The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-22
MERRILL's THEORIES CORRECT.
Deep Mining a Success at the Liv-
erpool Nine.


Mention was made in these columns
q short time ago relative to the mining
operations Of Hon. Thomas G. Merrill
of this city. up in Idaho, the Liverpool
mine, near Clancy, forming the basis
of his operations.
Deep mining has been the theory that
Mr.. Merrill has been pursuing, and that
his efforts in this direction have been
eminently successful is verified by the
Clancy Miner, which says:
Ever since operations began again at
the Liverpool. nearly three months ago,
public interest in it's development has
been keen, says the Clancy Miner. One
reason for this has been that the sue
cessful development of that property
meant the deep development of every
mine in this entire mineral district, so
to speak In other words. if the Liver
pool succeeds in establishing the fact,
as it now seems certain of doing, that
large and rich ore bodies exist below
the present workings. the meteorological
problem will have been solved for US
for all time All of the former big pro-
ducers of Lump have reached, with
their main working shafts, what has
now become recognized as a barren
zone, which it has been found neces-
sary TO pierce before the mines could
be brought into bonanza again. This
theory has always been held by Mr..
Thomas G. Merrill, who has long con-
tended that by sinking through it, at
greater or less depth, ore would again
be found in perhaps greater quantities
and equally as good, if not better, than
any extracted from the mines nearer
the surface. Acting upon this theory,
Mr. Merrill having associated with
himself Mr.. T. N. McCauley of Chicago,
set about opening the Liverpool to
greater depth, and their efforts have
been rewarded by the discovery of IS
inches of high grade ore at a depth of
$50 feet, disclosing the fact that the So
called barren strata is only $50 feet
thick Samples from across the vein,
carefully taken, gave returns of about
500 per ton.
1t is reasonable, therefore, to suppose
that the condition of affairs as dis
closed at the Liverpool will follow when
the Little Nell, Free Coinage. Baby
Helen or any of the ether mines Of
Lump are developed to the same depth;
and ii is on this account that the report
of the operations at the Liverpool have
been watched with an interest akin
to the eagerneSs with which a bulletin
board is sought for news from cur army
and navy before Santiago. The an
nouncement that the Liverpool has
opened up a body Of high grade ore in
its deepest workings, and that each
shot shows an inclination on the part
OF the ore chute TO grow in quantity
and quality, is not alone good news to
the owners of the Liverpool, but is
news that affects a wide scope of coun-
try in general, and the prosperity OF
this district in particular. It also
means that precious metal mining can
be conducted here by men with good,
common horse sense and staying quail
ties under the many trials of mining
which are sure to crop up, for decades
to come. The operations now going
forward on the Liverpool will establish
mining on a permanent basis here, like
the mines of Butte, with practically
inexhaustible reserves of ore to draw
from. The Liverpool mine is a great
true fissure vein, and the history of the
deepest workings III America, or in
fact. in all the world. has so far failed
to record a single instance where the
bottom of a true fissure vein has been
located, or that il ceased to produce
ore In the light and knowledge of
these facts, we may reasonably pre-
sumo, therefore. that this property is
bct starting upon a long and profitable
career.