The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-28
mining Notes and Personals.


W. NJ cambridge, the able manager OF
the Boss Tweed mine in Tintic district
was in the city yesterday on business.
Duncan McVichie, the bic superintend-
ent of the Golden Gate mine, was in the
city from Mercur yesterday on mining
business.
Jesse Knight of the Uncle Sam mine
who is in from Eureka, states that the
mine is looking well, with fine bodies OF
good ore in sight.
A fine sample of galena ore from the
Galena King mine, near Stockton, is on
exhibition in the show window of the
office of Irvine & Mason, on Brokers
row."
S. F. Mount, the veteran miner, who for
several years was identified with the de-
velopment of the hex gold and copper
mine, in Detroit district, is in from Rich
field, near which place he is doing some
work in the exploitation of copper pros
poets of considerable merit
Charlie Andrews. one of the leading
business men of Nephi, who was in the
city yesterday. was showing his friends
some fine-looking galena in white quartz,
which, he stated, came from new dis
covery in Beaver county, the find consist
ing of an enormous blowout.
James Jennings Of the brokerage firm
of Luce 81 Jennings of this city, returned
yesterday from a visit of inspection to the
Star Consolidated mine, in Tintic dis
trict, bringing with him some splendid
samples of copper ore from the winze be
ing sunk on a fine ore body from the
cross-cut on the 225-foot level.
It is reported that the Boss Tweed
mine, near Mammoth, is in excellent ply
steal condition, and that some fine bodies
of high-grade copper ore are being
blocked out in it's workings. Some mag
erty are on exhibition at the office of
Lawrence & Dinwoodey on West Second
South.
Some nice-looking gold-bearing oxidized
ha IA ar ha m
was exhibited on the streets yesterday,
the mineral coming from a new find in
the face of the 300-foot mill tunnel being
driven to connect with the old workings
OF the property. The New Mammoth is
in prime condition, aEl it is believed that
it will make a great record for itself dur
ing the coming summer.
Ben johnson, one of the pioneers of
Deer Lodge. in Eagle Valley. Nevada,
just over the boundary line from State
lire. writes that the Horse Shoe mine is
still looking fine, and that now the shaft
is being deeDened on ore from the 100 to
the 200-foot levels. The drifts on the vein
from the 1G0-foot level are in fine bodies
of pay gold quartz, and the outlook for
the property is most gratifying.
Manager Smith of the Midnight Bowers
and West Morning Glory, two promising
Tintic properties, reports that both are in
excellent condition and improving with
every foot of work being done in their
DEVELOPMENT. In the Midnight Bowers, u
feeder to the main ledge has Just been
encountered, the stringer consisting of
eighteen inches of tale which carries good
lead values, and which is said TO be pay
ore.
Roy Mayne has returned from a visit
to Tintic and Camp Floyd districts. In
the former camp he examined promising
and valuable property in the Silver City
end of the district, while in Camp Floyd
he inspected the work being done under
his direction and supervision in the de-
velopment of the Gold Cable and Tusquel-
Ia properties on the West Dip, his report
being to the effect that both groups are
looking well.
A Murphy, the well-known mining man,
expects TO leave tomorrow for Rocky
district. in Beaver county, for the pur-
pose of inspecting his copper mine, the
Marguerite, which adjoinS the Montreal
copper property, owned by the Glasgow &
Western Mining company. a gentleman
noted as a mining promoter will accom-
pany him and during their stay in that
section they will most likely visit the cop
per mines of Beaver Lake district.
Among the producing mines of the state
which reported at the samplers yester-
day with shipments of ore and concen-
trates were the Swansea, with five cars;
the Grand Central. with eleven the Eu-
reka Hill, with five; the Horn Silver. with
five cars of concentrates and one of cop
per ore; the Mammoth, with five cars of
gold ore and two of concentrates; the
Uncle Sam. with five cars of ore, while
the Glasgow & Western reported with a
car of copper matte from its Golconda
mine and reduction works.