The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-03
VISIT TO OLD DISTRICT
Story of Abbey From Which $780,
900 Was Quarried.
BEING WORKED AGAIN
GENERATING ORE EXPOSED.
New Erie Group In Columbia Dis
trict Disclosed-Expect That It
VIII Quickly Become shipper
Work On West Mountain Placers
DE Lamar's Bingham Purchase.
fsnecial CorrespondenceJ

Especial Correspondence
Robinson, July 2.-Urgent demands
from various sources-demands that
could not be constantly ignored-in-
duced the writer to visit the Columbia
mining district with view of obtain
ing some knowledge concerning that
particular locality. The Columbia dis
trict joins the Blue Bell on the north.
and the Blue Bell joins the West Tin
! tic on the north. The last-named. or
such portions of it wherein the Scotia,
! Orient, Prairie Bell groups are situated.
are distant from here perhaps eighteen
or twenty miles. The Blue Bell district
| in Con Hollow. where the International
and Silver Summit are situated, is pos
sibly twenty-four miles from this place,
and Columbia district, in Dutch canyon,
where the New Erie people and the Big
/ Four company are working their prop
! critics, is close to thirty miles from
Robinson, though all three sections
( ship and load cars at DoremuS. point
practically eQui-distant from the min
! ing districts named.
In the summer of 1865 a prospector
! Union Fort. located a claim called the
Abbey and two extensions. This prop
erty subsequently passed into the hands
| of Walker Bros, who are believed to
have extracted more than 100000
wholly from shallow open cuts. trench
eS and inclines on the mammoth ledge.
This Abbey ground was ultimately ac-
quired by j. F. Jorgensen, who held 1t
for nearly thirty years, rejecting all
nd
However, one of Salt Lakes prince of
schemers came along, and by fine
piece of manipulation succeeded in get
ting the old Dane to dispose of his dear
~ priced possessions. The Abbey and
extensions finally passed into the hands
of some gentlemen. who purchased the
adjoining three claims, Incorporating
under the name of the New Erie Mining
company, Messrs. J. Il. Hodson. ]. II.
Stating. p H Tallous. G. S. Hayes,
w. d. Began, J. e. Hosmer and Alma
Eldridge being the principals.
Wonderful Showing.
Their holdings now include the
Queen of the Hills, Poplar. Bee. Queen
of the Hills No. ,, Spider and Erie.
The Queen of the Hills was formerly
the Abbey. and though many small
cuts and shallow shaft show where
quantities of excellent shipping mineral
has been extracted, there is but one
hole "a sixty-foot incline) on the claim
deep enough to injure a person who
might fall into it. This incline, sunk
all the way through splendid grade of
smelling ore of silver-lead character
almost wholly devoid of silicious quail
ties or elements. has today remarka-
BILE showing of mineral. The writer cut
from a body of ore measuring quite
close to five feet in width some sand
carbonates or Solf galena ore. stuff that
subsequently showed assay values of IS
per cent lead and twenty-five ounces
of silver, and from seam of solid ga
lena, one showing a lead face of thir-
teen inches, mineral that yielded val
ues of 81 per cent lead and forty-two
ounces of silver. Perhaps the most re-
markable surface showing in lead is
made in the Bee, or black tunnel-so
called because the ore lies wholly sur
rounded by black manganese. The Bee
workings consist of an adit of about
forty feet in length, at which point an
incline, now party caved, has been
sunk about the same distance. From
the vein groupings, just below the grass
roots, about six feet from the surface
and in the mouth of the incline, your
correspondent picked out pieces of lead
ore seemingly pure. from the size of a
walnut to chunks so heavy one could
not carry them.
The actual results obtained from this
ore, when the samples were collectively
assayed. gave a lead percentage of 50
and a silver value of twelve ounces.
The Queen of the Hills No. ., from
which Walker Bros admit having
shipped 20 per cent lead and forty
ounces of silver ore amounting to S25,-
900. was worked through an old incline,
now partly demolished. One can stand
at the open cut and see the big vein.
exposing an ore body of more than
three feet in width. The Poplar claim,
thought very little development work
has been done in the way of gaining
depth, shows probably the greatest pos
sibilitieS and the making of the most
valuable of all the properties in the
group. The vein has been quarried in
the open, showing its full strength
and ore-carrying capacity, exposing
from the very surface to a point twenty
feet below, where an incline is sunk on
the ledge, a mineral face of fully three
feet and solid ore seam of from six
to ten inches, varying in places. From
this seam the writer obtained results
of 40 per cent lead. thirty-one ounces
silver and per cent copper, a selected
sample yielding per cent copper.
Dazzled Park City Men.
passes anything the writer has ever
witnessed in any mining section or dis
trict in twenty-five years experience.
p. II, Tallou, for twenty years a resi-
dent Of Park City, now manages of the
Joe Bowers, formerly of the Ontario
and Silver King, and personal friend
of MeSSrs. Keith and KeInS, succeeded,
because of his valued knowledge and
their faith in his ability, in inducing the
gentlement mentioned to examine the
New Erie company'S properties, and
that, too, at time of the year when
they were obliged TO go all the way in
a bobsled.
Both Mr.. Keith and Mr.. Kearns were
amazed with the stupendouS surface
showings and the almost incalculable
bodies of concentrating ore exposed.
They were impressed with the sur
and prevailing conditions so
similar to the vicinity of the Ontario
and Silver King, where the massive
quartZite lodges stand vertically and
unbroken. The gentlemen are said to
have been outspoken in the surprise
and admiration for the property, and
made an offer for the control, which |
was declined. They admitted that when
a government patent had been issued
il would double in value. Since this
time a United States survey has been
made, and as the time limit expires |
in less than a month. and every other
claim on the mountain is
owned by the same company in the Big |
Four group. comprising fifteen claims, |
no doubt regarding the issuance of the |
patent is possible.
One of the mining magnates said. af- |
ter critically examining the premises: |
oh inf for,