The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-28
SEA FOAM DISTRICT.
Description of Charlie Cranes Bull
dog Bonanzas.

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dog Bonanzas.
Mr.. Robert Conner of the Walker
Bros Dry Goods company, accompan-
| led by Mr.. Arthur Lowe, jr., of this
city, recently returned from the Sea
Foam mining district, Idaho where
they have been spending their summer
vacation with Mr. Charles Crane OF
this city, who is operating some very
valuable mining properties in that dis
trict, which promise to be among the
dividend payers in the near future.
In an interview with a Herald re-
porter Mr.. Conner said Mr. Crane was
interested in several promising claims
in that locality, but particularly in
what was known as the Bull Dog lode
embracing an ore body of tremendous
size on which four claims are located.
The Republican, on the west, has
two shafts of 20 feet showing a fine
body of chloride ore carrying values
| from 8 to 81 ounces silver and 81 to IS
! gold
An average of ten assays from the
entire width of the ledge, which is
/ opened up for u feet, show So ounces
silver, $3.50 gold and 10 per cent lead.
The Buckhorn, to the east of the
Republican, has small shaft in ore,
: merely an assessment, but shows con-
1
ter of ore.
! The Bull Dog, to the east of the
Buckhorn, is where Mr.. Crane has con-
! centrated his forces and has done the
! bulk of his work, comprising an open
! cut 30 feet, a crOss-cut across part of
| the ledge to the hanging wall, % feet,
! and a tunnel on the vein in center of
! lode has been run 90 feet.
From the face of the tunnel the ledge
is stripped for $50 feet up the hill, II
feet wide, and crosS-cuts have been run
which show the ledge to be just 40 feet
between walls.
The values of this mammoth lode are
from TO 2O3 ounces silver, 81 to $50
gold and from to 8 per cent lead.
At each side the open cut shows a
chloride ore carrying values of 2O3
ounces silver and S. gold, and there is
about IL feet of this ore. The center
of lode is a sulphide ore and assays
show three feet of 22-ounce silver and
81 gold; seven feet going Go ounces sill
yer and 81 gold; two feet of 104 ounces
silver and $40 gold; two to three feet
of ia ounces silver and $40 gold; two
feet OF 200 ounces silver and SIS gold,
and the balance Of ledge 10 to 100
ounces silver and 81 to So in gold.
Taking an average of Il assays of
the entire 40-fcot ledge and dump show
46 ounces silver, $4.6Q gold and to 5
per cent lead, and this ore can be
mined and milled for 81 per ton.
These assays were made by Mr.. ChaS.
Aeinhold, the very competent asSayeF
from this city, a graduate from Captain
BISHOPS assay office. and now in the
employ of Mr.. Crane.
The Idaho, TO the east Of the Bull
Dog, has various little cuts made in
doing development, and shaft ten feet
showing Q continuation Of the ore of
r. L
feet
To the east of the Idaho lies the Lo-
gan. which crc9s out from the face of
the mountain for 400 feet, showing in
places the ledge standing 80 feet in
height, the surrounding ground, being
n shistose and knease, has, owing to
the action of the elements, gradually
disintegrated, leaving the ledge, which
is a much harder formation. stand
ing like a Chinese wall.
-Four lakes, the outlets of which cross
the Bull Dog property, are within the
side lines Of this immense lode.
Timber 10 last for ages is on the sur
rounding hills.
A natural mill site, from which a tun-
mel could be run to the south $50 feet,
would cut the Bull Dog lode 300 feet in
deJth
The strike Of the lode is about north
east and southwest, dipping to the
south.
About 1000 tons of ore of the various
values are now on the dump, and about
ten tons of from 100 to 200 ounce ore is
sacked ready for shipment.
The difficulties in getting the ma
chinery TO the property, which is about
IL miles from the Idaho state road,
could be very easily overcome, as the
L miles should not cost to exceed 81
600, several miles of it requiring moth
ing but the removal of the timber.
The mine is about "a miles from
Ketchum. the terminus of that branch
OF the Oregon Short Line.
This would be less than half the dis
tance to freight that the Lucky Boy,
III Custer county, has to encounter, and
is about half the distance that the
Smelter at Clayton, Ida, has to freight.
The road from Ketchum to Cape Horn,
81 miles, is, without doubt, the best
road in the state to freight over, and
blessed with plenty of wood, water and
grass.
Several other claims in the immediate
vicinity which are being worked by
Mr.. Crane will ship this season, one of
which is the Plumbago. a small but
true fissure. the ore of which runs from
$34 to $3.50 gold and IA ounces silver.
The Malinda is a small vein, upon
which an open cut has been run, and
from which one ton of ore has been
extracted which will average 80 per
cent lead. 60 ounces silver and 81 in
gold.
The Ochre is a carbonate ore, carry
ing from 30 to 200 ounces silver, II to
so per cent lead and IS to $50 in gold,
and 10 to 20 tons will be shipped from
this mine.
The ore must be packed to Cape
Horn. 2 distance of II miles, and then
loaded on freight teams and hauled to
Ketchum, the nearest shipping point.
Mr. j. H. Sullivan of Haley has the