The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-08
BLUE MOUNTAIN MINES.
The Directors of the Tunnel and Min
ing Company Hold Meeting.

ing Company Hold a Meeting.
It has been known for quite while
] that large bodies of free milling ore
had been uncovered in the Blue noun
tains. San Juan county, Utah. and at
! this time when silver is so low, gold
propositions are especially sought after.
/ For the past two years the great prop
erty of the Gold Queen Mining com
/ pany has been operated to a greater or
less extent. and the results secured
from trial runs with their new ten
stamp mill were so satisfactory that
it added quite an impetus TO mining in
! that section. Salt Lakers have always
| had a desire to secure the best in the
! state, hence il is not surprising that
several companies have been eormed.
| the present season, to operate extern
! s;velV there.
Among such companies is the Blue
Mountain Tunnel & Mining company,
organized here during the past spring.
The directors of this enterprise held a
meeting at Mccormick & Co.'S bank
yesterday for the purpose of engaging
more extensively in the development of
it's claims The directors present at
this meeting were Judge Henry Rivers,
Governor Heber NJ. Wells. Judge c. w.
Bennett, Frank D. Kimball. Abraham
Hanauer, jr., and Mark W. Musgrove.
Thompson, was in the Blue mountains.
After hearing the usual reports,
unanimous confidence was expressed in
the future of the proposition; in fact,
all of them conceded that the company
had one of the largest and finest bodies
of free milling ore in the state. the
amount of development work consid-
cred.
After the completion of certain pre-
liminaries. it is proposed to put two
shifts at work on the tunnel. and drive
ahead with all possible dispatch. The
first lead to be cut by this tunnel has
been uncovered on the surface of the
Snowdrift lode, being a continuation of
the vast deposit found in the property
OF the Gold Queen Mining company,
which adjoins it on the south.
Readers of The Herald will remember
that a series of strikes has been re-
ported from this section within the past
few weeks, all of them being adjacent
to and almost edging on to the prop
erty of the Blue Mountain Mining COM
pany. The richest of these strikes was
made on the Gold Dream, a property
bonded by the late Captain G.. w. jack
son, whose tragic death was reported
in these columns several months since.
The Gold Dream is a literally free mill
ing proposition, and shows an immense
amount of quartzbearing free gold. The
vein is from eight to u feet wide. and
is wonderfully rich; in fact. so rich is
it that the property was bonded for
SIC. 600 late last fall, and a deal is about
closed for $4,000 cash.
North of the company's property is
the Eureka, owned by John Shafer and
others, of Moab, Utah. When the shaft
in this ground was down Is feet. a five
foot vein was uncovered averaging a
$50 gold piece to the ton. The shaft was
sunk on the vein 20 feet further. and
shows an ore body from five to seven
feet wide of $50 gold ore.
On the west is the Grand View.
property of which nothing was known
up to a few weeks ago, when assess
mcnt work was commenced. A strong
vein of high grade free milling ore is
now exposed in the bottom of the
shaft
On the north is the Copper Queen
group. recently sold TO D. H. Moffatt
of Denver for S11 600 cash. The assays
run from s12 or $14 to 5000 per ton in
gold The vein is strong, five feet wide
and we'll defined.
1t will thus be seen that the more
work the greater the
showing IN the Blue mountains and it
is not surprising that some of the best
men in the city are at the head of
enterprises there.