The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-30
Mining Notes and Personals.


afternoon a so cents a share.
The Triumph Mining company has lev
led another assessment of cent a share
on it's capital stock.
The Centennial Eureka, which has been
shipping heavily as well as regularly of
eight-carload lot of gold ore.
George E. Coke and Alma Tanner of
Mercur left yesterday for Antelope island,
where they will do some development
work on copper properties in the interest
of Mercur people. Is
The Horn Silver Mining company will
pay its regular quarterly dividend of $20,-
make a grand total of S5,26 900 distributed
by the company in velvet money.
Sidney Smith, one of the prominent citi-
zens of Tuscarora, New. and who is in
terested in the Tuscarora Chief and the
TuScarora Extension mines at that place,
is in the city on mining business.
1t is learned that the Pail Verdi Mining
company of this city, which is operating
a promising gold mine not far from
Phoenix, AriZ.. expects to make a ship
ment of a carload Of high-grade in the
near future.
Among the shippers in the market yes
terday were the Old Telegraph, with four
cars of ore: the Uncle SAM with seven;
with one, and the Horn Silver. with
car of copper.
Ingot was called among the listed pros
poets on the board of the Utah exchange
yesterday, and to the surprise of the min
ing fraternity at large was only able to
establish quotations of Il cents bid and
251s cents asked.
Henry A. Mccormick, the well-known
mining man, is now examining mining
properties at Placerville. Cal. When
through at that point he will inspect the
Ivanhoe mine in Amador county, which is
owned by a Salt Lake company.
A futile effort was made yesterday to
o mr. in hyr
lation of rumor that an assessment
might be levied. 1t fell fat, however, and
Superintendent Thomas Kearns states
that a meeting is not even contemplated
until May.
Having put in a metre on it's COM
pressed air pipe line, the Tetro company
of Eureka is now utilizing machine drills
again and is making excellent progress in
Using property, which is located on Co
DIVA mountain.
J. H. McChrystal, superintendent of the
Godiva mine on Godiva mountain, who is
in from Eureka for the purpose of taking
in the ShrinerS' dance, states that the
mine is looking well and that it is MAX
ing regular shipments of good ore to the
Salt Lake shelters.
Word comes from the Colorado river
that work is now progressing finely in the
operation of the Goodhope bar, and that
the gold is being saved in a most salts
factory manner on the burlaps, while it
runs well in the yellow metal.
Frank Thornburg will leave tonight for
the Elgin mine in the Silver City end of
Tintic district, Mr.. Thornburg has
shaft fifty feet deeper on the vein, which
is about twenty inches in width and which
is streaked with high-grade ore.
George Tate of the Headlight mine in
Tintic district. which adjoins the Elgin
on the east. is in the city on mining bust
ness. Mr.. Tate has with him some sam
pies of quartz from the bottom of the
fifty.-foot. shaft in this property, which
naked eye.
C G; W: Kellogg. who is in from the
states that the showing in the Sindar
gold mine is most encouraging and that
the working shaft being sunk in the de-
yelopment of this prospective bonanza is
now down depth Of forty feet the
workings being III a fine body of milling
ore.
C. E. Bingham of the Times-Review of
Tuscarora, New, is in the city on mining
business. Mr.. Bingham, who is an af-
fable gentleman speaks in glowing terms
of the future outlook for Tuscarora, ac-
cordlng to present indications, and he is
confident that in the near future it will
outrival its past brilliant record as a
splendid producer of mineral wealth
J. II. Young of the Oregon Short Line,
who has returned from Willow Creek dis
trict, Idaho, where he made an eXamina-
ton of the Checkmate gold mine in
which he is heavily interested, states that
1t is in splendid physical condition and
that he is elated over the future outlook
Tor the property, which has been making
an enviable record Of late as a producer
and shipper.
Exhaustive tests are being made on
ore brought in by H. l.. Benner from his
mine in Iron county, which is located
about twelve miles west from the mouth
of Pinto canyon, and it is more than
| a hot Il
with REDUCTION works during the present
season There are good bodies of ship
ping ore exposed in this property which
will be only about four miles from the
Utah &, Pacific railroad when the line is
extended.
Colonel H; L. Pickett and Hon. NJ NJ
Miller of this city will leave for the
south on Monday next for the purpose of
valuable gold properties owned
by them in Pixies Diggings and at Deer
Lodge. besides which they will go down
into Mohave county, Arizona, to inspect
a most promising copper prospect about
eight miles from the Grand canyon of the
Colorado. The colonel has written ahead
to have his ''porphyry dyke suit sent on
to Lund. on the Utah & Pacific
Hon. Thomas G. Merrill of the South
Sunbeam is feeling highly pleased with
the showing in this property as work pro-
crosses in its development A cross-cut
has been run from the bottom of the 200
foot shaft for a distance of eight feet in
the vein. which has failed to strike the
wall, the impression being that the ledge
is all of fifty feet in width. 1t is the in
tention to cross-cut both ways with two
shifts in the immediate future. The vein,