Show Mining Notes and Personals B Christensen the Eureka mine ow rand r-and civil and mining engineer was in the city yesterday on business y William Orr the representative of theN < the-N J I McArthurForrest Cyanide company expects ex-pects to leave for Idaho within the next few days ton mining business Silver City Star Will C Higglns who presides with dignified grace over the mining department of The Herald was down Sunday looking over the district Work Is being pushed In the development develop-ment of the West Cable ground Eureka and two shifts are engaged In running a level t the north from the 500 level in the shaft Th Germania is in receipt of two carloads car-loads of Magnolia ore from De Lamar Nev This Is the promising gold property proper in which Hon T R Jones of this city Is Interested The Sawyer boys sons of Judge A B Sawyer of this city are meeting with considerable success In the development of the old lip Top mine at Stockton and there is reason to believe that It will not wf ore be long shipments now befire they begin regular Joe MosS left for Marysvale yesterday for the purpose of starting tip work again on the property of the Aurora Mining company which is located In the Horse Heaven countrr above MarysVale Mr Moss will alsoput three men at work on the Eagle which Is a new gold discover of promise adjoining the Aurora From H private letter received from W C Dodge from Gold Mountain it is learned that the camp Is looking exceed ingly well and that from the rapid manner man-ner in which the snow is going it will be so that prospectors can get around In the hills by the 25th inst Mr Dodge Is the owner of the Ft Dodge group of claims on Gold Mountain and he Is hard at work in its development G I Bothwell and G G Hall accom panled by a number of other jrentlemen went out to the Congor mine at Bingham yesterday fOr the purpose of making an examination of this property with the view of resuming work on its development develop-ment The Conuor Is located in Pine gulch in the Dalton > Irk country and it is stated that in Its workings a fine body of gray copper ore is exposed Colonel O B Hardy will leave for Lyon I countr Nev tomorrow where he will direct the operation of a promising cop per proposition in Mason valley This I ground will form the basis of a Incorporation i Incor-poration within1 few days when work will begin In the erection of a 40ton smelter Colonel Hard states that there Is enough 2 per cent copper blocked out in the mine to run a smelter of the above specified capacity for a period of four years News Gold Creek SJko County Nev Sunday Charles Hyer gave the boys I an exhibition of what Tuscarora quartz I will do when put Into < mortar and I pounded up He had about two ounces of rock and obtained a string of colors I that would give one the yellow fever He ha shipped carload lots that netted SOU a ton The ledge is trom three inches i to three feet Like many a good mine his claim Is tied with now up litigation tEd wih ltgation I TuscaroraIs part of the Gold Creek mineral I min-eral belt I The Herald is informed that the In dustrial Reporter has purchased the MID scription list and good will of the Uts > h I alan of this city and that the Utnhnitui will be consolidated with the Denver publication the subscriptions to the former being filled out bv the latter con cern The Reoorter already has nuJte a large list in Utah and this consolidation will give It a larger circulation than ever I The Reporter is an able and redble sheet and now itnvlll pay more attention to the interests of this state than ever Statesman Boise Idaho The board of directors of the mining exchange have determined to call u meeting of the mem bug for Thursday evening next The puroose of the meeting Is to determine upon the future of the organization One plan is to close up the rooms and dis band the other to effect some reforms and put the institution in the way of greater usefulness I is felt by a great many that the exchange is capable of beIng made a great power in the development devel-opment of our mining resources and these hold that iUwduId be unwise to permit per-mit it to die J P Peterson of the Boss Tweed near Silver City while at work in the Ajax mine last Saturday fell from a stcre a distance of 40 feetand lodged on a timber tim-ber from which he was rescued in an unconscious un-conscious condition Had I not been for the crosspiece rwhlelt arrested his fall he would have dropped to thebottom of the stone a deptli of 50 feet furthe which would have meant instant dth and as it