Show I Mining Notes ansI Personals Judge W A Sherman of the Sun pjine mine has returned from his Den ver visit il The Utah and Galena Mining companies com-panies p dd their regular monthly dividends divi-dends yesterday X5 Manager J Schenck of the Dalton and Lark at Bingham will go out t the mine this morning Captain W S Mar in who ha been prospecting for the last week in Big Cottonwood canyon has returned t < the city The Pioneer sampler yesterday received re-ceived 170 tone of Silver King ore from ib r rm Ii 1 3 R Pak City and 20 tons of Hoiboken ore from Alto A bright Montana man is experimenting experi-menting with the cathode ray and expects ex-pects soon to be abie to discover ore bodies by its means Colonel S T Pearson secretary of the Marion Mining company will leave this morning for the Sterling coalmines coal-mines t inspect the progress made in driving the long working tunnel T Boise Idaho Democrat says Dr Powers and George Nesbitt went out to Neal one day last week and brought I to Boise some specimens of rock from the Minnehaha a mine owned by their wives The roth was a speckled wMi gold as a robins egg and yet the fair owners are nOt goldbuggers A 11 Grant agent for the Colorado Iron works has moved his office from the Morelan block to the third floor of the ScottAuerbach block where he now ha one of the finest suites of rooms t be found in the city Mr Grant is doing a most satisfactory business and i is growing steadily We had the pleasure of looking at some of th richest ore ever taken from Florida mountain last week I was in big slabs and came from the Florida Mining companys group This com I puny is having a oreblockade very pleasant difficulty awaiting the completion I com-pletion of the new mill Avalanche i Silver City Idaho I F W Rose who is interested in a dunup of tailings near South Pass Wyoming I Wyo-ming and who met with a loss on account ac-count of the burning of the mill with which he intended to treat the dump is now making arrangements to send I a Bell concentrator to South Pass and instead of sending gold bullion to the I mints will market his concentrates instead in-stead Mr Tim Driscoll ha a force of four men consisting of Arthur McClosky R Page R R Page and Robert Page at work on his mine the Portland in the vicinity of Iron City Mr Driscoll Is a old experienced mining man and generally knows what he is about whictb leads to the conclusion that there is something worth handling there Iron County Record From recent reports it would seem that the new strike in the Ajax mine was more important and valuable than at first supposed as recent advices ad-vices state that the ore body three feet in width carries 2 per cent copper cop-per 13 ounces silver and 95 in gold to the ton The Ajax is a steady shipper ship-per and four carloads of o are now on the market A large crowd of eastern people and > residents of Buue Montana will g out today to look over the advantages I offered by the Mount Nebo Land and Irrigation company They will be accompanied ac-companied by E G Rognon Mount Nebo is receiving very encouraging attention encuragng tention from homeseekers < f late and improvements are being made that will eventually make it U most charming spot in Utah I i county Quite a number of Salt Lakers are I overjoyed over the strike in the Atlantic At-lantic at Binghani Ths property is being prospected by meN I I the intention being to crosscut three ledges that parallel a I but a few feet intervening I is die first ore that has ben uncovered and I the showing is so good that the company com-pany feels greatly encouraged and will now push work harder than ever Felix J Stark and Alex Mitchell are doing considerable work this summer in the Wautunka group of four claims near the Reed and Goodspeed mine in the South Fork of Big Cottonwood This I group shows a strong and well defined ledge and near the surface the ore carries values of twelve ounces silver and 350 in gold to the ton The property prop-erty is being developed by means of a tunnel and from all indications i will open out ito a paying producer Alma Greenwood and Joseph E Ray prominent citizens of Fillmore are in the city on important mining and irrigation rigation business According to these gentlemen there is considerable interest inter-est manifested just now in mining in I Antelope mountains in Millard and they corroborate the report of the recent I re-cent rich find in that locality but were reticent when pressed for details The new find it is understood is principally confined to highgrade silverlead ly canfned 0 highgade sivrlea George E Johnston of the Walker House has returned from American Falls Idaho where he is sluicing for placer gold Mr Johnston is washing with sluices and burlaps and with four men and a team is saving 25 a day in the yellow metal He states that a gentleman from Salt Lake named McKellar is experimenting with a new machine on the river which it is claimed will save all the gold contained con-tained in the sand Silver City is quiet but prosperous There are enough miners here to fill all demands and but few idle men More and better prospecting is beng I done this season than ever before About 400 men