Show I THE HARDSCRABBLE MINE An Old Producer That is Making a Good Record Five miles north of Marysvale four and onehalf miles southeast of Belknap situated in the Henry mining district lies the Hardscrabble nee Antelope mine This property through bad management manage-ment has been lying dormant for about 13 years until recently and consequently to the mining public of the present its merits are not generally known says the Marysvale Pioneer The cause of its lying I in idleness will be readily noticed in the following recital The Hardscrabble was discovered early I in tho spring of 1SS2 by one Joseph Smith and located under the cognomen of the Antelope which name it bore until last I sprint when it was relocated under the name of the Hardscrabble which name t now bears After its location in 1SS2 Smith with the aid of one man worked i for several months then It was sold to D P AVheden and other silent partners TVheden shipped several carloads of ore to Salt Lake City and obtained tine results re-sults He then contracted with George T Henry and Thomas Ferguson who were operating the Ferguson mill to stamp tea tons per day which amount was greater than he was able to extract from 1 the mine without the aid of capital I which he didnt have and to supply the demand he began shipping the dumps which ran the ratio down so low that the working did not pay Hence Wheden in 1S04 made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors Thus ended the development develop-ment of the Antelope mine for that period Today may be seen in the offlce of George T Henry assayer at this place a record of over O assays taken from ore obtained from this property which yield an aVerafre of SO ounces in silver and 12 in gold tnus showing that it was the result re-sult of bad management and not a valueless value-less property that resulted in Whcdens failure The Hardscrabble as is explained above was relocated by Neilhen Bros of Monroe Mon-roe in 1S9G and on the 22nd day of July last a lease and bond was let to J A Jacobsen and Arthur Buckbce running for a period of IS months They are working work-ing a force of four men and indicntions are so encouraging as to induce them to increase which they will do as soon as facilities can be made for boarding the men to a force of 20 men By cross cutting and drifting In a westerly direction they have caught the vein at a depth of 70 feet They have drifted 40 feet crosscut 3S feet sunk a shaft 5 feet run three side drifts from shaft 10 30 and 40 feet respectively res-pectively following ore all the way out JThcv have upraised four stations and are now hoisting by horse power They have an average vein of over four feet of ore that will mill J40 all through Samples can be obtained that run 500 in gold and silver The mine i surrounded by an unlimited un-limited quantity of the finest timber for timbering lagging and building tmbering buiding purposes and water in abundance can be obtained from three sources I is accessible from i I all directions and special pains have been taken to make the roads all first class leading to i Withal the Hardscrabble Hard-scrabble is one of the most promising mines in southern Utah and with the immense quantity of ore in sight i bids lair to rival the best producers in the state in the near future Ore and Bullion The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows McCornick Co bullion 3050 ores 17100 Wells Fargo Co bullion 4258 T H Jones Co ores 1000 bullion bul-lion 6300 Silver and Lead Quotations The silver and lead quotations yesterday yes-terday were a follows Western Union Bar silver 64 cents lead 280 casting copper 10 cents United PressBar silver 64i cents lead 302y305 lake copper 1156 U1 5 Mining Notes and Personals I Is stated that quite a number of new companies will file their articles of incorporation in-corporation within the next few weeks The Mackintosh sampler yesterday received re-ceived 16 tons of Varcoe and FHndt concentrates con-centrates ore and 92 tons of Old Telegraph oreK K J Raddatz of Ophir who Is heavily interested in mining in Camp Floyd and Ophir districts was in the city yesterday yester-day dayWhen When Swansea slumped so badly yesterday yes-terday one of the spectators in the lobby was heard to cry out And the blow almost killed father The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mercur Mining company was held yesterday but according to due notice given the meeting was adjourned until next Wednesday at 2 p m Alex Gammell one of the owners of the Jumbo mine at Sunshine informs The Herald that the property is looking well and that it is the intention of the owners to keep on in its development Work Is being pushed in the development develop-ment of the Mammoth Gold Mining com panys property on Dalton and Lark hill i at Bingham and it is reported that fine bodies of ore are being blocked out in this property Will HatJield the efficient superintendent superintend-ent of the Swansea mine who was in from Silver City yesterday informs The Herald that the mine Is looking as well as ever all reports to the contrary notwithstanding not-withstanding Swansea was sold on the streets yesterday yes-terday as low as S175 Northern Light developed an upward tendency and was strong at 8 and Sunbeam was wanted at 1 cents BullionBeck was in active demand at the closing quotation on the floor of the exchange while Mammoth was also strong Encouraging new continues to come in from the new gold strike on the Grand Central mine near Mammoth and i is reported that the company is now putting up an ore house Quite a number of Provo people are interested in this property prop-erty and they are beginning to feel now that they are on begnning wealth and opulence W S Godbe of Bullionville Nev who was in the city yesterday on his way to Denver on mining business states that while times are rather dull around Pioche and Bullionville he hopes to see greater activity in that region at an early day Mr Godbe is always nopeful and it takes this class of men to build up and keep up a camp C J Seefleld of St Charles Inn a Seefell brotherinlaw of E E Crooks one of the officers of the Northern Light Mining company will sirrive In the city this morning with the intention of making Salt Lake his future home Mr Crooks has been a resident of Zion but a few months but during his stay here he has established an excellent reputation a a bright business man and a good citizen and there is no doubt but that his both erinlaw will travel in the same class Marysvale Pioneer John S Baler jr of this nlace and Dr Steiner of Pan quitch have gone to the Buckskin mountains mount-ains where they have an interest some al prospects The cause ot tneir trip was a letter received from J P Neilsen a party in interest telling them that he had teInr struck it rich and was offered a good price for the property The prospects are situated about onehalf mile from Jacobs lake A number of Salt Lake parties are interesting themselves In that section Parties who are just in from Mercur state that the camp is very lively at the present time and especially so on the western slope As work is pushed in the development of properties all over the district it begins to look more and more that this in connection with Lion hill will make the most wonderful gold camp in the world On the west slope it is estimated es-timated that over 1000 locations have been made within the past two months and still the work of staking out claims goes on Hon Richard Mackintosh who has returned re-turned from his visit to Park City states that but little ore is moving in the camp as snow is needed to make the hauling good He says however that there is lots of ore broken down at the mines ready for shipment as soon as it can be sent down to the samplers and railroads Mr Mackintosh was well pleased with the outlook of the district and reports that the mines are all looking well the Ontario especially in which there are mammoth bodies of ore in sight |