was he met with a miraculous escape as besides a broken finger he was only Injured and bruised about his back and hips Mr Peterson was brought to Salt Lake Sunday and is now at his nome on Twelfth Wet Recorder Salmon City Idaho A A Smith is In receinf of J letter from Will l lam Taylor who Vas injured by the ox plosionjof gJjuitcnoVder at the Copper I Oueen mine on March 5 He went to j I S I Lake about two weeks ago for surgical sur-gical treatment He Is at St Marks hosDital and has undergone a severe op eration in which his right eye was removed re-moved his fingers again amputated and j I the wound In his forehead reopened and treated His physicians say his left eye will be all right fie is in good spirits I and sends regards to all hit friends here The Recorder will reach him every week I during his absence Ike Jennies who has been at Halley I a for the past six months in charge or the Vanderbilt mine has resigned that I position and Is now in Salt Lake al though he may return to the Wood River country In the near future for the pur poe of engaging mining on his own OW1 I hook In speaking of the Vanderbilt Ir Jennings states that it is looking well wel with good ore bodies In sight The company j com-pany Is now shipping In the neighbor hood of 100 tons of ore a month that will net 6 a ton besides which the wi COnCEII trator Is running regularly on the low grade ores Dan Ferguson the well wtl known Utah mining man Is now running the property as superintendent I Charles G Horsfall and Otto Saunders who are the principal stockholders in tho I i Silver King Extension mine in Mineral Fork Big Cottonwood canyon made the property a visit the first of the week In i company with Mr Dean who made a cartful examination of the mine and his report was so favorable that it Is the In tention to resume work in the operation of the property within the next few dayn In the face of the tunnel In this ground there are three distinct ore bodies of ore and soon after the resumption of work regular shipments will begin There Is some talk of erecting a gasoline hoist ai the mine and also of doing some develop ment on other claims embraced In the group further down the canyon I Miner Butte Mont Judge Lindsay made two rulings yesterday in regard to the Dcndlnir litigation aotween the Mon tana Ore Purchasing company and the i Boston and Montana In one he overruled < over-ruled the motion of the Boston and Mon tana for a removal of the TTnited States court of the suit of the Montana Ore I Purchasing company for 2322000 for ore I alleged to have been taken from the P rus hy the Boston and Montana In the other he ordered a new sale on May 2 of the sixth interest of the Griffith os tto in the Harris lode This is the interest I in-terest for which the Heinze people bid i 4000 Their bid was afterwards raised by the Boston and Montana to 4500 The Hcinzo people later raised this to 4550 I The Herald is informed that in the I Frisco mine In Carr Fork gulch Sing ham an important strike has been made within the past few days In this property prop-erty a winz has been sunk from the 400 to the 500 levels and In the bottom a fine body of ore has been r closed The new find is at 1 point 45 ait below the collar I of the wlnz where a ufoot crosscut uncovered un-covered 1 Inches of good shipping ore which is t continuation of the chlmnez or chute of mineral found In the bottom of the winz and its discover proves the existence of 100 feet or more of good stop Ing ground The company is feeling hlfhlr elf ted over the new find and as soon as the roads to the mln lennn I I passable ft Is expected that a hundred ton shipment will bo made and after that I the initial consignment of ore from the property will be regularly marketed A Seattle Wash dispatch says Three men arc about to make the trip to the Yukon sold fields overland from Ellen burp Wash John Compton Is the leader rf the party da his companions i arc two ott brothers James and Charles Walker ti In 1500 miles from Ellensburg to 1 Forty I Mile creek but Compton expects to cover that dstanco in two months The men are now at Ellensburs and have bought 12 horses at JG each and about 450 Worth of supplies They will keep between the mountain ranges going up the Fraser and other streams on this side and down the McKenzie beyond the summit 1 is thought they will need no dogs but will be able to go clear through with their horses and arrive in good season They are verv enthusiastic over their fhoson and declare that It route should become the only one into the upper Yukon |