Show iiND OULCH DIVIDEND A Cent a Share or 2400 to be Posted Monday I THE YANKEE CONS STRIKE Samples from It Show Enormously High in Gold and there is a Seven Foot Breast of Quartz ITcw Ore Streak in Ia Heine Strike in the Illinois at Bingham Marysvale Region is More Active than Ever Deer Lodgo Mill is to he Pushed Highland Boy Copper Samples Announcement was yesterday made by an officer of thc Grand Gulch MIning MI-ning company that dividend No 1 of a cent a share or 2400 will bo posted on JMondny next the amount lo he distributed dis-tributed on January 20ih A letter was received during the day from the manager of the Coop nt SL George I which says that an arrival from the companys camp at Grand Gulch reports re-ports the mine getting bigger with I every shift and that with facilities the present production could be more than doubled Another lot oC ore marketed during the day showed as much as 4C3 per cent copper with a few ounces of silver The Yankee Con Strike To Henry Green superintendent of I the Yankee Con at Eureka conditions at that property look good The gentleman gen-tleman who came In from camp yesterday yes-terday brought with him samples from a new breast of quartz which has caused the Block to move so actively during the past few hours that were put through the furnaces during the day and that showed a valuation of 153991 in gold with S3 ounces silver per ton The ore from which this show ins was obtained was taken from I fractures in the breast of quart while pannlngs from the pulp showed the yellow metal in astonishing abundance abund-ance The quartz which is exposed In other places is at a depth of over COO feet from the surface and Mr Green believes the company now on the right road to an ore body The tale and manganese that accompany the quartz shoived as much as 07737 In gold ll ounces silver and a suspicion of lead Superintendent Green left for camp again last night promising to push work night and day until the ore body Is unearthed New Ore Streak in La Heine The management of the La Reino companys property at Eurclca is exulting ex-ulting over the presence of a new streak that shows as much as 1G1 ounces silver and 45 per cent copper per ton this having been encountered in a vlnze oft the main drift running from the tunnel level Fred Schmidt general superintendent of the property prop-erty who came in from camp yesterday yester-day and chased himself back to It last night says the samples for this assay Were taken from a breast of quart seven feet in width and dipping to the southeast at an angle which Is at times very acute It Is his Intention to cutout cut-out station at the collar of this winze for the new plant of machinery which has just reached the camp and that will be In position before the end of the month when sinking on the vein which is eightyseven feet between walls wlll be resumed In another w Inze which has been going go-ing down on the footall ore of the same character has been encountered while a line body of highly mineralized quartz has been uncovered In the Bvftns drift this dipping toward the hanging wall In addition to this thirty thir-ty inches of ore has been exposed and is being followed up at a point off the main drift and conditions at every opening In the property show material improvement Superintendent Schmidt expects lo add La Rome to Tintlcs list of producers long before Hies begin to bother Strike in the Illinois Yesterdays strike at Bingham was contributed by Superintendent W P Williams of the Illinois group adjoining adjoin-ing the Congor samples of ore that were sent in with his report of the discovery dis-covery showing native and black oxide of copper In great abundance AccordIng Accord-Ing to the supcrinlendenfs report there the-re was encountered in the shaft at a depth of 200 feet and when his communication com-munication was closed the ore had widened out to two feet The Illinois IB owned by Mr Williams Brig West of this city and others and Is located io ther north of the Dalton Lark com panys properties The 2VIarysvale Region Tom Ferguson whose camp Is poised upon the pinnacle of the rocky range that separates Gold mountain and Its mines from Marysvale and Its prospective prospec-tive bonanzas came In from the south yesterday Of the region extending from Gold mountain to Marysvale the visitor says it has never presented as much activity and that reports of plant are heard daily from one end oC the