The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-15
NEWS FROM MERCUR.
A Company Organized to Increase the
Water Supply.
Especial Correspondence

Water Supply.
Especial Correspondence
Mercur. Jan. IA company has just
been organized to furnish more water
for Mercur. The officers-elect are w
]. Hubbard, president; w. Kelley, vice
! president; H. j. Dininny, secretary and
treasurer; and, with P. Kelley and w
Teiford, these form the board of di-
rectors. The name of the company was
the, Mercur Water e Mining company
and the capital stock is $75, 600, divided
into 800, 900 shares of a par value of q
cents, las, 000 shares being set apart as
treasury stock. The company owns the
Pocahontas spring, near the head OF
Ophir canyon, which furnishes 42,50u
gallons of water in twenty-four hours,
and it is expected that this can be in
creased to at least five times that
amount, and this will be the first work
Undertaken. A survey has been made
of the route to Mercur, and IL is found
that it will take six and a half miles
of pipe. From the spring to the top of
the Box canyon divide, where the Gold
Belt water tank is built there is a fall
of SIS feet, so that no pumping plant viii
be necessary. It is estimated that the
cost of putting in the water Will be
about $4,000, and the work viii be
commenced as soon as spring opens.
Another incorporation which has just
been organized is named the Gold
Cable, and owns six claims, the Gold
Gable l, 2, 8, and 5, and the Morning
Star, the group being situated near the
mouth of Ophir canyon. The officers
are: F: Knox, president; r. w. Watt,
vice president; Ed w. Duncan, treas
urer, and r. C. Smith, secretary. The
directors are F. Knox, r. w. Watt, c..
Scheu. Matthews and Roy Mayne. The
capital stock is 400, 900 shares. of g par
value of 10 cents. The ground is favor
ably located, and the west dip vein has
been found on the property. AS soon as
the organiza ton has been completed,
the work of development will be push
ed with vigor
A large supply of tools, powder, rails
etc, was taken UP 10 Lion hill a few
days ago, for the use of the Circle Min
ing company, which has now COM
menced operations, under the direction
Of George Weston.
Work will soon be resumed on the
Jane Eyer group, the intention being
to continue the tunnel further in search
of better values.
Arrangements are well under way for
the organization of the East Daisy
company, which owns ground on the
south OF Lewiston canyon. In the
shaft. which is 100 feet deep, small
StreakS of good ore have been found,
and it is thought that with depth larger
veins will be reached.
Work has been resumed on the Snow
storm, and the vein is being followed
west on its dip. The fact that values
have been found is in itself encourag-
ing, as it was not expected that milling
values would be reached short of the
500-foot level. At least two shifts will
be employed in sinking until pay ore
is reached, when the force Will be in
creased, and drifts run in different di-
rections, While the incline will be con-
tinued downward.
William BTacken has a number of
teams busy hauling the ore from the
Northern Light. The ore is stored in
Mercur until sufficient is on the ground
to load car, when a shipment is made.
This course is necessary on account of
the deep snow and the difficulty of
freighting. but everything is kept NOV
ing just the same.
on Friday evening, about the same
time that Charles Johnson started to
meet his fate in the snow on Lion hill,
Jake Findlay and q nephew Of Gill Pey-
ton left Mercur to walk to the Chloride
Point. They had been working on the
pipe line during the day. and their feet
were damp. When they reached the
boarding house both men found that
their feet were frozen. 1t is feared that
will lose one foot, but the 9TH
erS will probably be all right in a short
time.