The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
MERCUR'S NEW MINES.
Splendid Showing Made In Number
of Properties.
Especial Correspondence.)


Mercur, July 21-Adjoining the Moore
group on the north and the Helvetia on
the south is located the Snowstorm,
sixteen claims, owned by o. j. Sails
bury, a. NJ. Spooner and Chicago and
Omaha parties. This company has
reached II depth of 700 feet. with drifts
and croSscuts from the one to the 600
levels. AT the foot of the shaft on the
100-f foot from the collar a drift has been
run north and south and work is now
| being pushed in d vein that measur es
twelve feet in width from the hanging
wall. AT this time its entire width can
only be problematical. From this body
assays just returned give values from
So to 81 in gold, which is highly salts
factory to the directors. The property
is right on the belt that passes through
the Omaha, Cigale and Daisy, and it is
the intention of the company TO con-
tinue working on the vein until enough
ore is blocked out to v. rrant the cree
ton of mill.
superintendent Roe, al the Omaha.
next to the Boston & Mercur property,
had very little TO say beyond the fact
that work was being prosecuted viSor-
ouSly by two shifts and that the mine
was showing up better every day
Three drifts have been run, two on the
300 and one on the 200 levels, the 200
adjoining. Considerable development
work is being done on the 300-foot level,
and some nice ore has been uncovered
throughout the property.
At the Helvetia. work is being rushed
along by force of thirty-two men, I'M
der the able management of Superln
tendent Spargo. The north shaft is
down 100 feet and the south 600, and
drifts are being run on the 800 sind 600.
10 10 nj "a
property being already connected on
the 400. New bodies of ore are being
uncovered on the zoo. On this level
great bodies are being blocked out. AT
present the ore is all being placed on
the dump. an average of seventy-flve
tons daily, and il is safe to say that
the near future will See a mill started
on this ground, which the knowing ones
look upon as a large future producer.
superintendent Murphy at the Daisy,
states that the mill is being worked TO
its full capacity, treating 12l tons of
ore daily. Fifty men are working reg
ularly and new bodies of high grade ore
are being disclosed almost daily.
The Kismet, formerly the Grey Roos-
ter. owned by Thomas Weir and others,
and located north of the La Cigale
about Il mile. is property that will be
closely watched by those interested in
the producers of the West Dip. Unlike
most new propositions that get the ore
first and build the plant afterwards, the
owners of the Kismet believe it an
economy in the long run to be thor
oughly equipped at the start, and
visit to their property imbues one with
some of the failsl that must have ac-
tuated this considerable outlay. The
plant is equipped with a fine sixty
horsepower hoist, a fifty-fOot gallows,
frame and shaft. timbered with the
finest Oregon timber clear to the bot
tom. The company has already erected
a complete assay office adjoining the
office building proper and but few
feet from the blacksmith shop, and
neat cottages of the employees. Most
of the work is being prosecuted under
the able direction of Charles Nyman,
who has three shifts steadily at work.
The shaft is down 400 feet and drifts
are being run north and south at this
level, cutting some nice ore seams. AT
present nothing beyond extensive deVel-
opment work is contemplated, but it is
hoped the future will find the kismet
way up in the front rank Of big ship
pers.
Rumors have been rife around camp
for the last three days regarding the
closing down of the Boston & Mercur
mine and mill. In the absence OF Su-
Whitney no authentic
statement could be secured, but parties
familiar with the situation say that the
is experimenting with new
ores and reducing and altering the
roasters, preparatory to resuming work
on the old scale. At present but one
tank a day is being worked.