strip to the other ilarysvale itself It-self JK growing rapidly a Is also Gold Mountain while around his camp that nestles between the two good values are rewarding the prospector Mr 1 Ferguson la dividing his time and talents tal-ents between the supply store that was established last season by him and a group of prospects in which he Is interested in-terested and that are being developed with very good results He looks for greatly Increased activity with the opening of the summer season The Deer Lodge Mill Joe Bcdorich who departed for Deer rx > dge on Sunday last to get his bearings bear-ings for the proposed mill with which the ores of the Horne Shoe and Home stake group of mines owned by A W McCunc and others arc to be cyanided returned to the city yesterday and will begin work at once on the plans for a plane of ISO tons capacity With the region over which the sun shines 300 days out of the year Mr Dederlch Is most favorably impressed while the work undertaken by the McCune crowd has rapidly demonstrated that the tamp is hc making of a populous and a productive one He did not come In contact with a soul coining out or gong go-ng In Who did not feel that he had been or that ho would be compensated for the work lie has done and who was not preparing to go forward with ItT It-T mill on which Mr McCune and hiss his-s nave decided th assurance In ramps of the locality are t > i d with wli < r uider the r id the blirf that the b xtondtd ijito Deer > i5Ofl are all poInts taly Kuwth and not a r f l in dickers that must L i g In new talent ftlner Hurt in the Mammoth TRIBUNE SPECIAL Mammoth Jan 1LM J Fitzgerald a miner employed In the Mammoth mine went to St Marks hospital this afternoon suffering from some painful Injuries which were inlllctcd hunt night by l an explosion of giant caps He wa working near the famous old Belay lope In a purl of iho mine that hut been practically abandoned for some lime When the shifts changed he went lo a place In the drift where he P > VVW fir 1 TP had hung Ills coat and stuck his candle can-dle into IMP limbers vhllc pulling1 It on As lie stoppid for something Lo explosion occurred Ills face and neck and right oar were lacerated by flying fly-ing rocks and pieces of the caps and his right eye HO badly injured that he may lose the sight Three other minors were near hut were unhurt An In vesllgullon dlsclosied more cups and several sticks of dynamlie which providentially failed to explode No one Avtu able to account for the prcs I oniv of the powder and cups as there I had been no blasting In thai drift PRICES HEAD DOWNWARD In General the Stocks Droop Sales were Not Heavy For 2SnoO shaves of stock the buyer at yesterdays call on Ihe I mining ev change shelled out iilS7 With few exceptions everything wns aboard the II lolMiggnn Yankee Con ihal had curbed tIme previous afternoon at all sorts of advances now sold down to l ic with lolic bid at the close while Joe Hovon that now has 700000 shares Instead of 110000 as formerly In Us brood was allowed to recede to lOTic with less to bo had for It at Ihe windup wind-up npyserManon continued on Its downward course and was a pickup at lie while South Swansea with the shorthorns all filled at fancy figures was lei down to S110 with Lower Mammoth hack at ML and Its Sheridan 2090 miles away Grand Central was reasonably firm and brought 500 while the besi to he had for DalyWest was 11S5 with 5 CO bid for Mercuv Ia Roine with its Achates basking In the sunshine of the Pacific was on the run and sold don to 40c while 1000 Potro brought Hfic with GOOO Boston De La Mar passing over the counter at Me and 3000 Dalton Lark at HI > fiAe the session closing on the following follow-ing prices Bid Asked AJax GT SO Albion Co 100 I Alliance a > Alice 20 GO Antler 0011 V lien Butler 0111 l 2a Host on De La Mar 00Vt WVft Hnckovo 03 ftl Pullion12eck 251 3 33 Hunker Jllll 01 02H Central Mammoth 02 Chloride Point l lf 131 l Congor US S3 Crown Point > GOli i44 I Dalton K Dalton t Iark 0314 rf Daly io 200 DalyWest UST 2126 Dexter 200 2M Kaglo < M Englo < t Blue Bell 110 115 Emerald 01 00 Four Aces 03 jt 06 Frisco 03 Galena 0 Garnet On 10 GeyserMarlon 1354 14 Jolden Eagle 02 05 Golden Gate Extension 50 Grand Central c83 5M llcrcule 00 Old Herschel 01 Ilomcstnko thorn 07 10 t-Horn Silver c 3 Ingot 01 07 international 01 Joe Bowers 10Vi lO1 Joe Bowers ExtensionQ5 OGiI Kremlin 02 05 La Rome 50 Lower Mammoth KSIA sa Little