The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05
SALES FOR THE WEEK
IN THE WESTERN FOOT HILLS.
a Part of the District That Prom
Uses to Rival Mercur.

a Idrt OF the DISTRICT mat Prom
Uses to Rival Mercur.
A gentleman just in from the west
ern foothills, west of Mercur. in Camp
Floyd district when interviewed by
Herald representative yesterday.
was very enthusiastic over the out
look for that locality and made a
prophesy that by another year the
mines in that region would develop
INTO magnificent bonanza DIS any
that Mercur could now boast Of
He then mentioned a few OF the pro-
pert.eS there, as follows:
Z. h. Schue controls a group known
as the Ll4Ilan Russell near the north
ern boundary line OF Camp Floyd DIS
trict. lie IS sinking a shaft and de-
veloping the property in fine shape,
ana mas an excellent showing
South Of this comes the Omaha
group on which j. c. Conklin and
others have a lease and bond. A body
Of ore has been shown up on this
group that goes from 81 to Sc IN gold,
and as yet but little development work
has been done on the property.
North OF the Lillian Russell comes
the Broken Hills group, which, in all
probability, is located IN Ophir mining
district. This group shows Groupings
from eight to fifteen feet wide which
stand up from the surface to a height
Of seven to ten feet. Five hundred feet
northeriy from this ledge there is an
other ledge Of quartz that averages
ABOUT thirty feet IN width, and on this
ledge a fifteen foot shaft has been
sunk that has some good looking stuff,
but the ledge, for its entire length,
200 feet, assays from 81 to Sc in gold
at the grass-roots.
Joining the broken Hills on the
northwest is Colonel e. A. Wallis
group of five claims, known as the
Dolly Faunce. which is characterized
by bold groupings nearly the entire
length of the group. On the Cedar
Hills claim, comprising one of the
group, the ore values range from 81 to
SIG, and on the Snap lode, another of
the claims in the group, the indica-
tons are most favorable.
MIR. King, Of the Rio Grande West
ern road, owns q group of three claims
east Of the Snap lode on which he has
just let a contract for 100 feet of work,
and he has a good showing Of ore on
all three Of the claims.
Northwest Of the Snap lode is the
Ophir group on which there is a large
ledge which shows plainly from the
wagon road This property is under
bond to Fred Lineback.
Across the road to the northwest of
the wagon road there is a group of
claims owned by Ophir Evans He has
a strong vein that goes from So to So
in gold.
At the crossing of the road at Dry
canyon the Raddatz brothers have a
group of claims. In their nine-foot
shaft they have a fine body of ore the
full size of the shaft which runs we'll in
values.
North of this group is located an
other group of claims, the property of
Colonel z. A. Wall, which is considered
as one of the most promising proper
ties in the foothills. On one of these
claims, the ST. John, there is a forty
foot tunnel, from the face of which
cross-cuts have been made both ways
ona the vein with no walls on either
side, and the ore ranges from 81 to So
in gold to the ton.
North Of the Wall property, at the
mouth Of Red Bluffs canyon, Ben
Johnson is the owner of group on