The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15
JOE BOWERS EXTENSION.
Details of the Work Done and That
Planned.
(Special Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence
Diamond, Oct 14-B. T. Woodward,
president and manager of the Joe Bow
ers Extension Mining company, re-
turned last evening from an extended
trip to the Beaver country, where he
spent some time in looking over the
holdings of the South Granite Mining
company. When asked by your CORE
spondent how the affairs of the Joe
Bowers Extension were progressing,
Mr.. Woodward said quite seriously: l
have about resolved not to say any
thing to any one about the Extension
not because 1 am ashamed-but
wholly because ones talk is always
MISUNDERSTANDING also because the
average person knows nothing about
our possessions or how we are equipped,
and after they are told they look as II
they were convinced you had been
booming the whole thing. l ought to
know something about the affairs mere
because I not only located the ground,
but sank the first hole alone-and It's
because 1 know something about the
actual conditions that it makes me tired
to hear some of these wise guys ask
questions about the Extension. Just at
present / don't care to say a word
about our underground affairs. but how
many people who pretend to be famii-
lar with the south end of Tlntic coun-
try have ever studied all the interest
ing surface conditions existing in and
surrounding our territory? How many
folks know how much patented ground
we own--knoW that we have the larg-
est boiler and pumping capacity in the
camp, and about the smootheSt hoist,
and next to the Shoebridge- Bonanza,
the deepest vertical shaft in the dis
trict-and all paid for? When asked
how deep they were now, he said: just
ST6 feet from the collar of the shaft,
though we call it our 400 level. We are
almost ready to commence vigorous
work on this level running towards
the vein, but the only point where the
vein has really been encountered and
explored at all is on the so-called 300
level. but actually 266 feet from the
surface. But I'll tell you what you can
do" said Mr.. Woodward, you can get
some information from an outsider-a
wholly disinterested source, if you know
Mr.. Hayden. Just before Mr.. Druehl,
the secretary of our company, went
east, he extended an invitation to Hay
den to see what we were doing, and
! last week I took him through our
ground So the writer found Mr.. Hay
den. but got little or nothing for his
pains. Mr.. Hayden said, good natured-
ly: I'm not here for my health, and
L don't make any examination or the
property only for personal satisfaction.
1 have made the Bowers vein a close
study, and when Mr.. woodward said
that Mr.. Druehl would like to have me
go through their workings L went, but
don't take it that Mr.. Druehl wished me
to give out my opinion, and / wouldn't
/ if he did. I have frequently said that,
in my judgment, the concentration of
all the veins at the point in discussion
makes it a marvellous piece of ground
prospectively, and 1 think so more than
ever. The company is doing some drift
/ ing south on the vein in what I think
they call their zoe level. The ledge is
very large, and is strongly mineralized,
! but they are on top Of their ore chute.
/ 1t is just cropping out on this level,
and is pitching west and south into the
ground. When they tap this below l
think they will get what they are look
ing for