The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-25
Reports From Many Of the
Leading Properties.
SOUTH SWANSEA SURVEY
PREPARING FOR THE FOUR ACES
TRIAL.
Good Ore From the Sunday Fraction
Development at the Showers
Consolidated and Bowers Exten-
sion-Improvement at the Carisa-
Situation at the Mammoth.



Especial Correspondence
Robinson, Feb 24.-ManageT Rome
Wheeler Of the South Swansea has been
/ at the mine pretty much all week in COM
pany with Surveyor Brooks, determining
points and distances in the territory in
controversy with the Four Aces. The out
put Of eight cars of the usual grade of ore
this week naturally shows pretty healthy
indications of the mines continued capac-
tty. The completing touches to the new
shaft house and premises are being given
with view of commencing TO hoist from
that point.
There has been some talk here the past
week of renewing explorations in the
North Swansea. but the absence from
| camp of the owners renders il impossible
TO verify uhe rumOr. At the time opera
! tons were suspended small ere seams
/ were making in the ledge and II was be-
I il6Ned 10 be the Swansea vein. Work Is
| being continued in a vigorous way by
/ MeSsrs- Sheppard, Kinney and associates
! in the Eureka-Swansea Extension, with
varying changes OF rock. The manage
ment is making E0od the promises that it
would perform great amount of develop
ment work before abandoning hope.
Sunday Shipment.
Messrs. De Witt and Loury, owners of
/ Ihe sunday FRACTION. close neighDors of
the kaDDIJ Foot are preparing to ship
another car of splendid copper ore. The
product is unusually clean and unques-
/ uonably carries fine pay values. Shipping
mineral was encountered ninety feet from
| the surface. the owners having followed
/ the chute TO a depth of 80 feet. Mr..
Loury informed the writer that indica-
/ tons were very favorable for making a
I big producer out of the Sunday.
The past weeks work in both the Ajax
/ Mammoth Extension and Black Jack
group have yielded very encouraging re-
suits. In the first named property drift
| ing eastward toward the big iron ledge Is
/ being pushed. Foreman Charles Miller,
| one OF the original owners. gave out the
| information this morning that everything
| pointed to the fact that they might break
| into the vein any day, and that they had
a mtneralized substance now. They are
/ still sinking in the Jack Jack, the shaft
/ being principally in a brown cTystallized
I lime, frequently disclosing the most favor
/ able ore symptoms.
/ Manager Buckbee Of the Sunbeam was
! engaged in doing some surveying with l..
/ q. Burton today. He reported the loading
1 Of another car Of excellent copper ore,
and the continued development work in
/ the Undine, with promising results.
The unexpected and sudden termination
I of work at the Martha Washington, arts
/ ing out Of difference Of opinion existing
/ between members Of the managing board,
| is a disagTeeable feature of the week,
/ causing many surprises and disappOint-
ments to Silver City folks.
Showers Consolidated.
It is quite impossible to obtain and sat
| iSfactOTy information regarding the con-
| ditions In the Showers Consolidated.
/ Meagre details indicate the certainty Of
/ excellent results being achieved when the
I chute is reached on the 40 directly below
I the point on the 800 where the shipping ore
/ was encountered. Work on the 300 level
/ is being carried on more actively than
| ever, and within the past week it is be-
! heved that labor has demonstrated con-
| clusively that when the south drift on
/ the 400 reaches a described point, the
amount and the right kind of ore will be
/ encountered.
In the case Of the Bowers Extension al
most the same conditions prevail, except
I ing that the Extension management IS
running nortnerly toward the Showers.
I While miners who are working IN the
/ property say the ground never looked 50
strong and favorable, the management
/ has taken a new tack, and refuses TO give
4 out any information. The dump, however.
/ shows material changes of matter, much
/ Of il containing particles OF copper ana
/ lead.
The week ending at the ShOebridge
/ shows practically the same conditions as
/ existed at the close of last week, except
/ ing that continued explorations on the 900
disclosed the presence OF small copper
chute In close proximity to where the lead
1 ore was first discovered. There Is, now
l ever. no longer any uncertainty ABOUT the
downward continuity OF the center ore
.
was put down. This is nOrtherly from the
main work shaft, and on the 80 level.
| for a distance of many feet on the moor
/ of the drift is most gratifying IN charac-
I ter and quantity. but being directly at
/ water Level. Foreman Carruthers mas IL
/ impossible to put Wine down II IS IHe
/ purpose of Manager Hebron TO prosecute
/ considerable more searching on boJn the
! 400 and $50 levels before sinking the Veru-
cal shaft though he realizes II must III
/ timately be done In fact ne ADVISED Inc me
1 Herald DAY or so ago tnat ne was dr-
/ ranging for the necessary increased Dollef
/ power and pumping facilities.
Carisa Improving.
! The outlook for the Carisa continues to
/ improve daily. Superintendent Under
! wood told The Herald If one may judge
I from present appearances the ore chule
gives promise Of permanence ana ampu-
tude insuring for some time, anyway.
more or less ore shipments. Three cars
I of copper ore went out from the Carlsa
this week.
/ The long looked for shipment of ore
/ from the May Day. that Is, since the IN
stallation of the new plant Of machinery,
/ took place this week, Manager HUNT tor-
warding three cars. There IS htue DOUBT
but what the number OF cars could nave
( been materially Increased had there been
+ any occasion. However, until such drlIt
/ connections as will be necessary, nave
been completed the May Day viii not
be able to regularly get to market with
/ anvfhing like its ordinary capacity. Since
the ore sheds are full II IS more Jhan
likely that this week s performance VIII
( be duplicated the coming week
At the Mammoth
/ At the Mammoth mill this noon, Super
i intendent Mcintyre reported the ore sit
uation on the 900 Level as apparently con-
tinuimg 20 eniarge every way, ana that
the quartz ledge on the 800 newly cut
into from the station, was showing better
metallic values every day.
Very good news comes from the Grand
. Central. particularly on their newly rtdcn-
ed 500. The company is loading eight cars
Of ore now and may increase the NUMBER
10 ten.
The Ajax sent forward four cars Of
very nice looking ore, the products chief
value apparently being in copper, aVerag-
ing from 13 to IS per cent superintendent
Nebeker seems full of hope for DIG results
this coming year. The Lower Mammoth
people are accommodating the nucleus OF
another two or three carload lot. 1t ap-
pears quite possible that if Foreman Nor
ris was not handicapped by too mucn
management. he would give tangible ana
substantial evidences Of ms experience
and knowledge of the country through
which he Is driving.
Just now II looks as if the old Buckeye
property may come from under the cloud
of adversely which has been hanging over
IL for so long a time. The ore find which
The Herald announced Friday, made on
the southwest drift on the 300 level. prom
fses to be more than a handful The Her
aid learned from the parties IN charge
that the test made on the assay mil run
/ taken in town by Mr. Sappington Thurs
I Gay was very gratifying. Messrs. Elmer
son and Raines are making good neadWay
/ in sinking on their new contract.
Weeks Cbir,r7 euts