Chief 03 01 Mammoth 24l j 24S Martha Washington 0I i 03 May Day 70 OVi Mercur 6bO GCO Midnight Bowers r 01 0114 Northern Light 15J6 13 North Swansea 01 Nevada osu 15 Omaha 03 Ontario sCO O h00 Orient 07 Petro fait 41 Rabbits Foot 03 10 RichmondAnaconda i 20 50 Sacramento S 25 soy Sea Swan v 10 Showers Con 20 35 Silver Cloud JM M < Silver King A f2GO South Swansea iio ifiO Star Consolidated 22 Success O i Sunbeam ra r5 Sunshine icij Swansea S071 sSO Tetro 04 07 Utsih 10 1 Vaeo 6 West Mt Pincer siJ r6 Yankee Con i5 i 15 Sales were recorded as follows Chloride Point 1000 at 12c alton vt Lark SCOJ a I Vic 1000 at oc GeyserMarlon fj at lOc 500 at 15cT MOat MO-at lie Grand Central 100 at S5M LJI Rolno 100 at 30c KO at 43c Lower Mammoth 2CO at G9c 2W at BOi c 100 at oJiic POO ut 5c Northern Light SCO at 15c COO nt 15c South Swiinnea 200 at 51 lI6 Polro 1000 at Wo Midnight Bowers 10X > at Ic D oaton t UL La Mar XO at Kc Buckeye JMO a I 3o Joe Bouors 500 at ICc fX > at HOic 50 al 11sc 500 al HP 1500 nt 103c Yankee Con WO at 15 c2o at 15c Uf > at 15c 1X0 it ISVo VdQ at The Bunker Hill ICOJ at ITic Shiiros old 25700 Selling value f21S7 CURBSTONE DEALS On the curbstone during the afternoon after-noon 1G1SO shares of stock sold for 172087 Yankee Con was again very active with S500 shares going over the counter at > 15 Vie while 1000 Nor them Light wan released at 15Vt15 c A lot of 100 Grand Central was loosened up at 58TJ4 and ISO DalvWest nt 1202 Three thousand Dalton Lark was delivered at 64c and 500 Lower Mammolh sil 6Sc with 400 IMay Day selling down to 7lc Martha Washing ton was brought out at ItJ5c at which ligures 1500 changed hands while 1000 Joe Mowers Extension was allowed to go 11 5ie SALES OF THE DAY The days gales in pit and on the curbslone reached a i total of 45030 shares thai brought 5306474 On the curbstone 1C150 shares sold for S4720S7 on the exchange 2SOOO shares for 13 i3s7 Highland Boy Copper Of the llallly ° c copper ore of which the Highland Boy mine nt Blnghnm Is produclive the collection of samples brought in by Paymaster Ford yeslor clay uirouled most gll tiering evidence Jnclud d In It was at least a half dozen varieties of ore in which the higher values are contained Xo country ever upasled moru perfect examples of the ciialcopyrlit bornlte or covelllte some of the samples showing us much as 60 per cent copper with their auriferous contents running away up into the ga mut that prevails at Blngham It Is this quality of oro that sweittcnn up the mass liich is i pasoed Into the fur naccs at tit Hineltvr and which makes il possible for the company lo main lain a copper and gold average of which lew countries whether it be In the Lake Superior region of Michigan or the camps of Montana are capable Pay master Ford reports the output now running on an cvarge of over 200 tons uallv while the opening up of the ore bodies in the No 7 tunnel Is going on without Interruption The Baiabcrgcr Purchase Inllmallon was received In the city ycsicrday by Ron W S JfcOornlclc that local subscribers to the Hoggin and lUnrst block of stock of the Daly Wcst Mining cnijny would be called upon lo remit th ij Lace on or before January loth as upon that day the transfer books will cloae and the 470J0 shares transferred before that time i will carry with it the dividend of 20 j I cenia a share or S9SOO an Hem not to 1 be sneezed at The former notice that the balance making a total of 500000 for the lotwas issued by the Mcssra Bambergor under an apprehension thai the transfer books would close on lie January dividend on the lOlh A letter from an Eunlern shareholder received in the city yesterday confesses tlnil much Interest and not a little nn easIness IH manlftBlod there ovrr them the-m future inaiiagenient of the property but this will nol be determined until PllI1 the icttirn of the Messrs Bamberger from time far South The Homestako Drop IUr Richard D Millet who for several I sev-eral years presided over the mines and mill of the great Jlomeslake Mining company of South Dakota said yesterday yes-terday that time alarming decline In the companys stock was due entirely to a recent Increase In the number of shares t and to a prevailing apprehension that I this must necessarily be followed by a reduction In the monthly dividend Last year the company paid a regular and an extra dividend or f > 0 cents each I month upon ILiOOO shares When It waa deilded lo purchase the properties