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


Boy, and only second because the lat
ter is demonstrating its greatness by
actual production, should come the
holdings of the United States Mining
company. These, as is we'll known,
consist of the Old Jordan and Galena
Niagara, and Old Telegraph groups,
consisting of perhaps 100 mining
claims and fractions, covering upwards
of 500 acres of land, and having FORM
erly yielded a gross product of not less
than So, o00, 0000. The remark has been
made that in acquiring this property
the United States company came into
possession of mines on the down hill
side of life, that would never pay for
their purchase. That this statement is
without foundation in fact car. be as
certained by any one sufficiently inter-
ested TO visit them and qualified TO
place an estimate on their resources in
sight Their doors are open.
Take the Old Jordan, for instance.
Its share of the gross product was in
since which and previous to 1899 under
the management of A. f. Holden it
piled up another million. This vast
total was taken from within sixty-five
fest vertically of grass roots. To-
day. under the management of J. w.
Neill, Developments have been carried
down another 100 feet, vertically, and at
that depth avenues have been cut
through the ore chutes, showing them
to be richer and of greater magnitude
than they were in the old workings.
Here there is already exposed 100 feet
depth above which the big product
came. Here is a field that alone should
more than recoup the company for ex-
penseS of purchase and development of
all it's holdings. Openings are being
made at the rate of 1,5G0 to 1000 feet
per month.
Change to Copper.
The contents of the ore in the deeper
workings are of special Importance, as
mineral veins to run into copper. In
one of his recent reports to headquar
tiers Manager Neill gave values of ores |
encountered in present works, as of as |
say record: In tunnel No. . the aver |
age from an extensive body of sui |
phides being drifted on right and left |
were found to include 20 per cent cop |
per; while from the bottom (400-foot) |
level (this level is reckoned from Ga |
lena shaft, where it is 400 feet deep on |
the dip), averages We're had of "a per |
cent copper. besides 1873 per cent lead,
40 ounces silver and $40 gold. When |
it is considered that percentages Of |
copper have not previously entered into
the computation of Old Jordan ore VAL
of other values, the ore is still
much richer than formerly. The Old
Jordan new developments add testi-
mony to the evolution of Bingham from
lead carbonate to copper camp
At the Niagara.
The Niagara is said to have 100000
tons of ore in sight as the result of
operations from the Davidson deep tun- (
mel and MaybeTry tunnel. 1t is uni
formly of shipping grade, a character
istic of former Niagara products. The
mine never looked SO we'll as at pres
emf.
The Old Telegraph has outdone itself
the past season in showing up phenom-
email ore bodies with rich gold contents,
and adds gratifying testimony ito the
fact that il only requires deeper work
ings in Bingham's mines to develop
copper. Manager Neiil in his report
tells OF an ore area now to be seen in
the celebrated Grecian Bend level, 250x |;
100 feet in dimensions, and raising. so /,
far as indications can tell, to the Ro-
man Empire level. 100 feet. This is
in new ground. Samplings
chow average values of per cent cop
per, SO ounces silver. $3.50 in gold. and
ron in excess of silica. In other i'm 7,
mense exposures of ore in the Grecian
Bend samplings taken from various
points show averages of per cent cop-i !
per, ounces silver 81 in gold; ell
ounces silver. $3.50 gold, 2 per cent