The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-19
mining Notes and Personals.

Lead quotations advanced to 81 yes
terday, and silver also made gains.
Word comes from Mercur to the eff
feet that the Eagle continues to look
well and that the workings are block
5as out good hooking <So2zeS e ere.
e. S. Catch of The Boston & Mercur
Mining company. who has been in Utah
for the past ronth, viii leave for his
Boston home this morning. The prop
erty of the company is located in Skull
valley, and it is learned that it is
showing up i'll most fiattering manner
with development.
J. B. Graham, editor of the Bingham
Bulletin, who. was in the city yester-
day from this great mining camp,
speaks most encouragingly regarding
the outlook for the mines of West
Mountain district this coming season,
and he is of the opinion that the camp
will be the scene of wonderful activity
this spring and summer.
Superintendent H G.. Heffron of the
Commercial at Bingham, the property
of the Boston Copper & Gold Mining
company, who was in from the mine
yesterday and who will return this
morning, states that this ground is
looking well and that within a short
time a steam or electric hoist viii be
erected at the mine TO assist develop
ment.
The Joe Bowers had still another car
of crude. ore on the market yesterday
which sold on controls showing metal
lie values of 40 per cent lead and forty
ounces in silver to the ton. Another
consignment is being loaded at the
mine which, it is stated. is in splendid
condition, with fine bodies of shipping
ore exposed in eight different places in
its workings.
Work is soon to be resumed in the de-
velpment of the Superior group of
claims in Tintic district, northeast of
the Humbug mine. The Superior is an
old company over which Abram Halla-
day of Provo presides as president 1t
is considered as being valuable property
and there is talk of listing the stock
of the company on the board OF the
stock exchange.
J. W. Van Houghten and Professor
Herchelhein of New York, are in the
city for the purpose of making an ex-
animation of the saltpetre deposits in
Neff's canyon in Big Cottonwood dis
trict, and they went out yesterday to
inspect the property, and, in the event
that it pleases them. they will pay a
good, round sum for the control in the
company recently organized for the OPP
Grafton of this ground.
Will Lawrence of the Star Consolidat-
ed, near Mammoth, will go out to the
mine this morning, his intention being
TO make forty-ton shipment of high
grade lead ore from this property with
in the next few days. as the cons1Sn-
rnent is ready in the bins for the mar
ket. Mr.. Lawrence predicts great things
for the mine, and ne expresses the be-
lief that 1t will in time develop into
one of the greatest mines in Tintic dis
trict, and there are many other eX-
perienced mining men who are also OF
this opinion.
The members of the Salt Lake Stock
& Mining exchange are considering the
feasibility of increasing the member
ship from sixty-five to 100, as there are
quite a number of prominent men in
the city who would join it, but who are
barred out on account of the fact that
the limit has been reached. To a GER
tain extent this is unjust, and it is be-
lieved that by increasing the number OF
seats to 100 and charging from 5000 to
$3.50 apiece for the same, the institu-
ton would not only continue to flourish,
but would witness an increase in bust
ness.
Four Aces was in active demand on
the curb yesterday, and the more so as
Manager A. Murphy was in from Silver
City yesterday Mr. Murphy states
that the new hoist is working in a most
satisfactory manner, although the shaft
is not in shape as yet so that the cage
can go to the bottom, but this difficulty
will soon be moved, and then every
thing will be in working order at the
mine, when. Mr.. Murphy adds, he will
put force of forty men to work break
ing ore. The workings from the Picnic
which are being run in Four Aces ter
ritory in order to make connections for
ore. are exposing fine bodies of ship
ping ore in the latter property.