The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20
THE GOLDEN ERA.
Nine-ounce Gold Ore In the Ruby
LLOYD Mine.

week mining NEWS III the OlU re
table, as follows:
Last fall Foreman. Heidel and Ward
/ located the Golden Era claim, at head
of Dry fork. The locality has hereto
fore been supposed to be barren, and
/ they got the horse laugh from parties
who had formerly prospected there
/ They now have the Golden Era group
OF ten claims, and it has just leaked out
! that the original one is making a fine
/ showing in an incline shaft sunk 40
feet, the bottom being in solid iron ore
that carries % ounces silver and $3.50 in
! gold, besides a small per cent of cop
! per. A contract has just been let to
/ Hines & Burdett TO sink another 100
/ feet, and the boys are confident there
Will soon be a paying mine in Dry fork.
Prospectors are busy in the vicinity and
numbers of locations are being made.
! A company is being formed of Butte
parties. with a capital of $4,000. to
operate the teaching plant lately started
I in Bingham by the Fred Mueller COM
pany. y cleanup of the tanks max
ing this week will yield about 500
worth Of copper precipitates, and there
seems no doubt that when once on its
feet the enterprise viii be fine sue
| cess. The tanks are not yet ripe" but
owing to changes to occur it was
deemed eXpedient TO strip them. From
one of the series farthest from the
teaching tubs was taken 800 pounds of
precipitates, dry weight, which assay 50
per cent copper. The cleanup was
progressing when our reporter visited
the plant yesterday.
The Ruby-Lloyd in Jackass gulch, I'M
der lease to John Sykes and Sam
Thompson, and worked for several
months by them, is showing some
stringers of very rich ore. About ton
is on the dump, from which assays
give five to nine ounces gold and several
hundred ounces in silver. The claim
was worked some u years ago by Colo
RADIO parties, who deserted it when
swelling ground run in on them, and
the boys have had a nasty job cleaning
out the old tunnel. 1t is reported that
they have good prospects of opening
up body of high grade. The claim
adjoins the Greek group, and is in a
good locality
Manager Hall of the Tiewaukie gave
1t out some time since that any one
prospecting in the mine and finding ore
would be treated by the company the
same as leaser working under con-
tract. Acting under this guarantee
Louis Butler and AL Stephens, who
have not arrived at maturity. but are
old enough to develop Klondike fever.
the other day in the old mine discoV-
cred seam of ore about as big as a
knife blade, and procuring some tools
have followed it. with the result that
it has opened into a six-inch streak 1t
is rich truck, and only needs to hold
out for few feet to give the boys the
coveted passage money.
Secretary Burton of the st. Joe Min
ing company was out from the CITY
Wednesday looking after the affairs of
that outfit They have recently COM
pleted boarding house and are en-
ploying force of men on various de-
yelopments. new tunnel has been
driven 60 feet on the vein, and from
thence cross-cut run % feet toward
the foot wall is still in crevice matter.
which carries more or less mineral and
looks encouraging. The company is
planning considerable work ahead and
proposes to develop a paying mine.
There is good property all around, and
several promising veins in the St Joe
group.
The Winnamuck fired up last Satur-
day, since which its pumps have been
working steadily. On Wednesday the
water was below the 200, and probably
will be all out within ten days. Super
intendent Cook is reticent regarding
intentions of the owners, but we have it
on reliable authority that the mine will
soon be running full blast. Just before
shutting down an important ore BODY
the 400, and naturally work will be re-
sumed there as soon as it can be
reached.
The late strike in the Julia Dean is
making a magnificent showing, the rich
streak being in places 10 to Il inches in
thickness. By Sunday stopping will be-
gin, and there is sufficient ore in sight
TO assure q considerable output From
10 to y tons are in the bins, taken
from the upraise, that will run up into
the hundreds. y shipment of so tons
will probably be made before the close
of the month.
Significant in connection with the
opening of rich new ore body in the
Julia Dean is the new strike in the Red
Wing, adjoining on the east, and the re-
port that very rich ore is being raised
from a Wine in the Amazon, across the
gulch from and extension of the Julia
Dean. There is a big nest of golden
goose eggs in that locality, and it looks
like there will be a hot time in Mark
ham gulch this spring.
Dan Swan was in camp again
Wednesday on business conencted with
the new custom concentration, and
stated that grading for the site will be-
gin in a day or two, weather permit
ting. a 60-horse-power boiler was de-
hvered on the ground Tuesday Fred
BemiS, one of our best mill men. is to
have charge of construction and man
agement of the mill.
There is some prospect that the Star
lus outfit will, this spring, put in
plant for sinking their incline to 500
feet depth. Also that the project to
run new tunnel from the lower side
line, 60 feet below the present working
tunnel, will materialize.
The contract for sinking the big COM
partment shaft on the West Mountain
placer was let by Manager Watson
to John Johnson & Co., party of nine
Scandinavians. The work was begun
yesterday morning.
The new ore breaker and rolls at the
Giant Chief mill will be ready to run
tomorrow. It is the intention of the
management to throw out jigS alto
gether and substitute Whitley tables.
The Giant Chief will soon be pound
ing on Red Wing ore. Manager Nc
Carrick reports that two new strikes
have lately opened up fine showings of
shipping ore in the Red Wing.
At the Giant Chief Tuesday the ore
chute was broken into at the 200-foot
level. A large output from this mine
the coming season is assured.
Sampson & Co. are getting out a car
load of ore from a recent strike in their
Neptune lease, which is way up in cop
per. judging from specimens exhibited.
Manager Holden has decided to be-
gin work by the first of April on the
site of the big cyaniding plant for the
Old Jordan.
Little has been said of late regarding
the big tunnel for Markham hill, but
we are assured that the scheme is
quietly working.
Standish & Jimpson are delivering at
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