| Show I HEAVY DAMAGE SUIT I Joseph Johnson Sues the Mercur Company For 825000 I Provo Jan 25Suit was commenced in the district court today by Joseph Johnson against the Mercur Gold Mining I Min-ing Milling company alleging that on the 26th day of June 1837 plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as a common laborer at the cyanide plant I at Manning I anYJhia removing tailings from the cyanide tanks into the cars i and while engaged in coupling the cars i I he was struck ty a car and forced I against another car and also against the tank I which resulted in his thigh being crushed his back lacerated and i other injuries and bruises which he claims renders him a cripple for life I He asks for 25150 damages and costs of the suit King Burton King are j attorneys for the plaintiff I I Strike In the Roanoke Stockton Cal Jan 25 News1 has just reached here of arich strike last Friday in the Roanoke mine theiprop erty of George B Sherry George West and Dr Wallar of this city and Mr Kittredge of New York and situated near Mokelumne hill The strike was made at a depth of 400 feet where a large body of rich ore 1 was uncovered The ledge is ten feet 1 wide containing considerable free gold I and is free milling orej iSome of i will assay 500 a ton andusome as high as I 1000 The mine is operate as a business I bus-iness enterprise and no stock is on the t1e I market I I The CrescentAlliance Combination Park City Jan 25D D Irwin of I Muskegon Mich arrived this mornIng i morn-ing His presence here revives speculation specu-lation as to the prospective Crescent Alliance combination t Mr Irwin is interested Alance terested in the Wasatch company I which recently foreclosed a mortgage on the Crescent I Dr TV B Brester of Binsham was in the Park yesterday and inspected the WHfly tables at the Anchor concentrator I con-centrator Four Mile District Placers I 1Ie Ditrt Rawlins Wyo Jan 25The placer I grounds ofthe Scandinavian gulch in I the FourMile district are finding an eastern market Mr F E Harnish I who either owns or controls large areas of these rich I I Colorado gravel beds has just made an important sale to Andrew I Hill a inona Minn capitalist and I is now on the point of sale of another I large golden gravel tract to other eastern east-ern buyers The Northern Spy Provo Jan 25Jesse Knight who is said to have bought the Northern Spy i says he has as yet failed to consummate I I consum-mate the deal and that nothing has i been accomplished However it is understood un-derstood negotiations for the transfer of the property are pending Silver and Lead The silver and lead quotations yesterday yester-day were as follows I Bar silver 56 cents Lead brokers 350 I Copper casting 1037J4 Ore and Bullion I The ore and bullion receipts yesterday were as follows McCornick Co bullion 6910 ores 5150 cyanides 19400 T R Jones Co bullion 13300 ores S2300 400 Commercial National Bank ores SS Mining Notes and Personals Thomas Weir is home from a visit to Mammoth where he has been on mining business 12 II Mile is in California on a pleasure tr and a day or so ago Colonel S E Mimer with his family departed for this land of winter delights I The Aja at Mammoth is reported to I be In good shape and word was received i yesterday that the men were working inline I in-line bodies of ore while the machine drills were working smoothly and to good advantage ad-vantage I II Green went out to llercur the first of the week with the Intention of continuing his journey out into the Deep Creek country but the weather was so cold and storm that he was obliged to I turn back Argonaut Elko Nev The Diamond company of Eureka Nov Is hauling ore from its mines to the railroad depot on a j bobsled the carrying capacity of which is IWO pounds The sled was made to order at Park City Utah Becoming tired of shipping silver ore at the present quotation of the white metal the CentennialEureka was in yesterday yes-terday with a shipment of three carloads of mineral which was sold on control assays as-says showing 40 gold 40 ounces silver and 2 per cent copper to the ton W D Johnson manager of the Gold Point at Sunshine made a flying visit to the mine the first of the week and reports re-ports work progressing favorably in the development of this property on which on the surface four distinct fissures have been found of late from which ore was values taken that carried excellent milling valuesH TV II Farnsworth the secretary of the South Swansea mining company made an application yesterday for membership In the stock exchange and pending the vote on his application he was given the privl leces of the floor Before the morning call the application of F E McGurrin was acted upon and he was elected to membership mem-bership by acclamation J J Brown of Searchlight at Sunshine Sun-shine is In the city Mr Brown states that development work Is being pushed in the development of this promising property prop-erty and that the Indications are favorable favor-able Mr Brown also sRites that the f > < L 1 I Overland is showing up in a most encouraging en-couraging manner and that it certainly is the making of a big mine and a dividend i payer i Times Hailey l Ida The miners who 1 have been it r drd the tunnel f on the lHatye group on the Haley Gold Belt i have cut the hanging wall As this was I 1 what J M r the Salt Lake mining i man who took hold of the group was waiting for he will come up next week t to look at the vein and n J r appearance I Is satisfactory to him he will doubtless Ii j begin sinking a shaft as he has planned planne 1 > to do 1 Don Maguire the well known metallurgist < metallur-gist and geologist who Is making a col lection of Utah metals for exhibition at the Omaha exposition was In the city I yesterday and will love this morning for i the mires of Lion hill in his collection i of specimens Mr Maeulre has completed com-pleted his canvass of the mines of Mer cur and he state that he ha the best i lot of samples of minerals from the Mer j cur Golden Gate Sacramento and I GerserMarion ever taken from the dls t I trict and he is of the opinion that their i display at the Omaha exposition will be I the best advfertisement the camp has ever had From Lion hill Mr Maguire will go to TIntic and from there into southern I j Utah as far as St George Encouraging reports are daily being re i ceived from the Overland at Sunshine I and it Is stated on excellent authority that in the north drift the workings are in a body of sdlid ore eight feet thick which Is streaked with cinnabar the mineral being highly siliclous and carry ins average gold values of OS to the ton while portions of the vein runs much higher than this Gil S Peyton who is now heavily Interested in this property and who is directing its development feels f confident that he has the making of a bonanza on his hands and everyone who has examined the property concurs with I him in this opinion |
