The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-27

Hays Cook, one of the pioneer miners
of Beaver county, is in from Milford
and is stopping at the Cullen.
There is hardly a mining man in the
south who does not know Hays Cook,
and he has a host of friends wherever
he is known.
For many years Mr.. Cook has been
mining in Old Star district, which is
almost within a stones throw from
Milford. He has toiled in the camp
when it was one of the most noted dis
tricts in the state. He has seen 1t
when everything was prosperous there
and he has staid with it when it was
practically deserted, and he still main
tains that it will come to the front
again as a heavy producer of the
precious metals.
Old Star has always had the reputa-
ton of being rich in its deposits of
silver and lead ores and no one ever
thought that it would ever become
famous for it's bodies of free milling
gold.
For many years Mr.. Cook worked
the old Vulcan mine for its Silver-lead
ores, and during all of this time he
of a porphyretic rock that he took for
one of the walls of the silver vein.
When silver and lead quotations put
a QuietuS on mining in the district, the
mines of the camp were almost aban-
doned, the Vulcan being among the
number, and for number of years this
old producer remained idle; and but for
an accidental discovery, it would have
still remained in this condition.
LOG
Hays made a visit TO the district and
was looking over the Vulcan, ne no
ticed that the porphyry wall which he
had thrown over the dump had be-
come disintegrated and he imagined
that it looked as if it would pan gold.
More out of curiosity than anything
else he decided to try some of the rock
found that the despised porphyry was
FREE MILLING GOLD ORE
and that a streak of, fine gold followed
the water in his pan.
AS the mine had been abandoned for
a number of wears he decided to make
a new location, which he did, naming
Angus Buchanan and Joe Deumell as
equal owners in the property.
Since that time a shipment of the
ore has been made to this city, as men
toned at the time in these columns.
and the millrun test demonstrated the
fact that it carried gold in sufficient
quantities 10 justify its treatment on
the ground, but that it was not rich
enough to ship.
A Herald representative had pleas
ant chat with Mr.. Hays last night and
was informed that in the workings of
the Gold King, for this is the name
under which the Vulcan was relocated,
there was a 95-foot incline shaft from
the top of which to the bottom there
was a three and a half foot body of
this soft ore exposed, all of which Will
pan free gold, and the indications are
that it will carry values of from $40
to $40 in the yellow metal to the ton.
Mr. Hays states that there are about
so tons of this ore on the dump ready
for treatment, while in the mine there
are from $50 TO 800 tons of this mineral
in sight ready to be broken down.
Mr. Hays says that the object of his
visit to this city is to find some method
that will treat the ore at small eX-
pense on the ground, and there is no
doubt but that he will meet with sue
cess in the matter, as the ore is easily
handled and is so soft that it can be
readily crushed and
RUN THROUGH A SLUICE BOX
if need be, the only obstacle TO this
process of reduction beng that water
is a scarce commodity in that locality.
In the immediate vicinity of the Gold
King is the Clough mine, which at one
time was worked by Mr.. Cook under
the name of the Golden Sceptre. sThe
property was relocated, however. in the
year 1896 by Arthur Johns and Clyde
Baxter, who performed considerable
work on the ground during the winter
of the same year. The boys are at
work again this winter. and, according
to Mr. Cook, they have reason to feel
elated as they have recently opened a
fine body of ore in the upper workings
that pans free gold, and as work
progresses the gold values are increas-
ing as well as the size of the deposit.
In the old workings in this property
there is a shaft that is down to the IT'S
foot level, at which depth a cave was
struck. which was drifted upon for
some distance The cave is a cavity
in the ledge, which varies from two
to four feet in width, and the ore is
also a free milling proposition; and it
is believed that with proper work the
mine could be opened so that it would
find a place on the list as a heavy and
regular producer.
There is a good opening in the old
Star district for thorough and intelli-
gent prospecting, and capitalists and
Investors would do well to look over
this camp.
COPPER OUTLOOK IN FRISCO.