The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
THE OLD JORDAN.
Cyanide Plant Will Be In Operation
BV June Is.


! for the past week was as follows:
The Old Jordan and Galena company
is making rapid progress with the new
cyanide mill. The grading is all done
| and framework of the building COM
pleted, covering 135x64 feet of surface
Thursday they will begin putting the
teaching tanks in position.
/ There will be nine tanks, each 20 feet
| in diameter by four feet high, which
will give the mill a capacity of 100 tons
per day. The ore will pass through a
dryer before being crushed, but all the
ills usually met with from dust in dry
cruising mills will be obViated in this
by dust-proof rooms.
The building is 81 feet high, divided
! into four floors, the ore entering direct
from the mine at the upper. floor, and
passing on down and out as required in
the manipulation.
the mill Will be ready to run about
the 18th of June, and Colonel Heffron
Will have charge of it until successful
operation is assured. The mill, when
completed, will be the cheapest and
best for its purpose in the state.
Several unimportant mining sales are
being worked up.
& contract is to be let to sink the
Frisco main shaft an additional 100
feet.
Work will be soon resumed on the
new claims of Heidel & Co., at head
of Dry Fork.
Harry Woodman of the Winnamuck
will be out from the city Sunday to
visit the mine.
The Muddy gulch road is terror,
and it Will be expensive to put it in
good order.
The Julia Dean has made a strike of
foot of good looking copper ore, car
rying from s to u per cent copper, %
ounces silver and 81 gold.
The Liberal deep tunnel has made 1876
feet of the 204 feet estimated to reach
the vein, but progress is now very slow,
owing to hard ground.
The 100 tons shipped from the Wilma
muck last month was the first from
the mine under the present manage
ment, or since A. H. Borman gave up
his bond and lease.
The main shaft of the West Mountain
placer has now been sunk los feet, leav-
ing 65 feet to be completed. The
ground continues very hard, and Man
ager Watson this week provided the
contractors with a power drill.
There is talk that the Markham
group will soon be in operation al gain.
With a first-class concentration handy
by and nearly completed, there is now
announcement for working all the
good claims OF Markham gulch.
eral surveyor is doing surface work on
several main canyon claims. above the
copper plant. He worked two days in
the storm, and Wednesday quit in dis
gust, to resume when weather permits.
Last Monday Pete Clays sold to Col
onel e. A. Wall the Victoria, Ida and
Daisy group of prospects in main Bing-
ham canyon, by the old Bemis res
idence. We understand the considera-
ton was several thousand dollars.
They are located on strong veins and
will probably be developed this sum-
mer.
The Dalton and Lark is to start up
with a considerable force. The 800
foot level will be pumped out and sink
ing resumed in the main incline. The in
cline has been sunk TO $50 feet, where
some drifting was done, and a fine
quality of copper ore obtained. We
understand the property will soon have
80 men at work.
The McCarrick contract to extend
the Red Wing lower tunnel to 800 feet
was completed last week, and a new
contract has now been let to D. J.
Huntsman. Mr.. McCarrick cut the
footwa1 some time ago, and it is be-
lieyed the new contract will shortly be
in ore, as the vein matter now coming
out is soft and identical with that
which lays next to the rich body of ore
in the tunnel above.
The Star Gold & Silver Mining COM
pany this week completes its notice of
application for patent of the Star group
of six claims, just over the divide in
Tooele county. We understand the
property is making a promising show
ing of oxidized gold ore in at least one
of the claims, and Joe Dederich this
week visited it to examine the site for a
cyanide mill that is projected to be
built in connection this summer. Our
reporter will soon visit the Star group
and other property in the vicinity.
The st. Joe company is planning to
begin new deep tunnel this month,
which viii start in Saints Rest gulch,
and passing through the Rainbow,
Comet, Wedge. st. Joe, Ida and Ulig of
the St Joe group. will reach the Old
Telegraph side line at over 1.40O feet
vertical depth. Intersecting the claims
named are four porphyry bikes and
several large and we'll defined mineral
veins, including those on which are
located the Old Telegraph, Brooklyn,
Badger and Chicago. Work is now
progressing in the st. Joe tunnel,
which is in $50 feet and making five
feet day.