The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-11
DEVELOPING WATER RESOURCES.
Flow From the Butts Spring Going
to the Golden Gate.

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to the Golden Gate.
Mercur Mercury-A force Of men was
put to work Tuesday developing the
Butts spring up on the divide.
Workmen are engaged in digging a
ditch from there to the Sparrowhawk
spring, into which the water will be
piped, 10 be taken out again at the
Marion mill and piped to the Golden
Gate, where 1t will be used to run the
steam hoist, soon to be built, ana TOR
other mine purposes til Colonel wall
water system is completed. Work has
been commenced on the building which
Superintendent kiSlingbury viii occupy
temporarily. 1t will be 20x32, with a
kitchen and porch attached. finer
residence will be built for the superin-
tendent later. Considerable lumber is
arriving for the new shaft houses and
several more car loads are on the road.
1t IS expected that the connection be-
tween the north and south shafts will
be made any day now, which will
ventilate the mine and make room for
more men. Times are lively at the
Golden Gate and promise to be more so
in the near future.
Carruthers Brothers have taken a
contract to do over four hundred feet
of work on the Gold Coin group. and
are here, preparing to get down to
steady work. The Gold Coin group
IL promising property and we believe
the work mapped out will be sufficient
TO make of it a producing mine.
Chris JOcher was over from Shambir
district Monday, bringing some excel
lelt looking samples. He reports hav.
ing good assays from that district. and
also from Erickson district, where he
has been doing some prospecting. He
loaded up with location notices and re-
turned the same day.
The Mercur company nave put a
force of men 20 work on the Nimrod
the southwestern extension of their
ground. just above the Matte 4. where
the diamond drill operated when the
WOlcott syndicate had the property
bonded, was located, and which founG
the ore. The Salt Lake and Mercur
Railroad company will extend their
line around the hill to this property at
once and 1t will not stop short of the
Matte 4.
The new working shaft on the
Golden Gate has already reached
depth of sixty-five feet The contrac-
tors have so far encountered good
ground, ana are making rapid pro-
gress.
Many new ore DEPOSITS are being de-
veloped in the Mercur A mining man
we'll acquainted with the mine in for
mer times, visited it this week. and
said the ore now blocked out could not
all be extracted in the next five years.
The Maggie shaft IS down now about
135 feet. The bottom is through the fos-
sill beds mentioned last week. but is
still in black shale or slate.
Davis, Holmes and partners are
working on the Sunnyside. north of
the Sunshine, and expect to do ex-
tensive development there and on the
Gold Point during the summer.
The Geyser is running very steadily
now, and the results are satisfactory
to the management. The ore teaches so
readily that it is necessary to keep
the crusher operating night and day.
Walter Kavanaugh is working in the
Hercules district, near Vernon, where
an extension of the Mercur vein is
supposed to exist. He thinks some
great mines will be developed there.
The Cannon shaft is now down 10
feet and good progress is being made.
A change is occurring in the forma-
ton encountered. but assays will be
necessary to determine whether it is
of an encouraging character or not.
John Trudgen came over from Ophir
Tuesday, where he has been taking
two months lay off for the benefit OF
his health. He reports that the Fisk
mill is operating very successfully on
shifts are employed in the Ophir Hill
mill. The concentrator is running
about half the time.
The incline shaft from the bottom of
the 80 foot incline OH the Hillside