The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-07
Mining Notes.

General Manager Harry L. Charles of
the Bingham Consolidated returned from
brief business trip to Butte yesterday
morning.
Four carloads of ore from Nevada and
two each from Bingham, Alta and Stock
ton were reported at the Pioneer sampler
yesterday morning.
Manager M. j. McGill of the New York
Bonanza came down from the Park last
evening to attend the regular monthly
meeting of directors that is scheduled for
tonight
Manager Tony Jacobson of the Column
bus Consolidated has returned from a two
days trip to the properties of his com
pany highly pleased with the manner in
which everything is moving.
The report comes from Butte that F. A
Heinze is now negotiating for the Rex
group Of mines in the Occur d'Alenes, in
addition to the Stewart group, which he
is said to have already acquired.
Secretary G. W. Lambourne of the DAILY
Judge company returned yesterday noon
from a two days trip to the mines and
milling plant of the company. He re-
ports everything to be running smoothly
and the mine looking fine.
Auguste Mathez, the veteran mining en-
gineer who recently returned from long
pilgrimage through Central America,
passed through the city yesterday on his
way from Denver to Nevada, where he
j. w. White formerly master mechanic
for the Ontario company. has gone to
Park City to install the new compressor
plant at the Little Bell, the machinery
for which has all been landed at the
property.
A bulletin from Boston over the Pol
lock private wires yesterday said: 1.-The
statement comes from high officials of
Butte Coalition that a large body of COP
per ore has been located in the Alice
property and the company will soon be-
gin work on it..
Manager Z. j. DOnOhue of the Standard
Copper company's properties spent Sun
day at the cOmpany's Bingham mines. He
has directed the cleaning out of the old
tunnel workings on the Little Treasure
and it is possible that developments will
be prosecuted through that tunnel rather
than the Deems, as he has figured upon
doing.
j. d. Hawkins, one of the big men in
the United States Reduction and Refining
company of Colorado and a prominent
shareholder in the Utah Copper company
is over from Colorado and, in company
with General Manager d. c. lacking and
Mill Superintendent Frank G. Janney, he
was yesterday inspecting the big mill of
the company, at Garfield.
Superintendent H. NJ. Eakin of the May
Day will come in from camp today for
brief respite from the daily grind at the
mine and to confer with Manager ]. Z.
Darmer concerning the campaign of de-
velOpment that is being SO vigorously
carried on out at the property. That he
will have anything particularly new to re-
port, Manager Ddrmer does not believe.
DR.. r. B. Wetherell and William f.
Stillwell of Lafayette, Ind, who are
largely interested in the Black Diamond
of Stockton, were in the city yesterday
on their way back home from a trip
through the Yellowstone park They did
not find time to visit the property, con-
tenting themselves with a statement from
Manager w. c. Alexander concerning con-
dtionS.
James Hickey, formerly superintendent
of the COmstock at Park City, but who
has been in Nevada since February last,
is in the city to tide over the hot spell.
A little later he will put out for the
Bullfrog country. with which he is great
ly impressed and which he declares is go
ing to make noise in the world with the
of the Clark road to Rhyolite.
Lack of ties, he says, is holding back the
of the remaining few miles,
but they are expected to reach Las Vegas
any day. When Mr.. Hickey left here he
was suffering from the effects of a severe
attack of bronchitis. The warm, dry at
mosphere at Vegas has done wonders
for him and he is now feeling better than
he has in a long time. Mr. Hickey eX-
poets to remain in the city until possibly
the end of the present month