The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
THE SUNSHINE COUNTRY.
Overland Cinnabar Ore and West Dip
Free Gold

Hon. George w. z. Dorsey and Judge
W. A Sherman, who have just re-
! turned from a trip to the Sunshine
country, where they made an exam
/ ination of the Overland mine and the
! free gold strike on the West Dip group,
a short distance from the Sunshine
mill, state that there is more than
usual activity in that locality, and
! that during the present season a large
amount of effective development work
| will be done in that neck o the woods.
Major Dorsey, when seen by Her
aid scribe yesterday, stated that g DRIFT
was now being driven in the Overland
to the south. This drift is in a dis
lance of 50 feet or more in what is vir-
tually virgin ground, which is showing
up fine bodies of good milling ore.
which is stratified with magnificent
specimens of cinnabar, samples of
which are almost identical to the ore
of this character that has made The
Mercur mine a name as well as fame.
In speaking of the West Dip group,
owned by Beauregard and Nichols, Mr..
Dorsey stated that the free gold was
found in the surface groupings, on
which a short open cut had been run.
The free gold bearing streak, according
to the major, is about eight inches in
width, and with pick in hand he took
out some of the ore himself, in which
in the crevices and bugholes are to be
seen small particles of gold.
The metal has been tested by Officer
& Co. of this city, who pronounce that
it is gold and no mistake. Mr. officer
has banned the rock, after reducing it
to a pulp, and in horning or panning
number of colors follow sand. Be
sides this test Mr.. officer has boiled the
paintings in nitric acid without It's hav-
ing any effect on the metal, which
proves beyond a question that it is
gold, Notwithstanding that the Mercur
Miner stated in its last issue that it
was nothing but a red oxide of iron,
which statement was copied in yes
terdays Tribune. But the attempt to
discredit the discovery will prove fu-
tile. as too many experienced miners
have examined the ore to admit of any
mistake, and they all pronounce it to
be gold.
The owners of the West Dip group,
however, are paying no attention to
the new find, but are busily engaged
in sinking a shaft with the expectation
of cutting the ledge on its dip at a
depth of about so feet. The shaft is
now down to the 30-foot level, and
when the vein is encountered it is
believed that it will carry good gold
values, although the metal at this
depth. may not be free in character
ter
While in Sunshine Major Dorsey was
joined by c. E. Bradd, the superintend-
ent Of the Alpha mine, at Granite
mountain. in Juab county. Mr.. Bradd
brought in a good report from this
property, as well as some fine samples
OF ore from the various claims COM
prised in the group. some of which
showed values of 80 per cent lead and
IA ounces silver to the ton, while an
other lot assayed Is per cent copper
and Il ounces silver.
Mr.. Bradd, who returns to the mines
today, loaded down with supplies, !
states that Granite mountain will be a
lively camp this summer. and that
everything points to the fact that be- !
fore snow falls again there will be |
several producing mines there.
Messrs. Dorsey and Sherman. who are |
,fficers in the Alpha company, are max
ng arrangements to go out to the |
nine by the first of next month.