The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

poSc- SOOH dlteT the mine was DonQed
by Mr.. Weir, he began grading a road
and getting ready to sink a shaft. This
shaft was sunk for the first 400 feet by
a whign, and after that with a steam
hoist On Dec. Il the actual depth was
800 feet The big vertical shaft is first
class in every respect, bei1s timbered
with square sets and Jagged through
out. and is four feet by eleven feet in
the clear There are two hoisting COM
! partments. each AKA feet, and a ladder
or manway- The machinery plant con-
sists of a 1ox10 hosting engine, which
is used for sinking and 10xl4 i1oisting
engine recently set.- for operating the
cage. which is used for development
PURPOSES Levels have been started at
800, 400 and 500 feet. The equipment
also includes two boilers. one forty
and one eighty-horse power. and a
small blowing engine, to operate the
blower The plant is very complete and
remarkable progress has been made
since operations were started. This
particular property, more than any
other in Tintic. has excited much spec
ulation and conjecture as to what the
underlying deposits may be. If precious
metals exist beneath the wonderful iron
Gaping it looks as if the present man
agement will disclose them.
HOMESTAKE MINING COMPANY.
In the spring of 1873 this ground. or
the nucleus of it, then known as the
Varteg, and subsequently called the
Copper Queen, was as well known as
the Sunbeam and Shoebridge mines,
and they were household words. 1t
| goes without saying. and no reflection
is cast on any individual, that as yet
this mine, or group. has had no man
of experience to direct its more than
ordinarily complicated underground af-
| fairs. Gentlemen who have under
taken TO assume the management of it
nave been men emlnently fitted to rep
resent their respective callingS, but they
lacked the experience required. and
only acquired through long years of
u; uia con otnu ser' di. any VI MINER VINO s
will unhesitatingly say that a combi-
| nation of conditions exist in the Home
stake ground which makes it impossi-
BILE for a novice TO successfully handle.
And yet in the past three years that is
! the kind of supervision the HomeStake
,, is idle-it is alleged because of the i'm
pending application for patents on GER
tain portions of the ground. There are
people in Tintic who swear by the
Homestake-that is, they swear by the
possibilities under certain conditions,
and would be glad to work it on roy
atty. Only a few weeks ago Samuel
Newhouse one of the extensive hold
ers of Homestake securities, said to the
writer: II think very well of the Home
stake. l had a reliable and capable
man expert the property and on his
report 1 would have bought largely if
an Objectionable element or faction
could have been eliminated, but when
it was limited that 1 wanted it, the
stock, all of sudden, got very val
liable. I would be glad to resume work
in the property if the others would
only show the same disposition.
If the affairs of the company are ar
ranged SO as to insure continuous work
the property should he made a mine
SrA oWAN.
This young prospect has been worked
under contract almost If not entirely
the whole summer There has been no
special effort made to search for the
Swansea vein yet. ultimately the OBJ
jectiye feature the chief aim being
to attain depth All the promises made
to install an ample steam hoist and
erect a convenient = and substantial
shaft house have been faithfully per-
formed to the letter 1t is difficult for
the local management to forecast the
working programme for the coming
year, but probably when the 400 mark
is reached prosecuting will commence
and exploring begin in earnest. The
shaft is sunk on the National ground.
which parallels the Geddes claim of
the Swansea group, intervening be-
tween the Mountain Chief, the original
location on which the ore find was
made and the hosting shaft is on. The
hope of the Sea Swan people is in
catching the vein on its dip, doubtless !
necessitating much depth. All. or the
principal owners, are residents of Sill |
yer City, men of experience, familiar
with all the local conditions. on whose
judgment reliance may be placed.
TOE paurrpc
WI IL A'
This company has been in the throes !
of litigation, impending lawsuits and
legal controversies all year, and conSe-
quently has accomplished little if any |
thing in the. way of advancement and !
development. During the early months |
of the year some ore was marketed
ore of very desirable smelling quail
ity-the result of extraction from the |
level run from the bottom of the 300 /
foot incline and the accumulation of |
concentrates and screenings from the
hand juggling process. As soon as 1t
became apparent to the officers of the /
Joe Bowers company that the Burnham /
faction would emphatically assert their !
stems se nrena rstorv to tiing s,,it al,
operations about the premises were sus-
pended and the diggings soon resem- |
bled an abandoned railroad camp at \
the end OF the track. And SO things |
continued until about November, when |
some little activity was noticeable on
the surface, doubtless growing out of /
the fact that the Bowers Extension had !
compromised their case with Mr.. Burn |
ham, acquiring the Estella lode, which /