The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-04
THE SALE OF THE MAST.
Passes Into the Hands of Salt Lake
and Omaha People.


1t is understood the new owners of
the Mast group of mines. which lately
changed hands by actual purchase, are
Messrs. Sears & West of Salt Lake. and
pdrtieS interested in smelling at
omaha, where the product of the prop
erty VIII hereafter be treated, saws the
Bingham Bulletin. Lumber, coal and
supplies are now being delivered. and
Foreman Peterson expects to soon put
on an extra force of men. We learn
indirectly that the Benton tunnel at
present in bad condition, is to be
cleaned out and retimbered, and an
upraise VIII be made from it in ore that
has assayed as high as so per cent lead.
There is also showing in the Mast tun-
mel level an 1S-inch streak of ore in one
a the veins that assays rs per cent
lead, half an ounce gold, and "a ounces
silver per ton. A winze is to he sunk
on this, and if it should prove ;.nport-
ant, result likely to follow in the near
future WILL be work resumed in the
long drain tunnel begun some three
years ago near the mouth of Muddy
gulch. This tunnel, if ever completed,
VIII cover nearly T., 900 feet. 1t will have
depth of about $50 feet below the tun-
mel level of the Mast, but even at that
depth is likely to prove of such value
as 10 render its cost insignificant. Not
Wlthstanding the former valuable pro-
duction of the Mast, it is fact that not
Ioot OF sinking has ever been done
below the tunnel level. and with this.
as with other mines of Bingham, where
deeper work is being done, the great
ore DodleS VIII be encountered below
gulch levels. No well-defined mineral
vein ever found in this district was
known to play out. The possibilities OF
some of the rich old producers of Bing-
nam mat nave been merely scratched |
AT the surface and need organized cap |
ltal 20 overcome water and go down |
on them. cannot. of course be told |
without practical demonstration. but |
tnere can be little doubt of future great
results, and it is to be hoped that the
Mast company will stimulate other
properties TO action by carving ont
pans mere indicated or on similar lines.
and make of the Mast and Benton wnat
they should be-producers worthy to
De classed among the best in the camp.
Certainly, their real value must be
matter or speculation until they are
opened I'D, FOR in their present shape
lhey are practically sealed book.
several outfits owning good partially
developed property in Bingham are
planning to put in machinery on an
economical scale this spring for deeper
It is an open question
in the long run temporary
selected because it is chean
Is NOT really the most expensive
argues that if you have
sood mining property and are working
IL with small plant, not only is the
aggregate profit reduced but the mere
act that mining is spread over longer
1eliou Oh time than such a plant can be
iseu means a big loss in interest on
he capital invested and upon the out
)ut as well. Mining should he Iil,anad
- any other business that suffers from
insufficient help for. carrying it on
Neither should a mine be operated ]
Nithout the necessary machinery to j
10 IL on scale commensurate witt the /
magnitude of your property.
Vadner & FriSbee of the Zelnora
nine, together with Andrew Peterson =
asst week effected a lease of the nIacer '
round in Bingham canyon fronting I
ne Bingham Copper company's group
i mines: They are privileged to do !
iacei mining but the present inten-
ION IN securing the lease is to treat =
ne sulphate of copper solution seeming :
rom mineral veins of the locality. For h
MS purpose precipitating plant is toll
Z constructed at once,~and part of the e
Material is now on the ground. Tests y
| the mlneralized water have shown il n
D contain IL per cent copper. and I
ola at the rate of 81 to the ton of COP II
81. mat is now being done by h
l nass Naoner q Frisbee has long
cen contemplated by various Other h
artles. but they delayed in getting L
love on 1t is believed by MANY to e.
a very important enterprise a
ne Shipment from the Sampson ana II
osemlte No. Consolidated. reported a.
these columns last week. yielded u :,
ances silver ands2S per cent lead per OF