The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-09
BIG STRIKES
IN UNCLE SAM
One Occurs in South Humbug,
the Other in Uncle Sam.
BOTH IN VIRGIN GROUND
GRAND CENTRAL MAMMOTH
CASE TOMORROW.

~ wO GOOD bodies Of fine ore have
lust been opened in absolutely
; virgin ground in the Uncle sam
company's domain at Tintic, and the
management has reason to believe that
the strikes viii prove of great import
aDce. though ali that was known Of
either yesterday was that there was a
four-foot breast of solid ore in the
Humbug and an equally gratifying
showing in new territory within the
boundaries Of the Uncle Sam claim.
At the meeting of directors held L IL
day afternoon superintendent George
3. Hancock reported by letter tEat ne
had ODened into between two and three
feet of ore in a drift into virgin Hum
hug ground. The news was very
cheering to the management, but II
seems that other disclosures followed
so quickly after the report was mailed
that the half was not contained IN It,
Yesterday Superintendent Hancock,
who ~-me in Friday night reported
that the new find in Humbug ground
was at a point so far removed from
any of the old workings that there was
no chance of its leading into some
worked-Out Slope or Wine, and when
he left there vas all of four feet OF ore
in the face that gave evidence OF Wid-
ening. lust as it had done UP to that
point from where the streak was dis
closed a few feet behind.
From several samples mine assays
were made showing that the rock car
ried an average of about 10 per cent
lead. and all the way from SO to 20
ounces Of silver per ton. Superintend-
eut Hancock is very confident that he
is entering one Of the characteristic
rich chutes Of the Humbug, such as
Uncle Jesse knight was in the habit
Of occas ionally taking out such fabu-
lous sums from in 2 short time.
No less gratifying is the strike that
Mr. Hancock reports having made after
his letter was mailed to the directors
on Friday morning. 1t occurred in a
raise from a drift that was sent away
ont into virgin territory seventy feet
below the tunnel level of the Uncle
sam Mr.. Hancock said the drift had
been advanced long distance through
a assure that was we'll filled with min
eralized quartz. The values were scat
tering, however, and the men were
finally pulled off, and the v-0rk of pros
pecting at that point was a 1ened.
Finally il was decided to try again.
The face improved a lit 40 the
top Of the drift looked On Otter,
and a raise was finally started.
In that raise said Mr.. Hancock
yesterday, there is a splendid body
of carbonate ore exposed, ore that will
carry IS per cent lead and about fifteen
ounces in silver per ton, and from the
amount of work done when I left, it
looked as though it was going up anu
down both
The feature Of these strikes. Mr..
Hancock says is in the fact that they
have been made in heretofore uneX-
plored territory, and if they prove up
as we'll as they give evidence that they
WILL he can follow them to China and
ont at the surface Of the claims. Tor all
the danger there is in finding them
worked out in any direction.
During Friday a report got started
that The Uncle Sam company was
either going to levy an assessment or
close down. and commenting on it yes
terday, President Dern said nothing of
the kind had been thought Of.
I'VE are employing about seventy
five men, said he, and an assessment
has not been in contemplation, because
it was not needed. The mine has been
producing enough all along to meet eX-
penses. and we have done a large
amount Of exploratory work at that.
The company is in good shape in every
way. and from the reports made to US
by superintendent Hancock today, we
feel that the future is full of prom
Use.
mo matter how the reported strikes
pan out, we shall go right ahead de-
veloping on plans already decided
upon, and do whatever in addition cir
cumstances show should be done. Other
portions Of the mine look encouraging,
and ore viii continue to come from
them in ample quantity to keep work
going, no matter what the latest de-
velOpments prove to be-"