The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-06
A BIG cAvE-IN OCCURRED.
Hard Luck Encountered By the
Frisco Company.

$500 t~-e--S-
In its weekly roundup of mining
news the Bingham Bulletin says:
Following the good strikes that have
occurred at the Frisco mine very
hard streak of luck was encountered the
other day. 1t is in the shape of a big
cave, which has temporarily upset the
plans of the company.
The connection recently made at 100
feet below tunnel level between the
working shaft and a winZe formerly
sunk from the face of the tunnel, $50
feet in. blocked out $50 feet of stopping
ground besides giving much needed
circulation. After many months of
dead work and expense the mine was
in shape for a steady output. when the
contamination was suddenly and eff
fectually shut off.
The Wine having been nearly full of
water until tapped by the drift. mois-
ture had backed into the vein matter,
softening it for many feet, so thorough
~ as to cause the running of a large
area into the Wine and that part Of
the connecting drift that was extended
from it.
Two or three months viii probably
be required to repair the damage, and
in the meantime, owing to bad air,
1t IS impossible for men to work in a
stope. 1t is one of those misfortunes
that cannot be foreseen or avoided, and
the management has philosOphically
decided not to stand and kick at fate,
but proceed by the best route to put
the mine in shape again. Part Of the
force has been laid off, but as many
men as can be worked to advantage
will be employed in reopening the con-
nectiOn Meantime a contract has been
let for sinking the main shaft another
100 feet. Il is located 500 feet in from
the tunnel entrance, and when down 200
feet viii open the vein 600 to 200 feet
vertically.
A popularity of the Frisco is that it
has improved with sinking, both in
quantity and quality of ore, the mine
raj always showing best at the drift
bottom. The decision 10 sink while op-
eratiOns at the 109-foOt level are hung
up seems, therefore, to be well advised,
and we hope before the mine is again
in shape for production to have it to
record that new developments in lower
ground have eclipsed any of its previous
showings.
The Badger vein has recently been
cut by a tunnel at 500 feet depth in one
Of the st. Joe group OF claims, and is
showing over Is feet in width. No as
says have been had of the mineral COM
ing out but the ST. Joe groupings give
$3.50 in value per ton. In the Badger
explorations have been made to depth
of 500 feet. There is considerable ac-
tivity in the vicinity. and many other
claims near the Old Telegraph are like
" to be heard from this spring
Last Monday and Tuesday were re-
cord breakers in the shipping line. A
total of so carloads of ore-about 100
tons-left Bingham and Leadmill sta
tons during those days. The shipments
Monday were IS carloads. Wednesday
they We're about average, and yesterday
total of y carloads went out. The
output for the week will be nearly
1000 tons.
The Markham mill, operating a part
OF It's battery of ten stamps, has been
doing very satisfactory work this week
Whitley table will soon be added to
the machinery, and then the mill will
be prepared 20 do custom work in con-
nectiOn with its regular layout on Giant
Chief second class.
Superintendent BEETLES of the High
land Boy is moving into a new office
nearer to the mill and much more con-
Venient than the old one. Hardly a
week passes that some new improve
ment is not noticeable around the Carr
Fork bonanza Manager Weir believes
there IS nothing gained by putting up
with Inconvenience to save expense.
Complaints are coming from the Dali
ton and Lark side that surveyors run
ming lines for new lOcators are unable
to perceive stakes of claims that have
been regularly worked for years. The
other day the glistening barrel of gun
operated Ike eyewater on one of them,
who lost no time in changing his course.
superintendent Turner is making a
dead hard rustic" 10 get everything
ready TO start the new Last Chance mill
by the 10th. A new track, 400 feet in
length, is being laid to the British tun-
mel. Arrangements viii be perfect for
the economical handling of ore
The Highland Boys shipments of
crude ore during January were $50 tons.
exceeding the shipments of any other
mine in the district excepting those of
the Old Jordan-S06 tons Concentrates.
That Carr Fork yearly is a dandy.
The Keynote. located over the ridge
easterly from the Old Telegraph. was
added to the list of shippers this week.
1t is being worked under lease by
Sweeney & Co, and we understand is
looking well.
Ed Mass returned from the city We'd
nesday and resumed work on the You
and l. a promising copper property.
which he hopes Will soon be giving up
good ore through tunnel which he is
driving.
Poles for the electric line from Jor-
dan Narrows to Bingham are being de-
lvered at Revere station, and it is an
that the line viii be completed
within six weeks.
The owners of several fine prospects
in Porcupine gulch viii give some one
a chance to make a Klondike stake. as
they propose to lease their ground
in the spring.
Owing to absence of several shippers
we are unable this week to give the
total output for January. The state
ment viii appear in our next issue.
Manager Elmer Hill shipped five
carloads Of good grade carbonate from
the Fortune mine last Monday
Lind and Jensen have just sent down
a carload from their Spanish lease.