Show AMERICAN FORK CANYON I I Ed Hines Elated Over a Good Strike In His Mine I American Fork Dec 9R E Hunter I Hun-ter Alonzo Smith and D T Miller jr I I three of the proprietors bf the Water i fall mine in American Fork canyon were up to the mine Saturday and 1 j Sunday returning Monday They report j i re-port but little snow in the canyon as yet yotThe The Live Yankee mine is closed down for the present but will soon commence operations again with Peter McLaughlin in charge Edward Hines is much pleased over a good strike lately made in his mine Change of Management The Herald is informed that yesterday yester-day Dr E D Woodruff the manager of the Northern Light Mining company had resigned on account of ill health and the need of rest and that L H Curtis the present secretary of the company had been appointed to fill the vacancy Dr Woodruff has given the company excellent service He has labored hard and earnestly in the furtherance of the best interests of the company and but i I few can understand the amount of work and ivorry it has taken to bring i this Lion hill property to its present stage of excellence In retiring from the position he has so long and ably filled the doctor takes with him the best wishes of the stockholders of the ccmpany as well as of the leading mining min-ing men of the city The change will only affect the management man-agement of the affairs of the company r r however as far as Mr Woodruff is concerned as he will still remain a director recto of the company as well a one of the largest stockholders t Mr Curtis who has been the efficient 1 secretary of the company for the past year or so is thoroughly familiar with j the condition of affairs at the mine I and mill and his appointment will give I I universal satisfaction to all concerned and as the property is in such shape at i the present time that it is believed it i i will not be long before it is on a paying pay-ing basis there is no doubt but that the confidence manifested in Mr Curtis i > ability has been well placed Recent advices from the mine are of an encouraging nature Back Prcca Beaver Lake Colonel S B Milner returned yesterday yester-day from a visit to Beaver Lake district dis-trict where he made an examination of the Crete mine in which he is heavily heav-ily interested and although the trip i was a hard one on account of the stormy weather he felt well repaid for I his trouble and exposure as he states that the mine is looking well with a i nice body of mineral exposed in the or I bottom of the 60foot shaft although the value of the ore will not be determined deter-mined until today I The Crete is an extension of the Kate Sackett mine owned by the Beaver I Lake Mining company df this city The colonel mde an examination of the Kate Sackett ard states that it is I locking exceedingly well with a nice body of ore exposed in the bottom 6f the shaft and he expresses the opinion opin-ion that with continued development it I will open out into a paying proposition proposi-tion I is the intention to push work in the Crete which has all the earmarks of coming to the front as a producer of a good grade of ore Rich Montana Strike Butte Mont Dec 9 Reports from the Lowland mining district are that a rich strike of gold and silver quartz has been made in the Ruby mine and that over a million dollars worth of ore is in sight The owners are taking out over 2000 a day The property was purchased last summer from Adolph Moudenhauer of San Francisco for 90000 the principal owner being M E Graves a New York man Silver and Lead The silver and lead quotations yesterday yester-day were as follows Bar silver 58 cents Lead brokers 350 exchange 365 liI370 1025 Copper lake 10S7y1100 casting Ore and Bullion The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows McCornick Co bullion 8150 National Bank of the Republic ores 4275 gold bars 2200 T R Jones Co ores 1700 bullion bul-lion 7000 Bamberger McMillan ores 6846 Mining Notes and Personals A 170ton lot of ore from the Uncle Sam mine at Eureka was marketed in this city yesterday The West boys yesterday sent out another an-other lot of supplies to the Copper King mine in Beaver Lake district Hon A 11 Grant came in from Tusca rora Nev yesterday where he is putting I up the new Dexter stamp mill and power plant E I Weiler and Scott Crismon have returned from Nevada where they have been for some time on a prospecting expedition ex-pedition John Dewey went out to Mercur yesterday yester-day for the purpose of making an inspection inspec-tion of a piece of property on which it is proposed to do some development work I is understood that the Detroit Mining Min-ing company operating in Detroit mining district has a force of men at work and that it is expected important disclosures will be made in the near future Manager John Dern of the Mercur and GeyserMarion who returned Wednesday night from Mercur informs The Herald that both properties are looking well while the camp and district at large are enjoying a steady and substantial growth I It is learned that the Chloride Point company has just placed 11000 snares of I its treasury stock at 50 cents a share and that with the proceeds of the sale it has paid the balance due on its new mill and the machinery which is now on the way to the mine from the east No more of the treasury stock however is to be had at this figure Democrat Baker City Orei A W Mc Cune has let a contract