The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25

encountered in this property is no great
/ detriment as water in that section of
the district is very useful and IS b.
many considered as an indication of
the close proximity of large bodies of
ore
The shaft on the Valley View has
reached a depth of 40 feet, and is still
going down. The vein has been opened
the entire width of the shaft, and lies
between two well defined granite walls,
and is heavily mineralized quartz, in
which is found kidneys of ore running
from to 26 ounces silver. Captain Bird
advises US that the work will be pushed
to a depth of 100 feet as rapidly as
possible, and if the showing at that
depth is as encouraging as at present
an additional 100 feet will be sunk.
The leasers on the LuZerne made
their initial shipment of one car load
of ore Sunday. The mine is now being
put in shape to take out ore and stop
ing ground has been opened up in sew.
eral parts of the mine 1t is the in
tention to make regular shipments from
the property hereafter, and tow shifts
are now at work taking out ore which
is said to run high in silver, lead and
copper Some difficulty has been ex-
perienced during the past week on ac-
count of bad air. but it has since been
remedied by putting in blower, which
is working very satisfactorily, and no
further delay in the extraction of ore
is anticipated.
A force of men was put to work on
the Sunbeam Tuesday morning and
important developments may shortly
be looked for. The south drift on the
450-foot level, which is now in % feet,
and probably in % or 80 feet more Gie
ore body which was struck on the 300
foot level will he encountered. The
face of the drift is row in an immense
body of pyrites and the ore body which
is being drifted for Is thouetlt to be
both large and rio;A. Frank Mediation
is in charge of the property and will
push the work with three Salts. In
the bottom of the sflaft, which is 400
feet deeo small pieces lead are BEGIN
ming to SHOW in the Dyrites and 1t is
thought that another 80 feet in depth
will show one of the biggest ore bodies
in the csmn and Il is h'-nlv probable
that the force on the mine will shortly
be increased and both sinking and
drifting pushed rapidly as possible.
Owing TO the shut down at the Buck
eye last week for the purpose of max
iro reIairs on the boiler there is now
nearly 100 feet of water in the shaft
and it will require several days 10
pump it out Everything is now IN
readiness for sinking and the work will
from water and Will be continued VIZ
orously until the 500-foot level 5
reached when drifting will be COM
menced. The ore bodies in the Buck
eye grow larger and improve in value
as depth is gained and superintendent
Green is confident of being able to
make regular shipments as soon as he
opens stopping ground on the 500 level.
The assessment recently levied will
bring in sufficient to pay IN the in
debtedness of the company and the two
carloads of ore shipped last week
yielded good returns. The present out
look for the Buckeye is very promising.
Work will be commenced on the Po-
cahontas about Aug. l and some eX-
tensive development may be looked for.
This is a we'll known property on the
Sunbeam vein and belongs TO ex-Gov-
ernor Merrill of Montana, VINO is now
in Salt Lake City. This property was
at one time the Sunbeam No. which
in the early days of the camp was one
of the leading properties of the district.
The property was abandoned years ago
and located as the Pocahontas in 1898
and subsequently purchased by Cover.
nor Merrill.
There is shaft on the property over
200 feet deep in which can be found
large bodies of pyrites the same as in
the Sunbeam. A steam hoist VIII be
put on the property and the shaft con-
tinued downward until the barren py-
rite zone is penetrated and pay ore
encountered.