of the Highland company of which Jlon O J Salisbury of this city was ono of the ofllceis the Black Hills mail loud and time property of the Black hIlls Canal and Valer company the directors ordered the capital number of shares Increased to 210000 and the I market doubling the I companys ability to maintain the formei dividend le cenlly began an unloading that has Sent the shares from 03 down to 50 Mr Mlllel says the JTomeslake still has a vast aiea of virgin ground and that there is probably no real cause for the s scare Ore and Bullion Settlements The tlays settlements in the ore and bullion market amounted to SIOGOO divided di-vided as follows T R Jones < o Germanla bullion 24oOO gold silver lead and copper ores 0700 McCornlek it Co Mingo bullion CRiMl gold silver lead and copper ores 6100 In the metal market silver ruled atM at-M sti cents an ounce lead at lr7 per hundred pound and casting copper at 15 cents a pound Park Gold Company Samples President W D Mathls of time Park Gold Mining company received samples sam-ples of ore from the companys piop erly n > ar Marysvalc yesterday In which native and horn silver with free gold are plainly visible lo the naked eye The samples were taken from tIme shaft at a depth of forty feet During tho past three months the company has built a good road up Gold Run canyon to the property erected a whim and slmfrhouse cabins and blacksmith I i shop and Is equipped for a season of active work Plans for Navaho Mill Plans for the big mill with hlch the I ores of the Navaho Mining companys I properties at Bland N M are to Ixs I handled are to be prepared in this city at once and work on the structure commenced as soon as they are com plescd To this end Col O P Pose manager for the company yesterday wired his engineer Mr F M Johnson who is now In San Francisco to report In Sail Lake City at once Ills workshop work-shop will be in that which has been provided for Messrs Nutting Watson Wat-son who have the BSngham Copper and Gold Mining companys smelter In hand and that with the arrival of Mr Johnson will present a very busy spectacle spec-tacle The Navaho mill In which not a few Sail Lallers who hae Invested in the companys shares are Interested will consist of no less than 100 stamps said Col Pose yesterday while a cyanide cy-anide plant will be provided for the tailings Its location AI11 be alongside that with which the ores of the great Cochlli are being treated and its construction con-struction will be speeded to the earliest possible completion Off for the International Herman H Greene leaves for the properties of the International Copper company In Heath mining district Idaho Ida-ho this morning and before returnIng return-Ing will have established a permanent camp and let contracts for several hundred feet of development work At a meeting of the companys directors It was deckled to drive the vein a distance dis-tance of 400 feet which when connection connec-tion IB made will afford a vertical depth of about 400 feel According lo Mr Moore who Is down from time district dis-trict and who is one of the original locators lo-cators of the companys ground a careful care-ful sampling of the ore thai has been encountered shows as much na 7 percent per-cent copper 10 in gold and slxl ounces silver per ton These results have been obtained from the upper workings on the claims and he expects to see the values Improved as the tunnel which will follow up the strike of the vein advances The outlook for the company Is a very encouraging one Jlr Hemingtons Work After an absence of several months Mr W IT i Remington a m former member mem-ber of the City Council of Salt Lake has returned from the State of Washington Wash-ington where he Is taking an active part In the development of the mining camps while promoting the erection of a smelter Over the mining Interests of that State Mr Remington is i as en Ihuslaslic as was he over those of this commonwealth before he shook Ihc lust of Utah from his feet and chose a home in the Northwest Not only has the output of the Washington camps shown an astonishing Increase during the past twelve months but the smelters are now receiving consignments consign-ments of concentrates from camps In Alaska and are handling an unprecedented unprece-dented amount of ore The rush for the beach diggings itt Nome promises lo be even greater than that which swept so many into the Klondike country says Mr Remington