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Show fas and Mining. The onyx men aro rejoicing over the reduction of freight on onyx to eastern points. Thcro is some talk of putting In nn electric elec-tric railroad from tho railroad to the Mammoth mill nlTlullr. A transfer of sorfiP Tlckille property vas made on Turalay, but just what tho consideration w.io wo weiv tiunblo to leuiu. Locatora In the new nilnluit diitrlrl will And Recorder Kom nt the City Hall during busiuecs hours. Ho has opened an office thcro. John Ma;on has built n cabin about 4 mile north of Austin's spring in tl o Low Hills and will aao a sack of uuggots "ere the lloblns nest iignin". Millis A Wing have shipped sonio line specimens of onyx to Salt Lake City where it will ho cut and polished by Klias Morris & Co, and then sent to the Midwinter Fair. The first lead discovered in this vicinity vici-nity was brought In by (Itt? Hudson last week from his claim near tlio old stone quarry. A recent usiny went six per ceni lead, $1.30 In gold and 1G percent it on. TicUvllle seems to lie- nil right, Nor-man Nor-man A Gilchrist have had sceu assays from there which show from i to $72in gold. Thcso gentlemen went over to their claims yesterday. A Mr. Felt of Salt Lake City was In town yesterday looking forn location for nu assay office. It will bo it couple of weeks beforo he Is ready for business ns his apparatus Is out at Fisli Spring. S. W. Rosa cainn in from Mereur on Tutsday and reports tho Camp nsqulot-ingdonu, nsqulot-ingdonu, Sixty new buildings havo been put up where last yea.- thero were only threo. Business will soon tako a spurt as he met n roulcttec mid f.tro outfit on their road to Mereur. Snlzucr A I'ettla aro pushing their tunnel through a body of good looking ore and their expectations run high. Tho Mecur Mine Sale. Tlio term on which the Mereur mine and mill properties, In tho Camp Floyd district, aro told to tho Colorado English syndlcnto aro said to he: Five thousand dolloN-doWH, t20,000-In thirty days, B0,000 in sixty days, $300,000 ill six months, and tho balance, $335,000, in fifteen mouths. Tln announcement that the properties wero to changohands had given a great iui ctus to the embryo liooni which lias been slowly giving sltnsof lifo in llio district, und tho Prediction is now mado that in tlio spring tliuciiiip will hu tho llvclist in the West. |