| Show MINING AND IMPROVEMENT Incorporated Yesterday With a Capital Cap-ital ot Fifty Thousand Dollars The Salt Lake Mining and Improvement Improve-ment Association filed articles of Incorporation In-corporation with the county clerk yesterday yes-terday I is capitalized at 50000 In shares of 100 each and Joseph H J Paris Ward Fitzgerald Henry Van Pelt Milledge W Johnson and Don C Roberts are the incorporators The company is organized for the purpose of doing a general mining business and the official roster is as follows Joseph H Paris president Ward Fitzgerald vicepresident Henry Van Pelt urer secretary Don C Roberts treas Eureka Democrat Notes The Sunbeam shipped another car of ore this week Work on the Cleonatra will be resumed re-sumed by the first of the year A shipment of high grade Buckeye ore is on the way to market Lonsbauerh Holomb have taken a contract to develoo the Hard Winter and Utah Chief properties The Damficare group located in the vicinity of Silver City has been bonded to J W Jackman who will commence development early in the year Carpenters on the Godiva hoist have completed their labors and work will now be commenced on widening the shaft The new whim house On the Rabbit Foot property has been completed and makes a fine showing the hillside at Silver The new hoist bein = erected by the Emerald Mining company will be a great assistance to the rapid development develop-ment of that promising property The Mammpth mine is still sinking and the 1600 level wjll be reached in a short time I is the intention of the management to continue for several hundred feet further The Mammoth will Be the deepest hole in Utah Will G Nebeker Frank Knox R W Sloan and H M Ryan have been spending a couple of days this week in looking over the Ajax which still continues con-tinues to improve as the days so by A train load of ore iJn transit and will soon be on the market The new Mammoth hoist is being rapidly pushed to completion and the exterior of the building ha already been nearly completed Although it was at first the intention to have the hoist read for use in 90 days it now appears that it will be operated by the later partof February Harry Joseph has returned from his extended jaunt through the east where he placed 20000 shares of the treasury stock of the Lower Mammoth at 50 cents a share This means a boom for that property and that the prospectIng prospect-ing will be continued unjib the ore bodies of the Mammoth and Ajax which are believed to extend through the Lower Mammoth are encountered encount-ered Silver City is coming to the front asa as-a mining camp and idle men are a rarity The latest improvement is an 18room hotel which is being built by James McLaughlin to be completed by the middle of January Upon the completion com-pletion of the new building Mr Pax man will assume charge of the Pax man House and Mr McLaughlin will open the new place which is located opposite the Paxman hotel Ore and Bullion The bullion and ore receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows Commercial National Bank Gold and silver bars 1600 McCornick CoOres 13300 Wells Faro Co Bullion 3626 T R Jones Cores 2000 bul ion 10800 Silver and Lead Quotations The silver and lead quotations yesterday yes-terday were as follows Western UnionBar silver 6514 cents lead 275 casting copper 10 cents United Press Bar silver 65j cents I lead 300305 lake copper 1111 cents I Mining Notes and Personals Th > Markham mine at Bingham had a carload of ore on the market yesterday yester-day The Mackintosh sampler yesterday re eivefl 12 tons of TIewaukee ore and 117 tcns of Maxfield The Salt Lake Mining and Improvement Improve-ment company has opened a fine office at room 304 Atlas block George Barber who is the owner of ono of the most valuable prospects at I Osceola Nev Is in the city The Golden Eagle company of this city received a carload of ore yesterday from its Nevada property which Is being managed man-aged by C H Wilbur The Herald is informed that a few days ago a thousanddollar gold nurget was picked up at one of the placer diggings dig-gings at Osceola Nov John Helmrich and Will S Brown two of the directors of the Me cur mine arrived ar-rived in the city from Fremont Neb yesterday and it is understood that they will remain In the city during the holidays days Hon Thomas G Merrill informs The Herald that on the Vanderbilt round on the west dip in Camp Floyd district ho has found ore in several places He is well satisfied with the showing on the western slope and Is confident that In the district end this will be the richest portion of the Logan Journal Mr H C Jackson the J Paradise mining recorder says that the copper claims In the south end of the county are pretty sure to surprise the natives by spring Active work will be carried on all winter and he Is of the opinion that considerable ore will be encountered en-countered Ephraim Enterprise The Good Luck Mining company held a meeting last Saturday Sat-urday night at which It was determined to begin at once the work of pushing the development of their pioperty A contract con-tract will be let for 5 feet of the tunnel at once They expect to tap the vein In that distance Dr A L Castleman the wellknown Mercur physician and mining operator Is in ttte city taking part In the holiday festivities The doctor at one time hung out his shingle at Bingham where he made a fortune In the Coramandel mine which has since been consolidated with the Phoenix Charlie Crane Is in from the Boise Basin dountry Idaho where he Is Interested Inter-ested in some valuable mining claims mention of which was made In these columns yesterday and the nugget of gold that was found by him In the Pioneer Pio-neer mine Is now on exhibition at Walker Bros bank Frank P Davis of the Great Eastern mine at Mercur who is in the city states that the shaft on this property is now down to the SOfoot level und that tho company Is now grading for a new hoist probably a gasoline which is to be installed on the ground at an early day when I is expected that the work of sinking will be pushed more rapidly An Idaho paper says that the press type and other materials for the Island Mountain paper were shipped to the mines this afternoon Corey Bros of Ogden have 200 men and 6 teams at work on the reservoir and ditches at Island Mountain Besides the men employed by them there are about 100 men In the ear and vicinity working on quartz I 1 F Lynch of Line City in State Line district arrived in the city yesterday I yester-day and with one of the other owners of the Ophir mine J B Clark who came In with a shipment of highgrade ore from this mine the day before will consider con-sider the proposition of a wellknown mining man of this city to bond the propecty which embraces a group of nne claims in the heart of the camp I Is understood that the price asked fort for-t e mine is 50000 The officers of the Four Aces Mining company are feeling highly elated over the showing that has been made of late in its property at Silver City Tintic and they are confident that in time this ground will come to the front as one of the heavy producers of the district On the 350foot level in the Four Aces ground a level has been run to the north and at I distance of from 40 to 5 feet from the shaft a body of ore was encountered en-countered that gives evidence of permanency per-manency A winze is being sunk on this mineral which has widened out until now there is a 15inch body of highgrade galena ore to draw from The vein Is a vertical one and gives every evidence of being a permanent deposit Mercur Miner Mr John Dem of the Mercur company has returned from his trip to the old country and has paid Mercur a couple of visits He Is quite struck with the improvement in the camp since he left last May and his confidence con-fidence In the camp Is greatly strengthened strength-ened He expects to make about one shipment of cyanide a month to Ger many a a firm there offers I little better i bet-ter prices than are offered here They are able to do this because they are engaged en-gaged In furnishing pure gold for jewelers jewel-ers purposes They are also manufacturing manufac-turing a gold sizing for porcelain He tells us they intend putting in an extra crusher at the mill to supply a larger quantity of ore for the tanks He thinks there will be not less than three mills erected in Mercur next spring and summer sum-mer e |
