The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-05
0PHIR QUEEN
WILL CUT LOOSE
Michigan Talent Now Equippi0g
It With Machinery.
MINE AND SHELTER OUTPUTS
REDUCTION PLANTS FOR BING-
HAM AND STOCKTON.
MINE AND SHELTER OUTPUTS

After passing through the usual
trials and tribulations attending the
bringing out of most mining enter
prises. the Ophir Queen company,
which owns a valuable block of ground
adjoining Senator Clarlts famous
Ophir Hin at Ophir, on the east has
finally got down 20 systematic BUSH
ness and before the year closes. there
is not a shadow of doubt, The great
ore bodies VIII have been opened up
and their value demonstrated.
The property is now controlled by
representative talent Grom the iron re-
gions OF Michigan, headed by R. u.
Hammond of Iron Mountain and w. o..
Curtis of MenOminie, who first inves-
ugated the proposition "a few months
ago, when the stock was going begging
az 25c a share. Their success I'm
handling the property has been rapid
ana complete, and when seen yester-
day afternoon they announced that the
c0mpanys affairs had been all
Strengthened out the ground had been
paid FOR, a hrst-class hosting and
compressor plant was being delivered
and after 20 had been installed and
settled for. the treasury would stiu
hold sufficient funds 20 send the shaft
down 10 the 500-fOOt level and explore
the ore bodies as wen.
This means that one more powerful
combination has entered Utah's MATCH
less mineral fields. fully prepared to
add another great prOdLeer 20 the rap
idly growing list. and that the WOn-
derful Ophir Hm will soon have a
neighbOr duplicating it's remarkable
performances. lit is a good thing for
Ophir and q good thing for the oper-
atOrs in the Stockton district adj0in-
ing. as Dc means that when the plans
now maturing for the erection Of great
smelling works over there are COM
plete the furnaces viii be assured of
one more contributor
on the eastern boundary lines Of the
Ophir Queen cOmpauys territory is To-
Gated the famous old F'iske mine, from
which J.. T.. Holden derived a fortune
in the early days. almost at the grass
roots. This old bonanza. the Ophir
Queen, Ophir Hill and the Montana
Consolidated, an cover the same mon
ster mineral outcrop, and competent
mining engineers have assured the new
Michigan combination that there Is not
one chance in 1000 of the Ophir Queen
not proving as big as the best Of them.
IN Iact, the Ophlr Hill III now being
mined so close TO the Michigan COM
bination's property, that nothing short
of a miracle could prevent the ledge.
which is undoubtedly the biggest ian
this state, from running into their
ground. From their end lines to the
Ophir Hill shaft is only $40 feet. while
20 the shaft they are now sinking the
distance is 1040 feet The dip of the
vein is SO well understood that the
engineers who have surveyed it esH-
mate that IL viii be capped without
doubt at "a depth of 400 feet in tbe
Ophlr Queen. A splendidly timbered,
4XS-f1Ot double-compavuneu working
shaft is now down $50 feet and two
shifts are constantly employed in sink
ing TO-
The new equipment consists OF "a
powerful gasoline hosting engine cap
able of handling $50 tons Of ore per
day at "a depth of 200 feet. and q
compressor plant calculated % supply
the mine with an the air it win need
for a long time TO come. and az the
same time operate a number of power
drills. Some of the machinery IS all
ready here and every particle of it viii
De- on the ground during the next few
days. Mr.. Hammond expects TO remain
here for several days yet while Mr.
Curtis takes a ruu up into the north
west. where business interests REQUIRE
his attention