The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-27
Dividend Paying and Invest
ment Mining Stocks.
W. E. HUBBARD & CO.,
TEL. sos. 10 w. I'd So. St.
THE sTARLUs NINE.
Gre Bodies Were Leached Out Abov
Water Level.

Gre Bodies Were Leached Out Above
Water Level.
In an exhaustive and able write-up
of the Starlus mine. at Bingham, the
Bulletin says:
Aside from the showing at the Win
namUck, tie developments of the Star
lus mine give perhaps a better idea of
the character of mineral veins around
lower Bingham than these of any other
property. They consist of about 1,200
feet of openings, including a. main tUn-
mel driven 100 feet. crOsscuts from it to
determine width of vein, an incline tun-
mel sunk 100 feet, and 200 feet of drift
ing at 200 level Everywhere there is
mineral in sight. in streaks varying
from ten inches to three feet, and at a
glance it conveys a good impression.
The main tunnel is a fine piece of
work. 5x6 feet. It is dry as a powder
house, except al point perhaps 400
feet in, where a few drops Of darkly
mineralized water trickle from the wall
into a little pool by the car track. We
noticed scraps of old iron had been
thrown into the pool, and found them
covered with copper precipitate quar-
ter of an inch thick
OF all Bingham mines we have visit
ed, not one makes a more
ATTRACTIVE SHOWING
than the Starlus. But everywhere one
gathers the impression that he is in
speeding an article on dress parade,
care having seemingly been taken not
to detach any part or parcel of vein
matter that would help out the show.
In but one place has an attempt been
made at production. of which later on.
Recourse to quite an elaborate rec
ord of assays, made in the progress
of developments. shows that at various
stages ores have been encountered,
in kidneys and in patches not
worth bothering with. aVera ging about
% ounces of silver, So in gold and per
cent copper. An average of all assays
gives about ; ounces silver. 81 gold and
5 TO per cent copper per ton. In the
stODe referred to. 10 or u tons were
Knocked down that did not sell for
enough to quite pay expenses. We
should add TO this record also a small
shipment of
OXIDIZBD IRON ORE,
taken from tunnel or open cut toward
the top of the hill, that yielded $12 in
gold to the ton. This was the same
cyanide truck that is found at the sur
face of ali Of the veins OF the same
character in the neighborhood at the
Highland Boy, Niagara and Old Jordan.
The dressing up of the Starlus was
done under the management and direc-
ton of Colonel o. .. Hardy. He seemed
TO have great faith in it. bat whether
exercising his own sweet viii or in
fiuenced by designing and wicked part
ners we are unable TO say. was nXing
to unload it at 2 fancy figure. on sight
this could undoubtedly have been done.
Under close investigation il could not.
except as purchased by some one
with more insight into the mysteries of
cause and effect than is enjoyed by
Colonel Hardy. His enterprise did not
prosper. But we have TO add in this
connection our conviction that had he
succeeded, the person necessarily
worsted in the deal would not have
been the purchaser.
The incline shaft of the Starlus lacks
some 10 feet of reaching water level
Time was when water oozed from the
vein at and above tunnel level. Traces
of this can be seen in every foot of
ground exposed. IN the distant past,
when Bonneville suTged upon the
benches below Leadmill and much of
Utah was watery eXpanse, the little
creek that creeps through Bingham
canyon was fearful and constant tor
rent Then its bed was the ancient
relic which we find high up on the
banks about level with
THE STARLUS TUNNEL.
Then the lower portion of this canyon,
with climate tempered by the proximity
of a great inland sea, presented semi
tropical scene. The precipitation was
so great that there must have been a
rainy season covering a great part of
the year, during which, and in fact
continually, springs burst forth from
every cleft and csevice. Every mineral
vein wss to a gEeater or less extent a
water course, as investigation proves,