The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-26
ORE IN GOLD STANDARD.
Large Body Uncovered in This Ores,
cent District Property.
(SDeciaI to The Herald.)

Crescent. New, March 25-The property
in this district showing the highest de-
gree of development is the Gold Standard
group of six claims, adjoining the town
site. The property is owned by I. II
Sheerer and Weller Brothers, who have
been developing II for the greater part OF
a year. They have opened it up by dr1v-
ing q tunnel sixty feet into the mountain
at the end of which is a shaft 100 feet
deep. There are two cToSS-cutS IN the
shaft each thirty-five feet long, and a
drift ar the bottom forty-two feet long.
What at this time is puzZling the owners
more than anything else IS the extent OF
their ore body, as from the time they
started to sink at the end Of the surface
tunnel I'D to the furthest point reached
they have been working in ore or vein
matter The fOTty-tWO-fOOt drift at the
bottom of the shaft is all in ore of very
generous grade The vein where they
started TO sink showed assay values of
from 50 to s. Pc ton As depth was
gained the ore has shown a marked in
crease in value and assays running as
high as S153 have been taken from where
they are now working at the bottom Of
the shaft Mr.. Sheerer. who IS conducting
the development of the property, says
that the whole of the fOTty-twO feet at
the bottom of the shaft would average
better than $45 q ton The ore is sulphide
in character, and could be treated sue
cessfully by the cyanide process
1t is the intention of the owners to de-
velop the property TO a point where the
area and extent Of the deposit can be
fully determined when they viii give
some enterprising capitalist an oppOTtu-
nitv to join with them in the production
and treatment Of the vast deposit Of val
liable ores they now know exist under the
surface
T d Sword experimenting engineer
and a large owner in the Big Tiger Min
ing company, left Crescent a few days
ago for San Francisco. where he intends
/ to purchase a modern hosting plant tC
/ install on the company's property here
/ It Is the intention OF the company to put
I in p steam hoist md air-compressOr and
/ sink 400 feet on the Big Tiger proper, as
/ fast as men and machinery can do the
work.
/ L. NJ. Banning. p mining engineer, has
/ been looking over the camp for severa
/ weeks and in the interest of his com
panv has taken an option on the Calivada
! group Of claims. This property is stu
| ated four miles from the San Pedro Lo:
/ Angeles & Salt Lake railroad station OF
+ Mutton and right east of the line thai
! snparates California and Nevada TIL,
! Calivada group beyond doubt embrace.
/ the largest quartz blowout in the state
! of Nevada. being almost ! 200 feet wild,
/ and running through the greater part Of
+ two claims in length. High. almost sen
| sationaI values have been found in small
| seams running throughout the whole area
/ of quartz deposit. Taken as n whole thu
/ property is Of a Iow-grade character. b11
/ of such enormous extent as almost to def,
computation. Mr.. Banning has put a few
/ men to work prospecting the vast de
/ post preparatory to sinking shaft to :
depth Of several hundred feet