Show I I iniiotc and Personals J F Gibbs the well known mining b and exnewspaper man of Deseret I in the city I The mines o Bingham shipped 7451 Q tons of ore last week The sale of a block of South Swansea stock at 125 a share is reported Superintendent Marks of the Bladi Dragon mine near Silver City Tintic was in the city yesterday A W Perego Is in Cripple Creek Colorado inspecting some mining properties prop-erties for eastern capitalists W I HIggins of Mercur who is in the city expects to start for California fornia within a few days on mining business Detroit mining district Is recelvinga good deal of attention this season and the properties there that are being developed de-veloped are showing up well R C Lund of St George is a Cullen Cul-len guest Mr Lund is interested In the scheme to rework the old dumps and tailings at Silver Reef and he 13 confident that the enterprise will prove a success C C Higgins the recorder of Camp Floyd mining district who was reelected reelec-ted Saturday to the office he now holds is in the city Mr HIggins Is much pleased upon being his own successor and says that the district ha a most promising future before i Sid Crismon assayer at the Utah and Galena mInes at Fish Springs is in the city being called home on account ac-count of the sickness of his little daughter The Utah and Galena are now employing twelve sixhorse teams In hauling ore from the mines to the railroad Milward correspondence Vernal Express Ex-press W G Reynolds and party left Thursday for their mine at the head of Brush creek with plenty of powder and fuse this time One of the men remarked to the reporter We will have a load of ore shipped this time before we return Good enough A H Mayne of Mercur arrived in the city last night accompanied by Messrs E H Benson and John T Hopkins who are Identified with the Gold Producing company now operating a operat-ing in Camp Floyd district and whore who-re also Interested in the Valley ie group of claims in the same district Milward correspondence Vernal Express Ex-press A deal in mining stocks was consummated last week Bob Reynolds traded his cowboy outfit consisting of horse saddle bridle rope quirt etc to Billy Thomas for his intenest in the Big Four a claim joining the great Victoria copper mine on Brush creek The mining fraternity in this city and Mercur are greatly interested In the reported negotiations between an English syndicate and Captain J R DeLamar for the purchase of the Golden Gol-den Gate mine as exclusively announced an-nounced in these columns and the hope is frequently expressed that the deal will be consummated According to the Bingham Bulletin Standish and Jimpson have opened up a fine body of ore at grass roots on the Merrimac lying between their Native and Ruby claims and on which they have a bond and lease They began an open cut Wednesday and the vein is not yet fully exposed The truck is carbonated and heavy with lead Avalanche Sioux City Idaho James Inglis mill foreman at the Black Jack was in town Wednesday and gave this office a pleasant call He says that the new sixfoot Frue vanner is now in operation at the mill This machine together with two new pans and a new settler has added nearly onefourth tote to-te capacity of the reduction works Thomas Killeen of Fremont Neb came in Saturday night from an inspection In-spection of Camp Floyd district Mr Killeen John Dern and E H Airis are the owners of one of the largest cattle ranches in Nebraska to stock which 3rX they have just purchased 600 three tsSn and fouryearold steers from B F Saunders The cattle will be shipped from Juab on the 10th or llth of this month I A gentleman just In from Detroit mining district says that work is being be-ing pushed in the driving of the Ibex tunnel under the superintendence of S F Mount This tunnel Is a large one being 6x8 feet in the clear Three shifts are employed in the work and about eighteen inches a day is being I made in hard lime The tunnel is now in about 325 feet and in about 150 or 160 feet more it will get under the old I workings of the mint min-t Recorder Salmon City Idaho E L Whitmore secretary of the American Ameri-can Developing and Mining company came in from Gibbonsville tQday with four bars of bullion valued at about 11000 representing a ten days run of the chlorine uon plant The average I fineness of the chlorination bars is 994 and th plate bars 865 fine Mr Whit more reports the mine looking well a large body of ore having been opened up at the bottom of the shaft i Two Bingnam men have struck it rich after months of hard work as according t the Bulletin John Nelson Nel-son and partner Bill Eckman have made a great strike in their lease on the Old Telegraph and are assured a rich reward for their perseverance and I i i industry After nearly a year of barren I bar-ren work they started a crosscut from grass roots and in a few days ran into the vein tapping it about two weeks ago In ten days working three men up to last Tuesday they had shipped = t II I i p1 i1 I r Iy rrT 1f d itliIII Ifl r 1 J ORE SOP IN THE SUNSHINE JIE 220 tons of ore which carries 40 percent per-cent lead and is of a grade that yields a good return They have exposed fourteen feet of the truck to drift on right and left and as their lease has six months to run If judicious will Have a nice bundle when it expires We are pleased to make this record which I I puts two good boys on their pins and hope fortune stands smiling at their door for more of the same kind I Is fling time for other leasers to have an in I |