The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-08
IN CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT.
Interesting Items Clipped From the
Mercur Mercnrv

Inc La CiSale property continues t.
improve. The vein has grown larger anc
richer as depth is attained until now tn,
width of the vein in the lower levels /:
not known and will not be until it i:
croSscut. The assays taken during the
week. 70 in number. ranged from $40 Il
WIZ. and gave an average of $6.65 pei
ton for the new ground drifted into dur.
ing the week. which amounted to 81:
rect IN al, as follows: Boston No. drift
south % feet: No. . drift south, so feet
NO l drift north. so feet; No. 2 drift
north 2 feet; Discovery: No. drift. Il
feet: No. drift. 20 feet. This entire
| work. PA feet of drifting in one week
was done by a force of "A men under
ground The total amount of workings
in the mine are now as follows: Boston
Incline. 800 feet: No. north drift, 12l
feet. No. . north drift. 10i feet: No.
| south drift, 9S feet; No. south drift. 11s
feet, Discovery: Incline-265 feet No. !
! north drift 81 feet: No > north drift. 237
feet. making the total amount of work
ings to date. 1.519 feet The clubhouse.
! stables. assay office and dwellings, have
! been removed from the vicinity of the
shaft to the La Cigale townsite, and the
/ work of grading the millsite is now
under way. A road is also being graded
! to run above the mill. Work on the com
pany cottage commenced Tuesday. Con-
tractor Jones laid out the water line dur
ing the week and the work of digging the
trench and laying the pipe will soon be
commenced. AS soon as the delayed lum-
commence.
Monday the Geyser tramway was
equipped with a new hree-quarter-inch
wire cable. Wednesday the cable was
cut off short by the shieve wheel and
a skip. loaded with ore. which was at the
top of the incline. shot down with the
speed of a thunderbolt and plunged into
the mill with the force of catapault-
Great beams were tossed aside and
broken like straws, and the ore house and
engine room were left badly disfigured
Superintendent Benner, who was on the
upward bound skip. saw the skip coming
just barely in time 10 jump and save him
self and Engineer Fox was baptized
with a shower of broken glass and flying
SplinterS but received no injury The
damage was repaired in few hours. and
10 time was lost at the mill. similar
accident occurred about two years ago.
Joe Smith. ]. J. Blake and associates
are figuring on securing lease on the
Sunshine mine and mill. and if success
full will have the property in operation
~ leSS than Il month These gentlemen
were among the first to apply the
cva.eide process and Mr.. Smith probably
has given the subject more research. done
more experimenting and understands now
10 meet the difficulties which arise IN
the treatment of the various characters
of ore mined in the district better than
ary man in it. We believe that If the
lease is perfected the mine Will soon be
a paying institution.
\ most favorable change mas occurred
in the Daisy incline, now down about 5U
feet, adding that much to the width OF
the ore body. which Is Improving right
along in values. 1t is very probable that
the mine will be equipped with mill at
an early date.
~ the Edna May, the property of the
Mercur Gold Production company, the
drift mas been run on ore for 50 feet since
TIE new shaft was sunk. Three shifts
are regularly employed and the showing
IS most excellent. The pay ore is from
FIVE to six feet wife and averages about
Superintendent Andrews. of the
Nathalie group. which is in close proX-
unity to the Daisy. has let contract TO
J. T. Riley for considerable development
work. which is now in progress. During
the week thep roperty was added TO by
then urchase of the Big Flat claim from
Frank P. Davis for a goodly figure.
J. II. Conrad. who is interested in the
Chess oeake group with c. NJ. McEntire.
is in camp looking after this ando other
properties Mr. Conrad has much faith
: rms camp and is backing il with his
means. In future he will give more time
to the district than in the past.
Fine looking rock is being extracted
fro, the Golden Gate Extension, In the
tlfr.el on top of the hill. Good assays
are reported from the ground.
Henry Rippeto. one of the pioneer
miners of the west has been in camp
this weel,. overseeing operations at the
Vanderbilt, west dip property OF great
George A. Packard. of Butte. arrived
in camp yesterday TO take charge OF
the metallurgical department at the
La Cigale. He is said to stand high
in that profession
Chloride Point stock is in big de-
mard in Mercur. and a number of
sales are reported at 30c. during the
week Miners and mining men are
The Brichyard north drift is now
in about 200 feet and the good ore stlll /
continues The property is looking ex-
ceedingly we'll