The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-25
Mining Notes and Personals.

M1L1uS NOTES ana personals.
The Washington mine near Frisco will
form the basis.of an Incorporated COM
pany.
Hon. Thomas G. Merrill of the South
Sunbeam will go out to this Tintic prop
erty his morning.
The Dexter reported at the sampler yes
terday with a fine lot of cyanides. and
also with a consignment of gold bullion.
Report has it that some Provo boys
have struck it in the Superior claim in
Tfntic district northeast of the Uncle
Sam and Humbug.
From parties in from Bingham it is
learned that the Redwing is in splendid
condition and that the mine will be d
heavy shipper this year.
The Monarch, Mckinley. Martha Wash
ington and Crown Point properties have
been placed on the board of the exchange
among the unlisted stocks.
The Centennial-Eureka had three car
loads of a good grade of copper, silver
and gold ore on the market yesterday and
another consignment is expected in to-
day. -'fo'
Eagle & Blue Bell shareholders are
feeling elated owe recent fiattering re-
ports from this gilt-edged property, which
is destined to make a barrel of money for
its owners.
J. B. Taylor. who is operating in Bing-
han, is in the city on business: Nick
Mr.. Castro is the owner of the famous
Greek mine in that camp.
An extra car and track has been sent
down to the Silver Park at Silver City,
as it is the intention to put on a double
shift in the cleaning out Of the old work
ings of this ancient wealth producer.
The directors of the Fremont Mining
company, whose group is located between
the Buckeye and Joe Bowers Extension
at Diamond, held a meeting yesterday
and ordered a steam hoist for this prom
Using property.
The Joe Bowers marketed a thirty-ton
lot of ore yesterday which Melted the
company S45 a ton in the precious metals.
The Joe Bowers is shipping quite heavily
and regularly and it is stated that the
mine is in magnificent physical condition.
Fire tests made yesterday on ore sam
pies of ore from the Bill Nye mine at
stockton, disclosed the presence of the
precious metals to the extent of over 800
to the ton. The ore runs very heavy in
lead and the future outlook for the mine
is considered as being excellent.
The governing board of the stock eX-
change has appointed j. X. Gillispie, II.
B. Cole, r. l.. Colburn. f. +. McG'urrin
and Mr.. Plough as a committee TO make
nominations for the new governing board
of the association to be elected at the
next annual election, which will soon be
held.
The adjourned meeting of the Bullion
Beck directory was to have been held yes
terday. but for some reason it was
passed and now the session Will not be
held until the regular monthly meeting on
the 10Th of next month. This doubtless
means that the company will pay no divi-
dend this month.
w. j. Lawrence Of the Star CONSOLE
dated, near Mammoth, who came in from
this bonanza proposition yesterday, states
that the mine is looking we'll in all its
workings and that the. big air com
pressor had just arrived. The Star is
booked for a large shipment of ~high-grade
ore in the immediate future.
Superintendent George Weston of the
Circle mine on Lion hill, adjoining the
hnrthar1n TIphf was in the .nitW N0Ctar-
day on business with the company. 1t is
believed that the Circle covers an extern
sion of the new strike in the Northern
Light and Mr.. Weston is running a tun-
mel to open it up and so far the showing
is most encouraging.
At the annual stockholders meeting of
the Hercules company of Lion hill. held
yesterday, the new board of directors to
serve for the ensuing year was elected as
follows: S. j. Pollock. president; Max
Smith. secretary; George w. Z. Dorsey,
treasurer, and =. ]. Pollock. The Hercules
is strictly in the win just now and is a
popular stock with investors.
Something new in the machinery line
has just been received by the La RENE
a compressed air meter which Will be
installed at once at the Godiva TO measure
the compressed air used by the La Refine
in the operation of its machine drills. The
metre weighs LOCO pounds and is the only
one in use in Utah as far as is known.
Some splendid looking copper ore was
brought in yesterday from the mine of
the Illinois Mining company in Spring
copper mine, and it is stated that the min
erdi came from a new strike which has
just bean made in this promising prop
erty. Sam A. King one of the heavy
holders of Illinois stock, is well pleased
over the reports from the mine
The excitement over Mammoth stock
Yesterday was only accounted for in min
ing circles by the fact that something of
a gratifying nature had occurred at the
mine. AT the Office of the company, how
ever, all knowledge of any new strike
was denied, but on the curb it was given
out in a mysterious names that an inn
portant find had been made in the work
ings of his grand old wealth producer
and that ore had been uncovered which
assayed from $500 to $40 in the yellow
metal to the ton. AS a usual thing the
officials of the company are two or three
days behind the times when a new dis
covery is made in this property, as the
first.
Messrs. L. H. Curtis, Joe H. Young,
d. I. Tarpy and Hobson and Hunsicker
made a visit Of inspection Monday to the
New Mammoth mine in the Dalton &
Lark country, Bingham. They were well
pleased over the splendid condition of this
prospective bonanza, in which immense
quantities of high-grade milling ore are
exposed. As a matter of fact, ore is now
making so fast in the workings of the
mine and there is so much more of it
thar anticipated at this stage of develop
ment tina the company decided yesterday
to build a mill of $50 tons daily capacity
instead of 100, and additional tanks and
machinery have therefore been ordered.
will be of steel and twenty-five feet in
diameter. with a depth of four feet, ten
inches, the bottoms to be a quarter of an
inch thick and the sides three-sixteepths
OF an inch.
Won make no mistake when Won uSe