The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-27
THE WONDER IN THE VEIN.
The Mercur- Mercury's Review of the
Camp

! The Wonder drift broke into the vein
! Tuesday. The ore is we'll oxidized and
should carry good values, but the COM
pany is not making public the result
! of its assays, consequently the public
viii have to do it's own guessing on
that point for the present. The new
drill is now in operation and does much
! better than the former one. and the
vein will be. rapidly developed. Super
/ intendent Robertson and Engineer
Reynolds. who have been with the
company since the incorporation of the
! enterprise, are in excellent humOr over
| progress being made. The boiler. en-
CINE and compressor rooms in which
the costly machinery with which the
mine is operated are housed are kept
/ in the best of order and the machinery
receives care more attentive and kind
ly than. is bestowed on many young
ster in this town. The compressor and
engine were painted and striped dur
ing the. week and shine accordingly.
Through the courtesy of Manager
Boutwell, of the Sacramento, the min
ing reporter inspected the great slopes
of ore in that mine and came out be-
wildered by the immense showing of
mineral. In some places there are
Slopes of ore with faces from 40 to 20
feet high, all of that which has been
extracted having gone through the
mill. The mine is being developed rap
idly, it being the intention to keep the
mill running on ore from development
work only. Upwards of a hundred
tons are being put through the mill
daily and the tailings dump is already
assuming mammoth proportions. The
ore carries good values and it is safe
to say that the property will be a
wealth producer for years to come.
1t is reported on good authority that
in the incline on the Gold Dust, at q
depth of $50 feet, a stream of water has
been encountered. The flow has been
constant since the strike, which oc-
Cured some days ago, and it is thought
that permanent supply has been OBJ
tanned. 1t is estimated that the flow
is 10000 gallons a day, enough to sup
ply a mill of $50 tons capacity, and es-
timated to be worth to the company
at least 5000 a month. The ore bodies
in the property continue to develop
well, and the stockholders are all feel
ing good and impatiently awaiting 1.-The
erection of the mill, the construction OF
which is anticipated during the early
spring months.
During the week the Chloride Point
mine shipped about 80 tons of ore from
this point, running near $50 ounces sill
yer and some gold. The body from
which this high-grade ore comes is
said to be increasing in size as it is
developed. A shipment worth about
$4,000 is a pretty good record fof a
mine which has not been Incorporated
or operated by the company two
months.
j. D. McCarty, who for almost five
years has been employed in the Mer-
cur mill. most of the time as a solution
man, has accepted a position with -
Northern Light company. and VII
probably occupy the position of head
solution man in the new mill. He
thoroughly understands the work, and
the company is to be congratulated
upon securing his services.
The Brickyard crosscut is now about
1S5 feet in length and the ore bodies
hold their own well in appearance and
size. An up-raise has been made from
the crosscut 20 feet all in ore and this,
added TO the 90 feet of ore developed
below, makes the vein at this point 40
feet in thickness and no hanging wall
yet.
1t is reported that G. w Clay had
encountered fine body of ore in the
Crown Point mine, adjacent to Man
ming and that Green ct al are Secur-
ing good returns from their property
in that vicinity. A great many people
think the east dip will prove as great
a producer as the west dip.
BaFave and Devin are at work on
the Monitor group, which joins the
Chloride Point on the south. and are
developing a four-foot vein of ore
which averages 16 ounces silver and
$40 gold per ton.
Notwithstanding the immense snow
fall, the Gladstone company is pushing
the work steadily ahead We predict
that Manager Cory will develop a pro-
ducer in the property before the year
closes.
Chloride Point stock is being pur-
chased freely in Mercur and we under
stand that the Ophir boys who know
it best, are also investing, heavily.