The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-30
IN NORTH BINGHAM.
Careful Summary of What Is Going
On In That Part of the Camp.
bingham Bulle

tBlngnam Buletin.)
This section for a distance of two
and one-half miles, commencing at the
Highland Boy at head of Carr fork and
running north to the head of and in
Guiding Markham gulch, is attracting
growing interest.
The veins uniformly have an east and
west strike, with a dip of about 80 de-
grees north. They run parallel with
singular regularity. Commencing at
Highland Boy, running north, is the
Yampa, Honest Abe, May, Republican,
Parnell, Harrison, Leonard and Minnie,
York and Petro, Agnes, Charles A.
Dana, Diamond, North Diamond, and
so on to the Nancy Hanks and YES
pasian- Hoogley at head of Markham.
But little development has been done
on most of these claims. Owing to the
slump in silver and lead and encounter
ing copper with depth, nearly all of
them We're idle for number of. years.
About the center of the section is
York hill, on which is York mine. A
depth of about 400 feet has been reached
and thousands of tons of good ore were
shipped but as a result of bad manage
ment and incompetent mining the old
works caved badly during the idleness,
necesSitating tunnels below the old
known to exist. j. S. Grow has lately
been managing the work for A. j. Orem
& Son, j. j. Corum and others who
bought the York group, and is getting
it in tolerable fair shape. The owners
have contracted for a 300-foot tunnel,
which is being pushed steadily by three
shifts Another tunnel of 500 feet is to
be started on the Cottonwood side and
a little above the petro tunnel which
will tap the York vein about 1000 feet
below old workings. Then the York
should exceed its old record and become
a heavy producer
Petro is an extension of the York
Drifts have been run on the vein con-
Meeting the two, showing the vein for a
distance of LOCO feet on the strike and
about l, 200 feet on its dip, and demon
strating its permaaency. The Petro,
working with a considerable force, as
is well known. is paying $1,000 per
month dividends. 1t has extensive ore
bodies in sight, with a large area of
uneXplored ground in reserve.
Colonel Wall is pushing developments
on the Yampa group.
The Honest Abe has a siXty-foot in
cline with seven-foot vein of pay ore
and fifty tons on the dump which car
ries, besides lad. S12 to $40 in gold
some copper and silver.
The Leonard and Harrison have Just
finished a tunnel about 100 feet in
length which cut the Leonard vein at
200 depth, where it is from five to seven
feet wide. yielding well in silver, with
some gold and copper.
The Agnes and Dunbar were formerly
good shippers CO high-grade silver and
lead ore. The Agnes was opened to a
depth of 400 feet, where copper and
base ores were encountered. These
claims are now Idle.
The Diamond has also been a good
shipper of high grade. 1t, too, encoun-
tered copper at about 200 feet when
been idle for a. number of years The
veins, as stated, occur to the north with
the same regularity to head of Mark
ham, where the Nancy Hanks and
Vespasian- Hoogley are being worked
with fiattering prospects.
The Baltimore tunnel is located at
north end of this section, near head of
Markham. In connection, Mr. Grow is
the promoter of the Baltimore Tunnel
& Mining company which has sixteen
claims. The tunnel will be ks feet,
and is projected to be run 10000 feet
Beginning near head of Markham it
will cut ell veins as right angles from
Markham to the Highland Boy, at an
average depth of 1000 feet and $500
feet on the dip. Where it reaches Carr
fork it will be 700 feet below the High
land Boys lowest workings. If carried
to completion it will drain and form
natural outlet for one of the most i'm
portant sections of Bingham Certain
~ it is mammoth in its inception 1t
will make all the mines within its scope
easy of access, anu has an abundance
of pure water and plenty of timber near
its site. 1t is reported that eastern capt.
talists are to furnish money for this
enterprise and start worn Aext spring.
Should this prove correct, York hill.
that has been comparatively silent in
later years, will in due time. be COM
peting with Binghams busiest mining
centers.