The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21

The brokers all had their doors locked,
and nearly every mining office was
closed.
The Conklin sampler reported the ar
rival yesterday of ten cars of ore from
, Tintic, one from Bingham and two
from Nevada.
j. NJ. Wheeler, superintendent of
the South Swansea, is in from the
mine, and reports everything going
along as usual
company has issued a neat pamphlet
descriptive of the Buffalo Hump re-
gion, the work of Colonel P Donan,
formerly of Salt Lake
d. c. Mclaughlin, the well-known
lawyer and mining man of Park City,
who has been on a several months trip
to the coast, returned to the Park on
Friday, entirely restored to health and
strength.
Word has been received from Man
ager Thompson at the Laurada COM
pany's property, Cherry Creek, New,
that he expects to close arrangements
for starting the mill during the COM
ing week.
An amendment to the articles of in
corporation of the Oriental Mining &
Smelling company, recently adopted.
was filed with the county clerk yester-
day. The effect of the amendment is
to make the capital stock assessable
Secretary Druehl of the Joe Bowers
Extension has ordered a carload of
lumber and another car of coal sent
down to the mine. The property is be-
ing rapidly developed, and three shifts
are at work, drifting and sinking.
Colonel S. p. Miner, who has just
returned from the Dexter, at Tuscaro-
ra, New, says b. F. Redmond has his
steam wagons operating between the
railroad and the mine. The first wagon
was started while he was there, loaded
with twenty-five tons of freight.
Extensive development work is to be
inaugurated at the Dipper mine, in Lit
tie Cottonwood, tomorrow. Messrs
Lawrence and Dinwoodey, who recent
ly closed a deal for a bond and lease
on the property, will go out to the mine
today with five men, who are to begin
work at once on 10O-foot contract
The Salt Lake City Mine and Stock
Journal, recently launched as a week
ly paper by Bessie L. Shirley, has
changed to a monthly. The May num-
Der is just out. encased in a handsome
cover of heavy, tinted paper, printed in
bronze, and its contents are as bright
and newsy as the publication is hand
some.
The Tuscarora Gold Mining company
expects to start up before long The
company ordered plant for the shaft
last winter, but it reached Elko too
late in the season to be hauled in. 1t
is now being shipped from the rail-
road, however, and its arrival on the
ground will be the signal for the COM
mencement of busy season.
7. i. Joseph, a well-known mining
man. is in the city from the West Dip,
where he has been operating for some
time past He has recently become in
terested in a promising property in
the Wasatch range southeast of Provo.
He has acquired twelve claims carry
ing good values in gold, silver and
copper, with the latter metal predom-
mating.
A report reached Salt Lake yesterday
that a strike had been made in the
ground of the West Mountain Placer.
7. r. Jones, one of the principal hold
ers of stock, was seen last evening, and
he stated that so far nothing was
known about it. other than that
strata of gravel had been found in the
lower channel. Whether the dirt car
ries values or not is yet to be ascer-
tanned.