The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-17

Jacket hill. The veins are contact ifs
sures and the ore averages in gold
from $40 to SIS but is mostly base. The
development shows an unlimited
amount Of ore. The company is max
ing all arrangements to put up a chic
rination mill-some of the machinery
being now in transit. The Lincoln
and Estevan group adjoin the Column
bia and are developed by ten tunnels
and numerous open cuts. The charac-
ter of ore and formation is the same
as Columbia. The company has ample
water power. The future of the COM
pany is very bright and as soon as
the chlorination mill is in operation
will be one of the producers of
Lemhi. There is a small force Of men
at work blocking out ore and Mr..
Armstead, the superintendent. reports
a new strike on the Columbia of $50
ore-4O per cent. free milling. He is
making arrangements to start up their
ten-stamp mill and run all winter.
The Lincoln No. 2 owned by Dan
Steen is showing up well. They have
at present seven feet of good ore that
will mill $50 to $40 and are going to
have q mill-run of 100 tons made.
On the other side Of Columbia hill
on what is known as Hoodoo creek
are some fine properties owned by Ed.
comprising the Ramshorn, Peacock,
Mammoth. Aspen and Hidden Treasure
has had a great deal of work done on
them and show up a great deal of ore
valued at from sic to SIS. Another
group owned by the same parties com
prising the Golden Leaf, Iron Mask
and Badger also has had good deal
of DEVELOPMENT work done; ore is val
ued at $12 to S14.
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spring. This is eight miles from the
Yellow Jacket road and about thirty
five miles from Salmon City and about
eighteen miles from the Jacket in a
direct line. The general formation is
slate and porphyry and very soft. The
first claims located were the Uncle
Sam and Idaho. by Joshua Brown and
Sam James. They have seven feet of
ore that will average $50. The gold is
very fine and evenly distributed. A
half interest in this claim sold this
fall to ]. v. Swift of HALEY for $4,000
cash and a Huntington mill, which is
to be in operation by May next.
There have been some seVenty-five
claims located this summer and the
necessary ten feet of work done on all
of them. Some of these claims are
equally as good as the Uncle Sam if
not better. There are about thirty men
working there now ana good deal OF
development work will be done by
spring Messrs Ford and Brown are
running a cross tunnel 100 feet deep
to tap the vein on the Brown Bear,
which, on the surface, is about thirty
five feet wide. When they strike the
ledge they will run on the ore for 300
feet, when they will crosscut for an
other vein. The gold in this vein is
very fine and evenly distributed (this
is true of almost all the ore in this
camp and the average value of the ore
| is $12. This is one of the finest show
! ings in the camp.
All the ore in this camp is more or
less stained with copper and one ledge
owned by Lane and Kerchner shows
seven feet of copper ore which will
average 80 per cent copper. Messrs.
Bailey, Pise & Co. have a seven-foot
ledge of ore valued at $35 per ton.
Messrs. Coughlin and South have some
very fine ore which improves with
depth, in fact, every claim in the
camp has improved with depth.