The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

They found that nearly 81. 100000 had been
spent ~ opening up the mines. while the
bulldog production had been only SZo.ug9.
In 1910 shipments amounting 10 S600ll
were made, but with depth the quartz
became harder and not rich enough IN
silver 20 pay under prevailing conditions.
in 1871 the nomadic fortune-hunters had
all gone 20 Phoebe and other boom camps.
and hik0 became absolutely deserted.
subsequently a few chloriders worked
there -u oesultOry fashion, having the
ores treated no small custom mill in
crescent canyon, near the mines, nut
finally this mill was shipped 90 Ivapah,
and the coyotes We're lett 90 rule over
realm once crowded with humanity
With the advent Of railroad within
sixty mines, irish mountain offers
promising field for scientific mining re-
search and operations ln the early days
money was simply thrown away, and al
most no real mining was done Not a
smart is 800 feet deep. Wherever the
vein showed signs OF becoming impoVer-
ished work was abandoned. Ii will re-
quire further investigation and the exc
penalture OF some money Tor develop
mcnt whether the veins are strong AMI
rich enough at depth to pay under pres
ent conditions.
The ore is found mostly in the carbon
ferrous limestone, the deposits being sill
yer-lead ore IN fissures or silver chlorides
I'M quartz.
Examples Of Bad Mining.
A shining example Of early mismanage-
ment Is the Illinois mine, the most eX-
tensively worked In the camp About
1000 tons were extracted, averaging forty
seven ounces in silver 10 the ton grow
ing poorer with depth. The ore is ii
quartz carrying oxides of lead and anti
mony. A depth Of 80 feet was OBJ
tanned. The Slopes are four 10 twelve
feet wide
The only mine IN the camp which has
paid is the Emma Nevada, formerly
known as the Green Monster. This IS
narrow fissure in QuartZite. explored 10
a deDth of 225 feet About 800 tons of
ore have been shipped, averaging 80
. ounces in silver.
In the Queen OF the Hills "A narrow
seam of ore averaging 100 ounces OF sill
YER and Us per cent lead has been fol-
. lowed near the surface for a length OF
COO feet About thirty tons Of selected
ore sampling twice these values, have
been taken out. The Copper Glance mine,
a mile west, has similar vein, slightly
developed
OF the possibilities existing in another
class of mines i'm this district, Professor
Jenney soys:
The Mollie C mine belongs 10 a group
of quartz veins of low grade milling ores,
which must be handled in largue guam
tity. transported by tTamWay TO the water
I'm pahranagat valley and milled by COM
I tiuuous process in order to be worked
at a profit The Mcllie g. is a prominent
reef or vein of quartz, stained black with
oxide Of manganese. boldly cropping near
the top of the mountain for a distance
of j 900 feet. The width of the quartz
is from five 90 thirty feet Some 200 tons
Of selected screened ore was mllled, yield
ing forty ounces of silver a ton. This rs
probably better than the average of the
best portions of the vein, a sample taken
averaging 23.2 ounces silver, and the
/ screenings assaying III ounces OF silver
The MonteZuma, Henderson. only One
and Virginia mines belong to this class
of quartz milling ores. and 1t Is prob
able that a larger amount of quartz as
saving eight 10 twenty-five ounces IN
silver can be produced from these mines
/ The experience I'm Calico district Cali
fornia. shows that free milling ores or
this grade can be worked by the con-
[ tinuous process of amalgamatlOn, when
| handled cheaply and in large quantity at
a profit
Tim-pah-ute District.
About twenty-five miles west Of Hike
and ten miles northeast of Plaza. low.
I isolated mountain known as Tim-Pah-Jte
peak. is the Tim-Pah-Ute mining district
Silver ores aggregating in value $50O0
l have been shipped 10 Hike from this dis
/ trict and milled there.
The Sterling mine has followed "A fis-
sure I'M black limestone by an incline
shaft 20 a depth of go feet The ore is
a free milling quartz. That shipped 20
the mill has run $50 TO 800 ounces In sill
I yer. On the dump ore about so tons which
viii run 43j ounces in silver.
About one-third of a mile southeast IS
/ the Standard mine located on a broad
| dyke of brecclated limestone altered to
quartz. and mineralized with silver for
| rr-fTfh ~ four feet small amount