The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-30
BANNER WHEAT FIELD.
One on the Shannon Ranch Near
Salmon Hard to Beat.

spocial TO The Tribune
SALMON Ida, July 2o-Thcrc is a ban
ner field Of wheat on the ranch of Mrs. Min
mic NJ. Shannon, near this city. This wheat
is of the winter variety, and was sown early
nftor sumerfallow, II covers twenty eight
acres ms even a house floor. and tho heads
are five feet six inches above the ground
Its probable yield is between fifty and sixty
bushels per acre
Theodore Batson OF Carmen creek has sold
his farm to G. w Kingsbury, and is to
give immediate possession. Earl Kingsbury
viii occupy tho ranch, which will be devoted
TO the hny and horse business
The old A. d. and NJ. mine Mt Gibbonsvile
has boon transferred TO rhe recent purchasers
and it will be again worked on an extensive
scale This mine has forty miles OF under
ground workings and IL has produced FIVE
millions Of bullion. 1t is known that the
mineral ground has not bcon half worked.
the new company will rovive the whole camp.
and Gibbonoville viii boom again.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. William L. Mulkey.
a
Peculiar Accident
j. Z. Simms. the owner of The White
Horse mine met with nm accident recently
which caused the death OF n good and fath-
iul horse lie was moving tools and
big lot OF dynamite to the upper workings
from the mill in pack load, when the horse
lost its footing on the trail and rolled down
the mountain about thousand feet. Tho
horse fell n sheer distance of 800 feet over
killed '9'"A'''
Judge Steel has sold his confectionery storo
to j. ID. Boyse of Idaho Falls who will take
possession the lst Of August
David Pierce, an old soldier and proprietor
OF this county, for the past Ave years resid.
Ing on Boyle creek, has gone TO Boise, 10
enter the soldiers home. He has bocn sick
since Inst September, and for the past Ave
weeks has made his home with Levi b. Bug,
bee In town.
The voting precincts of this conuty. as to
boundaries, remain the same as for the olec-
lion Singiser precinct has been divided by
tho creation OF n precinct for the Rabbit Foot
mine.
More Miners Needed.
There is hardly day that miners are not
coming in from the outside under contract
70 work in some OF the mines, yet the sup
ply is not equal to the demand There are
so many new mines being opened up and such
an increase OF output at the old workings
that IL IS hard to get men TO perform the re
quired labor.
Robert Walker was here recently from Gil
more, whore he has been operating the con-
centrator Mt the big silver mine, The
product OF the mine has been limited only
by the freight possibilities There are thou
sands OF tons OF ore on the dump and in the
OF the capacity OF the freight train OF wagons
that has been steadily engaged since the
spring season opened. The Gilmore mine has
been developed to depth of $50 foct, with
the best OF proof that it is one of the greatest
mines in the State. Tho lead is now twenty
feet wide, nil Of concentrating and shipping
ore The gross output of the mine is con.
contracted two or three into one and the
marketed product is worth $50 per ton on an
average.
Carpenters under guidance OF the Schultz
brothers arc busy remodelng the f A.
Preston residence, recently purchased from
+. S. Edwards.
Active development work will begin on
the Dutch John mine in the Lccsbprg dis
trict within a few days, under tho direction
Of NJ. +. Hopkins OF Boise who represents
Eastern investors
Roy b. Herndon has bought the flour mill
Of Joseph NJ. Moore for consideration of
S65o0,