The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-08

Frisco, Utah, Sept 6-The Galena, in
Beaver Lake district, is causing con-
siderable excitement in the district and
in Frisco. Last Friday samples were
sent in that yielded returns of &c per
cent lead, 70 ounces silver and 81 gold:
no advice was sent with the SAMPLES.
other than they we're from the bottom
OF tho Galena shaft The officers of the
company were greatly gratif1ed and
also surprised, as they were not aware
that the contractors contemplated do
ing amy more work in the shaft until
the Wlnim MAS taken out Yesterday
President 4. S. Anderson and S. n.
Slaughter and Henry F. DUNN. stock
holders, weut out TO see for themselves
how affairs were progressing. and each
returned With an expression of All
our troubles oer'' on their faces.
MIR Anderson advises that the entire
shaft IS in ore. the greater portion Of it
low grade through which is scattered q
better mineral.
The ore extends to the south of the
shaft and runs through il from east to
west Mr.. Anderson says there is no
telling how mu1h further TO the south
the body extends. and that the best ore
seems 70 be on that side and beyond
M0dt is taken OUT N SINKING.
This is certainly 2 remarkable Show
ing 80 a shaft four by FIVE feet. and
everything indicates thN5 the Galena
WIZ 0e making regular shipments be-
fore long. Assays of the ere show
that it runs from 5 TO IS per cent lead
and 10 10 100 ounces silver. the hest
assay of one piece showed 40 per cent
lead. 1913 ounces silver and all the ore
carries 81 in gold The officers OF the
10 Joai,> n
the ground in another week when work
can be has ened. Sinking is necessarily
SLOW at present, on account of dl0iSting
The ore 100 feet by a. hand WinGlass.
The Beaver Lake Copper company
shaft is now over 60 feet deep. For the
last ten feet the shaft has been in
soft ledge matter with some very. good
ore scattered through s sample taken
from the bottom yesterday asgaged u
per cent copper. ounces silver and 81
gold. 1t is Thought that when the shaft
gets a little deeper a. solid vein Of this
ore viii be encountered. Probably the
most enthusiastic p 9rson in the district
is the foreman. William P dcAfee
who says II would be robbery to think
Of selling this property for less than
S250,000 cash Mr. McAfee has had a
great deal CT experiences in the chief
copper mines OF the west. and has
bossed in several of them. and his opin-
ion should be of some value: he saws
he has never seen q copper mine of as
great promise on the surface as the
Kate Sacketn and Martha claims.
The showing in the Galena has caused
z revival OF interest in the lead veins
OF the district. MeSsFs. Carr. Hanson
and AfcAfee have a location that they
lave ehFIsteaed the Dorothy, adjoining
the Galena on the south. that is Of
great promise. Mr.. Carr states there Hs
that apparently carries high values in
silver. being literally sprinkled with the
rich bromide mir. Carr has done sew
eral days woTk and has 200 or 300
pounds Of ore on the dump and thinks
he can make 81 per day for a while.
a 200foot tunnel is to be started ait
once on the Klondfke, q copper prop
erty living east Of the True Fissure
,company's holdings This property is
owned bY Messrs. WI0ner. Noon and
Hum 9hreys, and is said 10 pe one of the
largest copper propositions in the dis
trict
Q. c. Thomson has found some very
pretty copper float on one of the claims
of thu Danish group, owned by himself
and O. P. Johansen. There is soma
copper ore in place on this ground, but
hone Of the same character of the float.
The place where this float was found is
just below the Yellow Jacket. fqaaf has
produced S4a,OOO from surface gouging
OF lead and silver ores, and it is very
probable that this float has its source
within the Yellow Jacket Tines. Sygte-
matte work should show 4, great copper
lead somewhere in this vicinity The
location is a mile or so north of the
Horn Silver mine, from which property
some rich copper ore was extracted
from the 500 level
O. $. Carver, styled the king of
Of
citation with the district and the valu-
able property he is interested in has
been under the weather for the past
week. He strained himself carrying
some winCllass tinbers from the K5arity
TO the Milan 3, and mas had TO confne
himself TO the cabin all week
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