The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-15

accompanied by three capitalists, a couple
OF experts, aid after three days spent in
examination of the property paid spot cash
$4,000 for the property. The new owners
are now making preparations TO erect
large plant of reduction works on the
ground. The Garfield has thousands of
tons of IS and $10-ore exposed in the work
ings done by the former owner and during
enc month last winter two men extracted
$50 tons of SS0-ore from new ground. The
sale of the Garfield brought on the sale of
the Peacock mine to the same parties for
s., 800 spot cash.
THE COLUMBIA MINE.
Early in the spring of 1891 Barrows, Mil
Ter q Company who had been engaged for
two years in developing their numerous
properties at Lewiston, twelve miles east
OF Atlantic, moved up into Smiths gulch,
tributary of Rock creek, and began devel-
opment work on the above named mining
claim. During the season this firm drove
vertical shaft fifty feet in depth on the vein
without finding any walls. They then be-
gan cross-cutting from the shaft each way,
northeast and southwest, to determine the
width OF the vein. The cross cutting was
continued for fifty two feet when the south
west wall was reached and sample assays
from the vein, done by j. BIcVlcker of your
city, gave result of 81 per ton. This com
pany Will erect works on this and some
other valuable property of theirs that lies
contiguous to the Columbia during this
season, as 1t is evident that with improved
machinery for saving gold and the cost of
mining and milling will not exceed 81 per
ton the property can be made to pay hand
some dividend
''soUTH PASS" (sHosHoNE DISTRICT.
Once upon a time, as the old-time story
tellers would phrase it. the town of South
Pass contained several hundred inhabi-
tants, was the county seat of SweetWater
county and reIoiced in the possession of an
antique cooler, court house and other &C
| cessories Of capital town. Now it numbers
just seven in dweliers-heads of families
and the court house is a stable and the
county jail magazine for the storage of
old plumber. The Csrriso, now named the
Mono" at one time the pivotal figure in
the greatest wealth producer of the dis
trict, is practically idle and useless. The
owners for several years have been max
ing an effort TO raise funds for the
further exploration of the vein and
the erection Of suitable reduction works by
| placing stock in England and France. But
this has been an uphill business; else
/ where, in Colorado, Utah, Nevada. etc,
the record is being made every day of
properties being sold and probably worked
OF much lower grade than the Carriso; but
in all such cases the owners are residents
or have their agents on the ground and the
work Is being prosecuted continuously, and
everything about such properties Is alive
and kicking. In this case, however, the
owners are now residents; the town, the
mine, the occidental mill the shafthouse
and surroundings are dead, dry and mac
tive; and the expert who visits the mines,
and the capitalist seeking investment are
almost Invariably affected by the surround
ing gloom and decay and seek other and
more cheerful localities; the sale goes by,
the stock cannot be placed and each year
adds to the possibilities OF the reign of de-
cay and disintegration.
THE ROBERT EMMETT MINE
| In the early days of the camp some parties
sinking blind. near the line where the Car
riso vein was believed to cross the Willow
creek, struck the top OF an ore chute The
| find was known as the Robert Emmett mine
and large quantity of very rich ore was
extracted. At depth Of twenty i've feet
the workmen encountered granite dyke,
which cut the ore body and the owners
supposing that the dyke was the end of the
ore body abandoned the property. The
claim was afterward relocated by Bilcox
and Smith, each taking a full claim OF
fifteen hundred feet IN length, the dividing
end line OF each claim embracing one-hali
of the original discovery shaft These
parties cut through the granite dyke and
recovered the ore body on the opposite side
the upheaval OF the dyke had not dis
puced the vein a single inch. During las
year Bilcox and Smith having had poor
luck in their personal efforts to work the
mine successfully disposed of their respect
i've claims, Smith selling to Oweiler & Co,
Colorado men, and Bilcox selling to Bur
rows Miller & Co. The latter firm at once
began the'sinking Of q working shaft and
Ion 10 &c
i've feet where they found a
2-foot vein Of remarkably rich ore On
this they have driven level 43 feet south
west toward the old workings with nc
diminution of the ore body either in size OF
value. The drift TO the northeast and into
uneXplored ground has, as yet shown
nothing but small stratas of ore in the
slate, the formation being much broken by
the proximity of the granite dyke During
the winter and whilst laboring under grea1
disadvantages Barrows, Miller g. Co. have
erected asubs autii mill Of the Huntingt I
pattern, with steam power. This is 4
5-foot centrifugal mill with a capacity Of l:
tons per day and fitted with Gates rocl
crusher, challenge feeders and all the mod
ern appliances for sa wing gold They are
now preparing to put in steam hoist ant
pump as they have struck water in tn,
shaft which will prevent them from sink
ing any deeper with tank hoist for water
This claim is now known as the Franklin
GOULD AND CURRY NINE.
The Smith claim, lying southwest of tn,
Franklin, now owned by Oweiler q Co., il
the counterpart of the Franklin. Tn,
owners began the work of development by
sinking IN an uncompleted shaft south O
the discovery shaft about eighty feet TIL,
work of sinking had progressed TO the ex
tent Of twelve feet when the workmer
struck the vein, at this point about foul
, feet wide, and so full of free gold that i
! could be plainly seen in the quartz in al
, directions with the light of a single candle
A pound sample from the vein taken by j
j. Marvin. Bsrrows, Miller 81 Co.'s fore
man, gave result OF over So The fortu
} nate owners of the Gould and Curry pur
chased this claim for less than $500.
RUDE.
Cannihal Plant
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