The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-17
Ogden, March Is.


Editor Herald Mining Department
AS per your request, 1 started
out to make a personal inves-
LEGATION of the Consolidated Min
ing company's property on Gold hill,
north of Brigham City, which has been
the subject of SO much inquiry and
speculation during the past year
The property consists of IA claims,
located about six miles above Brig
ham city, and was first known as the
Garfield mine, which was worked ex-
tensively before the present company
absorbed it.
The old Garfield tunnel was started
within 900 feet of the apex of the vein
on top of the hill, and there is now in
the breast of this tunnel a
FOUR-FOOT VEIN OF GALENA
in lime formation, samples of which
send. The Garfield tunnel, however,
has been practically abandoned since
1888, when what is now the main, or
working tunnel, was started at point
( 100 feet lower down the hill. This
tunnel is now in a distance of $500
feet
There are three well-defined veins on
the property, each one of which is
QiSllllSliS lIdCSdDic, nOl OILY Tie
surface groupings, but in the under
ground workings as well. These three
veins, starting from different points,
run to a common center at or near the
apex, where the old Garfield is located,
and the main tunnel has been run with
the object of tapping all these veins
near the apex, but at a depth of over
1000 feet below the surface
One ofthe ore bodies, which is be-
lpUad no the fiCCl1rp hpan
tapped at the point of contact below
the Silver Spring claim, samples of ore
from which l send you, and the other,
or Garfield vein, will soon be reached
by a drift from the main tunnel, now
being driven. This drift was started
because the breast of the main tunnel
is now in such extremely hard rock
that it was considered that in this
case the longest way around was the
shortest way home" The sketch 1 send
you while not valuable from an artistic
or scientific point of view, will serve to
indicate the general lay of the ground
and the workings.
At a point about 1900 feet from the
mouth of the tunnel where the main
or Washington vein was tapped below
the Silver Spring, is one of the
GREATEST BODIES OF LOW
GRADE ORE
1 ever saw. The ore body has been
stripped along the vein at the point of
contact for 40 feet, and cross-cut 60
feet, without reaching any wall. 1t is
a kind OF crumbly quartzite, as you
will see, that may be sboveled out like
dirt, and gives an average value Of 81
per ton in lead and silver, with a little
gold. To work this immense deposit, /
which is too low grade to ship with any
profit, the company proposes to erect /.
a concentrating plant on one Of the (
finest mill sites in the country, which it I
owns. For this purpose there is a
splendid stream Of water handy on the /
company's ground, as well as any
amount of timber
In the level which is being run from (
the working tunnel to cut the Garfield ,
vein, a thin streak of carbonates has
been encountered. running along the
wall toward the vein, which ASSAYS
$500 to the ton, but this streak is not +
large enough to be considered as part
of the proposition.
On the Boden claim the ore sam
pies Of which 1 send you, comes over
40 per cent lead, as high as $40 in silver
and some gold. The Silver Spring,
samples of which I also send, shows
a good vein with average values of
about S2T per ton. In almost every
drift and cross-cut from the working
tunnel. more or less ore, in feeders
from the main veins, has been found,
of the same general nature as that
found in the first workings of the diff
ferent claims. The average values, not
the low grade deposit figured
from the various assays and mill tests,
may be safely placed at 500 per ton.
There are hundreds of tons of ore on
the dump of the main tunnel which
would
PAY GOOD MONEY TO SHIP
either to the Utah or Colorado shelters:
but the policy of the company, so says
Mr. Wardleigh, a member of the Ogden
city council, and a prominent and re-
spected business man, is to push the
working tunnel until connection is
made with what is called the Garfield
assure vein, and then shipments will be
commenced from the ore in all three
# the veins, ind the returns will be
,sed to erect the concentrating plant
or the reduction of the big low grade
deposits.
The bucket tramway is two and one
lalf miles long, and connects with the
ram car track from the working tun-
lei, and ends at the ore houses, which
ire about two and one-half miles from
he Utah Northern railway track. The
Runway is the Halliday system, and
ost $4,000. 1t was used last fall far /
he transportation of the winter sup
lies for the mine. and about 800 tons [
f ore were sent down from the mine
imply as a test run.
The company owns a magnificent I
tream of water, and timber enough on {
Is own ground to last for years. 1t t