The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-18
also in the many other old camps in
Beaver county
CAMP FLOYD NEWS BUDGEr.
Pushing Work on tho Northern
Light MiIl-The Western Stone.

Pushing Work on tho Nerthern
Light MiIl-The Western slope.
Mercur, Nov lin conversation
with Mr.. Ford, one of the contractors
/ at the Northern Light, he stated that
the work on the mill is being pushed
faster than they had hoped for The
carpenter work is well under way and
I the engine and boilers, which have
been ordered in st. Louis, will be in
place by Thanksgiving. The rest of
the machinery will begin to arrive in
about 10 days, and the contractors will
be ready to turn the mill over to the
company by Christmas, at least a week
ahead of the contract time.
Excitement is running towards the
western foothills these days, and de-
velopments seem to show that money
invested in that locality will not be
thrown away. Although there was a
little squirt in that quarter last spring,
many of the claims located were by
parties who did not intend TO work
but to hold them for speculation. The
recent strike at the Omaha, followed as
it has been by others, proves that the
ore is there in large quantities and of
higher average values than is usually
found further east. The Omaha is To-
Gated on the lower ledge, and the vein
runs little west of north 1t dips to-
wards Rush valley at an angle of about
SO degrees and seems to fiatten out and
run to higher values.
Beginning at the mouth of Lewiston
canyon the vein can very easily be
traced. The Daisy group of six claims
is the first on this ground, and a man
has been put to work during the last
few days. AT the end of a days work
he was working in pay ore, and is
driving in on the ore body
North of the Daisy is the Omaha
group, of which considerable has been
said of late. In the workings there
is at present II feet of pay ore, in the
different strata of which can be found
values of from Sc to $40. The ore has
been followed from the surface and the
shaft is now 80 feet deep.
North of the Omaha is the La Cigale,
on which a great deal of work has
been done. In the new shaft which is
on the Lillian Russell claim, the ore
body was uncovered. The values run
from Sc to $40 and the vein is about IS
feet thick. Another shaft on the La
Cigale is down 40 feet and from the
bottom this a drift has been run Go
feet. 1t is expected that the main ore
body will be tapped within another so
feet. The La Cigale company has no
shares for sale.
North of La Cigale the Mercur Gold
Production company owns the Golden
Word group, and still further north the
same company, which is composed OF
Omaha capitalists, owns the Valley
View group. In the former d shaft is
being sunk, and in the latter a shaft
has been sunk 140 feet, and an incline
of 70 feet, from the bottom of which a
drift has been run IS feet Crosscuts
have hpQr in Ir;f+
of low grade ore has been found. The
workings are in black shale and from
present indications the ore body will be
reached in about ten feet
The work on this property has been
suspended on account OF an accident
in which Mr.. McKonkey lost the sight
of an eye. Work will be resumed to-
morrow. e. A. Benson has been visit
ing the property and is we'll pleased
with the showing
Between the last two named proper
ties is the Gray Rooster, which shows
good indications, and north of the VAL
ley View is the Gold Flake group Here
shaft has been sunk 70 feet, and an
incline 20 feet, and the indications are
similar to neighboring properties All
Of these groups are located on the same
vein and there is every reason TO be-
lieve that they will find the same ore
From the mouth of Lewiston canyon
claims are held by Colonel Wall, ]. D.
Keifer, Scott Lisle and a number of
others, and work is being pushed to
reach the same ore body.
G. w. Clay has reached the Markham
group in Silverado canyon, and a con-
trolling interest in the Alter group. The
sale was made by Roy Mayne of this
place. force of men will be put to
work at once developing these proper
ties.
Near the Mercur mill the Bismarck
people continue their labors, but are
very close-mouthed about their finds
The satisfied feeling of the stockhold-
ers, however, gives good reasons for the
belief that their search has not been
entirely fruitless
A contract for work on the Stude-
baker group will be let in a few days.
Others claim owners in the vicinity OF
the mill are preparing for work and
that part of the camp promises to be as
lively as some of the others.