The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

as their Importance deserves. Having until
recently no paper of her own: being until
within few months ago unconnected with
the railway, and occupying naturally $50
lated position, it is no wonder that she has
no faster as to population and
public improvements.
However, new era is beginning to dawn,
and during the coming year, if we read the
signs Alright, Eureka will take big stride
forward There has been considerable of
an awakening during the present year.
and it is but an earnest of
what is to follow. There is no
use in Disgusting the fact that
the years of litigation between the Bullion
Beck and the Eureka Hill, had most de-
pressing effect upon the camp, from which
it has hardly yet recovered. The compro-
mise effected, however, between the Two
great companies has created better feel
ing among all interested, and from now on
ward, Eureka will be in the van of pros
perity. If anything is needed to corrobor-
ate this statement, a glance at the many
improvements inaugurated will be all
sufficient to show that the people of
Eureka have confidence in the future of
their camp There is no reason WIN they
should not have. There is an air of pros
perity now hanging over Eureka that has
never before been felt. The year 1890 has
much in store for her. yet no more, we be-
lieve, than she is justly entitled to.
Eureka is an old camp, one of the oldest
in hot
somewherein the early part of 1870.
The advent of the railway into Eureka
was red letter day in its history, and will
be big factor in forcing the progress of
the town.
MINES AND MINING.
To Eureka, the Bullion Beck occupies
the same position as does the Ontario to
existence, due, in great measure, to a
lack of capital to develop it, and by the
litigation above referred to.
1t was expected that new hosting works
and machinery would have been put in the
present year. Arrangements have been
made now, however, by which these i'm
provements will be made during the com
ing spring, the inaug uration of which will
enable the workers to at least double the
output. There has been considerable new
work done during the year, the most i'm
portant of which, probably, was the sink
ing of the shaft from the 500 to the 600 foot
level, which has been attended with good
results. The fourth and fifth levels
have also been opened up consider
ably, and large veins of good
ore have been encountered, which yield
handsome returns. South from the shaft
on the 400 foot level, body of ore was
struck near the Clayton WINE, which as
says about 45 silver and IS lead. They
have worked up on this body to the 300 foot
level, and the ore body still continues to
look we'll, maintaining its uniform quality
and regularity of shape To the west and
a little south of the Clayton winze, another
body of ore was cut. The ore at this point
was of low grade, but showed gradual i'm
provement as the fifth level was reached.
when it developed into body twenty i've
feet wide by sixty in length. A depth of nifty
feet further has been attained, aud the ore
holds the same width and character. At the
extreme north end, raising up from the 500
foot level, another body of ore was struck,
going up twelve feet in width aud thirty
feet in length On the north end
of the same level, and near what
is known as the Yong Wine, streak of
ore was encountered which reaches to the
600-foot level. 1t is chloride of high grade.
and the vein is three feet wide. There are
other bodies of ore in this vicinity, but
detailed statement of all that has been done
would fill more space tnan can be given to
this property at the present time Work
has also been actively prosecuted on he
fourth level, where large bodies of rich ore
have been encountered, and which hold
their own in regard to quality and sizs.
One streak of ore three feet in width has
been encountered, picked specimens of
which run as high as $1,000 to the ton One
hundred and fifty men are now employed
in the Bullion Beck, and the output
for the year will reach 5000 tons,
valued at over 100000. II e company in