Show I FISH SPRINGS MINES The Utah and Galena Both Make Most Elegant Showings Not much has been said during the Utah and past year or so regarding the Galena mines in Fish Springs district Juab county yet all the same notwithstanding I not-withstanding adverse silver legislation and the lack of railroad facilities these two embryotic bonanzas have been mod estly very modestly indeed contributing contribut-ing their share to the imperishable wealth of the country and as work progresses and the silver and lead markets mar-kets becomes better even without railroad road advantages we shall expect to hear that these two mines Jiave taken their places with the best of Utahs heavy dividend payers The Utah mine was incorporated in July 1892 with a capitalization of 100 000 shares of a nar value of 10 each and since that date it has paid 139000 in dividends and on the 10th of this month will Day another dividend of 2000 The officers and directors of the Utah company are as follows E 11 Weiler president P J Reid vice president W S Crismon secretary and treasurer Charles Van Alystine George Crismon Mrs E T Crismon and W H McIntyre The Galena mine was incorporated in May 1893 with a capitalization the same as the Utah This property has not been worked continuously since incorporation in-corporation but since September 1895 i has paid 18000 in dividends and to this amount will add 3000 more onthe 10th of this month The officers and directors of the Galena Ga-lena are George Grismon president Charles Van Alystine vicepresident W S Crismon secretary and treasurer treas-urer E 11 Weiler P J Reid Mrs E T Crismon and W H McIntyre Both mines show up fine ore bodies at the present time and i is the intention inten-tion of the companies to out up a steam hoist at an early date A carload each of Utah and Galena ores was received yesterday Ore and Bnllion I ullon The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows Bamberger McMillan Ores lclIianOres 8412 Commercial National BankGold bars 3400 gold and silver bars 2000 McCornick Co Hanauer bullion 7575 ores 3500 cyanides 9000 T 1 Jones Co Ores 2600 bullion bul-lion 8100 Wells Fargo Co Bullion 9489 Silver and Lead Bar silver was quoted yesterday at 68t cents cents lead 305 casting copper hank Clearings The clearings of the associated banks yesterday were 293161 For the same day last year they were 192929 Mining Notes and Personals Captain Gundry of Silver City was in the city yesterday Sam Newhouse the wellknown smelting man of Denver is registered at the Knutsford The Nast Mining company of Blng bam sent down 175 tons of ore yesterday yester-day to the Taylor Brunton sampler The directors of the Mercur Mining I company will meet today and declare i i r its regular monthly dividend of 25000 payable March 20 George Dern goes out to Mercur this morning for the purpose of making the ghost walk with the men employed em-ployed at the Mercur mine and mill and on the Mercur Salt Lake railroad road H D Brown one of the incorporators incorpor-ators of the Northern Light Mining company made a visit to Lion hill the first of the week and while there thoroughly inspected the magnificent property The drift from the 250 foot level in the Cannon property at Mercur is showing up good ground and picked samples of ore from its face taken out a few days ago gave values of 575 to the ton The officials of the Raven Gold Mining Min-ing company feel considerably elated over the appearance of arsenic in the limestone in the bottom of the Raven shaf which presages the near presence pres-ence of ore E Dickinson general manager of the Union Pacific railroad writes from the east to a gentleman in this city that he believes that Mercur will prove to be one of the greatest mining camps in the world Herschel mining stock continues to draw a good deal of water even at the advanced price of 15 cents for treasury stock and yesterday at the companys office 7000 shares were issued is-sued at this figure Clifton Folsom of Mercur who is interested in-terested in the Gold King property who was in the city yesterday informs in-forms The Herald that this ground is showing up in great shape and that i is the making of a magnificent mine Word was received from Sunshine yesterday that the Electric shaft was in finely mineralized ground at 202 feet This property stands well in the estimation of the public and i cannot be long now before the boys strike i eThe The old Lincoln lead mine in Lincoln Lin-coln district Beaver county near Minersville is to be sold at auction by order of court This property is said to be worth at least 50000 as it has a thirtyfoot body of high grade lead ore exposed in its lower workings Captain George Ryan superintendent of the West Cable mine in Tintic came in from Eureka yesterday and was busy all day shaking Jiands with his many friends here The captain says that the West Cable is showing favorable indications and that he has hopes that pay dirt will be encountered encoun-tered before long now E W Ladd of the firm of Senior Ladd who have the sale of Mercur lIercur town lots left for Colorado last night and upon his return he will be accompanied ac-companied by several Colorado capitalists cap-italists Mr Ladds family will soon take up their residence in this city Messrs Senior and Ladd are active and enterprising gentlemen and through their efforts a lae l amount of foreign capital will be brought into Mercur Tim Sullivan and Tohn A Hunt both of Eureka and prominent in mining as well as business circles arrived in the city yesterday and will remain for several days They are firm in the belief be-lief that the great Tjntic district will be found doing business just the same after Mercur has incorporated and doubled in population Both gentlemen agree that the present year will witness wit-ness about Eureka and Mammoth a large number of paying mines opened up The passenger department of the Rio Grande Western railway is leaving no stone unturned in order that people may learn of Mercur the Johannesburg Johannes-burg of America and its reading notices descriptive of ithe great and unrivaled mineral resources of Camp Floyd district are to be found in thousands thous-ands of newspapers in the middle and eastern states The Rio Grande Western West-ern peqple are right up to snuff on enterprise and it is not often ithat they are found napping At yesterdays call on the floor of the mining exchange Judge E F Colborn read a letter from Hon C E Allen in which Mr Allen made a request for all the information obtainable on the resources of Camp Floyd mining district dis-trict as he was about to introduce a bill in congress providing for a geological geologi-cal survey of the district A government govern-ment geological survey of Camp Floyd district would be a great boon to the people of Utah and i is to be hoped that Mr Allen will be successful in his efforts in this direction As the irrigation season approaches considerable attention is being paid to the sand and sediment trap the invention in-vention of Don C Robbins of this city This unique and successful device de-vice for the maintenance of clean I ditches is all and more than is claimed for it by its inventor and no ditch company or irrigator can afford to > be without one or more of them on the premises A company has been formed for the manufacture and sale of this sediment trap a working model I of which can be seen at Mr Ulmers office in the Progress block According to the Tooele Transcript David Judd and others of Grantsville while prospecting in Skull valley the other day happened on to a rich vein of ore He located the claim and named it Anaconda He afterwards sent a few specimens to Salt Lake City to ascertain its true value receiving the returns by mail and to his great astonishment the assay reads as follows fol-lows Fortyseven ounces silver fourteen four-teen ounces gold averaging 288 to the ton This find has caused quite an excitement of ex-citement Grantsville 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