The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-16


From all accounts and indications
Utah VIII soon be able to boast of the
possession of a new gold producer in
the property Of the New Mammoth
company, which is located in the Dali
ton q Lark country in the 'Old Re
liable" camp OF Bingham.
This mine has been the lodestone
which has attracted the attention of
quite q number of mining men and in
Vestors of late, among the most recent
visitors to this prospective bonanza
being Mr.. George Moore, the metallur
gist, assayer and chemist with the Con.
K. c. Smelling & Reduction company.
Mr.. Moore made a careful inspection
and examination of the mine the first
of the week, taking numerous and
careful samples of the ore bodies eX
posed in it's workings, but it was not
until yesterday that his fire tests on
the same were completed, the outcome
being much beyond his most sanguine
expectations, and as he has seen the
property and took and tested his own
ore samples he was not adverse to
giving a representative Of this paper
the result of his Investigations.
In speaking Of the New Mammoth
MIR. Moore stated that the work al
ready done in the development of this
property had revealed the existence Of
a large ledge of gold bearing ore in
Quartzite- the vein evidently being a
true lssure, the dip of the ledge being
from so TO 20 degrees to the west the
incline shaft having been sunk on the
hanging wall side of the deposit, the
wall being almost as smooth as a floor
This shaft, Mr.. Moore went on to say
has been sunk on the ore body for a
depth OF 400 feet with drifts on the
mineral north and south at different
levels, these drifts having been eX-
tended both ways from the shaft for
100 or 200 feet, all the workings so far
showing the permanency and continu-
ity of the mineral deposits
The ledge is from eight to twelve feet
IN width, being the former figure at
the surface and the latter at the bot
tom Of the 400-foot incline shaft, work
so far showing an increase in the size
of the deposit as depth is attained, and
in the middle of the vein there is a
pay streak which averages about two
feet in width from the top to the bot
tom Of the shaft. this pay streak. ac-
cording to samples taken and assays
made by Mr. Moore, carrying average
values Of S24 in gold to the ton, while
the bodies of second-class ore on both
sides of the high-grade streak, which,
combined, viii run about eight or nine
feet in width, showing average values
y
of the whole ore body of from eight to
twelve feet in width being SO to the
ton.
other samples were taken by Mr..
Moore, one of which was from the
big upraise from the 345-foot level,
where an average of the deposit dis
closed values Of $14.40 in gold, while
from the richest portion of the de-
post as exposed by this upraise fire
tests showed the gold contents of the
ore to be So so to the ton; while at a
point only thirty feet below the sur
face samples were taken from the two
foot pay streak, previously mentioned,
which went $2S in gold to the ton, the
ore in this paystreak being a finely
oxidized product, free from tale and
<aIl deleterious substances, the mineral
being Of excellent teaching quality.
In summing up his conclusions Mr..
Moore stated that he was we'll pleased
with the property, the amount of
milling ore in sight, according to his
calculations. being in the neighborhood
of 81 90 tons. which would carry aver
age values of SO a ton in gold. To mine
and mill this ore in his estimation,
would cost about 50 a ton, While a re-
coveIv of &C per cent could doubtless be
made. thus showing about S259000 net
uoey blocked cut in the property.
1t was learned yesterday that j. e.
Beveridge. the we'll known mining and
mill man. is to have charge of the
New Mammoth mine and also of the
mill as soon as i is constructed, it be-
ing the intention Of the company to
have reduction works in operation on
the ground in the early spring.