Show LATEST FROM MEECDE SALT LAKE PARTIES SECURE MORE PROPERTY THERE I 1 1I I De Golyers Operations The Geyser A Strike 3Iu le Xear Tooele At the Golden Gate Groirpe I J On2 of the most promising groups in the district is that of Jones and Dix located about four miles north between Lewiston i i west of Mercur Lewlston and Silverado canyons says the Mer cury Through the group runs a gold ledgb the croppings of which are sixteen six-teen feet wide in places Several cuts have been run in on the ledge developing develop-ing in each instance large bodies of ore The boys are devoting their entire en-tire time to the development of this group and their prospects for a snug fortunfe are bright DC Golyer BomlM lore Ground The interest of J M Davis in the Mollie Gibson Golden Era Golden Wedge and Fairfield over at Glencoe canyon was bond d during the week to E S De Golyer during a period of I thirty days and the latter now has a force of men at work driving a tunnel I which he says is the prettiest thing you ever saw The parties to the transaction trans-action are reticent as to the amount of the bond Mercur Mercury The Geyser A Mercury representative paid a visit to thte Geyser property where in one of the workings the tunnel runs through ore for seventyfive feet that with the exception of the lime boulders boul-ders will average 8 a ton Outside oft of-t the producing mines the Geyser Gey-ser makes ante qf the greatest showings in the camp and is destined to be one i of the big producers of the district Mercur Mercury Salt Lakers Secure Interests The Tioga Nos 1 2 and 3 the Monogram Mono-gram Nos 1 and 2 and the Cyanide and Waterpipe seven claims lying i I northeast of camp a short distance and owned by John Nicholas and C L I Spiegel were secured under agreement this week by J L Lawson W F Shelton I Shel-ton and J B Taylor until the first of June before which time they are to expend 12000 in developing the vein and the water supply contained In one of the claims and at the end of that rod if developments are satisfactory satisfac-tory they are to put up a mill of 100 tons Capacity for all of which they will receive a half interest In the groundWork ground-Work will be commenced in a week or tten days The same parties own three claims over in the Glencoe country and have bonded four adjoining locations owned by Adamson and Lenta and known a the Pacific group for one year paying pay-ing 10 per cent of the purchase price in cash A company will be incorporated incorpor-ated Mercury to develop the group Mercur Mercur Mercury Notes Walter Higginbotham a mining man of Colorado took a look at the camp I during the week I I Matt Gishorn has been in the dis trict during the week looking after his mining interests Sam Sirrine one of the old prospectors pros-pectors of the district was down from Salt Lake the first of the week W J Shiek a mining man of Salt Lake arrived yesterday to renew his acquaintance with the district Lee Gilson son of Sam Gilson of Buckhorn fame is in town with a view of establishing 3 custom assay office George and Frank Morehouse and William Gage of Nephi arrived Tuesday Tues-day to continue their mining contnue operations opera-tions A shaft is being sunk just east of and adjacent to town on the June Bug claim by DeGolyer Murphy and Lynch James K Shaw and N R Waterman Water-man of Salt Lake were here Monday examiningthe Harrington and Wicker sham groups I is rumored that George Oler recently re-cently refused 7000 for the North Star and another claim which he owns in North canyon A Osborn a prospector of Tintic district dis-trict has pitched his tent in Mercur and will devote the winter to prospecting prospect-ing this great gold lode The Marion has been working an increased in-creased force for some days in order to enable the miners to have a holiday layoff without closing down the mill John Scarborough has the Contract for the work on the property just bonded by the Camp Floyd Mining and Milling company and is opening the I ground in two places I I is said that pay ore has been encountered en-countered in the Herschel group At any rate negotiations are pending for the purchase of the old mill site below the camp by that company The drift from the 150foot level of the north shaft on the Golden Gate I group is now in about thirtyfive feet and has encountered rock assaying 4 I has not yet reached the vein however how-ever Patterson Whitmore and partners will soon commence work on their ground over near Silverado canyon from which they hae recently had so Mr Patterson informs us a surface I assay of 250 Reports come from Tooele to the I I effect that a strike has been made two and a half miles southwest of that city of ore much resemblingthe pro duct of this district and the people over there are much excited in conse quence 1 I A man who didnt think and was will ing to bet that the Golden Gate wi i was no good got badiy left this week 01 In order to prove himself correct he selected a sample off the dump took i to town and had it assayed Accord ing to the assayers certificate the sample carried 27 in gold per ton The Marion made another shipment of its products during the week |