The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-01
SHIPMENT OF OFFER ORE.
Another Consignment of Mineral
From State Line.

Milford Aua. 3d.. C. Clark of the
Offer mine at tateline came in this
afternoon with 5000 pounds OF his best
assorted ore for shipment to the Salt
Lake smelter. THIS ore has been graded
up TO a good riel figure and from the
proceeds Mr.. Clark expects some good
Showing. he says that the mine owners
in State Line have dona, ted ore enough
to q Mr.. Brewster o. Kansas to pay the
first cost of a ten stamp mill and that
the same wiz be going In very soon.
they hope Orher mine owners in the
camp have come So time and handed
over their ores to the extent that now
the mill is sure 10 come. Of course
this plan was the last resort, and with
the showing they can make in the camp
they feel that il is highway robbery
pure and simple, but it was q tax they
freely entered into when nothing else
would bring about the result desired.
I'VE have" said Mr. Clark. given
salt Lake men Two or three good lay
outs on the property. They have ex-
anired il, made Favorable reDorts and
then let ii drop. This did not discourage
US in the least for We knew that our
camp had shown all we claimed for it
and more too. and the dropping of the
bonds was simply because the fellows
could not raise the price in time. We
fieure, lco, that some little scherneng
WAS done in order to discourage Us and
lower our prices. If a few of them let
US down and would not take W their
bonds, the tendency would be TO give
us the blues and let the next man in
CT the ground floor at a song"
Mr.. Clark goes to the city With the
ore and viii say right there until the
job is done and the sn1elter certificate
on file.
There wiQl be enough ore m4lled from
State Line this fail 10 carry TIE ra1fp
through the winter, and if the milling
is not done on the ground, the ore win
go 30 Phoebe where arrangements have
been perfected for the working of the
State Line product
Hays Cook came down from Star dis
triet today. Hays is, figuratively speak
ing, on the walDath With mine ex-
perts. Nov" he said today. 81 have
been mining for 81 years. These fell
lers come along and / take them up TO
my camp. Going UP they tell me they
know ali about it. We go down into the
shaft and they begin TO look around
and ask school girl questions about this
thing and that thing-things that the
average prospector knows by heart
and then these book experts start off
ON some harangHe about this Kind q
a formation and then that Now l have
had a man looking my property over
To-. several days There are two diff
ferent persons. One is all right and the
other one don't know his business
They both get off on differenS things,
but the one Of them gets the general
-9ugse Of The business frst-class, and
: . wild probably do something for our
district right soon, but the other Teller
would not touch it in thousand years.
That's the way things are running in
Star"
we always rely upon reports coming
from Mr.. Cook Everybody feels that
they are getting at the truth when
Hays reports His shaft is now down
nearly 100 feet, and he is cross cutting
and expects to tap the vein soon. His
ores run SIS to $50 per ton in gold. and
his ledge matter is big. The two walls
where he is at work have spread to a
considerable distance, allowing foreign