The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28
Stateline's Steady Progress

THE YEAR 1902 has been a prosper
Gus one for the young mining
camp of Stateline. Though the
youngest in years of the camps that
are now making the name of Utah
synonymous with wealth, Stateline is
far from the last in the amount of
work being DONE in the amount of ore
| being developed and in possibilities.
Though only about seven years have
passed since the first locations were
made in this vicinity, and the camp
has had setbacks and discourag elnents
that would have disheartened the
strongest, il is forging ahead. and
when this article is being read, two
mills will be turning out wealth to the
fortunate stockholders, and plans will
be matured for another mill TO be COM
pleted before Jan. l, 1904.
Stateline gets its name from the
fact that it is close to the Utah
Nevada boundary line, about sixteen
miles northwest of Modena. its railroad
station, on the Oregon Short Line. This
mineral belt extends up and down the
line for a distance of about twelve
miles, running over into Lincoln coun-
ty, Nevada, in what is known as the
Eagle Valley mining district.
Formation Of Country.
The formation Of the country is por-
phyry consisting of a large dyke from
a mile to two miles in width, running
north and south, and in this dyke are
found the numerous veins of quartz
and spar that carry the gold and sill
yer values, the former predominating.
The most activity has been in the north
end of the district, where are located
| the big mines, near the town of State
| line. About eight miles south of the
| town the veins are present at the sur
J face, and prospecting here during the
past few years has developed a num-
Der of properties that promise equally
well with the north end of the district
| The Johnny and Ophir mines have
been the most developed, and today
are the only producing properties. The
/ Johnny consists of a group of twelve
claims, eight of which have been ac-
quired during the past year by pur-
| chase. The principal owners of the
property are w. ]. Dooley, who has
| successfully managed it for several
years; Henry Newell, F. D. Cliff,
Frank Wilson and W. ]. Halloran of
Salt Lake. These gentlemen control
nearly nine tenths of the capitalization
of the company, which is 4O6,y.< shares
of the par value of 81.
Ore in the Johnny
Careful development during the past
two years has exposed some very large
deposits of ore. The vein has been
drifted on for 800 feet and shows up
| strong with every evidence of perma-
! nency on the 240-foot level, while on
the fifty-foot, 100-foot and 100 foot lev
els there is an abundance of ore in
sight In developing the property alone
during the past year something like
-r-s
| on the dump ready for the new MILL
| which will be dropping its stamps by
Jan 1. This mill was commenced in
March last and is intended to be a
| twenty-stamp mill, amalgamating and
| cyanide. but only ten stamps viii be
put in and used for the present. II
is situated. about 500 feet east of TIE
old shaft, and a new shaft has been
sunk, from which the ores can be
dropped into the mill. This is soon tc
be equipped with a first-class hoist
The well known firm of Dederich 6
| Burke built the mill at a cost of $4,000
] With its immense bodies of ore, aver
aging about $40 in sthe yellow metal
and its splendid equipment, ii viii not
be long before the Johnny will be dis
tributing its dividend checks to its
fortunate stockholders.
ophir's Operations.
The Ophir is owned by a Detroi
company. of which Hamilton Carhar
is president. There are five claims II
the group owned by the Ophir people
and they have number of others un
der bond The mine has been developed
on all the levels down TO the 500. and {
fine vein of silver bearing ore has beer
proved up. being as wide as twelve fee
in many places. Recently a shoot of or
$50 feet long and twelve feet wide wa
hi
averages from twenty to thirty ounce
silver, with good gold values. Unde
the superintendency of w D. Parker
who has had charge of the propert.
since the Andrews failure in Detroit
which threatened to tie up the opera
tons of the mine for some time, IN
mill has been put into successful opera
ton and the mine in condition to pu
out d much larger tonnage. The ore