The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
mines, MINING AND STOCKS.

Tor Shipment from the Blue Bird, a re-
cent discovery on rasshopper ground.
ana Tor few days last week there
were omfnous symptoms that the
eIghteen-inch vein of $40 gold ore was
ABOUT 10 pinch out. On the last day
that Captain Egan was in camp. how
ever, a single shot disclosed the fact
that the ledge had turned abruptly to
the right from a due north and south
direction and at last reports the lode
was opening up into a handsome body
OF Gre The $40 average still holds up
ana frequently the found chunks of free
gold quartz tllaH run as high az $500.
The Blue Birds tunnel is now 81 feet
long and the three men engaged in it's
driving viii continue about IS feet
further, taking ore as pay for their
labor. Captain Egan seems sanguine
that the Bird is the making of good
mine. A one cent assessment was
levied on June 10 last to be paid on
the 18th Of last month. What delinquent
stock remains will be sold next Friday
at Salt Lake, the company's place of
business, and then the corpora ton will
probably begin operations upon their
Badly prospects at once.
Near the mead of Mill creek, not far
from the forks of Deer creek, in the
Gold Mountain mining district, is To-
queens betrothed is her nearest neigh
Dor, the Silver King, one of the Deseret
Mining and Milling company's best pro-
positions, about one mile east
Last summer there was done enough
development work on this prospect to
establish the existence of a three-foot
vein of gold dirt whose surface powder
showed a dozen colors in the pan and
assayed at from IS to $25, 81 being the
lowest return from any samples tested.
The Queen is owned by H. W. Ramlose,
Hyrum Hansen, G. T. Bean and Carl
Barnson. Last Friday Messrs Bean
and Ramlose returned to Richfeld
after a two-weeks' interview with their
protege and they have only the most
glowing reports to make. While on the
mountain they pushed the Queens tun-
mel in twenty feet deeper and found the
size of the vein steadily increasing and
the quality of its rock improving.
Hyrum Hansen and Barney Middlemus
stayed on the hill and viii keep peg
ging away at this hole for three weeks
longer. No assays have been made this
season but a liberal assortment of sam
pies was brought down to the city and
sent north TO test.
Messrs. Bean, Hansen and Ramlose
own the Handicap and expect great re-
suits from that digging this year. The
owners were put on the Handicap's
track by the finding of a blowout of
rich ore high up on a hilltop. They
went down from the groupings far
enough to become convinced that a
good perpendicular vein was there and
then abandoned the shaft for a cross
cut which has been started 100 feet
lower down. No office tests have been
made but experts who have examined
the handicaD dirt pronounce if O. K
While there recently the boys ran in
twenty feet on their crosscut and left
Hans Wilson to push the hole about
feet farther, believing that
at that distance they will strike the
looked for lode at the depth of about
100 feet from the surface groupings. To
their surprise and delight the work
men in this twenty-foot tunnel ran
across two small lodges Of rich ore
which are too diminutive to pay in
themselves but which zip towards what
the men deem to be the main ledge
and indicate the presence of a big body
of valuable quartz.