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Show Wm d Mining. During tlio past two weeks bjt little new hns been developed in local mining circles on account of de-p snow preventing prevent-ing miners fiom icacMng their claims. Tho Utah A Mexican Onyx Co. havo begun shipping onyx to Salt Ink(i where It will )'C sawed Into slabs 14 inches In thickness and polished for ui in tlio city nnd county building. Watson Dros are doing the pol!shlng. Mr. I). P. lillrmunn has nrcotiated n snle of his onyx cl.iims in t-'.ih I .like parties. par-ties. Tho terms iro HO.uOO, J590 on tlio tenth of thl-nnonthn!id$l,000pcrmonth until paid. The sale embraces about 0 claims located about three miles west of Illtesmnn'sold ranch on Utah Lake. Miners may now have their assaying doao nt homo. Mr Geo. Teit n first class nssnycr hnxlng moved into the Hammer llulldlng yesterday. Mr. Tell hasnncxpcnsivcniidcompleienpparntus for testing ores nnd by reason of his vast cxpcrlonceis thoroughly competent. Karrca and Rojlc sent some men out this week to work theh claims nt Tick-vllln Tick-vllln but when thoy arrived, all of the tools nnd pro i-lsioiii left nt the camp a week previous wcro missing It appears that somo one in the dUtuet uve in tlio habit of prospecting fjr something besides be-sides gold. This Is something Unit must bostopped. The guilty parlies should bo apprehended nnd giou tlie full extant ex-tant of tlio law, fur we fear that if any nre caught In tlie net, tlie " Colorado Liw" will be administered to them. (175,000.00 Mining Deal. Mr. W. L. Croir of Mincmillo wns seen by our mining reportci this week, and tho cheerful aspect, witti which his usually sedate countenance, loomed up, caused said reporter to "smell a mice." Mr Croft" for many yearn has been dilligcntly engaged in working certain mines in L'ncolu District, nutated n little north-east of Minersville, and frequently flattering minora Imvo reached reach-ed us of big strikes there ; but it appears that nothing dellnito has eer come from them. Now, it developed, howexer, that Mr. Croir bus succeeded in interesting interest-ing somo Keastcrn parties In his claims there (bouiu fourteen in uuinbei) nnd hab succeeded h'so liOudt'-l"',-"t (gallons whfb li-go finally culminated in n positive oiT"yTJIr. Croir, nnd those Interested with Yilm, of $17G,fAH).(A for tho full nud undivided in lures t in Etiid mines. Two thousand dollars of which Is to bo paid down and the balance lu Installments. Heaver I'louian. |