Show Mining SToten and Personals Fred Nelson of the Tintic Miner was in the city yesterday P J Quealy of the Wonder mine was In Mercur yesterday investigating the merits of the reported strike in this property The surveyorgeneral has ordered patent pa-tent surveys made of the Madonna lode in Camp Floyd mining district Application Applica-tion made by the Marion Gold Mining company Frank Anderson surveyor Captain Timothy Egan has returned from a visit to the Golden Star mine in Gold Mountain mining district Plute county and he informs The Herald that the mine is looking exceedingly well with good ore bodies uncovered T H Corfield of Bristol England a cousin of Colonel S B Miner of the I Geyser Mining company is in the city with the hope that Utahs climate will restore him t health and if he becomes interested in Utahs mines he certainly will be on the road to wealth I is reported that in the new sat on the ShoebridgeBonanza mine near Sil ver City Tintic a foot of ore has been uncovere that carries values of U percent per-cent lead 22S ounces silver and 10 in gold to the ton Manager Hudson is out to the mine today inspecting the new strike Colonel Woodrow manager of the Santi Anna mine on the Mother lode in California fornia writes to W S McCornick that uc a puiuntr in a new boiler at the worls and that a soon a this is in place he will put in machine drills This mine shows up large ore bodies carrying from 6 to S10 in gold ± o the eIyng J J Mlllroy of this city is getting out a comprehensive map of Utah showing with great accuracy all of the mining camps of the state and giving in detail the output of the mines to date and the dividends paid When completed It will be a valuable acquisition to the office of every mining man C A Conkling the photographer who is down from Idaho Informs The Herald that J J Story Is putting in a small stamp mill at Cassia Creek Cassia county coun-ty Idaho just over the line from Box Elder county Utah In this locality according ac-cording to Mr Conkling some very rich gold ore is being found Colonel S T Pearson and Manager C l < r i W Watson of the Binghami Placer Mining Min-ing company will leave for Lemhi county coun-ty Idaho today for the purpose of letting let-ting contracts for the three and a half ditch and flume and for the construction of a hydraulic plant The company will next get ready this fall for a successful run season Manager W H West of the Constellation Constella-tion mine at Park City has returned from an examination of the property I and reports that the outlook is most flattering The new shaft on the Constellation Con-stellation iST now down 230 feet and it is believed that in a hundred feet more the ledge will be uncovered A well known miner received word yesterday terday from Mexico that the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining company com-pany had obtained a lease on the San Philip smelter in Chihuahua and that the company would at once put In two more stacks With this plant in full blast the company will control all of the shipping ores of the states of CMhuahua and Durango Du-rango An extensive bed of fire clay has been discovered just north of SaUna Tests have been mae with it by Larson the brickmaker who pronounces it of superior super-ior quality A few specimens have been burned in his kiln and it seems to be the proper stuff The manufacture of firebrick fire-brick is quite a Industry in some places and it might be made to pay in Salina Salina Press D S Liddle and James Westergreen will open up the coal mines in Salina canyon and will soon be able to supply Salina people with the very best coal at lowest living prices The gentlemen named went up Salina canyon Thursday I and are at work getting the tunnel in gettng te shape and repairing the road to the mines These coal mines are about twelve miles east of Salina Salina Press A principal topic of conversation among a few is a recent reported gold strike on the West mountain As yet i is an unknown un-known proposition but i is to be hoped the find may turn out better than the one that created the great excitement some three months ago People still believe that ore exists over there and we believe hove as do many others that intelligent prospecting will reward some one with a rich strike Randolph RoundUp The Buckev mine near Silver City Tintic has three carloads of high grade gold ore on the dump ready for shipment Reports were received yesterday that in the workings of the BullionBeck mine on the 700foot level to the north west the fivefoot ore body had widened out to ten feet This is highgrade shipping ship-ping ore and the company feels elated over the outlook The BB is now shipping ship-ping 100 tons of firstclass ore per day and the mill is treating ISO tons o sec ondclass ore daily Frank Officer the local manager of the Mmgo smelter confirms the report that the plant is to be shut dcwn and informs The Herald that he has just received orders from headquarters to draw his fires until after election but this will not b done however until all the ores I on hand have been cleaned up and this will probably require at least thirty days Mr Officer disclaims any knowledge of placards having been posted at the smelter urging the employees to vote for McKinley By some the action of the Mlngo people in closing down is construed that is aa a political measure a theory I disproved by many |