The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-17
MINING NOTES.
From the Park City Record /:

The Richardson Tunnel is in rs
feet.
A new boarding house ia bein
erected at the LsxaWaxen. The min
is looking very well.
The drift for the vein on the 40
3 level in the Empire las again beel
] ttarted. The vein should be cut mex
week
On Thursday the Ontario mill shu
down for few needed repairs. 1t vii
probably be ready to resume work to
|, morrow.
Mr.. Pickering, foreman at tht
Wasatch. brought us in a sample o
the ore which be has in the face o
the tunnel. 1t is very rich indeed
There we're twelve inches OF ore or
Wednesday, and the vein widening
The ore shows beautifully ia the roo
OF the tunnel, where it has not yet
been Jagged. Two shifts are now al
work.
At the Ontario a new machine shop
is being erected between the old
hosting works and the blacksmith
shop. 1t will be 23x42 feet. A new
engine and lathe has been ordered.
The FORCES in the blacksmith shop
will have blast attachment run by
power from the machine shop. The
station at the 700 level ia completed,
and the DRIFT for the vein is in about
forty-6ve feet. The crosscut will be
made at distance of 200 feet from
the shaft.
The Glenco is looking better than
ever before. The DRIFT is in fifty feet
on the vein, which shows well all the
way from foot in the mar
roHest places, up to two and three
feet of ere. The face OF the drift car.
ries about two feet OF fine smelling
ore. There are forty tons of ore on
the dump. This week drifting on
the vein hiss been suspended, and
tunnel Is being run to cut a direct
and straight outlet for the dirt.
Heretofore it wss reached By q pros
pect tunnel which had two right.
angle turns.
The Boss Mine is producing from |
three to five tons of ore per day, taken |
from the face of the drifts and two
slopes just started above the 35-foot |
level. The output will increase as
The slopes are raised. The mine is in
the finest possible working order.
The 35-loot level has been pushed
east TO the surface, coming out under
the dump 1t now makes a splendid
tunnel. An incline has
been started from the drift on the
L00-foo. level, and Is nov down forty
feet in good ore all the way.
Yesterday we visited the Sampson
Nine, and found James 8. Leahy
two shifts in the discovery
haft. 1t is now down I25 feet, on ss
mooth & foot wall sll the way as one
,ouId wish to see. The vein is about
even feet thick, with a streak OF from
en to twenty four inches, carrying
more or less silver and lead. The
hit at work previous to our visit had
,ome into some very high grade
chloride GRE, which was improving
esteldsy. We hope to record big
trike mex. week. Twenty five feet
Ieeper and d drift vii! be run east On
ne vein. The Sampson is undoubt-
ijly on the B SIS vein. The two
hsfta are less than 100 ieet apart.
are being made for win
er. By covering in the shaft The
Method for supplying fresh air de-
erVss mention. At the depth OF
hirty foet a small furnace is built.
IN air tube enters it from the bottom
II the shaft, and one runs from it to
he surface. 4 fire being made, the
lot air escends to the surface, thus (
uckiDg up from below tha foul air. It
, a complete SUCCESS. {
rom the Southern Utah Times:
The shalt on the Carbonate No. 2 ,
J down sixty-two feet and has been
iscontinued and drift started north .
D catch the vein. The drift is now :
q about fifteen feet.
The Best OF All ia down but eight ,
BET, but shows q fine vein OF gslena
re. He Gays there are now ak tons !
n the dump that will 60 56 per cent.
Esd and SO ounces silver. :
Col. Compson reports the Frisco :
Iompany working three men on the |
snGers and two on Best of All. The :
bait of the former is down fifty-four !
eet on the. vein, which is nearly !
ertiele, but has a slight dip toward !
be contact not far of. Several tons :
good GRE ere On the dump.
From Mr.. 7. NJ. Collins, who is {
ow carrying on the work on !
1e Caro- Gordo, ne learn that .
be shaft is down sixly-eight fee. =
nd drift has been staked to cut the !
edge, which Is supposed to be distant /,
bout twenty-five leel. He says a I,
last was put in on the groupings OF !,
Do vein last Tuesdsy, which threw +
ut boulders of black metal ore +
,eighiug from 200 to 800 pounds, r
,hich will assay from 400 to 600 +,
uuces to the ton. He reports about
twenty-five tons awaiting shipment.
The railroad is completed to the
Torn Silver mine and the grade to
le smelser is being pushed with q r
i'm. V tracks will be put in at r
9th the mine and smelter, and the 7
BAD will reach the dump of the
alter from the north-e east, the only 7
ONT from which it was found prac-
cable to approach. superintendent {
owe is now engaged on plans for the
nlargment OF the two stone Z
lrnaCes. 1t is the intention to
oubls their capacity, and the work ;,
i'll be begun very soon. Furnace =
10. l was run down on Wednesday,,
q account of damaged jacket, but
i'll be il blast again in q feR days.
10 bullion has been shipped this
lonth. but is being stackd up in the s
srd at the smelter.
WHEN YOU want Plain or Mixed
rink don't forget that you can get a
GOD one at the Exchange Saloon.
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