The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-14

A. +. Cahoon of Murray, who at the
present time is s0journing al The
Golden Queen mine in the Blue mount
aims. in southeastern Utah, is the au-
thor of the following graphic descrip-
ton of the Golden Queen mine ana
mill. which appeared in the Murray
American of Saturday last:
The Golden Queen Mining company
Property is situated in Inc Blue mount
aims. about Ten miles west OF The town
Of Alontice.io. san Juan county. Utah,
about 32G niles southeast OF Murray.
The elevation % The mill is about $500
fee; above seq level and the mine is
about 900 feet higher. But here let me
say WORD u praise and encourage
lnent FOR the boys that compose lhis
company au2 nave worked so hard and
spent their money in this enterprise.
Tor they surely deserve i. by naming
them you VIII see that most of them
are well known IN Murray. and some
of them born and raised there, 50 you
can depend on il shat they are good
stuff ana a yard VIDE. IheN are
Messrs. Frank kimDa.i. Tom Pits. =
i. Cah5on. J. H. Erickson. Norman
Erickson, Ben Haywood, Joseph Hay
wood
Some time about Is months ago they
commenced prospecting This property
and after spending considerable money
they believed they could, by building
stamp mill and treating The ore here,
make il pay. So here IS the mill and
daisy ten-stamper capable Of treating
from Is 10 80 tons every a hours; and
to show they mean business, they built
the building large enough 20 add 70
more stamps. if so wished II is a
difficult task TO get freight IN here 1t
has to be hauled on wagons from the
railroad over 100 miles. It costs
cents per pound. SO you see it is no
small undertaking, and judging from
the short run Just made they VIII reap
a fine harvest. which they justly de-
serve. Their ore is very free milling
ore so they have no bother saving the
gold. They can mine, tram and mill at
a cost of less than SO per ton. Now
let US follow tie ore as it is mined. 1t
Is put into car and run out to
chute which runs TO the ore bin From
there a small chute at the bottom
loads the buckets of the tramWay-
which is an endless cable wire, TO
Which are sixty buckets attached
about 100 feet apart and which runs
by the weight of the loaded buckets
pulling uD The empty ones AS the
buckets get TO the mill it is so ar
ranged that the bucket passes over
another chute and a trip trips lever
and the bottom of the bucket drops
and down comes the ore to the crusher.
which is a by 10 size. and brushes
TO the size of an egg; then from there
TO another ore bin with another chute
at the bottom, which takes it to the
mortarS that the STAMP works and
pulverizeS il 50 fine that il has 10 come
through a 40-mesh screen. Water is
turned in the mortar. so when II
comes through the screen it looks like
yellow mud which washes over copper
plates covered with quicksilver. and
there is where most of the gold is
caught. 1t IS called amalgam, and
that is retorted; but to make sure to
get all the gold. the pulp runs on to a
machine called n vanner; that is a
machine about l. by IS feet, which has
a side-shaking and also a rolling ma
chine with water running over ii, and
the light dirt and rock are washed
away down the canvon and the gold
that the copper plates don't catch is
caught bv he Vanner- So there We
are.
They have a fine so horse power with
engine to match. They burn wood
for fuel. which is delivered at S2-75 per
cord II is very good class of
wood a long Lea pine it is called; il
has Let o. pitch in it, which makes
a hot fire.
And I mustn't forget TO mention the
dynamo: il IS daisy. Il is a o. light
machine. So We have electric lights.
and as soon as possible they viii string
wire TO the mine and then come down
and see US.
The ore bodies-now you have me
but in sight there must be between
5000 and 5000 tons. which Will aver
age. judging by what we are running
at present. from 50 10 Sc per ton. At ,
present they are working under cover
that is, they VIII leave the roof on the
hill this winter. but when spring
comes. Mr. Erickson informs me, the
top and all w;ll go, because It is good
ore plum TO the top. Now. Martin. l
have tried 10 give you fair descrir-
ton of this place and OF the boys that
have had the courage 10 spend their
money here. ! say good luck, boys.