The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-03
THE WEEK ar BINGHAM.
The Spanish Mine Sending Out Two
Cars of Ore Daily.

Cars of Ore Daily.
In its weekly mining review ths
Bingham Bulletin says:
Work is steadily progressing at the
West Mountain placer, and Manager
Watson expresses satisfaction witt
everything that has been done to date
Wednesday afternoon, when our re-
porter visited the works, the pump
shaft had reached II feet depth, and
was in very hard rock. 1t is to be
sunk to $50 feet, or about 10 feet be-
low what is believed to be lowest bed
rock. This will afford an ample stump
into which all the sub-flow is TO be
diverted by means of cross-cut and
raising.
! The machinery of the power house
in which is the pump shaft, at present
! includes two substantial S0-horse boil
ers and ample hosting and pumping
! apparatus. In about two weeks the
foundation will be laid for a 125-horse
/ power engine. Two Cornish pumps,
capacity of each $50 gallons per min
ute, will be put in the shaft and no
doubt will be ample to take out all the
| fiowage.
! As soon as arrangements for drain
ing the ground are completed Manager
Watson proposes to sink several work
ing shafts, from which to raise gravel
=.
ordinary way. Washing being thus con-
Quoted at a number of points will en-
ploy a large force, and in July, by
which time the developments can be
completed, probably from $50 to 200
men will be at work. Some idea of
the extensive operations which the
company is entering upon may be
gained from the fact that the ground
to be drained covers the width of the
1a 70
upwards of a mile and a half; that it
includes an old bed and the present
creek bed, and. that the gravel layer at
bedrock is from four TO eight feet deep.
The gravel, as we have frequently stat
ed, has been proved by numerous tests
and the fortunes that have been taken
from along the vein TO be exceedingly
rich.
The Carr Fork road, which, above
Cottonwood gulch, has for some time
been a hard proposition for an empty
wagon, is now improving, and in a few
days, with fair weather, will be quite
passable. Pending this improvement
and closing of a new smelter contract,
shipments of crude ore from the High
land Boy are entirely suspended. Con-
sidering the hard work performed by
our ore teams with the best of roads,
the suspension of the Highland Boy at
this particular time is a humane meas
ure, highly creditable to the manage
ment.
The big ore body lately encountered
in the Spanish mine is now giving up
two carloads or about 40 tons daily of
ore averaging so to 40 per cent lead.
This comes from the east drift. A
westerly drift was started recently on
the same body, and we are informed
that from this drift several feet of
sinking was done, exposing an ore body
seven to eight feet wide. carrying 45
per cent lead.
Manager Clays of the Julia Dean is
feeling particularly good over the pres
ent behavior of that property. The
rich ore body lately encountered is
holding its own, and continuance for
some time is assured. There is now a
Acton lot on the dump Of higher value
than any the mine has yet produced.
A shipment Will be made soon after the
10th.
Ed Talbot and Tom Stephens have
taken a lease on the Julia 5. at the head
of Carr fork. and adjoining the Frisco
mine They are beginning a tunnel at
the lower end line which will tap the
vein 300 feet below present workings.
This is the claim from which 1000
ounce ore was taken from an upper
tunnel. several years ago.
We learn that a fine body of good
grade ore was uncovered in the Hooper
mine as the result of developments the
past winter. and the product of the /
Last Chance mill will soon increase in |
value. 1t is at present running on I
large accumulation of low grade which /
is being run through TO get it out of 1
the way.
Tunnel No. of the Highland Boy |
group has been driven $40 feet and I
will probably reach the main vein in 40 |
,-Ix
slow, as it has cut through the por-
phyry and is now running in very hard |
lime. Burleys were started on Mon
day, however, and five or six feet a
day will be made.
The lower tunnel of the Greek group
under lease to Davis & Co, has pene-
trated 10 feet into the main vein,
width. Seams of rich ore, some sew
eral inches wide. are exposed. and the
easers expect to soon encounter a
arge body of the same truck
The week has been quiet in Bingham
the mine attracting most attention
being the one that destroyed the i'll
iated Maine. The camp is a unit for
the eXterminators, and
f called upon our boys will cheerfully
furnish their own lead
After replacing broken machinery the
Last Chance mill started up yesterday |
md is now working in all its parts.
Having been thoroughly tested and
imbered up. it is now believed TO be
upon a long and successful
'un.
4 broken cog wheel caused a stop
)age at the Last Chance mill last
Friday. A new wheel was ordered by
elegram from the works at Hough-
on, Mich, and it arrived on Wednes-
lay.
Day & Co. have begun sinking on a
mall chimney of rich ore in the Cuba,
he promising copper prospect above
he Argonaut placer.
The Old Jordan mill started yester-
lay after a 3-days' shutdown caused
~ a broken roller shaft.
The Winnamuck is raising ore of
excellent grade. and has a
lumber of tons on the dump.
Ore shipments during the past ten
ays have been light, owing to bad
Dads.
The Amazon will be on the market
Nth another shipment about the 10th I
THE GOLD BLOSSOM.