The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-01

5 the vein one hundred feet below is
? proceeding; and thus the process
goes along coDtlnuOusly,ei either until
the vein runs out or the end lines Of
, the claim are reached. AS the ore is
removed the slopes are used as re-
ceptacleS for the waste rock ana
matter that is not worth carrying
10 the surface. No. shaft cut the
vein at the depth of 425 feet, ana
all ore in the Ontario above the 400
foot level has been taken out, and
what ore is gotten above that point,
now is from The Last Chance, a
claim west of the Ontario, nearly Is
old as the latter in the matter of dis
cOvery, is continuation of the On
tariO vein. belongs TO the Ontario
company, and is 10 all appearances a
bigger and better thing. speaking the
language of the mines. than the On
tariO. The vein on the 600-fOOt-
level has been followed from a point
$50 feet west of the Ontario END
lines on the east, the whole length,
of the claim and into the Last
Chance for 500 feet, showing con-
tin dOus and well defined We Ia of
nea 'ly 1000 feet in length, being ORs
of the best marked and longest COR
tinuOus ore bodies in America. And
the end is not yet, for no man can
tell what there is hidden in the
west, beyond the points where the
men are picking, drilling and blast
ing. No man may say that the Vein
shall continue one mile or two, or
shall stop short an6 disappear with
i'll a hundred feet from the bottom OF
the last drill hole. Such know
edge as the world has of Silver-beaT-
ing Lodges tells that the Ontario
vein will go On and Oil, beyond the
Last Chance, and on amongstfge~
score OK such matter of claims 10
| caIed on the fame Of the Ontario,
and each IN the hope that it will De
the lucky ground in which the big
vein viii De found. We also hope
il may continue after it ceases to he
either the Ontario or the Last
Chance, and that it will grow
broader and richer during all the
generations that it may be worked,
for America i'll general, rich as she
is, or Utah IN particular, wealthy az
SHE is fast becoming, has few
enough such mineral veins. 1t
! would be a FAD disaster to the min
ing business were the end or the
lot ON Of the vein which VIII
forever bear the name Ontario, to be
fomlQ. Happily there is no indlea-
ton Of such an event, the prospect
and promise for a continuance
| growing brighter and better eYery
day.
On the east the vein diminishss
in size and The ore is less rich. On
some of the levels, where it has
been abandoned before the .enES
lines were reached, it appears as Il
blush black streak between ahe-
pOrphyry and Quartzite walls, and
is of so little value that il
will not pay for running a tunnel six
| by eight feet into the lock between
| which it is confined. 1t is 4 notice
able fact, and one worthy Of men
ton as showing how regular anGs
well defined has been this vein, that
the pinching or narrowing Of the Gre
! body at the east has occurred at
nearly the same point on every level
| while on the west there has been
steady increase or Wideaing Of the
vein AS better illustrating this Wa
may say that on the 700-foot level
IL feet west of the point where the
VEIN was cut by the tunnel from the
hoist shaft, there is a breast OF :
Ule six feet wide, which assays 500
per Ton, while east of the same point.
900 feet the "pay ore iSs-
but two feet thick and is steadily
narrowing, as if to pinch
out as it has already done oRa.
the levels above. Five hundred
feet from the surface we reach the
bottom Of No. l shaft, through.
which has been hoisted millions Of
dollars worth Of silver ore. Two,
hundred and sixty feet north Of No
i is No. shaft, work upon which,
was begun in 1878, and the FIRST orr
brought through it in 1879.
TIE PRE-.
1t was on the morning Of the z0tk.A
Of October, 1875. that the HERALD,
announced the burning Of the hoist
ing works at the Ontario, and stated
the fact that the shaft was On fra
In one brief hour on the previous
day, fire had demolished the extsn-
siVe buildings, ruined expensive
machinery, aud caused direct loss
to the Ontario company through the
stoppage Of the pumps and conSs1-
quent flooding of the mine, uf not.
less than $4,000. When the Gre
occurred work was progressing Or
the hosting works over No. shaft
but no sooner had the flames die5a
down than operations were keguEa
to rebuild the old works. Those
who read the papers at the time wills
remember how matters were
crowded at the Ontario, how tho
place fairly swarmed with men anda
'teaIne, and how forty. days after the
fire the steam whistles againrs
sounded. the pumps were again iT>
motion, and rivers of water WeTsS
flowing from the mine, every tun-
mel, chamber, drift, and stope CT
which was filed with water, cE
wat was worse, mud.
Mo- hois, ng works were also hnF--
lied TO c0my ietlsn, being pnt III opeF
ion ! ] Any, 1919, as 10 r
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