The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-16
State LINE MINING DISTRICT

shafts, one eighty feet in depth and
the other ninety. On the surface
THE LEDGE IS FORTY FEET IN
WIDTH,
with rich streaks of silver-gold ore,
which often goes as high as LOCO
ounces in silver, and from SO to $12 in
gold. Great difficulty is experienced
in sorting the ore, which is a black
quartz, and in consequence it becomes
mill proposition regardless of the
rich straaks of milling ore. The de-
velopments have determined that the
vein is regular and continues so with
depth The Sulphides group has been
bonded to Christy and LaRioux for
themselves and other eastern people,
but the deal may not go. The people
holding the bond desired to take in
two additional claims and made an
offer of $4,000 for the whole, but the
owners demanded $500, 900, a price
which was considered far too high by
the other parties, and as a result the
sale may never occur. The Sulphides
are only developed to a depth of
eighteen feet, but the showing on them
is first-class. A four-foot vein has
been opened up, the average value be-
ing $40 in gold and twenty-five ounces
in silver. Some rich streaks of silver
ore occur in the vein. 1t is the inten-
=
and then croSscut the vein, after which
Stopping will commence. Anthony and
W. S. Godbe have just made final pay
ment on group of very promising
claims in the neighborhood of the
Burro. a neighbor of the Ophir and
Utah Spur. The gentlemen bonded the
properties early in the excitement for
only 5000 and could today realize very
heavily on their investment The deal
11E o1y
tanned one-third interest.
AN OFFER OF ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS
for the Ophir, made by Minneapolis
syndicate, has just been refused by the
owners Of the property. Several i'm
portant deals are now being negoti-
ated and the additional needed capital
will without doubt soon be forthcoming
for the extensive development of the
promising properties in the district
As before stated the general strike
of the district is north and south, with
the silver-gold vein cutting the gold
zone from the northwest to the south
east. The country rock Is a combina-
ton porphyry, granite and quartz, the
contact being quartz through porphyry
and granite. The silver quartz is near
~ blue, native metal showing frequent
ly, while the gold quartz tends toward
the rose.
The Creole, located just west of the
town of Line, is owned by McBurney,
Millet and Mcdonald. 1t has made
several shipments to the valley smelt-
ers, but these shipments demonstrated
that the ore should be milled at the
property. where it would give hand
some returns. The last shipment is
reported to have given in the neigh
borhood Of three ounces in gold and a
small amount Of silver, while the gem
eral average of the four-foot vein
opened up in several places on the
property is between $1S and SIS in gold.
On the hanging wall there is a very
rich streak from a feather edge to
eight inches in width The Creole is
developed with 40-foot tunnel, a shaft
% feet in depth and a number of
light tunnels and open cuts. Il is the
intention of the owners to sink the
shaft to a depth Of 200 feet, from
which point a crosscut to the vein will
be driven
THE VEIN IS WE'LL DEFINED
and the showing is highly promising.
Adjoining the Creole group on the
north is the Gold Haven, owned by
Brown, Jewell, Turner and several
other experienced mining men formerly
of Phoebe and DeLamar. These gem
tlemen are developing their properties
in person and doing splendid work
They have opered up the extension of
the Creole vein and demonstrated that
it continues to the northward and gets
even stronger with depth The aver
age of the vein as taken from their
claims is from SIS TO $50 in gold With
a tunnel sixty feet in length the vein
was opened UP for that distance over
foc Ia1O
ings on the Creole and a shaft is now
going down near the vein at a lower
level for the purpose Of continuing the
development
The Ohpir group was discovered late
in 1895, but the first important develop
ment occurred in January of the pres
ent year The fine showing resulted in
the first movement toward the S ate
Line district and the subsequent loca-
ton Of the entire surrounding country.
The property is developed at present
with shaft 135 feet in depth, at the
bottom the vein of silver and gold ore
being
FULLY SEVEN FEET IN WIDTH.
This property has paid for itself from
grass roots and is now making ship
ments of high grade ore to the smelters
here. 1t is equipped with a horse whim
theoretically pushed, it being the in
tention Of the owners to go down at
least 200 feet before drifting is COM
menced. On the hanging wall of the
vein is an eight inch streak from
which the shipping ore is obtained.
This ore goes from 1000 to 1900 ounces
in silver and from Sl2 to $40 in gold.
the gold values being very regular
throughout the entire vein. The re-
mainder Of the vein averages rs ounces
in silver and the amount OF gold
named. This property is located about
two and a half miles east of Line City
and is owned by the Clark brothers,
John Lynch and Mike Sullivan. The
vein has been traced and trenched in
a number Of places for distance of
half a mile on the surface, while the
zone upon which it is located has been
proven up for several miles.
To the southwest of the Ohpir is the
Burro, another shipper of
HIGH GRADE SILVER AND GOLD
ORE
This property is owned by Stinson,
Williams, Peak and Baker and is de-
veloped with a shaft fifty feet in depth
and cross cut each way from the bot
tom forty feet in length. The vein is
nearly three feet between walls, which
are practically perpendicular. In silver
the entire vein averages so ounces and
in gold SIS, while a rich streak five
inches in width carries values averag-
ing about $3.50. This is the shipping
ore. Ten inches of rich black sulphrets
show up on the foot In the neighbour
hood of the Ophir and Burro, in add
ton TO the Utah Spur and the Godbe