The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-10
OPERATIONS Ar BINGHAM.
Review of the Week BY the Bulletin
Mon
bingham Bulletin.)

The No Cameron pump recently
delivered at the property of the Bling
ham Copper & Gold Mining COM
pany Commercial group is now in
place, and unwatering of the main in
cline shaft will shortly begin. Water
was encountered at about 125 feet, and
increased as work progressed until a
few weeks ago it was decided to stop
sinking until a pump was installed
Blocking out ore is being prosecuted
with vigor, some twenty men being en-
ployed and the force is increased as
fast as there is room. During the past
three months hardly a foot of drift has
been run that did not disclose pay
values.
In east drift there is a fine body of
oxidized gold quartz, available for cy-
aniding. This gold ore is quite large
body in extent, and so porous a. high eX-
traction can be secured and necessitat-
ing only a minimum of crushing. Be
ing so easy of treatment it is sure to
form a prominent feature of future
operations of the property.
There is an incline shaft being sunk
in this east drift ore, which is down
sixty feet. In main incline shaft a
body of sulphides very large in extent,
which contain high copper and gold
values, will be prospected as soon as
water is pumped out. A 3-foot streak
of native copper-bearing ore was en-
countered recentlv.
THE PLACERS.
Regular daily washing began this
week, at the West Mountain placer, and
highly satisfactory results are report
ed The east shaft has at last struck
rim rock and next week connection
with tunnel will be made, leaving main
channel bedrock clear for operations.
With no further drawbacks the West
Mountain will soon give glowing ac-
count of itself.
The 250-foot shaft in the gravel of
the Showall placer shows no bedrock
at that depth and has been temper
arily discontinued. The water is being
held at the 115-foot level, and force of
twelve men are engaged in running
several drifts, which are being pushed
in various directions on a floor OF hard
iron-impregnated cement that was en-
countered after q depth of liz feet of
ordinary wash gravel was passed. This
hardpan or gravel cement is impervious
to the underflow water. and the first SIX
feet of gravel resting on it is heavily
loaded with iron, from the size of sand
to considerable boulders. This iro'' is
magnetic, and in the gravel that con-
tains it are paying quantities Oh golu.
| We saw paintings showing hundreds OF
colors, mostly lin form of thin flakes OF
a good grade of gold and amounting to
from % cents to 50 cents per pan '.
Drifts from the 115-foot level aggre-
gate a total of $50 feet in length. The
flow of water from pumps is some 100
gallons per minute, while capacity foI
pumping is fully double.
The placer outlook is indeed most
promising, and bids fair to soon be OF
great Importance.
DIPS AND SPURS.
The Red Wing company is adjusting
its affair so that it will soon have cleal
title to eleven claims on the hill noted
| for the highest grade ore produced IL
! West Mountain district. Performance!
of the Julia Dean, alongside the Ret
| Wing, are too well known to need reit
Grafton. The Red Wing itself is becom
| ing known for a product of good aver
| age (Bingham) quality, while old min
/ ers say that not single property D
! the Markham group, from which or
/ has been marketed, has failed to SHOW
streaks of more than average richness
This group, now being absorbed by TIL
! Red Wing, includes the Columbia, Sill
yer Hill. Pete, Hosford, Burlington
| Rustler, Brink, Holy Moses and Free
! Walker, some of which have alread.
made a record. When the main TUNE
has been driven deep into these claims
we predict that old Markham hill viii
cause a stir out of the usual range o
mining sensations.
The 200-foot level of the Starlus. hav
| ing been run seventy-five feet is nov
| estimated to be within twelve or fifteel
! feet of the ore chute, uncovered in tn
100. For several days past handsome
/ kidneys of black oxide, varying from
/ half an inch to six inches in width
/ have come in, several assays on which
| showing an average of Is per cent cop
/ per. four ounces silver and S140 in GOLD
/ Manager Lee is confident that whe,
/ the chute is reached a. large body 0
/ this class of ore will be found.
The recent strike in the Montezum;
! is now making such a showing tina
/ there is no doubt a large ore body ha
been entered. 4 drift has been run
| twenty feet in mineral that improve
| in quantity and duality. while a cross
! cut started for the footwall had las
! Monday. been driven four feet, all il
solid ore of shipping grade. The Mon
tezuma is just getting down to the cal
of its real treasure vaults. and may b
! expected to keep step with the process
sion this summer. 1t is making
| thirty-ton shipment this week.
The Alamo, under management .
! n. j. Baker. is shortly TO make a con
/ siderable addition to the present fore
employed, and a large amount of de
velopment work viii be done-the outf
lately obtaining control having Sc
apart liberal sum for that purpose
| The Alamo. located near the mouth q
| Cottonwood, is on q strong, well-defnet
F., vein, and the opening up of good OF
| bodies seems to be only Il question o
well directed operations.
The last of the concentrates from TIL
/ elaborate Copper Center tests, in prog
ress for several months past at Mark