The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-04
Recent Discoveries In the Piute
County Section.
HIGH-GRADE GOLD ORE
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
S1,7oO TO TON ORE.
Rich Ore Encountered In the Mascot
Group-Senator Cannon's Syndi-
cate Examining the Annie Laurie
Developments In the Tintic
Mines-Sioux Mill May Start.
Especial Correspondence

Snyder City, May To-day marked
the completion of the first building and
first street of Snyder City. the maiden
town of Piute county's Gold Mountain
mining district The initial business
block is 16x24 log, to be used as an
assay Office. Its occupant is Earl Dun
shee, an assayer of Salt Lake City.
Gold Mountain district has for sew
eTal seasons needed a custom assay
office at it's door and this one fills the
long felt.
In very few days many other
buildings viii so up to aid the assay
Office in forming the nucleus of Sny-
der City. Saul Krotki, q prosperous
mercha0t Of Richfeld, intends putting
a complete stock of general merchan-
disc into a fifty-foot deep building to
! be thrown up in a few days. He Will
have a competitor in the person of
Tom Ferguson, formerly of Salt Lake
City, who also Will place miners sup
plies on the Gold Mountain market.
AIessrs. Nelson and Moore of Richfield
are to do meat market business in
camp and Orson Keeler late of Loa,
will dispense beverages. Another en-
| terprising gentleman will establish Il
livery business at the disgings and
Charles Robinson, the ranchman who
keeps the halfway house between Sc
vier station and the mines. contem-
plates running regular stage between
those points.
All these projects, however, are just
now checked by snOwstOrm that has
been raging on the mountain the past
three days, but in its face the first
wagons of the year have pulled up the
Mill Creek road all the way to the
Annie Laurie, the Mammoth Brecken-
ridge and even to the lower workings
of the Golden Star company's Blue
Bird, where Messrs. Mansfield and
Fitzgerald are running a contract tun-
mel to tap the diVidend-payinS vein at
a great stopping depth.
James Long, jr., the manager and
part-owner OF the Mammoth Becken-
ridge group, is more Sanguine than ever
before of his prospects; so confident,
in fact, that it is a good thing he is
pushing along, that recently he. by the
advice of his eastern associates, re-
fused very fiattering offer for his
holdings. There are two tunnels on
the Long ground. One is well up the
hill headed for large ledge of good
milling rock. 1t had TO be abandoned
on account of water and another hole
started down towards the mountains
base. Later, in inspecting the environ
ments of his property, Mr.. Long came
upon groupings of ledge that looked
WELL He sank upon it until water
stopped operations and found the vein
TO carry large seams of a blush ore
which assayed as high as S1,700 gold per
ton. Within the last few days Mr..
Long has again encountered this same
/ blue quartz at the surface. 900 feet
south of the original discovery, show
ing the ledse's course.
The lower tunnel of the Mammoth
Breckenridge is now in so feet. Work
upon it is checked temporarily by lack
of air, but in few days this obstacle
will be overcome by a fan to be run
by power derived from water that
/ flows out of the tunnel. When this
! lower tunnel is 631 feet long the mana
/ ger of the bonanza expects to find the
I great blue ledge at a stopping depth of
| 2IS feet, and when the hole is 500 feet
! long it is calculated it will pierce a
! back ledge at a 4G0fOot depth.
/ The Mascot group of gold ground is
owned by William Johnston and is
/ bonded by James Long, jr., who states
/ definitely that he Will purchase the
! group before the date of expiration, in
July. The individuals of the group are
christened the Captain Dodge, Fort
Dodge, Statehood, Mascot and Dodge
Fraction. IT lies between the Annie
Laurie and the Mammoth Brecken-
ridge.
Through the group runs a three-foot
lode of oIe some of which assays Sl65
! in gold per ton, and the average of
which is S15.a0. All the ores of this
region, lying between porphyry walls,
carry some silver and show up suffi-
cient iron to indicate depth. Water and
timber are on the Mammoth and Mas
cot grounds in abundance, and in the
gulch between them Mr.. Long states
emphatically that he will erect a suit
able mill as soon as developments shall
indicate whether or not the ore below
will submit to the same treatment as
the dirt above. Even now there is
/ enough good milling stuff in sight to
keep busy the year round a ten-stamp
plant. Near neighbors of the Brock
enridge are the Congress, Annie Roonie
and Congress Fraction, all bonded to
the Snyder Improvement company,
which owns the new toWnsite and sew
eral prospects of most promising APP
pearance. On the Congress is a fair
vein of the blush ore, similar to that
found by Mr.. Long, which furnishes
$500 seams.
Work is progressing briskly at the
Senator Stewart claim of the Annie
Laurie group. owned by the Bald Noun
tain company. whose stockholders are
happy since the discovery there of good
quartz in large quantity.