The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-08

Still singing the praises of the min
eral resources of southern Utah and
southeastern Nevada, Hon. M. NJ. Mil
Ter has returned home from Stateline
and Eagle valley districts, in both of
which he is heavily interested with Col
onel H. L. Pickett, also of this city, in
several very valuable gold properties,
mention of which has been previously
made in these columns, and Mr.. Miller
is confident and satisfied that with
more extensive development work they
will in time rank as heavy producers Of
high-grade collaborating quartz.
Much of MIR. Miller's time during his
six weeks absence from Salt Lake has
been spent in Pixies diggings, in State
line district, where he has been direct
ing operations in the development of
the Blahely group, large interest in
which was purchased two months ago
by himself and Colonel Pickett. The
tunnel in the Blakely group has been
driven into the mountain for a distance
of ISL feet on a strong ledge of quarthz,
every foot of the distance showing ore
bearing the yellow metal in its native
state, while at the face of the tunnel
the vein is all of three feet in width,
two feet of which is high-grade rock
WHICH VIII carry NdlUeS ldl4SlIS up III
TO the hundreds, While on the dump
there is a big shipment of high-grade
mineral, as well as large tonnage of
good free milling ore.
In the breast of the tunnel, work is
still progressing, as the workings are
being extended further into the hill;
a winze is being sunk on the vein,
while an upraise is being made to con-
meet with &. shaft which is being sunk
ha hnlT1cr
the intention to continue the eXplora-
ton OF the property all winter the eX
pectation being that by spring the Utah
q Pacific railroad will have been con-
structed SO near to the camp as to adj
init of ore shipments, as well as to IA
cilitate the sending in of material for
a mill, as a plant of some kind will
doubtless embellish the property before
the coming season is numbered with
the past.
Mr.. Miller speaks most enthusiastic
cally of the Pixies diggings portion of
Stateline district, and he says that in
the Amethyst, adjoining the Blakely,
owned by the Messrs. Francis, McDon-
aid and the Hollinger brothers, the
showing of ore in the bottom of the
shaft is such that these gentlemen have
already decided to erect a fve-stamp
mill at the mine early in the spring,
while they will develop the property
all winter. In the near vicinity there
are a number of other properties which
possess excellent surface showings.
At Deer Lodge. in Eagle valley dis
trict, Nevada, Mr.. Miller and the col
onel are also pushing work in the de-
velopment of the Indiana or Pickett
group, which, without a particle of
doubt, is destined to rank as a great
gold mine The double compartment
shaft on this property has been sunk
during the past six weeks to a depth
of about 80 feet on a remarkably strong
ledge, the workings showing five feet
of quartz, which is lively and healthy
looking, without disclosing either wall,
the whole five feet being pay free mill
ing gold ore, while in the vein there is
a two-foot body which will and does
carrying values ranging from $50 to S75
and even higher in Wall street cur
rency, some Of the rock being so rich
that it is streaked and splashed with
gold in its native state, the mineral
being so literally sprinkled over and
through the quartz that it is not neces-
sary to use a glass to see it.
This property will also be Intelligent
" worked all winter, and, as ore is now
being piled on the dump ready for ship
ment or milling, it is expected that
when gentle spring drives old winter
from his stronghold once again, the
ullue VIII AdNG dlld1ALCh Il SlilpplllE ctllQ
milling standing.
In the near vicinity OF the Indiana is
the Horse Shoe mine, owned by NIessrs.
Lund, Campbell and Johnson, and this,
also, is a property that is full of prom
Use, as in the bottom of the 10O-foot
shaft in this ground a four-foot body
OF ore has been exposed which is lousy
with the yellow metal. the ore, when
submitted to tests by fire, showing
values ranging from S100 upward to
the ton, while this body of high-grade
mineral has been drifted upon for a
distance Of 20 feet from the bottom Of
the shaft, there being no diminution in
quantity or value.
Mr.. Miller speaks most highly of the
formation of State1ine and Eagle valley
districts, it being his opinion that prac-
tically it is identicaliy the same in the
two camps, there being but little choice
go where one may, the different local
tiles in this section or on this great
mineral zone now Offering opportuni-
ties for investment which would
speedily be snapped up were the true
merits of these two camps more gener-
ally known, and he is of the opinion
that in time to come Stateline and Ea-
gle valley districts viii enjoy a boom
such as is seldom witnessed in this
western country.