The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-30

mines of Camp Floyd district The
| South Daisy has only recently begun
| extensive work in the development of
its property. but already it has shaft
down TO the 270-foot level, at which
depth the ore body is all of twenty-five
feet in depth. while the gold contents
run all the way from IS to $50 to the
ton, the mineral being a splendid
teaching product. The property is
equipped with two steam HOSTS, and it
is believed that it will be e.nbellished
with a mill of its own during the pres
ent year
The disclosures in the South Daisy
have proved beyond doubt the con-
tinuity of the Omaha ledge and it is
believed that it extends unbroken still
further south, although the country in
that direction is covered with wash,
and developments in the SnowStorm,
adjoining the South Daisy on the
south, would seemingly corrOborate
this theory and it is believed that in
due time the extension of the vein will
be uncovered in this property, which
is now undergoing development. TO
facilitate which the company has but
recently installed a steam hoist, the
! intention being to open up the mine in
a thorough manner, the impression
prevailing in mining circles that as the
ledge gains in size and value the
found to be of surprising proportions
when finally uncovered.
Adjoining the SnOwStorm comes the
property of the West Mercur Gold Min
ing company, which comprises a group
of twenty-five claims in which are en-
braced two veins. on the east vein
two shafts have been sunk each to a
depth of 100 feet the showing on these
levels being most encouraging. On the
West vein, which is the extension of
the La Cigale.Omaha-Daisy ledge, a
shaft has been sunk to a depth of 12O
feet, and as operations in the develop
ment of this promising property is to
be pushed from this time on with
greater vigor than ever before it is
confidently, expected that eventually
this ground will be able to pose as one
of the heavy gold producers of the
West Dip.
There are many other valuable prom
Using properties on the West Dip which
are being subjected to extensive de-
velopment, but those on the Omaha
vein are particularly mentioned as
showing the permanency and con-
tinuity of the deposits in that section,
and even this is more extensive in it's
qualifications than already credited, as
on the groun1 of the Kismet COM
pany, adjoining the La Cigale on the
north. fine bodies of oXidiZed pay mill
ing gold ore have been uncovered dur
ing the past two or three months and
it is believed that this mammoth lode
continues further to the north and to
the south than through the properties
already mentioned.
Surely, with such a showing as this.
there is good reason to believe in the
ultimate realization of the prediction
that in time the West Dip would be-
come the big end of Camp Floyd dis
trict.
The mineral dispositions of -Aercur
and the West Dip are practically in
exhaustable, to illustrate which a
prominent mining operator of the dis
trict gives the following figures of the
ore measures of that region, as fol-
lows:
Naming a ledge of mineral 1.5O0 feet
in length and twenty feet in width
and worked to depth of 1,500 feet, The
Heralds informant, estimating the
area of the body as outlined to con-
tain A. 900 600 cubic feet and amounting
to 100000 tons, states that this ton
mage would keep a mill of 200 tons
daily capacity in constant operation
for a period of forty-one years.
This certainly looks big, but 1t
figures out correctly and is proof Of
the opportunities offered in the mining
line in Camp Flovd district