The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
Bingham Mining Notes.
(Bingham Bunetin.)

AbInSu8In BuHeTln.(
The overhauling at Last Chance mill
VIII be about completed today.
A two-car lot of fine grade Zelnora
ore was delivered at the depot this
week.
A lot of Neptune carbonate was de-
Hvered at the Dewey this week by
Standish & Jimpson company.
L A. Cammet, inventor of the ceIe-
brated Cammet concentrating table
was in camp Tuesday.
The number of men at work in mines
is gradually increasing, and jobs. are
no longer difficult to get.
Indications are now favorable for a
lively fall and winter campaign among
Bingham mines. Work is starting and
being arranged for on properties that
have been idle.
Manager F. b. Cook was out from
town Tuesday and inspected Columbia
workings. Two cars of Columbia con-
centrates made at Rogers mill were
ar2ong Bingham shipments this week.
During August Highland Boy smelter
shipped 4Sl,36O pounds of bullion. The
little tram buckets thus daily packed
ore that contained ,045 pounds of
copper. gold and silver bullion, values
not stated.
George Forester has put in a big
weeks work overhauling and repairing
his Red Wing custom mill and ex-
poets TO have it ready for business
early next week. There are 400 tons
Of ore awaiting treatment, and other
orders ahead.
The Farnsworth purchase of Dalton
q Lark appears to be off, as there is
now reported a movement on foot to
amend articles of incorporation of the
company so that it can sell any part
or all of it's holdings. "A meeting of
stockholders is called for the 18th
Three RI Of
were on the market Wednesday from
the new strike below 100-leVel of the
MOntezuma- The ore body from which
1t came is believed 20 extend from
incline to winze sunk last spring
some 100 feet distant and from which
nine or ten carloads of first-cIass were
taken.
Lewis Levine of the Boston firm of
Pratt q Levine, and Milando Pratt of
Salt Lake City, were arrivals in camp
yesterday and will visit a number of
mining properties, including Ensign
group of claims at head of Markham
in which they are largely interested.
The Ensign is a good locality and has
a strong and promising vein in which
streak of marketable ore was encoun-
tered near the surface. Last fall sink
ing was begun but at $50 feet water
shut off further progress and has risen
IN shaft to within eighty feet of the
surface. tunnel which will be $50
1eet in length has been run about $50
feet and viii tap the vein below shaft
at 26O feet depth. The company is con-
hdent from upper indications that tun-
mel VIII go into a fine ore body and
that the Ensign has the making of a
mine with moderate outlay
After running about 1000 feet the
Midland tunnel about week ago went
into a new ore body that is without
doubt important, as there is now
showing two and half feet of mineral
assaying as high as 100 ounces silver
and 3.9 ounces gold per ton, while the
whole tunnel face is in good ore. This
ore is an entirely new feature OF the
locality, carrying as it does upwards
Of $50 in gold. It came in somewhat
unexpectedly as the tunnel Con Vein)
is driving to go under slopes of the old
Damphool claim, having still some 300
feet 10 run, when it will be below the
old works some 500 feet. 1t is not i'm
possible that an immense chute is be-
ing entered and that the remaining 300
feet will be all in ore. A shipment of
the rich mineral will soon be ready.