the Sunshine water line has
now reached the summit in Clay can
yon with everything on schedule time
thus far.
Parties are locating copper claims In
the hills near Logan, and good news
from that section may be heard during
the coming season.
The sale of the Rex claim at Cripple
Creek, Colo, for $3.50, 200, is one of the
most recent big deals to be recorded In
this great gold camp.
During the past week stocks have
been fairly strong, and quite anumber
of securities changed hands, some of
which required big money to handle.
The management Of the Sacramento
Consolidated, at Eureka, are figuring
on the installation of compressed air
plant at the mine OF the company for
the operation OF machine drills.
Superintendent william Curtis, of
the Massachusetts,, at Park City, says
the property is looking well, and the
workings are now being run on vein
matter, the outlook for big mine be-
ing most gratifying.
At the Little Pittsburg, good pro-
gress is being made in the develop
ment work, and the tunnel Is being
pushed into the mountain as rapidly
as possible in the endeavor TO cut the
silver vein in this ground.
The manager of the Gold Flint, near
Leesburg, Idaho, gives out the state
ment that the lower tunnel now being
driven in the operation Of this property
is In a six foot body Of ore, every SHOW
elfull of which shows free gold.
#. w. G. Hathenbruck OF Provo, who
Is interested in the effort TO obtain
eral lands In the Uintah reservation.
will leave soon for Washington, ID. g.,
in the interest of the enterprise.
The lower tunnel being driven In
the development of the Holland, in the
Gold mountain district, has been
pushed into the hill distance of sew
enty We or eighty feet, and by spring
It is believed that it will cut into the
body of gold ore exposed in the upper
workings.
Three gold mine properties Of Deep
Creek, the Queen of Sheba, the Jumbo
and Midas are shipping ore to Salt
Lake City, The roads are not as good
as they might be, but still they are in
a fairly fine condition for this time of
of the year, and can be travelled with
out much trouble.
The Utah mine, of Fish Springs, will
become a regular shipper with the be-
ginning Of the new year. The property
is In splendid condition, with fine
bodies of high grade ore in sight, and
the understanding is that, beginning
with next month, the company will
begin the payment of regular month
ly dividends.
The Utah company of Fish Springs
one day last week disposed of thirty
six ton lot of ore on the open market
on control assays showing metallic
values of 4o.2 per cent lead, 91.2 ounces
silver and 40 cents in gold to the ton.
1t is anticipated the Utah will be- a
heavy shipper from this time on.
Judge j. w. Burton, who is develop
ing the Star gold mine in old Star dis
trict, in Beaver county, has force of
four or five men at work in its opera
ton, and it is learned that 1T is more
than likely that some time next season
this property will be embellished by
the erection Of a cyanide mill.
From gentleman who is Just in
from Beaver county, portion OF the
state which, next to Tooele county,
has more mining districts to its credit
than any other county In the common
wealth Of Utah, states there is quite a
revival of activity in that region and
that the outlook for the coming year
In the mining line is brighter than for
many seasons past.
Articles of interpretations have been
prepared for the formation OF the Sill
yer Park Mining company, which will
base It's existence on the old Park mine
Mt Silver City, an ancient producer
which needs only the quickening in
fiuences of the application of capital
and labor in its systematic develop
ment to take rank at an early day as
one of the big paying mines of the
camp. The South Swansea people will
be identified with this enterprise and
SO will Ed Loose of the Grand Central,
1t being the intention TO operate and
develope this valuable property in q
thorough manner soon after the first
Of the year.
Willard s. Hanson of Collinston has
been for some time past prospecting on
his ranch for coal. TIE man who has
directed the prospecting work is an old
coal miner Of forty years experience,
who from the first has maintained
strongly that coal will be found In that
locality. The shaft has now pene.
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