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

side property returned Wednesday
from business trip to Zion.
The Geyser is now capable of re
Gucing ITO tons day, will soon be run
ming TO its full capacity.
J. E Cory came out on Sunday from
Salt Lake and arranged for the start
ing of several works.
Work has been commenced on the
p. w. Madsen group, west of the La
Cigale, in the western foothills.
Mr.. Sorensen, an old-time mining
man of the camp, returned on Monday
to look after his many interests.
Mr.. Wiley of the Prosser House and
his partners are doing development
work on the Trace, on Lion Hill, with
good prospects of success.
On Sunday six wagons might be
counted at one time passing through
the camp en- route to the Western Dip
all loaded with equipments for de-
velopment work.
The Mckinley group, on Lion Hill. is
receiving some attention from the own
ers- 1t was here the piece of float
worth S6.065 per ton was found some
time ago.
Castleman & Hunt have been work
ing on the Sego Lily property, which
joins the Daisy, and they expect to
strike the Daisy ore vein in about %
feet more digging.
Work has been resumed in the Ced-
ric group. in the Sunshine country,
where drifting is being done on the
vein. The ore is low grade. but i'm
provement is confidently expected.
p. n. Hansen has finished his assess
ment work on the Spar group and mas
also put a force at work TO continue
the development of the group. He
departed for his home in Minnesota
the first of the week.
Murphy & Preble have a gang of
men at work building bunk houses,
sinking shafts etc. They will put in
$500 worth of work on a shaft on the
$500 on the Granite Mountain group.
just north of the Syndicate and east of
the Big Flat
Colonel Moore has just completed a
survey of the pipe line from Box Springs
to the Northern Light. 1t is about two
miles long, and water will be
pumped between 200 and 800 feet from
the gulch to the mill Work will be
commenced laying the pipe as soon as
they arrive, which will be in a few
days.
Mr. Hines has blocked out so much
ore at the Northern Light that many of
the drifts are filed up. All the ore will
be brought to the mill through the
Woodruff tunnel, which is almost fin
ISDcC ne WOIk OF DullQllS the Hllll
IS being delayed through the non-ar-
rival of the machinery.
Mr.. ]. w. Cory of the Gladstone came
out TO the camp this week and began
improvement on that property. A tun-
mel has been run in toward the vein
300 feet, and also two shafts, one 1874
feet and the other $50. have been sunk.
The latter is to be the main working
shaft. 1t was sunk by James Hagan
q nd 70 hx ..f h. l,..esN
made shafts in the camp. and it's tim
bering a splendid piece of work.
Tired of the comparatively slow
progress which can be made by hand
drilling, the Wonder company at their
last meeting decided to put in an air
compressor and Burley drills. and the
property is now being equipped there
with. The company have been COM
PEELED to go deeper than was originally
intended but feel in nowise dis
couraged. and, if necessary. are pre-
pared to go at least l loo feet 1t is not
anticipated, however, that it will be
necessary to sink more than 100 feet
further before reaching the ore zone.
The number of men employed in the
western foothills is constantly increas-
ing. and the prospects grow brighter
day by day. There is scarcely a group
of claims between Lewiston and Ophir
canyons on that zone where work is
not being vigorously prosecuted. and
large numbers of miners are also pros
pecting below Lewiston and above
Ophir canyons. An analysis OF the ore
shows Only a half of l per cent of
arsenic. while the percentage of quick
silver is 2, much more than is obtained
generally in the ore of the camp. This
per cent of quicksilver would make a
value in that product of between $40
and $50, and leads to the belief that be-
sides new gold fields. another Almaden
may have been discovered. There are
possibilities untold yet to be developed
on this great gold belt