The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-23

fable secretary Of the Northern Llght
Mining company, who left Thursday
morning OF last week for Lion Hill Tor
the purpose of making a thorough ana
careful examination of the Northern
Light mines and mill, returned home
Sunday evening much pleased with the
condition of the property and the man.
ner in which it is being handled.
In speaking of the progress being
made in the driving Of the incline-up-
raise which is to connect the Woodrun
tunnel with the lower workings OF the
mine, where large bodies OF high grace
milling ore have been blocked out, MT.
Curtis states that this has been driven
a distance OF 80 feet and that the indl-
cations are that the desired connection
win soon be made, as the current OF
air between the two workings IS so
strong as to almost extinguish can
die He verifies the report, however,
that the progress being made in this
work is very slow by reason of the
DANGEROUS condition of the ground,
which is soft and loose, on account Of
which boulders are almost constantly
falling, thus endangering the safety of
the men employed in doing the work.
This incline Will connect the mill tun-
mel with the lower workings OF the
mine as stated above, and Mr.. Curtis
says that in this portion OF the prop
erty surprising developments have
been made of late, as, in sinking in
what was believed to be the foot wall
of the large body of mineral the men
have sunk to a depth Of four feet FUR
Their the bottom of the WinZe still being
in good ore. which would make a per
pendicular depth or face of rs feet of
good milling ore in sight in that part
of the mine and no foot wall yet, and
it is
THIS MAMMOTH BODY
of good milling stuff that the Woodruff
tunnel will break into upon the COM
pletion of the upraise and also render
accessible to the mill.
In the Kelly pipe, mention of which
has been previously made in these col
umns, the full face of the workings Is
in a fine body Of ore in which there is
a. three of four-inch streak or more
of very high grade stuff. This min
eraI zone has been cut recently by
croSs-cut from the Empire workings,
and as the opening has been equipped
with track and car and the ore, aside
from the very rich stuff, is a good mill
ing gold product, the Importance of the
discovery cannot be estimated, es
pecially as the rich streak is growing
In size as work progresses in its de-
Velopment and as Kelly, the miner
after whom the ore pipe was made,
pounds Of the high grade ore daily.
With existing conditions, according
to Mr.. Curtis. it cannot be long now
before the mill, which is working like
a charm, will be grinding away on a
much better grade of ore than has been
the case in the past and he is conf
dent that in due time the property will
be making an enviable record for it
self.
During his stay on the hill Mr. Cur
tbs made a careful inspection of the
Chloride Point mine. just south of the
Northern Light, and he states that he
was surprised at the enormous bodies
of ore blocked out and exposed in
this property, in which there is q
large amount of
HIGH GRADE SHIPPING ORE,
from which the company is making
regular consignments and constantly
swelling its bank account.
The c. 2. workings, according to Mr..
Curtis report, are running directly to-
ward the Kelly ore pipe in the North
ern Light and the indications are that
the ore zone between the two are
identical and that in time the workings
of these properties viii connect with
each other.
Mr. curtis also spent some time to
an inspection of the Mercur mine,
which he designated as a grand propo-
sition that is growing in its immensely
day by day.
In this mine it was a pleasure for
Mr. Curtis to look at the great breasts
Of milling ore exposed in different por-
tions of the property, some of which
are 20 feet thick, some 40 and some So
while in
THE OLD WORKINGS
of the mine the caving system has been
adopted by the company. and in ground
which was previously believed to have
been worked out eight feet of good
milling rock has been found on the
hanging wall and this is being taken
out and run down to Manning The
conditions at the Mercur are magnifi-
cent, according to Mr.. Curtis, and he
says, that in the third ore zone re-
Gently disclosed in the Ruby claim. the
shaft is now in the body of mineral for
g depth of 80 feet and the foot wall has
not yet been reached: one of the pleas
ing features of the discovery being than
the gold contents are increasing as
depth is attained. while The formation
is in place and regular, thus indicatin
a permanent deposit, the extent of
which it may take some time to de-
termine.