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

will soon have 100 to 200 in drifts an,
on sluices, and reap golden harvest
Their example has been followed b,
operations with full steam apparatus
beginning on the Showail placer fur
Their down main canyon. In nearly ever.
canyon and gulch of Bingham place,
gold has been obtained in paying guam
titles along the rivers, and fortune:
were washed from surface ground il
the early days.
MINING AND SMELLING.
Under the head of mining and smelt
ing for certain classes of Bingham ore:
so much has been said regarding the
Highland Boy mine, its vast ore areas
| exposed, the Highland Boy tramway
nearing completion, and smelter under
construction, that they need be only
casually mentioned at this time. The
mine, as is we'll known, has, from g
mere prospect, been so far developed
| within the space of two years that ii is
| capable of producing hundreds of tons
of copper-bearing ore daily for an in
definite period. The Highland Boy
property consists of twenty eight To-
cations, mostly acquired within two
years, and now grouped under one
head. The tramway will be completed
| in January, and will soon after begin
| the delivery of 10000 tons of ore as a
starter for the smelter, to be ready to
blow in by May.
Results obtained by the Highland Bot
| company have stimulated the organiza-
ton of two other powerful companies
in upper Carr Fork and vicinity, one
being the Boston Consolidated, repre-
senting seventy claims, and now max
ing extensive and important develop
! ments in the old Stewart mine, the
other having just acquired nine prom
| Using new claims above the Highland
Boy group.
YEARS DEVELOPMENT.
Changes of the year enable US to
write on indefinitely of old bingham
and scarcely touch the reviewers beat
en- trail. It's list of over 200 mines that
have produced pay ore present new fea-
lures of interest that would fill pages.
1t is the scope and purpose of this ar
ticle to touch only upon few of the
more important developments that may
! be accredited to 1898.
The Old Jordan & Galena. grandest
and Oldest of Bingham mines, produc-
| ing from above a depth Of 65 feet dur
| ing its thirty-five years operations in
round numbers $19.000,00e gross, has
| just made the most important strike of
the year within the district. 1t was not
the policy of the management to sink,
so a remark became chronic among the
uniformed that below the 65-foot level
the old mine was no good. The main
incline has now, however, been Put
down to 165 feet, and thence upon cross
cutting zoo feet to vein, d body of ore
was entered equaling if not exceeding
in extent and values anything ever
found above: and an entirely new fea-
ture is that it carries 8 per cent copper.
This is in the Jordan proper. which.
Jfeaff
being with one exception the earliest
mineral location in Utah, is thus shown
to be yet a mere infant
The Old Jordan Cotton cyaniding mill
recently completed and started on ore
of the immense Excelsior vein (Which
is all ore and 10 feet wide) has proved
a most gratifying success-in operation
as well as in establishing average ore
values-and is soon to be increased in
capacity.
In connection with this mention of the
Excelsior mine and mill reference
should be made to the deal conSum-
mated last Tuesday, whereby the Com
mercial & Hickory group of five claims
was transferred to the Bingham Copper
& Gold company, corporation organ
lied under the laws of New Jersey, with
William Bailey as president and a num-
Der of prominent men of Massachusetts
and New Jersey as stockholders The
purchase price was nearly S2,O00,000.
and the capital stock of the company is
fixed at $2000.000, divided into 100000
shares. The Commercial is an extern
sion of the Excelsior mine and lies di-
rectly above it. on the divide between
Highland and Carr Fork. The Com
mercial vein is said to be identical in
character with that of its near neigh
bOr the Highland Boy-a contact be-
tween areas of decompoSed gold and
pyritic ores being very abrupt and
marked. There is a significant showing
Of copper in the pyritic zone, running
as high as SO per cent, while the oXi-
died material is the same in character
and extent as that in the Excelsior
There has been a large amount of work
done on the Commercial, and it has
been a considerable shipper in years
past, yet its thorough and practical
opening may be said to have only fair
ly begun. 1t is safe to anticipate that
the present company has acquired the
group with intention of building ex-
tensive cyaniding and concentrating
works as soon as practicable.
The Old Telegraph. next in the or
der Of great producers, with a $4,000
600 to $12,000,000 record, has during the
past three years under the policy of the
management, been a leasing PROPOSE
ton. A large area of new ground be-
ing now opened up, under a change of
plans the foundation of a large concen-
trating plant is being laid, with the
view of company operation hereafter.
In the Old Spanish of the Niagara
group about a year ago an extensive
chamber of high-grade lead was broken
into, and from it nearly 5000 tons have
since been shipped, while the end is not
yet. The company is also planning to
erect a capacious cyaniding mill for its
gold ores, of which there is an extent
rivaling that in the Excelsior.
The famous Dalton & Lark is prac-
tically idle, but with good prospects
that before the year is out it will be
worked on larger scale than ever in
connection with a mating process. 1t
has an endless reserve of lowg grade
ores for such a plant. In the lower level
of this mine the ore carries a rich per
cent of copper.
The Red Wing company, having re-
Gently consolidated the Red Wing mine
with the Markham group of claims
above it, will now penetrate Markham
hill to great depth, using its lower tun-
nel-at creek leVel-aS the deep tunnel
that will be remembered as having been
projected last year to tap the many
veins and croSS-veinS of the hill. They
produce the richest silver ores of the
district, as witness the performances
of the Julia Dean, Red Wing, Hosford,
Black Dos. and every other claim in the
locality from which a pound Of min
eral has been taken. The Red Wing
has also acquired control of
the Markham mill and will shortly re-
fit it for q busy run, having a c. Q ID
cradle tonnage of second-class aN ait
ing treatment.
The Fortune company. operating the
Fortune group and keystone, after long