The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-13
MINING NOTES.

Lug hAHkeys snaIt ~ LOW uOHQ
about 120 feet.
The Jones BoEEuzA shaft is down
$50 feet. The vein will DO crosscut
next week.
The Lizzie tunnel, in Rsd Pine
Cahon, between the Homeatske and
Glenco, is in sixty feet on The vein,
which is said to carry free milling
ore. Harry Ingram is running it.
Stopping ont the ore body between
the 100 and 200 levels in the White
Pine commenced yesterday. The
station on the 400 lsvel is 1898, be-
sides which the pump station is to be
added on the side. The drift is in
seventy-6ge feet from the cha t.
Two drifts on the 400 level In the
Lady of the Lake are being run north
and south. Neither have reached
the vein, but in one (which one We
could not learn water IS commencing
to come in freely. The only work
done below the 400 level is a stump.
Mr.. Hoar is :he present superinten-
dent, having taken charge on the
18th of August, from which time to
September 4th he sunk the shaft 100
feet, his predecessors having sunk
but sixty-fve feet from April Sd to
August 9TH. No contract work is
being done now. Three shifts are
being run and twenty-fsur men are
Improvements are constantly being |
made at the Ontario mine. Mr. Cor. |
rell has just built new oil house at
q safe distance from the works, which |
IS thoroughly fire-proof. The walls
are two feet thick. OF solid rock ma.
sonry, and the roof is an arch of |
bricks. The doors and windows are
Of iron. The grade for the new coal
house is almost completed. The
imbers are all finished and will be
sreoted next week. Its size will be
i0x50 and 81 feet high-A rather
coal house. The
boarding house has undergone re-
1sirs, and is now quite comfortabl
The dining room will accommodate
slightly men. The new kitchen is per-
ect in all its details, and tue Mon
golian cooks feel as happy ae Tycoons.
At the Lowell mine preparations
Tor steady wintsr's work are nearing
The hosting works are
ID and make a fine showing. The
ilze of the main building is 1910, 80
eet to caves, and tho portion over
he shaft 10 feet. The blacksmith
hop Is on the east end, and tho boiler
DOM, which is 1880, on the ives.
nd. A boarding house and Office is
icing built, 18x45, aud two stories
ligh. There is an abundance ofroom
With but little grading. for all the ]
wood yards, etc., that NAV {
yer be found necessary. Mr.. N.
DreWeek, the superintendent, has
commenced sinking the shaft. The
for the pump ia Axe
nd the other 4x43. Room for a /
bird compartment Is left. The bob J
it will be sI22 and I3 feet deem. +
he works are alter tha same plan
} the Algonquin mine, PuillipsburR, :
louIsna. All the machinery il fur. r
ished by the contractor, w. II. II. U
lowers.
We havs known for several months Il
the promising Indication. develop 2
ls day by day along what 10 named I
10 Jeanette Lode, in Thames a
shon, but awaited results OF the b
Ork in progress before calling special 81
tenticn TO them. Colonel VIM. NJ. b
cry, the locator and owner OF this q
CUP Of claims, has been continu- ~
Isly at work Cpou them sor nearly n
70 years with a systematic and per- n,
tent energy, CT the details of which Ii
, shall have more TO sly hereafter. al
le results brough: out nov furni.h In
oof that even a "teIderfool" can fa
n5ue geological data and common 81 81,
lse into an effective and successful h.
of what was hidden in ce
g rocks. A series of tunnels Of bo
IRE or less length and apparently 81
the casual observer having no M
nmon object, being at long dis X,
ices apart, and their course not no no
ke, yet deemed necessary for the ito
ect IN view, or, as the colonel says,
t is needlul 30 know where a vein
not in order to find where it
has demonstrated the local pu
OF true fssure vein; and this hoi
,specling work has so definitely eve
ined toe position of this fs- cat
g tina, the work OF the last few 6al
sks bss been going straight for it. nj III
g work OF running tunnel thirty Tor
on one claim opened out a Ger
loot vein between we'll defined
Is. Passing by an intermediate me
ion and sinking twenty feet upon tue
third claim developed the same DO,
q, in each oiwhich rich ore is now o.
ng taken cut, and has shown the noh
lilOn OF large true isIure vein ord
ming through each OF the three poll
als. The assays from the Thane how
as follows, material selected As
d different parts OF the vein across 10
Iace): $37 81 silver. per cent. iTbs
/; Sl6e.65 silver, % per cent. lead; Ate
7 So silver, 81 So per cent. lead, d
30 gold; S2S9.03 silver, 30 per rive
t. lead. Assays from the Jeanette stan
Uintsh: 1922 As silver; IS per nan
:. lead; 1912 gold; $2O0.45 silver, az r-' = :
per cent. lead. S5.1S gold. The or !,
ie of working these mines is wor
,ugh tunnels, without the ex- from
Sc OF sinking shafts and machi- Ora
? for pumping and hosting works. brln
heir location is favorable for thus k
sopilg them, and the great body too ZOO
ater encountered passes out By men
Iily, ever