The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

49,, go. r rom May, 1894, TO jan
- 1893, he operated the little mill
Win fairly good results. realiziner how l,,1-
lnal It's capacity was too small
l0 pstiits halnpered by the scarcity of
with more water and better re-
setls another run was made from the
-ees - Al1Tll to the LIST of September
l9's. IL the spring of that wear sam
Ssodbe, representing the EngIisb- Amer ,1ts,l-
lSan syndicate, secured an option on
.aiS 1aU,O00 shares OF stock. for which
ne company is capitalized at 60 cents a
snare or Sl50s000. BY June IA. 1896. when
sa1s option expired. the syndicate had
go GUY s4I0VU of the purchase price.
nSSiuent lammefsdorf called the deal
~ anu transferred to the English
americans 6S,3 shares of stock for the
money received. Then there ensued n
1taee Tor q controlling interest. neither
111esHiInlersoorf nor the syndicate owning
s az 1z9'Ocl shares necessary to WELD the
80 s'a - * OF power The syndicate picked
Ny 1o,o54 shares of scattered stock
evening Its possessions to III, 900 shares.
~ ~ l-d1lnersdorf bought out A z.
-Aoiuen, AAonzo +. Hyde, w +. Snyder
anu l. + Mchenna, and, adding their
nlOcks 10 his own, owned 1856. 600 shares.
me control ami 1899 shares to spare.
NOW, however, Mr.. Raht is suing Lam
mersdorf for the recovery of Is GOO
slafes, which he claims We're illegally
caAeh from him and credited to the de-
4ehdant and it is believed by mining
men that RANT is backed by the Eng
Ash-American syndicate If that be
true the suit is simply for control of
The stock of the company for which
reason the outcome is awaited with in
terest
Ihls years work on the Sewer ag-
gregates 800 feet. Manager hammers
dorf drifted southeast from the fault
70 soAu formation and then east until
ne encountered the east vein of ore 500
Ieet from the Turner's mouth and $50
feet from the surface. The ledge is a
dirt
Professor George w. Maynard. who
thoroughly examined the property last
spring, Drophesied that the vein would
pc cut by following the direction pur-
SUED Dy MIR. Lanmersdorf Now the
uIa1t IS being run southwest towards
the west vein. or, as Mr.. Lammersdorf
terms IT, the back vein.'' The Sewers
west vein averages five feet in width
Upon II are an S0-fOOt WinZe from the
tunnel level, a 125-foot upraise to the
surface. and 100 feet of drifting and
STOPPING from the wines bottom. It's
values are higher than those of the east
VEN, from seven to II feet wide and
averaging $l3. 1t is tapped by a cross
cut tunnel of 80 feet and has had done
upon it S50 feet of drifting and Stopping,
all this in addition to the lower 50O-foot
tunnel, in whose face the strike was
made this year.
In 1884 Mr. Lammersdorf located a
1ot OF springs whose liberal flow of
wafer ne expects to pipe to the new
mn that he intends erecting next year
Buildings on the premises beside the
mil are a residence, boarding house. !
assay office, blacksmith shops and a
number of small cabins Three men
winter. The four individual claims in !
the group are the Sewer, Adeline, Gulch |
and Sewer milisite-
SURPRISE GROUP.
The Surprise, Marten, Blaine. outzen, |
Hazel Kirk NJ J. & S., Snowgirl, |
Nogul and Point Lookout are the nine /
claims of the Surprise group, located |
in 1882 and owned by A. j. Moore.
Walter James, William Armstrong Of
Smith Willard county, and w. f.
snyder Two veins are there, one five
feet and the other from six to u. Both
throw OF ore carrying an average of
IS gold, ana there is a quantity of it
on the dump. Workings are three
drifts on the vein of los feet. two shafts
~ feet, a go foot tunnel thai is now
within 20 feet Of the ledge and 100 feet
Of open cuts.
Observation-Disclosures
Sixteen claims are embraced by the
Mammoth Brecldnridg group. being
worked by James Long, sr OF its 500
feet OF developments, 100 feet has been
done this year. Recently there was
made a test shipment OF Mammoth
I5rechenrldSe ore from the 12-foot vein
that fetched 5000 in gold, and there are
coolies Of 1t left on the dump. Douglas
IomphnSon and J. 7. Miller discovered
the phenomenal property in 1889. Since
Mr.. Long has mad it he has built a
number Of substantial buildings about
the place and q boulevard around the
hill from the Surprise diggings. Five
men are at the mine now, sinking on
the very rich vein Of recent discovery
It might be remarked here that the
same vein Of ore outcrops all the way
from the Holland to the Mammoth
breckenridge, being pierced by the
diggings of the Holland General Con-
nor, Sewer Surprise and Mammoth
Breckenridge.
ANNIE LAURIE GROUP.
The Bald Mountain Mining & Mill
ing compan-T. Castle Gate, owns the
Annie Laurie group of nine claims.
located in 1891, by Newton Hill and
Joseph Sharp. There are an SO-foot
cross-cut tunnel and 10O-foot shaft on
the Annie's west vein and drifts from
/
shaft along the ledge Another tunnel.
lower down and now $50 feet long. is
being driven by contractors for 100 feet
and a 130-foot drift is to be run for
The Blue Bird ledge. Recent advices
bring the news of u good strike in
the lower tunnel. 600 feet deeper than
the uoner workings.
GRASSHOPPER GROUP.
Captain Timothy Egan. Salt Lake /
City, is president Of the Golden Star {
Mining & Milling company which ]
owns the Grasshopper group of four {
claims and two fractions. the Grass
nols)er, Redbird, Blue Bird and Last !
Chance, and the Red Bird and Frank Z
J. fractions. Captain Egan. Pat Ryan
and Mr.. Comfy of Minneapolis own i
two-thirds &C the 800, GOO shares of /
stock. The group was claimed in 1890 t
by J. NJ Billingsly, ". N. Carter, w. I
E. HSatt, Thomas Gilbert and ]. l.
Gilbert, all OF Joseph Sewer county. c
there is 1916 feet of tunnel {
ng and 100 feet Of shaft work. of this 5
$40 feet was applied to the Blue Bird
claim this year. Six cabins and an ore
pin are at the diggiRgs, and three men
ire working there this winter. Since
asst June the Blue Bird has marketed
six carloads Of ore. TX tons. that
sold for l5,5I9.11, or $14S.63 per ton in
gold, mostly. Left on the dump is 500
.ons Of ore that averages $50. In sight
are several hundred tons of good mill r