The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15
Mining Notes.

James Crouch has returned from a
trip to Stockton.
The Mammoth mine marketed ten
cars of ore yesterday
F. c. Long & co. yesterday disposed
of their business to B. H. LAWYER
Samnel Newhouse is expected to ar
rive in Salt Lake on Wednesday next
The Conklin Sampling works received
sixteen cars of ore from Tintic yester-
day.
Prospecting for copper in the Bristol,
New, district is meeting with favorable
results.
NJ. Kopp, the new manager of the
Maple mine, Tfntic, left for that camp
last night.
Max Sohr, the well known mining
man was confined to his home by sick
ness yesterday.
A gentleman in from West Tintfc yes
terday stated that the snow had fallen
to a depth of two feet.
r. G. Wilson has returned from a
trip into Idaho, where he has been for
over a week on mining business.
Charles Brown, the new superintend-
emit of the May Day mine at Tintic. has
assumed the duties of that position.
Edgar G. futile, manager of the Cop
per Mountain mine in Box Elder coun-
ty, returned from a brief trip to that
property yesterday.
William Thornton has secured bond
and lease on a group of claims in the
vicinity of Alta, which he expects to
undertake to develop.
It is reported that bond on the
Hawkeye property at Park City is
about to be secured by parties repre-
senting eastern capital.
The Utah exchange mineral exhibit
was moved yesterday to the room now
occupied by the Salt Lake exchange in
the Walker bank building.
The Red Wing mill at Bingham will
resume operations this week. and, with
the recent improvements added to it,
will begin crushing eighty tons of ore
daily.
The Taylor & Brunton sampling
works received eight cars of ore yes
terday from Tintic two from Nevada,
one from Bingham and two from
Frisco.
Wade Mosby of the Chicago Mining
company, whose property is at Bing-
ham, expects to return to camp tomor-
row, where he has charge of develop
ments at that property.
Mr.. jeremiah Schenck of the Dalton
& Lark says the option on that prop
erty will be open till Monday noon.
Nothing has yet been heard by him as
to the fate of the pending deal.
Captain George Ryan; superintendent
of the West Gable Mining company of
Tintic, was in town yesterday. He says
rapid progress is being made with ma
chine drills in the development of that
property.
The New Mammoth at Bingham has
about 125 feet further to run to its
tunnel to connect the shaft with the
mill. At present teams are employed in
hauling sixty to seventy tons of ore
overland daily from the shaft
Mammoth Record: Henry Green of
Eureka has been making an examina-
ton of the copper property owned by
Dewitt & Page near Marysvale, Utah.
Last Monday Mr.. Green exhibited to
friends in Eureka several beautiful
| specimens of native copper taken from
this undeveloped property.
New York Copper Sftuation.-Copper
played an important part in the Dewey
welcome in this city last week. But
for it the electrical displays, the great
est and gT'andest ever known, could not
have been made. The medals of honor
awarded by congress to the gallant
tars who fought with the admiral on
! board the Olympia at Manila We're or
bronze, and three-fourths of the Dewey
medals, bought by the thousands by
the populace who welcomed the great
naval hero, were of bronze or brass.
/ Copper was their basic metal, and
thousands of them were made of it en-
! tirely. It is estimated that 100 tons of
copper have been employed in their
manufacture.
White Pine (Nev) News: The Ely
Mining & Milling company's mill here
was closed down Wednesday noon for
the winter. Manager Davis has been
| summoned to Salt Lake and leaves this
morning. He expects TO make arrange
ments for the new hosting plant, and
| during his absence only four men will
| be employed at the mine Strengthening
! the shaft On the arrival of the hoist
a considerable force of miners will be
put on, and development work pushed
! to a depth of 500 feet. Manager Davis
| showed the News man some samples OF
porous quartz which was struck on the
$50 level in their mine the same after
noon. 1t was encountered about sew
| enty feet from the shaft, and the whole
face of the drift is iT ore. The pros
poets of big body are most promis-
ing.
Watch Mackie's travesty in the Sal