The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
GREAT Is OUR TlNTIC.
1t Will Yet be the Best Camp in
the West.
A GLIMPSE OF THE DISTRICT.
No Shaft Has Been Put Down Two Hundred
and Fifty Feet, but Has Produced
Paying Mine.

and Fifty Feet, but Has Prouuced
Paying Mine.
eve have no water in summer and no
snow in winter, and the railroad comes up |
to our Dumps said A. E. Hyde, the courte
Champion to THE HERALD reporter while /
on Wednesdays excursion.
81 never saw camp that impressed me
so well for the amount Of work that has
been done in IT, said George Arthur Rice,
who spent sixteen years among the mines
Of Colorado and years exclusively in the
mining business. 1.-THE ores are similar to,
but of little higher grade, than those of
Aspen-about 10 per cent. There is another
wonderful thing about this district. There
is not shaft put down $50 feet but that
has developed paying mine. On account
of this fortunate feature it does not require
heavy investment of capital to secure
paying mine, the minerals coming so close
to the surface. When they introduce into
Eureka the leasing system, which is largely
in vogue at Aspen and which has more than
doubled it's output, L look for Eureka to
become the leading mining camp of the
west. When this is resorted to 1t will
open up mines that have been lying idle
and work great revolution in the bust
ness.n
To this wonderful camp, which is III
every body's mouth, one hundred Salt
| Lakers event On Wednesday,, cursory
notice of which visit has already appeared
| in THE HERALD.
| Nearing the little canon in which the
I L. ~
up on the Oquirrh range is theigreat Mann
moth of which there are faboulous stories
of ore that runs up into the hundreds of
! thousands. A little to the south, and at
little less attitude, is Silver City. Right in
the heart of the town is the large hosting
shaft of the Bullion-Beck and Champion
and a stones throw away the big new ore
house of tie Eureka Hill. Up the side of
the mountain, several hundred feet higher,
is the Centennial Eureka.
THE BULLION BECK,
the most extensive mine in the Eureka
group, has been relying on a hosting en-
CINE that was not calculated to reach more
than four hundred feet, but which has been
strained to a 00-foot level. Mr.. A. E..
Hyde, the manager of the mine. said that
he did not feel like tempting providence
any longer, and he has in course of con-
struction hoisting works that will allow
them to double their working Torce and so
down to a depth of $500 feet. AS this will
!, be by all odds the largest works in the dis
trict, description of the same will be in
teresting, and the engineer of the mine,
Mr. A. Burch, gives the following details
, 1.-The hoisting engine is double direct
f Eacting, with lSX64 cylinders, built by
! Frazer g. Chalmers. The compressor is a
Burlelgh make, with a capacity for running
eight drills and two underground hoists
d,i11c Po013c Mo ttiper in
: dynamo with 75-light capacity. Air and
= water pipes are run down the shaft through
n all the levels; the shaft is being enlarged fol
; that purpose. Heretofore it was single
8 compartment shaft with manway. Now
we will have double-compartmen shat
+ with manway. The shaft has just beer
a retimbered from the 200-foot level up, an(
n the enlargement is now going on from the
200. foot level down. The machinery WI
r all be in operation by the 1st of October
q We will then have the largest and bes
hoist in the camp, by one-half, and will bt
v prepared to go down to depth of $50
+ feet. The gallows frame on top will be +,
4 feet high, and wide enough so that in cas-
4 water is met with apump can be put III I'm
q der the gallowS frame"
y GENERAL VIEW OF EUREKA GROUP.
= The first object that strikes the eye il
= looking southerly from the railway depo
i is the large hosting works of the Bullion
L Beck and Champion, the same being on tn
a southwest side of the Union Pacific road
A About 600 feet southerly, are the hoistins
= works of the Eureka Hill About 1000 fee
g southerlyfrom the Eureka Hill and elevate,
i about 600 feet above the level of the raiiwa,
! track are the hosting works of the Centen
:, NAL Eureka. A mile south of the track
~ and over the Eureka peak, which stand
=. 800 feet above the town, is the Mammoth
Half hptUppn the Gent n q
- Eureka and Bullion-Beck is the Solid Mul
g doom shaft, on the Murray Hill company
=. property. 10 the north of the Bullion
n Beck, 700 feet, is the keystone shaft, O.
- the Gemini property. Still further to tn
north, about three fourths of mile, are tn
hosting works of the Excelsior shaft, ais
belonging to the Gemini company. TO tn
I'd southeast, about half mile from the towr
tie is the Gray Eagle mine, owned by John Nc
I'd Chrystal, and one of the best among the nel
A producers in the camp. Among the prir
"a cipal producers, about two miles to tn
10 southeast, is the Northern Spy
~ Among the other mines that are shippin
"a "a ore are the Governor, the Carissa, the Coz
~, peropolis, the Golden Treasure, the Siou
10 10 and othe Rust Dragon. Among the bes
% prospects are the Mormon Chief, the Blac
Dragon, the Godiva, the Media Consol
dated and a number of fine prospects to tn
north. Among the producers should be il
an cluded the Caroline, which joins the Blu
", ion-Beck on the south.
To- NOT VEINS, BUT BODIES OF ORE.
in B. Christensen says: s'Prof. Hunt an
Mt other scientific persons claim that tt
sc whole belt is strongly mineralized lin
at formation ranging in a northerly an
is southerly direction fer about eight mile
as with an average width from east to west
If three or four miles. IL is bordered toward
nj, the north by belt of trachte, a species
tn granite; towards the south by porphyl
MT and quartzite. Wherever the district h;
opened up in this lime belt, it has show
ore, not veins, but bodies of ore. AS far
the district till date has been opened, it HI
shown up four distinct channels, or chut
le- of ore Starting cast of the quartzite v
ar find first the great Eureka chute, whiC
30 has been opened for a distance of half
- mile northerly. In this chute are locat
y the Eureka HILL the Centennial Eureka al
series of mining claims ending in the O
to Swansea mining claims, near Silver Cit
Towards tie north this chute runs throu!
the Gemini mining company's propert
Connected with the same ore chute, and
the west, comes first, the Bulljo
ing Beck, and directly west comes I
has Murray Hill property. And then travt
., ing east for about one-eighth of a mile "
- find the Eagle property running practical
hco parallel with the Eureka chute, consist
are properly of eight claims. Easterly, or
ry, eighth of mile, we get to the Godi
II mountain on which we find situated at
lti- southern spur the Mammoth, the WeIdt
cd III. ha do