The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-28
Work Being Prosecuted With Re
newed Vigor.

uSWcO V1SOI.
The Nephi Republic, in it's Christmas
edition, has the following to say re-
garding Mt. Nebo mining district
The Republic representative, ever
mindful of the needs of the people and
their interests, took a trip to Mt. Nebo
mining claims, with the purpose OF in
vestigating the rumorS which have
been floating around Of late as TO the
prospects of this camp.
THE HAGUE.
Having for company c. r., ]. R.
Blackett and T. w. Lamb, we visited
this property, which in the past Gre
ated such a furore of excitement. The
rock is solid blue lime rock with small
veins of white quartz or spar plainly
visible. In working this mine, which,
by the way, has a complicated forma-
ton, the owners encountered a cave
or blow out" the soft yielding stuff
being manganese of iron. Right here
in our opinion, the owners made a
grave mistake. in that instead of going
down on this blow out they COM
menced to fill up the natural cavity as
something of 10 importance. We be-
lieve had the owners prosecuted their
work down through this, their long
cherished hopes would have been real
lieu anu d lIkHlcIQOuS DOQy VI OiC Gil
countered. Another thing that leads
us to this belief is that almost oppo-
site this cave on the other side of the
tunnel q large pocket, or chute of ore
was encountered, which it is said net
ted the owners some 81, 900. Now this
work was stopped when a. large ledge
of rock or horse" was encountered. If
this ledge of rock had been shattered,
the real ore body would have been
brought to light.
These are mistakes, according to the
location of the ledge and the way the
vein is supposed to dip, which have
cost the owners of the property thou
sands of dollars.
The indications are, however, that if
the tunnel is pushed in a southeasterly
direction from the farthest point of
work that the ore body will be en-
countered anyhow, as the small sugary
white quartz or veins of spar are COM
ing in in thick masses, and instead of
dipping they are vertical in position,
and the rock at this point partakes of
the nature of old cheese instead of lime
rock-being easy to bore.
MOUNTAIN QUEEN.
Now the Mountain Queen is situated
on almost the same ledge as the Hague
mine, but as in the case of the other
the work done has been merely pros
pecting work and that ceased when
solid rock was encountered If this
claim was properly worked there is no
reason in the world why it should not
pay, as there is in sight an 1S-inch vein
of blue lead ore, which can be pulver-
lied by the hammer, carrying quanti
ties of silver and gold. The assay on
this claim, as stated, show So per cent
lead Is to Is ounces silver and 81 to So
in gold
THE OLIVE BRANCH.
This too is another piece of good
property, which has in sight hundreds
of tons of concentrating ore, and no
foot wall or hanging wall has as vet
been encountered. With a good con-
centrator this property could be worked
at a good profit to the owners.
THE REPUBLICAN.
Brothers, F. w. Lamb and Henry Sad
Ter. Unlike the workings on the pre-
vious claims, these gentlemen have
found good walls to their claims and
are busily engaged in sinking a shaft
straight down. The colors are COM
ing in at every tap of the boring tool,
and the assays which they have OBJ
tanned show very plainly that this claim
will be one of the best in the district.
THE JANUARY
Is situated on the same ledge of rock
as the Republican, but a little higher
up. The owners of the Republican are
also the owners of this claim. This
prospect has two of the prettiest walls
ever encountered in mining. The hang
ing wall and the foot wall are plainly
defined, and at distance of four feet
apart. This four-foot space is COM
posed of a decomDosed granite, while
on each side of it, plainly exposed, is
a small vein OF "sugary'' white quartz,
while between that and the two walls
is a thin vein of what will eventually
lead to high grade carbonate ores
These gentlemen are now working with
a Will on this property and with
little de0th the public will hear of
something startling in mining circles.
THE COPPERHEAD.
This will. we have no doubt, be one
of the best mines in the district Sam
Reed is the owner. and it would be a
fitting climax to Sans years of toll,
to have this property develop into one
of the greatest copper mines in the
west. Three feet down he encountered
a vein of IS inches; the ore is what is
termed melaconite or black oxide of
copper, intermixed with red oxides and