The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-20

and re-established under the euphoni-
Gus name of Gold City, and it is here
that one of the largest mining enter
prlSes of the day, involving the ex-
penditure of an immense amount of
money, is under way, which, when COM
pleted, will result in the outpouring of
a perfect stream of gold into the chan
nels of trade and commerce.
Gold City has a paper-the News
which is an able exponent of the mer-
its of the camp. and its columns are
ever replete with interesting informa-
ton regarding the mines of the dis
trict. In a late issue of the News it
made mention of one of the promising
properties of the camp, the Gold Bug
mine, as follows:
The Gold Bug mine is one of the
principal properties in Tennessee
gulch. Interest just now attaches to
this mine from the fact that it is ex-
pected in the next few days to tap the
vein in the new tunnel at lower depth
than has heretofore been reached.
When a representative of the News
visited the property last week the tun-
mel was in about 165 feet. NJ. j. Fitz-
gerald, one of the owners, was able to
advance it Two feet a day in the dis
integrated granite, working single
handed, and he thought he would cut
the ledge the middle of February at
about 200 feet This then will probably
be the deepest working in the gulch.
The Gold Bug achieved a reputation
years ago by the shipment of $40 rock
to Mountain City. This was from mar
row cut on the surface.
The owners, to develop the property,
sank shaft some 80 feet higher up,
and also ran an incline on the ledge
which dips into the hill at an angle of
about As degrees. Along this incline
there is about two feet of honey
combed quartz. In places this is dis
placed with sulphurets. a good many
tons of free milling ore is now on the
dump, enough to justify the erection
of mill in the spring.
At a distance of 60 or 20 feet down
the incline a vein of tale cuts through
the ledge. The old owners, when they
struck this. thought the mine had
played out and abandoned it.
This phenomenon is also met in the
Last Chance mine, an adjoining claim,
and later development. The Last
Chance for the 220 feet that has been
run is a blanket vein. but it is prob
ably the Gold Bug ledge broken over.
About % feet from the face of the Last
Chance tunnel a ten-foot vein of tale
cuts through the ledge, dipping into the
mountain. This tale assays about $40
in gold. The belief is entertained that
this tale is the main ore body or the
true fissure that runs through the
mountain. A winze was sunk on it 10
feet when it first struck in the Last
Chance, but it was afterwards filed
up in running the tunnel. This tale
vein is shown up in another place on
this property.
No test has been made of the tale
in the Gold Bug, but it is thought to be
of the same character as that found in
the Last Chance. However, it may
mark only faulting of the mountain,
and the quart ledge may be found
again going down. The new tunnel,
when in, will determine this question.
At any rate the tunnel will open up
stopping ground enough to keep a mill
running next summer.
The present owners of the Gold Bug
are Earl Moran, James E. Penrod. ].
r. Bradley of Deeth and Mr.. F'itZger-
aid
The disclosures that may be made in
the tunnel they are running are anX-
iously awaited by mining men.