The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-14
AT MERCUR.
Fine Samples From the Gold & Silver


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Carbonate Company.
Especial Correspondence
Mercur, Jan. 13.-J. A. Ferbrache has
just returned from Dugway, where he
has been at work on the property OF
the Gold & Silver Carbonate company,
and has brought some fine samples OF
ore with him. In one of the properties
there is asvein of carbonates about a
foot thick and carrying fair values, and
| with good transportation facilities
would be paying proposition. On the
| Silver Standard, another property be-
| longing to the same company, there is
q vein five feet wide, which can be
| traced on the surface a distance of :, 900
feet. and from which ore carrying from
81 to S25 in gold as high as $50 ounces
in silver, from 10 per cent and up
wards in lead and some little copper.
has been taken, and the whole vein can
be marketed for from s45 to $50 per
ton. 1t is probable that some of this
ore will be shipped as soon as the
spring opens and the roads are good
He reports that there are several
properties in that locality on which
work is being done, and a good show
ing is being made. The Golconda has
lot Of good ore on the dump and the
vein is looking we'll. The Copper Queen,
Belcher, Pride of the West and Others
are all valuable properties, and many
more would become producers were it
not for the long expensive haul to reach
the smelters.
When, along in the summer a vein
was reached in a shaft in the Resolute
incline, and the same vein was tapped
by q shaft from the Ruby, it was con-
sidered almost a settled fact that the
vein would be found to be continuous
throughout the Mercur property, as
large and valuable as what is now call
ed the Middle vein, and it was but a
short time until the existence of other
veins was discovered. To tap these
veins an incline was commenced near
the assay office, and an extra boiler
and more powerful hoist put in place.
The incline was started at an angle of
40 degrees, cutting through the forma-
ton, and in a short time had passed
the upper veins. A few days
ago, at depth of 200 feet, the third !
vein was reached, and the pitch of the |
incline was changed to an angle Of II |
degrees for the purpose of exploring |
this new vein. So far the vein is found |
TO be mixed with considerable lime. but !
values are good enough, notwithStand- !
ing this fact, to make it a milling pro- |
position, with every Indication that as
work progresses there is less lime. and |
that the vein is the same as that found
III SliC oiidIlS, TIE uGdI6SI OI winch Is
about 500 feet distant. The values, APP
pearance of the ore, etc, are similar.
The vein is large one and could alone
furnish ore to keep the mill running a
Ong time.
While men will be put at work ex-
oloring and blocking out ore, the in
Zine VIII be continued downward to
he other veins, supposed to lie below,
md will be sunk to a depth sufficient
o settle the question as to how far the
IRE zone extends.
AT the La Cigale it has been found
Necessary to make some changes in the
bottoms of the tanks, and also altera-
ions in other parts of the mill. A
ouple of days will be all that is re-
Iuired to make the desired improve
nents. when the mill will be again
tarted up. The result of the work so
ar has been highly satisfactory and ;
he teaching tests all that was hoped
or. The rooster works like charm,
nd will be running full blast from
ow on. ii