The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
STATELINE AND DEER LODGE
HAVE ENTERED UPON A BOON
Rich Properties Now Being Developed Upon
an Extensive Scale.

I thus establishing the free nature and
character of the ore.
The Ophir. which is also incorporated
and owned by Messrs. Lynch Bros,
Clark Bros, Evans and Sullivan. las
| a shaft $50 feet in depth with tunnels
along the vein from the 100 and zoo
feet levels. This property mas yielded
several shipments of high-grade ore,
which found its way to the Salt Lake
market. The improvements in the
Ophir during the past year, ana the
past two months in particular, have
been such as to warrant the erection
of a steam hoist and the preliminary
work of getting it in place has already
begun.
The Burro. adjoining the Ophir on
the south, is owned by Messrs. Smith
son, Stinson, Peak, Williams and Wolf,
and during the past year the shaft has
been sunk TO a depth of $50 feet, with
| a tunnel and cross-cut from the 100
foot level. This claim has some re-
markably rich ore.
| B. Sprenger has Just completed the
necessary work and has his Sui
phide group survey for patent. The
! group consists Of four claims.
The Utah-Spur, owned by Jesse
Knight, ir., and others, is showing
marked improvement in the work re-
Gently done upon it.
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is the Gold Hill. which is INCORPORATED
and owned by Millett end others OF
| Provo A strike of some very itch ore
was made in the Gold Hill just prior
to its closing down in December.
The Big Fourteen, which comprises
fourteen locations, and owned by Cedar
people, is just completing the annual
work, and it is said the DEVELOPMENTS
have so far encouraged the company
that with the opening of spring active
work will be commenced.
The Rice property, owned by the Rice
Bros, and consisting of SIX claims. was
recently bonded 10 w. e. SNYDER OF
Salt Lake and work is now progressing
on the property.
| to Messrs. Erickson and McBurnsy,
completed the shaft during the year to
the 100-foot point, in addition to some
| important drifting md prosecuting.
Work is being continued on this prop
erty and values are improving. ..
j. F. Meuldoon and Grant Smith have
.. group of claims, the principal one
being the June Bug, upon which the
gentlemen intend to Immediately COM
mence active exploration work.
The Creole, owned by Messrs. Nc
Burney, Knight, Millett and McDon-
aid, in doing the annual work recently
| opened up some very rich ore, and a
survey for patent is now being MADE
of the property. The Creole has been
explored for little over 400 feet in a
tunnel along the VEN. with a couple or
upraises, wInze or two and several
cross-cuts. This Is the property that
Pcpkiss principally Depended upon dur
ing his reign in the district.
AQUA AND PIXIES DIGGINGS.
Aqua and Pixies Diggings, the first
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and the other about nine miles south
of the town Of Stateline, are both IN
Stateline district.
The principal property at Aqua is the
Independence, which is Incorporated
and owned nearly entirely by Salt Lake
railroad employees. The shaft has
been sunk TO a depth of los feet on
strong lead, and at this point work had
to be abandoned on account of water,
but the management has given it out
that as soon as arrangement are COM
pleted work will be resumed on more
extensive scale.
Mention is made above of the Anne
ttyst. and Wild Irish, which are in the
Pixies Diggings section, and adjoining
these claims are some important hold
ingS owned by Francis and Hollinger,
which show up very flatteringly for
the small amount of work that has
been done on them.
MODENA DISTRICT.
Modena district is on the Utah side,
and Joins Stateline district on the east.
1t was organized quite recently, ana
while some good lodges containing good
values are to be found in this district,
very little work has yet been done
The general direction of the mountain
range of this entire section is northeriy
and southerly, and the prominent peak
of the range has an elevation of nearly
1000 feet.
Deer Lodge is situated about mile
and a half south of this peak, and
Stateline about the same distance east.
The general formation is porphyry ana
Quartz. the values being found nearly
entirely in the quartz. The area over
which values are found is so extensive
that it is certainly phenomenal, ana
and the several hundred locations nave
ledge, some of them only two inches
wide and from this size UP 10 COUPE
of hundred feet.
The entire locality is a network OF
Lodges. and the general direction of the
principal ones so far developed are
northerly and southerly.
There are many properties not men
toned here, that are owned by men
without means, who are only anle TO
do the required annual work, and it is
many of them show I'D with the small
amount Of work that has been done on
them.
Pine. cedar and mahogany wood is in
such abundance that it only costs j
per cord delivered.
Water is found n any of the canyons
or gulches by sinking hole only
few feet.
Those who have realized snug sums
from property on this side the past
year are: N P. Dooley, $4,000; c.
Robinson, $4,000, and many transac-
lions of lesser magnitude have taken
place.
The general progress made in the
past three months, and with The Titan
& Pacific railroad completed to WITHIN
sixteen miles of the places. activity,
the New Year is entered upon with
brighter promises and more confidence
than at any time since its discovery
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