The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-01

Charles Ohywiler, who is interested
with Dan Gurnsey and other Salt
Dakers in mining locations in the State
Line district, and who has been pros
pecting in that region for the last Two
or three months. arrived in the city
yesterday morning, and during the day
he was besieged by mining men who
are anxious to learn all that they can
regarding this new and promising dis
trict: and in answer to all inquiries Mr..
Ohlwiler states that this is the great
est mineral region he ever saw, and
he has visited nearly every mining
camp of prominence in the United
States.
Mr.. Ohlwiler made several locations
in the State Line district, near Line
City, and also put UP stakes and monu-
ments in the north end of the camp,
near the gold lode owned by DR.. G. H.
Fennemore and J. Wood Christian, jr.,
and in Eagle Valley district in the
vicinity of the claims owned by Hon.
Allen G. Campbell, Ben Johnson and
Colonel H. /. Pickett, where, he says,
2 hundred locations have already been
made.
At Line City, according to Mr.. OIL
wiler, q large amount of development
work is being done. and with most
favorable results. The two ore zones
of the camp are being well prospected;
and on the silver ledge, where the white
metal exists in a free state, associated
with gold. it has been demonstrated
that the ore bodies increase in size
with depth. and that values are main
tanned throughout the ledge.
On the Ophir, a silver proposition, the
shaft has attained A depth of $50 feet,
and the shaft at this depth will not hold
the vein, in which there is a pay streak
varying IN width from Is inches to 3
feet that averages over 600 ounces in
silver to the ton, while a portion of the
vein assays up into the thousands in
silver and gold. AS soon as the 200
foot level is reached IN the Ophir.
drifting and STOPPING on the ledge will
be the order Of the day. The last ship
ment from this property Melted $3.50
tor. .a.,Lhcr ST ipment, it is under
sseOa, is now Ell. route to this citv.
The Burro. another silver producer,
is also showing up well. The shaft on
this ground is now down so feet. and
the ore body gains in size with depth.
Within the last few days another big
strike has been made in the camp, and
this time the Rice brothers are the
ores in luck. For some time past they
have been driving a tunnel in the
Rocky mountain claim, and after go
ing a distance of 100 feet in easy work
ing ground, they broke into a solid body
Of ore, four feet in width, that viii
average over $40 in gold 10 the ton. The
quartz is free milling. pans well, while
portions of the ledge run up into the
thousands in the precious metal.
The Lambert and Drake gold mine is
also looking well and the showing on
this property is most encouraging.
AT the Creole work is being pushed
with good results. and Mr.. Ohlwiler is
confident that this property will open
out into = big producer.
In Eagl4 alley district, where Camp
bell and ers have made locations,
Mr. Ohlw confirms all previous re-
ports concerning the extent and value
of the ore deposits. In this locality, he
affirms, the ledge is 600 feet wide 50
feet of which is gold bearing. and he
further states that any of the quartz
within this zone viii show colors by
panRing. 1t will take considerable work
TO prove the permanency of the depos-
it. but if it holds it's own with depth,
there is every reason to believe that
this will make one of the greatest gold
camps in America.
At Charlie Lytle's camp, four miles
above the Campbell locations, there
are some very valuable prospects from
which assays have been obtained 60
ing as high as 1880 in gold to the ton
and UP into the thousands in silver.
A short distance south of Lytle's a
new discovery has been made, which
is causing d great deal OF excitement
in mining circles in the south. The
find was made by Dan Ross. and, ac-
cording to Mr.. Ohlwiler, the ore is
very rich in horn silver and the de-
post large one.
On the State Line, a short distance
north of the Utah Spur mine. Rome
Hicks. the veteran prospector. has just
struck it rich. as he has uncovered a
3-f0ot body Of ore at the grass roots
that assays 5000 in gold TO the ton. The
claim on which Mr.. Hicks made the
discovery had been located and aban-
doned by several parties who rslin-
pushed all claim to the ground on the
supposition that it was valueless. A
little careful prospecting, however, re-
vealed its hidden treasure, and now Mr..
Hicks IS on the highway of affiuence
and wealth.
Mr.. Ohlwiler made a careful examina-
ton Of the Confidence mine, north of
Line City, owned by Fennemore and