The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-05
THE COMsTOCK OF UTAH.
The South Galena Consolidated,
@0quirrh Gold Mining Go, Com
meTGiaI, and Last Chanc5
Group.
By MARK w. bIUsGRoyE.

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and was formerly known as the
Live Yankee and Galena extension.
The Galena Extension tunnel is in
400 feet and still being advanced at
an average Of two and a half feet
per day. The vein will average
twenty feet in width, and shows
strata OF very fine silyer-lead ore.
This tunnel was run for the purpose
of tapping the ore-body which was
found in the upper workings, and
which yielded such large amount
OF high grade ore No. l The vein
has been cut at irregular intervals
almost the entire length of the prop
erty. Still higher up is another tun-
mel in 100 feet, and a drift started
from the face on the vein. And the
latter proves to be over fifty feet in
width. This vein is a continuation
of the old Galena vein owned by the
Jordan company, and extends into
the Live Yankee patent from this
tunnel. An upraiSe has been made
on the ore ninety feet, and connects
with the ore-bOdy in the easterly
end Of the Live Yankee Mine. st
the point of connection the ore-body
is four feet thick, and is exposed in
the drift over thirty-three feet, with
various sinks and raises, and in au
probability $4,000 worth of ore is ill
sight. On the west end of the Live
Yankee patent, and nearly 1000
feet from the last mentioned
ore-body, a shaft was sunk
forty feet, and a very strong
body of ore uncovered, which
assays from u per cent. lead and
eighty-five ounces in silver to IS per
cent. lead and 500 ounces in silver
per ton. For the amount of deVel-
opment this is by far the most prom
ising property in the district.
LAST CHANCE CONSOLIDATED SILL
YER MINING COMPANY.
That star property, the Last
Chance, is situated near the head Of
Carr Fork and has been one of the
principal bullion producing proper
ties in the district. The main tun-
mel is in 1926 feet; the Last Chance
vein being struck at 826 feet;
though several smaller veins were
crossed before running this distance;
but no work is done towards their
development. The pay ore in the
Last Chance vein averages about
four feet in width and very fine
grade. Large Slopes have been
opened from this level clear to the
rrnrfinn1 6nnfh Of foot
and thousands upon thousands Of
dollars extracted. When it is re-
membered that during the years
1872 and 1873 at least 100000 in
round figures worth Of bullion pro-
duced by this property was placed
to the credit Of the Flagstaff Mine,
and it yet holds its own with good
average Output-there must have
been an immense ore-body unc0v-
cred even at that early date. The
ore from these Slopes yielded very
high percentage in gold besides sill
yer and lead. 1t is further devel-
oped by shaft at S26 feet at the in
tersection Of the vein which is
down 25O feet. AT 200 feet a level
was opened and advanced on the
vein forty to fifty feet; III grade the
latter carrying u ounces in silver
per ton. The total bullion yield of
this property to date is at least $780,
900.
The Hooper Mine is also owned by
this company, having been pur-
chased last fall. 1t is developed by
the main tunnel 562 feet. At the
distance of 134 feet a twelve-foOt
vein was cut, and the landscapes
were very satisfactory. In the face
is a small stratum of very fine ore,
assays averaging 90 to 81 ounces in
silver and 81 per cent. lead A very
nice lot of ore on the dump Will
average 65 ounces in silver per ton
and 45 per cent. lead. This tunnel
is being advanced at from seventeen
to twenty feet per week. Some little
cr0SS-cutting has been done on this
level. About fOrty-fve feet above
this point another tunnel has been
rtn EOS feet on the vein, which is
twelve feet in width. The average
assay across the vein is IS ounce III
silver and % per cent. lead. The
progress for the week being thirty
feet. An old Wine connects these
two levels. About 300 feet from
the discovery Is d tunnel in 100 feet,
the vein being four feet wide and
the quality Of ore very high grade.
The Last Chance and Hooper
Mines are developed to greater eX-
tent than any other of these upper
tier of mines. and their great value
has increased in. proportion to the
work expended. Situa ed as they
are, on the main gold beltOf the dis
trict, the mines of which have
produced millions in the past
few years, there is no doubt but the
prospects of this company are as
bright. if not brighter, than any
other in the justly celebrated Carr
Fork section, and with the advan-
tage of deep mining by tunnel,
thereby saving the erection OF ex-
pensive hosting machinery at the
outset, the outlook for these prop-
critics is certainly flattering.
The Opulent, owned by this COM
pany. is situated in Black Jack
Gulch. The development consists
of a tunnel in 100 feet, showing a
vein two and one-half feet wide.
Another tunnel-about thirty feet