The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-25
Minlnu Noes.

c; e. Loose. manager of the Grand Cen
tral, came up from the south yesterday
morning.
Checks in payment of the Consolidated
Mercur company's 5000 dividend will be
mailed to shareholders today.
,. M. Levy has returned from a trip
into Tooele county and within the next
few days he will leave for Nevada points
j.. A. CZizek has returned from a sew
eral weeks trip into the Occur d'Alene
country and the Loon Greek district
Idaho.
The lost carload of Nevada Hills ore
turned up at the sampler yesterday. 1t
will be on the market, ii is expected, by
tomorrow.
Four carloads of ore from Tintic. four
from Bingham and two from Idaho were
pier yesterday morning.
John G. Fox, manager of the Annie
Laurie company properties, was up
from camp yesterday looking after bust
| ness on this end OF the line.
Thomas Cox. superintendent of the Ne
Vada Consolidated properties at Ely,
passed through the city yesterday on his
way to New York headquarters.
Three carloads of ore from Alta. two
| from Stockton, two from Bingham three
from Nevada and one from Idaho were
reported at the Pioneer sampling works
at Sandy yesterday morning.
Tony Jacobson, manager of the Column
bus Consolidated, has been summoned to
New York on business, and will leave dur
| ing the present week He expects to be
gone two weeks or more.
| The word comes from the DAILY West
property that conditions are growing
hously more interesting in the raise which
! is being made through the fissure on the
9O0-foot level that is headed for the
| Quincy contact.
| Manager c. l.. Rood reports that sink
7 ing at the Naildriver is in full swing and
that, while hard ground had TO be con-
| tended with at the start a change has
taken place that makes better progress
possible. The bottom of the shaft is in
| interesting ground, and there is liable to
be things doing there at any time.
| Colonel e. A. Wall and David Keith left
| for Ely, New, yesterday for the purpose
/ of looking over properties recently &C
qllired by Mr.. Keith, Thomas Kearns and
others, both in the camp of Ely and in
some of the nearby districts. They eX-
pect TO remain in that vicinity until after
the celebration of Railroad Day at Ely,
| next Saturday.
per during the present week has been
fixed by the American Smelling & Re
filming company at 1S7sc per, pound, as
| price OF lead remains unchanged at s.. 70
per 100 pounds, while the week opened
with silver at 6S19c, the highest price it
has attained this year.
John NJ. Daugherty, one of the directors
of the Wabash company, came in from
| Omaha yesterday evening and was yes
terday in conference with President
1
holdings in the company, Mr.. Daugherty
| also represents Colonel John NJ. Creigli-
| ton, who IS one of the heaviest individual
shareholders in the corporation.
Roy Ridge. the Salt Lake boy who has
| amassed a fortune in the Goldfield dis
| trict, and who stands in line to duplicate
the performance at Fairview, in the
| DrOmedary Hump, is over from camp
greeting old friends and acquaintance.
| He came in Saturday to remain several
| days. He believes the camp of Fairview
| Is destined to make one of the best and
| biggest producing districts in the state of
/ Nevada.
| While ne will not admit that there is
anything of a sensational nature in the
| DEVELOPMENT of the Lower Mammoth
| property, Manager John Dern states that
| the l7O0-fo level conditions are just as
| good if not better, than they were when
| the news Of the strike at that depth was
| first released. The drift north, Mr.. Dem
says is going straight ahead through ore
of good quality, and that conditions are
altogether satisfactory
| Manager c. L. Rood states that the
work of retaining the Ontario drain tun-
| mel and freeing the mine of water is pro-
crossing as rapidly as the nature of the
| task in hand will permit, and that while
| he does not consider Ii the right time to
| make promises, he is most sanguine Of
the complete success of the plan now be-
/ ing worked through. He will not predict
| q time for the completion of the task
hut the advices which come from carp
are to the effect that it will not be many
DAYS until the tunnel is tapped for tire
last time.