The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-26

Just at this time. right after the rapid
decline in Northern Light stock and the
levy of a 10-cent assessment, it might
not be deemed good taste to dwell at
length upon the showing in the mine,
and the truth, even if half told. would
hardly be believed, and yet it is a fact
that the showing today in this IA
nous old mine is much better than it
was a year ago, and il is needless to
say that the work that has been done
in. its development during the past u
months has added greatly to its value.
The 500 feet of tunnel, for instance.
known as the Woodruff tunnel, with it's
So feet of an incline upraise, has
brought the property into speedy and
saving touch with the mill, so that the
GRE almost finds its way to the bin at
the mill by gravity, and this tunnel
and upraise connect with the lower lev
els of the mine. from which drifts and
cross-cuts are being run into large bod
les of excellent milling ore, while. in
one or two places, rich shipping stuff
is being taken out for the market A
short distance from the top of the in
cline the Golfer drift is being run, in
which fine ore is exposed and from
which sinking and upraising on good
milling rock viii help supply the ton
mage required at the mill.
In the south drift. which is in virgin
ground. the ore zone is % feet thick,
and scattered through it is high grade
chlorides and lead carbOnates; and in
taking ore from this drift it will be
necessary 20 run it over a screen be-
fore conveying on to the mill, the fine
stuff to be sacked and shipped, and it
is estimated that the shipments will be
quite regular in the near future.
One OF the sights in the mine, how
ever is the old Mcqueen stope, from
which Mcqueen and Clark took out
thousands of dollars in high-grade ore
a number of years ago, in doing which
they left mammoth bodies of a good
grade Of milling. ore exposed.
This stope has just been exposed and
broken into by the lower workings. and
it row shows up larger than ever be-
fore the thickness of the ore body be-
ing al of 70 feet. and, while the unin-
itiated would say that there were 10000
tons OF mineral disclosed alone, it IS
dead safe to say that all of 5000 tons
are IL sight at this point the great
bulk of which will carry average val
ues of AZ ounces silver and 81 in gold
to the ton.
In the Kelly stope, in another part
OF the mine, the full face of the works
is in a body of ore which will carry
average values of II ounces silver and
$3.50 in gold to the ton.
At the mill the bin is fun of good
stuff, and most of the tanks are charg-
ed with pulp. the only difficulty now
standing in the way of successful oper-
alton being that the pipe line is frozen
Up. but Superintendent Frank Hines,
of the mine. states that as soon as the
mill begins to grind again. he can be-
gin al once to furnish 20 tons of mill
ing ore daily, while. within a week,
this output can be increased to 125. or
even to $50.
As to extraction, Superintendent Hen
drie. who has charge of this depart
ment, states that from the last tanks of
pulp emptied he made a recovery of SO
per cent of the gold values and 63 per
cent Of the silver contents of the ore,
and he is satisfied that he can maintain
this extraction from this time on.
At Mercur, the west dip and at Sun
shine difficulty is also reported with
frozen pipes. but it cannot be long now
before gentle spring" win remove this
obstacle to successful operation in both
mining and milling in those localities.