The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-28
MINING OPERATIONS IN WILLARD.
Great Showing Mado.By the Detroit
District.

District.
The Willard County Blade gives the
following interesting mining news of
the south country:
Twenty thousand pounds of Utah
ore from Fish Springs was unloaded
by H. S. Cahoon at Oasis on Friday.
| Chris diversion. writes from Leaning
ton that work on the hex Smelter site
is progressing finely.
Colonel George A. Henry is an ardent
Republican yet so in love with Dele
gate Rawlins that on recent trip to
Detroit he named pet claim Joe
Rawlins.'
H. S. Cahoon has obtained the con-
tract for hauling the hex ore from
Detroit to Oasis. 1t is intended to ship
lments can be made for unloading at
bennington.
From John w. Reid, just in from a
trip west, it is learned that Osceola is
putting on lively airs. Four hundred
cords of wood are being ricked for use
in the Cumberland mill, which has
steamed up with the new tri-cone pro-
! cess.
John Williams went out to Detroit
on Sunday to look after hex interests
His company have purchased several
valuable copper properties near Frisco,
the ore from which will be worked in
the bennington smelter
On Friday Colonel Henry and the
Blade editor made a flying trip Ito the
Detroit mining district and visited the
northern portion Of the camp.
The little town at the springs and
which hereafter will be known as Drum
postoffice) is growing quite rapidly.
Many strange faces are seen about the
camp, quite a number of them waiting
/ fo,. oh u0,,+
there expecting to obtain employment.
Three shifts are now sinking on the
Rather. A shaft is going down near a
large body of high grade copper-gold
ore. The shaft was started on a small
seam of iron stained spar, and at a
depth of about twenty-five feet the lit
tile vein has increased ito eighteen
inches and changed to ore carrying 10
per cent copper and running well in
gold.
Everything appears to be in place,
and it is believed the owners are on athe
i right lead.
In company with John Barrett a visit
iof inspection was made to the Utah
No. 1, distant from the spring about
one mile southwesterly. On this claim
there are three shafts, two of them
forty feet deep and the others seventy
five feet in depth.
! One of the forty-foot shafts is all in
quartz carrying ten ounces silver and
$40 in gold with no trace of copper, and
appears to be am entirely different
ledge to the other upon which there are
two shafts and which show copper from
top to bottom.
The Utah ledge is a monster as from
the bottom of the seventy-fiye-foot
shaft, which is higher up on the hill
side. and the bottom of the forty-foot
shaft, cross-cuts have been run and
itwenty-foot vein of ore developed which
averages $22 in gold, silver and copper.
The ledge is between shale and lime
AT the Ibex improvements are going
forward. The mine is situated on the
north slope of the mountain which
forms the south side of deep gulch,
and which opens quite wide to the
northeast. A dugway several hundred
yards in length has been graded up the
gulch to point directly below the tun-
mel now being driven in under the old
workings.
At the upper end of the dugway an
ore bin. with a capacity of 200 tons,
will be erected at once, and a chute
will be built connecting the tunnel and
ore bin.
Just below the dugway and several