Show liiu r Notes and Personals A Burch M E left for Eureka yesterday on professional business I Hon George W E Dorsey will take I a run out to Mercur and Sunshine today to-day The Horn Silver Mining company yesterday received six carloads of crude ore C H Jacobs and Judge W A Sherman Sher-man of the Sunshine leave for the mine this morning A H Mayne the wellknown and popular Mercur assayer isn the city on mining business H B Windsor of Hudson Windsor is in Mammoth and Silver City on mining and insurance business H D Bastain superintendent of the Electric near Sunshine will leave for the mine this morning fully equipped for its continued and extensive development devel-opment C F Gilds of the Monitor Mining company took a run out to the mine in Peepstone district last Saturday and from there he went on over to Tintic taking in Mammoth and Silver City He is expected home tonight Joe R Potter secretary of the Salt Lake City Onyx company who returned I re-turned Saturday from the east informs in-forms The Herald that during his absence ab-sence he secured a number of orders for onyx from New York Philadelphia Philadel-phia BostQn and Chicago For some time past work has been going on in the development of the Herschel group at Mercur To push this work Superintendent Smith will leave for Mercur this morning and upon his arrival at the mine operations are to h carried on on a larger scale The BullionBeck and EurekaHill are booked for some extensive litigation litiga-tion the trial cases to come up next Monday before Judge Street Both companies we learn claim that t he other has been taking ore out of its ground and each are claiming damages for ores so extracted William G Nebeker Is in receipt of a letter from a friend in Washington D C in which the writer states that ever since the interior department issued its geological work on Camp Floyd district he has had a great deal of inquiry concerning con-cerning Mercur from officials of the I different departments A Blue Bell claim owner was in the city yesterday exhibiting o the streets some fine samples of silverlead ore carrying values from 60 to 70 per cent lead 12 ounces silver and 2 in gold to the ton The Blue Bell district he says is strongly mineralized and shows good ledges of silver and lead and gold ores a William G Neb kr has returned Mr from a visit to the property of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining company com-pany in Ophir district The mine he says is looking well and shows up im munse bodies of low grade ore for the treatment of which the 150ton concentrator con-centrator near the mine will be started up within a week or ten days In our mention of the Indian Creek Gold Mining company in Sundays issue is-sue a misprint made us say that the surface ore showed alues of 220 in gold to the toll instead of 220 which I wf intended to say Typographical errors er-rors of this character are very embarrassing em-barrassing to say the least but they sometimes creep in in spite of every precaution Frank Knox made a visit to the Ajax mine last Sunday He says that I this promising property is showing up I woll with large bodies of high grade ore in sight During the last few days a nice body of rich mineral has been opened up on the 300 level and the indications are that this mine will in due time become a formidable rival to tme the Mammoth I The directors of the Mercur Mining company with the exception of Will Brown expect to go out to the Mercur mine and mill this morning Mr Brown is still suffering from the effects of a too close contact with poison oak during dur-ing his recent California trip in consequence conse-quence of which his face us so peeled and disfigured that his own mother would fail to recognize him Manager J Schenck of the Dalton Lark mill denies the statement made in a morning print that his company had made a cut in wages or that it had any I ntention of so doing As a matter of fact he was paying his men as much as ever and that as for the future when the eighthour law went into effect feet he did not know what the company com-pany would do in the premises Five hundred shares of the stock of the Good Hope Placer Mining company was purchased last Saturday by one of our leading mining men at 1 a share The property of the company is located on the Colorado river and late reports from the bar are to the effect ef-fect that the seasons work is just about to start up with most encouraging encour-aging indications of a successful run I The directors of the Malvern Mining company met yesterday afternoon for I t he purpose of perfecting its organ zation and adopting bylaws for its guidance Professor O A Palmer the mining expert is now preparing his report on the Malvern group and when this is submitted steps will betaken be-taken to at once develop the property in a most active and thorough