The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-25
BoLITHo's GOLD MINE.
Believed That Bonanza Has Been
Found at Tie Flat.

Five mile5 west of the town of
Marysvale, Piute county, says the
Richfield Advocate, between Beaver
creek and Revenue gulch and on the
south side of Beaver canyon is the
Tie Flat country, where Judge Starks
many years ago found pieces of gold
float that ran up to fabulous values.
The judge spent many a long day in
futile search for the vein that threw
off the float and finally gave it up.
Since his day many prospectors who
have heard of Starks' find from old
settlers, have. tried in vain to strike
the rich ledge. They, too, have failed.
On the 10th day of last December Hon.
Jim Bolitho of this city went up to the
Tie Flat region and has since worked
on the Jim NJ. B. every day except
three that he spent at home about
Christmas time. On the Jim NJ. b.
Mr. Bolitho has driven a 55-foot tun-
mel of regulation size to a seven-foot
vein of gray copper ore carrying gold.
The we'll defined ledge is encased be-
tween a hanging wall of porphyry and
foot wall of dolomite. There Mr.. Bo-
litho, in addition TO the tunnel Work,
put up a good cabin and blacksmith
shop, and there. $3.50 feet above the
sea, he and Mrs. Bolitho have spent
most of the winter. Old miners and
prospectors say they believe this is
the vein that Judge Starks looked for
long ago, and some pieces of the ore,
showing big chunks of free gold, seem
to warrant the conclusion. Mr.. Bolitho
has sent north lot of dirt to be as
sayed, and until his returns are in,
refuses to state how he thinks the
quartz will. carry. 1t is the superstition
now that Judge Starks prospected the
mountain too low down TO discover the
hidden bonanza, and so left the treas
ure to Bolitho.
RISING SUN DOINGS.
One mile south of the Jim NJ. B. is
the Rising Sun, belonging to Judge
Wallace and Mr.. BOlitho. On the Sun
has been erected a good shop and a
snug cabin is nearly completed. Two
men are now employed on those dig
gings and next Monday, when the new
hut is finished development work will
be resumed, the force TO be concen-
trated upon the tunnel, 143 feet long.
On the Rising Sun there has also been
run a 60-foot incline. Twenty feet is
the amount of development undergone
by the Judge Starks, joining the Jim
NJ B.
THE VALE IN GENERAL.
Speaking of the Marysvale camp
generally Mr.. Bolitho seemed confident
that where owners are doing work and
giving their prospects a chance to de-
velop into mines, everything looks en-
couraging. He says a hopeful sign is
the cessation of the erstwhile prevalent
habit among prospectors there of
squatting on goods boxes developing
their prospects and building quartz
mills on the sunny side of some down
town street
The snow on a level in the Tie Flat
vicinity is from three to five feet deep.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bolitho came down to
Richfeld Sunday and expect to return
to the diggings next Monday.
THE MILLER MINE.
w. I. Higgins, the Montana capital
ist who recently came into possession
of the famous Miller mine on Gold
mountain, sojourned in Richfield last
Wednesday en- route to his property.
While here he purchased a big lot of
supplies and material from Bolitho and
Lewis and the Boston store prepare
tory to starting work in dead earnest
on the Miller. On Thursday Mr.. Hig-
gins started his provisions up the
mountain The snow was five feet
deep and the storm was still raging,
making transportation exceedingly diff
ficult. The trail was kept clear to
within a mile of the mine, but thence
the wares had to be carried by men
or snow shoes. Three shifts of men
have been put to work driving the
shaft that is now about 30 feet deep.
According TO Mr.. Higgins statement
to the Advocate the average assay
value of the seven-foot ledge is s25 and
he says there is in the vein a four-foot
streak that goes 500 in gold to the
ton. He returned north Sunday.