The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-16
MINES OF AQUA.
Everything Indicates Coming Great
Prosperity of District.


Aqua, Utah. Oct. S-This part of
Gods footstool'' continues to prosper
and come out day by day. AS develop
ment progresses. the different proper
ties are looking better The assess
ment work on the Jumbo property is
being done and some fine ore is being
taken out. So encouraged are the
owners, Messrs. Francis and Hollinger,
over the condition of the property that
they have decided to continue work all
winter. The Jumbo property is well
named. 1t consists of two claims. 1900
feet in length. Running through the
property the entire distance is d man.
moth ledge, the largest in this part of
the country. In some places it is fifty
feet in width. The present. owners
located it in '96 and have done but
little more than assessment work upon
1t, Notwithstanding that they have al
ways had good average ASSAYS from
the ledge. AT the widest part of the
ledge they haze never had less than an
average of 81 in gold. The ledge seems
to be the mother lode of the country
east of the Comstock. property. 1t ex-
tends south through the Monitor COM
pany's ground and into Pixies Dig
gings, and on the north it is found in
the Fremont group, owned by c.. A.
Short and associates. Before doing the
assessment work this fall the owners
proSpected 1T pretty well. and diScoV-
cred a good pay streak upon which
they have sunk. It is the full width eff
the shaft, and how much wider they
do not know. An ASSAY has not been
made vet, but judging from the horn
ings, the ore will go $50 to $50 to the
ton, and some much higher than that.
MeSsDS. Hollinger and Francis have a
big thing in the Jumbo.
The acquisition of the Wild Irish and
Amethyst properties by A. w. McCune
and associates Will give an impetus to
mining in this part of the district.
These properties have some rich veins
and will no doubt develop into first
class producers. The Amethyst shaft
at depth of thirty-five feet has a
twelve-foot vein of pay ore. This prop
erty embraces Pixies spring, which will
afford sufficient water for milling pur-
poses.
Another good property here is owned
by Donohue and Lynch. 1t adjoirs the
property Of the Independence company
on the west. 1t has one small vein,
about eighteen inches in width, that
carries very high values some assays
running up in the thousands. Another
large ledge runs through the property
that carries good milling values. Moth
LIZ Is D6illS OBliS tll lue plUpeily 1'|
present. This is a property that no
doubt will develop into a big producer
The Independence company is push
ing work right along. The contractors,
Larson & Kesler. have reached the 150-
foot level and are going on down to the
200-fOot level. The vein continr - to
hold its own in size as depth increases.
The water question. which has been
such a bugbear to many people who
have looked this camp over, seems to
be finding solution in the operations
of the Independence company. The wa
ter comes into the shaft SO fast now as
to seriously impede the efforts of the
men ar work. There is no doubt but
that pumping will have to be resorted
to soon, to keep the water out.
Murray Kesler. one of the contract
ors on the Independence, left today for
Salt Lake for surgical treatment, hav-
ing injured his eye by getting a piece
of steel in it.
Work at the Horseshoe has been sus-
pended, the force there having been
put at road-building. A new road is
being made over the mountain from
the Horseshoe mine to the Homestalle
and Deer Lodge, in order to get over
the new engine and supplies to the
Homestake.