The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23
Repairing Water System.

Nesbitt Bros. of Delamar are making
extensive repairs on the old water sys-
TEN there and also running a line 10 the
Ban0Vitch Consolidated mine. Delamar
Is awakening and it is predicted that re-
cent finds will result in considerable &C
tivity in the camp this fall
Manager Hinkler of the Highland
Phoebe property at Highland mountain,
near Phoebe, has Just received returns
of samples sent to j. w. CoWie at Salt
Lake, giving values of Sl.20 in gold, S64.03
in silver and s99.24 lead per ton. These
samples were taken from the ore body
recently encountered in the cross-cut
from the shaft, which is growing larger
with every shot
Secretary Leach of the Banovitch Con-
solidated mine at New Delamar. was here
today and says the double compartment
shaft is being sunk at the rate of three
feet per day. The shifts are at work
Assays from the country rock return
values of seven ounces of silver This Is
surprise 10 the management, as it was
thought the country rock was barren, but
they are now strongly of the belief that
the ledge values will exceed their ex
pectations. The shaft viii be sunk 10
the 200-foot level
Town Very Lively.
A new drug store is soon to he estab-
lished. A water system is now contem-
plated and Olsen & Patterson are now
applying TO the board of county commits
soners for a franchise with that end in
erected new bridge over Meadow Val
ley wash is to he built by the county,
and with the work of the reconstruction
of the road the town Is one of the live
lest in Nevada. James Mcintosh, a
wholesale liquor dealer of Las Vegas. is
here trying TO purchase location for a
business.
at Phoebe, is here tonight and is elated
over the opening of q large deposit of
carbonate ere on one of the claims. A
new shaft was being sunk for location
work and Thursday the miners uncoV-
cred a 3-fOOt ledge of ore running high
in silver values. The shaft was con-
timed and is now in ore for distance
of eight feet. The foot wall IS a Cam
brian quartzite. but the hanging wall has
not vet been encountered. Two shifts are
now at work on the property, aud it Is
the Intention of Mr. Taylor to sack the
ore for shipment from BullienvtIle. which
necessitates wagon haul of fourteen
miles.
Building Boom.
Caliente today is the busiest town on
the San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railroad. Miller & Fuller OF Las Vegas
are building a two-story concerto hotel
at the corner of Glover and Spring
streets. The new rock building being
erected for the Lincoln County bank is
nearing completion. new vault with
the latest time locks is being installed
and it is expected to he occupied by July
18th.
George Y. Warren is preparing plans
for a large tWO-stOry concrete business
block adjoining the building of Miller 6.
Fuller.
Jack Smith brother Of Sheriff Philip
Smith, came in from the Groom district
and reports great excitement in the Pa
pOOse mountains near there Recent de-
vel0pments in the property OF the Piute
Treasure mine is the cause. and a party
of men sent out by Chief Justice Talbot
of the supreme court of this state have
made number of Inspections of the
Piute Treasure and are already daily To-
eating claims This is the property re-
Gently Incorporated for S1.5O0.000 By
George r. Coke at New Orleans and is
far richer than at first expected Mr.
Smith, who has a great deal of expert
ence in that country, inspected the prop
erty and says. in his opinion. as well as
of the experts who were with him. that
il is one of the biggest mining properties
in the country.