The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-02
MT. BALDY GOLD MINES.
The Sewer, the Surprise, and Breck-
enridge-M Mammoth.

Breckenridge Mammoth Mine. Gold
Mountain District. June 29.-After
short but sound sleep. and hearty
breakfast at the camp of Messrs. Moore
q Snyder at Gold City. the trail was
hit" today for the Sewer mine.
Manager Charley Laummersdarf was
seated in an arm chair at the corner
Of his log residence serenely smoking
and his genial face lit up with a smile
Of welcome for The Herald tramp An
Introduction to Mrs. Laummersdorf
was given and a short chat ensued
Mr.. Laummersdorf and his good lady
are Germans and hail from the banks
Of the beautiful Rhine While both
are cheerful there is a tinge Of sadness
in their voices when referring to the
past. Eight children, all they had.
have passed over the dark river and
in their declining years there are no
strong shoulders upon which they can
lean, nor attentions they can claim as
the right of parentage.
When asked by The Herald man,
who represents "Charley's" favorite
paper, IL access to the mine were
permissible, he replied. certainly.
Mr. Gibbs. we have no secrets in the
Sewer"
Mr.. Lammersdorf blew a shrill blast
on a whistle used by him to signal his
employees. and when one appeared.
said. here, show this gentleman
through the mine and give him all the
Information you can concerning it,"
From the mill up the nil towards
the west, distance of 1.200 or 1900
feet,
GREAT BOULDERS OF ORE
crop from the soil and gravel which.
for 80 feet in depth. WILL Mr.. hammers
dorf assured me. pay to run through
the mill.
From nearly any of those boulders
free gold quartz can be broken. On
the apex Of the ridge. l0.500 feet above
sea level. the great vein crops in
massive ard broken lodges. Two nun
dred vertical feet from the apex the
vein is pierced by a tunnel 100 feet in
length which catches the ledge on its
dip of about - degrees to the east
From the face Of the tunnel level has
been run to the south about $50 feet
all the way in ore that viii sample not
less than SIS per ton. The vein will
average more than "A feet wide and
often swells to 20 or 30 feet. Another
level runs towards the north and then
bends TO the northwest. in all a dis
lance of $50 feet; the entire level be-
ing in ore of the same grade as that
Just mentioned. Along this level.
rev feet from the tunnel. an uDralSe
was made and stopped out to the height
of three sets of timbers. few feet
back of the main ledge. there is an
other vein five feet wide and carrying
about the same quality of ore. The
ere varies in color from white to iron
stained quartz. and, in portions of it,
has the same blush purple cast which
is a feature of all the rich ore thus far
found in the district. and will run from
$50 in gold away UP
INTO THE THOUSANDS.
Mr.. Laummersdorf assures me that
the Sewer ore is free milling and that.
with the small quantity of silver it
ii readily yields to chlorina-
ton Below the mill the tailings from
former runs have been cribbed back
and the $4,000 in values which they
contain viii be extracted by the
cyanide process in mill to be erected
just below the tailings dump.
Work is now progressing on a tunnel
just back Of the mill which will tap
the ledge at a dessth of LOCO TO 200 |
feet. This should not take any great /
length of time as the tunnel is now /
N some 200 feet. The ledge would /
have been pierced some time ago but |
Tor the fact that a fault, which incl /
lentally proves the great depth of the /
vein. has detected it from its original /
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