and already many thousands of persons have been booked for passage All time towns upon the sound arc booming and a year of great pioxperily is promised Mr Tackling f in Wasumgton Commenting upon the arrival of Mr D C Jackllng the new manager of thu Republic con at Republic Wash Ihe newspaper of lhat ramp says Mr Jackllngs coming to Republic camp Is of utmost Imporiance nol only to the Republic company Itself but lo eveiy person Interested In mining in thai camp He has assured the directors direc-tors of lie Republic mine lhal he can roduro lie cost of reduction of the ores of that mine CG per cent and thai Jie ran save Ti per cent of the values Thia is a big promise but the Republic own eis believe that Mr Jacking can carry it out and his record Is an Indication that lie faith of his new employers is nol unfounded Mr JaeklSng Is considered the foremost fore-most cyanide expert In the country To his dovotnl efforts through five years beginning In 1803 is due the success that has attended the mines operated by Capl DC La Mar al Mercur Utah H i has been said of him that the great reduction works erected there are an enduring monument to his skill ami genius as a metallurgist ito has practically prac-tically made the mines the prolUpayora they now are Mr Jackllng Is a young man smoothfaced boylahlooking but wlth al the student and the man of keen bought arc depicted in his face He Is unassuming avoiding publicity and preferring to show his ability In his works rather than In tales that arc told Mining Notes Three carloads of ore came In from the Mammoth yesterday The Horn Silver reported with three more cams of ore on the market yesterday yester-day The Swansea of Silver City came In I from camp with seven cars of ore yes lerday J II Wedgwood left for Blnglmm to examine mining property yesterday morning Yesterdays receipts at Ihe I Conklln I 1 sampler consisted eight cars of ore I from Silver Clly three from Mammoth and one from Nevada The receipts atC C j tIme Taylor Imimmim ran toimpler consist I cd of one carload from Park City one I from Morgan county three from Blng luim and three from Frisco The Montessuma of Bingham arrived at the sampler with anolhcr carload of ore yesterday Manager Loose of time Grand Central Cen-tral was among yesterdays visitors from the south The Mercur Mining company reported report-ed at the gold ampler yesterday with SOO pounds of gold lust The Dalton Lark of Bingham had two more carloads of ore on tIme sidetracks side-tracks til time sampler yesterday The Carbonate Hill mine of Morgan I county 1 reported with t another lot of highgrade lead and silver ore yesterday yester-day dayS The New Imperial I Mining company of 1 Tintic sent in a carload of ore yesler I day the llrat lo arrive from that S-prop properly in many months i Tim DalyWest shot another carload I of ore down from Park Iity yesiorda this completing a lot of halfdozen in the past fortyeight hours Manager Allen of HIP Centennial erly-Eu Eureka came In from thai Tlntlc bonanza i again last night and roporia the t dully output going along at 100 tons Hon Jamcn X Ferguson came In from Robinson where he Is dividing his attention between the mines and the I Miners Supply company yesterday George MacErlaln came in from Mammoth again > esleidny and leports lime tonnage from the mines gradually recovering the I figures thai ruled before the holidays James T Donahue general reka-superin superintendent for the Mammoth Mining com pahy came In I from lhat I Tin tic I tendent-prop property yesterday morning and left for camp again lasl night 1 Col Ilcnrv O IJcffron manager of 1 the Shocbridgo Bonanza at Silver City I left for the property last night and will m starl a consignment of highgrade ore lo market before returning The directors of the Boston De La 1 Mar Mining l company yesterday levied I an assessment of 6 f cent a share from which they hope to derive 1251 The assessment becomes delinquent erty-Febru February 12th The Ely Mining company of this city yesterday received a small consignment of very high grade gold ore from its mines al Ely Nev It is estimated that the lot will yield several hundred ary-dol dollars per ton A cony of the articles of lars-Incorpora Incorporation and bylaws of the Boston Placer Mining company was yesterday llled with time Secretary of State and tion-Ed Edward E Hoffmann of Richfield Sevler county named as authorized agent of the company In Utah |