The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-30
Report From New District West
Of Ida Shows Good Re-
suits From Development.
MILL is READY TO OPERATE
FIRST HOIST FOR DISTRICT
REACHES CAMP.
Especial to The HeraldO


tation of the Palmetto mill and the
discovery of the ledge in the Maui
tunnel, on Burlington mountain, con-
tanning values that run into the thou
sands. presenting a dazzling yellow
CLEAN Of gold under the light Of the
candle. Each of these events marks
an epoch in the history of the camp.
The mill will speedily be put in shape
to handle a modest tonnage of the free
milling ores which have been disclosed
in the process of development work,
and which, accommodating on the
dumps can soon be made to pay the
expense of shaft and tunnel and cross
cut through which search is being
made for the hidden treasure. And a
shipment is to be made from the Mauli
tunnel just as soon as two shifts of eX-
perienced high-graders can extract the
4 ore. which will tell better than the
mere words of man the tale of the
} riches to be found in these hills. Al
ready several sacks have been filled
I with the precious rock, and the values
are great enough to cause even the
: hardened denizen Of GOldfeld to
sit up and take notice
Found Vein Had Fauted.
The search for the ledge in this
block was prosecuted under conditions
that try the stamina of the men who
undertake the search for wealth in
/ Untried ground, and reflects great
credit upon the veteran lessee, George
Mauli, and his associates. The tun-
mel was driven to open, at depth
of fifty feet, a small ledge that had
yielded rich colOrs in the pan on the
surface. 1t struck a fault. and for a
month past two shifts have been con-
tinua ~ feeling their way through
drift and croSS-cut guided by a master
mind at the business. and at last the
decisive yellOw-shOt quartz was found
in its place of hiding. Slowly and with
great care it is being stripped and ex-
traCted, the rich streak going into
canvas sacks and the rock of less
value. which would be high grade in
the vicinity of railroad, adding to the
dimensions of a mill dump.
First Hoist at Camp.
The first whim to reach camp ar
rived from GOIdfield Friday and is now
ready for work It was installed over
the Combination shaft, which was
sunk to a depth Of fifty feet on the
dividing line between the Gillian and
Mauli blocks of ground. At this depth
a crOss-Cut to the ledge disclosed a
body of mill ore on which considerable
stopping has been done in both direc-
tiOns. Satisfied with conditions at the
fifty-foOt mark, the lessees will de-
vote all their energies to sinking the
shaft another fifty feet, where they ex-
pect to have a showing which. with fif-
plOymCnt of ore teams.
Ida Queen Operations.
over at the Butler property of the
Ida Queen Mining company the hills
are alive with enterprising Iessees
The main guIch and the ravines which
debouch from It are filled with tents
and the sound of exploding dynamite
echoes among the pines at all hours of
the working day. Every man is bend
Tr7rr y
preparation for the custom mill which,
unless the plans of the promoters are
Kindred or delayed by the recent ca
tastrophe at San Francisco, will be
. erected at Pigeon Springs, four miles
below the mine. Several dumps of this
grade of quartz have even now made
. their appearance, and on the Wilson
lease, one of the first to begin opera
tons, more than 200 tons have accu-
mulated. although none has been taken
from the workings excepting what was
necessary to move in following the rich
seam, which is being sacked. This
ore, of which several tons is piled up
. In the mine, is graded close to 5000 a
ton, but will probably go through the
mill with that Of lower grade. The old
workings of the mine are idle yet
pending the action of the new board of
directors which is TO be chosen at the
annual meeting of the shareholders at
Tonopah tomorrow.
offer to Build a Mill.
4 proposition had been made by
California men to erect a mill at the
mine in exchange for stock in the
company. which was acceptable to
the big owners Of stock in the corpo-
ration, but the plans may be deranged
by reason of the calamity which re-
Gently befell San Francisco. However.
such a delay will prove but temporary,
for the riches OF the Buster have be-
come known to other men of means,
and the mines big tonnage will soon
be finding an outlet through reduction
works Of modern construction. The
ores have been thoroughly tested and
viii yield TO a very simple and mex
pensive milling method.
Cochran Lease Showing Up.
TIE Cochran shaft on the Prout
claim Of the Buster group. has reached
q depth of sixty feet, and the bottom
shows ledge matter filled with specks
of galena, an infallible sign here of the
proximity If an ore body. There are
two blocks and a fraction i'm this lease.
extending to within 700 feet of the
Buster shaft, where the ledge, at a
depth of $50 feet, is thirty feet between
walls. every ounce of which can he
milled at a handsome profit. Because
of it's location and the conditions
which exist in the Buster claim. from
whence the ledge can be easily traced
by numerous outcrOps on the surface
the Cochran lease is considered to offer
possibilit' IS second to none in the
camp.
Mr. Cochran is brother-in-law of
W. w. Armstrong Of Salt Lake. James
and Robert Baird, who mined in Tin
tics big bOnanZas for several years,
also have good block of ground ad-
joining the Wilson lease. and are driV-