The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-05

yet to go before the objective point is
reached. While some well informed and
practical minds in the Diamond dis
triet believe that greater results would
! nave come from work shaft being
sank. all unite in the belief that fine
ore bodies will be disclosed in the Old
Susan
Foreman Moon of the Midnight Bow
ers Informed the writer yesterday that
they had gone down as deep as they
could without machinery, and that they
also had too much water to handle
with a bucket-if sinking was TO be
! continued. but that according to orders
! Just received, they were cleaning UP
! and preparing TO cut a station at the
264, from which point they would cross
/ cut east for the vein. When this vein
was tapped before at the $50 mark it
! disclosed a remarkably strong and wide
ledge bearing all the characteristics of
! the Joe Bowers vein, highly mineral
+ lied, but not revealing any seams or
! strealIs of mineral. Small bits of crys
/ tallized lead and very small kidneys
of galena occasionally were found. the
whole apparently indicating lack Of
I depth. The vein, which crops at fire.
quent intervals near the shaft, and es-
pecially in the ravine below, is a de-
cided assure, strong and pronounced
as TO whether it is a metallic one re-
mains to be seen. The writer has heard
few very few. tool men who have
/ carefully studied all of the conditions
surrounding that locality declare that
they did not think the Bowers vein
! traversed the Midnight Bowers terri
tory. but such a conclusion is hard to
accept, and is not warranted by facts
adcuced. The distance from both shaft
I hnfr fe- 81 81,
geological conditions show that no
eruptiye displacement or detection of
the vein has occurred. The course is as
straight as an arrow.
As man dumping buckets at the
Black Jack remarked this morning. il
surely looks as If a good angel had
given Uncle Jesse another "hunch."
such one as ne got at the Humbug.
and later at the Uncle Sam. David
Evans. by rights. ought to pay Uncle
Jesse some little royalty or bonus for
these angel visits. The stuff coming
out Of the fifty-eight-foot shaft mot
500. as stated by a Salt Lake morning
daily Thursday is all but mineral. 1t
IS heavy brown quartz. carrying con-
siderable spar and crystallized lime,
and possessing many of the mineralized
features common TO the Mammoth
Ajax ores. There is no better unde-
veloped ground anywhere than the
Black Jack four claims
X viii be but very few days now
before superintendent Treloar has the
Red Rose mine in condition to resume
profitable work. At present the under
ground force of men are pushing the
work on the MISUNDERSTANDING re-
lining and Strengthening as much as
possible. AS soon as work is complet-
ed sinking and drifting will be resumed
from the 400. In the meantime the
shaft house. boiler and engine room and
tramway running over the road is being
finished. which. together with timber
and carpenter shop and new boarding
house, presents very different appear
ance than ii did In that locality some
few months ago. The Red Rose is con-
ceded as sure shipper by fail.
Charles L. Hayden one of the owners
of the Maybelle claim. is completing
arrangements to put the shaft down to
pay. The Maybelle adjoins the Tintic
Copper King. and is surrounded by the
Ho:nestake. Tesora and Shoebridge-Bo-
nanZa properties. and is in the recog-
nized copper belt.
Preparations are being made at the
Ajax Mammoth for prospective drift
TO be run eastward from the 200 level
a depth reached yesterday, where a
station is being cut. Manager George
Silks has had the glass on some fine
quartz great deal of the time lately,
and has discerned the presence of some
yellow metal which he hesitates to pro-
nounce the real stuff" but which
bears striking resemblance to it It's
a great piece of ground.
The Victoria. one of the recently ac-
quired Grand Central properties on the
Eureka side, will soon be continuing
operations with ample power equip
ment. The machinery is set up. but is
not yet under cover. The company has
been greatly delayed and disappointed
over the non arrival of car of pipe for
the water line, which will be run to the
Rio Grande Western tank and be
pumped to the mine. In the meantime
a natural gravity system is run from
the Central.
The Lily. prospective lead bonanza
that promises to eclipse all others in
Tintic district, is now sending out two
cars of ore a week. This property.
which lies alpost due east of the Co
diva and Unele Sam, about one and a
half miles. is under lease to Barlow,
Peck and Hindmarsh. though Farley
Hindmarsh is one of the principal own
ers. With lead at s4.35 per 100 pounds
the Lily is a money maker, even though
giving scarcely any values in silver