The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
Long Line of Shaft Houses and
Mills.
GREAT ACTIVITY SHOWN
WORK FROM SNOWSTORM TO
MISHAWAKA.
History of Vein That Runs For
Six Miles Through the Foothills
Bay State Mining Company Has
Money to Spend On Development
of It's Claims.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.)
Mercur, May 6.-The West Dip is TAX
ing on the appearance of a big mining
district. with its string of shafthouses
and mills, extending from the Snow
storm in the mouth of Lewiston can
yon north for six miles to the Mishaw-
aka group. beyond Ophir creek. Great
activity is shown all along the line,
the entire distance of which the gold
vein has been exposed in the different
properties, and gives up good values.
AT the Daisy and La Cigale so many
houses are springing up that the places
have become real mining camps, the
tOwnsites having been laid out for
some time. A townsite has also been
laid out on the Snowstorm ground.
Ore was discovered on the vein
in 1898 by Colonel e. A. Wall, who
prospected at the Cedar Hill and OBJ
tanned values in gold as high as s24 per
ton. The general depression kept the
development of the district back until
1897, when the first shafthouse was
built, since which time all the i'm
provements have been made. From
the Cedar Hill the country was pros
pected and the vein traced south
through the Gray Rooster (KismeD,
Edna May La Cigale. Omaha, Daisy.
Helvetia South Daisy and Snow
storm. North from the Cedar Hill it
passes through the Senator Stewart,
Xxx, Ben Johnson. Sumpter and Mis-
hawaka. 1t has been opened up at va
rious points in these properties for
the entire distance of six miles.
Lies On Foothills
The vein lies on the foothills between
the desert and mountains, the general
Il ipna l,n till
south, and the dip to west. Geological
ly speaking. it is a true fissure vein,
and has slicken-sided walls. The vein
proper is found in the middle of a car
boniferous lime formation. In places
where the fissure has been close to the
desert edge, the hanging wall is found
to be pleistocene gravel, proving be-
yond doubt that the age of the vein is
of post-tertiary date.
From the Snowstorm to the Misha-
waka the footwall is blue limestone,
replaced by silica. From the ore body
back for several feet is hard vitreous
black quartz. Wherever ore bodies APP
pear strongest, corroSion and altera-
ton in the footwall are more appar-
ent. The hanging wall varies. Going
south it is gravel, while to the north
it is black shale and black limestone.
At the north end of the Mishawaka
a silver vein, whose strike is north-
west, and a great mountain fault APP
pears to dislocate all the veins. carry
ing them northwestward into the des-
ert, where they are buried out of sight
by the desert beds. To the north of
this fault no veins of ores of any kind
have been found until Stockton mining
district, a distance of five miles, is
reached. 1t is believed, however, that
these veins extend north. but so far
out in the desert that it would be i'm
possible to find them.
Returning to the mouth of Lewiston
canyon, where the Snowstorm is To-
Gated, the vein extends south from
this property for great distance, but
the strike of the fissure carries the
ledge so far out into Rush valley that
it is an expensive and laborious under
taking to go down through the deep
gravel that covers the formation in
that direction and find the ledge. The
Florence Mining company, which oper-
ates mile south of the Snowstorm,
has q shaft down ATS feet. and is direct
ly in line with the strike of the vein.
but is not yet through the gravel to
solid formation. 1t is claimed that
the company has gotten good assays
of gold, running as high as 81, obtained
from thin, rusty streaks found in the
gravel beds.
Bought By Bay State Company.
The Mishawaka group of ten claims
on the north, where the gold and sill
Yer veins meet, has recently been pur-
chased by the Bay State Mining COM
pany, and the new owners intend to
begin vigorous development within a
few days. All the members of the COM
pany are sanguine and satisfied with
their purchase, and have money to
continue until the mine is developed
and mill put in operation.
The gold ledge has been exposed in
the Minnie w and Riley claims, two of
the Mishawaka group. In the former
it was opened up 800 feet from the
south end, showing the width of the
vein to be about six feet, with the
usual surface values, from 81 to 81 in
gold. On the Riley claim, adjoining on
the north, three openings have been
made, two feet of ore being the small
est streak found in any of them, and
eight feet of ore being exposed in the
south tunnel. The values range from
50 to 81 in gold.
The silver vein. which is a continual
ton of the old Baltic ledge, is trace
able throughout the entire length of
the Unexpected claim, another mem
Der of the Mishawaka group. High
grade silver, copper and some gold ore
has been shipped from this property
since the early '70s. The Baltic mine
was a shipper as far back as 1872, and
the Independence is now taking out
ore ranging from so to 5000 ounces
of silver. The Sumpter. adjoining the
Mishawaka on the south. is at present
taking out a good grade of shipping
ore. The silver ledge lies east of the
gold ledge, and values have been found
as far south as Ophir creek
In the way of development work, the
Bay State company will run a tunnel
and sink shaft on the Riley tunnel.
\ hoist Will be erected over the shaft
as soon as sufficient depth is attained
to justify it. Water can be brought to
the property by gravity, and at small
cost by means of the Mat Osborn pipe
line running to the Mona mine. 1t
is about one mile east and 1000 feet
above.
Mr. \. lessen is III the camp. giving
attention TO the Gold Dust, of which
he is manager, and reports the property
looking well and development work sat-
isfactory. He says there is enough
fair-grade ore TO operate a mill, but
the company is waiting, and ii may
be expected that a big one Will be put
up when it is finally decided to build.
Mr.. lessen is also manager of the
Lucern Land & Water company. whose
canal is situated in Lucern
valley, on the west side of Green river,
south of Henry's Fork. Uintah county
and receives its supply from Sheep
creek. The old canal draws from the
north fork, and irrigates 10000 acres of
land. 1t has just been increased by a
feeder from the south fork, which wat
ers 5000 acres. Altogether 5000 acres
of the land has been taken up. A new
town, called Manila. has been founded