The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-01
COLUMBUS CON.
HAS MADE GOOD
Ore Bodies Encountered on the
800 Level Below Tunnel
Wednesday Night.
MANY TEAMS HAULING ORE
HOW THE STRIKE ON LOWER
LEVEL WAS MADE.

The Columbus Consolidated of Alta has
made good. The rich ore body opened on
the levels above was broken into on the
80 level below the tunnel workings on
Wednesday night. Yesterday afternoon
Il had been penetrated for ten feet; by
the time this paper reaches local readers
the machine drills will have gained five
feet more The report from the mine to
General Manager Tony Jacobson was TO
the effect that the ore is practically the
same as on the 2G0-fOOt level, with the eE-
CeptiOn that il appears to carry more cop
per than on the levels above.
This strike IS the one that every share
holder in the company has been impa-
tiently waiting for. 1t is the one that all
mining engineers of TepUte who have eN-
amined the mine have declared, If made.
would settle the future of the property
and stamp IL as one Of the biggest DO
nanZaS ever opened i'm the state of Utah
1t is regarded as settling for good the
question as to whether the Lodges i'm that
portion of the camp 60 TO the deep ana
carr the values This same ore body has
now been opened on the tunnel level
about 400 feet under the surface 1t has
been opened and explored for 80 feet on
the 100 level, while on the 20 level. below
the tunnel il has been driven through for
90 feet. with the face still III the ore, and
il has now been found right where It
ought to have been on the 800 level, and
the report from the mine leaves no doubt
that is going to prove TlCner ana digger
there than It is above. On the upper lev
els it has been proven to have width
varying from five to more than twenty
feet and the grade Of the ore has been
such that it has been netting the com
Pauy an average of 500 per ton Just as II
comes from the mine.
Many Teams Hauling Ore.
The roads are not in exceedingly good
condition for hauling as vet. but Manager
Jacobson states that ne now has forty
two fouT-hOTSe teams hauling ore down
the CANYON TO the sampler at Sandy and
that approximately sixty tons of ore per
day is reaching the market The storms
of the last few days Interfercd somewhat
with the hauling. but II viii be only
matter of a week or two until the roads
are in condition for the handling of a
heavier tonnage than that stated As II
IS. the company VIII ne aple 10 market
approximately 10000 worth Of ore per
month at a cost of probably not over one
third that amount. Before the end OF June
it will be possible to smash this record
all to pieces. No intimatiOn has been
given of the COmpany'S intentions but II
Is safe to say that a dividend-pay1nC ca
reer will be entered upon in July It could
he started tomorrow but the impression Is
that the company Will let the first half
Of the year lapse without distribution
The reason why the ore was not sooner
encountered on the SQ0-fOOt level was eN-
planned by Manager Jacobson Yesterday
for the first time There has never been
q moment when he felt doubtful Of find
ing it, but the recent slump of the COM
r-l0z-'e shares TO Sc 30 indicates that Man
agcr JaCObson's faith was being discount
Cd by some of the more timid shaTehOld-
or=s- notwithstanding the assurances that
he gave them
How the Strike Was Made.
When the 500 level was reached" said
he "a cross-cUt was started for the fis-
sure which first lead Us into the contact
on the levels above 1t was cut after dTlN-
ing about thiTty-fiVe feet and the eNpeCta-
ton was that the contact would be found
close at hand. I'm the fisSure about three
feet of ore was cut that. aSsayed. az
ounces silver so in gold and I6-9 per cent
copper Upon my return from California
and after seeing some of the work done
on that side of the shaft 1 decided that
The contact had been thrown back posi-
bly, 1e0 feet from the line il had occupied
on the opposite side of the fiSSuTe and in
the direction the chief ore bodies had
made above. so l gave directions short
of the shaft in the direction of the con-
tact and for the time let the development
on the flSSuTe side go I figured that the
contact ought 10 be cut on that side. I'M
less IT had thrown there also. inside of
forty feet The ledge was cut and the
,re struck in thirty-five feet thus prov
ing COHrlusNely that the contact had been
displaced at the point of inter section with
the fiSSuTC mentioned. These incidents
are some of the things iH mining that
the reasons why rational calculations
often 90 avTy and create necessary
alarm. I was positive that no such ore
bodies as hzJ been developed above could
play out in 100 feet and that was why [
advised shareholders who sought nv al
vice not to become alarmed. But that is
enough to say. The mine is all right and
II Is now simply z question of continuing
development. mining and selling the ore
That viii be carried along TO the best
If raFrr a.