The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25
BIG LEAD FIELD
BEING OPENED
Pittsburg Capital Has Developed Fine
Properties-Salt Lakers
There, Also.
GILMORE MINE A BONANZA
AFTER FOUR YEARS OWNERS
TELL OF OPERATIONS.

The Texas mining district, in Lemht
county, Idaho, according TO authentic
information brought down from there
yesterday. is likely TO prove a wonder
fully productive region and that soon
This is while smelteImen all over the
west are Iead-ore hungry and they are
daily bemoaning the fact that it is
impossible to get anything like enough
of the black metal to work up the 81
licious ores that are being offered
from every direction,
For the past four years the Gilmore
Mining company has been success
fully operating in the district named.
For three years it has been shipping
regularly to the Pennsylvania Smelt-
ing works in Pittsburg and it's mines
are now opened to an extent that guar
antees the future.
Minority Interests Sought.
For the first time since he entered
the district A. s. Ross, president and
general manager of the Gilmore COM
pany. who came down yesterday, &C
conpanied by / N DenOon, one of
Pittsburgs prominent iron and glass
manufacturers, and Z. ?. Jennings, the
we'll known mining engineer of this
city, consented to tell what was being
done In that region Mr. Ross is a. ma
1ority owner in the Gilmore company,
and before coming west on this trip
he negotiated the gale of the minority
interests in the company TO a wealthy
party of Pittsburgers They selected
Mr.. Denoon as the one man among
their number as best qualified to act
az a committee 10 come out and see
into what they had bought. Not car
ing to trust altogether to his own ma
ture judgment, Mr.. DenOon decided to
employ Engineer Jennings to go along
to sample and report upon the mine.
He returns convinced that the proper
ty is all and more than il has ever
been pictured to be. and that the dis
trict Is destined TO become one of the
n est prolific lead-prodUcing regions in
the United States.
Ore Bodies Rich and Large.
We have been shipping regularly
during the seasons that it is possible to
haul over the roads eighty-five miles
10 Dubois. q class of ore that runs
about so per cent lead and % ounces /
silver to the ton" said Mr. Ross yes
terday. TT costs 80 for the agon
haul. $1,000 per ton over the railroads
10 Pittsburg and, including smelling.
assaying and sampling charges. it
costs $3.50 per ton to market our prod
uCt. Last season We shipped I 900 tons
-
When the sale of the minority inter
ests in the company was made it was
on the strength of my statement that
we had $4,000 tons of the character of
ore mentioned opened and exposed in
the mine down to the 3OO-foOt level /
In his report to Mr. Denoon. Engineer
Jennings states that there IS all of 81
600 tons exposed or more than 1000
tons in excess of what I claimed
That is enough To say about the
Gilmore. Adjoining the Gilmore is a
fine group Of claims owned by the Lib
erty Mining company. also controlled
by a P1ttsbuTg crowd at the head Of
which as president and general mana
ger Is Hugh Ferguson. The first car
Of ore from this pr perty was shipned
last fall and il was worth approx
mately $50 ton. The company is work
ing a good force OF men on Develop
ment work, and there is at the present
time 1000 tons Of ore on the dunn
ready to ship as soon as the roads
open. Two weeks ago the directors of
the company met end voted an exneu-
diture Of $4,000 for additional deveIor-
nent, the building of a saw mill. Zig
gfng plant, etc. The company has q
fine property and is doing things right. |
Salt Lakers Are There.
81. D. Wood, Frank Hagenbarth and
I1elr dSSOClateSs VINO are al Salt LAX !
ers, I understand, are developing a /
fine property about three miles east of
the Gilmore. Some $4,000 TO $40. 062
has already been spent upon the
ground, and their opinion of its merits
is best explained by saying that they
are at present acquiring other proper
ties IN the same vicinity.
Notwithstanding the severe winter.
a winter that has covered the ground
with ten feet Of snow. there are prob- (
aoly nfty or more prospectors and
claim owners doing work in the dis
trict this winter. In another wear tbaF
region will convince the world that we
have a wonderfully rich Iead-siIver
producing country"
GOOD SPRINGS sMEITE1