The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-25

With water in plenty for their oper-
atoms this year, the placer miners have
had unusual opportunities to exploit
their properties, says the Helena indie
pendent. The result bids fair to be
seen at the end of the season in a
distinctly larger output of gold from
that source, and it PROMISES to create
a new interest in placers that will not
abate with the year.
In the neighborhood of Woods lake,
where a committee of the city council
and the mayor recently made visit IN
search of a water supply, the placer
ground is being developed to an extent
that promises to determine definitely
whether lie country IS valuable or not.
Two distinct pieces OF ground are oelng
worked on Big Tier, that of the Big
Tier Placer Mining company, and a
claim above it owned by V. E. VIII
hahn, A. c. Wilhaim, T. j. Brady ana
Mr.. McDearmon. The latter claim is
now being developed by the owners,
who are ground sIuicing and have rea-
son TO believe that they have good
thing The claim is in good shape Tor
work, and preliminary tests have given
results that give promise for the tu-
ture especially if arrangements can
be made to conduct operations on
somewhat larger scale.
The claim carries also what is be
lieved to be a vein of decomposed
quartz and porphyry, worth, as assays
have indicated, not far from $3.50 a ton
The operators were sinking Shatt TO
bedrock not long ago to determine
what the depth of the gravel was at
considerable distance from the Ded OF
the creek, and encountered pay
streak of vein matter six feet from the
subsequently,
pied and assayed. showing values that
would con stitute uncommonly good
placer ground. The vein is of broken
material but has been drifted upon
and will be followed on its course with
a view to determining its real extent
and value.
The Big Tizer company, which is To-
Gated below the first-named property,
has expended in the neighborhood OF
Sc 500 in development work and pros
Meeting. A false bedrock was recently
uncovered and now a shaft has been
sunk TO find the real bedrock and de-
termine the quality of the gravel there.
A cleanup has not yet been made. The
men interested in the company include
II. ]. Chestnut, of Clancy; a. e. Long,
Montana Central agent at Clancy;
Kleinschmidt Brothers of Helena;
Fred Straus of Bismarck, n. D.; V. E.
WiIhalm, a former Montana Central
railway conductor, and Frank Ches
nut of Havre. Four men are now being
employed.
The country roundabout is apparent
" well mineralized, although it has not
been fully developed. Among the pros
poets that are now attracting the at
tention of visitors who occasionally find
their way in is one owned by Batter
shall. near the second lake of the
series. A shaft % feet deep has dis
closed a body of copper ore of consider
able extent. assays of which have cred
tied il with II per cent of the metal.
The. prospect was recently visited by
Butte experts, and there is good
chance that money for its exploitation
will be advanced.
Felix Ballard, at the head of Little
Tier. recently uncovered four feet of
good quartz, specimens of which as
saved $40 He is running 115-foot
tunnel to tap the lead and has 100 feet
done now. Two shafts have been sunk
on the claim. Grub, Hinton & Frey
os Lump Gulch have also found free
milling quartz that is said to run from
500 to $40 ton. The property is only
a prospect, however. with barely 10 feet
of development work done, and the ex-
tent of the ore is not known.