Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-16

Operations Mt the Holland Miller Lease
Expires-Si In the Eagle.

Wednesdays issue of the Richfeld
Advocate to hand, devotes considerable
space to the mines of Gold Mountain
and among other things, says:
Exceeding the most sanguine ex-
pectatons have been the summers
revelations at the Holland mine.
owned by w. f. Snyder and "a half of
II optloned to w. II. Mitchell. the Acme
amalgamator inventor. 1t Will be re-
membered that early this season the
Holland started out as placer prupo-
sition, lot of yellow metal being torn
out of Its rotten bank by hydraulic
appliances. Then a solid ledge was en-
eOuntered and since then the bonan-
70 has been worked as a quartz mine.
Ore from an upper tunnel is being
sifted and run through the amalgama-
tor which saves the flour gold and
leaves the courser stuff for treatment
In a mill to be added before long To the
mines Announcements. At the same
time the choicest Of the auriferous
dirt Is being sorted and sacked and an
other shipment of 1t was made last
Saturday. Below the original work
ings Is being driven n second tunnel
10 tap the 4-foot vein ct u good stop
ing distance from the surface. Seven
teen hands constitute the Holland
force
Just over the mountain ridge.
Joining the Sewer. is the Miller, now
in limbo. For several months w. !.
Higgins, representing Copper King"
Murray of Montana, has been hand
ling this mine on a $4,000 bond. The
times expires today and by now 1t has
probably been decided whether or not
the cash or the mine goes to Jake
Miller and r. j. Jukes, the original
owners. Messrs. Higgins and Muir
ray drove up to the diggings last Fri
day and at once, upon the latter's mo-
lion. all work there pRuGR1s hut from
the fact that several hundreds of dol
lars have been spent in development
with apparently satisfactory results
and that a big jag of high grade ore
now lies on the ground sacked for
Shipment it would seem very unlikely
that the rich Montanans viii allow the
bonanza to revert and their labor and
cash expenditures TO be lost.
on the Eagle, another Fish creek
proposition with which the Dodges of
Minneapolis are identified, an S-foot
vein OF good losking dirt has been cut
near the end Of 2i2 foot tunnel 10
leet from the surface groupings. The
directors of the work figure that there
may be another ledge behind this one
found and hence are = drifting beyond
the s-foot ledge cross-cut.
Down the wooded slope from the
breckenridge is the Congress. where
William Johnston and assistants are
says that returns from an assay sam
pie sent to New York on August cath
show Sl,40O gold per ton. This Is from
the 4-inch streak before mentioned by
this paper.
The Blue Bird of the Grasshopper
group, belonging to the Golden Star
company, Is stlll looking we'll Another
shipment of carload of its high grade
ore was made last Saturday, Presi-
cent Timothy Egan being on the
ground from Salt Loke City to inspect
the deal. The upper tunnel of the Bird
is still following the vein and the lower
tunnel has cut It and run about 40 feet
beyond the ledge to point directly
under the mouth of the. upper work.
lngs, about 100 feet above.
innings continue to look hopeful on
the silver King, owned by the Deseret
company and managed by Is. ID. Oar
ger. The force of Ave has driven $50
teet and crosscut so feet on the ledge
IN which Is found a streak Of ore from
an mon 10 foot wide averaging 5000 In
gold per ton. A half pound of this
ron stun often pans as much as Sl.30.
very soon the present force will be in
creased to three regular shifts Three
men,With George Leighton at the head
are at the Golden Queen. lately bonded
ny Charles Jacobs. Across the gulch
rom the original tunnel has been eN-
posed bank OF decomposed quartz
~ blrjseye porphyry that assays IN
places as high as l37 gold per ton.