The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-01
JESSE EWING MINES.
Uintah Mineral Belt That Is At
tracing Attention.
Especial Correspondence


Nernal, Utah, May 30.-Representa-
tive O'Neil returned last night from
the Jesse Ewing country and reports
very encouragingly on the prospects in
that camp. Jesse Ewing canyon IS
something like sixty miles north and
east of Vernal, and is along the min
eral belt which is just now attracting
the attention of mining men in this
direction. Rich float has been coming
1 in from the Jesse Ewing for several
years, but owing to the location and
! lack of capital, it's mineral possibilities
! have been neglected. Interest, how
| ever, is now awakening in the district,
and, judging from the samples brought
in by Mr.. O'Neil, the interest will con-
| tinue to grow.
Among the many propositions of the
district may be enumerated the Com
stock, which shows three feet of ore
in the discovery shaft, carrying 10 per
cent copper and 1920 in gold to the ton.
The property is being explored by Z
tunnel which is being driven to tap
the vein at considerable depth. The
tunnel is now in 153 feet. 1t is believed
that fifteen feet more will reach the
ore, and great things are anticipated.
! The property is owned by 5. r. Ben
Mon and Perry Bingham of Vernal.
The Sunbeam is another very prom
Using proposition that is being devel-
oped by c. f. Maelstrom and others of
Mapleton, Utah. The discovery shaft
shows two and one-half feet of high
grade copper, and a tunnel is being
driven To tap the ore, which. it is fig
ured. will be reached at a distance of
200 feet. One hundred feet of this has
now been covered, and the work will
go merrily on.
The Great Eastern Consolidated
shows a four-foot vein of ore between
walls. from which assays showing 81
in gold have been received. The for
nation is conglomerate on the south,
and quartz and schist on the north.
This ground belongs to Representative
ONeil and others.
The Elk Lode, the property of l..
Johnson and others. shows many small
veins of rich copper ore all through a
big ledge, which is strongly impreg-
mated with oxide of copper.
The Grub Stake is similar to the Elk
Lode. and is the property of James
Hacking and others of Vernal.
The Mammoth shows a vein of three
feet in the discovery shaft, twenty
inches of which is high grade copper.
No development work. The property
belongs to O'Neil. Bingham and Woods,
all Vernal parties.
The Vernal is another promising
prospect, with big lodges of low grade
velopment. Attached to this property
are the names of A. W. McCune and
Representative Shepard of Salt Lake,
with that of O'Neil of Uintah.
There are numerous other prospects
in the district that only await devel-
opment work to disclose their hidden
wealth.
The formation of the camp generally
is quartz dykes, running east and west,
with a dark porphyry and schist be-
tween them. About six different veins
cut the country, all of which carry
copper of varying value, some of which
is very high grade.
Indications point to lively times in
the camp in the near future, as the
fact is dawning upon the minds of min
ing men that there is something sub
stantial in the Jesse Ewing country.
The intention of shipping the high
grade copper ore from the Dyer mine
has been abandoned for the present,
and the ore will be held until the cree
ton of the smelling plant. when it. can
be determined just what will be the
best course to pursue.
County Commissioners John G.. Davis
and o. D. Allen are over at Duchesne,
engaged in repairing the Uintah bridge,
which is in an unsafe condition II
was hoped that the state appropriation
would have been available before high
water, but such is not the case, it
seems.