The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-04
Mining Notes and Personals.

One or two new interpretations are on
tap based on valuable Bingham proper
ties.
NJ s. Hauauer of the Union assay Of
flee is confined to his home with an at
tack of the grip.
Professor w. II. Tibbals examined min
ing properties on the West Dip on Monday
of this week, for London capitalists.
The machinery for the Sea Swan mine,
near Silver City, is on the ground, and
the lumber is being hauled for the hoist
building.
John II. McChrystal of Eureka. super
intendent of the tiodiva, left for Los An
gele, Cal, last night, accompanied by
his wife and family.
Papers were being prepared yesterday
for the incorporation of the Utah Salt
petre company which will work salt
petre deposits in Big Cottonwood district.
enterprise Utah is indebted for several
popular and valuable mining propositions.
IS confined 20 his room with an attack of
Ia grippe.
1t is learned that it will be but a few
days nov before the new power plant for
the Dexter mill viii be turned on, when
the battery Of forty stamps will begin
dTopping regularly.
7. d. Sullivan of Eureka, superintend-
ent Of the Yankee Con-, writes that the
property is showing up most encourage
ingiy with development and that an
other contract is being let in its continued
exploration.
w. ]. Gray, the construction man for
the Utah & Montana Machinery COM
pany, went out last night for the pur-
pose of installing the new steam hoist
for the Joe Bowers Extension company
near Diamond.
1t is reported that Charles Buffers has
obtained q lease on one of the great mill
failing dumps on the Comstock lode. and
is experimenting with its treatment by
the Siemens-Halske process, which is used
successfully in South Africa.
Duncan McVichie, the able superintend-
ent of the Golden Gate. at Mercur. who
new additions to the mill are now about
completed and in commission, and that
the property is looking well.
Ralph Guthrie, one of the leading mem
bers of the stock exchange, has returned
from a visit to home folks in southeast
ern Kansas. Mr.. Guthrie is glad TO be
in Zion again, and was given a royal
welcome by his many Salt Lake friends.
The employees of the Bullion Mining
company. operating in Neff's canyon in
Big Cottonwood district, left for the mine
yesterday. after spending the holidays in
this city. 1t is expected that another con-
signment from this property will find its
way to the sampler within a month.
A. L. Morris, who has returned from
Frisco, where he examined properties in
which he is interested in Beaver Lake
and San Francisco districts states that
work is progressing in the development
of Il number of properties in these camps
and that the outlook there is most prom
Using for the present year.
The Red Wing of Bingham will have two
cars of crude ore and one of concen-
trateS on the market the latter part of
this week, and it is learned that from 200
to 800 tons of Second-claSS ore from this
mine are being treated at the Dewey
mill. The property of the company is
as being in excellent condition.
The members of the stock exchange held
a meeting. yesterday afternoon, for the
purpose of hearing the reading of the
new constitution and bylaws of the as
sociation, after which committee was
appointed to revise the document and to
see that il was printed. so that copies of
it might be distributed among the
presented for adoption.
Another lot of mineral from the Crown
Point mine. above the Sioux Con, in
Tintic district, was brought into the
city yesterday, the ore being a quartz
which evidently carries good gold values.
This rock was taken from only a depth
of two feet on ihe vein, and the showing
is so encouraging that the company will
now concentrate its energies in the driV-
ing of the proposed tunnel which will cut
the ledge at a depth of about 300 feet
Don Mcguire, the noted metaIlurglst,
who was down from Ogden yesterday
states that excellent progress has been
made during the fall and winter in the
development of the King Solomon mine
in the mountains a few miles north of
Ogden, and he also says that large bo-
dies of good smelling ore have been ur-
covered in this property, some of the
mineral carrying values of 80 per cent
lead, thirty ounces to forty ounces silver
and 81 to 81 in gold to the ton while some
Of the ore is collaborating and will leach
property encouraging copper values have
been disclosed.