The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-28


place, the work will be prosecuted
with greater vigor than before
Few people who have known the
struggles of the Red Cloud people will
beSrudge them their good luck, which
has lately befalien them. They have
done a great deal of exploring and
have shown a great deal of pluck in
sticking to their work, and the strike
which they have made is only the re-
ward that follows intelligent labor.
From their shaft, near the Overland,
they drifted from the 150-foot level
and uncovered a large body of ore
of good values. The strike was kept
still for a few days, for fear it would
prove to be only the outcroppings of
the vein; but It is now known to be
the great ore body that seems TO I'M
derlie the whole district; and work
will now be shaped so that the mine
will be in readiness to supply a mill
as early in the spring as the owners
may decide to erect it.
The Overland has been working in
ore for some time, and has already a
good deal of pay rock blocked out. At
one time it was the intention to erect
mill this year, but circumstances
delayed the project. There is little
doubt, however that the mill win be
built as soon as weather will per-
nit.
The Old Fred. which belongs to a
st. Louis company, has done consider
able work and has sunk four shafts
on the property with varying success.
Values as high as S12 have been OBJ
tanned. 1t is the incline, however,
from which the best results have been
obtained. After going 140 feet the ore
was reached and a vein AZ feet thick,
and with values of from SO to Sc, was
discovered. The vein pitches toward
the Overland, and the drift will be
continued along the course of the
vein.
The Malvern lies south of the Sun
shine, and there are good reasons for
believing that the ore body will be
found here as well as in the other
parts of the district. The fact that
far south of this property, at Five
Mile Pass, good quality of ore has
been found would suggest that the
ore body is continuous
There has been considerable work
done on this property in the past, but
for some time it has been lying idle.
Colonel Dorsey, however, proposes to
have the work resumed at once and
hopes before spring to have another
milling proposition in the district
George Silks and Colonel Woods are
once more laboring to prove that Five
Mile Pass is in the ore zone, and
other property owners are preparing
for work in that vicinity. The result
will be looked for with considerable in
terest. as it is the opinion of many
miners that the locations are on the
Cedar Hills vein.
Work has been resumed at the Glen
coe, which lies between the Overland
and the Annie.
AT the Annie nothing has been done
of late, although it is asserted that a
drift from the bottom of the shaft
has reached the ore body The COM
pany is composed largely of poor men,
and in such cases it is sometimes
necessary to stop and take a breath.
1t is reported that work will be re-
sumed al an early date. however
Quite number of dother claims are
being worked, but they are mostly
those on which comparatively little
work has been done IN to date: but
most OF them show good Indications
and the owners are doing their work
as fast as they can raise the means
TO go ahead. Among others may be
mentioned the Rush Valley, Golden
Fleece and Kittie Conner, all of which
are looking well. 81
Take if all in all, there is a great
deal to be said in favor of a district
IN Which every claim proves valuable.
and so far there has been no labor
thrown away. In some the values
have been harder to find than in 9TH
ers, but there has never been a failure
to find the ore when reasonable intelli-
gence and labor has been exerted.
In comparison with mining camps
in other states Mercur reports have
been very conservative, and all the
investors have Jared we'll
1t is a significant fact that the men
who are rushing around the hills at
present in search of locations are
those who have other property inter-
ests here; and they have been so well
satisfied that they are anxious to try
further experiments.
contract for erecting a bunk
house, shafthouse and blacksmith shop
at La Cigale has been let to the we'll
known carpenter, ]. II. Hurby.