Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-02
COLUMBUS ORE
WILL BRING $4,000
A FOrty.Ton Shipment Arrives at
Samplers from Recent Strike
Made in Alta Mine
SUPT. JACOBSEN IN TOWN.
Hoist to be Installed in Rowland Tun-
nel-PrOgress Being Made With
New Electric Power Plant

The Columbus Consolidated Mining
company has two lots Of ore at the sam
pier, about 40 tons, which Supt, A. o.
jacobson said today would bring into
the company's treasury approximately
$4,000.
The ore comes from the new strike in
the west drift from the Columbus tun-
mel. An average sampling Of the vein
showed assay returns Of 2S per cent
copper "a per cent lead, l2O5O ounces
silver and n ounces gold. This ore
VIII bring approximately $50 to the ton
gross, and about SO, net.
In speaking OF the new strike, Mr..
Jacobson who left the mine yesterday
morning, stated that the vein has been
cross-cut to the extent Of II feet, with
no Indications, as yet Of the hanging
wall coming in. About eight feet of
the vein carries ore of the grade men,
toned; while the milling ore In the bal
dnce, as far as explored, averages some
thing like this A per cent lead and
1880 ounces silver,
The Superlor-Alta company, which
was recently organized to work the
Hellgate group in the gulch south and
west Of the Columbus. has let con-
tract to sink shaft 100 feet, the dimen.
slohs belng lX6 feet shaftway and a
3Ni manWay,
The Alta Quincy, adjoining the Col
umbus on the south, has an energetic
campaign Of development under way.
The new boarding house, started some
ume ago, is completed and the employ
es VIII be comfortably housed during
the winter.
On the Rowland property west of the
columbus, development work Is iu prog
ress The winze sunk from the How
land tunnel and In which some very fine
ore was encountered sometime ago Is
completed to the depth Of 20 feet II has
reached point where hoIsting
by hand has become too tedious
ana station Is being cut preparatory
TO the installation of q hoist, which mas
been delivered to the mine.
Inc hoist Will be operated by com
pressed air from the new plant to be
put IN near the mouth Of the Column
bus tunnel and $500 feet of 4-Inch
pipe, through which air viii be con-
veyed Is now being laid The COM
pressor will have capacity for the
operation OF IS drills at the Alta alti-
tude; 1t viii derive power from the
electric power plant, now in the course
or construction, several miles down the
canyon, and which Is to be I'm operation
not later than January.
Mr. jacobson states that contractor
j. j. Burke has the work on the plant
under way at the site OF the power
house a force Of men is busy making
the excavations and doing the neces-
sary grading Another crew Is build
ing the intake pipe line while two 9TH
ers are digging the holes and setting
the poles which viii hold up the wires
through which the electric current Will
pulsate The wires win be strung to
the mine as soon as possible; all other
outdoor work viii also be finished up
hastily, the purpose being to get ahead
Of the approaching winter. The install
iation Of the machinery will be left to
the last as that can be done when the
are under cover.
The contractor who is hauling ore
from the Columbus Con. and also the
conference.-the mines, has now rs
teams ON the road; but Is arranging
to put on 80 additional The Column |
BUS will gradually increase its output |
and the Continental has contracted to
send out % tons per day for an ndeh- |
1itc period
The latter company is shipping moth |
ing but low grade ores at the present |
piled up here and these and |
which IL In the way Of the men doing |
development work These ores run |
from SIS to $40 to the ton.