The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07


driven in all directions in search of ore
chutes known, with a reasonable degree
of certainty, to exist in the territory
owned by the company OnSevels D. D
and Z, men are employed in exploiting.
the search being directed north, west
and east on the 800, north on the b0U,
and northwest and southeast on the
700. Certainly it is no exaggeration 10
say that no other company in the Tin
tic country, if in the state, has so I'M
remittingly and indefatigably pursued
operations in the face of all obstacles
without being rewarded with some dis
closures of rich mineral. In reviewing
the past working, and summing up the
present condition OF affairs, SuDerin-
tendent Oglesby said that just now
the physical condition of the Emerald
seemed to him in a better way than at
any time since he has been in charge
The country they are working in is de-
cidedly less broken and jumbled up,
and the quartz is more of a bright and
live character, frequently showing good
gold values. The territory owned by
the Emerald company extends almost
TO the Grand Central and Mammoth,
and it would appear almost impossible
for such earnest and honest labors to
go much longer unrewarded.
Messrs- HARDWOOD & Co. have erected
a jig just below the Mammoth mill res
ervoir of tailings, and have arranged to
commence work Monday on an expert
mental run of some Lower Mammoth
ores. They claim TO have concluded a
contract with the mine which will en-
able them to work all summer.
Yesterday the Tesora folks We're bus
lily engaged in hauling the new machin-
cry from the Short Lines track in
Rocky Hollow to the mine, a short dis
lance, but up very steep hill. Frank
Schuyler, who has charge of the sur
face workings, and has superintendent
the erection of the splendidly- arranged
ShafthouSe, has experienced consider
able trouble in securing teams and the
right kind of help. The plant chiefly
consists of the 20 horsepower boilers,
and one 10x12 fiat friction and gear en-
CINE, rated at 80 horsepower, and a
Cameron pump. The shipping rates es-
innate the weight of the boilers and
engines at $4,000 pounds each. Thurs
days shift tapped a big flow of water,
and all underground operations ceased.
None of the parties interested in the
reported Joe Daley strike were visible
yesterday, but the presence of coats
and dinnerpails indicated that men
were in the tunnel. Development work
was first done on an open cut for dis
lance of twenty feet or more. and then
continued, tunneling on the vein i'll a
north by west direction. The dump
denotes the various stages of progress
sion from wash and boulderS, and lean
country rock and bastard granite to
mineralized vein matter, copper quartz
and small piles of apparently high
grade sulphide ore. The Joe Daily is in
a section of country where extremely
rich mineral has always been found
Their ledge runs at right angles to that
of the Sunbeam, perhaps being the
same as the Silver Queen.
The steam hoist for the Elmer Ray
of the Ell Rey group of mines is away
overdue. The contract was awarded
the Mining & Shelters Supply COM
pany. consisting of anequipment ample
to sink to a depth of 1000 feet. The
shaft timbers and lumber for surface
ing is going on rapidly in the new shaft,
now 120 feet deep. The Ell Rey group
is one of the many Hatfield-Loose-
Ritter holdings in this district
Since the placing of the whim, build
ing quarters for workmen and the let
ting of contract for an additional 100
feet of work on the South Sunbeam
mine, much interest has been made
manifest in this property. The site of
the shaft is but a few feet off of the
main road leading from Silver City to
present. The dump shows much change
in the character of the stuff hoisted, al
most daily marking a perceptible diff
ference. 1t is the great Sunbeam ledge
all right.
Lying on a platform of very unpre-
tentiouS shafthouSe away up Dragon
Hollow, with no name indicating the
owner of the premises, and no one any
where in sight, the writer saw some of
the richest appearing copper ore that
has yet come under his observation in
this locality. Judging from the newly
made dump and the amount of rope
used on the windlass. the present depth
of the shaft cannot be more than fifty
feet, but whoever the owners are they
have shipping ore undeniably. Away
up overhead, seemingly hanging from
a dizzy height, is the workings of the
Governor mine, and possibly this shaft
may he on their lower ground.
Messrs. O'Brien & Co. are making
good Roadway on their contract on the
Red Rose property, consisting of MAX
ing a new shaft to the surface by up
raising from the breast of the tunnel.
1t would seem an illadvised spot TO
select, being in the most rocky and
rugged ground, requiring the further
expenditure of much money in order to
level properly for surface buildings.
Ground is being cut away and lev
eled just below the shafthouse of the
Four Aces on the south for the purpose
of installing the hand jigs, which, as
soon as ready, will be used on the big
dump of Second-claSS ore-which ap
parently will make pay concentrates.
A contract was let yesterday for 100
feet of additional work in sinking on the
Silver Cloud property, the present depth
of the shaft being 10 feet. The Silver
Cloud lies west of the Pacific and near
the Jersey.
Some idea may be formed of how
true and plumb the new Shaftway of
the Grand Central mine is when it is
understood that from the 700-foot level
to the collar of the shaft the variation
is but one-eighth of an inch. The man.
agement didn't propose to be sinking
new diggings again very soon on ac-
count of 2. crooked hole.
Some little time was lost this week.
occasioning a temporary shutdown of
underground working force on the
Swansea, by the break in a portion of
the friction. Here is an instance of a
great big mine with, as it now seems,
almost inexhaustible ore bodies, trying
to hoist through a faulty shaft with
toy lifting power. 1t was excusable
when the Swansea folks, with commen-
dable pluck and energy, showed the
nerve to develop the Silver City side of
the country, but conditions with them
and the surroundings have changed
materially.
Manager Orem of the Plymouth Rock
group reports work progressing finely,
at least as finely as exploiting work
can, in the way of continued drifting on
the 300. He says some changes for the
better occur from time to time, and
that the company proposes to go ahead
just as if they knew a big ore chute