The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

The following from the keystone OF
Ketchum, Ida, in relation to Charlie
Crane of this city, and his Idaho mines,
will prove interesting to his many
friends throughout Utah:
We were favored with an interesting
interview Thursday with Hon. Charles
Crane of Salt Lake during a pleasant
call that gentleman made at the Key
stone office.
Mr.. Crane is just in from his mining
properties in SeafOam district, Custer
county, this state. He came to bring
in his little son, John, who has been In
the mountains all summer, to return
to school in Salt Lake, and to purchase
1900 sacks to ship out about 10000
pounds of ore from his several proper
ties in that district.
Mr. Crane speaks very highly, but
conServatively, of the mines in which
lie and others are interested in Sea-
joan. In regard to the wonderful Bull
dog mine, of which he is part owner,
he says: Nothing in the state can, in
my opinion, compare with it. 1t must
be seen 70 be appreciated. and were L
to tell what a tremendous body of ar
gentiferous and auriferouS ore is now
il sight, ready to be milled or concen-
trIted, as may be deemed best, it
would read like a fairy tale, but the
mine is open to ali visitors, and sam
pies can be had ad libitum by any
body who chooses to come out and see
it." The lode, Mr.. Crane says, is 40
feet wide, 5000 feet long. dips to the
south, and the strike northeast and
southwest, and in every crosScut, shaft
or tunnel, this entire distance gives a
fair and profitable assay value. On
the Idaho, the claim to the east, the
rfslr \
$3.50 gold. Six thousand feet distant
the Republican. at the bottom of 90
foot shaft, assays varying from 20
ounces to Sc ounces silver and $3.50 to
$3.50 in gold have and can be secured.
The Bulldog, the claim for which Mr..
Crane has concentrated his main eff
forts, the ore shows value as high as
4S2 ounces and the lowest eight ounces
silver. The ledge has been opened by
an open cut for so feet, and a tunnel
Go feet and a crosscut % feet to hang
ing wall, every foot of which is in ore.
A croSscut tunnel has now been start
ed, which, when run 400 feet, will cut
the lode $50 feet in depth and open up
the vein for 1000 feet east and west.
The lode carries both chlorides and
sulphides. The chlorides run as high
as $50 ounces silver and $50 gold. and
the sulphides as high as 483 ounces sill
yer, as per assays of Captain F. NJ.
Bishop. The lode can be traced for six
miles, by various shafts, tunnels, ETC.
Timbers for all purposes and water for
mill and power right on the ground.
The district is large and many val
liable properties are now idle for want
of facilities to concentrate the ore. A
road will have to be constructed to
connect with the state road u miles
distant. Ketchum will be the nearest
shipping point, 81 miles distant, over
the best mountain road in the state.
Good grass, wood and water the entire
distance. and only one mill to pull over,
which is one and a half miles in length.
There has been in the neighborhood of
$3.50, 900 in the past few years shipped
from the district. The rise in silver
will make this one of the greatest
camps in the state. All the claims
carry gold and lead, one owned by Mr..
Crane assays over 500 in gold and IA
ounces silver. Other claims will give
60 per cent lead, It's ounces of silver
and SO gold.
Mr.. Crane hopes in the near future
to erect a 10 or 20-stamp concentrating
plant on the Bulldog and run the en-
tire lode through the plant; the chlor-
ideS will be shipped, he says as they
are broken down from the mine.
Altogether, he believes the Bulldog
group is the most wonderful fissure
vein in existence, and its permanency
is absolutely unquestioned by every
geological evidence.
Mr.. Crane left yesterday for his head
quarters at Seafoam.