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

DECEMBER 81, 1899
commencing at point about 1000 feet
from the International property, ana
taking in the Mt. Tamasaki peak and
south slope, lie the Mt. Tamasah Min
ing company group of claims, on which
over zoo feet Of work in tunnel and
shafts were driven the past summer,
showing at four points on this proper
ty veins of porphyry- quartz. carving
gold values of from 81 TO $50 on aver
ages across the veins. Some copper
has been found in this property in the
form OF a red oxide. This company Is
prepared to continue vigorous develop
ment work in the spring. All of the
property lies about an elevation or
10000 feet. Winter work, with the pres
Eent facilities for reaching the property,
was considered impractical.
Lying to the west and adjacent to Mt
Tamasaki and just south of the LOOMS
group the darcy Bros, who are back
ed by Denver people, continued devel-
opment work began in 1883. A tunnel
ever 100 feet was driven and a cross
cut tunnel is now being driven with two
shifts OF men and will continue steadily
through the wilmer, they having got in
supplies to last until next May.
AT MINERS BASIN.
At Miners Basin, where the fiji st loca-
lions were made in the La SAILS. about
a mile north of Mill Greek, a thriving
town was established with a tri-weekly
mail, and c. II. Thompson as post
master. Development work has been
carried on steadily by the numerous
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suits. The richest strike was made in
the Corsair property. which is on the
opposite slope of the mountain on which
the LoOmis and other strikes were
made, and is apparently on a part OF
the same ore body. A wagon road into
Miners Basin was completed, and the
first ore shipment, a trial shipment of
a carload, was gotten to the railroad.
GOLD BASIN.
At Gold Basin. three miles south of
Mill Creek, and in the center of the
middle division of the La SAILS, the
most extensive work in the district has
been carried on in the Clark property,
and this is being continued during the
present winter. The main tunnel has
been driven in over 200 feet. with a
cross-cut of sixty feet. In this prop
erty the first sylvainite discovered in
in narrow seams in granite, and it is
Improving as work continues. ThSs
property is backed by Iowa capital.
This company was prepared to erect a
reduction plant early in the season, but
as the character of the ore was chang
ing as the work advanced, ii was wise
ly decided to await until developments
demonstrated the best method of work
ing the ore.
Near the Clark property a tunnel is
being driven this winter by the Turner
cross-cut a vein which. at the surface,
has a fine showing.
VALUES IN SANDSTONE.
The section of country for thirty
miles radius surrounding the La Sal
mountain peaks. is generally classed as
the La Sal district, but the part out
side of the mountain peaks proper,
which embraces an area. of about ten
miles long and five miles wide, differs
materially from the mountains, which
are an isneous formation. The ore
bodies in the surrounding district are,
as far as development has demon
str2ted, a re,ip-tate forma ton in sand
stone. Ore running as high as 500
to the ton has been found in this char
acter Of ore. and in some places large
bodies of it. The La Sal company at
Paradox, just across the Colorado line,
has expended many thousands of dol
lars the past season. having pay roll
most OF the time of seventy men, and
has kept up steady shipments of ore
none running less than 800 per tor,
hauling it seventy miles in wagons to
the railroad. The values have been
mostly in silver. copper and gold.
BIG INDIAN.
The Big Indian company, in which
c. E. Loose. Lester TAYLOR, John
Skews, Thomas Kearns and other prom
inent Utah men are interested, has run
over 1,200 feet of tunnel on the prop
erty, all in ore, averaging from per
cent to per cent COPPER. This COM
pany has expended upwards of $50 900
and has refused a quarter of a million
dollars for it. The difficulty encounter
ed by the company has been a proper
method of treating the ore. The metal
laying in sandstone, it requires a spec
ial treatment. They have been maxi sy
extensive experiments and have APP
piled for patent for an entirely new
method, being more of a mechanical
treatment than chemical, and they be-
lieve they have solved the problem.
DAILY PROPERTY.
John McComb. the well known Colo
RADIO mining man, has become interest
ed in the Daily property at Lisbon. ten
miles from the Big Indian, and is
furnishing the means for putting this
well known property on a producing
basis The plans now being worked to
call for a reduction plant on the Dolores
river, about ten miles from the mines.
and where plenty of water and power
can be obtained.
SALT WASH.
In the section laying between Moab
and Thompson, between the Grand and
Green rivers, some very promising cop
per discoveries were made the past
summer. Several thousands of dollars
were expended in prospecting ground at
Salt Wash, and while some very rich
ore was found, the main body or its
source was not discovered. This was
also true of The Huntsman property, at
Fisher canyon, on the east side of the
Grand river from Salt Wash.
The Salt Valley Copper company has
some very promising ground at the
head of Salt valley, twenty miles north
west of Salt Wash, but has as yet done
but little development work. From
these and several other properties small
shipments of ore have been made, net
ting the owners from $50 to $40 per ton.
The character of the ore found in all
the sandstone area surrounding the La
Sal peaks is a new proposition in min