The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-08

CHLORIDE POINT SHIPMENT.
Consignments Come Up to Most San.
guine Expectations.

guine Expectations.
The two carload shipment of ore
from the Chloride Point NINE on Lion
hill. which was sampled and assayed
yesterday, came fully I'D to the ex-
pectation of the management in the
way of values one lot showing 102
ounces of silver and $4.25 in gold to the
ton, while the other will be sold on
controls of 125 ounces silver and S4.45 in
gold.
The consignment was taken out in
developing the large bodies of milling
ore for which this ground is noted, and
not a foot of Stopping was done while
! this work was being done.
A short time ago Superintendent Nc
Eyoy started two drifts from the face
| of the $50 tunnel in the Chloride Point,
Ole of which is being run in north
westerly direction for the purpose of
making connections with a shaft that
sometime ago was started from the
surface some distance from the old
workings of the mine. The other drift
is being driven for the purpose of
prospecting virgin ground almost due
west. The faces of these drifts are now
about 60 feet apart in a straight line,
and the intervening ground is a mass
of ore, some of which is of high grade,
and it is believed that as work pro-
crosses in the extension Of these drifts
that one of the largest chuteS of min
eral ever opened on the hill will be eX-
posed, and the beauty of the thing is
that what is not shipping ore is all
milling mineral, as there is hardly a
pound of waste to be taken out.
Since the two carloads of ore were
shipped, as mentioned above, word has
been received by the company that in
the drift that is being run to make con-
nections with the shaft, a cavern from
above occurred a day or two ago, ex-
posing a 25-foot breast of good ore,
some of which carries high values, and
the indications are that in this portion
of the mine a mammoth chute of min
eral will yet be disclosed.
1t is the intention of the company to
push developments, which will include
the sinking of the shaft previously al
luded to to the level of the tunnel, and
arrangements have been made TO re-
sumo shipments as soon as the roads
become settled; but the main energies
of the company will be directed to the
development of the large reserves of
milling ore, and the erection of a mill
on the ground at the earliest possible
moment. as it is II the treatment and
reduction of this class of mineral from
which 1t is expected the greatest profits
VIII be derived; and yet the fact of the
of high grade ore from which
a handsome revenue can be derived
from time to time does not detract !
from the value OF the property in the |
least. In fact. it adds materially to its |
worth, especially as it is said that on |
the south end of Lion hill and on the |
portion on which the Chloride Point is !
located, the chutes of shipping ore are
larger and richer than on the north
end.
1t Is not generally known, but il IS
stated that below the present work
ngs in the c. P. there is an old tunnel
which was worked in the early history
IF the mine, in which large bodies Of
're were disclosed that carried gold
values ranging from SO to 500 ron
ana IN time it is the intention TO pros
1ect TINS ore zone, as il is believed that
MS is the same stratum of gold-bear-
ng rock that has been opened in the
over workings of the Northern Light
nine. which is a near neighbor of the
Chloride Point
AS II is, there is no doubt but that
mere are large areas of virgin ground
m raced within the boundary lines of
ne Chloride Point. and these will he
Extensively developed and prospected.
Iurlng the next few months.
James McEvoy, the superintendent
Vho has been in the city on business
or the past few days, will return TO
ne mine on the 9Th and will push WORT,
'ltn more energy than ever in the
locking out of the ore bodies ready
Vi extraction for shipment or for the