The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-16
MINING NOTES.
From the Park City Record:

said to be $1,000. Our Information
Is not positive.
A croescut is said TO have beer
started from the 400 le5el of the Lad,
of the Lake. but the direction is KEEP
: secret.
Sinking for the 200 level in the
Boss will commence-on mex Monday
The character of the ore is becoming
richer and the output is increasing.
The Smelter is to start up on Mon
day neyt, Mr.. David StriDger, the
new superintendent, having arrived.
Everything lie in readiness for an un.
interrupted run.
The Sampson has shut down fol
the present. 1t is not known when
it will again start, but from the man
ner the vein was improving in the
incline, it shonld not Icy idle long.
The drift being Iun for the vein on
the 400 level in the Empire is very
near the vein. Considerable water is
now coming in. The ore house is
completed and tramwsy has been
constructed from the shaft to the ere
chute.
The building for the new hosting
works at the Utah will be started the
beginning of next week. The size is
50x100 feet. The gallows frame will
oe forty.four feet high. The hosting
engines are nearly the same pattern
as those in the old works at the
Ontario.
Sinking at the HAWkeye ia progress
sing without interruption. The shaft
is now down over sixty feet. The
surface drain works admirably, car
rying of a large stream of water
which would otherwise have to be
thrown out by a sinking pump.
A coal strike is reported about
three miles below the city, on Silver
Greek. VIM. BoWden and John Rose
vera ere the locators. They claim to
have found the indications about
year ago, but have only recently began
opening it up. They say they have
unesrthed indications OF former
works, in a drift, or incline, which
they are running. Old timbers have
been taken out and other signs found
which prove indisputably that many
years ago work was done on it. There
we're no signs on the surface of the
ground ever having been disturbed. |
At last report they had not reached |
the vein, but had taken out some
cosl, with which they shsrpened
their picks. If a good body Of coal
could be found there it would be OF |
immense value.
The hosting engine for the Lowell
d Williamson will be the next largest
in the camp to those at the Ontario.
Its capacity will be 100. horse power.
1t will be constructed differently from
anything now here, as it is to run
the Cornish pump as well as hoist
from the shaft The pump rod will
be 8xS inches, and the pump cylin-
ders eight inches in diameter and six
foot stoke-twelve strokes per minute.
The design is eventually Tor a double
line OF pumps. II this pump proves
successful, and there is not the least
doubt that it will, there is no reason
why it should not come into general
use in this camp. 1t is far less ex-
persive than one would suppose. The
building, boiler, engine and pump,
capable of sinking 400 feet, will cest
but $500 w. Il. Il. Bowers,
agent for Griffith & Wedge, has the
contract throughout. The machin.
cry is 10 come from GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Sixteen men have been kept busy On
the grade, which is now completed.
n. Treweek will commence sinking
next week. Drifting will commence
at the zoo level.
From the Southern Utah Times:
Two men we're put On the Cave Elk.
tension on Monday, and from the
nature OF the ground We are sanguine
of having a strike to report at no
distant day. They are running on a
foot of iron ore which will probably
lead to open or cGvy ground.
The Nabob mine in Beaver Lake
district is showing up remarkably
we'll. One OF the owners has taken
out during the past three days, alone.
over half a ton OF horn silver, black
and black metal that will
assay up in the hundreds. The vein
locks well and shows no signs OF
pinching.
Tue new development in the Hics
kory mine, North Star, of which
mention was made last week, pro-
misses to be OF great importance. It
is developed to q depth OF but five
feet, but deep enough to shoW that
an ore body exists at that point of no
mean dimensions. We shall await
further Developments with interest.
The Little Mint claim in North
Star, Just south oil the Hickory, ia
showing up well, and promises to the
owners, ]. Ii. Graham, W. 7. Chase
and 6. B. Tibbits, large returns for
the labor expended. The shaft is
down about sixteen feet, and shows
vein matter to the width of fifteen
feet, Interpreted with a great deal Of
rich quartz,
The new strike in the Carrie Luz
ellie, mentioned last week, is prom
ising to be a very valuable find. II
appears the ore was found in the drift |
and not in the crosscut, the latter
having been discontinued and drifting |
on the vein resumed. The ore stands
in the shape of wedge, being but
about sizteen inches gids in the top
OF the drift, while in the bottom it is
fully three feet. An assay from an
average sample gave 81 per cent.
lead, fifty ounces silver and 81 in
gold. A car load of ore is nov
being sacked for shipment to Salt
Lake.
The Horn Silver hosting works
we're started up the beginning OF the
week and found 10 work smoothly.
Four Of the eight ore bins sre COM
pleted, aud look as solid and perma-
nent as the surrounding hills. Every
thing at the mine seems ready to
meet any demand that may be made
upon Its immense Gre reserves. At
the smelteT but one stack is running.
Nos. 2 and are undergoing repairs.
We made mention last week OF the
fact that furnace No. l, the water
Jacket, was being reconstructed out Of
brick, on account of the scarcity of
water. The question OF sn adequate
supply OF water has been 8 serious one
with the company. The new we'll has
proved itself inadequate to supply
even present need, go a change Of
base has been finally decided unon.