The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-15
EUREKA DEMOCRAT JoTT1NGs.
The Hamburg strilSe-'The East Tin
tic Railroad.


The Hamburg Strike-The East I'M
tic Railroad.
The Gemini is keeping up it's regular
weekly shipment of about ten car loads
of high grade ore.
The Mammoth is down to the 1850
and sending up ore from that level that
makes the officers and directors wear a
smile of benign contentment.
F'lattering reports are received from
Sioux Consolidated and it IS ex-
.,ected a dividend will be posted for
that property as an autumn poquet 10
the stockholders.
The Swansea mine at Silver is now
nearing the 500-foot level, and the -Four
Aces, its near neighbor, has cut the
300-foot station in its shaft. These are
the deepest mines in the prosperous
south end of the district.
The great SiouX-Aj ax tunnel is being
pushed ahead at the rate of about eight
feet every twenty-four hours. The
ground is becoming more faVoraole Tor
rapid progress and a gasoline engine,
with siX-inch exhaust pipe following
the work. keeps the tunnel free from
smoke and deleterious gases. New and
commodious buildings. for blacksmith
and carpenter shops, engine house end
storage have just been completed at
the tunnel opening and every thing
about the premises has the appearance
of strict business.
1t looks very much as though mill
for the great Ajax property was now a
certainty Martin White Of Chicago,
one of the heaviest stockholders OF the
Ajax company, who, with II. M. Ryan,
spent several days last week looking
over the property, is decidedly in favor
of putting up a 100-stamp mill without
unnecessary delay Mr. White is SO
enthusiastic upon the subject Of mill
that in all probability should the COM
pany not take favorable action upon
the proposition, he will build and oper-
ate a mill himself and treat the Ajax
ores at stipulated rate. The recent
rich strike made in the mine will no
doubt have favorable influence in
moulding the views Of others of the
directory.
We are glad to be able this issue to
fully verify the report of the rich strike
made in the Humbug last week, and to
add that the great ore zone that trends
from the Mammoth northeasterly
through the Sioux and Utah has been
cut in the Humbug and at depth of
but about seventy-five feet from the
surface. Where the ledge was encoun-
tered by the tunnel face it is strong
and we'll defined, Of vast extent and
carries a high value in gold, silver
and lead. The vein has been cross-cut
by the tunnel so fars, distance of about
twenty-five feet and the farthest wall
not yet reached, consequently its &C
tual extent cannot be known. But the
fact is known and demonstrated fully
that the trend of the vast mineral belt
continues intact from the porphyry
dykes on the south to where it meets
the granite range on the north, and
that it will only require well directed
effort, backed by moderate capital to
open up this rich section of country
lying on the eastern slope of Godiva
mountain and string of rich mines
will be the result that will equal if not
eclipse the grand old pioneer bonanzas
of the district. We again repeat,
those who have pinned their faith
on Godiva mountain are all right
tic railroad, that will place the town of
Mammoth and the great mine of that
name in railroad connection with the
outside world. is in sight, and it is ex-
pected that by the first of the coming
week the rails will be all down upon
the main line and by the last of the
month most of the switches and spurs
will be laid. Although this line is a
trif1e less than two miles in length
from the connection with the Union
Pacific track near the Mammoth mill
to the mine, it has required a large
amount of engineering skill to over
come the many obstacles of grade and