The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-26
rIMPY CANYON GOLD GROUPS.
Fine Showing in the Free Coinage
Gold Properties.

From time to time mention has been
made on the q. [. of the fine showing
made in the group of claims in Timpy
canyon, Tooele county, in the Free
Coinage mining district THE property
of the Free Coinage Mining company
Of this city, burt the officers of the com
pany have been very reticent regard
ing their operations and the value of
their holdings.
Yesterday. however, q Representative
Of The Herald met with a gentleman
who has just made an examination of
the mine, and he was enthusiastic over
the wealth of ore exposed.
Tirnpy canyon is located IA miles
northwest of Grantsville, and the de-
velopments have all been made in
mineral from the grass roots, the for
nation bein,y somewhat similar to that
of Camp Fg Hd district, as the ore ex-
lists in iminense deposits and yieads
readily to the cyanide process of G4-
duction.
Inc main workings on the large body
OF gold ore consists of a tunnel 125 feet
in length that was driven this distance
in solid body of mineral, and while
the extent OF the deposit has not been
demonstrated by crosscuts or other
workings, the indications on the sur
face go to show that it is all of 800 feet
in width, and the gold values, as
proven by ore taken while prosecuting
work in the extension of the tunnel
range from 90 cents to S35, while the
average form ore taken for a distance
OF IS feet along the vein shows values
of $685. to the ton in the yellow metal
With 500 pounds of this ore a test
was made with the cyanide process
with the result that a saving of 80 per
cent Of the values was made and the
cleanup showed a recovery of S7.52 in
\, -<ata
good teaching mineral, and that the
mine might we'll be called a paying
proposition with a mill upon it for the
reduction of the ore.
Besides the workings above men
toned a 65-foot incline has been run
in on ledge of iron carbonates. This
work has been driven all the way in
body of ore that ranges in value from
81 TO $31 in gold to the ton and the
mineral carries a lrttle lead and silver.
On the Humbug, another of the
claims embraced in the Free Coinage
group, an incline shaft has been sunk
for q distance of 200 feet, showing a
continuous body of ore from the sur
face. The ore is frozen to the east wall.
The pay streak is about 80 inches wide
and carries an average value of sc per
cent lead, 1922 ounces silver and SO cents
in gold. AT the mouth of and in the
bottom there is three-foot body of
ore that gives assay values of AS per
cent lead and 372 ounces in silver to
the ton.
This silver vein. like the silver de-
posits of Mercur, lies below the gold
ledge and the characteristics of the
formation are very similar TO those of
Camp Floyd district. So much so in
fact, that it is believed by the officers
of the Free Coinage company that in
their property they possess almost a
counterpart of the Mercur mine.
The property of the company is east
ly accessible from the railroad, there
is an abundance of wood and timber
within a mile of the mine, while good
water is obtainable a convenient dis
lance.
While the foregoing facts are au-
thentic, they could not be confirmed by
Jos. W. Wilson, the president of the
company. as he is out of the city, and
T. A. Dunshee. who has had charge of
the development of the mine, was nom
as he states that the COM
pany is very conservative in its opera
tons and shuns undue notoriety. 1t is