The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-24
VETERAN MINER
TALKS CACTUS
Man Who Knows What a Mine
Is Passes Judgment on
NeWhouSe Bonanza.
HANNAPAH TO ISSUE BONDS
ED. n. MEAD HAS GOOD WORDS
FOR NEVADA CAMPS.
HANNAPAH TO ISSUE BONDS

]. H. Keetley the well known mining
man and engineer, the man who re-
ceived his early training on the Com
stock and who has mined in the Black
Hills, Park City and many other camps,
the man who drove the three-mile drain
tunnel for the Ontario company and
who was prominently identified with the
ontario mine in its palmiest days has
been visiting the Cactus bonanza OF
the NewhouSe Mines & Smelters cor
poration. He was at his office again
yesterday and, after learning from
Manager Lafayette Hanchett, through
whose courtesy he was permitted 70 ia
spect the property, that he would be
violating no confidence to tell what he
had seen, Mr.. Keetley said to The Her
aid:
Formation Kindly One.
81 have seen nearly all Of the big
mines Of the United States and I can
truthfully say that, in my humble judg-
ment, the Cactus has all the oaImarks
of making as big mine as ever saw
The formation is most kindly one for
the making of immense ore bodies
never saw anything better; it is OF that
character which impels the miner To
believe that ii is capable Of allowing
ore deposits to swell TO any dimensions
and, as the mine is located in a region
where the ores are known TO go 10 the
deep, as they have done i'm the famous
old Horn Silver over the mountain
from it, there is no reason to believe
other than that the Cactus will prove
10 be not only a deep but exceptionally
rich mine.
81 had only time enough at my dis
posal TO make an inspection of the new
workings, or rather the workings in the
much attention during the past few
weeks. 1t was a revelation to me- The
ore is apparently uniformly of a high
grade for copper on both the 400 and
5O0-fOot levels both of which have now
been opened for a width of 175 feet or
more. What further development on
these levels and those above will reveal
must be left to conjecture but il is
certain that great masses of ore will
be opened as new ground is penetrated
Riches on Tunnel Level.
on the 600 or tunnel level 4 drift has
been sent through the ore body on its
strike for $50 feet and the face sample
taken while l was there went per cent
copper. The croSs-cut through the ore
body on this level has only been COM
pleted for something over eighty feet.
but have no doubt i'm the world II will
prove as wide or wider than il has been
shown on the levels above. On this
level very high-grade gol1 and silver
values are being obtained in numerous
streaks through the mass Of the ore,
and in this respect it is better than on
the levels above, though the sarlpling
there shows the values in these metals
10 be much better than anything ever
found in the old part of the mine A
drill hole that has been put down 22J
feet below the 600. while not IN ore ali
the way on account of the diu o. the
shoot, still averages for the entire dis
lance per cent copper. If the mine
contained nothing better than that Il
would still be one of the greatest copper
propositions in this country
The Cactus is wonderfully rich and
big mine today; that il viii prove to be
several times as big as it is the forma-
ton in which the ore occurs give s
what, TO competent miner, would be
counted as positive assurance. / dent
know what more could be said but do
know that the mine conditions Justify
all and more than l have repeated
about it."