The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-27
GOOD NAVAJO STRIKE.
Continues to Grow In Importance
Tintic Notes.
(special Correspondence.)


Silver City. May 26.-The strike re-
ported in the Navajo claim over week
ago continues TO grow in Importance.
The Navajo end lines with the c. L.
Allen claim of the Pacific group. and
lies southwest of the Morning Glory,
near Diamond. The claim as vet Is
only at shallow depth. but most Of the
ground in the vicinity of the Navajo.
notably the Morning Glory and lsa-
bella Victoria, were rich producers al
most from the surface. The returns,
as given the writer. from a test run on
some ore taken from the Navajo strike.
show % ounces in silver, 81 in gold and
Der cent lead.
Work was resumed Cn the Mormon
Chief property of the Triumph group
this week. The rumor, as reported in d
Salt Lake paper. to the effect that
Theodore Bruback, representing the
Triumph company. had brought suit
for trespass against the Undine Mining
company was denied by Manager Cole
of the Undine as Veritable rot, not pos
SesSing the Semblance of truth. The
ALLEGED suit is said to have been irsti-
tuted on the ground that the Undine
folks had extracted 100 900 tons of ore
from a fractional piece of ground called
the Indian, belonging to the Triumph
group. The story is in keeping with
all Tintic mining news served in this
particular paper.
The contract for the first 100 feet of
work on the old Susan tunnel, 20 cut
the vein near the old shaft, was let
this week to Diamond Denny Sulii-
van, one of the former owners of the
property, and at present a large stock
holder in the new company. 1t Is cal
culated when the entire distance is
made, covering perhaps distance of
300 feet, the vein will be tapped az
depth of 800 feet from the surface, and.
judging from former openings on this
ledge, be in shipping ore.
1t is claimed that ample funds are in
the treasury to pay for the whole sun
mel site, and that half of the treasury
stock is yet unsold.
The South Sunbeam, now being sunk
under the second contract. has reached
a depth of something over zoe feet. and
the workings are in porphyry, heavily
impregnated with iron pyrites. The
small copper streak that struck in sight
on the hanging wall at the 60, las
been lost sight of, though if this claim
possesses all the elements of the par
ent vein. there will be no lacking of
copper showing.
The Undine people are prospecting
their copper strike on the 300 level,
stripping the vein. This is a. continual
ton of the ore chute from the 200, but
of Il better grade, showing a decided
increase in silver, lead and copper val
ues. Manager Cole, who has only been
in charge of the property for few
months, having come from the Black
Hills, is pleased with the showing Of
ore in sight, and expressed himself as
being confident that the ground was
opening into big body of mineral.
Messrs. Harwood & Co. are just about
ready to make their first shipment OF
farar at,.af
from jigging the Lower Mammoth
dump. The dirt has the appearance of
being pay.
Three shifts of men are sinking the
new vertical shaft of the Silver Park,
located about 200 feet north of the old
tunnel site, and just above the Four
Aces on the hill. Like all the new work
going on about the district. the Shaft
way viii be dOuble-comDartmen ana
manway, and is being timbered tight
enough TO hold water. \ fifty-h0rse
power boiler and engine are already on
the ground, and a steam hoist will be
used as quickly as the machinery can
be set up. Though sinking was only
commenced few days ago, the hole is
past thirty feet deep now.
CroSs-cutting the vein at the $50 ievel
in the Blue Bird Extension is being
continued, in hopes of revealing some
of the rich ore in the vein that made
this old digging famous more than
twenty years ago. The hanging wall,
where old-timers claim the mineral al
ways showed. has not been encount-
cred, although work has been done for
a distance of twelve feet across the
ledge. The stuff coming from the crew
ice all assays pretty fair, particularly
in gold.
The shaft house. engine room and
carpenter shop of the Elmer Roy mine
is about completed, and. everything in
readiness to receive the steam hoist,
which should have reached the grounds
not later than the 18th of this month.
as promised. but which. according to
recent advices, cannot be sent forward
before June !. All the machinery firms
of Salt Lake are away behind in their
orders. reporting the impossibility of
procuring eastern goods Example guam
titles to supply the demand