The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-10
Mining Notes.

Phoebe Record: Charley Roe was in
from Brisco on Sunday. He proposes now
to work on the gold-bearing Iedges which
ne located last spring in old FairVieW
district, just north of Bristol, and where
the surface showing is considered good
Times-Review. Tuscarora, New: We
are informed that the owners of the Van
DuZer placer claims have everything in
readiness for beginning operations as
soon as the spring thaws will permit of
working. The workings will be prose-
cuted with improved machinery and more
Systematically than last year, and cor
responding increase in the output is con-
hdently predicted for the coming season
A special from Ridgway, Colo, says:
The Wood strike in the New York on
Cow creek. continues to improve in ouan-
tity and value. The ore body is five feet
wide and runs $500 in gold, silver cop
per and lead. Conservative estimates
place the value of the ore in sight at
S2OO,OOO. The find is seven miles southeast
OF R1dgWay, and due east of Portland By
the present trail it is IA miles to the mine
from Ridgway. Prospectors are fiocking
TO the new camp.
Silver City Star: The work of sinking
the main shaft on the. Picnic shaft is
progressing rapidly and tonight will
reach the 40O-foot level. No ore has been
encountered in the shaft. which is due
to the fact that the shaft is following
the foot wall, while all the ore has been
encountered or the hanging wall of the
vein, which is Is or 20 feet wide. 1t is
the ihlc4lllOn 10 SILK aI least 70 and DOS
sibly &C feet deeper before d station is
cut and a crosscut run to the ore body.
Silver City Star: Judge Dana this week
completed the assessment work on the
Eastern group The crosscut from the
bottom of the Eastern shaft has been
driven toward the Turk vein, and indica-
lions are that the face of the crosscut is
very close to a body of ore. Two men are
still at work. and it is expected to en-
counter body OF ore every day The
Turk has shown the presence of very
high-graGe silver ore, and at a depth of
240 feet from the surface where this
crosscut will strike, it is expected to find
something good.
Democrat Baker City, Ore: The Eureka
mine. located near the White Swan and
about Il miles east of this city, is giving
into one of Bakers leading gold bullion
producers. This promising property is
owned bT Messrs. West and Huffman
and yesterday Mr.. West showed a Demo-
crat reporter d fra gment of white quartz
which was taken from the Eureka a few
days ago, the sample rock being fairly
sprinkled with grains of pure gold about
the size of coarse ground pepper. Mr.
West is correct in the opinion that the
Eureka gives splendid promise of beconl-
ing a veritable bonanza.
Phoebe Record: Mcleod and Lane. at
the Charley Ross group of mines AT Deer
Lodge. are providing for work on their
properties. A large boarding and bunk
house is being erected which will be one
OF the best houses in any mining camp
hereaboutS when it is finished. 1t is being
bnilt of hewn logs, none less than two
feet square, laid in tale taken from the
Charley Ross claim. Some of this tale
assa-rs over 500 ton in gold, but that
TACT wasn't known until after the stuff
was used for mortar, and it was TOO late
TO take 1t out The building will be fin
ished off in good shape and will be warm
IN winter and cool in summer.
Journal, Rawlins. Wyo.: The E,lkhorn
silver and lead mine of Whiskey Park at
the head of North Fork of Snake river.
has made shipments of four carloads of
ore the past few months. Mr. William
humphrey came in during the week with
another large haul of the ore. About
three more loads will fill another car, the
average carload being about Is tons This
mine is netting the owners about 800 per
ton, and at the mine some . houses have
been erected. Immediately south of the
lSlkhorn a prosPector, in doing assessment
work, struck pay ore running f42 to the
ton within four feet of the surface and
has been shipping ore steadily ever since
Word comes from Santa Fe N NJ. that
an immense copper strike is reported in
the old Hanover mine, near Silver City
There is said to be more than 5000 tons
Of ore exposed and ready for Stopping, and
his with only a small amount of develop
ment work done by extending the ancient
in the mine A rich gold strike
IS also reported today from Amizzett
Taos county. Alex Gusdorf, the Taos
merchant. brought in samples of the rock
which yields $500 per ton. He says the
new find shows "a inches of this high
grade ore and six feet of $25 ore at the
potion of a 100-foot shaft. The discovery
Of Is inches of tale in the Red River coun-
Try, which assays four ounces in gold is |
also reported by II. j. Young of Taos
county.