The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-27

principles.
The sphynx has spoken. The report
of ex-Superintendent Hill OF the oper-
atoms at the Horn Silver up to Deem
Der LIST, has been published. The fol-
lowing is a summary: There have been
taken from the mine during the year
(up to December 1sD 3.77SA tons of ore.
OF this 1887 tons came from the fourth
level. and 1,150 from the seventh.
This ore has been sold in open mar
ket in Salt Lake for the gross sum of
$102 541 IS. 1t has cost $24 OPS SO for
labor to take out this ore; $18 O5S. so
has been expended for dead work (pros-
pecting for ore, etc. }, the work done
with this money comprising 967 feet of
wines, drifts and raises.
These WINES, cross-cuts and drifts
have been utilized in getting down the
ore from the north end of the mine to
where it could be hoisted to surface
bins through the main shaft.
| In the north shaft sixty feet has been
| entirely retimbered, and 200 feet more
partially retimbsred and repaired. This
shaft being the upcast from the mine.
it is always daMp and hot, and timbers
decay very rapidly. 1t is now, how
ever, in good condition.
A year ago it was decided to drive
down winze from the twelfth level to
test the continuance down of the vein,
and. also the quantity of water. This
wlnze has been driven down 200 feet,
the dirt hoisted by hand windlass to
the twelfth level, thence TO surface
through main shaft, and has been
secured by timbers wherever necessary
The old shaft has been partitioned
and converted into ladder way and
ore chute, and is in good repair. ALI
ore from above the seventh level comes
to the main shaft through this ore
chute to the seventh level, whence it is
trammed to shaft and hoistsd ito the
surface.
Supplies have cost $40 ,456 95, the larg-
est items of which are mine timbers
and fuel. Less than 81 600 has been ex-.
pended for water.
Each ton Of ore taken out of the mine
has cost for actual extraction $427.
To this cost of extraction there has
besn added In the distribution of eI-
penditures, dead work (prospecting),
81 So, surface labor engineers, carpen-
ters and car men) 1894, for supplies
Climber, fuel, powder, fuse, candles, oil.
eto.), So. 6S, making each ton of ore
carry cost of SIS IS. The averages
value of each ton of ore has been, for
lead ore $50 so, for copper ore $l450.
About 1900 tons of good ore have
been taken from the north end of the
mine on and above the fourth level in
ground that ihad not been deemed
worth prospecting. This ore has al
ways carried good percentage of
silver, and has aided in getting into
market quantity of ore low in silver
coming from other parts of the mine.
At this particular point there is not
| very much ground left, and but little
more ore can be expected from there.
Below the fourth level, in the north
end of the mine, there has been dis
covered in the last few days another
ore-body that promises very well.
There has not been, since 1t was found,
time to do enough work on this ore to
determine much about it. 1t is mid
way between the fourth and fifth
levels.
The 1873 DOT cross.cut driven be-
tween the sixth and seventh levels ran
In body of copper ore that was left in
the sixth level in former work, il then
being unstable. 1t. however, has now
fair market value, and has been and
is being mined and marketed, and the
prices for which it sold may all be con-
sidered as profit, as its position is such
that to get at the lead ore beyond, the
removal of this copper ore was a neces-
sity. With and alongside of this ore
there is large quantity of singularly
pure oxide of manganese. Attempts
TO find sale for this have not proved
successful.
Overlying this copper ore and south
of it there is body of ore high in lead,
but not correspondingly rich in silver.
Over thousand tons have been taken
from here, giving a fair profit on cost
OF extraction with the proportion of
dead work added. The extent of these
ore-bodies can not ba definitely stated
There are small ore-bodies showing in
places in the north drift on this sixth
level, some or probably all of which
NAV develop into paving quantities.
On the eighth level KITE, ding dowpjto
and below the ninth level. there is q
body OF black antim onial ore carrying
some rich streaks. but il will not nav to