to the McPherson brothers for sinking 100 feet and drifting 200 feet on the Worley mine This property prop-erty is situated in the Greenhorn district and since falling into the hands of Mr McCune ha been christened the Greenhorn Green-horn mine The McPherson brothers expect ex-pect to complete their contract in CO days J J Trenam manager of the Ben Harrison went down to Beaver Lake district dis-trict last night with the pay checks for the men employed in the development of the mine F Eberhardt the president or the company accompanied him and together to-gether the two will make a careful inspection in-spection of this promising piece of property prop-erty in which rock containing native sil ver was recently disclosed J H Robinson of Farmington who was in the city yesterday states that considerable mining is going on in Farm ington canyon and that some very fine gold prospects are being developed there Some of the finest specimens of native gold that the mining scribe of The Herald Her-ald ha seen came from this locality and the indications are that in time some big producing mines will be developed there TimesReview Tuscarora Ney We learn that work on the power plant across the valley is progressing nicely The 21 inch pipe to convey the water to the Pelton wheel is nearly completed the building enclosed and everything is about ready for the installation of the generators genera-tors Workmen are framing the poles and putting on the cross arms andbands on the tops and the worlftif setting them in position will commence shortly Through an error in yesterdays issue the value of the ore shipment from the Mammoth mine was credited to the BullionBeck which was natural as both properties were in with big consignments of mineral The Mammoth and Bullion Beck are doing well at the present time and it is believed that it will be a race between the two to see which will be the first to resume the payment of dividends I Ben Olson the superintendent of the Treasure Hill near Silver City who arrived ar-rived in the city Wednesday night I brought in with him some line specimens I of rock taken from the face of the drift ret I that is being driven on the vein The I samples are a heavy iron associated with red oxide of copper and it is expected that within a few feet more the iron will give way to copper silver and gold The officers of the company are feeling elated over the outlook Bulletin Rocky Bar Ida James Downs came down from his mine on Lime creek and spent Sunday in this place He and his partner Mr Clark have a splendid I splen-did property in the President mine They sent 20 tons of ore to the Halley sampler I a few weeks ago which yielded them about 100 per ton Mr Clark having I sons cast on a visit 11 Downs and Nels Nelson will extract ore from the President all winter and in the spring they hope to mine be able to erect a small quartz mill at the I J E Bamberger and David Keith returned re-turned yesterday from Baker City Ore where they made examinations there of mining properties in which they are interested in-terested In speaking of one of these the Gold Ridge Mr Bamberger stated that it was looking well and that in pushing development work it was expected that vein No4 would bo uncovered within the next few days At the Virginia Consolidated Con-solidated all is looking well and the men at work in the mine are drifting and upraising up-raising on a good grade of mineral According Ac-cording to Mr Bambeser there is con h slderable activity noticeable in the numerous num-erous mining camps with which Baker City is surrounded hi lu Bradfl is in from Granite mountain moun-tain in Tooele county where he is hard at work in the development of a promising promis-ing group of claims in which Hon George W T 13 Dorsey and Hon W H Irvine are interested Mr Brack states that the camp is looking well and that from 50 to 69 men will be at work there all winter Quite a number of Provo and Lehi people peo-ple are operating in the district and during the last few months they have made several consignments of high grade silver lead ore to the Salt Lake market A S Auterson of Woodburrt Ore one of the publishers of the Woodburn Independent In-dependent who is an old friend of Hon George W E Dorsey is in the city on business Mr Dorsey has just returned from the east and will now devote sometime some-time to his various Utah mining interests inter-ests During his absence from the city Mr Dorsey has had considerable SICKness SICK-ness in his family his wife liavlng had a severe attack which confined her I to her bed f5r Several weeks besides which Mr Dorsey was called upon to bury his mother who died quite suddenly Butte Miner Manager Buzzo of the Alice company has just returned from Salt Lake where he attended the directors di-rectors meeting at which another dividend divi-dend of 20000 was declared payable Dec 20 The Alice properties in Walkerville under the able management of Mr Buzzo are being constantly improved and good hopes are entertained of larger dividends next year The company has on its payroll pay-roll about COO men and the GOstamp mill is kept busy night and day on the ore I hoisted from the Alice Magna Charta I Blue Wing and other mines now in operation I opera-tion There was a report in the city this week that copper had been obtained intone of the drifts of the Alice at the 1500foot level but this was stated by Manager Buzz to be A mistake Q = |