The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13


most of this ore is concentrating ORE but
there are in many places from two to three
1eet OF first class ore that makes in waves
IN vein for 100 or $50 feet in places. Near
ing the end of the No. level the vein seems
to pinch, but on driving ahead it has every
evidence Of opening into
ANOTHER GRAND ORE CHUTE.
No, level is 200 feet deeper on the vein
than No :, and encounters continuation
OF the same ore body and has been driven
through 1T for distance of $50 feet. If any
thing, the ore body is larger in No. than
IN the level above, and shows more lead ore
and sulphides. The vein in this tunnel
opens out in places to a width of from If
teen to twenty feet, and now in the face of
this tunnel there is nearly solid body of
gaIena ore twelve ieet in width with
chance to back slope for 200 feet above to
level No 2.
When this chute of Gre was found it was
small, and commenced in the Evening
ground; then it gradually improved, aver
aging from four to six feet where the
vein was compact, then opening out as
stated above, The length of this ore chute,
so far as driven on, is $50 feet.
No. tunnel, which was being run to tap
the vein, is in a distance of $50 feet and will
probably have to be driven 400 feet further
before enceuntering the first ore strata that
leads to the main ore body, which is sure to
be encountered.
FOR CONCENTRATING.
The ore bottom goes down strong in the
bottom OF No. tunnel. No. tunnel on
the level will be go feet of a vertical depth
below No. 3. This will give back slope of
1850 feet in height and giving already,
proven, an ore chute of 1000 feet in length
Taking into consideration that there prac-
ticaliy has been no STOPPING done to speak of
the reader can readily see that the figures
given above show body of ore so large and
permanent that it would puzzle the average
expert to guess at its value.
Upralses and chutes and intermediate
Levels connect all the main working tun-
nels, thereby furnishing to the mine a
splendid ventilation. This property, like
most properties in this section, is a low
grade proposition, and necessarily must be
concentrated IN order to be made pay. Ger
tainly, the first class, as mentioned above,
Will pay to ship when assorted, but taken
as whole, the most practical way of going
at 1t Is to concen trate 1t all except the car
Donates and the iron, which is fine huxing
ore for smelling purposes.
The owner, Charles Hussey, erected a
concentrating mill two miles from the mine
and endeayored to carry ore to the mill by
Huston wire tramway with q carrying
capacity of 250 tons daily, but the country
over which the tramway was erected was
rough and mountainous with divide to
cross, which always makes it difficult to
keep the buckets on the carrying or rum
ming cable, therefore,
THE OLD MISTAKE
was made in putting in wire tramway and
not figuring the friction on the cable. which
is costly and will cut out in few months
owing TO the tentlon on the divide.
Then again, the concentrating mill should
have had at least capacity OF working not
| less than 800 tons OF crude ore daily, where
as the present mill has not a capacity for
! properly reducing more than seventy-tive
! tons OF crude ore to first class shipping con-
centrates; therefore, instead of a daily out.
| put OF sixty tons, the present mill, properly
! treating and saving all ores, could not pro.
duce more than fifteen tons of concen-
trates.
Now, in the writer's judgment,
WHAT IS NECESSARY
is concentration with capacity of soc
tons daily, and any competent Judge who
has ever visited the mine will bear in me
out in this assertion. But some other car
rying means of conveying the ore from the
mines to the mill will have to be resorted
20. A gravity tramway LOCO feet in length
could carry the ore from No. tunnel to s
point on Mill Creek, where 1t could be car
rled on a railroad TO any suitable place fol
the erection of large concentrating works
and this railroad would be only two and 3
quarter miles In length and would not cost
any more In construction than the price OF
four cables and would have carrying ca
pacity for a certainty which the wire tram
way has not. The Morning mine is'nearly
shut down at present on account of the
the breaking of the cable and some Difficult
ties with the mill. The location of the minis
is pleasant one, being about three miles
from the town of Mullan, with good road
leading in winding course up the noun.
tain TO the boarding house, which is a large
and well fitted up building for the accom-.
mediation of the miners. Martin Curran
an old Wood river man, is superintendent Of
the mine and see that the boys are well fec
aud that wandering faber pusher receive.
that courtesy which is due the profession
even though he has to give up his own bed
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