The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

Superintendent Frank Hines of the
Northern Light mine. on Lion hill,
Ophir district, who was in the city
yesterday, brings with him the pleas
ing intelligence that the long working
tunnel being driven in this property
has cut the ore body al 215 feet from its
mouth, the face Of the tunnel being in
solid body Of ore that assays sixty
ounces silver and from SIS to SIS in
gold to the ton. which classes it as a
first class shipping product, and espec-
Tally desirable at the smelters on ac-
count Of the high per cent of-iron that
ii carries.
The completion Of this tunnel means
much for the future Of the property
in two ways. The first advantage lies
in the fact that the mine can now be
worked economically and expeditiously,
as the ore will be mined from above
and shot down into cars, which can be
easily pushed through the tunnel to the
dump, and the next consideration Of
importance is that now the company
will begin at once the erection of a
mill for the trea tment Of the immense
amount of ore blocket out in the mine;
the result being that Northern Light
stockholders may look for dividends
at an early day; for the management
OF the company means business, and
is already getting out plans for the
mill, which will not be Of less than a
hundred tons capacity and probably
more.
The Northern Light, from all ac-
counts. and Mr.. Hines concurs in the
opinion, is a greater mine today than
the Mercur mine, as its ores carry
greater gold values, besides the high
percentage in silver, and repeated tests
Of the ore develop the fact that it is a
better teaching mineral than the Mer-
cur ores, and it is free from all base
and deleterlous metals or substances.
Work is to be vigorously pushed in
the extension of this new working tun-
nell II 100 feet more it will be under
what is known as the old Iron shaft.
AT this point an upraise will be made
to make connections with the upper
workings, where great breasts of high
grade ore are exposed, and which can
then be mined and easily handled by a
chute down the shaft to the tunnel
From this shaft the tunnel will then be
extended $50 feet more, where the lower
workings of the mine, containing i'm
mense bodies Of fine milling low grade
gold ores. VIII be encountered and
from this point it will be pushed on
into the HILL into practically virgin
ground, where it is expected that other
large and rich ore bodies VIII be found
in fact, it seems as if Lion hill was
nothing more than a mountain of ore,
and the time viii come when It will
have millions to its credit in dividends.
On the Monarch claim, embraced in
the Northern Light group, the ore
could be mined with plow and scra-
per- according to Mr. Hines; who also
says that he has a large amount of
ore already broken down in the mine
or piled up on the dump ready for ship
ment to market or to the mill, besides
which the large dumps on the property
will pay well to mill.
The site of the new tunnel was To-
Gated with the view Of building the
mill below its mouth so that the ore
could be cheaply handled. DR.. E. D.
Woodruff will have charge Of its con-
struction, and is already figuring on
the plans and specifications. He is en-
thusiastic over the outlook for the
property, and in this feeling he is join
ed by z. II. Airs and other stockhold-
ers of the company.