The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-06
sEvIER And SURPRISE.

SEN LEX AND URRRlSE.
Just at this time the Sewer is barred
to all sight-seers and the word is softly
! whispered around that something of
! the greatest possible Importance is
soon to be heralded from the mountain
tops to Salt Lake, and thence to the
Atlantic. Already The Herald has told
the mining world of the visit to the
district of Professor George w. May
nard of New York one of the fore
most economic biologists, and Martin
j. Heller, a rising young metallurgist
of San Francisco. They are quartered
at the Sewer where they are engaged
in sampling the exposed ore faces.
This work will be completed by the
! first of next week. when the Surprise
ledge will be taken in hand by them
| and its great worth. so far as get-at-
able, viii be thoroughly tested.
Professor Maynard is not on a pleas
ure trip, and the business he is at
/ tending to will either result in rapidly
advancing the development of Gold
Mountain on its intrinsic. natural mer-
/ its. or will again give it a backset akin
to those that have gone before. So
! far as concerns Professor Maynard.
! While there is much that cannot be
put in type just at this time, it can be
! said that he is greatly taken with the
/ dlStrlct-far more so than he had
counted on. That it is to prove a val
/ liable gold-producing region he has not
a shadow of skepticism, and as to the
Sewer itself, it is holding good all that
was promised, even to the geologic
fault, which, paradoxical as it may
seem. is a solid evidence OF the prop
ertys worth.
Ii is no longer anything more than
an open secret that the Sewer. Sur
prise and other adjoining tracts are
| about to change hands. A strong
/ New York syndicate is behind the DEAL
all the preliminary steps of which were
engineered by Mr.. John G.. Logan of
! Bingham fame. Matters have so far
/ advanced that the perilous step be-
twiXt the cup and the lip can hardly
get in to spill the milk in Cold mount
aims cup of joy. A year hence it will
be appropriately said of Mr.. Logan
that he IS the George H. Robinson of
Gold mounta in. for practically he has
felready achieved for this district what
Mr.. Robinson did for the Mammoth
Hollow area OF Tintic. The money is
raised-hundreds of thousands of dol
lars-not only for the purchase of the
properties but for expensive eXplora-
tion as well as 70 rthe mining of rhe
treasure fromth quartz matrIx. For
months a series of tests have been go
ing on. and the outcome is assured. To-
day details cannot be given. 1t is all
sufficient to be able to chronicle. with
the keenesf glee imaginable. that ro-
fessor Maynard is corroborating, in all
essential particulars, the representa-
lions CT Mr.. Logan. and the Gold
mountain goose is soon to hang high.
THE MILLER MIME.
of several recent ore uncoverings
there is none of greater moment than
the exposure in the Miller vein, across
the ridge from the Sewer workings, on
the east water shed of Fish creek A
shaft is down so feet in solid porDhyr
from the bottom IF which a drift. ex-
tends north 100 feet, south 80 feet, in d
strong mass of live vein quartz This
IS a high grade smelling proposition.
the second-class rock carrying over I'VE
ounces in gold TO the ton. Considerable
tellurium shows in an amethyst gaugue,
resembling some of the bonanza Cripple
Greek quartz. The walls are eight feet
apart. and there is 12-inch pay seam
that could easily put the pioneer jul
bilee eXchequer where Judge Colborn's
heart would rejoice with reStIul con-
tenf. A log assay Office is being built
near the shaft.
This development is under the direc-
ton Of W. L. Higgins and s. D.
Phonix is the foreman. The Miller
group consists of eight claims, joining
THE BRECKINRIDGE-M MAMMOTH
These notes are being thrown to-
gether at the headquarters OF the
breckenridge -AlamnlOJn, an exploTa-
ton undertaking under The direction Of
Manager James Long, jr. This niche III
the amphitheater tEaS forms the head
waters Ct Mill creek is known as The
Basin. tar DIS surface buildings go,
there is nothing in the district 10 COM
pare With tEose on shis mineral farm
OF ten claims. or $50 acres. The 5iiice
is a Weil-Duilt i Icy - feet log house,
the boarding house being two stories,
10 by 30 fest, bes1ceS Kitchen anneX
Is by - feet, ana spacious store room
Is by 80 feet. There IS a4so q good bunk
house for the men, blacksmith SHOP,
stable and other buildings.
Penetrating the mountain side In this
area are TWO, if not more, weilmarked
quartz assures, having a course a little
west OF north. Considerable expicra-
tion prior TO the middle Vi last month
proved the worth OF this territory, and
on May II a cr0sscut tunnel was started
that viii afford good working DEPTHS.
on June LIST it was Il feet under cover,
or in all los feet ii 4 deconlposed por-
phyry wash. The dimensions are four
feet six by six feet four and it is tim
bered from the mouth in -horousEly
manner About $50 feet
in the first vein is liable to be tapped.
ana w'ha. Is now thought TO he the
back ledge at $50 or 100 feet. This is a
development enterprise where a salts |
outcome seems assured from (
the very beginning. Foreman j. j.
AIenadue is Manager Longs valuable /
rig--t bower.
Connecting the Breckenridge Mann I
moth workings with those of the Sur /
prise and thence TO the Sewer is the /
Long boulevard, a broad avenue around 1
The mountain slope for nearly mile. I
MIR. Long had il built by contract just /
before the heavy SHOWS of last winter. |
and It is a width Of road grading not |
often met with in d top-lofty mining /
district. where serious prospecting is
hardly more than begun. The Surprise