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

their ore bodies, and had it not been
for the admirable nerve of Messrs.
Kimberley and Huck, Gold Mountain
would still be pleading in vain for cap
ital. Within two years those gentle
men have DEVELOPED ore bodies in the
Annie Laurie aggregating from $S,000,-
600 to IS 600, 600 have erected a 200-ton
mill run by two electric power plants,
built the little city Of Kimberley, teem-
ing with life and business, and While
rapidly adding to their own fortunes,
have diffused fnnumerable blessings to
others, while giving an impetus to the
district which no amount of crOaking
can overcome.
Annie Laurie's Encouragement.
Encouraged by the Annie Laurie's
magnificent showing, the Breckenridge
Mammoth people have found their
faulted vein and are rapidly making a
bonanza out of their once black
eyed" group. The Trapper's Pride vein
has been cut with a tunnel, and at
100 vertical feet shows up, so it is re-
ported, an gre body seventeen feet wide
and averaging $40 gold per ton. Even
if the report be discounted so per cent
il is still a close rival to the Annie
Laurie. In the June Bug group the
I
/ bodies is rapidly progressing under the
/ direction of the inimitable Jim" Long.
The limit prescribed for this letter
| precludes more than a general descrip-
/ ton of TINS wonderfully rich district,
which now shows larger veins of better
average value for the amount Of work
/ performed than can any other district
I in Utah.
Before leaving the subject OF this dis
/ trict it is well to add that from the
/ Annie Laurie a spur Of the great gold
/ belt traverses Deer Creek canyon to
4 the east, and, crossing the great Sc
vier fault marked by Sewer gorge,
/ enters the Durkee district. Along this
/ lateral are many fine claims in Deer
/ Creek canyon. One especially prOmis-
/ just north Of the mouth of Deer Creek,
and in the hills west of the Sewer
/ river. Regular shipments of ore aver
! aging S93 per ton in gold and silver are
I being made. Considerable Pittsburg
/ money is being put into the Durkee dis
/ trict.
/ Returning to the main belt, its con-
/ tinuatiOn on to the south on east side
/ of range is marked by the Banner
/ group, which is being exploited with
! eastern money. Onward to the south
/ the great belt enters the Ohio district,
directly west of Marysvale, and the
! present terminus of the Rio Grande
! Western railway. The history of the
/ Ohio district is that Of the earlier
days Of Gold Mountain. Carloads Of
/ phenOmenally rich ore have been
] shipped out. mills have been erected
and run steadily for a year or two,
| then closed while great bodies Of ore
/ in such mines as the Bully Boy and
/ Webster are available for reduction.
/ With power drills and large reduction
works those lead-silveT- gold properties
/ Of Bullion canyon could be made to
/ pay handsome dividends But in the
| antiquated methods of mining and re-
duction which are still in vogue here,
/ and in the low prices Of lead and
! silver, no further explanation is neces-
/ sary for the silence which reigns over
/ the Bully Boy and Webster, the really
! great Deer Trail and other silver-lead
| properties of the Ohio and the adjOin-
/ ing Mt. Badly district to the south.
Gold Belt.
| Between the lead-silver zone and the
/ crest Of the range is found the gold
/ belt coming in from Gold Mountain.
/ Until quite recently prospecting and
/ development work Of the pot holes and
/ caved-in shafts and tunnels of the dis
1 trict can be so termed) have been con-
/ fined to the lower belt But during
/ the past season many valuable gold
/ discoveries have been made well up in
/ Bullion and Cottonwood canyons
/ Among the active properties Of the
I district may be named the Dalton,
/ which is responding in fine shape the
/ Wedge, Mountain Queen, Perdue-Sur-
] prise Glenerie and La Cross, in Bullion
canyon, with the Park, Ontario and