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

spring it was discovered that a big
ledge had been exposed down near the
bottom of the canyon by the early
spring freshets. Work was commenced
upon ii, and a tunnel run in some sixty
feet The vein is SO large that no at
tempt has yet been made TO get the
walls by. prosecuting. though next
spring an effort will be made to thor
oughly prospect the ground. which time
and money kept the owners from doing
this year. Assays from the material
through which the t1nnel has been run
has given returns of from $40 to S2-S6
in gold, TO ounces silver and from
81 to per cent copper. The ledge ap-
pears to be about sixty feet wide on the
surface, and gives every indication or
developing into a mighty big thing. The
claims adjoin the possessions or the
Steamboat company on the east
THE STEAMBOAT.
The Steamboat company, principal
among the stockholders in which are
w. V. Rice. James Farrell, f. W.1Ber-
rey, Barney Riley, r. T. kimball ana
other we'll known Park City men, is en-
gagged in running tunnel into the big
block of ground which il owns at the
head of Snake Creek canyon. Two
hundred feet of work was performed
THIS year ana the ldCc - uOW oOtiASl41hS
over 400 feet from the mouth 1t Is not
expected that ore will be encountered
short of 500 feet and it will not surprise
the management if a still greater dis
lance has to be gone to find what the
big hill which it penetrates has hidden
at depth. Splendid values in gold, cop
per, silver and lead have all been OBJ
tanned in the surface workings, and
the management fully expects TO de-
vesop a big proposition before they get
through with it. A power drill plant
was contemplated for the past season.
but spring was SO backward that the
undertaking was given up. There is a
splendid water power right at the
mouth of the tunnel. and next season
will see it harnessed for power purposes
without doubt
THE MAMMOTH CONSOLIDATED.
Up above the Wasatch marble quarry
the six claims constituting the NAM
moth Consolidated group are located.
The property is owned by F. r. Davis
S. H Epperson, Andrew Gebhardt- F.
C, Goist and Thomas Kearns. The
claims have all been patented and an
incorporation will be shortly formed by
the owners. This is the property from
which sensational gold values were OBJ
tanned a year or more ago near the
surface. Shafts have been sunk at diff
them to a depth of thirty feet or over,
but a tunnel is now being run for the
purpose of opening the vein at a depth
of 100 feet. The hill is very precipitouS
and little over 100 feet Will tap the
ledge. The tunnel is now in seventy
feet. High values in gold, silver, lead
and copper characterize the surface
workings.
OTHER PROPERTIES.
other properties in the Snake Creek
district have had more or less work
done upon them, and capital has been
casting sleeps eyes in more than one
direction.
A tunnel is being driven on the
Handsome Dan group. owned by Park
City. Butte and Midway parties, but the
lodges known to traverse the ground
have not yet been encountered
Colonel Treweek's Relief group. with
other properties adjoining it on the
Cottonwood side, forms the basis of a
big corporation which the colonel is
handling in Boston, and the coming
year promises to see a season OF
marked activity on the ground. The
Relief is one of the biggest copper prop
ositions on the Snake creek-Big Cotton
wood divide.
The large number of claims owned by
the Brightons, covering. the Big Cot
were all tied up during the summer and
fall and several corporations will likely
be formed upon them during this year.
THE COPPER KING.
This property lies something like a
half mile below Brighton's lake, in Big
Cottonwood, and marks the western
developed end of the copper belt The
ground is developed by two tunnels,
one eighty and the other fifty feet long.
and an incline shaft 104 feet deep, from
the bottom of which seventy feet Of
drifting has been done. In sinking the
incline seven tons of 10 per cent cop
per ore was taken out, which also car
ried 81 in gold and two ounces silver.
An effort was made to bond the prop
erty for eastern parties during the
fall, but the price asked was out of all
proportion to the showing made.
THE COMSTOCK.
The Comstock may re said to mark
the beginning of what is known as the
Iron canyon or most westerly part OF
Uintah district. The company's posses
sionS practically join those of the old
Crescent company and the Apex and on
accout of the long idleness of the latter
interest in it, has been hard to secure.
Morris Dusseldorf has presided over
the destinies of the Comstock for sew
eral years and with what means he has
been able to command. has done all he
could to bring the mine to producing
stage Ore has been encountered at
several different parts of the workings.
and some day, when men of means
and a little nerve and energy come to
its assistance, the mine will surely be
heard from.
HIMILAYA GROUP.
Over the dividing hill between
Thaynes' and Iron canyon, at the head
of the latter and west of the Comstock,
is the property of the Himiiaya Mining
company, not long since leased and
bonded to Gus Holmes Of the Knuts-
ford and associates. The Himilaya is
an old property and a great amount of
development work has been done upon
it. Owned. as it is, by poor people, the
handling of the property has been of a.
desultory character. and notwithstand-
ing the fact that the ore showing has
been such that the chances for making
mine of it are most promising, it was
not until late last fall that capital
could be persuaded to take hold. Mr.
Holmes and his associates. however,
are satisfied that the ground is worth
opening, and as soon in the spring as
the weather will permit, an active
campaign will be inaugurated upon it
NEW COMPANY.
Quite recently a company known as
the Park City & Midnight Sun, COM
posed of Park City and Salt Lake par
ties, was formed for the purpose of
operating valuable group of claims