manner A La Fave who recently paid a visit to Cripple Creek is of the opinion that certain portions of the Mar svale distrAct dis-trAct are almost identical in their formation for-mation with the mineralbearing zone of this wonderful Colorado gold camp Efforts will be made to prove the correctness cor-rectness of this theory and i it proves to be a true one Utah can count on hgving another big gold camp within its confines H W Naisbett jr vicepresident of the American Mining and Milling company com-pany now operating on Willard hill who has been in the city for the past week will leave for the mine this morning and it is expected that he will I soon send back favorable reports concerning con-cerning the property as i is expected almost every day now to hear that the long tunnel now being driven to cut the ledge has opened up a large body of highgrade ore The Geyser mine at Mercur made a shipment of cyanides last Saturday I valued at 2100 The company will make two and oossibly three more shipments of cyanides this month The mill at the min is working to perfection per-fection and a test of the tailings from last months run showed a loss in value of only 50 cents to the ton The Marion Geyser suit which was to have been begun yesterday has been postponed until next week Monday The directors of the Gold Point Mining Min-ing company will let a contract at an early day for the sinking of another hundred feet in their group of claims inthe Sunshine country This shaft is already down a distance of 50 feet and from present indications pay ore w 11 be encountered before the new contract con-tract is finished Hon James Chip man and J 1 Stoutt of the Gold Point company are satisfied that this property will eventually develop into a dividendpaying proposition T Ellis Brown returned Sunday night from a visit to Peepstone mining district where with others he is interested in-terested in the Alto aritl other groups of claims These properties are being developed and show excellent surface indications At the present time considerable con-siderable work is being done in Peep stone district and mining men who have prospected there are strong in the belief that a a producer ofgold ores i will prove to be a counterpart of Camp Floyd J S Lakin of the Sacramento who I came in from Mercur Saturday night reports that everything is all O K at the mine and mill He also reports the strike of 8 ore in drift No 1 on the lower level where it was not expected that pay ore would be found The drift is in forty feet of this ore and its extent ex-tent is not as yet determined The mill is working well and the first cleanup will orobably be made within a few weeks Messrs Lakin and Bothwell the owners of the Sacramento are mach pleased over the outlook for the property I Assays were received yesterday from surface ore taken from the Field and I Nprrell group of claims in Dugway district dis-trict as follows From Handicap lode B12 ounces silver and 24 per cent lead and 16 ounces silver Norfield lode 8 ounces silver and 28 gold and 14 percent per-cent lead and 16 ounces silver These grassroot showings are so favorable that Messrs Field and Norrell intend to I return at an early day and open up these properties in order to have them I in shipping order by the time the Deep Creek railroad is fairly headed into I that country A few days ago as mentioned in I these columns R C Taylor located the Birdseye group of claims two miles I north of the Lead Mill at Bingham This country has been overlooked by prospectors whQ believed i to be barren bar-ren but Mr Taylor maintained that the ore bodies of the district cropped in that locality and from these crop pings he has obtained assay values as follows No 1 2 ounces silver and 418 gold No2 4 ounces silver and 205 gold No3 3 ½ ounces silver and 407 gold Mr Taylor is elated over this fine surface showing and left yes terday to begin work on the group Boomerang Laramie Wyoming I is learned today that a discovery has been made only a short distance southeast of this city which is showing wonderful wonder-ful richness An assay from the lead shows a value of about 2800 per ton The property is owned by Colonel Snow of the mining exchange and Messrs Wray and Stanton The assay just j j made shows 4000 ounces of silver 40 percent I per-cent copper and 31 in gold in a well defined lead There is said to be thirty feat of ore and if this be true it is the biggest mining proposition that has come to the front here for a long time It would be shipping ore of the highest high-est grade A gentleman said today that they would be shipping ore in three weeks Everything now Indicates that Luramie before long will be the home of one of the greatest smelting plants of the west The new discovery can i i be reached from Laramle by wagon in two hours and the ore can be seen from I I I the city |