The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
GOLD IN eALENA ORE.
Examination Made of the Old Snake
Creek Relief Mine.

creek h9i1Gf NINE.
The Park Record, in its weekly min
ing review. says:
An old Snake creek property that has
been little heard of for many, many
years, is likely to again create a stir in
mining circles. Yesterday forenoon
Mr. N. Treweek, who owns the prop
erty. came out with a party OF eastern
and French capitalists to examine the
ground with a. view, it is understood, of
either leasing and bonding or buying
the ground. The name OF the property
is the Relief and it is located on top of
the ridge on the north side of Snake
creek, near the head of the canyon. 1t
is a copper proposition, pure and sim
pie. but no work has been done on the
ground, which is patented, for Is or IS
years. There is a shaft so feet deep,
four feet in the clear, sunk in ore all
the way, and drift from the bottom
40 feet in length, which was run to
cross cut the ledge, but no wall has
been encountered. This drift is also in
ore, average samples of which, the
Record is informed, run from 10 to Il
per cent copper, with a small amount
of gold. 1t is thought by old timers
who are familiar with the ground, that
it will make a mine. w. L. Treweek,
accompanied by c. A. Springer, went
over to the property Wednesday to put
up a Windlass with which to lower the
visitors on their arrival Though the
ground has laid idle for so many years
the shaft is said to be in good condi-
ton. More will be heard of this prop
erty in the near future.
WIRE GOLD IN GALENA.
Captain Springer was up to the new
gold strike in Snake creek Monday and
reports it to be all right. He says he
saw something while there that he
never saw or heard of before in his
life. In the face of the tunnel that is
being started on the ledge he picked
out a small piece of galena which had
wire gold running through it. He adj
mits the story sounds incredible, but
says it is a fact, just the same. He be-
lieves that Messrs. Davis and Goist,
whose discovery was mentioned in our
last issue, have a gold bonanza that
will startle the natives by spring.
CAMP CRossCUTs.
The delinquent notice Of the Constel-
lation Mining company is printed in
this impression.
Shutters are being secured to the
DAILY boarding house windows and it
is expected that the place will be per-
manently closed on the first of the
month.
Captain C. a. Springer was in from
the Steamboat property Tuesday, He
has completed the second 80 foot of
work in the new tunnel and says that
small lunches and pockets of ore are
beginning to make their appearance in
the face. Work will be vigorously
continued as long as the weather will
permit the men to remain in the can
yon.
The Alliance Mining company is go
ing to declare a dividend of $1,000 as
soon as a quorum of the board of di-
rectors can be mustered. This is made
possible through the receipts of the
company for rentals derived from the
water company and other sources for
use of the magnificent flow Of water
from the mine. The dividend is the
equivalent of 5 cents a share, as the
capital stock is 100, 600 shares.
Dow Mott, Fred Grose and J. P
Sweeney have taken a lease on q prop
erty at Bingham and expect to make a
good thing of it this winter. Messrs
Grose and Sweeney left Thursday af-
ternoon for Salt Lake and today will
go out to the property with tools, pow
der and provisions to see them through
the winter. It is a lead, silver and gold
proposition.
For several months past T. H. PAUL
and associates. who have q, lease on the
Autumnal claim, located on the Bon
ANA side of Pioneer ridge and owned
by Smith Ehenger, have been pushing
work in a tunnel some distance below
a silveT-lead vein opened up last year.
The tunnel is now in over 200 feet,
and ere long the boys hope to encoun-
ter good nav ore