The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-03
Mining Notes.


Judge Henry Shields came down from
the Park on mining business last night
The Golconda company of Park valley
is reported 20 have purchased the North
Star claim from Frank Edison.
W. T. Smith of Elko. New, was on the
market yesterday with consignment of
ore running away up in silver and gold
W. w Clark, contractor on the GonyOn
property at Tintic, will resume work with
ing.
The Grand Central closed the week with
a seven-car lot of ore that found its way
into the bins at the Bingham smelter dur
ing the afternoon
The Taylor & Brunton sampler was yes
terGay in receipt of nine cars Of ore from
Ttntic, five ears of Bingham matte and
one lot of Nevada ore.
A shipment of cyanides from the Horse
shoe; representing the cleanup from the
last half of February. viii reach the mar
ket today OF tomorrow.
=; II. LathroP is progressing nicely
with the work OF pushing II the tunnel at
the New Mammoth. Another $50 feet will
carry the face into the LED ge.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Meieher Mining & Milling company
will be held tomorrow. The date was set
for last week. but owing to the unavoid-
shareholders, il was decided to postpone
the meeting until tomorrow
The Beulah Copper company, with prop
erty at Grand Esncampment. Wyoming
the stock of which is all held in Boston,
barring the holdings of w II. Tibbals Of
tntendent. has made arrangements to
open the ground on an extensive scale
this season.
". J. McDermott, superintendent of the
Afterthought mine, Shasta county, Cali
fornie and operated by the Tarbet syndi-
cate, came in from the west yesterday.
He has been at Los Angeles for the past
two weeks. recuperatlnE from an attack
of Ia grippe He will remain in the ,dty
for ten days or so before returning to
camp.
Lessee Boyle of the valeo at Park City
will be glad to learn that ne is now, ac-
cording 10 a contemporary, sending ore
TO the Bingham cOmpany's smelter under
that 1,OO-ton contract The Bingham
company Knows nothing about it, but that
doesn't matter; and the roads between
the mine and the railroads are in such
condition that, having to draw an extra
breath would stall a horse, but that
doesn't matter. either.
An evening paper published a silly story
and below the 1900 level of the DAILY mine
yesterday. The story appeared Just about
the time that Secretary Rood was pulling
down a check for the loo tons sold on yes
terdays market, and just. about forty
hours after Superintendent Chambers had
declared the mine was looking unusually
/ well.
George Moore. for the purchasers OF. the
! Sunshine, sect a statement of what was
mine and mill to headguarters at New
York Friday night. and expects to be
able 10 make start in about two weeks.
He says that not less than $4,000 will be
/ spenc in further developing the mine and.
with anything like good luck he will
| have the mill running IN three months
] from now.
The Bingham Bulletin says the Jersey
Blue has been cut into twenty-five feet
all ore, with the hanging wall not vet in
| sight. The mineral is similar TO that OF
the CCttonWood--tron pyriteS-but carries
| higher copper values II is a good milling
proposition, and no doubt the Bingham &
Eastern company will erect large con-
! centrator this season or IS soon as the
great ore body IS sufficiently developed 10
warrant the investment. The company
| Is now assured that IL has a practically
/ ineXhaustible ore supply, and. with the
| right process fos treating il. the Jersey
Blue property Should become a great
money gettc-.
| William II Child zlocI. hrnL.n.. 100