The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-14
THE COMSTOCK OF UTAH.
A Big Mine and What it has
Done.
BY MARK W. MUsGRovE.
THE STEWART NO. 2 NINE.

This valuable gold property
was located in 1878, by A ].
Phillips, who, the same fall, sold q
half interest to DR.. a. D. Bevan. OF
this city, the latter gentlemen, agree
ing to run a tunnel III 250 feet for this
interest. The following spring DR..
Bevan bought another quarter, and
In August, 1879, it was incorporated
under the name of the Beysn Gold
and Silver Mining Company; the
capital stock placed at 100, 600 shares
of the par value of $40 each. The
main incline has been driven down
$50 feet, and follows a well defined
vein, which will average from ak to
ten feet in width; the assay value
across the vein being about $25 god
and So silver per ton. At 80 ieet
down assays were obtained showing as
high as 500 gold per ton, the vein
four feet wide. The first level was
opened 100 feet below the surface and
the east drift advanced 100 feet on a
we'll defined five foot vein, which sv-
eraged across something over $50.
The west drift connects with an old
tunnel started from the surface, aud
is 800 feet in length, this tunnel hsV-
ing been run to tap the vein. About
fifty feet further down the $50 foot
level was opened on the east driit
in eighty feet, showing a six-foor
vein of high grade gold ore. The
west drift is in forty feet, and In the
lace the ore body is fully five feet wide,
and in grade will average az least $50
gold and from So to s5 silver per ton.
The ore body, ss sampled by Prof.
Morton, at the mouth OF the east DRIFT,
averaged across $3.50 gold and few
dollars silver. From the face OF ihIs
DRIFT 8 Winze was sunk thirty five feet
on q we'll defined four-toot vein
which averages $50 per ton An up
raise about fifty feet from the face oil
this level connects with The 1O0-foot
level above. The 200-iOot level Wal
only driven few feet, aud three ION
lot ore extracted, which, rs sampled
lin this city. averaged Sl04 GOLD and
S23 silver per ton. From this point
the vein has rapidly widened, and thl
grade OF ore remarkably high. ant
In the bottom is we'll defined en-
loot vein. TIE west drift Is IN 1t
feet, and an uprsise OF xt,
fse:. from which is another drltt IN
ming west letty feet. From tn- tacs
OF this level IL IA VINE dO@'. tort
tert. and the vein averages y"Iy uni
. tormly on this level about sZo golt
and SIS silver On the eastern end c
A the properly, very near the line OF to
g stewart No. l, is vertical shaft
+ down sixty feet, and drift West iroc
the bottom forty feet. connecting WI
s. the upralse from the $50 to the 1W
!, / loot level. This drift exposes sOi''
lour-foot vein, and makes the come
r ton, being the developments on 81
o orc ppdy which has been traced 115
t f4et-lOUO feet on the Stewart No
aud $50 feet on the No. 2. From to
d. s.opment it would appear tbs
4 there are two ore bodies, one en- tn
hanging and one on the loot wan
3 With u lime AM porphyry formation
: about xty ieet wide between. lt
!, es,im sted that there are lev expose
J. at least lC0 600 soD- 81 ore. "hic
i will aversye $25 ger ,oU, 'nakIn
!. a total CT 81, 500, COO III s'g, IN oar
% money. 1neTe l. bu, i'tl1 dUubt tDh
l. A. depth i attained these I~o ven
u must come together. ne ceep>
: workings Oh the mice show That 10
|. vein carries q higher percentage !
I'll silver than that obtained nearer to
surface. This is considered by con-
r. pstsnt Judges to be the finest gol
e property in Carr Fork. and tie deVe
opments alresdy prove the ere DOC
!. almos, inexhaustsbls. The ore ca
i be sold for only about half the asss
,e yalue; that is, Sl20 ore hrlnl
N but $50 here, and the sfocl
y holders have heretofore pT
D ferred to put their hands in the
s. s. pockets to keep up the development
- rather than lose 80 per cent. OF IL
value OF the ore. This property
covered By q. 5. pstent.