The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
UTAH APEX AND THE RED WING

Included in the coming mining sue
cesses Of Bingham are the properties of
the Utah Apex Mining company.
organized in Maine. with its principal
office in Boston. The organization was
effected in 1902 and its capital stock is
$500, 600. f. r. Hastings, of Boston, is
president; J. w Horne, of Boston, is
treasurer, and w. Q. Orem of Salt Lake
City is local manager The company's
acreage is about 175, being contiguous
group of the York. Copperfield, Petro,
Eda, Minnie and the Highland Boy
Consolidated. which lie III close prOX-
unity to the Yampa and Utah-Consoli-
dated mines. The property has a
past and several years ago. be-
fore being taken possession of
by - the present concern, the re
cord of production was in the
neighborhOOd of $500. 600. The products
then as now, were silver. gold. lead and
copper, but some of the gold ore was
very rich in value. These high values
in the yellow metal were always OBJ
tanned rear the surface. hence they
presented an inviting field for leasers-
But as depth has been reached in the
camp gold values have decreased some
what as permanently of deposits have
been obtained and the gold values have
been replaced by other metals in in
creased quantities The formation of
this section includes bedded veins of
lime, which have been replaced by the
ore. the richest of which has been
found where the lime cuts the assures.
Two Of the assures running through
this ground are identical with those
found in the Yampa and Utah-COn-
solidated ground. which have responded
so well when worked. A great amount
of development work has been done by
the new corporation and il appears to
have left no doubt as to what the fu-
ture has in store for the mine I'M
mense bodies have been opened up and
blocked out and while extraction has
been only in a mild way, the reason Of
fered is that no attempt VIII be made
in this direction upon a large scale un-
til the mine is connected up by means
Of the great working tunnel now in
course of construction. The property
is being developed by a series of tun-
Eets representing the several levels on
the ore bodies and as soon as these
are completed they VIII be connected
with the deeper one. The new tunnel
was started with this purpose and with
the further object in view Of cutting off
all the lime contacts i'm the property
at a depth ranging from 500 to /. 800
feet on the dip of the respective veins.
From what is known as the Minnie
vein, shipments of about a car Of ore
per day from the ore blocked out, are
being made. While the values in gold
are not so high as in the earlier days
of the mines history, the corporation
has the advantage of it's neighbors in
getting exceptionally good values in
the yellow metal; also from the silver
and copper contents Of the mineral,
thus adding more 10 it's Golfers than
would otherwise be the case. Ship
ments averaging from 81 TO SIC in gold
per ton are constant In this par
tCulaT ore body competent engineers
have estimated the amount in sight TO
be about 250.0O0 tons.
The favorable location already
described with reference 10 the Yampa
and Utah-COrsoidated. coupled with
the fact that the men behind the enter
prise are Of a pushing and energetic
character and are satis6ed with the
prospects in sight. has led 10 a deter
mination to inaugurate a cappaign for
the coming season that Win mean an
increase in the Z. 900 feet ow COM
pleted To push this work i'm p practi-
cal manner an air compressor. to-
gether with six or eight drills VIII be
installed and IL is expected that the
tonnage in sight viii at least be
doubled. The ore bodies which this
machinery will open up vary in width
from eighteen inches TO six feet and
while not as wide as some in the canap
Of Bingham, they are noted for their
regularity and continuity in both
length and depth. The principal ore
body now measures 1000 feet along it's
strike.
Contained within the groups owned
by the Utah Apex are five strong and
well defined lime beds which in early
days produced creditable class OF
ore and from which this company ex-
poets something in the future. These
have been opened at five distinct points
in order that when a necessity for an
increase in the tonnage arrives il can
be met Crossing the properties are
several copper bearing porphyry
dykes. very similar to the like forma-
tions that cut the ores of the Utah
Copper company and which it is ex-