The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-09
GRAND CENTRAL MINE.
Great Showing of ore-Herald Man
Inspects Property.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE

Especial Correspondence
Mammoth, Oct 6.-Through the cour-
tesy of Lafayette Holbrook, president
of the Grand Central Mining company,
your correspondent was accorded all
the privileges of the premises, and. in
company with Mr.. Holbrook and Su-
perintendent Donelly. spent upwards
of three hours in underground inspec-
ton of the workings and ore bodies.
The surprise the writer experienced
in viewing the ore disclosures was all
the greater because of real or af-
fected sympathy expressed by some
people who have professed to be famil-
lar with the conditions of the mine,
and have regretted the fact that the
mine was almost out of ore. Moth
ing can be so far from the truth and
state of affairs as they exist. Leaving
the cage at the 400 and following the
main drift in a northeasterly direction
something over 500 feet, the main stop
ing ground is reached, which extends
vertically without break SO far as eN-
plorations have determined accurately,
to and including the 500 level. At a
point estimated to be somewhere about
thirty or forty feet below the designat-
ed 500 level. though no such lead has
ever been run. commences a marvellous
ore showing that continues and appar-
emily increases in measurement all the
way to the 500. From the 800 to the 600
levels, by following small exploration
drifts. made for the purpose of deter
mining the size, trend and continuity
of the ore chute, and by going in up
raises the most conservative estimate
would fix the ore measurements at
anywhere from seventy-five to ninety
feet in width by $50 to 200 feet in
length. That this chute very mater
tally increases in extent with perpen-
dicular following, is made manifest on
the 200 level. where the ore showing
continues uninterruptedly for a dis
lance of more than 600 feet, all of which
is in new country, presenting, as Mr.
Donelly declared, the most extensive
mineral body ever opened in the mine
While the east westerly. north and
southerly area or ore limit Is unde-
fined at the 800. from that point down.
ward comparatively little extraction
has been done, and by demonstration
there exists a practically lillmataDle
field of virgin territory. But, that the
Grand Central mine today is lily con-
ditioned for convenient and inexpensive
handling of their product Will be un-
derstood when il is known that there
are really but two main levels with
shaftway connections in the mine
namely. the 400 and the 200, and While
operations are being vigorously prose-
cuted with a view of lettering the sit
uation, until such an end is consum-
mated the management would be ex-
tremely injudicious in continuing the
extraction of ores from certain Dor-
tons of the mine at present, even If
countless millions of tons were exposed
to view The present method of work
as outlined by the management will be
to quickly make connections with the
500 level, which is now being run to
connect the ore chambers above, and
continued sinking of the vertical shaft
way. Besides the underground work,
Mr.. Holbrook is endeavoring to con-
clude arrangements with some parties
for the immediate construction of the
tramway from the mine to the joint
trackage in Robinson
Viewed from any unprejudiced stand
point. when it is remembered and con-
sidered that the Grand Central hold
ings are Joined on either end by big
corporations who value their posses
sions up in the millions. and who are
now obtaining their precious revenue
from the 1900 LOGO, LOO and 1900 lev
els-who shall safely predict the future
of the Grand Central. having attained
but half the vertical depth?