The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01

Years and it starts off this year with
lis mill increased from zoo to 800 tons
Gaily capacity ami With not less than
SC0CO0 tons of ore blocked out and
=, ady. for mining above the fourth
tunnel level. Tunnel No. > has been
driven g. 400 feet to a connection with
The ledge and 800 feet of drifting has
Leen done in it on that level This
tunnel cuts the vein 426 feet deeper
on its dip than No. (, ana,
IS FAR as opened. IS shown
To- have width averaging
t.-enty-eight feet As IS the case in
most all gold bearing veins. the values
range from 81 or s. up. 10 sensational
heights but the average, Manager a
T. Hyde jr., states warrants the class
ing of the entire mine as a hlgh-grade
milling proposition.
The work of connecting the No. and
No. ; tunnels is now progressing at
;.1od rate. The raise from No is up
225 feet and the Winze from no. 4,
hich is being sunk to meet the raise,
~ down fifty feet. which leaves lit
tie more than $50 feet yet 10 cut
Through. This connection is 1Xl4 feet
i'm size and is being built with three
compartments. one for ore, one for
waste, etc, ana manWdy. Automatic
gates. operated by compressed air, close
the lower end Of the great chutes IN
this powerfully constructed and heaN-
H., lined operating pdSsageWay for
everything handled above the No.
tunnel level through which mule trains
'r cars carrying four tons each and
running over thiTty-pound rails, viii
be operated between the ledge and the
min at the mouth of the tunnel.
The owners of the Annie Laurie
turned down a S6.O000OO offer for the
rhine before the vein was reached in
tunnel No. = 50 it must be worth at
least twice that much now. This, then,
Is the property which is relied upon to
encourage capital TO go INTO that cOun-
try and make more mines
Work at the Sewer.
Whether it il chargeaLIe to what the
Annie Laurie has done or not makes
little difference, but the fact remains
that the old Sewer mine. the property
which Nuade lots of money for Charles
LammeTsdorf iu the eGrlIeT days Of the
cistrict. has been taken hold Of by Cap
tain II. c Lawrence. Seymour w. Tul-
ioch of Washington and others. and. as
the Sewer Consolidated, has been con-
Verted into d bonanza which. in a short
time. VIII be Contesting the right of
supremacy with lis formidable neigh
Dor. This is not 10 be a contest touch
ing the right To mine: the Sewer has
TO trouble On-th2t score with anybody
l. is TO be good natured contest IN
which the value of the mines alone VIII
figure. Since acquiring these mines
great bodies of ore have been developed
and greater depth is being all the time
attained through a similar tunneling
~ stem to that employed at the Annie
laurie
a me combination milling plant is
now in operation and there is no rea-
son TO doubt that during the present
year the magnitude of the mine Will
make its enlargement 10 several times
its present capacity OF seventy tons i'm
perative.
Other Good Properties.
Other important propositions that are
under course of systematic develop
ment in the Gold Mountain district are
the Holland, Annie Laurie Extension.
Golden Treasure, TrapDer's Pride.
Mammoth and several others.
Within the past few weeks the Apex