The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-05

In referring yesterday TO the CONSOLE
dation of the Sampson and Yosemite
No. 2 mines at Bingham, mention was
made incidentally to the Bingham Tun-
mel company, which, although not
much has been said concerning it,
promises to develop into a most i'm
portant factor in the upbuilding and
growth of the camp in that it will
drain all of the mines in what is known
as Lead Mine gulch. besides which it
will enable these mines TO go TO the
deep in following the different mineral
zones in that portion of the district,
which is something that could not prof
itably be done but for an enterprise of
this character
In Lead Mine gulch there are three
parallel Lodges which are separated
from each other by a distance of from
12O to 200 feet. These lodges are known
as the Lark ledge, the Dalton and the
Brooklyn, and all of the developed
mines in this part of the camp are on
one or the other of these mineral zones.
The tunnel that has been started by
the company above referred to is in
tended to tap and drain all of these
properties, and in doing this the life
of each mine will be materially length
ened, and the capacity more than
doubled, which means that the earn
ings of these mines will be greatly in
creased and their value enhanced; for
as it is at the present time, work must
be discontinued at the water Level,
which is generally at a depth of 1000
feet, or else a large expense must be
incurred in putting in big pumping
plants, and when. these are in the cost
of operation amounts to an enormous
sum during the year; so that it will
readily be seen that if the mines can
be drained by means of tunnel and
the ore can be handled by gravitation
instead of being hoisted, the expenses
all around will or would be greatly
lessened.
According to all accounts it is the
intention of the Bingham Tunnel COM
pany to drive d three-mile tunnel,
commencing in what is known as Bea-
yer canyon. This tunnel is already in
a distance of $50 feet, and it is one of
the finest pieces of tunnel work ever
seen in the camp 1t is seven by eight
feet in the clear, and when it is COM
pleted it viii be equipped with wide
track and large cars.
The surveys for this gigantic piece
of work indicate that it will run about
midway between the Lark and the Dali
ton Lodges, and the Brooklyn vein,
which is next south of the Lark, can
be drained by means of cross-cuts
About the first developed mine to be
met with by the tunnel win be the
Richmond, which is owned by the Dali
ton & Lark Mining company, and it
has been demonstrated that the tun-
mel will open up this mine at a depth
of 1,45O feet on the dip of the vein.
The Dalton and Lark mines will be
the next ones to be encountered, and
the tunnel will cut under these prop
critics a a depth of 1,400 feet below the
collar of the shaft and 600 feet below
the deepest workings of these produc-
ers. Next would come the Wasatch,
which would be opened up and drained
at a depth of LIPS feet from the sur
face and 600 feet below its deepest
workings. The Sampson would be cut
into a depth on the dip of the vein of
about 1,4OO feet, thus giving this prop
erty $50 feet of virgin ground TO work
in. The Miners Dream would be
opened up 1900 feet below the surface,
and the Yosemite No. would be
drained to the depth of 1000 feet and
$50 feet of stopping ground would be
added to this property. The old Lead
mine would gain new lease on life
by the driving of this tunnel, as ii
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at a depth of $50 feet and open up $50
feet of new ground. The tunnel will
cut the formation under the Old Tele-
graph at a depth of 2,075 feet, which
will be 1875 feet below it's deepest
workings, while in the Old Brooklyn it
will open up UNEMPLOYED ground 1850
feet below the surface and $50 feet I'M
der the deepest workings in this old
producer, which has reached a greater
depth in its search for the precious
metals than has any other mine in
that locality. Before this tunnel has
tapped all of the mines in the Old
Lead Mine gulch, it will have reached
the Yosemite No. l, cutting under this
mine at a depth of 1850 feet and 1850
feet below its lowest workings, be-
sides which it will open up and drain
the Extra Session, the Antelope, the
Fortune, the Mammoth, the Congor.
the keystone, the Evergreen and Rust
Ter, the Mayflower, the Hammond group
and eventually the Niagara and the
Old Jordan and Galena.
1t is hard to calculate the great adj
vantage and benefit that such an en-
terprise as this will be to the mines of
Lead Mine gulch, but it is safe to say
that with its completion there will not
be a mine in the gulch but that can be
worked to advantage and at profit.