The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30

of which have been opened up suffi-
GENTLY to prove the fact that the min
eraI is a paying product when treated
at the mine by the cyanide process. one
Of these pay streaks is traceable
through the middle of the quartZite belt
while on either side of the ledge, where
the contacts with the porphyry occurs,
the veins of gold bearing ore are strong
and we'll defined.
On the middle vein, which is really
a true assure in quartzite, an incline
shaft has been sunk for a depth of 400
| feet following the hanging wall of the
deposit, while drifts have been run both
north and south on the vein at the 100,
200, 800 and 345-foot levels; while below
the 1U0-foot level the hanging wall is
! as smooth as a floor and is true to its
pitch The real foot wall has not as
/ yet been uncovered, but the average
| width of the vein, so far as determined,
! is from to 10 feet, the mineral being
I a gray, brown and liver-colored porous
iron and oxidized quartz, free from all
/ rebellious substances, exhaustive tests
! of which have disclosed values ranging
! from 81 to $50 to the ton in the yellow
metal, the general average of 81 sam
pies taken from all parts of the mine
being $16.77. This, for low grade mill
/ ing ore, and especially when it is es
! timated that the mineral can be mined
and milled at a cost not to exceed 81
to the ton, is really a high grade pro-
position, and The Herald man was more
than impressed with the value and
wealth of the property when he was in
formed that through the ore body there
existed a streak of brown and decom-
posed quartz averaging two and a half
feet in width, which carries metallic
contents of from SIS to S24 in gold, this
being no chimerical statement, as the
ore was there in sight as tangible evil
dence of the assertion, and the state
ment was also made by The Herald's
informant that below the 100 level in
the workings or the middle vein, at
least 600 tons of ore had already been
blocked out ready for extraction and
milling, the statement being certainly
a most conservative one and would be
so considered by any mining man after
making a careful examination of the
property. Besides which there are 1000
tons of ore on the dump which has been
exported and found to carry gold val
ues of from Sc to 81 in gold to the ton.
Although the company is continuing
work in the incline shaft above de-
scribed, the idea being to continue the
blocking out of splendid ore bodies,
still the main workings viii be located
on the northeast side of the mountain,
where a working tunnel has been
started, which has been driven into the
hill a distance of $50 feet, it being the
intention of the company to cut the
ledge on it's dip within 700 feet more
at a depth of $50 feet from the surface
and $50 feet below the present bottom
of the incline shaft. with which con-
nections will be made, the ore from
the mine to be brought out on the
tunnel level to the mill which will
doubtless be built in due time near its
mouth, the property having been care
fully surveyed as to the strike, dip and
general tendencies of the formation, it
being estimated that when the tunnel
connection is made the company viii
have an immense amount and extent
of stopping ground from which to take
out ore in sufficient quantities to keep
a mill in operation for many years to
come.
At the Dalton e Lark regular ship
ments of good ore are being made, while ]
the mill is turning out about 10 tons of /
daily. The keystone and |
Fortune, under the able superintend- |
ency of Elmer Hill, is maintaining its /
former record as a heavy shipper of !
good ore, while il was rumored that an |
important strike of copper had just |
been made in the Congor, adjoining |
the keystone ground.