Show I DOWN TH COLORADO I A Vernal Prospector Goes Through the Grand Canyon N Galloway of Vernal who has successfully suc-cessfully made the trip through the Grand canyon of the Colorado writes from Rioville Nev to his homefolks at Vernal a brief account of his experiences ex-periences while on the way which is published by the Express as follows I is with the greatest of pleasure that I write you a few lines once more and I am pleased to think I am alive yetThe trip through the Grand canyon has been a long and tiresome one and much farther through than we expected ex-pected We have traveled 400 miles of the roughest river I have ever seen Many times positive destruction seemed staring us in the very eyes Many boxed rapids are encounteredno chance to line our boats no chance to make a portage Many thnes the cliffs are too steep to climb to look at the rapids rap-ids and often scarcely landing room at the head of the rapids Three or four rapids have been run at a time in close succession to each other with great towering walls of granite cliffs starting from the very waters edge without a landing or a chance to choose a chute to run through But we are very successful We have survived sur-vived the entire trip without a very serious accident I have taken notes of our trip and the trip from Lees ferry down is detailed The upper part of the trip is written from memory a short sketch only is given I may send this to the Vernal Express for publication so you may all know what trials and dangers are attached to making a trip through the Grand canyon can-yon of the Colorado river Our trip from Lees ferry has been of no profit yet We are trying to dispose of our boats here at the mouth of the Virgin river and intend to come back to Lees ferrY through Dixie A Big Sale Rock Springs Miner The importance of Douglas mountain as a producer of valuable minerals is established beyond a doubt At Present there are about 50 miner V work fn the district some employed by the Bromide company and others Prospecting and developing I mines for themselves The deep snow is at present retardIng progress but when spring comes there will be a large influx of Prospectors and miners who appreciate a mineral belt when they see it The center mine in the Douglas dis trict is the Bromide already described in a former issue of the Miner Wnme Attor ney D A Preston of this city > has Just negotated a sale of some magnitude magniude whereby a syndicate in Ashleys Fork Utah ton has represented by Sterling D Co become owner of the onehalf i interest in the Bromide paying for the same to Mrs Adeline Hatch the of 27000 Adelne sum The new company will dou ble wi the force at the mine and enlarge Its producing capacity I Mining Notes and Personals Sales of SWansea were recorded yester day afternoon at 210 Glen R BOthwell of the Bothwel Sacramento and the Hecla Is in l1ercur Buckeye of TIntc was in active do mand actve de yesterday after the call and sales were cal reported at 13 cent a share SuperIntendent Frank Hines of the Norther Light mine who has been in hill the city since last Saturday left for Lion hi Yesterday morning Anton Eiers the manager of the Colorado Colordo Smelting company of Pueblo was in the city yesterday on business connected with his company I is reported that a fine fne showing is be lag made In the Sunshine mine and that It Is more than likely that the company will soon resume the mmThe operation of the The workings in the Hecla mine at Mercur are now In some very fine looking mineral and it is believed thut it will not be lone v 1 rot before this 6 property is on a milling basis The tJ GeyserMarion made a shipment yesterday from a partial cleanup after a short run The afer So1r irun 2he company expects to make a large shipment of cyanides by the first of the coming month Wl Hatfield the genial superintendent of the Swansea mine at Silver City Tintlc who was in the city yesterday Ciy forms The Herald that the mine is In excellent shape and that with silver and wih lend where they should be in the quota tions this property would be on the regular dividendpaying list The 111ton lot of Swansea ore that was fi the market last Saturday has been withdrawn because of the fact that the company was dissatisfied with the bids made in the consignment by the ore buyers of the city The control assays pf I the ore showed values of 9 per cent lead I 62 ounces silver and 4 in gold to the ton 11ner Butte Mont J H Ceiling of the Gold Dredging company of Bannocks Bannock-s due to arrive in the pity lna day or t ro and he will again the wl manage company com-pany plant at Grasshopper Creek this season Last year this company cleaned up about o000 after paying operating expenses ex-penses are expected and this season still bet r returns Democrat Baker City Ore I wa learned last evening that at the Baisley Elkhorn mine on Thursday another ledge south of the 60foot level was struck which is extra fine and full five feet wide and four feet of ore that is so rich that it is shipping ore The vein is strong and with two good walls This is certainly good news to everyone Bert Holden of the Old Jordan and Galena who was In BIngham over Sun day informs The Herald that during the last 24 hours of his stay in the camp the snow fell o the depth of 18 Inches beat ing all previous records within his knowledge knowl-edge The deep snows at Bingham and I In the other camps in the west will greatly I retard mining operations this spring I Democrat Baker City Ore The owners j I of the Ibex mine in Sumpter district are developing what will very probably prove to be one of the best mines In the county Since the first of the year they have added GO feet more to their crosscut and nov have a ledge from two to five feet in width the ore of which Is of tree milling character and very high grade I I gold showing in much of the ore being taken out A shipment of ore from the Utah mine I EVIS sold on the open market yesterday that netted the company a neat little I sum and it Is the general impression that with the returns from this lot In the treasury treas-ury the company will be in shape so that It can declare and pay a dividend this month There were i tons in the lot and the mill run returns showed values of 30 111 cent lead and 203 ounces In silver to the ton The shipment was sold to the Hanauer smelter and netted the company 12350 a ton Superintendent E L Talbot of the Frisco mine at Bingham writes to the officers of the company in this city that he now has two feet of ore In the face of the drift and that the body of mineral is increasing in size as work progresses I He also states that by the first of May he expects to have from 150 to 200 t6ns of good shipping ore on the dump The mine Is well equipped for the winter and as soon as the snow goes it is expected that this oldtime producer will repeat Its history in the way of regular and heavy shipments of ore The plant put In by Mr Reiling is sometMns new and It is attracting D good deal of attention I Is to save the gold from the creek bottom and the success suc-cess so far met with has caused a number num-ber of other plants to be constructed on similar principles One of the plants that will be operated the coming season vll be in Alder gulch where a large amount of gravel bed will be worked over Another plant is now being put in at Shoshone Falls in Idaho and the operators are all confident of making a great deal of money L G Hardy the wellknown mining operator returned yesterday from Cassia county Ida where he made an inspection inspec-tion of the Jennie mine on Connor Creek In which John Beck is largely interested Mr Hardy states that a shipment of ore from the Jennie Is slated to arrive In this citr today and he also says that at the I mine Mr Beck is working a force of five men on a fine body of ore and an upraise up-raise on the ore is being made to the I lcfJ air i If the present consignment consign-ment proves a success It Is more than likely that others will soon follow and I tat the mine will be developed in a thorough manner Mr Hardy states that there are other properties on Connor Creel which show up in a most en couraring manner and he is of the opinion that in the spring there will be a great deal of activity there |