ore now on the payrolls of the various mining companies making mak-ing a monthly disbursement of about 36000 Timber and wood contracts freight and miscellaneous expenditures of the mining companies will raise the amount to nearly double these figures Avalanche Silver City Idaho l ha been absolutely impossible of late t obtain inside information concerning con-cerning the progress now being made by the eightinch drill in the prospectIng prospect-Ing of the East Golden Gate mine at Mercur but enough has been learned on th outside t justify the belief that the work so far has given excellent satisfaction and that the great ore zone peculiar to that locality will be encountered sometime during the present pres-ent week Much interest in these developments de-velopments is being taken by parties who own claims in the district Important Im-portant news may be received from there at almost any day now Thomas Ewing of San Francisco who ha been general manager of the Diamond Hill mine In Jefferson county coun-ty near Helena is in the city today and is registered at the Butte Mr Ewing says that the Diamond Hill property has been sold to an English syndicate for a sum amounting to very nearly 2000000 Mr Ewing holds a large interest In the company and most of the old owners have retained stock in the new company The deal was engineered en-gineered by N F Cleary of New York who aocompanies Mr Ewing east for the purpose of making arrangements f the erection of a 600ton cyanide mill I is expected that the big plant will be in operation early next Miner Butte Mont eal spring A leading mining man of Salt Lake received a letter from Fish Springs yesterday in which the wrier s a1 e that the Utah and Galena mines were in better shape than ever before with immense bodies of o blocked out ready for extraction He also stored that the Meteor adjoining the Galena was one of the most promising properties in the district and that developments were progressing on the Last Chance Nos 1 and 2 the Cactus and the Early Harvest vest Fish Springs from all accounts promises t develop into one of the most Important mining camps in Utah There is hardly a mine in the camp but that ha paid almost from the grass roots gass and with depth the ore bodies increase in size and value I a J Judge Ed Pike of Eureka who was in the city yesterday on business before be-fore the equalization board Informs The Herald that a great deal of interest is being taken in the new strike i the Humbug mine and that this is really one of the most important discoveries t be made in the district a it proves the permanency and continuity o the ore deposits of Godiva mauntain The Humbug is located on a line between the Utah Consolidated ad Godiva mines and there are several properties in the near vicinity that will be bene fitted by the new find as they also are on the ledge This being the case a large amount of development In that I locality will now be the order of the day with the almost certain assurance o uncovering large bodies of ore Eureka I Eu-reka is a magnificent camp and a great < h i M producer aid ye the district has not been half prospected J C Taylor returned Sunday night from a visit to Ala where with J B I Taylor his brother and H J Deiter j he hs 0 bond and lease on the old 1 Marion Consolidated group of claims all patented properties These gentlemen gentle-men are employing eight men in the development of this property which is considered as one of the most promis I ing mines In this rich and once famous camp Years ag on the Winnamuc one of the claims embraced in the group a shaft was sunk from which 200000 a small fortune in the precious metals wa taken This shaft ha long since caved in and now a new shaft i is being sunk not far from i and it is I believed that within 100 feet a big ore body will be uncovered At the time when the Winnamuc was paying well i work was suspended on account o the 1 Nabob conflict This litigation is all settled now and the outlook for the future is bright Joe Marion the owner own-er i also at the mine giving the boys I pointers I E G Rognon of the Dalton and Pan American mints accompanied by his family and several friends who a enjoying a outing at the head of Hardscrabble canyon had quite a scare a few days ago over the appearance I oi a big brown bear near their camp A I short distance below the wickiup of the I Rognon party there Is a sheep camp I and on the day mentioned a large flock of sheep were grazing between the I sheep corral and the outing party Allot All-ot once a great commotion wa notic able and rushing out to ascertain the I cause it wa found that a brown bear had invaded the flock and was knocking knock-ing the sheep right and left The two men in charge of the sheep soon appeared I ap-peared armed with a shotgun and rifle Their dogs at once tackled the bear and one of them was given a blow that I sent him a distance of forty feet or I more The arsenal of the sheepherders was then brought into requisition but I buckshot and rifle ball had no other effect than to send bruin aflying into the woods I is claimed by some that this is the bear that has been doing so exchange much damage i the pit of the stock |