The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-28
Cost of Mining and Milling West Dip
Ore.
BOSTON & MERCUR MILL
TANK CAPACITY TO BE GREATLY
INCREASED.
New Tanks Will Be Oblong and 200
Feet In Length-Rush to the
South End of the valley-Devel-
opment On the Omaha and Other
Properties.
Special Correspondence.l

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Mercur, Utah, April 27-The Boston
d Mercur mill at La Cigale in the West
Dip, is working satisfactorily and
plans are now being drawn for an adj
dltion large enough for a tank 200 feet
in length. Instead of being circular,
according to custom, it will be OBJ
long, divided by partitions into COM
partments, saving steel and cost in con-
struction- Each compartment will be
emptied by large sliding doors in the
| bottom. The tanks now being used in
the mill are somewhat smaller than
those usually found and are equipped
with gearing, so that they can be emp
! tied by being turned over and the waste
emptied into the waste trough.
Manager Mackav of the Boston &
Mercur, states that for some tine the
| total cost of mining and milling the ore
was $113 per ton, but that when the
addition is completed the cost will be
reduced to IS cents per ton, owing to
automatic devices and labor-saving
machinery employed.
at the Omaha, which is the next
property south of the Boston & Mercur,
in the West Dip, development work on
the ore>bodies is being pushed steadily
and it is expected that a mill will be
Dullt during the season.
Work on the Daisy is going along as
usual. New supports are now being
placed on the dump.
At the Snowstorm drifting is being
continued with good results both north
and south from the 400-foot level.
Progressive work is being done at the
Elkhirn. Contractor QualliS has just
completed whim at the S. N. Moore,
preparatory to continuing the present
shaft, now $50 feet deep, an additional
depth of 100 feet. The new No. shaft
just been sunk to the depth of IS feet
and Contractor Free has taken con-
tract for an additional fifty feet.
1t is stated that ore has been en-
countered at a depth of $40 feet in the
Keifer shaft on the West Mercur prop
erty. In the Florence group adjoining
the body of ore recently struck at a
depth of 465 feet is said to have yielded
good values from assays taken.
Rush to the South.
A good deal of activity is being
shown at the Gold Chief and other
properties further south, owing to the
recent strikes made on the south side
of the Lewiston shaft, which proves
that ore bodies exist on the south, as
well as the north side, where the Daisy,
La Cigale and other properties are To-
Gated. Heretofore the theory has been
advanced that the mineral vein does
not traverse the south side, but this |
has now evidently been disproved. a !
wild rush is being made for every foot !
of ground extending into Rush valley |
since the discoveries on the south.
Down at the Similar near Five-mile |
pass, it is claimed that large and |
steady assays are being obtained. !
While this property is only a prospect |
yet it is equipped with a. steam hoist |
and QUILTED as though the owners had |
not the slightest doubt of a great mine. |
1t is needless to say that the ground in
this vicinity is all sta1ed.
Leaving West Dip and striking |
through Sunshine gulch, the handsome
dwelling for the accommodation of the |
officers of the Overland looks down |
upon one from a high hill overlooking
the little town of Sunshine Back of it
stands a very imposing and complete
mill. The town of Sunshine has re-
sumed it's old-time activity and when
the long-looked-for resumption of the
Sunshine mill, which is passed in COM
ing into town, has taken place. there
will be a great demand for additional
living accommodations, as it is there
are about a half dozen new houses be-
ing built and all the old ones are be-
ing repaired, so that the town presents
a brisk and prosperous appearance.