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

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Of machinery in the south end of the
district installed. Early in the sum-
mer, under the management of j. H.
Stallings, the Independent shaft was
opened, cleaned and work resumed.
more for the purpose of determining
the general course of the vein and the
character and extent of the ore find,
than anything else. The result was
most gratifying. as extensive prospect
ing enabled Mr.. Stallings to market
lseverai cars OF fine copper ore which
netted the company a very handsome
revenue. The vertical shaft which had
been going down rapidly had reached a
depth of $50 feet, and as the ledge was
known to be but short distance away,
it was deemed advisable TO establish
II possible the continuity of the ore
chute, which was done with results sur
passing all expectations. The ore had
not only increased in volume, but had
materially improved in value a ship
ment from the $50 level sampled more
than 80 per cent copper About this
time Mr.. Stallings resigned and was
temporarily succeeded by his son, who
was occasionally assisted by John T.
| Hodson. but as the situation became
complicated, requiring the guidance Of
one who had served many years in the
| harness, Mark Hopkins was secured. In
the meantime the shaft had, ~ soon
4 the 300 level, from which point the
ledge was again cut, with even more
| pleasing results than ever. Difficulties
arose at this juncture which, for a
| time, threatened disastrous trouble,
| arising chiefly through the excessive
| flow of water and annoyances lin the
! shaft, but which have all been adj
justed. At this writing shipment of
three cars of ore made I'D from the
$50 and 800 levels, is about to be mar
| keted. Judging from the results OF
| close sampling the mineral should net
the company close to SIS per ton- The
writer knows much of the condition OF
the mine, and while it may have been
| the desire of certain stock brokers to
bear" the shares, before the present
| year has elapsed, if such a man as Mr..
Hopkins is permitted to handle the I'M
| derground affairs for the company, the
( showing will be such that no combina-
ton can deDress its securities. The
writer has frequently heard it express
ed by parties who have made the south
ern portion of Tintic a study, that in
times to come the Shoebridge, Tesora
and Bowers Extension will be the not
able mines in the porphyry country.
| Eastern parties are believed to own ex-
tensive blocks of the Tesora stock, but
Messrs. Stallings, Hodson, Evans, Dick
son and Clarence Mccormick of Salt
Lake are the controlling local spirits
PLYMOUTH ROCK.
| 1t would be a difficult matter for any
one, however we'll posted in the geo.
logical conditions of the country i'm
mediately surrounding this big group
of claims, to accurately forecast its
future, or in any way measure it's pos
sibilities. The Plymouth Rock people,
| evidently approaching the rapidly APP
preaching value OF ground about Silver,
secured tremendous acreage, en-
| braced in fourteen claims. It is fur
| thermore apparent that they We're
reasonably familiar with events and
happenings. as we'll as the probability
that something would inevitably hap
pen at the Picnic, South Swansea, Rab-
bits Foot and Silver Park, because
they have literally corralled the certain
courses of the veins. BY reference to
any correct map of Tintic district it
Will be seen that the Rabbits Foot vein
must of necessity traverse the Ply
mouth country, and so must the Swan
sea, unless some tremendous eruDtive
power has detected its course. or the
pitch to westward is phenomenally eX-
cessive. Starting out this spring I'M
der the management of A. ]. Orem,
drifting was commenced eastward from
the bottom of an old shaft 800 feet
deep. Lack of hosting and boiler pow
er necessitated a temporary shutdown,
which resulted in the mine being
flooded and operations were suspended.
Some time later in the fall they re-
sumed work on another claim further
east and north of the work shaft, in
which it is believed that they have
located the Rabbits Foot CIarissa
ledge. At fifty-two feet pay ore was
encountered, and the company is pre-
pairing to continue to sink. The Ply
mouth Rock company owns no end of
valuable ground. 1t remains to be seen
how they will improve it.
NORTH SWANSEA.
Although closed temporarily, this
company owning and operating the
Dutch Empire and BeSsara-C Cha claims,
adjoining the north end of the Swansea
conpany's holdings, has been continu-
ously worked all summer by Messrs.
Clark, Condor and Mulrooney. It has
not been an easy matter to obtain any
information as to what degree Of sue
cess has attended their perseverance
and industry, though rumors recently,
in which Pat Condor was quoted, re-
port the finding of pay ore in places.
substantially the same as that on
which the Swansea vein had been 10
Gated The people of Robinson were
congratulating themselves on the prob
able addition of soon having another
shipping mine in their midst, when Mr..
Clark paid off all men and accounts,
and summarily closed the diggings in
definitely. Whether the North Swansea
company has succeeded in finding the
Swansea vein, the writer does not VEN
ture to say, but it is certain that they
will ultimately. AS to whether the
ledge will retain it's force and values
as evidenced in the Swansea proper, is
another material question, but deyout-
ly to be hoped. Il
MARION, MAHOGANY, JAMES G.
BLAINE AND PLUTUS.
The above patented propertie-s en-
bracing forty acres, more or less, are
owned by Belthazar Christensen and
associates OF Eureka. The develop
ments consist of two tunnels, on the
Plutus and Marion, 300 and $50 feet re-
spectively. Heavy mineralized quartz
carrying values in gold and silver rep
presents the ore finds A careful in |
spection of the country contiguous to |
the claims herein named will tend to |
convince one that with persistent and !
intelligent explorations carried on in |
certain localities encountering an ore |
chute should be inevitable and reduced |
to a scientific certainty. The Marion |
overlapS a portion of the Godiva COM |
pany's ground on the north, and the |
PlutuS covers part of the Mammoth !
possessions on the southwest, both oc- |
cupying that particular country lying |
between the Tetro group and the Mann |
moth territory, truly, an unknown |
quality, but conceded TO be devoid of |
the average risk and hazard ordinarily |
associated with mining. 1t is a loss |
TO the district entire that this valuable |
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