The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-22
GEYSER-MARION INSPECTED
BY A CORRESPONDENT, WHO
MAKES A REPORT.
Mill In First-class Condition and An
Average of 125 IONS Being
Treated-Other Mining News.

Mercur, Aug. 21.-In view of the re-
cent prominence given to the Geyser-
Marion property, your correspondent
paid a visit to the mine and mill this
week and, under the guidance of Super
intendent Russell, visited the various
parts of the mine. The property con-
tainS a little over 100 acres, half in
terest in about nine of which has been
awarded the Mosby claimants. In the
ground three principal veins or zones
of ore have been discovered, averaging
over eight feet in thickness, and the
two upper veins found to be continuous
throughout the ground, the lower one
not developed enough to definitely
state what the extent may be, but CIV
ing evidence Of being as large as those
above it.
The lower vein is reached by the mill
tunnel, which goes into the hill close
to the ore bin. About $50 1eet from TIC
mouth of the tunnel a body of ore is
reached IS feet thick and carrying
values averaging about So. Some as
says much higher than this have been
taken, but other parts OF the vein are
lower; still, as the mining and milling
of the ore costs less than 81, all of the
vein can be worked at profit. The
tunnel has been run in a distance of
$50 feet, which lies close to the silver
ledge, while drifts have been run north
and south some distance, and, as there
is no sign of ending, the superstition
that the vein is co-extensiVe With the
upper workings is not very far-fetch-
ed one. No stopping has been done on
this level, the ore being taken entirely
from drifts made in blocking out the
ground.
Sixty feet above the mill tunnel is the
middle vein, from which considerable
ore was taken to the Geyser MILL and
in which there are still larger BODIES
untouched. In one part of the work.
ings is a body of ore about 200 feet long
and covering several acres of ground,
but its thickness has not yet been def
nitely determined. A shaft has been
sunk about 40 feet searching for the
footwall, but as yet it has not been
reached, and, as the mill tunnel is not
far off. it looks as if the ore went clear
through.
About 40 feet above this is the upper
vein, in the west part of which consid-
cradle stopping has been done, but evI-
IDENTIFY the miners did not care for eth
er hanging or footwal as there Pc
large quantities of both above and be-
low the Slopes, which, added -
large pillars, would show that only
about half of the good ore has been
taken out. gsj
On the north side of the gulch there
is a piece of ground about two acres
in extent in which enough development
has been made to show that there is
10 feet of ore covering the entire
ground, and a tunnel is being run in on
the footwall to reach it. In the West
Geyser the vein crops to the surface on
both sides of the hill, and development
has been started in that direction.
The mill is in firSt-clasS condition,
and an average of 125 tons of ore is
being treated, and the mill men are
trying to increase this amount The
company propose to increase their out
put as rapidly as circumstances will
permit, and it is with this object in
view that the mine is being put in con-
dition to supply larger amount than
has ever been done before.
Most of the stock is held among a
small circle OF investors, and as the
small amounts outstanding are put on
the market, it is being bought in by
those parties, so that at present it
looks as if, eventually, all of it will be
taken in.
1t is reported that it will be neces-
sary to shut down the Golden Gate
mill before many days, to put in the
new machinery necessary. Quite a lot
Of it is on hand, but more is expected
in the next few days. The work is pro-
crossing rapidly. n
A depth of 155 feet has been reached
in the Hillside, and good progress is
again being made.