The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

have been opeEed between the 200 and
400 levels, enough, in fact, to prove
an important item in feeding a near
by furnace. In addition to this some
nice bodies of ore are being developed
on these properties. Fifteen carloads
of ore have been shipped from this
mine during the past year and have
fully demonstrated the high value Of
the property. This, together with the
adjacent properties all of which are
also under the same control is soon
TO be equipped with modern machinery,
and systematic prospecting with active
mining is now in progress, with thirty
two men employed. Recent develop
ments show that there is yet q vast
quantity of good ore in the mines, and
they bid fair to be Of immense value
under better conditions. These mines
lie at a considerable elevation above
Milford. just at the base of the range.
Several miles across the valley and
at @ somewhat greater distance from
Milford lies
The Famous o. K Mine.
Sensations are not the everyday in
ridents Of mining that they were dur
Ing the prospecting days of Phoebe,
Virginia city and Leadville, but it was
a genuine sensation that turned the
eyes of the mining world BeaverwaTd
when, in August last. the O. *. made
It's first shipment of copper ore to the
shelters of salt Lake valley. Two
hundred and sixty tons of ore assaying
40 per cent copper. IS in gold. thirteen
ounces in silver and q high per cent in
iron and sulphur was a revelation to
that class who thought that ali pay
ground in Utah lies north Of 80 de-
grees and 40 minutes north latitude.
the south boundary of the Tintic dis
trict.
Although there has been no attempt
at sensation, and no stOck-jobbiug in
the policy Of the o. X. nothing but
legitimate and intelligently directed de-
Velopment there has been more than
LOCO tons Of this high-grade ore landed
on the dump within the past six
months. and fully 10000 tons more
blocked out in the mine. The vein ex-
posed to a depth of over 400 feet is
about eighty feet thick. with the rich
streak ranging iTTegUlarly from six TO
twenty-etght feet in thickness, near or
on the fOOtwall.
The Equipment.
The property is equipped with a sub
stantial, rOomy boarding house. bunk
house, Office, blacksmith shop and a
ze-hOrse power steam hoist, and. with
David Maudkin as foreman. it is as
near perfection in its working as min
ing usually gets. A la-ger- and more
nodern hosting engine Is. however.
one Of the necessities in the near fu-
tuTe, when the present force OF thirty
five men is to be increased to seventy.
as contemplated early in the new wear.
It is difficult undertaking to de-
scribe such a mine as the O. X. It is
full Of contradictions, of surprises. of
wonders. There is nothing else like it
in the STATE, and probably not in the
world. tt is spectacular, enhancing
The location is not where one might
expect to find copper deposits. An ex-
pert from Salt Lake City only two
years ago pronounced the mine worth
less and advised the discontinuance Of
operations altogether.
Twenty years ago this property was
partially developed by a shaft sunk TO
a depth Of 200 feet, and a drift from
the bottom was run in a northeasterly
direction. Considerable ore was taken
out. This ore was Of high grade, which,
after paying shipping charges to Bal
timOre. left a handsome net return, It
was thought that the mine might pos
sibly develop into an ordinarily good
property, but for some reason further
work was discontinued. Ii was never
/ resumed until the acquisition of this
and adjacent claims by the present
| owners.
Just Missed It.
In the light OF recent developments.
this old incline furnishes several sur
prises. In one place it comes within a
single inch Of tapping the marvelously
rich deposits which have recently been
discovered. Had it deviated a foot in
either direction there is 10 question but
what southern Utah would have long
since come to the front and made that
section one Of the greatest copper
producing districts in the west.
There are other copper mines in
which great ore deposits occur, but
none Of which the writer has any
/ knowledge can compare in the spec
tacular element, There are veins three
20 four feet thick, and even greater
/ thickness and of unknown width run
ming as high Of 40 and even 70 per cent.
Of such surprising beauty that it IS
idle to even attempt q type an ade-
qUate description Of their splendOTs. In
the glare of the magnesium light they
glitter and simmer with an irrides-
cent loneliness. comparable only 20 old
Venetian glass. Immediately contig-
uous is found quartz of snowy white
ness imbedded in which are beautiful
crystals. attaining here a size and
perfection truly wonderful
UDsets Old Theories.
u has been an axiom among mining
men that where these octasoa4i orys-
4.f. IN.
yet here We find them within Il very
few inches and in some cases actually
projecting into the veins above IGrn-
toned.
But the copper deposits are not all of
one character Not twenty feet iron
one of these sulphide veins may be
found the pufest cOveliIe N -leIrsi,s
/ equal In magnitude and So easily mined
that a shovel is the only tool re-
CURED Azurite is also found in large
bodies. an of these various minerals
being in such close jUXtap )s'iion 10
each other THAI they are, in iaet, mined
from The same Slope. This WAS sur
prise number two.
Permansncy Assured.
it is. Of course, impossible - Judge
accurately OF the extent ana future
possibilities of these various dcp g..
/ Il is hardly 20 be- expected thar they
will last to a greater !ep.h than a
/ point apprOximating the w;tler Inc
/ but the country is dry and as the
( Horn Silver is down to the 1890 t'r"l
/ without finding the water level thas
contingency is Of small concern. l'ut
/ the future of the mine does not depend
/ upon this consideration, in other parts
/ of il are found immense bodies of an
easily smeIted carbonate, carrying
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