The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-25
STRIKE IN THE HECLA.
Interesting budget of Mercur News
From The Herald Man.

! interesting budget or Mercur News
From The Herald Man.
Mercur, Nov 24.-At last the Hecla
has broken into the ore, and although
assays have not yet been made its
general resemblance to the ore in the
! Backyard leaves no doubt as to it's
being the ore body. The boys have
worked hard and faithfully, and some
| of them had about reached their last
| dollar. The drift had been run about
40 feet from the shaft, when it. broke
through. There was rejoicing on the
| street when the news began to circu-
late.
Work has been commenced on the
Golden Ward group, north of the La
Cigale. The property is owned by E.
A. Benson and others, and is on the
Omaha vein. Development work will
be crowded along as fast as possible
during the winter. The work is under
| the direction of Sam McKonkey.
| The owners of the Vanderbilt claims
are making preparations for a season
of exploration. nice bunk house is
being built, and force of hands will
be kept at work all winter. At differ
ent points on the property the vein
crops out, and it can be traced for some
distance. 1t lies parallel with the
Omaha vein. The work is under the
! direction of Mr. Mcintyre.
On the same vein as the Vanderbilt
is located the Cedar Hill group, owned
by Colonel Wall Considerable work is
being done or this property. The ore
vein exposed here is about % feet
thick, and carries values of about So
per ton. Like the Omaha, it is a con-
tact vein, and is we'll defined, the
hanging wall being porphyry- and the
foot wall lime. 1t can be traced from
Ophir canyon to the foothills south of
Lewiston canyon, and probably eX-
tends as far as Five Mile pass. Lo-
Gated on the same vein is the Broken
Hill, owned by Gillespie and Holmes;
the Warren group, owned by Mayne &
Scheu; the Monte Christie Granite
Mountain and a number of others
Work is being done on all the claims
along this and the Omaha vein.
Every day brings prospective pur-
chasers to the camp, and it is aston
iShing to see the number of men who
are willing to brave the storms and
mud in order to visit some particular
piece of property, with view to in
vestment.
Claims have been located so thick in
the district that there is scarcely
foot of ground between Mercur and
the valley on which some one has not
located a claim, but on many of these
little or no work has been done Wher-
ever any attempt at development has
been made, however, the indications.
have been encouraging.
The facilities for milling in the west
ern foothills are much better than at
Mercur. The mills at Mercur have d
very heavy expense in the item of
water. As an Illustration, one of the
leading mill superintendent states that
the Mercur company saves yearly
about $50.000 by having its ore milled
at Manning, where water is plentiful
The water is piped to Mercur from
Ophir creek, distance of over four
miles, and large pump is necessary
TO force it to the tank on the divide.
In the west foothills the distance is
short, and the water will run from
the creek without the aid of expensive
machinery.
Being close to the valley, timber and
other supplies can be freighted more
easily and therefore cheaper than to
the top of the hills. If it shall prove
that the strikes in this locality are as
extensive as those in Mercur, and
there is good reason to believe they
are even more extensive, then indeed
the new camp, which is bound to
grow, will surDass the present one. in
every particular.
The HerSchel yesterday broke through
into the gold vein and the whole force
Of the drift is now in ore of a fair
value. The extent of the body is of
course only a question of guess work.
but there is every reason to believe
that the tunnel has reached The goal
for which it was started.
The western hills are covered with
parties trying to see if it is possible to
get III on the ground floor. SURVEYS are
being made in some cases to see if
there is not some fraction overlooked bv
the locators.
The Victor and Buckeye are two
claims that are located between the
Geyser and the Gold Dust. A tunnel
has been driven in some distance and
an open cut is being made from the
outcroppings of the gold vein To those
of the silver vein, both of which can
plainly be traced. The gold vein shows
lace of Is feet. with values of SIS.
With some more development work the
property will be milling proposition.
and the owners propose to make il so
as soon as possible.
The boiler at the upper shaft of the
Golden Gate was disabled a few DAYS
ago through carelessness or some other
unknown cause. AS a result the mine
air has not been as pure as it usually
is, and one of the workmen tainted
away on the street today from the eff
fects of bad air while going TO his
home.
3. f. Seminar, the Mercur clothier.
made an assignment today 20 the Ma
tional Bank of the Republic The as
signment caused considerable surprise.
as it was believed Mr.. Seminar was
doing good business