The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-06
CALL OF UNLISTED STOCKS.
CONCERNING THE STATE LINE.
Report of Mining Nan on This
Promising Gold Camp


Benjamin c. Jordan. who, for several
months has been in Nevada in the in
terest of prominent Salt Lake City min
ing men. and who has been in and
around State Line, in Iron county,
Utah, for about three months, is in the
city.
A representative of The Herald met
Mr.. Jordan yesterday and made in
quiries regarding The past. present and
future of the new camp CT State Line.
We'll" said Mr.. Jordan, what 1
can say of State Line would be hardly
satisfactory to you and the many read
ers of The Herald. State Line is all
right. but many people have been de-
ceived by the extravaganza reports from
the district, and none dislike such re-
ports more than the claim owners
themselves, for this reason: Outside
mining men read the startling stories
and so in there expecting to find fabu-
Ious wealth on every hand. Not find
ing it, they come away diSsatlsned
and are apt to speak slightingly OF the
camp Now, as a matter of fact, State
Line is not more than six months old.
Of course, the first locations were made
about a year ago, but locations do not
make a mining camp. 1t is development
work that counts, and that has all
been done. practically, within the last
six months, and [ think the record
thar has been made is a good one.
Can, you give me an idea, Mr.. Jor-
dam" said The Herald man, "as to the
amount Of work done in State Line?"
Il cannot give you figures that will
be exactly correct, bur the develop
me1lts are about as follows: The Ophdr,
a 2OO-foot shaft; the Burro, 90-foot
shaft. with a 4O-foot drift on the so
foot level; the Utah Spur, two shafts,
the deepest being about 70 feet. These
are the silver claims. In the gold belt,
Drake and Lambert have two tunnels
on Whas they call the Cod Belt group,
each being about 40 feet in length;
Rice brothers have 100-foot tunnel on
the Rocky Mountain, a short tunnel and
several surface crosS-cUts on the Vad-
erstine, and shaft ON the Jumbo.
Keely & Emerson have let a contract
for a 50-foot shaft on the Monarch,
ard the work is nearly completed. They
have also done considerable work on
the Warrior, and on several other
claims owned by them. The owners of
the Gold Haven have sunk a 75-foot
shaft and then croSs-cut for the vein,
which they have found. The Creole
people have opened up their vein by
two tunnels of considerable length and
a. shaft. Mr.. Newell of Phoebe, and his
partners, have a tunnel about so feet
in length on one of their claims. This
completes the record OF the more ex-
tensive workings, although there are
several ether properties on which con-
siderable work has been done. F"
How are the properties looking?
''They are all looking we'll, or were
when / saw them, and 1 presume that
any change which may have taken
place since then is for the better, as that
has always been the case from the
beginning Rice brothers have a three
or four-foot vein On the Rocky Mount
ain, which they tell me averages about
$50. Drake & Lambert have one vein
on the Gold Bet group five feet in
width, which they claim runs aboui- the
same, and another vein which assays
less The vein on the Warrior ASSAYS
wen. and that on the Mammoth shows
good values for so large a body. The
Creole vein is about three feet in width,
and that on the Gold Haven, an extern
sion of the Creole, is about the same.
Newell has a good showing also. The
Kentuck has a good showing, and the
owners Of the Morltezuma among
whom are Mr.. Muidoon Of Frisco and ].
J. Kelly, claim to have a 20-foot vein
on the surface. The only properties
now being worked in the silver belt are
the Oplair, in which the vein was about
six feet in width when last I saw it,
and the Burro, which has a three-fooit
Vein.
what do you think of the prices
which State Line owners put on their
clairns?' asked The Herald man.
The prices asked are, in nearly every
instance. entirely too higa, way or of
to the amount of work
done" said Mr.. Jordan emphatically.
That has kept the camp back and We
continue to do so until the claim -owners
understand that no capitalist via take
to that pace a car lead Of money and
shovel If out TO pay for lot Of pros
poets which are practically undevei-
oped. On the gold belt they must quit
tunneling and sink az least 800 feet
before they are sure of themselves"
What can you tell me regarding
Lytle's camp and A. G. Camnbell's
They are some distance
from State Line district, are they not?'
asked The Herald representative.
Yes, they are Oh the west side of the
range, While State Line is on the east,
but it IS generally conceded thar they
are on the same mineral bearing zone
The quartz lodges there are very large,
some being as wide as 300 feet. Some
very rich silver float has been found
just below one of the lodges on Lytles
claims. which ledge shows silver val
ues of about 40 ounces, the ore being |
the same nature as the float, so prob |