The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-25
IN GOLD CITY HAUNTs.
Increased Activity in Little Cotton,
wood Canyon.

Increased ACTIVITY IN Little Cotton
wood Canyon.
The fact that an eastern syndicate
has just secured a lease and bond on
the Dipper Gold mine. at the mouth of
Little Cottonwood canyon, is sure to
revive interest in this locality, and es-
pecially so as the new management
will at once begin development work
with a force of Is men with the inten-
ton of exploiting the property in q
most thorough manner.
The details of the transaction, as
given in these columns yesterday. GER
tainly had an inspiring effect on the
officers of the New State Mining COM
pany, whose property adjoins the Dip
per, and the announcement has since
been made that the company will re-
sumo development on its ground with
in week or so. as there is every rea-
son to believe that this is the making
of a heavy producer of the yellow
metal.
The New State discovery was made
more than three years ago by G. F.
Dalton and Amos and Chris Thompson
of this city. The find
CAUSED INTENSE EXCITEMENT
and there was a subsequent rush to
the spot from all over the country, and
but as it was in the winter, but little
work was done excepting by the own
ers of the original discovery.
The townsite fever was also rampant
and within the space of a few days a
town had been laid out that was given
the euphonious title of Gold City. and
within less than two weeks the en-
bryotic town could boast of a few
houses and a forest of tents.
The New State discovery consisted of
siX-inch ledge of ore at the surface
that carried gold in the native state.
a. tunnel was run in on this for dis
lance Of 100 feet or more and six or
eight-ton shipment of ore was made
that assayed SS4 to the ton.
About this time the property passed
into the hands of the New State Min
ing company, and the company had
been in possession but a few days
when the vein widened out to three
feet and carried
AVERAGE VALUES OF s47S
in free milling gold ore. When this
was made known excitement rose to a
fever heat and everyone believed that
Salt Lake was soon to be in a position
so that it could boast of the possession
of bonanza gold camp within an
hours drive from its corporation linn
its.
the enlarged ore body a fault was en-
countered and the ore was lost. The
tunnel was continued in a distance of
PAS feet without again finding the bre
chute. although occasionally streaks
ana ribbons of rich mineral were
found; and coming to the conclusion
that depth was what was needed
new tunnel was started north of the
original workings and in the gulch be-
low with the intention of prosecuting
the formation and Of cutting the main
ore body at a vertical depth of ISL feet
This tunnel is now in a distance of 500
feet and ii is expected that within 100
feet more the body of ore that shows
on the surface will be broken into. In
this lower tunnel a four-inch streak of
ore was cut 200 feet from its mouth
that is
FULL OF FREE GOLD,
but it is believed that this is nothing
more than a stringer from the main
deposit. and the company is fully sat
iSfied that with the extension of the
lower tunnel good bodies of pay min
eral Will be uncovered at the point in
dictated in the surveys.
The Dipper group was located by
the Evans brothers and Morris and
soon after the discovery OF the New
State was made. and these are the
vicinity upon which any work has been
done outside of assessment work, and
it was because of the discoura gements
met with in the development of the
New State so soon after the uncover
ing of the fine body of high grade ore
in the upper tunnel that Gold City was
practically abandoned within a few
months after being laid out.
The gold is there, however, and the
very tardy work that has been done
on the Dipper is a most convincing ar
gument that this region is rich in its
gold deposits. and the men who have
promoted the enterprise that resulted
in the transfer OF the property are
convinced that the mother lode is en-
virOned within the limits of the group
and that development is all that is
needed to bring the mine to the front
as one of the greatest gold producers
in the west. and Cripple Greek mining
men who have examined the properly
and also the New State express the
opinion that Gold City is one Of the
most promising localities for the eX-
istence of mineral that they have seen,
and this opinion has been concurred in |
by a number of expert mining oper-
ators.
Across the gulch. north of the New
State. is located the group owned by |
the Gold Dollar Mining company. and |
it is stated that in the face of the 500
foot tunnel in this property there is a
LARGE BODY OF MILLING ORE
that carries values ranging from 81 to
IS to the ton in gold.
Some of the richest gold float ever |
exhibited in this city was brought from !
Gold City and there is not the least
particle of doubt but that in time some |
mammoth gold propositions viii be I'M
covered there: but this will take work |
and careful prospecting. as the ledge |
is located in the foothills and a large |
portion of the ground is covered with |
wash through which the prospector |
must sink if he desires 10 find the solid !
formation of that region and the ore in
place.