The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-20

Czizek made a combination with Jim
Alo11ltt, miner from Colorado, by which
The latter got an interest for helping work
the Good Enough. Little heed was paid
70 natterlng reports made as the work
progressed, because CZizek attained .
local celebrity on account of the license
he gives to his imagination. The camp
was, therefore, not wholly prepared for
subsequent developments, when 1t was
found that promising and even valuable
property had been opened by the tunnel,
run lSJ feet on the ledge. 1t shows a Jour
loot vein of quartz tale on each side, six
10 eight inches in width, of decomposed
quartz that prospects all the way through
and shows free gold. In the quartz occur
small white and blue buttons, strongly
mlneralized. Stopping will begin shortly
and the ore is SO soft that no powder will
pc required in getting it out. A run Is
to be made at the Little Giant mill on
twenty five tons of ore from the Good
Enough. That will determine its value.
Though the discovery was made last
fall, the lola claim property belongs to
the new properties of this season. 1t is
located quarter of mile above group
OF half dozen claims belonging TO the
May Flower Company, two miles from
the camp. Three men have been en-
ployed at development and tunnel was
run one hundred and seventy-five feet.
that gained a depth OF seventy-five feet.
From two upraises of forty feet each,
fifty tons of ore were taken. This was
worked in an arastra, with an eight foot
bed, that had capacity of a ton in
twenty-four hours, being run by water
power from Meadows creek. Good re-
turns were obtained. In common with
all veins in the camp, that of the lola is
small, averaging a foot in width but The
ore is of high grade. A tunnel is being
rul for big ore chute one hundred feet
distant. On the claim are three parallel
veins, ali showing good values in gold.
L.. M. Johnson and Patterson brothers
own the property.
Such success is likely to encourage the
May Flower Company to greater activity
on that group. Its mill, which was
erected in 1889 and has battery of five
stamps, has up to the present crushed less
than 200 tons of ore. Another has been
hauled from the Spring Hill NINE, of the
group and will be worked Immediately.
The last run on Spring Hill ore averaged
S2S In gold to the ton. Some silver occurs
with the yellow metal, but the only
effort made to save the former is to blister
the rock and then trust to the plates to
catch the silver. The Mayfower claim
is the best developed, having a tunnel
between 300 and 400 feet in length, whose
greatest depth is $50 feet. Above this
anoJher level was run.
No quartz property in this district was
ever worked on SO comprehensive scale or
in such scientific manner as the Little
Giant mine of George Riebold and his
nephew Jacob. The former has resided
here many years and was a successful
placer miner before tackling quartz
proposition on which others had Jailed
The ground was specifically prospected
and located during the first quartz craze
of 1865.
Finds of rich float on the hill and in says
failed to excite more curiosity or incite
other work than in running trench that
disclosed nothing. Abandoned until
1881. the elder Riebold dug or the hill to
some extent and in the following year
sluiced over it. For some time an average
OF $50 in gold for three men s work was
daily recovered. Over 81, 500 worth of
foat-rock was gathered and crushed be-
sides $500 worth of free-gold specimens.
Starting tunnel in 1888, ten tons of ore
were extracted which yielded 50 600 at the
mill.
The output was so good in the winter
OF 1SSS-4-when the tunnel was advanced
to a total distance of $50 feet-that RE
bold decided to erect mill on the Little
Giant. Five stamps were brought from
the old plant on the Charity mine, mile
and half distant, and a good gold mill
put up. The first run was on fifty-four
tons of ore that Melted $400 in gold TO the
ton. No provision was made for saving
the silver, though the ore carried
high values in that metal. The
second-class ore was worth $3.50 to
the ton. In 1885. SO, GOO was pro-
duced from ninety tons while the |
output for the next year was the same. !
For 1856 and 1887 the yield was 81, eco for |
each year. So much silver was lost that
an addition was made to the mill and in
1889 from 800 tons of ore worked there
was $40. 900 worth OF silver recovered in
addition to $4,000 in gold. This $50, 600
the labor of four men for
eight months. For 1890 the output was
GOO and the same In 81, while the next
year produced 81, 100 from 43 tons, with
g, 100 worth of ore carried over. Averag-
ing about ten inches in width, the vein
has made up in quality for the small
quantity OF ore produced. Rich streaks
were found where the ore was worth a
pounds yielded g, zoo in gold and the pulp
assays showed 260 ounces in silver be-
sides. Another ton went 81 100 in gold
and 300 ounces in silver. 1t has
been an expensive job to open
the Little Giant on account of
the dead work necessary to be done.
for the vein, which was dis
located or Interrupted by faults and
breaks, would tax the patience and dis
hearten any but bold operator and ex-
perienced miner who had studied the
formation and knew what he was about. |
There have been encountered four main
north and south faults or displacements
from the course of the ledge of 6S feet. 20
80 and 40 feet respectively, and one east |
and west displacement OF IS feet. Nor
will that be all, for the main north and |
south fault is thought to be 200 feet in |
length. That is sought to be avoided by |
deep sinking.
The Development of the mine comprises
a tunnel and drifts in the upper workings. |
making total of 700 feet, with five OPEN
ings to the surface; main |
tunnel 1,f30 feet IN length, with |
prospecting drifts of 5S feet south.
fifty feet west ana forty east |
Operations last winter consisted in run
ming q drift $50 feet to the south from the |
main tunnel and towards the creek where
rich float has often been found. This
was all dead work and no ore was taken
out.
The milling plant comprises a battery
Of five stamps OF $50 pounds, amalgam-
ating pans, concentration and chlorjna- |
ton furnace, forming a complete gold |
and silver mill. A ffty-foot Pelton wheel |
furnishes power for the mill, and when |
the water supply is low steam power can
be employed, an engine being in place |
for such an emergency.
GEORGE F. CANNIs.
The Modern Beauty
- - 1 !.